Dota 2 Guide: How to Get Good With Meepo

Meepo guide fan art — Meepo Fan Art (Image credit: thelowpolyproject)

Meepo the Geomancer is considered to be one of the most difficult heroes to play in Dota 2. It is time-consuming, complicated, you need really good micro skills, and a lot of focus during the game. Simply put, you are not playing one hero, you are playing four of them at the same time.

Here are the three main elements to the Dota 2 hero Meepo:

Stats
Farming
Being the Leader

Meepo and the Stats

One of the most important aspects to understand about Meepo is stats. The clones and the main hero share the same abilities, stats and boots.

For example, if you buy a Daedalus, it will only work on your main hero since only the base stats are shared between the Meepo clones. So if you buy an Ethereal blade which gives +40 Agi, +10 Str and +10 Int, it will give your main and the clones all the stats, too. The most important stats you need on the hero are attack speed and armor.

Meepo Dota 2 — Meepo the Geomancer (Image credit: Valve Corporation)

Farming with Meepo

When you start to practice Meepo in Dota 2, the first things you should learn are the keybinds, microing, and farming efficently.

This hero has a somewhat good place in the meta because of its ability to farm fast and out-pace the enemy cores. This usually results in you snowballing and eventually winning the game. It sounds simple in theory, but in practice, it's a lot more complicated.

Every Dota 2 pub-star player has their own farming patterns. Some contest the mid lane harder, others just completely abandon it and focus on their item timings instead such as getting an Ethereal blade in less than 12 minutes which is a very fast timing.

The perk of playing with Meepo is that you can be in several places at once and this allows you to farm more than the enemy cores. Also, however, this means that your allied cores get less. Therefore, it is really important to have a good farming pattern as this will allow you to reach your item timings faster and end the game quickly before the enemy cores have a chance to set up.

Being The Leader

Dota 2 is all about in-game callouts, so you need your team to listen to you if you want to achieve any objective.

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Meepo plays best when you are also the leader of your Dota 2 team. Meepo is a complicated hero that cannot work in certain team compositions, but with the right team lineup, he excels as a core.

So, as a Meepo player, you need to play both the role of core and the team leader. This way you can dictate the flow of the game and take fights on your terms and when your item timings are ready.

Item and Skill Builds

Yuma meepo omega league — Yuma's Meepo build at the Omega League (Image credit: WePlay!)

This is what a peak timing for Meepo should look like. The screenshot is taken from a competitive game of the Dota 2 OMEGA League American qualifiers and Meepo is played by German player Yuma.

This is at 16 minutes versus one of the biggest Meepo counters – Elder Titan. (Match ID: 5580513286)

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Full item build #1 :

Power Threads ---> Wraith Band ---> Dragon Lance ---> Ethereal Blade ---> Eye of Skadi ---> Scythe of Vyse

Full item build #2 :

Power Threads ---> Wraith Band x2 ---> Ethereal Blade ---> Blink Dagger ---> Scythe of Vyse ---> Eye of Skadi

As for skills, this is what you should go for:

Meepo Skill build — Skill build when focused on farming

Meepo skill build 2 — Skill build when contesting the lane

Now you've got everything you need to get good with the Geomancer, at least in theory. To see how it works in practice and to help you advance in your Meepo adventures, here are some Match IDs from replays that you can download and learn something from: