UnitFocusPlay

Unit focus is the standard type of play, and it is necessary for each team to have at least one unit focus player to be able to defend the base. It is characterized by the player buying an early High Templar or early unit upgrades, and not spending any money on his or her hero until the mid game.

Unit upgrades versus tier upgrades

To upgrade to the next tier, or to upgrade your units is a tough call and depends on several factors: Hero equipments and expierence points
 * 1) Upgrading your units is an immediate effect, while it takes a long while to have a large group of units from the new tier.
 * 2) Upgrading your units does not make them more valuable to the opponents to kill, but units from a higher tier will always be worth more.
 * 3) Units from the next tier will always have a large amount of extra health, which makes them less vulnerable to spell damage such as firestorm or grenade.
 * 4) Upgrading to the next tier allows you to have a different kind of unit with unique abilities that might be useful (such as melee units or blinking units).
 * 5) Having high attack upgrades is necessary to be able to kill heros that are equipped with heart of the holy maiden.

As the heros of unit focus players are only for support, they are generally only given strength points and intelligence points. Besides that, players sometimes buy the "All Seeing Eye" (for detection) and "Punisher grenade launcher" (to prevent enemy hero's and armies from escaping).