Hook, line and sinker: One Dota 2 hero has been played a billion times

We have finally crowned a champion in the race to a billion Dota 2 games played for a single hero, but you can hardly call it a race. Fan favorite Pudge reached the remarkable milestone today, on May 6, a huge 300 million games ahead of the next-most-played hero.

A whopping 4,935 days after his early release in Dota 2‘s beta, The Butcher remains the most popular hero in the MOBA by a very significant margin, according to the stats site Dotabuff. For the longest time, Sniper and Windranger remained in the games-played contest but were overtaken by carry hero Phantom Assassin recently; however, their popularity still pales massively compared to Pudge, who’s present in a third of all Dota matches.

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