Heroes (Dota 2)

The heroines and heroes (original: “Heroes”) are the primary playable entities in DotA and Dota 2. In a game, each player takes control of one of the 112 playable heroines and heroes. Each hero and heroine is a character with different attributes, abilities and roles. Each heroine and hero can also be categorized by the default attacks, which happen either in melee or ranged attacks.

Valve plans to develop their own heroines and heroes for Dota 2 after the release of the classic heroines and heroes from DotA Allstars, as Erik Johnson previously announced in a 2014 interview. After the release of Arc Warden in December 2015 and that of Underlord in August 2016, the first hero developed exclusively for Dota 2, Monkey King, appeared in winter 2016, although it was at least based on concepts from classic DotA and appeared there as an event boss opponent. The Dueling Fates update announced in August 2017 confirmed the release of two completely redesigned heroes.

Omniknight: “Fear not my friends, our guardian is here.”

Purist Thunderwrath, the Omniknight (Omniritter), is a strength hero from DotA and Dota 2. He is a melee Radiant hero. The Omniknight is a unit that supports allies in battle with its abilities and weakens opponents. In the game, it can play the role of a Durabler, Lane Support and Support. The Purification ability makes it possible for Purist to heal allied units and cause enemies standing around the healing target to take damage. While Repel makes allied units, or the Omniknight himself, immune to most types of spells and thus makes for an excellent counter-weapon against many other abilities, his passive ability Degen Aura makes surrounding enemies lose attack and movement speed due to the Omniknight’s mere presence. With his Ultimate Guardian Angel, the Omniknight can give bystanders protection against physical damage, which he can even do globally and on buildings with Aghanim’s Scepter.

Omniknight- Hype

Omniknight, as a protector, is always on the front line to support his team in battle. Whether he heals an ally with a spell that simultaneously harms surrounding enemies or smashes an enemy with his powerful hammer, he always protects his allies from danger.

Omniknight- Biography

“Purist Thunderwrath was a hard-fighting, rough-around-the-edges, highly dedicated knight who was a squire of senior knights of great renown, called into the order that once raised him. He spent his entire life in the service of omni-science, the all-seeing. Their purpose in life was a holy struggle, in which he was so embedded that he never questioned it as long as he had the strength to fight and the impetuous heroism of a youth. But over the long years of the crusade, as his elders died and were buried in puny graves by the side of muddy paths, as his erstwhile companions fell in battle at the hands of common creatures who would not bow to omniscience, as his own squires were carried off by ambushes, plague, and bad weather, he began to question the meaning of his vow – the meaning of the entire crusade. After long meditation, he turned his back on his army and began a long journey back to the cave-strewn cliffs of Emauracus, where he faced a challenge from the priests of Omni-science. No knight had ever challenged them and they tried to throw him into the sacrificial pit, but Purist would not be moved. When he confronted them, he shone with a holy light and they saw that Omni-science had decided to reveal itself to him. The High Priest led him on a week-long journey down to the deepest chamber, the Holy of Saints, where no abstract concept of wisdom and knowledge waited, no carved relic, requiring a certain amount of imagination to believe, but the Ancient One itself. It had not simply dwelt there among the stones for billions of eons; no, It had created them. Omni-science had formed the immense mineral shell of the planet around itself as a defense against the myriad horrors of space. Accordingly, the Omniscient One claimed to be responsible for the creation of the world, and in the face of the other truths revealed to Puritan that day, the Knight had no reason to doubt the story. Perhaps Omni-science, deep in its prison of stone, lies and is not the creator of the world at all, but Omniknight never again questioned his faith. His campaign did have a purpose after all. And there is no question that the glorious powers that imbue him and give his comrades such fighting strength are real.”