Dota 2 Accounts, Skins and Chests

Less the MMR than you would think. Most accounts on this shelf sit in the low and middle brackets, where a few hundred points of rating change the medal on the profile but not what the account is worth: a Guardian and a Crusader cost about the same. The rating starts to price itself only from Archon upwards, and the top brackets — Ancient, Divine, Immortal — are rare enough here that each listing is priced on its own.

The inventory moves the price more than the rating does. Arcanas, immortals and personas are Steam items that leave with the account, and an account with a few of them is worth more than a higher-rated account with none — which is exactly why «account with arcana» is its own search. The card states the inventory value; the screenshots show what makes it up.

A played history is the third axis. Thousands of matches, a normal win rate and years on the profile are what separates a real account from a fresh one that was calibrated last week — and a real account is what survives Valve's smurf checks. CS2 Prime on the same Steam account is a bonus buyers pay for, because it is a second game's worth of standing on one login.

The behavior score is not a price axis so much as a gate: an account in the low thousands is matched with the players nobody wants, and no rating makes up for that. Accounts near the ceiling command a premium precisely because there is no fast way to earn one.

Decide first what you are buying it for, because the honest answer changes the shelf. If you want a second account to play at your own level with a clean slate, the low brackets are the right place and the cheapest; buying far above your skill is not a shortcut in Dota — see the risks below.

Then the behavior score, before the rating. It decides who you are matched with in every game the account will ever play, it takes hundreds of matches to move, and a low one is the one thing on the card that no amount of playing well fixes quickly. Filter for it first.

Third, the medal or the MMR bracket you actually want — the table above maps one onto the other. Fourth, the inventory, if items are part of why you are buying; the card names its value and the screenshots show the pieces.

Then the Steam side of the account, because that is what you are really taking over: the store region, a limited or a full account, any trade or market restriction, and whether the mailbox is included. Full access is what turns the login into yours — every card states it.

The Steam Subscriber Agreement forbids selling an account, and Valve does not make exceptions. As on the rest of Steam, the practical risk is a recovery claim — support restores an account to whoever proves they created it, with the original email and the earliest purchase receipts — rather than a hunt for transferred logins. Full access with the mailbox is what closes that route.

Dota adds a risk the other games here do not have: Valve actively bans smurfing. Since 2023 an account that plays far above the level its history suggests gets flagged, and a purchased high-MMR account piloted by a much weaker player looks like the opposite pattern — an account whose games suddenly do not match its rating. Either can end in a ban, and no warranty covers it.

Two smaller things to know. A low-priority queue or a matchmaking ban on the previous owner's record follows the account, and the card shows both. And Dota cosmetics are Steam items: replacing the mobile authenticator puts a fifteen-day hold on trading them, which is Valve protecting the account rather than a defect.

Change the Steam password, then move the email to your own, then add your own Steam Guard authenticator — in that order. Deauthorise every other device and check the login history for machines you do not recognise.

Then open Dota and compare the profile with the card: the medal and solo MMR, the behavior score, the match count, the inventory and any low-priority or matchmaking restriction. Do it while the confirmation window is open — that is the window in which the seller's money is still frozen.

Listing is free and the commission applies on the sale. What sells a Dota 2 account is the four numbers stated plainly — solo MMR with its medal, behavior score, matches played and the inventory value — plus the Steam facts underneath: the year it was registered, the store region and whether the mailbox is included. Arcanas and immortals are worth naming one by one; buyers search for them by name.