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Official roles for the heroes


Official roles are roles that the game developer assigns to each hero.
Because each hero has different abilities, the role where each hero is assigned by the game is different too.

Here are the 9 heroes official roles in DoTA2 game

1. Carry

"Will become more useful later in the game if they gain a significant gold advantage."


Carry usually weak in the early game stage and require a lot of item and level to be useful. Carry is one of the most important roles in the team and every team must have at least one carry because these heroes are the key to the victory of your team.


2. Support


"Can focus less on amassing gold and items, and more on using their abilities to gain an advantage for the team."

Support is the opposite of Carry. They are strong in the early game but their performance will drop around mid-game and the late game. Support doesn't require a lot of items to be useful and they will focus on making benefits of the team by placing the ward, buying animal courier, buying dust of appearance or even risk their lives to help and save Carry.


3. Nuker

"Can quickly kill enemy heroes using high damage spells with low cooldowns."

Nuker is the heroes that can deal a lot of damage to enemy heroes in a short period. Their abilities are usually low on cooldowns


4. Disabler

"Has a guaranteed disable for one or more of their spells."

Disabler provides at least one ability that can use to disable enemies like stun, slow, root, etc.


5. Jungler


"Can farm effectively from neutral creeps inside the jungle early in the game."


Most heroes cannot farm in the jungle in the early game, but the Jungler can. Jungler is the heroes who can use their skills to farm in the jungle


6. Durable


"Has the ability to last longer in teamfights."


Or in the other name " Tank " is the hero that can take the enemy damage for their team and last longer than other heroes in the team fights.


7. Escape


"Has the ability to quickly avoid death."


Escape is the role assign to the heroes who can use their abilities to flee from the battlefield such as invisibility, blinking or teleporting.


8. Pusher


"Can quickly siege and destroy towers and barracks at all points of the game."

Pusher is capable of attacking and destroying enemies' towers quickly by using their abilities.


9. Initiator

"Good at starting a teamfight."

Initiator is a hero who can start a teamfight by their combination of skills and items

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