The Lore of Every DOTA 2 Hero Dumbed Down to a Single Sentence
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 1 มี.ค. 2023
- Inspired by NickyBoi's video on the league champs.
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Yes, I took great liberties with the lore, and yes I know some of it isn't 100%, but it's close enough that you can't really say I'm wrong, just that I'm not descriptive enough... which is kind of the point! - เกม
The fact that post-Muerta letters dump we can now be certain that Lina and CM's family is also dead, the number of dead families keeps getting higher.
And Lina hates her dead parents
Dark Willow having daddy issues now explains so much as to why she's so popular with a certain brand of player.
lol
Can you explain the _brand_ ?
Idk I'm in one or not, but I never tired when she said _you ready for shenanigans_
i feel personally attacked
🤔
i never get tired of her laugh@@RoboMuskVsLizardZuckerberg
Techies is a trio, but they themselves think that they are a duo, as they still haven't realized that one of their members (the one in the barrel) is actually still alive.
This is referenced in their response after clicking on then several times in game:
"Spoon was in the workshop when it exploded, right? Yea, I think so (No I wasn't). You know, sometimes I can still hear his voice."
It is ultimately a reference to how the devs of the original Dota 1 map didn't realize that the Goblin Techies was composed of three people until months later, because one of them is a barrel of gunpowder with tiny little feet sticking out so that it can walk.
"I'm Squee! I'm Spleen! (And I'm Spoon) WHO SAID THAT?"
You can see spoon literally in the barrel 😭
@@Mr_Fr34ky yeah love that
"They don't know i'm here!"
Riki being invisible because he was a middle son.
He is salty so he becomes an assassin to regain his "throne"
@@Mr_Fr34ky he WAS salty that noone paid any attention to him as he was the middle child. Not heir to the throne, not the youngest, just middle. So he wanted to perfect his sneaking to prove that he is also special, but alas, his whole family was murdered and only his ability to stay hidden helped Rikimaru. Now he works as assassin while looking to take revenge. So not simply "salty".
@@sabnock31
It's just humour lmao, ik it's not the full context.
Bounty and slark are the oldest and youngest sons I guess 😂
Fun fact: the heroes Chaos Knight (1:38), Enigma (3:10), Io/wisp (3:46) and Keeper of the Light (4:02) represent Strong Nuclear Force, Gravity, Electromagnetism, and Weak Nuclear Force, aka the four fundamentals of the universe, both in lore and abilities.
Also an alternate sentence for Oracle because i find his lore badass.
Blue alien casually shatters his dimension's reality and is exiled to DOTA's, because he was tired of being a pet.
wait really?
I think Io is weak nucelar force and Keepr electromagnetism.
Untrue
Io is electromagnetism.
Ezalor is the weak force, since he and chaos knight are brothers (ck being the strong force). @@ps5056
@@ps5056IO is electromagnetism and Keeper is Weak Force, Light is formed by Radiation aka weak force. Also that's why he opposes to Chaos Knight.
All jokes aside, this is why in my opinion, the way the dota anime story was told was not appropriate (although it was a great series tbf) Dota's stories should be told in black mirror kind of way. an anthology makes waaaay more sense with story arcs just sometimes casually crossing paths with each other. it's way too complex to encapsulate in a hero-beats-villain kind of way. hopefully there will be no book 4 of dragon's blood. I would like to see the next story. like PA's tragic story, or PL, or jugg. or maybe some brutal r18 story such as Mogul Khan's murder of his own army. maybe even answer the age old question of "is mercurial really mortred?"
Dota anime just ruins the original dota lore, I will not ever consider that as canon
True. But it's already ruined. Though I like the Persona for Mirana lol. Can't stop simping
I think I can add a couple of alternative ones:
Invoker: Brags that he can cast thousands of spells, but never proves it
Rubic: Magicaly uno-reverses assasins, because he's bored
Anti-mage: Gives an oath to kill all mages, uses magic to fight them
Ursa: an actual nice parent
IO: a being of unstopable power pretends to be a single WoW whisp
Tide Hunter: worships Kracken just to bully a single person
Silencer: They thought I was slow, couldn’t use magic…while they put me in that position in their heads, I put them in it in the dueling hall.
Ursa: actual W of a dad 😂
Oh God, The fact that these are actually the lore of every hero in a nutshell
I lost it on how you even summarized the Gods Heroes
This is ACTUALLY their lore, yeah... and it's so weird!
Dota 2 lore is absolutely insane. This is why the anime series is less popular than Arcane of league. It requires a lot of context since ingame itself there's Gods, Demons, Primordial Entity, Aliens etc. With only a few of humanlike heroes. Even so they can't just put human together to fight against evil since all of their motives are different from each other. Maybe dota will will do better in mini series to seek a glimpse of heroes past because uniting heroes together is very hard to do
I'm a league fanboi and I gave dragon's blood a chance and it wasn't that good.
The anime was less popular because it was bad, not because it was complicated. It didn't even go that much into Dota lore because the writer and team behind it had no idea what Dota was.
@@anklysaurus3790 Would have loved for it to succeed but the writing for it was so bad.
Arcane was a good show, because the just picked a subset of characters and locations from LoL's lore and crafted a story around that. Dota tried too much, with very shaky pacing.
@@MoreImbaThanYou The only stuff shared between Dragon's Blood and DOTA are the character names. The lead writer admitted on Reddit to picking generic characters like Mirana and Dragon Knight that fit into the archetypes he already wrote rather than actually learning what the characters in Dota actually had going for them.
For dawnbreaker I don't think Phoenix created her. Its some people called the Children of the Light (followers of kotl) who made her to fight IO, Dawn got her ass beat and was floating in space before being revived by Phoenix
And she was the one who accidentally cracked the Mad Moon while floating in space unconscious with her hammer magnetically following her.
A weird summarized of the Fundamentals:
KOTL escape their realm and created the stars and planets and light itself. CK got angry and chases the KOTL throughout different realms. From KoTL light and stars, birth some of the Star Gods and wished to stop the Darkness/Chaos aka CK because they believe its better without it. They forged and make Valora and tasked to stop the Chaos but its hard, so They tell her to kill another fundamental in which is also WAY stronger than the first 2 so yah, IO slapped The Stars killing every single one of those leavibg Valora floating in space
and there's Enigma, writting false books just to lure some curious alchemist and wizards only to turn them into his slaves for whatever reasons
@@6Unknown_Source9 Iirc, Valora was tasked to stop Chaos and kill creatures like Balanar, beings who thrive under the primordial night. They also tasked Valora with retrieving IO, not killing him as they believe that through IO will they be able to bind Chaos forever. No one in the Children of the Light expected that a literal ball would snuff them out of existence and because Valora is connected to them, she just died out like a phone that was out of battery, spiraling out into the cosmos.
Rubick's description is badass
Spectre is when you play too much PA w/ arcana
Gotta love how Omniknight is more or less a Crusader archetype. Lore is as straightforward as his gameplay.
WE SHALL TAKE JERUSALEM!
@@TZAR_POTATO But 1st let me cast purification on:
My Carry who Hates Magic while also using Magic (Anti Mage)
Our Mid Plague Doctorwho has a crapton of kill voice lines against me if he kills me (Necro)
Our Offlaners consisting of a Demon Witch (Lion) and the Literal Devil (Doom)
But it's all ok! I am doing this for the will of God right?
*Omniknight on Dire Side.*
Right?
I almost died laughing at chaos xnight XD
Stay among the living, I need more subs!
I'm looking forward on your item comparison, Just take your time Potato.
Btw, great lore content.
I seconded this statement.
@@vesplatdamaged6994 it's already done!
1:38 Gold.
If most of them show up in the dragon's blood they will have some screen time to tell their backstory
Dragon's blood is not cannon though. I want to just talk about the cannon lore... with the exception of mercurial of course
@@TZAR_POTATO Yes and no. Dragon's Blood is just among the other universes that Dota2 (the game) references, and serves to expand on existing lore.
One of the references of the game that is in the show is when Terrorblade showed Invoker is various incarnations, and these include his Default skin and the Dark Arts skin.
And references of the show that is in the game is when Dragon Knight and Mirana Persona interact with Mirana and Dragon Knight, respectively (makes more sense if it was a default model they interacted), because they both say that they are not their Mirana/Dragon Knight, which supplements the story in the show, and made more sense if it was the default model because those two have never interacted these versions.
And those Dragon's Blood persona skins have additional lore to give to certain heroes they interact with like Dragon Knight talking about Wei (Anti-Mage's persona) and Marci's friendship.
@@Magicwaterz You may provide evidence that the show is cannon, but the show makers themselves said it's not cannon. When the show creators say so... I just gotta side with them on this one.
@TZAR POTATO I agree. I do get the guy's point, gave his reply a full read. I just see Dota 2 in game lore as a template. Not like the MCU BS.
If only Artifact DIDN'T FLOP, we could've gotten more of this plot device.
@@TZAR_POTATO isnt marci's lore just the dragons blood anime
The Chaos Knight segment cracked me up so hard lmao
dude everyone says that's their favorite! my favorite to animate was the phoenix though :) or monkey king!
Can't wait for the item comparison video!
This was hilarious, you did a great job!
Thank you, thank you! I'm not much of a funny guy, so this was my first attempt , glad you liked it.
I like how zet is a third ancient, who dunnot fight the other 2, he just be like "if i don't fight, i will live and win" and duplicates his ass and enter the war in both side so the war end quicker
Dude is a big brain
Holy shit.. I almost choked laughing while vaping... I'm abbadon
hehehehe
Ahh yes, The Heat Death Of The Universe elemental, my favourite character
4:44 lorax
Spectre is Phantom Assassin
And if you are wondering who's the most powerful of them all, lorewie, it's Ancient Apparition.
Can't beat a dude that exist when all the energy of the verse eventually depletes and everything else cease to exist.
You can re upload the video after ringmaster and with new sentence's
Huskar got that Fire Punch lore.
Chaos knight and juggernaut had me rolling
BEAR. VENGEANCE.
Finally. FINALLY. Someone is acknowledging that Sacred Arrow is not an arrow. Also, my headcanon about Timbersaw is that he murdered his village himself in some kind of psychotic moment and internalizes this event as if the trees've done it
D:
this is a very nice video!!
only i think you should have added the hero name somewhere for people who are still figuring them out and want to learn! sometimes it could be hard to tell some of them apart with cosmetic items equipped
Sorry, the video was meant for dota players, so I didn't think to add icons or names to stuff. I do have other videos meant for non-dota players though!
Btw, I think Tinker fits the role of Iron Man more than Clock does. I mean think about it. He is everywhere on the battlefield as if he is flying and he shoots lasers and rockets at everybody.
Clockwork build the suit for armor and protection and it happens to be weaponized which is how iron man did too
@@TZAR_POTATO Fair
Me: a person who hasn't delved into Dota for years.
Tzar: Simply mentions Sir Actionslacks and Loregasm.
Me: Finishes Tzar's video and goes on a day long oddesey of Loregasm and wonders where the day went....
DAW AND NOT MY VIDS? ;)
@@TZAR_POTATO I've already been through them. Sometimes more than once, man. It's been fun. You got me to install. You are a crafty one.
the pebble
Wow so lots of psychopaths battling it out in dota
Aren't we all ;)
@@TZAR_POTATO for sure 😂
One thing i really love about dota lore is that everything is actually connected
Like ffor example league lore
Theres great world building, characters have interesting lore for example rammus (ball, need i say any further than that?)
But theres no lore explanation on how the game insert itself on the lore
While in dota theres a reason why the game exists
Basically two giga powerhouse fkers hate each other so much that their very existence centers around each other
They fund no joy in being the winner
They only want to beat the shit of the other
So what do they do? As one is about to win the winner resets time so they can fight each other again but this time with different plans on how to beat up the other
So basically each player is 1/5 of the brain of the ancient
Also arcwarden plays into this bur thats a different story
the league of legends and the summoner's rift used to be canon to runeterra (lol's world)
basically a bunch of all-powerful mages forced all states in the world to stop waging wars under threat of complete and immediate anihilation, and seek arbitration through small scale battles with clearly defined rules (the game)
then they realised their hypermilitaristic empire didn't make any sense in that context; nor did their kingdom that genocided mages; also, why does a run-of-the-mill police officer stand any chance against the god that created the universe?
so they gave up and retconned it out
dota too only makes sense in its own lore if you draft heroes according to their canon allegiances btw, and even then that doesn't explain why everyone is on the same power level
@@yjlomIt's the Ancients. There able to do this shit with Arc Warden on one of the teams.
It also led to situations like Meepo being a Dire Hero.
phoenix part is cute.
it really just a star surfing the universe
mhmm!
4:15 sold me on being a legion main.
lol
Succubus summoning gone right*
She killed the summoner....
I HAD A GOOD LAUGH BRO. THANKS
for sniper unless the lore changed you could say "too good to play with friends, not good enough to go pro" or something about exile
Great video, were can i find More Lore
SirActionSlacks channel or ANGER channel, both are good sources!
Search Dota 2 Loregasm
Chaos knight's GET THOSE LIGHTS OFF caught me off guard LOL!
KOTL now my spirit animal.. I mean hero
FBI OPEN UP?
@@TZAR_POTATO Ara ara?
Dragon's blood needs more seasons which includes every Hero
No. Not every hero. But, if it was as silly and fun as crownfall, I'd be happy.
CK was gold
7:50 the most normal lore a normal person could wish for.
im waiting
going after siractionslacks' job?
Bane is top notch described
Amazing, I'm satisfied
Glad to hear it!
This was great👍👍👍👍👏👏👏👏🎉🎉
I remeber there hint about Leshrac knows he's in the game
Technically. Every Game is part of Canon. So it's not that 4th wall breaking considering characters like Arc Warden and Void Spirit are prepping for when a game is won/lost.
You gotta do updates for future heroes. Maybe when 5 new heroes are out just to extend the watch time. So, far as of typing this, one will be released.
We'll see! could be fun... but honestly, I want valve to just rewrite 3/4 of the dota lore already and make it consistent. the shit's a fever dream
@@TZAR_POTATO Man, I kinda liked the idea of Visage being the Grim Reaper in a nutshell but with Muerta being released, it kinda cancels that since she met Death, which is also commonly known as the Grim Reaper.
Its also hilarious that Muerta and Death played Artifact, which made Death quit from playing the game, which in turn made that game IRL dead.
@@Magicwaterz Even though she met death, she didnt tell us what his name is or what he looked like. So, the fact is she just met visage.
The poem says death is a bone rider with guns, but muerta says in her responses that you shouldn't believe everything in the fables about her.
@@TZAR_POTATO Hmm... I smell a potential Arcana for Visage to reflect this.
@@Magicwaterz if you readd visage's lore, he's the gargoyle of necrolic, tasked with hunting down the spirits of the dead that try and escape their fate and the afterlife. So, when muerta is DEAD but refused to DIE, who does she meet? The grim reaper, death... aka visage.
PEBBLE!
THE pebble
the bristle line indeed reminds me of dota 2 reporter :D
"I'VE GOT BRISTLES. ON ME BACK."
Lmaoooooo that CK 😂
4:17 ey! disco pony!
Bear
im pretty sure mirana lore is princess of the sun betray turn herself ito princess of the moon (i didnt watch dragon bloods)
which im pretty sure inspired by night elves and blood elves in warcraft
Sooo, is Bounty hunter Batman of Dota universe?
well, batman is rich by birthright, while bounty hunter is rich by obsession. Other than that, he is a pretty close fit yeah!
Bounty Hunter is Deathstroke.
Bounty Hunter, as his name suggests, is a mercenary, he takes any job that pays good.
I don't think describing him as "detective" would be appropriate.
the items in dota is so diverse in stats rather than League
offensive defensive items
NA characters
dota: eye of skadi, satanic, assault cuirass(kinda), manta style
league: guardian angel, mercurial scimitar
skiller/ap
dota: bloodstone, octarine core
league: seraph's embrace, crown of the shattered queen, banshee's veil, Zhonya's Hourglass ,Rod of Ages and (some items with hp)
strength: Heart of Tarrasque
agility: Butterfly
Intelligence: Guinsoo's scythe of Vyse, Ethereal Blade, Bloodthorn, Eul's sceoter of divinity, Gleipnir,
neutral items
dota: black king bar, linken sphere, aeon disk, Invisibilities
league: Edge of the night
defensive offensive items
dota: blade mail, Ethernal Shroud, Radiance(kinda), Lotus Orb, Solar Crest
League: Divine Surender, Sunfire, Silvermere Dawn, thornmail, winter's approach, Anathema's Chains, Dead Man's Plate....
can you add the other items i don't know what's what anymore but I'm quite confident of my placements of the items.
7:07 this can be a legit anime title ngl
less fkcinbg go
No Muerta?
every human hero in dota : Parent died, adopted by freaks
Pebble
Medusa in dota has a different story than in Greek myths. In the original myths, due to sexism of old times, she was seen as the villain even though she did nothing wrong. Meanwhile in dota she's a hero who gives up her beauty for power to avenge her sisters.
Also, weaver is way above a god of the universe. He weaves reality. In fact in his story it says that the babies of the creatures he defends reality from can quickly devour universes.
Medusa might have different lore but it's still the same medusa, just a different retelling. As for weaver, making reality should qualify you as a god.
The Medusa myth can vary wildly depending on the version you're being told. All of the versions say at least that Medusa was a beautiful priest of Athena, who was at some point r4ped by Poseidon inside the temple she was part of, then was made into a half-snake, half-human monster who turns every man who looks at her into stone, making the Medusa myth a cautionary tale about the gods being unpredictable and depraved maniacs.
Other versions add more context though, with one of them stating that the priestess Medusa prided herself in her beauty - that she, in fact believed herself to be more beautiful than the goddess Athena herself. To prove this, she decided to seduce the gods, for if she managed to entice one of the gods, that would mean that she was more beautiful than anyone else. This worked well. Too well, in fact, because at some point, Poseidon appeared before her and r4ped her in the shrine, all the while with Medusa pleading to Athena to save her from Poseidon and anyone else. Athena accepted her plea, and saved her by transforming her into a half-snake, half-human monster so hideous that any man or woman who looked at her would be turned into stone from the shock. I think this latter version is better because it sounds more believable.
lmfao due to sexism🤣🤣
@@crushedscouter9522 I didn't have a better way to explain it lol. She was accused of being a whore when she was the one who got raped.
This is the perfect video to just let other dota2 players listen to, not seeing the hero, and them guessing which hero it is lmao
hehe. i mean, it's all alphabetical though,
Sun Tzu.
Отсылка на доку два.
well, not wrong about rubick's part...
wait dp has a crush on visage?
Sort of, she has an obsession with death, which borders on yandere, and since at this time, the grim reaper was the closest representation of death, yeah it fit
4:12, we just need a Garithos persona for Legion Commander th-cam.com/video/cnWzk-ztTY8/w-d-xo.htmlsi=YtBOiFl1VO2W-XtM&t=32
I was waiting for weaver if you fuck it up, and you did. Instantly made all others invalid.
Weaver created the entire dota universe, including all other gods, and the stones and everything, literally everything thats in dota is made by him or stuff made by him at some point.
Exactly! But, he didn't make all realities. Other universes are the realm of the other Weavers.
Hahahahahahahahahahaha the Chaos knight the best one xD
Lots of people love that one! I personally like teletubbies phoenix sun, was really fun to layer all the masking on top of each other! Or, the whale jug one of a kind.
What is Spectre's story?
There are theories that she's an alternate reality PA
It's a commonly accepted theory/sentiment that Spectre is a Future Version of Phantom Assassin.
Chaos Knight. Ahahahaha
Glad you like it! My favorite is probably phoenix
@@TZAR_POTATOPhoenix's is probably my favourite background for a hero.
I love how they combined the rebirth of a phoenix and the life cycle of a star ⭐
@@valse6195 RIGHT??
Zeus has no rest. He got beat up in god of war 3 by kratos and now in dota the roman god of war is here to fight him 😂
You mean the Greek god of war, right? Get your lore right, Ares is greek.
@@TZAR_POTATO no I mean in the God of war series ares was the Greek god of war but kratos who was a mortal killed ares and became the god of war. I was talking about the game, not the actual Greek mythology.
I don't know about Kratos, but in Dota 2 Ares is greek. @@Suckmydickjesus
@@TZAR_POTATO Ares in mythology is also Greek and I'm not a troll I just thought you'd know about God of war
@@TZAR_POTATO I guess most dota players don't really know anything about other games sad
Wait Mars is Ares, I thought he was Hercules.
Nope, just Ares.
Noice!
Ty
So basically all heroes are sociopaths, selfish, bad/evil. No one is actually a good guy?
define "good guy".
I guess Visage the grim reaper is a good guy? Or prince rikimaru?
@Omvi Lya maybe, yeah? He's just looking for beers to sample
I've always thought that the killing instincts and desires of the heroes are amplified by the Ancients to aid them in trying to destroy each other. Basically, each hero that participates in the war is revived over and over again until one or both Ancients are dead.
Ursa is actually a good guy and a good father/alpha. He only wants to protect his family and the enviroment he lives in
Nyx is mojahed
Who's spectre's orginal form?
Phantom Assassin's arcana
@@nuckelaveee4650 Thank you
I wish you were serious cuz now im not sure what is ironic and what is the true fiction
It's all the true fiction.
omni??
he's in there
A crusader
Didn't Elder Titan screw over the entire universe tho?
The universe, in dota terms, is a weird idea, since there's plenty of space outside it. He ONLY screwed over the universe, which is like 10% of existence :D
@@TZAR_POTATO oh, okay
@@megawl2086 Dota lore is weird. I swear people had too many space brownies before writing it!
Titans create worlds, not universes. Elder Titan screwed up his world by essentially screwing up his own soul, shattering it and getting lost in his own soul.
He shattered the primordial mind, didn't he?@@sabnock31
😂😂😂😂❤
Marci is 100% waifu
not funny
ok
Dota lore kinda ass those tbh league lore it much more insane
Honestly. I was planning on giving Dota a try as a long time league player but the lore and characters are just so mid
Oh, you mean the lore that threw out the whole summoners rift and the mages controlling the champs as a concept?
Nah, I'll stick to 2 sentient primordial super beings duking it out for an eternity.
@@eagleye2893 yes I too have read keeper of light lore but compare to lol lore like “the watchers first light,the darkin war,The ruination like hell even mordekaiser lore was way deeper than entirely Dota lore
@@lylytv6293 Care to elaborate? Because I don't think I need much to know about how emo Viego was in ruination as a character.
@@lylytv6293 Besides, iam sure Morde's lore would be better if he had to deal with all powerful mages forcing him to fight in their battles like everyone else.