One week after the release of patch 7.32

A week ago, Valve released patch 7.32. It made changes to the balance of heroes and items, as well as changed the system of charging experience of characters. A few days later, the primary meta was already formed in the professional Dota 2. In this article, we will tell you about the 5 most popular heroes at the moment.

Tiny – 50 games

The leader in the maps played is Tiny. During the week, the hero was used 50 times in drafts with a 52.00% win rate. In the previous patch, Tiny was also the most popular pro stage hero. However, despite his popularity, the new patch only weakened him slightly.

Tiny is currently a universal character. Various teams use him in all positions, from support to carry. In the last patch, the situation was similar.

Razor – 33 games

In second place in popularity during the first week is Razor, who appeared in 33 official games. In the last patch, the character was in 18th place for the number of picks with a score of 695 maps. At the same time, he often got into team bans – 1,327 times.

The changes in patch 7.32 for Razor are two-fold. On the one hand, he got new talents. On the other hand, his Static Link ability was weakened. The changes were enough to get him out of bans and make him popular.

Queen of Pain – 32 games

The Queen of Pain, which is in third place, has an unreal win rate of 68.75%. Compared with the previous patch, her popularity among professional teams increased a lot. Back then, she wasn't even in the top-50 most popular heroes.

Patch 7.32 gave Queen of Pain a major boost to her Shadow Strike ability with Aghanim's Scepter. Her talents were also changed for an ultimate boost. They now increase damage and reduce the cooldown by half.

Batrider – 31 games

In fourth place is Batrider. Teams picked him 31 times during the week. Interestingly, among the other characters in this list, he has the most bans, namely 58. According to this indicator, he is also in 4th place in the patch.

In the last update, Batrider received a huge change to his Sticky Napalm ability. It now does damage on hit and applies to attacks with Aghanim's Shard. This ability was incredibly strong before, and now it should be even more effective.

Mars – 30 games

Mars is rounding out the top-5 with 30 matches for the week. This is the fourth consecutive numbered patch that Mars has been on the list of the most popular heroes in terms of picks. And this patch was no exception.

Update 7.32 barely changed his abilities: some were weakened, while others were strengthened. Valve has taken no action to make Mars fall off the meta.

That's how the list of the most popular heroes of patch 7.32 week 1. You can check out the full stats on the Heroes page. There you can find a lot of useful information.