Mushi (Malaysia) isn't quite a legend, since he hasn't been around for as long as some of the others, but he's definitely one of the best players in the world (some would say the best) and is quickly becoming legendary. They placed 3rd in TI1), but just recently left for the all star DK lineup. He played for Scythe/MyM/Zenith for a long time (the team changed names, but had the same core for a while. He also won this year's TI3 solo mid championship. He's also played Starcraft at a competitive level (he was the top SEA player for a while) as well as some LoL and HoN.

Many other 'legendary' players looked up to him going into DotA (such as Burning). He's most famous for his Invoker (many consider him or Ferrari_430 to be the best Invoker in the world), though his carry Naga is also one of the best (if not the best). IceIceIce is a Singaporean player who has been around for seemingly forever (since 2005, I think), and is very popular for his stream and his insanely good solo mid play. He gained most of his fame when he outplayed Loda (another legend) at a time when Loda's team (SK Gaming) was pretty much the best in the world. A few years ago he played a famous 1v1 solo mid Shadow Fiend showmatch against YaphetS, the most famous SF player (he lost, but it was a pretty popular matchup). He was most popular during his time on Kingsurf, a dominant Southeast Asian team, and most recently played for Zenith (and before that, Orange). Yamateh is a Malaysian player who was formerly known as one of the best Shadow Fiend players in the world (which was a big deal, he was a hugely popular hero in WC3 DotA, and takes a lot of skill to play) and one of the best carries in the world. Most recently though, he's on Team Liquid and famous for his Clockwerk and Tinker. He played for EG for the last couple of years, though I'm not 100% sure what team he's on now.Д«ulba is another NA DotA player who has been around for a long time competitively, though he played on lower tiered teams for a long time. This video of him on Zeus was really popular a while back, though the quality is shittier than I remembered.Дemon also played on MYM, and was great and fairly popular, but he's not quite legendary outside of NA. Currently he mostly streams, stands in for teams on occasion, casts sometimes, and was on the panel at TI3. He retired a long while back, but came back to Dota 2. He was famous for his Zeus play, as well as Boots of Travel Tinker and 'inventing' jungling (prior to him doing it in competition jungling from level 1 wasn't really seen). Merlini is another US player that was on the Danish MYM, and for a time was considered the best player in the world. He's been on a few teams since then, currrently EG, and some people would call him one of the best players ever (particularly because he can play any role with proficiency). I put the most legendary guys in bold, but included the regional legends and some of up and coming legends and some of the borderline people as well.ДЇear has been around forever, originally famous on a team called Complexity, but he also gained a lot of popularity on MYM, a Danish team that was one of the best European teams around.

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