In Dota 2, there is a term called Role. But, what kind of Role do you understand? Because sometimes there are some Dota 2 players who equate Role with Post.
This time the author wants to explain in full about what Role Dota 2 is. Starting from the true meaning, tasks, skills, and also the hero. Check it out below!
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What are Roles in Dota 2?
In language, Role is defined as the role of a person. In the Dota 2 game, these roles have been determined based on the skills possessed by each hero.
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Naturally, Dota 2 until recently had 121 Heroes with different types, play styles, and skills. in order to balance Valves gives a certain "role" to each hero.
As shown above, there are nine roles. Also from Roles, we can also see an overview of skills, how to play, and the conditions you should play using this hero.
Roles in Dota 2 permanent. Even if it changes, it can only be changed by Valves alone. Unlike the Post which can be trial and error.
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What are the types of roles in Dota 2?
To make it easier, Valve has designed the levels of roles for each hero. There are four levels, starting from 0, 1, 2, and 3. In the picture above, dota2.com describe it with the shape of a bar.
If a hero has a level 3 or full role, it means that the hero is very good at that. Meanwhile, if the level is 0 or empty, the hero does not have this ability.
Immediately, we discuss everything below!
Dota 2 Roles: Carry
carry be a very important role. The existence of a carry in a team will be very helpful because he must be able to "carry" his friends to victory.
Typical of a carry is that it can deal great damage from basic attacks. Meanwhile, the skills are helpful, generally passive. So even if the enemy uses BKB (Black King Bar), you can still beat him.
To support his role as a carry, he needs fast Gold and Exp. This situation makes a Carry play in a safe lane or horizontal lane that has a Jungle.
The task of a carry on Roles is the same as the explanation in Post 1 (Carry). They must be able to carry their friends to victory.
An example of a Carry hero is Anti-Mage, Phantom Lancer, Legion Commander, Specter, Faceless Void, and others.
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disabler
Next is the hero role that makes the enemy not move. Heroes with this role allow enemies to slow down their movements so they can't cast skills and items.
Most of the heroes who have this role require a large Mana Pool capacity. They will spam skills on the enemy, to make sure the enemy doesn't go anywhere.
An example is the shape Stun, Disarm, Cycloned, Freeze, Sleep, Rooted, Muted Items, and many more.
Heroes with a fairly high level of disabler are Shadow Shaman, Lion, Disruptor, and Doom.
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Escape
The higher the Escape level of a hero, the more difficult it is to catch it. They can escape at will, either using skills or movement speed that is higher than the others.
Role Escape is similar to the term Roamer. A little explanation, Roamer is an unofficial post in Dota 2. A Roamer must be able to go around the map, help friends who are in trouble, or just hurt enemies.
Back to the Escape Role, this hero can not only go fast, but can also dodge enemy attacks. They have the ability to be invisible, teleport, temporarily disappear, jump, or buff move speed.
Examples of heroes with role escape are the Spirit family (Ember Spirit, Void Spirit, Storm Spirit, and Earth Spirits). There's also Puck, Bounty Hunter, and Spirit Breaker.
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Dota 2 Roles and Posts: Support
Just like the distribution of Posts, Support is aimed at heroes who focus on helping friends. Some of its characteristics are being able to provide buffs, increase Health Regen, Attack Speed, and others.
There are also quite a few support heroes who are synonymous with disabler capabilities (stun, hex, root). With these skills, they also help surrounding heroes to be able to escape or kill enemies.
Heroes with role support include Warlock, Dazzle, Ogre Magi, and Winter Wyverns.
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jungler
The naming of this role is the same as where it should live, jungle. The jungler role is for heroes who need a lot of gold or are related to Neutral Creeps
His ability is indeed useful for fighting neutral creeps quickly. It could buff attack speed, kill creeps with skills (farming), and control Neutral Creeps.
The basic difference from Carry is its position. Carry focuses on carry one team. Meanwhile, Jungler focuses on help whole team. Any Carry can become a Jungler, but not all Junglers can become a Carry.
Examples are Chen (Holy Persuasion), Enigma (Demonic Conversion), and Enchantress (Enchant). Their position is not Carry, but they can dominate the Jungle with their strength.
Then, he uses the Gold and Exp from the Jungle to buy Items and improve skills that benefit the whole team. For example Black Hole Enigma + Refresher Orb or Chen's Holy Persuasion.
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pushers
The definition of a Role Pusher is those who are able to destroy an Objective very quickly. Usually an ordinary hero takes more than 12 minutes to destroy a Tier-1 Tower. But the Pusher hero can be faster than that.
Heroes with this role are synonymous with summoner abilities, great damage, illusions, or fast attack speed. The point is their ability to tear down enemy towers quickly and safely.
Heroes with these characteristics include Troll Warlord, Broodmother, Naga Siren, Terrorblades, and Enigma.
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Nuker
As it means, heroes with this role are capable of dealing enormous damage like a nuclear attack. With these attacks, they are able to finish off the enemy very quickly.
On average, Nuker heroes need quite a lot of mana to be able to cast these skills. There are heroes who can get it out with one skill, there are also those who need 2-3 skills.
The time needed for a Nuker to cast his skills should be less than five seconds. Usually they are backed up with the disabler capability (Stun or Hex) or Blink Dagger.
This is useful so that the enemy gets a surprise attack. Fast movements make it difficult for enemies to use items such as BKB (Black King Bar) or other skills to escape.
Examples of heroes with this Role Nuker are Invoker, Lina, Lion, Tiny, and Zeus.
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Dota 2 Roles: Durable
Role Durable can also be referred to as a Tanker. They get this role because they are tough, have a lot of armor, and are able to survive even when they are beaten by many heroes.
One or more of his skills are able to make him survive. Some provide additional armor, counter attacks, lifesteal, even reincarnation. They will become "Tank", protecting the entire team from enemy attacks.
Examples of Heroes with good Durable Roles are Axe, Wraith King, Tidehunter, tiny, Primal Beasts, Pudge.
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Initiator
Lastly is the role that opens the war or the Initiator. They are the heroes who are at the forefront.
Not just opening wars, these heroes must have very good Crowd Control skills. The goal is for their comrades to finish off the enemy safely.
One of the most important things as an Initiator is to have good sense and to read positions carefully. Do not let it be when you have initiated it, but there is no backup.
Heroes with Role Initiators include Tidehunter, Mars, Magnus, Beastmaster, and Enigma.
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Those are the nine official roles in Dota 2 along with their explanations, heroes, and skills. Hopefully by knowing this, you can understand more about Role in Dota 2.
So, which role do you prefer?
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