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Published April 23, 2021, 3:28 PM Photo from OB x Neon Esports OB x Neon Esports came through with a triumphant debut in the Dota Pro Circuit (DPC) Season 2-Southeast Asia Upper Division after dealing Boom Esports of Indonesia its first taste of defeat via a 2-0 sweep on Thursday night, April 22. 11K MMR carry John Anthony “Natsumi-” Vargas’ Medusa was just too much to handle for Boom in the opener before the Filipinos subdued the the Indonesians’ Morphling-Earthshaker-Beastmaster trio with Aghanim’s Scepter behind Japoy “Yopaj” Ferrer’s Puck in the second game. Besides getting the first win, the Singapore Major Top 6 finisher also showed that it has found its groove in the 7.29 patch ahead of its grudge rematch against TNC Predator on Saturday at 3 p.m. ....
New Dota 2 patch fixes the MOBA’s Ability Draft mode Valve’s flagship MOBA game has just got a whole bunch of updates to one of its perhaps more niche but good fun game modes. The January 8 Dota 2 patch brings a raft of fixes and tweaks to Ability Draft, which sets you up with a random hero plucked from a roster of eligible characters and four abilities picked from a randomised pool, following a Dota 2 “community bug hunt”. In the list of Ability Draft fixes are a bunch that tie into Aghanim’s Shard ability upgrades. For example, boosted abilities like Fire Spirits, Grave Keeper’s Cloak, Epicenter, Fissure, and Ransack should now work correctly with Shard, and additionally Valve notes that the patch has fixed “various inaccurate Sceptre/Shard markers on draft screen as well as missing or wrong Aghanim’s tooltips”. Plus, giving your teammates Sceptres using the Greevil’s Greed ability will no longer cause an issue in removing your Shard granted abili ....
Dota 2’s new Hero Hoodwink has arrived along with the massive Mistwoods Update Earlier in the week, Dota 2 developer Valve announced its flagship MOBA game was in for a shiny new update on December 17 – so, this very day. The studio revealed practically nothing about the patch’s content, other than its name – “the Mistwood update” – and previously that the multiplayer game’s newest Hero would be dropping with 7.28. Now, however, we know what’s in store – the patch notes have dropped, and we’ve laid it all out for you below. As detailed in the Dota 2 7.28 update notes, the newest addition to the character roster is Hoodwink. She’s a creature of the forest, looking like a kind of fox with a hint of red panda, and Valve lists her as a ranged nuker who specialises in escapes and disables. ....