Zhang Ruida, widely known as Faith_bian and a participant with Team Tidebound in Dota 2, recently recounted the intriguing story of how he first became acquainted with DotA. According to his narrative, his initial interest in the classic DotA Allstars map arose unexpectedly after he came across an online advertisement for League of Legends.
I genuinely knew nothing about either DotA or Warcraft. Then one day, I stumbled upon an online advertisement for League of Legends. The ad mentioned that the game was based on the original DotA. Naturally, this made me wonder: `What exactly *is* DotA?`
I started researching to find out more. It turned out that to play, you first needed to download Warcraft 3, then load the specific map. So, that`s what I did, and I simply started playing DotA.
Finley Holt