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by Ntrails 409 days ago
The AI's play meaningfully added ideas of ways to play dota2 iirc. It wasn't just buying back, the way they played around early advantage hyper aggressive, not much farming, spam buying regen to stay out etc.

On the other hand you could generally beat the first "1v1 mid" bot by just cutting the wave behind its tower. So adaptation to new stuff was not good in isolation.

I would have loved to know whether given more time/prep/replays/practice pros would have figured out the holes. My guess is yes