[STEAM][PRESS]Hook, line and sinker: One Dota 2 hero has been played a billion times

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Dota 2 games played for a single hero, but you can hardly call it a race. Fan favorite Pudge reached the remarkable milestone today, on May 6, a huge 300 million games ahead of the next-most-played hero.

A whopping 4,935 days after his early release in

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‘s beta, The Butcher ******** the most popular hero in the MOBA by a very significant margin, according to the stats site

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. For the longest time, ******* and Windranger remained in the games-played contest but were overtaken by carry hero Phantom ********* recently; however, their popularity still pales massively compared to Pudge, who’s present in a third of all Dota matches.

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