Dota 2 Team Composition

Dota 2 is a multiplayer action RTS game, which includes 102 heros, and there will be five versus five in each game. In this case, we can see that teamwork play a definitely significant role in this game. Moreover, team composition is more important, because each team may gain same chance to win with same money, same experience even same equipment. However the only difference is the different composition of each team, which means different skills' corporation, different roles every character play in each team, and different strategies to win. In fact this is the key to victory.

Besides, there are many standard to define team composition, such as different positions in a team, different fuctions for team, even different lines to start at beginning of the game. First of all, let us start for positions. In Dota, there are five positions for each role according to the limitation for team members. However, this is not as simple as ranking from the first to the fifth. This composition shows different financial sources every role can get from the team in a game and the importance of the character. For an example, the first position will get most abundent money source to get its best equipments as soon as possible, on the other hand it should support the whole team output and carry the whole team to victory. And the second role usually plays solo in the middle line and hold a good pace of the team to make sure whole team has enough strength in the begining, mid-term, and the later period. Then the third and forth are often good at controlling which means they have stunning or freezing skills that can make enemy heros out of control for a few second. At last, the terminal position is responsible for supporting whole team in every details, such as buying a delivery chicken, controlling whole map vision, giving enough controling skills, even replacing the leader of team to be killed. Meanwhile, the lines standard frequently correspond with this standard closely. For instance, the first position, the carrier, always goes to the down-line, while the second always chooses the mid-line. Then different auxiliary roles choose its best companies to show best performance to go to the same line.

On the other hand, there is another criterion to illustrate the team composition, the fuctions of different roles.  Firstly, the tank is a very important role in a team, which often bears most of output from enemy when two team meet. So tank characters should be strength type heros, who have more HP to undertake as more output as possible. This can decrease the potential of the death of team members. Secondly, the output, in other word, the leader, who often is agile type heros, produce as much output to enemy as possible. And it should keep alive after most of wars, so it can lead whole team to victory. Then the mage, who is good at magic skills to hurt enemies or control them, plays an important role in a team as well. At last but not least, the auxiliaries, who are feeble roles in a game because they are likely to be killed if they meet enemy alone, make sence when they take their responsibilities well to hold vision, control enemy and exc.