Legends of Dota Redux

A Dota 2 custom game that lets you build any hero with any combination of abilities from across the entire hero roster.

Quick Start

Get into your first game in minutes — find the mod on Steam Workshop and start picking abilities.

Ability Selection

Learn how to draft, build, and customise your hero’s skill set.

Game Modes & Options

Explore the game modes, mutators, and advanced voting options.

Reference

Deep-dive into the Lua scripting layer, KV data files, and the server API.

What is Legends of Dota Redux?

Legends of Dota Redux is a community-built Dota 2 custom game descended from the original Legends of Dota (LoD) by ash47. In Redux you draft a hero and then fill every ability slot with any skill from any hero in the game — the result is a wildly flexible build system that rewards creativity and knowledge of the entire ability pool.

Redux extends the original with hundreds of new custom abilities, an extensive mutator system, hero perks, community skill-build sharing, and bot AI support.

500+ abilities

All standard Dota 2 abilities plus dozens of custom-built Redux skills.

Mutators

Toggle game-wide rule changes — vampirism, kill streaks, random spells, and more.

Bot support

Play against or alongside AI bots with configurable difficulty levels.

Hero perks

Unlock bonus stats and passive bonuses linked to the abilities you select.

Skill builds

Save, share, vote on, and favourite community skill builds.

Chat voting

Players vote in-chat to enable cheats, double neutrals, anti-rat, and more.

Game phases

Every match flows through a structured sequence of phases before the Ancients are at risk.

Phase	What happens
Loading	Players connect; the server waits for the lobby to fill
Option voting	Players vote on game options (shop type, hero count, mutators …)
Option selection	Host finalises options
Banning	Optional phase to ban abilities from the pool
Selection	Each player drafts their hero and picks abilities
Review	Inspect your build before the game starts
Item picking	Optionally pick starting items
In-game	Standard Dota match begins

New to LoD Redux? Start with the Quick Start guide to get through your first selection phase without missing a pick timer.

Key links

Changelog

See what changed in each version of Redux.

Contributing

Learn how to add abilities, fix bugs, and submit pull requests.

Credits

Meet the developers and contributors behind Redux.

GitHub

Browse the source code, open issues, and submit PRs.