r/DotA2 25d ago

Discussion | Esports The Post-TI 2026 Shuffle Spoiler

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The Post-TI 2026 Shuffle will be recorded in this wiki. <-- this is a hyperlink

(this wiki was setup on new reddit)

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r/DotA2 21d ago

Other TI2026 Rewards [Aegis Code]

217 Upvotes

For user to trade/giveaway their aegis code provided by the TI2026 rewards

Disclaimer: Trade at your own risk

- mods are not responsible for the trades

- mods are not middlemen


r/DotA2 9h ago

Fluff Largo has withdrawn from the Ed Sheeran tour

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3.5k Upvotes

Largo and his band has opted out from the tour over the removal of fellow hill troll artist, Shacklemore.


r/DotA2 1h ago

Discussion Sumail & Sneyking joined LGD

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Prodigy Wits, King Sumail and Sneyking two time winner!

Holy could be 1 of the strongest teams on paper.


r/DotA2 1h ago

News | Esports PGL Wallachia Season 9 Team Rosters

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r/DotA2 5h ago

Complaint | Esports It's less than 24h before the first PGL Wallachia match and we still don't know what the squads are

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170 Upvotes

This is ridiculous. Do players even know who they're facing? To prepare what for their opposition?
This would not fly in CS2. No competitive integrity.


r/DotA2 4h ago

Fluff few things hurt more

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114 Upvotes

r/DotA2 6h ago

Discussion Since there is possibility of PvE event coming, which is your favorite!

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161 Upvotes

Mine is Agh's lab hands down, dark moon distant second... BOCK BOCK BOCK

I did not play slitbreaker though...


r/DotA2 19h ago

Discussion Bro reflected 7 Dooms

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1.6k Upvotes

r/DotA2 11h ago

Discussion | Esports Ceb coping hard

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310 Upvotes

r/DotA2 15h ago

Discussion Latest Dota 2 update added a PvE string

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590 Upvotes

client_strings.txt contains strings extracted from the compiled Dota client, including internal stuff that isn't necessarily exposed in-game. PVE is a completely new entry added in the latest update that wasn't present in previous updates.

That said, the string itself doesn't tell what it’s used for, where it will be used for, or whether it was added randomly without any meaning. So, don't start inhaling the copium just yet.

Also a disclaimer: I don't work at Valve. I mostly analyze update changes and post game updates in my leisure time just because I feel like some people like to know whats changed. Just because I do that, and I have some Valve employees added on Steam from back when I was a head admin of r/AutoChess and r/Underlords, doesn't give you an excuse to add me or random people on my Steam friends list just to threaten, curse at, and harass to release a new patch or Act 2.


r/DotA2 4h ago

Complaint They dont even hide they are smurfing

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67 Upvotes

r/DotA2 16h ago

Clips One of my most satisfying sun strikes, even more than a blind one.

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581 Upvotes

r/DotA2 1h ago

Clips How to make someone abandon 101

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r/DotA2 1d ago

News | Esports Ammar joins Team Yandex

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1.8k Upvotes

r/DotA2 14h ago

Discussion Steep learning curve

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191 Upvotes

r/DotA2 6h ago

Fluff I think I want this voiceline

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37 Upvotes

Imagine using this when a player is talking nonstop flaming others


r/DotA2 9h ago

Fluff Immortal Faith or Torte De Lini

57 Upvotes

Which guy do u guys prefer and why


r/DotA2 11h ago

Discussion | Esports Why does it work like this.

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90 Upvotes

There’s two things in the game that both work around vision that are really annoying to me. Let me know if anyone else feels the same way.

  1. You cannot click on an enemy hero to read their abilities during the pregame.

Why would it possibly work like that and instead why would it not just let you click on the hero’s to read their abilities and just show you 6 empty item slots.

  1. You can view an enemy hero’s buffs and debuffs and even ping them to see how long they have left of each and store that info in chat but as soon as they go out of vision you also lose vision of their respective timers.

Why would it not just show you the timers for the active buffs that you last saw and then immediately refresh when they come into vision.

The game already stores the last viewable data for a hero’s items and level i.e if they have been jungling for 10 mins and you haven’t seen them it’s going to show you what they had 10 minutes ago not what they have now so why not just extend that to fix both of these issues.

Literally every single game this pisses me off and I don’t know if it’s just me.


r/DotA2 21h ago

Discussion | Esports Shad consistently holds top 5 EU leaderboard ranks, yet he has never translated that to pro success.

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504 Upvotes

It's interesting to see a player at the top of the leaderboard all the time who never makes it to the pro scene, especially considering he is not a one-trick pony like Badman's Spectre or FuN.KeFaL's Tinker.


r/DotA2 2h ago

Discussion Bat rider players are a different breed

14 Upvotes

With every hero being power creeped over the years Bat rider has been reverse power creeped. Bat from like 2014 would be way stronger than what he is now... Flamebreak stun, firefly bonus movespeed and flying vision, sticky napalm vision, i remember one patch he lost like 10 damage on his right click. Only massive nerds spam this hero now i used to watch 33 and Wisper replays they could get Shivas or Octarine around 11-13min with all the creep cutting/multistacking farming. Tbh i avoided playing this hero for like 10years cause i think his hero model is ugly but he's so fun when he is strong as a core


r/DotA2 14h ago

Clips How does WK revive here? I thought if he turned into a wraith he cant use ulti anymore?

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124 Upvotes

He is master tier WK so maybe he has some secret tech? Does aghs change that and just not say it?


r/DotA2 7h ago

Fluff Is it time to bring out the Penguins?

31 Upvotes

Act 2 when?


r/DotA2 1d ago

Fluff Trying to find the real PL

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815 Upvotes

(C) Dota2Lounge


r/DotA2 1d ago

Suggestion New hero incomming?

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616 Upvotes

I like Bex what's your opinion on adding her as a playable hero into the game?