Defense of the Ancients: Difference between revisions

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''DotA'' is, in a nutshell, a team game where you choose a [[Hero Unit]] with unique abilities, kill creeps and heroes for gold and buy items with gold to make your hero even more powerful, and attempt to destroy a central building in the opposing team's base (the titular "Ancient" which you are defending), while they do the same to you.

[[Valve|Valve Software]] had hired Icefrog (One of the game's original developers) and have been working on [http://www.gamespot.com/news/6281820.html a commercial sequel/remake of a sort called] [[Dota 2]].

 

 

It also has [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXKd7uuehlw&feature=fvsr an awesome song about it].

 

 

It also has a [[Defense of the Ancients/Characters|character page]] (in progress).

** It's like a "Kick Me" sign that adds 300 damage!

** The really, ''really'' hard all-DPS zero mobility carries like Troll Warlord. Amazing DPS, but nothing's going to let you just walk up to them and bash their brains out.

** All heroes that get killed will eventually get revived automatically, but the process takes time that increases with level and players lose out on gold-making opportunities while dead. Death Isn't Cheap.

*** Especially since you can buy your way out of the revival process... by spending outrageous amounts of gold.

* [[Cannibalism Superpower]]: Lucifer with his Devour.

* [[Carry a Big Stick]]: Tiny with Aghanim's Scepter who picked up a tree to have a War Club.

* [[The Computer Is a Cheating Bastard]]: AI versions often have them getting experience and gold faster than their human counterparts if the mode isn't set to disable it. And don't let me start on the move speed...

** Although the experience and gold can be disabled, they're much better at getting last hits (the ones that count for the bonus gold) than most humans. What's really an issue is how they seem to cheat percentages - especially when using Phantom Lancer and Ogre Magi.

* [[Grievous Harm with a Body]]: Tiny's ''Toss'' skill.

* [[Guns Are Worthless]]: Subverted with the Sniper. He is the only gunslinger, but his problems aren't due to his use of a gun; rather, it's that he can't do anything ''with'' that gun but [[Boom! Headshot!]], which limits his viability in competitive play.

* [[Healing Factor]]: All heroes to a modest degree and depending on items, but primarily Huskar and Alchemist.

* [[Hero Secret Service]]: While initiators and tanks fit the traditional "bullet-taking", gankers go about it more proactively by hunting down and killing enemy heroes before they can threaten the carry/ies.

** Another one in the form of Kael the Invoker. He's the ONLY hero who lacks the attribute bonus all heroes have - a fact that, coupled with his status as an INT hero, means his HP is shit. Unlike most heroes, all he can learn are 'reagents', which give him hp regen, movement speed and/or damage, as opposed to nukes like most int heroes do. However, his ultimate lets him [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|invoke]] up to 10 spells (no more than 2 at a time), based on the current combination of his three reagents. Of course, the player needs good memory of the 10 possible invokes and their combinations to use him at all, though. Definitely not one for newbies.

*** His attribute bonuses are still there, just not immediately apparent. Each of his orbs, when leveled up, gives +2 to a stat (Quas = Strength, Wex = Agility, Exort = Intelligence). Each orb can reach a maximum of level 7. He gets a total of 6 stat points less in each stat by level 25.

*** Everything ''in'' sight? Hell, he'll get stuff outside his natural visual range ([[Required Secondary Powers|as long as there's an allied hero, tower, or ward to spot for him)]]!

* [[Leeroy Jenkins]]: Semi-subverted; while this playing style can and often will wreck team strategy, some heroes are played specifically for this purpose; some community lingo calls them [[Rambo]] heroes. Initiator heroes also are meant to charge headfirst into the enemy formation, get off a (preferably disabling) spell and draw fire while the rest follow behind.

** Don't forget Khimari Ronso from ''[[Final Fantasy X]]''.

** [[Star Wars|Boush]], the Tinker with the impressive [[High Tech]] weaponry should also count.

** The description of the Batrider's skill ''Firefly'' includes the phrase ''[[Firefly|"You can't take the sky from him!"]]''.

*** He ''is'' a Hydralisk. (Well, kind of. The H-lisk model was included in ''TFT'' as an [[Easter Egg]], but, as DotA proves, there's no reason they can't be employed in gameplay.)

** Yurnero the [[Hinduism|Juggernaut]] and his [[Limit Break]], [[Final Fantasy VII|Omnislash]].

** [[My Friends and Zoidberg|And]] [[Futurama|Zoidberg]]

*** No, really. He has a courier named after him.

* [[Skill Gate Characters]]: Gondar the Bounty Hunter and Rikimaru the Stealth Assassin both rely completely on their invisibility to be effective. Gondar's Wind Walk grants him no bonus movement speed, and if he's detected, it can't save him unlike other windwalks, while Rikimaru's is the reason he's more than just a decent semicarry with a silence. In lower level play efficient invisibility detection is completely unheard of. Moving just slightly up in general skill level renders these heroes both nearly useless.

* [[Spam Attack]]: The Ursa Warrior's ''Overpower'' skill. The Windrunner's ''Focus Fire'' skill.

* [[Teleport Spam]]: The Juggernaut's rendition of ''Omnislash'' acts this way.

** Tinker after he gots Boot of Travel

* [[Time Stands Still]]: Faceless Void's ultimate, ''Chronosphere''. Within the area of effect anyway.

** And for everyone but himself and whatever minions he may have picked up.

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