If you want to play without bots you can just skip the plain text and

follow the bold text only.

This is a guide on how to LAN Dota 2 when you're at friends
etc. and have no internet connection. Normally Dota won't let
you LAN only play bot matches solo in offline mode. This is
for those people(like me) frustrated that you can't LAN Dota
without internet connection.
So to do this you'll need to enable console first by right
clicking Dota 2 in steam and selecting "Properties". Then
click on "Launch Options" and type in "-console". Click OK
and close, you can start the game now and it should take you
to something similiar to this screen.
Now type this in the console: "sv_cheats 1" "sv_lan 1" "map
dota.bsp"
Once the map loads in the background and you can type in
the console again, make a note of the server port in the
console here . Your friends will be using this to connect to
your game. Now if you want to play with bots type the following in
the console: "dota_bot_set_difficulty 3". You can replace the 3 with
numbers from 1-3. 1 being easy bots, 3 being hard bots(I am not
sure on the difficulty ranking with the numbers maybe it goes from
0-4, 0 being passive and 4 being unfair but I just use 3 all the time
anyways which I'm sure are hard bots). Now type
"dota_start_ai_game 1". When all this is done, your friends can
connect from their consoles by typing in "connect" and your
private LAN IP address followed by the port your got earlier.
Something like this "connect 192.168.10.12:27015". When
your friends are connected, you and them pick Radiant or
Dire side by typing in "jointeam good" for Radiant or
"jointeam bad" for Dire and "jointeam spec" for spectator.
Then close the console using the x at the top right or
pressing the keybind for console. Pick heroes and the bots
should load in once the game starts. This is a guide for playing All
Pick only, if there is a way to play other gameomdes using console
then post it in the comments.
Btw I know this is an unnecessarily long and in-depth guide just to
type a few commands in the console, but I wanted to make this as
noob-friendly as possible. Hopefully this helps some people like it
did me.

EDIT: formatting
EDIT2: credit to /u/Knecht_Ruprecht To select the game mode, you
have to type "dota_force_gamemode X" into console before "map
dota". X is a number that defines the game mode you will play
(Source:http://dota2.gamepedia.com/List_of_Console_Commands):
* All Pick = 1 * Captains Mode = 2 * Random Draft = 3 * Single
Draft = 4 * All Random = 5 * INTRO = 6 * Diretide = 7 * Reverse
Captains Mode = 8 * Greeviling = 9 * Tutorial = 10 * Mid Only = 11
* Least Played = 12 * Limited Heroes = 13 * Compendium = 14 *
Captains Draft = 16 * Balanced Draft = 17 * Ability Draft = 18 * All
Random Death Match = 20 * 1 VS 1 Solo-Mid = 21 * All Pick
(Ranked) = 22

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[]Knecht_Ruprecht 29 points 2 months ago*

To select the game mode, you have to type "dota_force_gamemode
X" into console before "map dota". X is a number that defines the
game mode you will play
(Source: http://dota2.gamepedia.com/List_of_Console_Commands
):
All Pick = 1
Captains Mode = 2
Random Draft = 3
Single Draft = 4
All Random = 5
INTRO = 6
Diretide = 7
Reverse Captains Mode = 8
Greeviling = 9
Tutorial = 10
Mid Only = 11
Least Played = 12
Limited Heroes = 13
Compendium = 14
Captains Draft = 16
Balanced Draft = 17

Ability Draft = 18
All Random Death Match = 20
1 VS 1 Solo-Mid = 21
All Pick (Ranked) = 22
EDIT: formatting, thanks /u/Erska