Dota2: How to win Lanes in Patch 7.20

Laning in 7.20 B

Axe happened

So what’s different now? Before the calculations for experience or early levels did not favour kills at all. If you were the one to get a kill in the lane at early levels you basically get a base experience and gold bounty, few experiences from the dying hero’s level and comeback multiplier.

Since in terms of experience both teams were pretty much same in the lane, the comeback multiplier does not even matter here. So basically you got XP bounty and a base XP bounty and that was pretty negligible in terms of impact on the game because you don’t really make a huge impact with such small XP difference.

If you had killed an enemy who is level 5, you only got 90 experience. Considering it was split between two people, then you both only got 90 experience which is less than half the experience you need to reach level 2 from level 1 for killing a level 5 enemy. In other words, Kills did not matter in the lanes in terms of experience and experience matters a lot.

Now the experience calculation is as follows, 40 experience plus 14% of the dead hero's current experience divided by the number of people that killed them. So, you split it evenly, it’s much more simple now. This means if you kill a level 5 hero with two heroes, you both get about 275 experience which means that one kill in this meta’s laning stage equals three kills in the previous meta’s laning stage in terms of experience.

This means if you solo kill a level 5 hero like that, you get double the experience. Now, it’s a lot simplified, literally split evenly between everyone so a solo kill is 275x2 = 550 experience for one single kill.

550 experience for a single kill on a solo hero which happens all the time in lanes because you both trade, then your support tries to nuke and eventually dies and then you finish him off and get the entire experience all for yourself.

And BAM! Now you have an entire level advantage on the lane. It’s insane but great. This will force more laning phase battles and early fights rather than just controlling creep wave and farming safely.