Female gamers improve faster than men in Dota 2.
Female gamers improve faster than men in Dota 2.
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Women are better at improving at Dota 2 than men

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Women gamers are better at improving their skills compared to men when it comes to playing Valve’s Dota 2 game, according to AI-based game coaching company Gosu.ai.

That’s one of the findings in a survey of nearly 5,000 gamers who play Dota 2, a popular multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA) game, where the goal was to understand what factors separate the good and the bad players.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.