Is Dota 2 balanced? One fan drops a research paper to find out

Each Dota 2 patch tries to reshape the game’s meta. The shifting meta causes players to constantly adapt and find the most powerful heroes of each patch to give themselves an edge. While the developers try their best to balance all heroes to make them equally viable options, it’s almost impossible to achieve the perfect equilibrium. But a research paper today revealed that Patch 7.32c has been close to pulling off the unthinkable.

A similar research was conducted in 2013 by Kevin Conley, where he achieved a match outcome accuracy of 69.8 percent based on a team’s picks. Considering Dota 2 became more complicated in the last nine years with the addition of Neutral Items and more abilities with Aghanim Shards, it was time to apply new methods.

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