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''Defense of the Ancients: Allstars'' (abbreviated to ''DotA'' or just ''Dota'') is a user map for ''[[
''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.
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The mod [[Genre Popularizer|popularized a new genre]]: "MOBA", [[Multiplayer Online Battle Arena]]. ''[[League of Legends]]'', ''[[Heroes of Newerth]]'' and ''[[Demigod]]'' are the major attempts to turn the format into a commercial success.
[[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] [[
Likewise Blizzard announced at Blizzcon 2010 their own version of DotA for Starcraft II, featuring characters from all their franchises. Due sometime in the near future.
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Visit the DotA website [http://www.playdota.com/ HERE].
It also has a [[Defense of the Ancients
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=== This series contains examples of: ===
* [[Added Alliterative Appeal]]: Ancient Apparition, Mask of Madness, and several others more.
* [[Announcer Chatter]]: From [[Unreal Tournament
** [[Memetic Mutation|M-M-M-M-MONSTER KILL!]]
** '''OWNAGE!'''
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* [[Blood Bath]]: By bathing in blood, Strygwyr the Bloodseeker can heal his wounds, including ones which would otherwise prove fatal.
* [[Boisterous Bruiser]]: Sven the Rogueknight, based on his skill descriptions, such as "Sven is here to pump you up!" or "Sven gets pumped up!"
** That's because he's based off Sven-Ole Thorsen. (and even funnier is that some of the time, Sven's name changes to Arnold Schwarzenegger - Thorsen HAS collaborated with him for a long time, starting with ''[[Commando (
* [[Body Horror]]: As of 6.72, Naix can infest his own teammates and if you switch while he's inside you he can turn you inside out like alien spawn (for better context he's a zombie).
** Also applies to Broodmother but it's spiders instead (not that that's any better).
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* [[Crosshair Aware]]: These appear on the Sniper's unlucky victim whenever he uses ''Assassinate''; it's only visible to the Sniper's allies, though. A variation on this is used to warn targets of Barathrum's ''Charge of Darkness''.
** The target is warned by the fact that they have this little tiny status effect with a gun on it that says something like "You are about to die" (It doesn't really say that but it should!)
* [[Deal
* [[Dem Bones]]: King Ostarion, Ethreain, Pugna, and Clinkz belong to the non-Mooks variety.
* [[Desperation Attack]]: Sacred Warrior's ''Berserker's Blood'' and Soul Keeper's ''Sunder''.
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* [[Entropy and Chaos Magic]]: One of the characters uses a chaos damage spell.
* [[Epic Flail]]: Rigwarl, the Bristleback.
* [[Everything's Better
* [[Everything's Worse
* [[Evil Twin]]: Terrorblade is Magina's twin brother in their background stories.
* [[Exactly What It Says
* [[Excuse Plot]]
* [[Extreme Omnivore]]: The Tango allows the bearer to consume trees.
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* [[Glass Cannon]]: Most of the Agility heroes, though some of the higher-tier ones have escape mechanisms to let them get away - if they can use it before getting stunned and nuked. Some of the nuke-heavy intelligence heroes are this as well, such as Lina and Boush.
* [[Gravity Sucks]]: Enigma's Black Hole.
* [[Grievous Harm
* [[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.
** The Sniper basically has no natural escapes or lasting disables... but can be given items to turn him into an [[Took a Level In Badass|unstoppable killing machine]].
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** Meepo the Geomancer deserves special mention here. A fragile little kobold. His Ultimate creates a permanent, weaker clone of him (that can't use items besides boots), three at maximum level, that are even EASIER to kill than the original. Oh, and if one dies, they all die. The 'Lethal' part is that having a total of four little kobolds equals 4x the hurt, and possibly 4x the experience. Of course, it takes insanely good micro to play him well...
*** Meepo can actually dish out incredible damage if one figures out the secret to Meepo's ultimate. {{spoiler|One Meepo's cooldown is independent of the other Meepo's cooldowns. So if all four kobolds are huddled and all four use ''Poof'', you deal approximately 1120 damage. Combined with a spammable ensnare and an 80% slow, you are, good sir, a terrifyingly lethal joke character. }}
** 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
*** 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.
** The Sniper gets a special mention here as well. Since he's small and starts with low health, slow movement speed, low damage, no escapes, no disables, low attack speed, this Hero seems quite pathetic... until he [[Took a Level In Badass|levels up, gets good items and starts killing everything in sight]].
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** Don't forget Khimari Ronso from ''[[Final Fantasy X]]''.
** [[Star Wars|Boush]], the Tinker with the impressive [[High Tech]] weaponry should also count.
** A few item-examples: [[The Legend of Zelda:
** The description of the Batrider's skill ''Firefly'' includes the phrase ''[[Firefly
** Lanaya is a [[Starcraft|Dark Templar]], and Lesale Deathbringer looks suspiciously like a Hydralisk...
*** 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.)
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* [[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.
* [[Stuff Blowing Up]]: The Goblin Techies's arsenal is composed of landmines of various effects, [[Taking You
* [[Squishy Wizard]]: The INT heroes, of course. Plus, their nukes become less effective (with the exception of a few skills) as the game goes on.
* [[Steampunk]]: Gyrocopter, Tinker, and Clockwerk.
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* [[Weak Turret Gun]]: Double subverted with towers, which are a real threat early on but lose their effectiveness as creeps and heroes grow stronger while they don't.
* [[When Trees Attack]]: Rooftrellen (a hero with one of the best strength ratings in the game).
* [[Whole-Plot Reference]]: Tinker's backstory in ''Dota 2'' was changed to something like this: He and a few other scientists went to a ''Violet Plateau'' and did a number of experiments, but one [[Teleporter Accident|opened up a portal and monsters]] from another realm came out. Only one Tinker survived, using [[One-Man Army|only his wits and weaponry]]. [[Half-Life (
** Additionally, Tinker is voiced by [[Actor Allusion|Harry Robins, the who is the voice of Dr. Isaac Kleiner]]. Subsequently, not only do Tinker's lines contain multiple references to Half-Life, many are paraphrases or direct quotations of Dr. Kleiner himself.
* [[Wings Do Nothing]]: Terrorblade, Balanar, Lucifer, and Akasha
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