Since online lobbies can carry up to 5vs5 player battles, good teamwork and coordination make all the difference. Meet your instructor: Johan N0tail Sundstein, professional Dota 2 player and has previously won The International in 2018. Working well with your teammates is also essential. Buying items and forging them with recipes based on your Hero’s primary attribute (Strength, Agility, Intelligence) is crucial for gaining the upper hand in battle. Killing the spawned units also gives you XP which levels up your Hero, granting him new abilities and improving his stats. These items strengthen your Hero by adding additional Agility, Strength, Intelligence, Speed etc. By killing these units or enemy Heroes you earn gold which you can use to buy different items and recipes from different shops found on the map. The 3 paths leading to the Ancients are guarded by 6 towers in total and each path has a wave of units that spawns periodically. The goal of the match is to destroy your enemy’s “Ancient” that results in victory. Each team has a unique set of heroes to choose from and each Hero has a unique ability set and playstyle. The gameplay consists of two teams fighting each other, the Sentinel and the Scourge. Since it’s release in 2003 the game was a huge success worldwide and has shaped the online gaming ever since.

From the development company Blizzard comes Defense of the Ancients or DotA, a multiplayer online battle arena mod for the video game Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos and the expansion Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne.

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