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Dota 2

Players who want sharper lane decisions, cleaner item timing, and better objective calls.

Dota 2 official Steam header art

Player market

Dota 2 player-count dashboard

Current players first, then trend context, news impact, and the data players use to compare what is winning.

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Source-labeled. Steam counts are not global cross-platform totals.
Rank

Steam chart position

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Trend

24h pressure

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Current count vs peak and average-window history.
News

Latest impact watch

Official updates and LiveGameCharts news show whether events may affect player counts.

Open news

Game profile

Charts, tools, and player data

Players who want sharper lane decisions, cleaner item timing, and better objective calls.

Signals

What we track

  • Steam concurrency
  • patch-driven metagame
  • long-session tool demand
Stats

Useful data

  • current Steam players
  • official news
  • achievement data
  • hero tool freshness

What players want to know

Data questions for Dota 2

The page is organized around measurable chart questions instead of generic guides.

Players now

Live Steam count

Current Steam players update in the browser from the public Steam endpoint.

Trend

24h peak and momentum

The trend panel compares current count, peak pressure, and snapshot history when available.

Popular data

character, item

Game pages prioritize measurable entities players search for: weapons, items, heroes, characters, comps, maps, and setups.

Winning setups

Hero win-rate by bracket and lane

Show hero, lane, ally, enemy, item timing, bracket, and sample-size filters.

Database

Popular weapons, heroes, items, and systems

Use these entries as the tracked data layer for usage, win rate, counters, roles, and setup performance.

Data tools
character Official API

Pudge

High-impact pickoff hero whose real value depends on hook quality and lane stability.

  • Roleroamer / disabler
  • Difficultyhigh
  • Metrics4
Strengths
  • Long-range displacement
  • Punishes bad vision
  • Strong skirmish threat
Counters
  • Lane pressure
  • Save supports
  • Vision discipline
item Official API

Black King Bar

A timing item that turns net worth into playable damage windows against disables.

  • Rolefight timing
  • Difficultymedium
  • Metrics3
Strengths
  • Spell immunity window
  • Objective conversion
  • High-ground reliability
Counters
  • Kiting after activation
  • Piercing disables
  • Bad pre-fight wave state
character Official API

Crystal Maiden

Reliable lane control and global mana value, balanced by fragile positioning.

  • Rolehard support
  • Difficultylow
  • Metrics4
Strengths
  • Lane disable
  • Mana aura
  • Strong early smoke moves
Counters
  • Gap closers
  • Silences
  • Poor defensive vision

Meta stats

Win rates and winning setups

Use these stats to compare picks, counters, roles, loadouts, team comps, and setups when reliable data is available.

Official API

Hero win-rate by bracket and lane

Which heroes convert draft position and lane outcome into wins.

  • win rate, pick rate, ban rate, lane result, item timing
  • Show hero, lane, ally, enemy, item timing, bracket, and sample-size filters.

Data sources

Where the stats come from

Live stats and tool inputs are labeled by source so player counts, match data, item data, and win-rate tables stay clear.

Live source

Steam Web API

Steam only covers the Steam ecosystem, so cross-platform totals must never be presented as global player counts.

Official docs
Live source

OpenDota API

OpenDota is community data, not Valve-official. Pages must show sample size and fallback status.

Official docs