DOTA: The Introduction

What is DOTA?

Defense of the Ancients or DOTA is a Warcraft 3 modified map which features heroes controlled by human players, and sometimes AI bots, which are divided into two teams - the Sentinels and the Scourge. The game is played by controlling a single hero and fighting the heroes of the other team. It is a team game of up to 5 players on each team and has role-playing game elements in it since the heroes gain a higher level every time a creep or another hero is killed. Players also receive gold every time an enemy creep or enemy hero is killed which can be used to buy items which will benefit a hero by boosting his abilities. Enemy towers when destroyed will also give gold bounty to the player who destroys it.

Dota can be played by up to 10 players dived into two teams. Team work and strategy plays an important part in winning a game. The main objective of the game is to destroy the Sentinel's Tree of Life or the Scourge's Frozen Throne. If either of these two important structures gets destroyed, the game ends.

Dota is played either via Local Area Network or online via Battle.net or GArena.

The latest version of Dota is v6.63.