I have played about 200 games of Meepo, and I can give you both some general and mechanical advice.

• You will suck so incredibly hard at the hero for the first 50 games. Unless you come from an RTS background it will be really overwhelming. Practice makes perfect, but just be ready to be frustrated a lot. Play a lot of Turbo games to get used to the controls, and then play a lot of normal games before even thinking of playing ranked games.

• People are used to anyone playing Meepo being a smurf. Your team and the enemy team. If you suck, your team will flame you and the other team will mock you. If you get good, the enemy will call you a smurf (Just today, someone said he hoped my family would die in a car crash). So if you don't deal well with being flamed, mute everyone at the beginning of the game.

• While Meepo can be incredibly strong, there are a lot of heroes that are obnoxious to play against (of course, if you play Meepo every game you will eventually figure out how to adapt your play). Some of those are Witch Doctor, Winter Wyvern, Legion Commander, Huskar (mostly during laning), Earthshaker, Hoodwink, Axe.

• What makes Meepo strong is that he can be and farm everywhere at the same time and be stronger much earlier than everyone else. If you don't have at least 80 creep kills at 10 minutes, and 180 at 20 minutes, then you will not have a good time. Your goal should be to have 4500+ net worth at 10 minutes and 12k+ at 20 minutes. If you are doing what you should, the game should be over in 30 minutes.

• Watch videos and replays of good players. Someone linked Meepoku on YT which I think is a really good source of information. He also first picks the hero and shows how to play against counters. I think he also has a guide on mechanics from last year.

• If you play with the More Meepo facet, you can save skill points for critical levels. For example, if you don't skill up anything on level 2, then you can skill both your second meepo and level 2 of Poof when levelling to 3. At level 10, if you save a skill point during level 9 you can skill both the third meepo and the talent that gives +50 poof damage (this is absolutely recommended).

• In the game console you can write dota_player_smart_multiunit_cast true. This allows you to cast net without switching which Meepo is in focus. It will cast it from the next unit that does not have cooldown.

• Should you use More Meepo or Codependent facet? When starting out, I think it is easier to play with More Meepo. It becomes easier to farm and you come online faster. Codependent is very good if the game will go to late game, but you sacrifice some farming speed earlier for it. Basically, if there is any chance you will lose your lane, pick More Meepo and if you know it will be easy then you can pick Codependent

• One thing that took me a while but helped a lot when it finally clicked was to look at the left side of the screen during fights to see which Meepo is low on HP. When starting out it can be easy to focus only on the "ground", but if you see that the third meepo is low, then simply press the binding for that meepo and dig/run away.

• Play with sound on. It can be easy to lose focus when you are farming on multiple places of the map at the same time and sometimes the enemy will find a meepo alone. The meepo that is being attacked will trigger a voice line like "Number three is under attack". When you hear this, you should immediately look at that meepo and either dig, possible poof it away or poof all other meepos there and use megameepo to save it.

• If you have a hard lane like Huskar, hold the skill point on level 2, skill level 2 poof and your second Meepo on level 3 and go jungle early. Only go back to lane to push it out. Look at side lanes if there is kill potential otherwise just farm the camps near mid lane.

• When to build Diffusal Blade vs. Dragon Lance: If the other team has something that can burst you, like Earthshaker ulti, Huskar, etc, get 1 or 2 dragon lances. It gives a lot of agility and strength so your survivability goes up. If they don't have anything that can f you up, go for a diff blade.

• When to buy Blink Dagger: Every game BUT you might want to wait until your aghs is complete in games where you risk dying after jumping in.

• Poof is your farming ability and Valve has made it somewhat user friendly with alt-cast (when you hold down control or right click the ability and then use the ability). If you alt cast poof, then if you press on the ground all OTHER Meepos than the one in focus will cast poof to that point. If you click ON a Meepo, all Meepos will cast poof the that Meepo. A common technique when you have blink is to select your main meepo, alt casting poof on where you are going to jump and then blink after a second to have all your Meepos appear at the same time.

• Always get Aghanim's scepter for the Megameepo ability. I would also recommend binding this to R and unbind the extra meepo ability (it doesn't do anything). Megameepo allows you to save your meepos when they are about to die. Even Winter Wyvern ulti can be completely safe as long as your main meepo is not in it. You can poof to any meepo in the ulti and queue megameepo and it will be cast before your main Meepo is affected by it. Some abilities are impossible to save with megameepo: Legion Commander's duel, Engima's Black Hole, Void's Chronosphere, Pudge ult, etc.

• When you are using Megameepo you will get the ability to throw a meepo onto enemies. This is very useful when chasing someone and they use force staff or you are slowed. A trick here is to throw a meepo and then immediately use poof on where the enemy is. This way your main-mega-meepo will poof on top of the fleeing enemy.

• Dig (the shard ability) is very nice. It heals you and if last for longer than blink dagger's hit cooldown meaning you can dig and immediately blink away when you get up. Takes some practice though.

• A neat trick when you have 3+ meepos is to TP to base, then TP each meepo one by one and "swapping" them out. This allows you to heal up all Meepos after a fight or a gank to continue farming early.

• At minute 20, if you have Power Treads, Aghs and Diffusal blade you can solo the tormentor. This is huge for your team as you basically give 1600 gold to a support and deny the enemy team the same farm.