The easiest way to stay up to date on changes in Dota2?

[Erlink]

I have spent well over 800 hours playing this game, but I haven't played in ages.

The reason I have played very little recently is the same reason I don't really have the time to spend many hours reading through patch release notes and the like (a kid).

But I still wanna play the occational Dota 2 game.

So how do I most effectively keep up with tweaks and changes? I am now ranked (and therefore matched) a bit over my skill and not knowing about New skills and items makes this worse (and is unfair to my teammates as well).

[Roshar]

https://www.reddit.com/r/dota2

[Robotica]

Usually there's a blog post by Valve, if you want more direct meta discussion and whatnot /r/truedota2 is a good subreddit.

[DownToFarm]

My go-to is usually log in, and get killed by a new item or hero change. Always a blast.