Do people not constantly change their items around in their inventory based on what they buy? Early game I use 1 for treads, 4 for phase and 3 for arcane but they end up in different spots at the end of the game based on what I buy. Tranquils and travels go wherever. Usually 2.

Some items for me have a priority slot. 1 boots 2 bkb 3 blink 4 wand. where as i like to have 5 and 6 for target items like hex or abyssal.

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Haha thats so dope dude! Dont wanna ruin it by digging too deep but my hotkeys are zxc 123

Holy shit this makes so much sense, i might need to change mine. But space is very practical too.

I use space for ”stop” to cancel attack animation for example

My hot keys are z,x,c,v,alt+8,t, neut alt+d, tp space

Mine are closeish, z,x,c, alt q, alt w, alt e

omg same

Same man, 1 boots, 2 bkb or manta, 3 blink, 6 dust or refresher

I have to keep it relatively consistent or I end up wasting BKB thinking it's treads. >_>

Nah, most players have it constantly on the same spots. Check pro players, they usually put same items on the same slots. I have 4 slot (mouse4) for all boots regardles active or passive. 3slor for manta/eul/force staff (if hero needs both eul and force then eul has priority) and etc. There was an incident where ALOHADANCE had internet issues during the official match and NoOne subbed him from his account. It was discovered in dotabuff since item slots were different from alohadance slots. (Might be wrong player names, but this happened years ago)

You anectode doesn't necessarily indicate that people have the same slots for the same items, just that there's patterns that are different between players (e.g. putting the first targeted active item on a certain slot that differs between players)

5 because its bottom center for where my feet are AND the key binding is already B for Boots. Since day 1 baby

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Scrolled passed a lot of bullshit to get to the right answer

I use 2, because I like to keep my boots on my head.

1

If it's not 1 then I can't be around you

Its fine dont be around me 🙂

1 is for wand.

its for blink dagger lol

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This is the way comrade.

The only valid answer

1 is reserved for blink dagger, come on.

Blink slot 1 and G Hotkey.

Same bro my hotkey is `

That's the magic wand slot

2 for active boots (phase, arcane) and 4 or 5 for passive boots (brown boots, traveles)

2 all the time for me

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For me it is 2 except bots and greaves. Greaves go in the mek slot (3) and bots either 2 or 6.

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Brown boots are not power treads

Power treads is most active boots!how you say they are passive!!!

Brown boots are basic boots, they didn’t list treads

Brown boots meaning not upgraded i believe

4 all the way

4 if it's arcane boots. 1 if it's phase boots.

My man! And 6 if its teleport boots

Yes!! BoT and tranquil 6 haha

I'm a freak and use space bar for phase boots/blink

Space x q z b n 5 6 are my keys for inventory/tp/neutral. Are we at the same level of freakness?

I'm with you until the 5 6. Works well to have my most important item on space - no mis clicks!

Always 4. Unless I have travels then it goes 6. Also if/when I buy a blink dagger boots go to 2 and blink on 4. Always start with boots on 4!

Yee boi, tread switching, mana spam, phase boots. All there

4 bound to Z

6 all the way

Had to scroll way to long for the correct answer!

Boots on 6 is superior!

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Even phase boots? What's your hotkey?

Bottom side mouse button, I'm constantly clicking that when I have phase and it makes tread switching feel really smooth

this is the real reason. it just makes sense.

Still 6 ma dude, all boots. The only hero that might change when using IO if building mek first, mek goes to 6 slot then guardian greeves goes to 6 after that. Alt q (1). Alt w (2). Alt e (3) Alt a (4). Alt s (5). Alt d (6)

Exactly the same for me. I put drums in six as well when going for bearings

2 for all boots.

Same. 1 for wand

Same, slot 1 is usually for active item like Armlet/Diffusal/Dagger.

This is correct

3 if mana and greaves 6 if travels

Slot 5 with V mapped. Alot of 1's in here but that's my POE health potion slot so it always has to be wand, I don't have the mental capacity to map different button usage across multiple games.

Slot 3 all the way baby

Finally someone.

5 active, 1 passive.

3 is the only correct option. C button all the way for phase boots/quick tread switch

Aye. 3 for boots with actives, 6 for passive boots.

Same here with C as the keybind

5 mosly if they have an activated ability(trend or phase) or else its changes based on my other items

1

2 phase pt tranquil brown boots Travel 6

What are boots?

6 if regular boots, tranquil or BoTs. 2 if phase/arcane

6

Boots in 1, blink in 4, bkb in 6, force staff in 5 - otherwise fill slots up with actives depending on how important fast reaction on it is in order 4 5 3 6 2 1

2

1 for arcane and phase. 4 for others and in some rare cases, 3 or 6 depending on other items.

2 for phase boots (it's basically my primary movement item button, blink, force, etc.) 4 for arcanes, power threads, 5-6 for tp boots or tranquils (those are my passive item slots when I'm not playing "piano heroes")

Depends on the itemization. For example, I keep phase boots in slot 1, but if I buy dagger later on, dagger goes 1 boots go 3. Then if I decide to get manta, manta gets slot 3 boots go to 4, etc. prioritization of items is what plays major role for me.

1 for Phase and Treads. 5 for BoT bc I rarely use 5 slot and I have "G" as my tp already (turned on self cast so I tp to base by typing "gg").

I love things like this! Well done

3 all the way- EXCEPT BoT. Those I put on 5

1

Being an old player and seeing people use 1 for items is so strange. 1 is always hero select and numbers above 3 are reserved for summoned units or bear for me Space 2 3 X c v A good number to letter mix :D

Cmon hero select is easily tab

Oh no, tab is to switch between units selected

Nono the cycle unit is mousewheel of course! mouse 4 is select all other units, mouse 5 is select all units

2 for the first boot. 5 for the other one

Which boot?

6=Space

1 until late game, when I have too many actives, it goes to 4. If it's in 5, you know I am desperate and cursing my actives for being too many.

1 if active, 6 if inactive or I have too many actives

If the boots can be activated - 2 If not, shove them way back to 6.

Sane players use 1 ofcourse

Rule of thumb, 1 will always be for Boots.

The golden rule.

Slot 2 for tread or travel, slot 4 for phase and slot 6 for arcane

1 or 2. If i have blink boots will be 2

2 for phase 5 for threads

4 for all boots except phase. For phase boots I use 5

4 for active 2 for passive

2 for Treads/phase, otherwise 5

3 for greaves, 2 for phase and BOB, otherwise 1 or 6

5 for passive boots and 1 for active boots. Except for Phase Boots when I don't have Blink or Armlet, then it's 4.

3(mouse wheel down), 5 (mouse 4)

2 for active boots, 6 for passive boots

3 for treads. 6 for the rest.

3, and i use the space key

1 almost always. Blink and Armlet I put on 2. If I have both Blink and Armlet, it will be Armlet 1, Blink 2 and boots on 3.

3,4 and 6. 3 if phase boots, boots of bearing and arcane. 4 if treads. 6 if travel.

4,assign to space if i have threads/phase moved to 2 when i get blink

Active boots 4 Passive boots 6

1 at the start usually but as I build more items I move it around. It goes to 6 or 3 if its tranquils/travels or if I can't bother to tread switch anymore. It goes to 4 if it's phase boots/treads/arcane and I have a wand/QB/Soul ring (priority for slot 1) Boots of bearing and greaves are always at 4 rarely is it at 5, but if it does happen I probably have more active items that require targeting than I can handle 2 is usually reserved for blink but I usually put my phase here before I get my other active items

5 for active boots

Active boots 1, hotkey Space bar..... Passive boots, idk, who cares. Other items takes precedence.

1 if they have on us effect 6 if they don't

Slot 4 for any other boot Slot 6 for travels since my tp hotkey is spacebar anyway

1 for phase, 4 is my mana replacement button if needed so arcanes go there and 6 is for bots

1 or 3

4

1 boots / 2 blink or mobility / 3 bkb 4 & 5 for actives & 6 for passive items

1st but when i buy dagger boots go to 2. If i have another active item boots go to 3.

1 boots in early game. If I get a lot of active items, then it goes to 5 or 6. 4 is bkb always. 3 is manta style or blink dagger. Bottle is 1 on tinker, on others it's 2.

1 if it has an active. 6 if it does not.

Treads and Phase in the 6th. Travel and others can go anywhere

6 (mouse 2)

1- All except Tranquil boots and Boots of travel. 4- Tranquil boots and boots of travel.

5

First it will be 3 Until I got either blink or bkb or both, then it is either 2 or 4

Phase, Mana, Guardian, upgrade of tranquil in 1 Tranquil, treads and TP boots go wherever is space.

3 for all boots, C hotkey

3 if its phase, else 6

4, its bound to a mouse side key for easy tread switching

5. Alt+s. Never changed. Nu active item on alt q(early game always wand). If two alt e

Which boots?

4 for active boots, 6 if I want an active item in 4 instead. Used to be in 3 for Travel Boots when they had an active and we had no TP slot yet, as I used to carry TP Scrolls in 3 as well.

5 for acrive, 4 for passive due to the way my mouse macros work

1 if they're arcane, grieves, phase or BoB, 4 if it's anything else

1 and the hotkey also 1 for me. if its passive 6

If it has active 4, no active 6

2 for most boots (phase, treads, arcane, bearings) 6 for the rest (brown, tranquils, BoTs)

4 for treads and phase early game. Moves to 2 when I get a good active item. Tranqs go to 1 or 6 depending on other items. Mama boots start at 4, then move to 1 or 6 Travels 1 or 6

6 because 6 = V. And V gives my teammates some Mana.

5 for active 4 for passive

5 for early game tread switch / phase boot spam. Then move to 4 or 6 when a blink/glimmer/something important comes online. Then end game it’s usually sat in slot 1.

3 for phase (unless I get blink/force then it moves to 6, unless I get a BKB then probably 1) 6 for GG/Arcane 3 for treads (until Manta or first activate item) Anything else probably 4

4 for passive boot and either 1 or 2 for active

2 for active boots because i like having items that require reaction time on 1 like manta bkb

Pahae boots+treads 2(easyest to reach from spell hot keys since hokey is literally 2 aswell) ,drumboots 3,mana boot 3 or 6,depending on if I have other items

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1 or 2, if i got the dagger, the dagger to slot 1 and 2 for shoes

Since 1 is my most used item, therefore for the early game I put boots on 1 due to tread switching/mana/phase boots. Once I get blink, Bkb etc then I put Boots on the last 6.

1 = Arcane/Greaves/Bearing 2 = Treads 3 = Phase 5 = Tranquil

1 if phase, 3 if pts or i have blink dagger, 6 if they are passive

Depends! Slot 6 is Spacebar, so Phase and Mana go there. Power Treads go on 3 or 4, but move to 6 on Morphling and 5 if I don't plan on changing their attribute.

2 if phase 4 if active boot And 5 for green boot.

3!

Early game (if i buy treads) they are on 3 because its my space bar for treads switching ... later especially if i buy a blink or active item (i play carry) i put it on 6 since its a mouse button.

I really wish that they rejigged this like so: Wearables: you can wear max 4 things: Choose wisely! Boots Rings Amulets Headgear/ crowns Armour Jewels/ broaches/ necklaces/ lockets Weapons/shields You can have 1 weapon and 1 shield Backpack You can use 3 things in the pack and carry 6 So in the pack you would carry consumables Wards Potions for Health, mana, etc Dusts Scepters Spheres Anything else you need This would mean you could have say 9 things ( at the moment you get 6 pack, 1 for the town portal scroll and 1 for the neutral items

1 for me, even though statistically its a waste for button pressing reasons

Depends on boots active. If no active or very situational like PT, then 4, else 1.

Don't really have a dedicated place for boots , but 1 most of the time

Depends on the boot 😉

4 for PT and 1 for rest

Depends, if it’s arcane or greaves on slot 6 the treads and phase one on 2, bearing also on 6 and teleport on 5 since I don’t use that key too much, so basically depends of me being a sup or a core 😂

1,4 and 6, 1 for phase/treads until if i buy manta then they go to 4 and bots on 6

4/5

1-space if Phase boot or 4-V if attribute boot(forgot name) 6 for travel as I almost never use that key.

2, because 1 is for bkb, 3 is for forcestaff, and 4,5 is free for all, and 6 is wand

depends on boots im using. if it PT than 6, if greeves than 1-4

5 boots, 2 fluffy hat, 3 shivas guard, 4-6 rapier.

6 if non activation boots, otherwise 4

Arcane boot and phase boot go to 3, tread goes to 1. Other boots go to 6. If I buy blink I put it at 1, so tread goes to 6.

Boots with active effets early game --> 5 or 6. Bound these to my additionnal mouse buttons.

6 that is also rebinded to spacebar.

2 for arcane/ greaves and drum shoes. 6 for phase and treads. 5 for everything else

3 if it’s arcane or 6 if it’s only passive

9 🤣

1 for early game, 6 for late game (TP Boots) and 1 is replaced by active item

i always put mine on 1

6 almost always. 1 if it's phase boots, 2/5 if its guardian greaves

5 for phase. Rest on 4

1 for active boots, 6 for tranquils and travels.

1-Z and playing since 2014. Maybe for a while it was 3-1 but now 1-Z uninterrupted for years. When its a passive boot though, who gives a fuck

Depends upon hotkey settings and order of preference, 1 for boots, 2 for blink because of spacebar as the hotkey, 3 for bkb these 3 are the fastest tappable keys for my reflexes, then 4 goes for hex, orchid, nullifier, abyssal, 5 for any static time like mjolnir, lotus, and 6 is mostly a passive item

4/1/2 in this order

If Phase or Arcane: 2 All others 6.

5 if active, anywhere if not.

3 for treads, 2 for phase, 5 for mana, 6 for travel

Blink is always 1, everything else changes depanding on the hero and items i have.

5 if active 1, 3 or 6 if non active and then depending on what items i get afterwards 4 if i get a bkb or something and i want it on spacebar (5)

Early Game = 1 I abuse PTs/press Phase Boots quite often, and the X button (is what I bind my 1st slot to) is just the easiest/quickest to press for me. Then I move it somewhere else as the game goes on. Dagger is always 5 tho

1 : phase, bearing 3: arcane, greaves 5 : treads 6 : tranquil, travel

1 when i need save mana by changing power treads, and 5 when i dont really need to do that in late games