Learning how to CS

     So you're a newer player to Heroes of Newerth.  You've seen the game, you know basically how to play, but you need to learn how to advance.  The most basic of advice I can give is get creep kills, or Creep Score.  CSing will give you gold, deny the enemy player gold and experience, and make you feel better about yourself.  In order to CS well, you have to understand how damage works.

     Let's say you're playing Devourer.  With a minimum damage of 52 at level one, and 10% creep armor reduction, you're hitting for 47 damage.  At less than 10% of a melee creeps health, it can be difficult to last hit creeps with no harassment going on.  With a good player opposing you, denying, dealing damage, creep pulling, and wave pulling it can be hell.  Which is why with most farming melee heroes, you improve your base damage at level one.

     With a hatchet, our minimum damage soars(32%) to 69.  If you bring four minor totems as well, it goes to 74 (44%), 67 after damage reduction.  At this point you're doing well over 10% of a creeps health now, making last hitting quite a bit easier.  If you're still having issues after this massive damage boost you're in a harass-happy lane, or are mistiming your last hits, each of which have solutions.

     If your lane is harassing you to no end you can wave pull or creep pull.  Wave pulling is right clicking on an enemy hero within six hundred range units (and then backing up), and all of the enemy creeps will charge after you for a short time, putting your creeps between the harasser and you.  At this point it becomes almost trivial to come in, take a last hit, and back out again.  Creep Pulling is when you attack the neutral creeps in your jungle, (generally at X:15 or X:45 seconds)  and "pull" them out to your lane.

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     The green one and two denoting Hellborne creep pulls and the red one being the primary creep camp and two and three have to be pulled to one with your creeps already there.

If you're having an issue mistiming your last hits I suggest you play your hero more, (if you have frame lag or ping lag that is another matter altogether) and download a last hit modification.