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.
Top bug-madness in Dota 2
No doubt, bugs, and errors affect the game quite a lot. For this reason, IT seniors release patches, regular technical reworks, and updates. Dota 2, especially Valve IT team, is no exception. Each new patch is usually accompanied by the appearance of new bugs, both ordinary cosmetic ones and ruining the entire game mechanic, that sometimes causes server crashes and other global problems. Sometimes such “mistakes” affect the match’s results, including the performance of E-sportsmen on the professional cyber scene.
Hidden imba: Enchantress via Aghanim’s Scepter gameplay
Howdy! Valve reduces the abilities of some heroes with each new Dota 2 patch, while granting a few upgrades to others. Sometimes developers add new imba characters, and sometimes add or fix an item, that has an unbelievable value for its price. Each of these changes tilts the balance of the game toward who picks a similar hero or collects an overbuffed slot. One such example is Aghanim’s Scepter for Ench and I will tell you why.
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.
Puppey- all TIs player, can he repeat it this year?
Dendi, XBOCT, LightOfHeaven, Artstyle, Puppey are the first NaVi roster and the first roster in the history of Dota 2 to win the first of its kind The International. A lot has changed since then, players have left, players have come, eras have changed, teams have changed, the game has changed, TI has changed, and the only thing that has remained the same until now is the performance of Clement "Puppey" Ivanov at every possible The International.
Best supports of 7.32c patch
Patch 7.32c is out in Dota! We have already covered the new Shards, Aghanims, the Flagbearer creep, mid-lane changes, the 5 worst heroes, and just the most important moments of the patch. It's time to find out which heroes are the most pleasant to enter matchmaking for +30 MMR.
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.
DAC cosplay cool moments
God bless cute girls who like Dota 2. QuoP is cute anyway, but cute girl who plays Dota only exists in dream! I hope you remember that SirActionSlacks and PPD infiltrate the Cosplay Contest at DAC 2017
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.
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?
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).
Some Dota 2 features that you probably didn’t know
Today, Dota 2 continues to retain its title as one of the most popular online games in the world, with international championships and prize pools. One of the main reasons for the success of the project without exaggeration can be called a complex, but relatively fair balance of the game for all users, the creation of an environment with equal chances to win. In Dota 2, there are many built-in options, knowledge of which will help you to ensure the increasing of the hero’s skills. It is noteworthy that many experienced players, knowing about the features of Dota 2 described below, do not always use the tricks in practice.
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.
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.
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.