Henrik Anberg is a Swedish professional Dota 2 player, better known as Admiral Bulldog. Henrik was born in 1990 and entered the professional scene quite late. He was noticed at the age of 22 thanks to his filigree play on Lone Druid, and it was not about a specific card, but about a stable high level performance skill specifically on this character.
Admiral Bulldog: Dota 2
Unfortunately, there is no information whether Bulldog played the first Dota and whether there were any achievements there. However, we can say with confidence that Admiral Bulldog burst into Dota 2 very unexpectedly and brought a unique style of play, unknown to the whole world.
Initially, playing for the NoTidehunters team, Admiral Bulldog played exclusively Lone Druid. By the time he joined the team, Henrik had also learned the game of Nature’s Prophet quite well. These characters became a real thorn in the side of their opponents. While completely different heroes were often banned against other teams, it was the Admiral Bulldog characters who were always banned against NoTH. And those who wanted to take a risk and try to outplay Admiral Bulldog were punished.
Over time, when the heroes of Admiral Bulldog began to get banned in every game, Henrik had to study other characters. These were Clockwerk, Bounty Hunter, Batrider, Broodmother, but all of them were performed rather mediocrely and without the brilliance with which people are accustomed to seeing Bulldog. On at the moment Henrik is one of the best offlaners in the world.
Admiral Bulldog: professional teams
In September 2012, Admiral Bulldog was invited to join the NoTidehunter team, which suddenly burst onto the pro scene with a unique split-pushing playstyle that took the best teams on the planet by surprise. As part of NTH, Admiral Bulldog won many tournaments and the contract was not long in coming: already in 2013, NTH went down in history forever and now the brave five began to bear the proud name of Alliance.
Alliance has become almost last command for the player. Only briefly in 2015, the player moved to Team Tinker, for whom he managed to get into prizes in only one tournament. The lack of results in the new team, as well as a similar problem within the walls of Alliance themselves, forced the managers to return to the previous lineup, in which Admiral Bulldog and company are again the biggest favorites in any tournament.
Admiral Bulldog: media presence
This player gained popularity very quickly. All this is thanks to an absolutely unique style of play, not inherent in any other player. At the moment, Admiral Bulldog Twitch is constantly visited by tens of thousands of users, the same goes for Twitter and Dotabuff.
This is roughly how a person playing only one Lone Druid became a world champion, a millionaire and one of the most beloved dota players in the world.
Content
With this entry, I open a series of articles with an analysis of open statistics of professional players and an analysis of their profile on the DotaBuff service. What heroes do professional players develop in matchmaking and how do professional supports “take a break” from their role?
On himself dotabuff profile of Admiral Bulldog You can follow this link, and below we present its current screenshot at the time of writing - November 18, 2014:
Analysis of Admiral Bulldog's dotabuff
General statistics
AdmiralBulldog doesn’t play often in matchmaking anymore (judging by the streams, only with friends who are not professional players). Not in total tournament games played 846 matches, of which he won 598, lost 234 and statistics were not recorded in 14. The win rate is 70.69% , which is a very high result in Dota 2, from which we can conclude that Bulldog largely takes the game into his own hands and takes responsibility for the victory of his team.
Most played heroes
In the first place we see Lone Druid, which is not at all surprising, because Admiral Bulldog or Henrik Anberg entered the professional Dota scene precisely thanks to persistent and very good play for this character, which Dendi noticed, inviting him to play as a replacement for several matches in Na’Vi. Next comes Nature's Prophet, whom Henrik himself noted as one of the most flexible characters in the game. For some time these two heroes were associated only with AdmiralBuldog, and among the people especially trying or good players in Druid and Furion they were jokingly called "Bulldog".
8 of Bulldog's 10 most frequently picked heroes are hardliners, which corresponds to his role in the professional Dota scene. Some may argue that Lone Druid is not a hardliner, but in the period between the second and third International, when some kind of balance was not introduced to make life easier for hardliners, he was one. The reason for this was that creeps at that time complex line they met much closer to the enemy’s T1, which made life very difficult for anyone who was trying to take anything from this line. So, the hardliners had to “cuckoo” for a long time under their tavern, doing absolutely nothing, but at this time Lone Druid could “entertain” the enemy supports with his summon - a bear, and prevent them from making withdrawals, leading the creeps under his tower, where he could relatively safe to farm. But even then, this hero was quite fragile in the early stages of the game to stand alone against the enemy triple.
So, Admiral Bulldog at one time was the trendsetter of the game on the difficult lane, and many teams tried to counter him, which freed up the hands of the other four players of the NoTidehunter and The Alliance team.
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With the advent of computers, not only high-precision calculations, artificial intelligence and neural networks have come into our lives, helping us in our daily search for any information, but also computer games that bring us peace after a hard day at work. But don’t forget that every game has its own professionals who consider their hobby to be work and devote most of their lives to it. This article is about Admiral Bulldog: a famous player in computer game"Dota-2".
A few words about Dota 2
Modern technologies make it possible to recreate those incredible universes that only the most perverted human consciousness can come up with. Computer graphics are used. With each new version of the software, the level of realism increases significantly. Of course, graphics are not the most important thing, because there are many quest options on the same map. This is what guarantees a successful game, which is Dota 2.
Its concept is not entirely new, because its main idea - the struggle of 5 heroes of light against 5 characters of darkness - it takes from a custom map for the game Warcraft. The essence of the appeal lies in the many options for obtaining victory. The game does not stand still, updates occur every few months, after which new strategies appear and old ones become useless. In addition to many items, it also features as many as 108 characters, who have their own history, abilities and predispositions for certain situations.
Dota 2 was created by the famous studio Valve, which is why it did not need any special PR. The influx of people of different age categories was immediate, but for the most part they were teenagers from 13 to 16 years old. In addition to all of the above, Dota also featured a ranked selection of games, where only professionals competed. Among these professionals is the hero of this article: professional Dota-2 player Admiral Bulldog.
Biography of Admiral Bulldog
Bulldog's real name is Henrik Anberg. Male 26 years old, Swedish citizen. Henrik was famous even before his career in the professional game. There were whole legends about “Admiral Bulldog” on in-game forums, where people talked about his high level in Dota 2. This rumor circulated around the right people, after which Na’Vi team gamer Danil Ishutin, under the nickname Dendi, invited him to join his team. Unfortunately, or maybe fortunately, Henrik left the team that made him famous throughout the world.
Admiral Bulldog did not sit idle for a long time, after which the Alliance team took him on board. Henrik's positive qualities are perhaps the first thing that former and current players of the above teams talk about. Maybe it was his cheerful disposition or his perfect performance on forest heroes that helped the Alliance team win the 2013 Dota 2 championship - The International 2013. This victory very significant, because DOTA today is a recognized cyber discipline throughout the world, including the CIS.
What team is Admiral Bulldog on?
Henrik’s career in the gaming field began from the moment he met Dendi, who invited him to take the place of a hardlaner in his Na’Vi team, as mentioned earlier. After this, Admiral Bulldog felt out of place. Several years passed, and Henrik was invited by the Alliance team, where he finally won the Dota 2 championship.
The travels didn't end there. In 2014, Team Tinker invited the same hardlaner to take over. This union did not bring much success. Of course, minor championships were won, but they failed to win The International.
Since 2015 and to this day, Admiral Bulldog has been a member of the Alliance team, in which he was at the time of his victory in The International 2013. Rumor has it that of all the other teams, this one is the one he likes best. No one knows for sure, except for one thing: the name “Admiral Bulldog” will be associated with a great game and victory in 2013, which will forever go down in the history of Henrik’s life.
Conclusion
To this day, Henrik is a member of his favorite team, in addition, his teamwork can be seen at the Dota 2 championship in 2018, where he will be part of the Alliance. We hope that we have sufficiently covered a part of the life of a professional Dota esports player - Admiral Bulldog, because it is because of such people that the modern gaming industry attracts millions of fans around the world and billions of views on all kinds of video hosting sites.
