DotA Lane Control & Creep blocking/pulling

Created by TheDarkArt -DotAGameOn!
Lane Control
To put it simply,
Lane control involves harassing your enemies, last hitting for gold, denying EXP/Gold to your enemies, out-leveling them and killing them. When you are really doing very well in your lane, you will be able to go around ganking and killing heroes with your higher level and better items. Allowing your allies to benefit from the kills and giving your team a chance to start pushing the lanes for a win.

Creep Blocking
The creep blocking is very useful for you when you block your creeps so that the enemy creeps reaches your tower 1st before your creeps even reach there, this allows your tower to take out the 1st wave of creeps giving you enough EXP to level up to level 2 if you are soloing. This gives you more advantage as you got 2 spells/skills before your enemies do, and you can last hit easily with no enemies to harass or deny you as you are in the safety zone of the tower for that time. After that when the enemy creeps are taken out, you will likely still have 5 creeps + another wave coming along,this makes around 10 creeps on that lane with the enemy having only 5 creeps coming on the 2nd wave. This gives you more control over the lane as you are still very safe with so many creeps surrounding you making it hard for the enemy heroes to get close to hit or harass you without taking larger amount of damage from the creeps attacking them back. This creeps safety will let you last hit and harass more easily as the enemy creeps will have a harder time killing your wave1+wave 2. Not long you will reach level 3 with the enemies falling behind in level. if this goes on you will be at lvl 6 1st and enemies will be at level 4 if it's done right.
Just remember to deny and last hit as the situation you are in is way better than the enemies. This will make you able to farm faster, level up faster and start killing them before they even get their items. If you are soloing mid, you will be able to move around to gank top or bottom with runes if lucky and earn+level+pushing+a peroid of free time for your side once the ganked enemy is died.(free time to either push,free farm or go to Secret Shops to buy items)

A side note: 1) For me, when I'm soloing I will usually have a courier to carry my items from the base to me, as walking back and forth with no boots will take around 1 mins+, this 1 mins+ can either let you farm and level or be given out to the enemy for a free farm period/ a free time to go top/bottom/mid to kill your allies.
2) Secondly, with a courier, you will get boots/bracers/potions/damage items from the shops and get to last hit better (as more damage with the items), farm up faster than your enemies and kill them easier with the boots+Damage items.
3) Thirdly, a courier will let you be able to check runes, buy from the secret shop and bring healing potions to increase your survivability in that lane. As higher survivability= more time in lane = more likely to out-level heroes = easier game for you or beyond Godlike for the pros

This is a video where Terrorblade blocks his creeps on the bottom lane. Look at the fiery path and the way he does it by pressing H/S to halt/stop the hero.


Creeps Pulling
Creeps pulling involve 1)the concept of denying your enemies creeps by either using the neutral creeps to kill them or denying the creeps yourself and 2)the concept of bringing the enemy creeps closer to your tower for easier last hitting and denying , as you will be in the safety of your tower.

This is a video of creep pulling



Other videos on creep blocking by Furion and Earthshaker using their spells. This is illegal in a tournament though but you can use it in a Pub game.