Dota 2 Ping Test
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About Dota 2 ping
Measure your Dota 2 ping to every matchmaking region from the browser. Dota 2 connects through Valve's Steam Datagram Relay, and the region you queue in sets your latency floor for last-hits, blinks, and reaction-window spells. This tool probes a server near each Dota 2 region and ranks them by round-trip time.
Dota 2 ping guide: excellent under 50 ms · good under 90 ms · playable under 120 ms · rough past 200 ms.
Dota 2 server regions
| Region | Nearest Valve PoP | Probe endpoint | Valve PoPs |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇪🇺 Europe West | Luxembourg | eu-central-1 | 12 |
| 🇪🇺 Europe East | Vienna | eu-central-1 | 4 |
| 🇷🇺 Russia | Stockholm | eu-north-1 | 2 |
| 🇺🇸 US East | Sterling VA | us-east-1 | 14 |
| 🇺🇸 US West | Los Angeles | us-west-1 | 8 |
| 🌏 SE Asia | Singapore | ap-southeast-1 | 6 |
| 🇦🇺 Australia | Sydney | ap-southeast-2 | 2 |
| 🇯🇵 Japan | Tokyo | ap-northeast-1 | 6 |
| 🇮🇳 India | Mumbai | ap-south-1 | 4 |
| 🇦🇪 Dubai | Dubai | me-central-1 | 2 |
| 🇿🇦 South Africa | Johannesburg | af-south-1 | 2 |
| 🇧🇷 Brazil | São Paulo | sa-east-1 | 2 |
| 🇵🇪 Peru | Lima | sa-east-1 | 1 |
| 🇨🇱 Chile | Santiago | sa-east-1 | 1 |
| 🇦🇷 Argentina | Buenos Aires | sa-east-1 | 1 |
| 🇨🇳 China | Shanghai | ap-east-2 | 6 |
How this maps to in-game Dota 2 ping
Dota 2 connects through Valve's Steam Datagram Relay, one matchmaking region at a time. This test probes the nearest point of presence for each Dota region over HTTPS and ranks by measured latency. In-client Dota ping (on the scoreboard) sits slightly below browser RTT because it uses UDP — trust the ordering of regions to decide which ones to enable in your matchmaking search.
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How this maps to in-game ping
Real game traffic is UDP; browsers can't open raw sockets. We probe AWS S3 regional endpoints (anycast-free HTTPS) and map each Valve SDR PoP to its nearest AWS region by great-circle distance. Expect ~5–15 ms TCP+TLS overhead vs in-game UDP, but the relative ordering of regions tracks closely.
Confidence: medium-high
Strong for relative ranking and choosing a region. Absolute numbers carry HTTPS overhead. Coverage is sparse in some places (mainland CN, parts of RU/ME) — those regions show — rather than a misleading number.