Problem Statement

Dota2 is a free-to-play multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA) video game. Dota 2 is played in
matches between two teams of five players, with each team occupying and defending their own
separate base on the map. Each of the ten players independentlycontrols a powerful character,
known as a "hero" (which they choose at the start of the match), who all have unique abilities
and differing styles of play. During a match, players collect experience points and items for their
heroes to successful battle with the opposing team's heroes, who attempt to do the same to them.
A team wins by being the first to destroy a large structure located in the opposing team's base,
called the "Ancient".

You’re given dataset of professional Dota players and their most frequent 10 heroes. The data
also includes details about the heros (Kind of Hero (nuker, initiator and so on), their base attack,
strength, movement speed). Here both train and test dataset is divided into two dataset(train9.csv
& train1.csv and test9.csv & test1.csv).

train9.csv and train1.csv contain the user performance for their most frequent 9 heroes and 10th
hero respectively. Both train9.csv and train1.csv have below fields.

Feature Description

user_id The id of the player

hero_id The id of the hero the player played with

id Unique id

num_games The number of games the player played with that hero

num_wins Number of games the player won with this particular hero

kda_ratio ((Kills + Assists)*1000/Deaths)

(target) Ratio: where kill, assists and deaths are average values per match for that
hero

test9.csv contain the different set of user (different from training set) performance for their most
frequent 9 heroes. test9.csv has similar fields as train9.csv. Now, the aim is to predict the
performance (kda_ratio) of the same set of users (test users) with the 10th hero which is
test1.csv.

Feature Description

user_id The id of the user

hero_id The id of the hero (of which the kda_ratio has to be predicted)

id Unique id

num_games The total number of games the player played with this hero

We also have "hero_data.csv" which contains information about heros.

Feature Description

hero_id Id of the hero

primary_attr A string denoting

what the primary
attribute of the hero
is
(int- initiator, agi-
agility, str- strength
and so on)

attack_type String, :”Melee“ or

“Ranged”

roles An array of strings

which have roles of
heroes
(eg Support,
Disabler, Nuker,
etc.)

base_health The basic health

the hero starts with

base_health_regen,base_mana,base_mana_regen, These are the

base_armor,base_magic_restistance, basic stats the
base_attack_min,base_attack_max,base_strength, heroes start with
base_agility,base_intelligence,strength_gain,agility_gain,intelligence_gain, (some remain
attack_range,projectile_speed,attack_rate,move_speed,turn_rate same throughout
the game)
Evaluation Metric
The predictions will be evaluated on RMSE.