All TI9 Battlepass players have gained the unique opportunity to take part in a beta-testing of Dota Underlords, the Valve`s stand-alone version of Auto Chess by Drodo Studios. Dota Underlords is different from the original Dota Auto Chess including changes in the user interface. But the most obvious are the new four heroes as well as altered races and classes, called Underlord.
New heroes
Arc Warden: The Original – Shaman (3 gold)
Arc Warden with the ability called Tempest Double. In Dota Underlords each hero has only one slot and Arc can use it on its duplicate. By the way, the Original race in Dota Underlords is similar to Elemental from Dota Auto Chess, though the Original`s effect is rather different (it disarms other heroes, not stones them).
Potential: Arc Warden paired with two more heroes has a great potential in making damage. Together with Shadow Shaman or Disruptor, other shamans, he can immediately knock out an enemy hero. Still, Arc Warden of the 1st level is slightly useful, because he dies before invoking the Tempest Double.
Bloodseeker: the assassin (1 gold)
Bloodseeker reminds Huskar from Dota 2. He loses HP and increases the attack speed thanks to Bloodrage. Killing helps him stay alive. However, any kind of disable or inability to kill other units is fatal for Bloodseeker.
Potential: Bloodseeker may be a good unit at early stages of the game, but rather useless at the end. Together with a couple of other assassins he can cause considerable damage at the very start.
Pudge: Heartless – warrior (2 gold)
Heartless race is similar to the Undead from Dota Auto Chess. The hero hooks on to the most distant enemy and the allies around start to fight it.
Potential: Pudge possesses a lot of HP and may be used as a tank on the frontline. As a Warrior he has extra armor, when there are two or more Warriors on a board. He also helps to get closer to Drow Ranger and Sniper (usually standing in the corner) and easily get rid of them.
Warlock: blood-bound – black magician (1 gold)
Warlock belongs to the new race called Blood-bound. Its only synergy as for now is Ogre Magi. We’ll talk about this more detailed later.
Potential: Warlock is very strong at the very start of the game, especially paired with Ogre Magi. Thanks to Shadow Word, Warlock shows attacking and defensive abilities at the same time.
Alliance
Alliance in Dota Underlords is used to classify races and classes. Most of them haven’t undergone any changes since Dota Auto Chess (only got a new name). Plus one more race is added.
- Assassins: the same
- Blood-bound: a new race
- Brawny: Orcs in DAC
- Deadeye: Dwarfs in DAC
- Demon: the same
- Demon Hunter: the same
- Dragon: the same
- Druid: the same
- Elusive: Elves in DAC
- Heartless: Undead in DAC
- Human: the same
- Hunter: the same
- Inventor: Mech in DAC
- Knight: the same
- Mage: the same
- Primordial: Elemental in DAC
- Savage: Beast in DAC
- Scaled: Naga in DAC
- Scrappy: Goblins in DAC
- Shaman: the same
- Troll: the same
- Warlock: the same
- Warrior: the same
Blood-bound
Blood-bound is a new race in Dota Underlords. “When Blood-bound unit dies, all other Blood-bound units deal +100% Attack Damage for the rest of the battle”.
The catch is to sacrifice units so that others become massively stronger. Swim (a streamer) has found a way to use this synergy. This should definitely lead to some interesting builds.
Beta version will become available approximately on June 24th. The game is also about to welcome manuals and perhaps the ranked season will be announced too.
The game says that next seasons will feature new heroes. Dota Underlords team is ready to receive any feedbacks, so if you have any suggestions how to make the game better, don’t forget to mention them here.
Source: VPEsports
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