Does your team's faction limit affect hero choice?
In recent months, I've started playing Dota-2. However, when playing match-made, un-ranked games, I've been able to choose any character, even though, according to the in-game lore and the wiki page, the heroes belong to either the Radiant or Dire.
Is this intended? Does it change in other game modes? (I've been playing All Pick.)
Best Answer
The heroes are split between Dire and Radiant only for flavour and there are no limitations for piking one depending on your team.
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Answer 2
No; you can pick any hero, regardless of your assigned faction (barring any other restrictions specific to your specific game mode, of course). Since the faction split has absolutely no effect on gameplay in Dota 2, the fact that specific heroes are categorized as "Radiant" and "Dire" currently serves basically two purposes:
- For story/lore purposes.
- It also serves to break up the hero selection screen in half vertically to make it a little easier to "read."
The original DotA map broke up the heroes into "Sentinel" and "Scourge" in much the same way.
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