Dota 2 - Gaming

The best Dota 2 teams in the world are gathered in Seattle, United States. This begins the main event of the group phase of The International 2017, a tournament that will distribute more than US $ 23 million among the participants. For the first time a Peruvian team, Infamous Gaming, participates. But what exactly is this game that has become a sport for many?

Dota 2 is a multiplayer real-time strategy game, distributed by Valve's Steam platform. In this, two teams of five players have the objective of destroying rival structures by controlling characters called heroes. They can not control the structures or the units that appear every so often.

Always play on the same map that has two sides: Radiant and Dire, each of them has advantages and disadvantages with respect to vision, neutral units and positioning. There are three lines where uncontrolled units collide: up, down and half.

Variety. You can choose from 113 heroes, which allows a lot of flexibility in the style of game and strategy. Therefore it is considered that Dota 2 has a fairly high learning curve, due to all the mechanics present in the characters and the map.

Each hero has certain abilities and statistics (strength, agility and intelligence) that modify his attack, life and mana. Every so often, patches seek to balance the game to avoid abuses of certain strategies.