Dota 2
Every day, millions of players worldwide enter the battle as one of over a hundred Dota Heroes in a 5v5 team clash. Dota is the deepest multi-player action RTS game ever made and there’s always a new strategy or tactic to discover. It’s completely free to play and always will be – start defending your ancient now.
From magical tacticians to fierce brutes and cunning rogues, Dota 2’s hero pool is massive and limitlessly diverse. Unleash incredible abilities and devastating ultimates on your way to victory.
When not climbing the ranks, you’ll be able to learn from the best. The Dota Pro Circuit features ultra-high-level Dota 2 competition streaming regularly in the game client, on Twitch and Steam.TV. Culminating in the largest e-sports championship in the world, The International, professional Dota 2 is an event not to be missed.
Dota 2 on Valve Corporationin kehittämä ja julkaisema strategiapeli Microsoft Windowsille, OS X:lle ja Linuxille. Peli on itsenäinen jatko-osa Defense of the Ancientsille, joka on yhteisövoimin kehitetty Warcraft 3 -pelin modi.
Dota 2:n julkaisija on pelitalo Valve, joka tunnetaan muun muassa Half Life- ja Counter-Strike -pelisarjoista. Dota luokitellaan usein MOBA-kategoriaan, mikä on lyhenne sanoista multiplayer online battle arena [taisteluareenamoninpeli].
Dota 2:n avoin beta-testaus alkoi vuonna 2011 ja loppui heinäkuussa 2013, jolloin peli julkaistiin virallisesti. Peli on tällä hetkellä yksi maailman suosituimmista peleistä, jolta löytyy miljoonia pelaajia päivittäin.
Dota 2 on pelattavissa ilmaiseksi PC:llä ja Macilla. Pelin voi ladata ilmaiseksi Steam-sovelluksella, jonka pelaamiseen tarvitsee.
– Päivittäin miljoonat pelaajat kautta maailman astuvat taistelukentälle yhtenä yli sadasta Dota-sankarista. Ja olipa kyseessä sitten heidän kymmenes tai kymmenestuhannes pelinsä, sieltä löytyy aina jotain uutta, kuvaillaan Dotaa pelin omilla kotisivuilla.
Vaikka peli on ilmainen, löytyy siitä mikromaksuja. Ostettavat tuotteet ovat joko lisäosia tai kosmeettisia ulkoasuja, joten mikromaksuilla ei saa konkreettisesti mitään hyötyä muihin pelaajiin.
Dota 2 News
- There is a surprising amount of misconceptions about what winning the lane means. A lot of players default to thinking that winning a lane necessarily involves a lot of kills, which is simply not true. Today I would like to have a quick discussion about what it means to win your safelane and how to […]
- Position three is one of the least popular roles right now. Between very strong carry heroes and high-sustain position five supports, it is hard for Offlaners to pressure their lane or sometimes even farm. Add to it an occasional position four grief pick and you get a role with a lot of responsibility and very […]
- It’s been a week since the 7.40b patch release and we are slowly starting to see the meta shaping up. Heroes we are going to highlight today are the statistical outliers that consistently outperform the competition. For supports, we are seeing a resurgence of strong healers and save heroes. For cores, however… let’s just say […]
- Broken is an interesting word in the context of Dota, as it can describe something very powerful and something close to useless. It is the reason we chose this word specifically for this blog post, as the new patch introduced quite a lot of very broken things into the game. Today we are going to […]
- The wait is over and Largo, the Bard-Frog, is finally in the game. The hero’s design and vibes are definitely a highlight, but we are not here to talk about how ridiculously cute his little froglings are or how fun it is to play a rhythm-based mini-game in Dota. We are here to figure out […]
- The last big Dota tournament before the calendar year is over. DreamLeague Season 27 is trying to finish the year off with a bang: twenty four participating teams, an extended Swiss Group Stage and a proper, double-elimination playoff. This is definitely a tournament to watch, especially considering some squads might surprise you.
- Last week we talked about heroes, completely ignored by the professional players since the start of the new competitive season. Since then another hero joined the “professionally viable” pantheon and there are currently nine heroes in total, going completely uncontested throughout the first four tournaments. We’ve already discussed the support part of this infamous roster […]
- There have been three big tournaments since the start of the new competitive season and despite the lack of gameplay updates, there are occasional new meta trends. After looking through the data from the tournaments, we’ve found that only ten heroes remained uncontested. Today we are going to look at the support portion of this […]
- The initial reaction to the Monster Hunter collaboration was mixed. It was something unexpected, something quite niche and for the majority of players it didn’t really matter. Or so some of us thought. Well, perhaps we were wrong.
- We are a statistics website and a lot of our work is aimed at helping people get better at the game. Using tools for analysis isn’t going to magically improve your mechanical skill, but it can provide a lot of insight into how and where one can improve. Today we are going to look over […]
Dota 2 ranking
