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Dota 2 is a multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA) game released by Valve in 2013. The world's top Dota 2 players compete in an annual eSports competition known as The International. The International 14, Dota's 2025 championship which took place in Hamburg, Germany, had a total prize pool of around 2.88 million U.S. dollars. 

Dota 2 heroes

When playing Dota 2, two opposing teams of five players each take control of a character, referred to as a hero in game, to demolish a structure within the enemy team’s base. As of 2025, Pudge was the most popular hero in Dota 2 based on the number of matches played with the character. Focusing on the win rate of the playable characters, however, showed that Wraith King was the most successful Dota 2 hero in the 12 months preceding July 2025. Meanwhile, the hero known as Spectre had the highest KDA – which refers to the number of kills and assists per death – out of all the Dota 2 heroes in the same time period.

Popular video game genres

While multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA) games do entice many gamers, it is not the most popular type of video game genre worldwide. According to the ÌÇÐÄÆƽâ°æ Global Consumer Survey, action games, including, but not limited to, platformers and fighting games, were the most popular video game genre for players in the United States. Elsewhere, roleplaying games were the most popular computer games in South Korea as of 2024. While the former studies were focused on casual gamers in their respective countries, a survey focusing on eSports fans in China found that MOBA games were the most popular genre for Chinese eSports fans.