The ultimate guides and articles about Dota 2
Dota 2 is one of the most popular eSport games out there. Every day, hundreds of thousands of people play Dota 2 and watch Dota 2 tournaments. With so many people playing, there's always something new to learn. That's where we come in. Our website offers the latest Dota 2 news, guides, and hero information. Whether you're a casual player or a competitive Pro, we have the information you need to take your Dota 2 game to the next level. Dota 2 is a complex game with many different heroes and strategies. Guides and tournament coverage help viewers understand the action and make it more exciting to watch.
What's wrong with the new Battle Pass?
Every year, all Dota 2 multiplayer fans gather together to look at the largest tournament in eSports with the largest prize money in history - The International. Every season it attracts more and more viewers behind computer screens, and as an excellent bonus to competitions, in addition to epic matches of professional teams, ordinary players can enjoy the seasonal Battle Pass, which changes its content every year, its rewards, treasures and chests, new couriers, emoticons and anything that Valve's creative development team can come up with.
How to be the strongest pos-3 player: AMMAR VS SabeRLight playstyles
From time to time, we observe how Dota 2 masters exploit non-meta heroes at professional tournaments. Especially its true story about pos-3 role. Once somebody wins and everyone instantly starts apeing their playstyle, especially in low-ranking pubs. In most cases, the result of such games obviously expected. That’s the theme I’d like to discuss today. Let’s analyze the real «success recipe» of 2 virtuoso pos-3 players in Western Europe.
How ALAWAYSWANNAFLY helped Talon Esports reach TI
On November 16, 2021, the Talon Esports organization signed the first roster: Gabbi, Mikoto, kpii, Hyde, and Fly. The team successfully passed through the open qualifiers of the SEA 2021/2022 Tour 1. The roster was assembled from famous players, so they initially had high ambitions, namely, an uncontrolled exit from the first place, no less. But, unfortunately, the guys did not play well and got a disastrously negative result - 5th place in the second division. Thus, the roster did not last long because already on January 19, 2022, Fly and Gabbi left the team.
Try to guess Dota 2 heroes created by Artificial Intelligence
There are already several thousand items published on the Steam Workshop, and they are all created by the Dota 2 community - players just like you. If you already have the game client installed, the Steam Workshop makes it easier than ever to submit finished models or images to the community. Each creation can not only get into the game, but also generate income from sales in the Dota 2 store.
Best CIS Dota caster
Esports commentator is the dream of every guy who at least once was fond of Dota, CSGO, PUBG etc. You are always invited to all eSport events, you travel with teams to tournaments, you live part of your life as a professional athlete, but at the same time, your job is to comment on what is happening. Today we will tell the story of the best commentators of our beloved game from the CIS region.
What's the secret of Pudge's powerness?
Pudge pickers, where are you? Pudge is one of the most drafted heroes in Dota. According to Dotabuff statistics, the hero is picked in every fifth game of matchmaking at a low rating (<2K MMR), and we should not forget that Pudge is often banned - so there would be even more hero in ranked matchmaking. Let's see why.
Dota 2 best heroes to boost MMR
Dota 2 has unique, and at times unfair, methods of ranking eSportsmen. Matchmaking points aren’t just numbers in your account profile that increases or decreases with each game you win/lose. Many cyber athletes strive to increase their MMR and spam 2-3 meta heroes.
Elder Titan pos-3 hidden Dota “Ace”
I suppose if you, dear readers, had not read the article's title, you would still not remember such a character as Elder Titan. Long forgotten in regular ranked games, even more, forgotten by Pro ‘ss, but not completely forgotten by the hero's fans. With each arrival of a new meta, some characters are forgotten and become not so popular, while some, on the contrary, their pick rate and win rate are growing, which should not be surprising because this is how Dota 2 works. Today we will analyze whether Elder Titan really dropped out of the game and lost to its direct competitors in every position, why the hero died and has 1.4% of the Dotabuff pick rate, and let's think, wasn't he written off too early?
How can I barely escape herald?
Increasing MMR points will be relevant for a long time, probably until it is removed from Dota 2 or replaced by something else. Players will always wonder how to properly and effectively increase their MMR. If you want to play with good players, not noobs, and have an excellent rating. Try to do a few things, which I described below. If you set a goal - to raise solo MMR, then you need to know how the matchmaking rating system works: if you win, you get +30, if you don't, then -30 (sometimes more, sometimes less.) So, it turns out that you should win more often than lose, and then you should figure out what and how to do that.
Pudge pos-1 – new “secret” strategy
Maybe you still remember how the Chinese team CN PSG.LGD performed an experimental draft in the match against CN Vici Gaming in Dota 2 Pit China Season 5 online tournament. On map-1 of the confrontation, PSG.LGD picked Pudge pos-1 (carry) for CN Wang "Ame" Chunyu. As a result, map-1 ended in 42:18 in favor of Vici Gaming. Ame finished the game on 13/10/8, but finally, PSG.LGD subsequently won 2-1. Since then, professional E-sportsmen ignored Pudge and picked him to amuse the community and fans. However, the situation changed when Valve announced the release of patch 7.31, where Pudge got a few volcanic buffs, which unwrapped hero's traditional pos-4 role.
Ana and Team Liquid – epic fail or extra boost
Anathan “ana” Pham, a player, who is only 22 years old, has already gone inactive twice and ended his career as a player in Dota 2. He even tried himself in another discipline from Riot Games, Valorant. Despite this, he returned to Pro Dota scene and even won major tournaments. However, Anathan Pham recently joined Team Liquid as a stand-in, replacing Lasse "MATUMBAMAN" Urpalainen (pos-1).
SUNSfan and syndereN about Valve's attitude, Dota 2 future and community
Professional eSports analysts Troels "syndereN" Nielsen and Shannon "SUNSfan" Scotten shared their impressions over Dota 2 future and patch 7.32 as part of the We Say Things podcast.
How OG.Ceb realized the powerness of Windranger in Pro Dota
WR can easily harass any opponent's character due to excellent range, and attack animation and useful disable (Shackleshot) allows the hero to stun an enemy hero in a matter of seconds. And team OG captain was one of the first in that tournament who realized non-obvious WR power. In this text, we will analyze Ceb's item\skill build on this hero and his typical playstyle. Reworked Aganim's Shard is one of the key reasons of Ceb's masterpiece WR game.
Buyback mechanics - cheat death concept or not
Buyback (BB) – is a mechanic that allows you to avoid death pause time and return to the active game. Buyback is the same fundamental option in Dota, like Roshan, Aegis, or BKB against a tremendous amount of magic spells. BB’s formula hasn't changed in the same way for the last 3-4 patches. At the same time, there is very little information on how to BB correctly. As a result, mucho low-ranked players don’t even think about the importance of BB, even in early games. Otherwise, 5-6k pts doters mindlessly leave buybacks even when they don't need them. These mechanics have too many subtleties, but we will try to understand and structure the knowledge.
PSG.LGD becomes TI-11 favorite by stomping Team Spirit in Riyadh Masters 2022
The Chinese club PSG.LGD began its formation in eSports in 2009 and gradually became one of the strongest teams in the Cyber Universe. Gamers from China repeatedly became champions of Dota 2 competitions and were favorites of The International in different seasons. Over the years of the organization's existence, the roster has completely changed several times. The team currently features Wang Chunyu “Ame”, Chen Jinxiang “NothingToSay”, Zhang Ruida known as “Faith_bian”, Zhao Jixing as XinQ, and Zhang Liping “y'”. Four gamers are native Chinese, and “NothingToSay” is from Malaysia. PSG.LGD CEO is Fei Pan.