> IIRC, amongst banned heroes were key splitpush heroes such as Nature's Prophet and Tinker, which are a known counter to the early-game advantage, mid-game pus

> IIRC, amongst banned heroes were key splitpush heroes such as Nature's Prophet and Tinker, which are a known counter to the early-game advantage, mid-game push strategy that the OpenAI 5 executed. Tinker is an example of a hero that took (and still takes) a lot of gold to useful. If you're drafting tinker to stop early game push strats you're going to have a bad time. If anything Tinker is actually an example of an hero that the AI would probably excel at, the same goes for any micro dependent hero. In general including heroes that excel with great mechanics is a poor way to evaluate how well the AI actually plays the game. No one doubts an AI can send inputs faster than humans.