Legion Commander

Tresdin the Legion Commander is a melee Strength hero fitting the role of carry. A highly mobile and predatory hero, her skillset and gameplay revolves mainly around successfully killing off targets with her ultimate, Duel. Accomplishing this grants Tresdin permanent bonus damage. Though she is extremely skilled in "fair" one-on-one fights, Tresdin suffers when outnumbered and must choose her engagements carefully. A successful midgame sees her roaming the map collecting kills and becoming a very dangerous carry, whilst in lategame she ideally will no longer rely on Duel to win her fights and simply destroy any enemies that come too close to her. Though potentially an extremely powerful hero, she must be played with premeditation and good decision-making to reach her full potential.

Tips

 * When using, be sure to cast it on an enemy Hero who is relatively weaker than you, or has a fairly low amount of health remaining in order to ensure that the bonus attack damage will be given to you.
 * Legion Commander works well with gankers, especially, who is able to detect low-health Heroes in the map.
 * If teamed up with try to keep close with him.  can make enemy heroes come to you, when enemies know full well not to get caught in your ultimate. Let him do his combos first to soften up the caught foe, before casting  to ensure a kill. You'll both benefit this way,  gets his bonus  strength and you get the bonus attack damage.
 * Even if an ally dealt the killing blow on the Hero that you are dueling, the attack damage is still applied to Legion Commander.
 * Always go with your team. Although Legion Commander is a carry, she is better off with her team, ganking and getting kills through rather than farming too much.
 * Always try to get into fights, just be mindful and select the fights you know you can win. During early to mid-game, try targeting the softer casters or supports e.g. heroes like and . This way if you were to lose a  and they gain the bonus attack damage, it won't affect your team in the late-game as these heroes rely more on their spells than their attacks.
 * Any items that can give Legion Commander both health and attack speed is a good pick for her, as she needs the health to be tanky in a, and the attack speed to finish off the enemy before expires. Her attack damage increases through kills from , so items that only give attack damage aren't best bought first.
 * Armor reducing items are particularly good on Legion Commander once you have won a few s because she gets attack speed from and attack damage from winning s.
 * Before casting on someone, try casting  first to give you needed bonus attack speed.
 * Due to the double edged nature of, attempting to use it liberally on targets in teamfights can sometimes give bad results for you and your team, and initiating with it is not always the best choice as duels should ideally not last long in order to avoid being stunned and denied of your success. For this reason, she is best treated as a simple hard ganker in the early portions of the game until she has obtained enough duel victories to reach her carry status, and works best in co-ordinated teams that can effectively soften up the target you wish to engage, and most importantly keep them in place for a good while to prevent from getting out of range.
 * Items like ,, or even help you defeat your  targets, and ensure that your damage will be boosted. However, other items like, ,  and  will help you fight better inside your ultimate for a lower price and set up good positioning, whether dueling or not. Farm these items first as they will help you scale better into late game, when more expensive items can be purchased.

Trivia

 * The transition of content from DotA to Dota 2 involved a change in gender for Legion Commander, despite the character and ability names remaining unchanged. She still makes references to her old characterization in a collection of lines when engaging certain heroes:
 * When engaging heroes with mounts, she will often express her jealousy or interest for them ( legcom ally 10.mp3 "I like your mount."). Her hero model in DotA rode a mount.
 * She also comments on facial hair when dueling or killing certain heroes ( legcom ally 11.mp3 "Nice mustache."). Her DotA hero model had a mustache.
 * In DotA, her counterpart often expressed his distrust for anything which was not human. This is heavily expanded in Dota 2, where Legion Commander will instead express her distrust for numerous roles or states of being, instead of a single racial entity, in a bulk of her rival hero taunts.
 * Tresdin's response, legcom rare 02.mp3 "War. War always changes." is a reference to the signature  quote, "War. War never changes."
 * Her response, legcom rare 03.mp3 "You won't win the war by dying for your Ancient. You'll win by making the other dumb, unfed bastard die for theirs!" is a reference to the popular George S. Patton quote: "The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his."
 * The horn sound effect when deploying Press the Attack.mp3 utilizes the same tf2 concheror.mp3 sound the Concheror item uses in Team Fortress 2, another title from Valve.
 * Her voice actress, , is also well known for providing the voice of Alyx Vance, a character in the game Half Life 2, another title by Valve.
 * When dueling, There is a chance of Legion Commander yelling Thunderdome! legcom_duelhero_16.mp3 which a reference to the Thunderdome of Mad Max Beyond Thunderome!