History Characters / Dota2RadiantStrength

** MagmaMan: With the Bindings of Deep Magma cosmetic item, all of Raigor's abilities become magma instead of earth.

* PrimalStance

** LightningBruiser: As you level ''Grow'', Tiny actually ''gains'' movement speed, to the point where he can chase most heroes around the map pretty easily, and his innate tankiness and a chance to stun attacking enemies give him incredible survivability.

* ThisLooksLikeAJobForAquaman: Against a lineup too dependent on magical damage, a surprise last pick Huskar is able to force the enemy team to just accept it's GG already. However, if put up against even only one legit right-clicker, Huskar loses much of his effectiveness since he can't manfight any of them unless with a massive farm advantage.

* MoneyMultiplier: ''Greevil's Greed'' multiplies the gold from Bounty runes grants bonus gold for every unit killed inside of 30 seconds, allowing him to chain last-hits to give himself up to 36 bonus gold per last hit. Left to farm alone, Alchemist can obtain core items alarmingly quickly.

* TheSpeechless: All the noises he makes can be described as submarine-sounding beeps and boops.
** Some other characters seem to understand him. Puck especially continuously regrets that people are missing Wisp's puns (unreliable - maybe she's just being [[LittleMissSnarker Puck]]).

** SummonMagic

* PettingZooPerson

* TransformationIsAFreeAction: Tusk and any allies that are within a ''Snowball'' are invulnerable for the duration of the delay and the roll, which can last for a minimum of 3 seconds (excluding the rollout).

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* CoolHelmet: A knight's helmet with huge horns. Even Kunkka agrees it's cool and wants Sven to be his helmsman because of that helmet.

* HalfHumanHybrid: In [=DotA=], he was half human and half Night Elf. In Dota 2, half Pallid Meranth (mother's side) half Vigil Knight (father's side).

* TheDevTeamThinksOfEverything: You're not likely to make Aghanim's Scepter before you have your ultimate. But if you do, you'll be treated to a sight of Tiny hauling around a comically large tree - twice as big as himself if you didn't level the ultimate at all - with unique animations for all actions.

* InformedTrait: Despite being a giant rock monster, Tiny has no armor to speak of, and only gains a slight amount with ''Craggy Exterior''.

* SiegeEngine: He's ''very'' good at demolishing towers, and pushing down creepwaves to get there once he gets his scepter. Even before, he can sling creeps at it for 100 damage apiece. Not much, but still something.

* XMarksTheHero: The scar on his forehead.

* LightningBruiser

* BadassNormal

* TerrainSculpting: ''Fissure'' can not only stun but also temporarily create an impassible crevasse. Knowing how to use it to trap enemies is vital to mastering Earthshaker.

* DarkAndTroubledPast: We're only given tiny details, but Sven's childhood is ''definitely'' no walk in park, since he had to endure a lifetime of insults and being considered an abomination because of being a Half-Pallid, Half-Meranth, his mother being shunned the same way, and his father executed.

* JackOfAllStats[=/=]MagicKnight: Tiny starts the game as a squishy nuker/ganker, then becomes a durable, yet fast rightclicker carry, and with Aghanim's Scepter becomes a pusher. The difference from most other heroes is that he doesn't sacrifice any of these roles for the other; his spells scale well into the lategame, augmenting his slow but damaging melee attacks.

* PrimalStance

* TopHeavyGuy: Tiny's legs aren't that much bigger than a regular hero's, while his upper body is ''massive''. As a result, he has to use his right hand to steady himself while walking, and when he gets bigger, just standing.

* NighInvulnerability: ''Repel'' makes the target immune to magic and ''Guardian Angel'' makes all allies within a certain radius of him ''almost'' immune to physical damage (with an Aghanim's Scepter, it becomes global). They stack, and putting ''Repel'' and ''Guardian Angel'' on your carry generally causes a MassOhCrap for the enemy team.
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Omniknight bears a striking resemblance to Creator/ChuckNorris, and it's one of his 'funny names'. With his tendency to make his teammates invincible, the 'funny name' kind of make sense, not to mention both of them are pretty religious. All he's missing is just his roundhouse kick

* TestosteronePoisoning: While this trope isn't as strong in the case of Omniknight, his general tankiness and ability to make his team man up by protecting them from harm, as well as his tendency to jump into the thick of the action (due to being a melee hero and needing to be close to the enemy to take advantage of his passive), certainly makes him one of the manliest supports in the game.
** It's also helped by a glitch when he was first ported to Dota 2, which caused him to spam the voice line [[http://dota2.gamepedia.com/f/f8/Omni_ability_repel_03.mp3 "Fear nothing!"]] in just about any situation.

Uniquely one of the two ranged Strength heroes, Huskar is about entering into the fight and killing his foes while he is under fire, soaking up as much damage as he can. When he is in need of emergency health, ''Inner Vitality'' can be casted on himself or his allies to give health based on his attributes and gains more health if the hero is under attack by his foes. He is incredibly dangerous at the peak of his own life, with his ''Berserker's Blood'' which increases his attack speed and magic resistance based on how much health he is missing, to which he can tank a powerful nuke once he is near death. Huskar can lower his health more quickly to benefit his passive by using two of his abilities, ''Burning Spear,'' which causes Huskars basic attacks to deal damage over time at the cost of dealing damage to himself per throw, and his ultimate, ''Life Break,'' wherein he leaps to any foe and cuts their health by half, increasing in damage depending on how much health they are missing. Be warned, however, that Huskar sacrifices a large portion of his own life to use this ability.

* ItemCaddy: When played as a safelane farming carry, Alchemist relies on a six-slotted inventory of powerful items to get kills. This is made easier by ''Greevil's Greed'', which makes farming much faster and easier, so a good Alchemist will probably assemble most of his arsenal by the thirty-minute mark.

* MoneyMultiplier: ''Greevil's Greed'' grants bonus gold for every unit killed inside of 30 seconds, allowing him to chain last-hits to give himself up to 36 bonus gold per last hit. Left to farm alone, Alchemist can obtain core items alarmingly quickly.

* PurpleIsPowerful: ''[[UnstoppableRage Chemical Rage]]''

* TheBerserker: Thanks to his huge HP pool, a passive that punishes attacks against him, and close-ranged spells, Centaur can be played in a very aggressive manner.

* ShoutOut: His gray and orange vest bears some resemblance to [[VideoGame/HalfLife Gordon Freeman's HEV suit]].
** He states that [[Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus he's not a lumberjack and he is not okay]].

* BadassNormal: Ironically, despite having one of the highest Intelligence growths among non-Intelligence heroes, in the lore he has no magical abilities at all.

* EarlyBirdCameo: He first appeared as a temporary guest announcer during 2012's Greeviling event; he was eventually released as a full-fledged hero in February 2013.

* TerrainSculpting: ''Ice Shards'', Tusk's first ability, create a half-circle of ice around the point of impact. It damages any enemies it passes through, and the shards at the target point cannot be pathed over.

* RaceLift: He was a Tauren in the first ''[=DotA=]'', though for the sequel he was changed to an original design for copyright reasons.

* DifficultButAwesome: All of his skills require management of your stone supply (it takes ''three minutes'' to build up a full 6-stone supply from scratch), '''very''' precise and careful positioning, lining up the shots, and chaining your combos. In particular, ''Boulder Smash'' requires exquisite aiming since, if you stand just a few pixels in a different angle away from a non-Remnant target move your mouse cursor even a few pixels off-course when kicking a Remnant, you can end up hitting the target in a completely different direction. In addition, initiating with ''Rolling Boulder'' can be extremely punishing since it will only stop when colliding with a hero, meaning that missing can send you way beyond your target and potentially feed the enemy a kill. However, masterful Earth Spirits can stun from long range, snipe escaping enemy heroes and give teammates additional initiation power using ''Boulder Smash''; initiate or escape up or down cliffs and stop fleeing enemy heroes in their tracks with ''Rolling Boulder''; save allies from pursuing enemies or silence an entire enemy team with ''Geomagnetic Grip''; and unleash an astonishing amount of magical damage, debuffs and disables on the whole enemy team using all of the above combined with ''Magnetize''.

--> '''Sven (killing Enchantress):''' [[UnusualEuphemism Go sproink]] [[http://dota2.gamepedia.com/images/4/46/Sven_rival_06.mp3 yourself!]]

* DeathOrGloryAttack: ''Life Break''. Either Huskar, the other Hero, or even ''both'' die once it's used, since it costs a third of his health ''and'' puts him in point-blank range.

Dragon Knight's durability and strength is rivalled only by a handful of other heroes, and few of them can outfight a well-played Davion on the offensive. Unlike other melee carries who are vulnerable in the early game, Dragon Knight can mitigate this weakness with his passive skill ''Dragon Blood'', giving him a permanent armor boost as well as buff to his natural health regeneration, meaning that he can farm with impunity for much of the early game. His two main damaging spells ''Breathe Fire'' and ''Dragon Tail'' . '' Breathe Fire'' deals magic damage in a line, and ''Dragon Tail'' causes Dragon Knight's next attack to stun a single target in melee range. Dragon Knight's real offensive power lies with his ultimate, ''Elder Dragon From''. Activating this spell temporarily turns the knight into a powerful dragon for sixty seconds, temporarily boosting damage and turning his all of his attacks and ''Dragon Tail'' into ranged damage and giving his attacks a temporary attack modifier which transitions from early game pushing power to late game teamfight domainance as he levels the ability, giving Dragon Knight ample time to tear his enemies apart. As the spell levels up, Dragon Knight will alter his Dragon Form into one of three variants, each getting more powerful and adding more debuffs as he levels it up. The first is a green dragon with ''Corrosive Breath'', which causes poison damage over time. His second form is a red dragon with a splash attack that deals damage to everyone around him, and keeps ''Corrosive Breath'' in this form as well. His final form, a blue dragon, keeps his splash attack and poison damage, but adds a massive slow to the target.

** NamedWeapons: It's named Wrymblade

* GameplayAndStorySegregation: No matter what element his dragon from's normal BreathAttack takes, he always uses Fire breath with ''Breath Fire''.

* PowerLimiter: ''Breathe Fire'' reduces the base damage of its targets, making it difficult for Dragon Knight's lane opponent to last hit.

* WhyWontYouDie: All but the most deadly physical damage dealers find dealing with him a chore, as he has a long-duration stun, ranged slow, base damage reduction on his nuke, and can easily have 75% physical damage resistance with the right items. [[FromBadToWorse and then he gets evasion]].

* HeroicSacrifice: Clockwerk is often played as a suicide initiator, using ''Hookshot'' to fly straight into the enemy team and ''Power Cogs'' to disrupt their positioning and let his allies come in. As a result, he is often focused down and killed quickly, especially in the late game, when he becomes much less durable due to a lack of items since he farms extremely slowly.

* MightyGlacier

* TheRival[=/=]BashBrothers: With Dazzle, and justified in both their backstory and gameplay. Dazzle's skills can make Huskar an unstoppable machine of destruction (''Shallow Grave'' + ''Berserker's Blood'' = Game Breaker) -- or make him useless if he's on the enemy team.
** Huskar apparently sees Axe as this as well, according to his response lines; their love of battle and tendency to charge blindly into the fray, as well as Axe's ability to annihilate Huskar with ''Culling Blade'' or pin a target down for him to effortlessly slaughter with ''Berserker's Call'' makes this occur from a gameplay perspective as well.

%%* MagicKnight

** While never officially confirmed, the dominant theory is that Io is a Strength hero primarily for CompetitiveBalance reasons (so that it doesn't get an attack bonus from items such as Force Staff or Dagon), and to encourage Io players to build strength boosting items, such as Heaven's Halberd and Heart of Tarrasque, which also increase his health and regeneration of said health, playing into tether's effects.

* EyepatchOfPower

** TransformationIsAFreeAction: Tusk and any allies that are within the snowball are invulnerable for the duration of the delay and the roll, which can last for a minimum of 4 seconds (excluding the rollout).

* CoolHelmet: A knight's helmet with huge horns.

* AwesomeButImpractical: ''Eyes in the Forest'' effectively grants Treant Protector a free Observer Ward which never expires unless dewarded every 25 seconds. If the enemy jungle is warded, the damage addition to ''Overgrowth'' will allow him to kill any jungle creeps within range of a tree almost every minute as they spawn, giving him easy 700+ GPM. However, considering Aghanim's Scepter costs a lot for a support, if ever Treant can afford one it is either because he saved from the beginning of the match, did not support his team in not buying wards or any other support item making him a burden for his team, or because it is very late in the match and it is very likely that his team has stomped, or it will not help much as the enemy team could probably destroy the trees with a Gem and Quelling Blade and handle the extra damage. Subverted when he's on the same team with Alchemist, who can farm it for him, which is made even easier with ''Greevil's Greed''.

--> '''Sven''': ''Gods are meant to be defied!''

** BlowYouAway
** DishingOutDirt
** PlayingWithFire

* LiteralSplitPersonality[=/=]SelfDuplication: His ultimate, ''Primal Split'', splits him into three elemental warriors, which function as individual heroes for the duration.
** MightyGlacier: Earth is the slowest, but is immune to magic, carries a ranged, damage-dealing stun, and has a high chance of dealing bonus AOE damage in a radius.
** FragileSpeedster: Fire moves at maximum movespeed and constantly deals damage to every enemy around him, but is also extremely frail.
** SquishyWizard: Storm can turn invisible, purge buffs on enemies, and disable heroes with his tornado, but can't consistently deal damage.
** FighterMageThief: Earth, Storm, and Fire respectively.

* MagicKnight

* MightyGlacier: He's slow, but he packs a wallop; plus he becomes extremely difficult to kill with his high HP and innate evasion skills.

* GradualGrinder: All of Phoenix's spells inflict relatively small ticks of damage over time. Of course, the ticks start to add up when he applies several of them on the same hero.

* CastFromHitPoints: ''Overcharge'' drains 4.5% of Io's max health and mana every second it's active.

* NoMereWindmill[=/=]ProperlyParanoid: He might look like a WindmillCrusader, unless you remember about heroes like [[WhenTreesAttack Nature's Prophet and Treant Protector]].

* DiscOneNuke: One should never underestimate the power of ''Fissure'' at level 1 - the 8-second barrier is probably among the most devastating effects for the heroes with no innate mobility. Unless able to bypass ''Fissure'' with skills like Batrider's ''Firefly'', Timbersaw's ''Timber Chain'',... offlaners have to play extremely careful against an enemy Earthshaker, because they're dead if he could land a good ''Fissure''.

* {{Irony}}: His default faction is Radiant, which is all about trees!

* LightningBruiser: Tresdin has plenty of health, plus the ability to attack and heal quickly with ''Press The Attack'' and ''Moment of Courage'', move faster with ''Overwhelming Odds'', and gains incredible attack power if she can repeatedly win during a ''Duel''.

** On top of this, ''Ghost Ship'' is a fixed distance spell; unlike other spells which you can cast as near or as far as you'd like within its maximum range, ''Ghost Ship'' will always start exactly 1000 units behind Kunkka, take exactly 3 seconds to travel a fixed 2000 distance, and hit a spot exactly 1000 units in front of Kunkka. This, on top of the long delay, means that hitting an enemy team with ''Ghost Ship'' is an extremely precise art that requires good positioning.

* ExactlyWhatIWasAimingAt: Good Kunkka players don't aim their first shot at a hero if possible, but at a ''creep'' so all 5 heroes take the armor-ignoring cleave damage. He can also do this in chases or to harass, hitting a creep and letting his massive splash hammer the heroes behind it.

* BadassBack: Pretty much his entire schtick. It's not uncommon to see Bristleback farming stacked [[EliteMook Ancients]] by walking up to them, turning his back, and spamming ''Quill Spray'' until everything is dead.

* TotalPartyKill:

* WolverinePublicity: Sven gets a good deal of publicity thanks to his ButtMonkey status above, shows up ''a lot'' in videos. Kinda helps that he's also quite simple to play and being referred as one of Dota's [[RatedMForManly manliest]] heroes.

* MagikarpPower: In the beginning of the game, Tiny is pretty pathetic - he has terrible Agility, two spells that eat his mana very quickly, and fairly poor stat growth. Give him time and a few early kills, though, and he'll soon transform into a LightningBruiser, capable of smashing entire teams asunder by the mid-to-late game.
* MegatonPunch: Fully leveled, Tiny has a base damage in the 300 range that only gets higher with items. [[OhCrap If he gets double damage]] ''run''.

** LightningBruiser: As you level ''Grow!'', Tiny actually ''gains'' movement speed, to the point where he can chase most heroes around the map pretty easily, and his innate tankiness and a chance to stun attacking enemies give him incredible survivability.
* OurGiantsAreBigger: Unlike a typical giant, Tiny is made of stone. He also can't be considered a proper "giant" until ''Grow!'' is maxed.

* RedRightHand: His right hand is a giant stone stump without any fingers that he uses the bludgeon his enemies with, althought it takes a back seat to his smaller left hand once gets to the higher levels of ''Grow!'' and needs to use it to steady himself.

* YouHaveResearchedBreathing: The entire advantage to getting an staff once wielded by a demigod-like Wizard for Tiny? Him picking up a ''tree''. Why he couldn't pick up a tree before then is never really explained. Justified in the description of the Crystal Dryad cosmetic tree: the Tree is actually Aghanim's Scepter itself in a form suited for Tiny.

* ArmorPiercingAttack: ''Primal Roar'' can stun its target through spell immunity, and knock back spell immune enemies between him and the primary target (although no damage will be dealt to spell immune units and secondary targets won't be slowed after the push). It's one of the most powerful disables in the game since it can be cast from range and will guaranteed stun its target for up to 4 seconds.

* BreathWeapon: In knight form, he can breathe cones of fire to burn his enemies. In dragon form, this replaces his normal attack.

* MagikarpPower: Omniknight is best described as a late game support. ''Degen Aura'' is a scaling percentage, and ''Repel'' and ''Guardian Angel'' are simple flat-out immunities that don't care if the damage they block in question is the 20 damage hit of a simple creep, or the 4-digit crit of a 6-slotted hard carry, it's still zero. Given that his main weakness, Diffusal Blade, has limited and non-replenishable charges, his impact grows more and more notable over time. The trade-off is that he has little lane presence, isn't able to do much outside of babysitting early game, and is very greedy for a support, needing at least Aghanim's Scepter as a core item (without which it's impossible to land a good ''Guardian Angel'').

* JokeCharacter: In public games. Io has one of the worst win rate in pubs because the other 4 people on your team just don't know how to work around it, similar to Shadow Demon, Chen and Enchantress. You can be the best Io player in the world, but you're still going to lose constantly if you try playing Io in almost any solo matchmaking. The usual case scenario is that you ''Tether'' to an allied carry, then ''Relocate'' him to gank a lone farming enemy hero... only to have him break the tether and letting Io teleport alone to the enemy hero, which, seeing how weak Io is without teammates, essentially gives the enemy a free kill.

* TerrainSculpting: ''Ice Shards'', Tusk's firs ability, create a half-circle of ice around the point of impact. It damages any enemies it passes through, and the shards at the target point cannot be pathed over.

* WolverinePublicity: Sven gets a good deal of publicity thanks to his ButtMonkey status above, shows up ''alot'' in videos.