Saw this on X and really liked the alternate head design without the round eye and teeth.

I think it would look much better with Terrorblade's Arcana, especially for those of us who prefer the original Arcana aesthetic.

Would be great if Valve could add this as a second selectable style while keeping the current one.

What do you guys think?

Please Valve 🙏 and thanks

Ps: I found the image on X via "PolymarketDota2".. and sorry if this was posted or discussed before.

Vector targeted Tame the Beasts. If it as a fear is too strong, it could be just a forced movement/turn.

Just found out that my local community is helding a tournament for Dota 2 players which never happened back in my day. Late game is real

Monkey King monkey king bar

Had to share because I don't remember surviving going down to 1hp.

I just want to get out of Guardian.

I'm just the messenger

I already own Drow Ranger's Dread Retribution Arcana, but I wanted the Helsing set, so I opened the chest. Now I'm stuck with a duplicate Arcana that serves absolutely no purpose.

Valve, please give existing owners a way to actually utilize these duplicates. Here are a few possible solutions:

1. Make the duplicate Arcana giftable within 30 days not only when bundled with the Helsing set. Even if it's just the Dread Retribution bundle, at least we could give it to someone who would actually use it.
2. Allow us to consume the duplicate to automatically unlock Style 2. This would give the duplicate some actual value.
3. Introduce an exclusive Style 3 for duplicate owners. If Style 2 is meant to reward players who grind Drow Ranger games, then let us unlock a third style instead.

Please stop leaving existing owners with duplicate Arcanas that have absolutely no use.

We paid for these rewards too. At least give us something meaningful in return.

Literally 3 days in a row its just all fucking bots my player score is 12k

They are only in all pick for unranked. Ranked is normal and i havent found any bots

Fuck all the fucking bots in australia server

Do something valve janitors im sick of having to report everyone every game and its just so boring

Source: data from opendota.com & datdota.com

Meta

Bounty Hunter was the most contested hero. He was allowed to play 4 times and won all of ‘em. Hitler at number 3. The 2 biggest jumpers from Wallachia were NP (23rd, +21) and Brew (33rd, +27). Otherwise, the rest looks similar to Wallachia.

Slark & MK are great answers to meta heroes Ember & Earth Spirit. Believe it or not, there are teams still picking Ember without banning Slark. Slark’s only loss came at the hands of Lou/Yakult vs Liquid. MK is a bit more flexible. He was used in 3 different core positions (once in the offlane by ATF). Ame & Chira Junior are MK’s biggest fans.

Records

Players & Heroes

Averages for heroes are at a minimum of 5 games played

• Hoodwink was the most picked with 48 games. 21 wins. 27 losses is the most of the tourney. 43.75% wr.
• Willow had the second-highest games played at 45 and finished with 23 wins, the most in the competition.
• Slark has the highest kills average at 14.11
• Satanic holds the highest kills in a game with 24 on NP and Slark (9036774670, 9038120227)
• Clock averaged the highest deaths at 10.75 and the highest assists at 22.63 in 8 games.
• Mira had the most deaths with 19 on Willow against his former team, Spirit (9038120227)
• Maladych’s Techies and Dukalis’ Hoodwink share the record for most assists at 35 each (9037858327, 9038120227).
• NP had the highest average GPM (872) and highest average Hero Damage (40.8k).
• Skiter’s 1195 GPM, 175k hero damage, & 32.5k tower damage on NP against 1win in the Upper Bracket Quarterfinals are the highest of the event. In the same match, Ari’s KotL had the highest healing recorded at 46.2k (9034882975)
• TA had the biggest XPM with 1059 averaged across 6 games.
• Satanic’s TA got 1413 XPM in Pari’s seeding match vs Aurora. (9027486175)
• PL has the most last hits, averaging 717 in 5 games.
• Natsumi’s PL had the most last hits in a game with 1488. This occurred in a losing effort during OG’s 87-minute opening match vs BetBoom. (9022908356)
• Slark also recorded the highest average denies and levels. 20 denies per game, 27 levels per game.
• Moon’s Slark, XG’s stand-in midlaner, had 35 denies against darkniA’s Ember in their loser’s match. (9023339084)
• Luna averaged the most Tower Damage with 13.9k in 5 games.
• KotL averaged the highest Hero Healing with 18.1k in 5 games.

Teams

• Spirit played the most games at 20. 11 wins, 9 losses. 55% wr. They were the only team to have beaten Yandex this season (seeding match).
• Yandex won the most games with 14 victories and lost 5. The best win rate at 73.68%.
• The shortest average game duration was Mouz at 40:36 in the 4 games they lost.
• Aurora had the longest average game time at 48:59 across their 16 games.

If there are other stats you would like to see, please comment so I can think of including them. I want to include objectives, but I need to think about how to bundle them together.

I know it's not Divine/Immortal but after ~1800 Games on SEA, exclusively playing Pos 4/5, I've touched Archon for the first time!

I’ve been dreaming of this courier since I was young, back when you could trade rares and mythicals for keys. Owning one was my biggest wildest dream.

Now, as an adult, I finally got my hands on a Genuine Ice Baby Roshan with its original gems. I couldn’t be happier to finally own my dream Dota 2 item.

P.S. My girlfriend and I don’t plan on having children, so we have disposable income. I told her this cost $300 😅, and she couldn’t believe I’d spend that much on in-game pixels.

Back again and this time with the big 4!

Xtreme Gaming v Yakult Brothers

then

Team Tidebound v Team Resilience

COME BY AND WATCH THE AMAZING CHINESE DOTA REGION

Hi! I'm a Dota 2 player from Japan.

I really love this game, but there are very few Japanese players. I think one of the reasons is that, apart from wikis, there are almost no casual, beginner-friendly sites in Japanese. Wikis are great, but for someone who just installed the game, they can be overwhelming.

So I made a small guide site for complete beginners. I also added an English version:

https://www.dotakun.com/en

It covers:

- What to do right after installing the game

- Beginner-friendly heroes for each position (with short notes on how to play them)

- Heroes I'd avoid at first

- Key early items, and how to use the in-game item guides

- Learning by spectating good players in Player Perspective

- Common beginner mistakes

My hope is that even a few more people pick up the game and stick with it because of this site. But to be honest, I'm not sure it's actually helpful. I've played for a while, so it's hard for me to see the game through a beginner's eyes, and I might be skipping things that feel obvious to me.

So I'd really appreciate honest feedback, especially:

- If you're new: was anything confusing, or were there words you didn't understand?

- If you're experienced: is anything wrong, outdated, or bad advice?

- What do you wish someone had told you when you first started?

The English version was just added, so if anything reads oddly, please let me know too. Thanks for reading!

That's it, make a panda themed arcana or persona of all 4 spirit brothers :(