Dota Underlords builds are things of wonderful complexity. Combining your knowledge not just of heroes and abilities and items and alliances, but also the pacing of a match and your relative needs on different rounds can all get pretty mind-boggling pretty quickly – especially now that the August Update for Dota Underlords has shaken up the meta with its medley of groundbreaking changes to alliances and items.

So we thought it’d be a good idea to revisit our Dota Underlords builds guide to see what still works and what no longer does. Below we’ve put together seven of the very best builds in the current Juggernaut Update meta, from Brawny Warriors to Scrappy Mages to souped up Demon Hunters and more.

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Dota Underlords patch notes are something of a bigger deal than in many other games. Much like with Dota 2, Valve see each Dota Underlords update as an opportunity to completely rewrite the current meta much of the time. Thankfully (for me, writing this), the most recent Juggernaut Update is a comparatively minor one; but it still introduces a number of significant changes to certain heroes.

We’ll break it all down in our Dota Underlords patch notes analysis, exploring how each change may (or may not) shift the meta in a new direction.

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I think we can all agree that Dota Underlords is a real head-scratcher of a game. Simplified heroes and systems it may have compared with its perplexing, ponderous progenitor Dota 2, but then Dota 2 never had multiple 10v10 fights happening at once, did it?

So, to help turn that head-scratching into head-bashing, we’ve put together this comprehensive Dota Underlords strategy guide, packed with beginner-friendly tips and explanations of everything that goes on in a match, from heroes, alliances and items to gold accrual, meta-dominating builds, and much more.

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The Dota Underlords heroes roster is sublimely complex and difficult to wrap your head around even if Valve weren’t shaking everything up with massive content updates every week or two. With each hero sporting different alliances, abilities, and basic stats across three different levels, there’s an awful lot to bear in mind when forming your army.

Our Dota Underlords heroes guide will walk you through everything you need to know, from our handy Dota Underlords cheat sheet which contains essential info for newcomers on every single hero in the game to our descriptions and explanations of some of the strongest heroes in the current meta.

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A great many of the Dota Underlords alliances received a substantial rework after the enormous August Update. With nearly all Alliance items abolished, several key alliances have been reimagined to adjust to this new meta – so it’s high time we go back through our Dota Underlords alliances tier list and repopulate it with our rankings of the relative power and viability of each alliance. And not only that, but we’ll also talk about each alliance in turn, demonstrating why it is we’ve ranked it where we have and how best to use each one in a match.

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