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What are the playstyles of the different roles?
I've just started to play Dota 2, and I'm still struggling to understand the terms used in game.
I think I can make a good guess at what is an initiator(a hero that starts a fight), but what are the characteristics of an initiator?
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You are right, an initiator is someone who starts a fight in the team.
Generally, the abilities that allow them to take this role would be stuns and crowd control abilities, and also abilities, that mess with the opposing teams positioning.
Some good examples of initiating heroes/abilities would be:
- Earthshaker - Fissure: Block the opposing team from running away, or potentially split melee heroes.
- Tidehunter - Ravage: Stuns a very large area.
- Puck - Dream Coil: Mini stun + damage for a decent radius, heroes that attempt to run are damaged and stunned again.
- Warlock - Chaotic Offering: Stuns everyone near the summoned demon, who does damage to anyone standing near it while it's alive.
- Venomancer - Poison Nova: High damage DoT and slow to all nearby units. 1200 damage at level three (without Aghanim's Scepter).
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