Мы недавно говорили о том, что новые герои в Доте сейчас слишком сильно влияют на мету. Многие оригинальные персонажи получили различные изменения, чтобы оставаться релевантными в 2021-ом году и таланты, Aghanim's Shard и редкие, но точечные реворки помогли этому. Однако не всё так хорошо, и по нашему мнению есть пара персонажей, которым нужно что-то ещё.

Первая неделя DPC-сезона прошла так, как мы ожидали. Почти. Есть несколько интересных моментов с новыми составами, которые мы бы хотели обсудить и понять, почему некоторые команды не доигрывают.

Going into DPC there are many great storylines we want to keep an eye on; the post-TI10 reshuffle was overall pretty brutal with many unexpected changes. While we won’t know for sure whether they are going to pay off before the teams actually play, it can be quite fun to speculate.

Марси вышла одним из самых сильных героев за всю историю Доты и даже после нерфов остается проблематичным персонажем. Сегодня мы бы хотели посмотреть почему, и как с этим справляться в пабах.

As 2021 starts to wind down, we here at Dotabuff asked ourselves what better way to celebrate than with a new Dotabuff Plus feature? Our answer: how about a new Dotabuff Plus feature AND a limited-time-only introductory price for Dotabuff Plus!

It’s crazy to think that Dota heroes have been consistently developed and released for almost two decades at this point. That is 122 unique opportunities to practice hero design, not to mention the countless patches of tweaking and reworking or the likelihood of many partially developed hero concepts. That is a lot of time to optimize what makes a good hero. It also means there are a lot of other moving pieces to consider when trying to create a hero that will be relevant and unique enough to be interesting.

Dota itemization is a thing of beauty. There are so many different viable options in every game for almost every hero that it can turn into a mini-game of its own. Even the neutral items can sometimes factor into itemization decisions. Because of it, new items are always exciting, so today we would like to theorycraft what could possibly be added or changed in Dota and why.

One of the more interesting developments for Dota over the last five years is how attributes have more or less made a full circle. After multiple attempts to make primary attributes more meaningful and tie other game mechanics to Strength, Agility and Intelligence, we are now back to the very basics. We are not here to discuss whether this simplicity is beneficial or not, but rather remind players that there is one mechanic that recently made a comeback as a result of this approach that is quite underrated.

The ten-player buyback in the match between T1 and PSG.LGD was one of the International highlights this year. Never, in the history of the biggest esports tournament, has so much gold been spent for no apparent gain, as even the end of the fight was inconclusive. This moment led to several interesting questions about the mechanics of buyback and today we would like to, perhaps not answer them outright, but rather think about and analyze them.