Dota 2 Timer: The Game Timer Tool for Dota 2

The Game Timer Tool

The Game Timer Tool puts every Dota 2 timing on one clock: runes, stacks, day and night, neutral items, Tormentor and Roshan. It tells you what comes next and warns you before it happens. Axe tried to keep all these timers in his head. His head is full of fighting. There was no space.

1. Press Start when the horn sounds, or type your game clock. Switch on Turbo for Turbo games.
2. Watch "Next up" and the timeline. Turn off the lanes you do not need. Turn on Sound for a voice or a chime before every event, and pick how early.
3. Press R or T (or the Killed buttons) when Roshan or the Tormentor dies. Want it over the game? Press Pop-out.

Axe explains

The clock in 10 seconds

1. 0:00bounty runes, first day, Tier 1.
2. 6:00first power rune.
3. :54stack, every minute.
4. 20:00first Tormentor.

Too many clocks. Axe hits them all. Now there is one clock.

Dota 2 timings cheat sheet

Every fixed timing in a Dota 2 match on one page. Times are game time. Click a name to open its own timer.

EventFirstThenTurbo

Bounty runes40 gold + 6 per full 5 minutes0:00 (4 runes)every 4:00same times, double gold

Water runesboth river spots2:004:00, then neversame times

Power runestop or bottom river6:00every 2:00same times

Shrines of Wisdom200 XP, then +300 each time7:00every 7:00same times, double XP

▲Neutral campsstack at about :54–:551:00every full minutesame times

☀Day and nightnight vision 800day at 0:00switch every 5:00same times

TNeutral item tiersTier 1 to 50:00 / 15:00 / 25:00 / 35:00 / 60:00no Madstone cap at 70:000:00 / 7:30 / 12:30 / 17:30 / 30:00

Tormentorday: Radiant side, night: Dire side20:0010:00 after the kill10:00, then 5:00 after the kill

RoshanAegis lasts 5:00; day: top pit, night: bottom pit–8:00–11:00 after the kill4:00–5:30, Aegis 4:00

Axe printed this table and taped it to his axe. Then he swung the axe. Now the table is gone. Use the tool.

Dota 2 timings in the first 20 minutes

The early game is where timings win lanes. This is everything on the clock until the first Tormentor:

Runes

Stacks

Day/Night☀☾☀☾

Neutrals12

Tormentor

0:005:0010:0015:0020:00

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Dota 2 timer overlay: the pop-out window

Looking at a second tab in the middle of a fight is slow. The pop-out puts a small timer window on top of everything else:

• Press Pop-out in the tool. It works in Chrome and Edge on a computer. The mini window shows the game clock, what comes next and two buttons for Roshan and Tormentor kills.
• Use a windowed or borderless display mode in Dota 2's video settings. In exclusive fullscreen the game covers every other window, also the pop-out.
• Drag it to a corner where it does not cover your minimap or items. On a second monitor you can use the full page instead.
• It is just a browser window. It does not touch the game or read game data. You start or type the clock yourself.

Axe put the little window over his health bar. Axe did not see he was dying. Axe died. Put it in the corner.

You can also set the display mode with launch options like -sw (window) or -noborder (borderless window): the Launch Options Generator explains them.

More settings live in the console: the Console Commands Lookup lists every useful command.

Dota 2 stack timing: when to pull camps

Neutral camps first spawn at 1:00 and then at every full minute. A camp only spawns new creeps when its box is empty, so you pull the creeps out right before the minute and a second group spawns next to them. That is a stack.

• Most camps stack at around :54 to :55. The first stack is possible at 1:54.
• It depends on the camp and your hero. Pull a bit earlier with a melee hero, or when long-ranged creeps are in the camp. The tool lets you set the alert to :53, :54 or :55.
• Wards and heroes in the box block the spawn, so do not stand in the camp at the full minute.

Practice the pull first: the Stack Timer has a trainer that rates your timing.

Dota 2 Turbo timings

Turbo speeds up some timings and leaves others alone. Switch on Turbo in the tool and it uses these:

• Same times: all runes, neutral camps and stacks, day and night.
• Faster: neutral item tiers at 0:00 / 7:30 / 12:30 / 17:30 / 30:00, no Madstone cap at 35:00. Tormentor at 10:00, back 5:00 after a kill. Roshan back 4:00 to 5:30 after a kill, Aegis 4:00.
• More value: bounty runes give double gold (80 at 0:00) and the Shrines of Wisdom double XP.

What is not on a fixed clock

• Roshan and the Tormentor after a kill: their timers start when they die, so the tool needs your R or T.
• Lotus pools: each pool grows one Healing Lotus every 3 minutes on the game clock (faster in Turbo), but only while it holds fewer than 6. How many wait in a pool depends on who picked them, so they are not on the timeline. The Lotus Pool Timer shows what grows at any minute.

Fighting at Roshan? Keep gold for a buyback: the Buyback Calculator tells you how much.

The Game Timer counts one match. The Hours Played Calculator counts all of them, and it hurts.

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FAQ: Axe answers questions