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New details on the next Dota Hero Muerta

It’s been a while since we last reported on the next Dota 2 Hero, Muerta. Since The International 11,... Fragster | 7. February 2023

It’s been a while since we last reported on the next Dota 2 Hero, Muerta. Since The International 11, where the hero was first revealed, no new information has come to light until recently.

A new leak has now brought us more images from internal game files, which include concepts for Muerta’s spells and abilities. According to the announcement, the new heroine should be released in early 2023, so it can’t be long before there’s finally a new heroine in Dota!

We have all the information for you here!

Ability names leaked

After being announced by Valve at The International 2022 in October, Muerta “The Mournful Revenant” is still scheduled for release in early 2023, as planned. At least that’s what came out of a message from DOTA_DM on Telegram and was the only information about the new heroine for a long time. There’s also been some speculation about whether Muerta is an unreleased heroine from Dota 1.

All files in the game get placeholder images ranging from sketches to concept art to pure memes in the case of the stick_em_up ability. When it comes to the filenames, they’re all named after bird_samurai, corpse_mother, or gunslinger. But some placeholder images of the Gunslinger Gyrocopter come from abilities like Rocket Barrage or Homing Missle. The data in the leak doesn’t really reveal much, but the names of some of the moves could hint at possible concepts for Muerta’s abilities.

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Possible Muerta’s abilities

If one wants to speculate, “Fan the Hammer” could mean that Muerta will fire a salvo or two at a target. “Reload” is self-explanatory here and simply means “reloading”. “Powered Rounds” could be some kind of power boost for her shots and “Hail of Bullets” maybe an ability that hits enemies from a longer distance but the damage suffers as a result.

On the corpse_mother side of the files, believed to be Muerta’s in-game filename, Life Link, Soul Swell, and True Love will likely support her more ghostly abilities. And who knows what the bird samurai abilities like Avian Assault and Plumage Party will be reworked for, if they appear at all.