[ajuc]

> I don't know OpenAI selected it, but it's highly conducive to OpenAI Five's strengths--deathballing, mechanics, teamfight coordination, etc. It lacks essentially all of the heroes that humans would normally pick to counter that strategy.

Isn't it the other way around - openai adjusted to the hero pool to come up with its' strategy, because it was trained on this hero pool.

If hero pool had only late-game melee carries - I assume openai would come up with a strategy that works with that.

[_ptgt]

I don't think so. It's quite easy to imagine that a computer would outperform humans in strategies that require precise execution and coordination in teamfights. In fact, it's not specific to OpenAI; even the built-in Dota bots' strengths are generally teamfight execution.

My guess is that if OpenAI 5 trained under a different hero pool, it would be weaker than it is now. It's very hard to predict how much weaker though.