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Dota 2 Superlatives and Ability Draft

It’s the end of the school year, which means exams have finally finished and, more importantly, it’s time for everyone’s favorite exclusionary high school activity – Superlatives! I don’t know if this is a universal thing or if it is limited to the US, but essentially at the end of high school (or middle school or college) a class will come together in bitter social confrontation to decide who is the “best” at various things – like “most athletic” or “prettiest” or the coveted “most likely to succeed.” A sad fact about me is that I have never actually had to endure this right of passage. In high school the class above me had done anti-superlatives like “most likely to be a garbage man” and “will have the most children.” Students cried, parents were called, and superlatives of any sort were banned thereafter. In college, the student leadership just got together and assigned superlatives to every student. If the student government didn’t know you, well you just some random fact that you shared during an ice breaker freshman year. If they really didn’t know you, you just got left off entirely. If you happened to have dated the student government president but were now dating her close friend, you got an extremely awkward one very carefully crafted to neither offend nor obviously compliment. It was fun times. But I’m in law school now, and it seems like it might be the sort of superficial atmosphere where I might finally get to witness the painful horse trading and subtle campaigning that makes superlatives so exciting.

ANYWAY this is a project I’ve been wanting to do ever since Ability Draft came out. After a few games or drafting, I had realized that it was difficult for me to shake the roles that different characters had in “real” Dota. Dota 2 ability draft reddit funny It was a breakthrough to realize that that when you get assinged a hero in AD, ALL you are getting is bunch of stats, and, since those stats have been balanced to abilities, a lot of the time heroes in AD simply can’t play their normal role. After a few dozen games, I realized that a lot of people had not quite had this realization out and instead just drafted their favorite spells without any regard to what their hero is best suited to do.

Prime example – player gets Slark. “Oh! An agility carry! I’ll take a bash, an orb, and a blink please!” NO. Slark actually has one of the worst Agility gains in the entire game at 1.5. He also has bad strength gain at 1.8, and bad, but better, intelligence gain at 1.9. Compare this to say, Bane, with an agility gain of 2.1, a strength gain of 2.1, and an intelligence gain of…. 2.1. AND he’s a ranged hero. AND he has 4 starting armor to Slark’s 1. That’s right, in AD Bane is a better carry than Slark in every respect. And this makes sense, because in normal Dota Slark can STEAL Agility and REGENERATE health at crazy speeds, so giving him too much natural stat gain would be broken. But what this means is that in AD, unless you have a plan for fixing those deficits, you are pretty much just screwed as Slark and should probably try to support, since your intelligence gain is actually your greatest asset.

Some other quick examples – Drow has the same low agility problem as Slark due to her ultimate; Alchemist NEVER breaks the 1 attack/second barrier without items, even at level 25; Crystal Ma >
SO here are a bunch of stat superlatives that can serve as a quick alt-tab gu >
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First – some overall standouts, then the stat-specific breakdowns.

Only 4 heroes have >3.5 stat gain on their primary states: Phantom Lancer in agility, Centaur in Strength, and Pugna and Skywrath in Intelligence. Since all four are in Ability Draft, these are the heroes that you can really abuse if you get the right skills, which are actually often their own.