DOTA 2 BATTLE PASS 2020: What to expect from the Compendium

New Battle Pass and The International 2020

The 10th anniversary of The International and the release of the new Battle Pass.

WHAT IS A BATTLE PASS OR COMPENDIUM?

Battle Pass or Compendium is an in-game item, which is presented in the form of a «book». To open the next page of this book, you need to get level-up. Each level or page will give the player a lot of new and exciting content. If you are a fan of DotA 2 but are limited in time, then the levels can be bought. Levels can also be obtained for free with in-game tasks. Recall that 25% of each transaction related to the compendium goes to the prize pool of the main tournament of the year, The International.

It is also likely that players will find how to abuse compendium this year.

How much will the compendium DotA 2 2020 cost?

You can start betting and making predictions. But, most likely, the price for a combat pass will be the same. And the base level of the compendium you will buy for $ 10.

Due to the current situation in the world with a pandemic, the fate of The International 2020 is unknown. If Valve nevertheless wants to hold a tournament, will it be held on usual dates? It is also unknown where the tournament will be held. According to rumors, this year, Stockholm was to become the arena for The International. But many have doubts that Stockholm will be able to conduct a high-quality tournament of this level. Also, rumors spoke about the providence of The International 2020 in Shanghai. In China, the situation has long begun to stabilize, and the Chinese e-sports infrastructure is one of the best in the world.

I wonder if there will be additional awards waiting for us in the DotA 2 Compendium on the anniversary?

Given all this, I really want to believe that all the same the tenth anniversary of The International will nevertheless take place.

As everyone knows, before each The International, Valve releases a Battle Pass (Dota 2 compendium), part of the proceeds from which go to the tournament prize pool.

So let’s think about what to expect from content and new characters in the new Battle Pass? Valve recently announced that a new combat pass would be released very soon, in late May.

Let’s try to figure out what a combat pass will bring to us.

There can be no definite answer, but you can dig deep into the past and draw an analogy with the previous Battle Pass. If you carefully consider last year’s military passes, you can see the sequence with which we will now try to understand.

The first five tournaments were held in the following color sequence: red, blue, green, purple, and gold.

Dota 2 Compendium

From the sixth of The International, this circle began to repeat itself. The colors remained the same. Only the style has changed a little. Following this logic, the 10th anniversary of The International, as it has already become known, will have a symbolic golden color.

So what can we expect from the golden tenth anniversary of The International 2020 and the Battle Pass?

All Immortal items (very rare in-game items) in DotA 2 starting from the sixth The International had one theme and were teasers for the next tournament and its theme.

For example:

Pudge and his Meat Hook got a new icon, animation, and look. Released Immortal subject for the sixth The International was in the form of a harpoon. You can notice the effect of water around the harpoon. And in general, the harpoon is intended for use in the water for hunting marine life.

Lion and his Immortal, which is also made in a water style with its own unique effects. You can also clearly see the texture in the form of scales. The effect of Lion’s ability has also been changed.

The immortal item for Morphling. The water hero also received an Immortal, which is consistent with the water theme.

We see precisely the same situation with Slark. The inhabitant of the deep sea and dark reef received an Immortal blade.

What in the end did we saw?

A year later, we learned that The International’s theme had become water and everything related to it, namely SILTBREAKER, dark reef, and so on.

Then Valve released new traditional Immortal items in the new Battle Pass. Having studied in detail, it became clear that insect-like heroes received new items.

The owners of the new Immortal items have become Broodmother, Weaver, Sand King. New objects made it clear about the shift of visual stylistics towards caves, the earth, and its bowels. Immortal objects were with crystals, stones, and even worms.

In 2018, information appeared that the theme of International 2018 was the bowels of the earth.

Then the new Battle Pass came out. After the release, everything became even more obvious. Immortal objects were in the form of Aztec masks, and feathers appeared, the theme of the wild jungle was striking.

New visual, non-standard effects have appeared in the form of monkeys, snakes, and lizards.

As a result, in 2019, The International was announced, which received the theme of wild jungle and ancient ruins.

We figured out what was in the past, now let’s try to figure out what theme tells us last year’s Battle Pass?  And what theme will be on the 10th anniversary of The International?

Take a look at this Ax steampunk technology mask.

Or the equally cool Tusk mechanized arm with a fish picker.

Also, such a mechanized type of Immortal items received Slardar and Bounty Hunter.

What is essential is the new item received and Timbersaw, this hero personifies the mechanisms with other heroes of his race.

And what is the race of Timbersaw? Timbersaw, Sniper, Tinker, Snapfire, and others belong to the kinfolk race. This suggests that the theme of the anniversary The International will be focused on this race and the mechanisms in general. Even though last year the hero of this race, Beatrix, was already announced, everything tells us that this is not the end. The theme of The International will closely intersect with kinfolk race, as well as various technologies of this race.

If we consider everything in the prism of the fact that last year the primary color was purple, which hinted to us at the fourth spirit, then this year, who should we expect yellow or gold?

The great and terrible Mazzie is ideally suited for this role.

We know about this hero from the LoRe of DotA 2, as well as from the replicas of some heroes of his race. This hero is hated not only by ordinary heroes of DotA 2 but even by many of the kinfolk race. This is an essential character in the universe, even more important than the recently released Beatrix.

To begin with, Mazzie and Sniper organized the society of smart minded people organization, the key organization for DotA 2 LoRe. Its goal is to unite all kinfolk clans.

It is worth noting that in DotA Underlords, every kinfolk talks about Mazzie and his unconditional skill and his imminent return.

So, where does it come from DotA 2 and DotA Underlords? It is worth noting that Snapfire and Void Spirit came to DotA 2 precisely from Underlords. And if all the kinfolk in Underlords talk about the arrival of Mazzie, then he definitely should appear.

Everything sounds logical enough if we talk about the theme of mechanisms and gold color.

It’s already exciting to see what the new Battle Pass will be and what new Immortal items will be in it. Since they can give us a clue what the next The International will be. It will also show us whether the color decade circle will break. The new Battle Pass is due out before the end of May.