There's now an animated Dota show - no, Netflix, I will not call it an anime no matter how stubbornly you insist it is one - and judging by the revamp to Dota 2's new player experience, Valve is hoping a whole lot of newbies will hop in as a result. That doesn't really seem to have happened, but players are playing a lot more of Dragon Knight now.
Dragon Knight (or Davion, if you're on more familiar terms) is the star of Netflix's Dota: Dragon's Blood, and he's a playable hero in Dota 2. Take a look at Dragon Knight's pick rate over on DotaBuff - see that spike starting on March 24, where Dragon Knight goes from a 7.23% pick rate to a 9.20% rate? As the unofficial Dota 2 Updates Twitter account notes, that's rather conveniently timed with the launch of the Netflix show.
While you might expect Dragon Knight's win rate to have dropped as a result of all those presumably-new players picking him up, that doesn't really seem to be the case, as his win rate hasn't dropped below 51% since the launch of Dragon's Blood.
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