> At least one previously undiscovered game mechanic, which allows players to recharge a certain weapon quickly by staying out of range of the enemy, has been discovered by the bots and passed on to humans
I assume they're talking about blink dagger, and something more advanced than "don't take damage"?
it was discovered that if you stay out of vision and cast raze, the other player does not get stick charges. that was the 1v1 shadow fiend bot a year ago though.
"Sumail pointed out that the bot had learned to cast razes out of the enemy’s vision. This was due to a mechanic we hadn’t known about: abilities cast outside of the enemy’s vision prevent the enemy from gaining a wand charge."
That's not an undiscovered mechanic in the world of Dota - that's been known for a while and at least documented since 2015 https://dota2.gamepedia.com/index.php?title=Magic_Stick&oldi....
I wouldn't be surprised if it was known before then, I certainly remember this from a while back.
Again, if that's not what it was, then I take back what I said, but if it was, I do think that statement is misleading as written.