Dota 2 and its previous incarnation has been around for 15 years, taking the crown as the longest active MOBA on the market. Fortunately, there are heroes whose individual gameplay and mechanics are relatively simple, resulting in an easy way to contribute to winning the game. If you are coming to the game fresh, the number of Dota 2 characters can be overwhelming. Don’t worry, we have prepared a list of great Dota heroes suitable for a smooth start. Here are list of excellent heros that we suggest:

1. Crystal Maiden

Crystal Maiden is a ranged intelligence hero who uses the power of frost and ice to disable and dispatch her foes. A slow and fragile support, Crystal Maiden’s strength lies in her battery of strong nukes, disables and slows. Crystal Nova is an area-of-effect nuke that slows enemies’ attack and movement speeds, while Frostbite immobilizes an enemy in a block of ice, dealing moderate damage per second.

Coordinating these spells with a laning partner’s own abilities will bring many an enemy to their knees. Her passive Arcane Aura also improves the mana regeneration for heroes in Rylai’s team, multiplying their spellcasting in the early game.

Later on, she has the potential to lay waste to her enemies in teamfights if she is can channel her deadly ultimate Freezing Field uninterrupted. Her global mana aura, strong disables and nukes, and a lack of item dependence make Crystal Maiden a reliable and, with judicious use of her ultimate, a devastating support caster.

• Characteristic: Intelligence
• Attack Type: Range
• Position: SupportBest With: Ursa, Juggernaut, LinaBad Against: Clockwerk, Nyx Assassin, BristlebackGood Against: Phantom Assassin, Templar Assassin, SlarkItems to Buy: Tranquil Boots, Glimmer Cape, Force Staff, Blink Dagger, Black King Bar, Aghanim’s ScepterTalent Tree — 10: +100 Cast Range, 15: +150 Gold/Min, 20: +60 FF Damage, 25: +300 CN Damage

 
 

2. Viper

Viper, the Netherdrake, is a ranged agility hero who functions as an excellent nuker, ganker and carry due to his assortment of low-cooldown spells and debilitating attacks. His modus operandi is to whittle away his opponents’ vitality over long stretches of time while they fail to inflict fatal damage. To that end Viper wields magic-based abilities focused on inhibiting speed and defenses. He infects his quarry with Poison Attack, a seemingly innocuous liquid that rapidly burns away more health as they became sicker, while drowning them in noxious pools which block their innate powers.

Meanwhile Corrosive Skin fortifies him against magic damage and poisons those who dare strike him. For impervious foes he reserves his most powerful venom, Viper Strike, as a surprise gift. A slow tank that dominates the early stages of a game, Viper depends on consolidating that advantage before opponents can afford to exploit his weaknesses.

• Characteristic: Agility
• Attack Type: Range
• Position: Midlanner/Carry

Best With: Drow Ranger, Clockwerk, Faceless Void

Bad Against: Antimage, Legion Commander, Outworld Devourer

Good Against: Enchantress, Abbadon, Antimage

Items to Buy: Power Treads, Hurricane Pike, Butterfly, Black King Bar, Monkey King Bar, Heart of Tarrasque

Talent Tree — 10: %8 Spell Lifesteal, 15: +100 Attack Range, 20: +100 Viper Strike DPS, 25: +120 Damage

 
 

3. Dragon Knight

Davion, the Dragon Knight, is a durable melee strength hero with a relatively straightforward and yet versatile skill set. He has both an area-of-effect nuke and a lengthy single-target stun, giving him excellent farming and ganking capabilities. Though he has no real escape ability, his Dragon Blood provides him a hefty amount of armor and regen, making him capable of withstanding strong physical hits and recovering quickly.

He is still very vulnerable in the early game, however, and needs to farm and stay alive in order to be effective in later stages. If he has enough levels and farm, Dragon Knight is very formidable in the late game due to his strong ultimate, Elder Dragon Form, which transforms him into a legendary dragon with a ranged attack, capable of eliminating multiple enemies at once.

• Characteristic: Strength
• Attack Type: Melee/range
• Position: Midlanner

Best With: Crystal Maiden, Vengeful Spirit, Omniknight

Bad Against: Outworld Devourer, Ancient Apparition, Timbersaw

Good Against: Clinkz, Templar Assassin, Bloodseeker

Items to Buy: Power Treads, Silver Edge, Assault Cuirass, Black King Bar, Daedalus, Heart of Tarrasque

Talent Tree — 10: +2 Mana Regen, 15: +35 Damage, 20: 2x Dragon Blood Regen HP/Armor, 25: +40 Strength

 
 

4. Sniper

Kardel Sharpeye, the Sniper, is a ranged agility hero who excels at dealing moderate to heavy damage from an incredible range. With no escape mechanism, poor mobility, and only a modest health pool, Sniper is exceptionally frail at all stages of the game and vulnerable to enemies who confront him head-on. However, his abilities provide him both the means to keep his distance and systematically destroy his enemies from afar.

Shrapnel is a potent, high-cast range zoning ability that provides vision for Sniper while slowing and damaging enemies in its area of effect; with up to 3 charges on the ability, Sniper can completely close off any viable routes for his opponents to approach or escape.

Headshot supplements Sniper’s right-click damage and briefly stops enemies when it procs, which can be quite debilitating since it has a high rate of occurring. His third ability, Take Aim, gives him the largest attack range of any hero in the game, allowing him to deal high DPS from a safe distance while also giving him the ease to switch between targets at a moment’s notice.

• Characteristic: Agility
• Attack Type: Range
• Position: Midlanner/Carry

Best With: Drow Ranger, Ogre Magi, Vengeful Spirit

Bad Against: Bounty Hunter, Clockwerk, Slark

Good Against: Drow Ranger, Enigma, Silencer

Items to Buy: Power Treads, Hurricane Pike, Daedalus, Silver Edge, Mjollnir, Butterfly

Talent Tree — 10: +20 Damage, 15: 40 Attack Speed, 20: +35 Knockback Distance Headshot, 25: +125 Attack Range

 
 

5. Bristleback

Rigwarl the Bristleback is a melee strength hero famous for his array of synergistic, simplistic, and yet effective spells with low mana costs and cooldowns. Though each cast of his spells has relatively weak potency on its own, their instances have a cumulative effect, making the Bristleback quite deadly the longer he stays alive in a fight; this is directly reflected in his ultimate, Warpath, which powers up his movement and attack damage based on the number of spells he recently cast. He is able to increasingly slow his enemies down and reduce their armor with Viscous Nasal Goo and hit them with a barrage of Quill Sprays, making him an effective chaser when ganking enemies.

His low strength gain makes him seem less tanky than most strength heroes at first glance, but his signature Bristleback passive substantially reduces all damage he takes from the sides and especially the rear, making him very difficult to bring down if he’s facing away from his enemies. In the right hands, Bristleback is a powerful ganker in the early stages of the game, and a powerful hard carry in the later stages depending on how much farm he gets.

• Characteristic: Strength
• Attack Type: Melee
• Position: Offlaner/Carry

Best With: Crystal Maiden, Io, Drow Ranger

Bad Against: Antimage, Legion Commander, Outworld Devourer

Good Against: Chaos Knight, Luna, Broodmother

Items to Buy: Power Treads, Crimson Guard, Blade Mail, Heart of Tarrasque, Octarine Core, Assault Cuirass

Talent Tree — 10: +2 Mana Regen, 15: +250 Health, 20: +20 Health Regen, 25: 15% Spell Lifesteal

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Remember, this is just a guide, not a step by step walkthrough. With 117 heroes and countless combos, Dota 2 is a beautiful puzzle and you’ll find that one piece that clicks just right.

The International 2019 is the concluding tournament of the Dota Pro Circuit and the ninth annual edition of The International. Hosted by Valve Corporation, the game’s developer, the tournament began in August 2019 with the group stage and will conclude with the main event at the Mercedes-Benz Arena in Shanghai.

Group Stage – August 15th – August 18th, 2019

• All eighteen teams are divided into two groups where they play in a Round Robin format.
  • All matches are played in a Bo2 (Best of 2).
  • The top four teams in each group advance to the Upper Bracket of the Main Event.
  • The bottom team in each group is eliminated.
  • The remaining teams advance to the Lower Bracket of the Main Event.

Main Event – August 20th – August 25th, 2019

• Sixteen teams play in a double-elimination format over six days.
  • Eight teams begin in the Upper Bracket, eight in the Lower Bracket.
  • First Lower Bracket round is Bo1, Grand Finals are Bo5, all others rounds are Bo3.

The initial prize pool of the tournament is $1,600,000 USD. An additional 25% of all Battle Pass sales are added to the total prize pool. These sales include Battle Pass purchases at multiple levels as well as points purchases used to level up the Battle Pass in-game. The current total prize pool is $33,407,987 USD ($31,807,987 USD added).

 

Highlight:

Ana in OG team really is the main highlight of the group stage match because of his performance on Carry IO in a few games that leads their team to victory. This OG team is really an interesting team that always has a really great plan on archiving victory even with a low percentage of winning via their line up heroes.

Nether less, PSG LGD also has a great performance in every game with 13 win games out of 16 game.

RTZ from EG teams really caught viewer attention on his match versus VG when he got a RAMPAGE with 1 v 5. This player really will be one of the main focus to viewers to see his performance and they will eager to see the best performance of him in the main stage.

Instead of the main event of TI9, there are also other side events that always been held every international which is a film contest, arcana vote, all-stars game and cosplay contest.

Click HERE to view the TI9 Short Film Contest Entries [Only Battle pass owner can vote for the finalist]

We believe that Orge Magi and Wind Ranger is the final compete for arcana in this year.

This year’s International All-Star rosters will be based on Fantasy Points rankings. The top players will compete in an All Random Death Match, and fans are invited to choose a favorite player before the All-Star Match to earn extra Battle Points.

Format :

• 5 vs 5 All Random Death Match.
• Top 10 players by Fantasy Score from Group Stage will compete
• No more than 1 player from any team

And the winning team will be getting a piece of a big cheese as the prize. This match mainly focuses on picking the best player with his role and make a team of 5 with a different player from a different team.

Great years ahead. We should pause for a minute to relate the best games of 2019 up until now—perhaps some you played, and most likely, at any rate, a couple of you haven’t gotten around to yet. Please note that the list is not in a particular order.
 
 

The Plague Tale: Innocence

Genre: Survival horror, Action-adventure game, Stealth game

Rating: 4.5/5
In late 1348, Amicia de Rune is a little youngster of respectable plummet who lives with her family in rustic Aquitaine, which has been attacked by the English armed force. Hugo has been sick since birth, and their mom Beatrice, a chemist, has secured him away in the family domain for quite a long time searching for an approach to fix him. While hunting with her dad Robert in the backwoods, Amicia experiences indications of a curse, and her pooch Lion is grimly devoured by an unseen entity. They rush back to the de Rune estate, however, troops from the Inquisition driven by Lord Nicholas arrive and assault the bequest looking for Hugo, executing Robert and several servants. Beatrice asks Amicia to take Hugo to his doctor Laurentius before she is possibly killed.

Amicia and Hugo escape through a nearby village, where they discover that crowds of greedy rats have been spreading plague and eating up anything they go over. Avoiding threatening locals headed to a witch chase, and more Inquisition warriors, Amicia and Hugo arrive at Laurentius’ ranch, yet he is bedridden by the plague. Laurentius begs Amicia to discover a solution for Hugo’s disease. At the point when Laurentius’ home bursts into flames, Amicia and Hugo escape with his student Lucas to look for  Château d’Ombrage.

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Resident Evil 2 (remake)

Genre: Survival horror, Horror

Rating: 4.1/5
Two months after the occasions of the main Resident Evil, most natives of the Midwestern American mountain network Raccoon City have been changed into zombies by the T-virus, an organic weapon subtly created by the pharmaceutical organization Umbrella. Leon S. Kennedy, a cop on his first day of obligation, and Claire Redfield, a college student searching for her sibling Chris, make their way to the Raccoon Police Department. They find that the majority of the police force have been killed and that Chris has left town to explore Umbrella’s base camp in Europe. They split up to search for survivors and discover an exit from the city. While scanning for an escape route, Claire meets a young lady, Sherry Birkin, who is on the run from an unknown creature, and Leon meets Ada Wong, who professes to search for her boyfriend John, an Umbrella researcher.

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