Dota 2

“Defence of the Ancient  2” or commonly known as “Dota 2” is 5 v 5 free to play online multiplayer strategy game created by Valve Corporation. Dota 2 is 5 v 5 a player vs a player game where each player controls a hero(powerful character) to destroy the Ancient of the enemy by using the different strategy, item builds, hero’s ability and combat.
There are 116 heroes which a player can control each having different ability and item builds  which includes heroes like ‘Meepo’, ‘Invoker’, ‘Sniper’, ‘Phantom Lancer’, ‘Axe’, ‘Zeus’, ‘Legion Commander’, ‘Monkey King’, ‘Bane’, ‘Medusa’ etc. Each hero has a different ability which can be used for various purpose. “Meepo” has "Poof" ability which does a magical damage of 300 at max level and helps to teleport to another "Meepo". In the same way “Axe’ has "Battle hunger" which deals 44 damage at max level and increase the movement speed of Axe. In this way, all heroes have at least  4 abilities which have a different purpose and each hero has a special ability called ultimate gained mainly at level 6 except ‘Meepo’ and ‘Invoker’. “Invoker” having sixteen abilities is the hardest hero to control in Dota 2 universe. Heroes can be sorted by their difficulty like "Meepo", "Invoker", "Earth Spirit", etc being 3-star difficult heroes "Life Stealer", "Phantom Lancer", etc being 2 stars difficult and "Sniper", "Anti Maze", etc being a 1-star difficult hero. Heroes can also be sorted in many other ways like their base abilities like Strength hero, Agility hero and Intelligence hero, Ranged heroes and Meele heroes, Nukers, Support, Carry etc. All heroes have different item built for a different situation. There are more than 200 items used by heroes. ‘Tango’, ’Clarity’, ‘Teleport scroll’ etc are the basic starting item. Then items like ‘Boots’, ‘Blink Dagger’, ‘Butterfly’, ‘Eye of Skadi’, ‘Battle Fury’, etc are made in mid game. All items have different function and used the different situation with strategy.
These heroes are controlled by the player in a map which is divided into two sides for two teams one being ‘Radiant’ and another being ‘Dire’. Each map consists of 3 lanes 'mid-lane', 'off-lane', 'safe-lane', and 9 jungle camps.  There are 3  defensive towers in each lane and 2 defensive towers for ancient having total of 11 defensive towers for each side. Creeps are basic units of "Dota 2" which gives experience levels and gold to the player. Normal creeps spawn from the base in the rate of 5 or 6  twice in a minute one or two being ranged creeps others melee and sometimes siege creeps. These creeps cant be controlled by players and do not attack their own side like radiant creeps do not attack radiant hero but attacks dire creeps and dire heroes and neutral creeps. They are a most important aspect in pushing the lanes, taking the tower and earning gold and experience. There are four types of jungle camp which spawn neutral creeps 2 camps being ancient camps, 3 being large camps, 2 medium camps, and 1 small camp. The jungle creeps spawn every minute if the jungle camp is empty. Some types of jungle creeps are ‘centaur’, ‘troll’, ‘kobold’,’golem’, ‘dragon etc. Neutral creeps give experience and gold when killed and also consist of various abilities like ‘purge’, ‘ stomp’, ‘tornado’, etc.
Dota 2 is the first Esport to be broadcasted in Espn is played by millions worldwide. Valve organizes big or small tournament every time makes it more fun to play and opens door to pro circuit of "Dota 2" league. The tournaments are of prize pool like 1 million, 2 million dollars for small tournaments like Major and Minor and the biggest tournament  “The International 8” held a couple of months ago had the prize pool of 24 million dollars. “The International” is like the world cup of Dota 2 where different Pro players of different teams like ‘Liquid’, ‘Evil Genius’, ‘Virtus pro’ etc battle for the biggest prize pool in Esports history.