For the year 2022 though, the story is not the same as a lot of other years.
The meta stayed very similar till the end of the final DPC Major of the 2021-2022 season.
Lets look at the prominent changes each patch brought to Dota 2.
The big change of this patch though, was that Marci was released into the game!
Can you remember the game before this chaotic hero was released amidst it?
The memory is fading.
But patch 7.31 had none of that.
The biggest change of Dota 2 patch 7.31 was probably the introduction of Primal Beast.
Techies was reworked in this patch, to give us the less irritating version of the hero.
For a short duration between the releases of patch 7.31 and 7.31b, Batrider was a right click carry.
But that lasted as long as the hype around the old Spectre specialist, Badman.
Same is the case with the right click Batrider.
Patch 7.31c also saw major buffs being give to Wraith Pact, because no was using it till then.
Did IceFrog know what sort of monster he was creating back then?
But one can only speculate.
7.31d(June 2022)
Patch 7.31d was bundled in with a lot of Dota Plus changes.
Dota 2 patch 7.32 brought some much needed changes to the game, including a plethora of general changes.
The first major change of the patch was that Primal Beast was introduced to Captains Mode.
In hindsight though, not a lot of teams made use of Primal Beast in the qualifiers.
Thegeneral changes introduced in patch 7.32 impacted gameplay significantly.
Hopefully when Dota 2 patch 7.33 arrives, there will be many more like them.
7.32b(August 2022)
Patch 7.32b was a quick balance patch following patch 7.32.
This change made the lane slightly easier for the position 1 heroes.
7.32c(September 2022)
Patch 7.32c was the last change before TI11.
The patch consisted of balance changes based on what was observed in the TI11 qualifiers.
In terms of items, there were two important changes in this patch.
Bloodstones health activation cost was removed, which lead to the Leshrac-Bloodstone terror combo in Singapore.
The nerf has impacted the pic rate and win rate of the item quite a bit.
But alas, when a tyrant is taken down, another rises in the vacuum left by its demise.
The new terror in pubs (perhaps more so than Wraith Pact) is Razor.
With that, we come to the end of the 2022 Dota 2 patches journey.
As mentioned at the beginning, it was not an exciting year for Dota 2 patches.
Hopefully, there will be a lot more to look forward to in the year 2023.
