The great DotA conversion thread

Lets list out what we think are good candidates for DotA heroes.

I'll start with some and populate this list with your suggestions.

Centaur - Ultralisk
Sniper - Ghost
Juggernaut - Dark Templar
Axe - Zealot
Drow Ranger - Kerrigan (ghost form)
N'aix - Roach (melee style.. It's probably in the game)
Venomancer - obvious here Hydralisk
Mortred - female dark templar?
Tiny - Thor
Kerrigan - Queen of Pain
Anub'arak - Roach
Gabriel Tosh - Witch Doctor
Rikimaru - Dark Templar
Anub'seran - Vulture
Lich - High Templar
Techies - 2 little bugs from vulcan planet
Sven (or Balanar) - Tychus
Omniknight - Matt Horner
Tinker - SCV
Enigma (or Bane Elemental) - Archon
Magnus - Ultralisk

Urgh.. I pity IceFrog, it's a lot of work. I imagine he will do a conversion as devs will be able to sell their maps.

My favourite, Lion; perhaps a Terran firebat or marauder. Not even sure if that would fit, though.

Thing is, we don't really know what SC2's Galaxy Editor will have in terms of models. WC3 was quite comprehensive and had lots of variety due to creeps and whatnot. I wonder if SC2 will have a similar quantity.

Marauder would be a perfect fit for lion, since it's a ganker anyway.

Has IceFrog mentioned anything about doing a SC2 DotA ever?

I don't think so, but I'm sure many people will simply ask him for permission to port it over.

Why not completely new heroes?

I don't imagine IceFrog to be the person to continue DotA in Starcraft 2. A new map maker with his or her original twist on the idea will head that map genre.

The new editor is way too good to waste it on just continue something and not start something new. DotA has too long of a tail to change and take advantage of the new editor capabilities. People will complain too much.

I guess there'll be a lot more units than we've ever heard of from the starcraft world. I also really hope there will be a bunch from the WC worlds. I could easily imagine one of the first good maps being something like Starcraft versus Warcraft

I've always wanted to try DotA, but every time I do I just get thourghly confused within the first five mins of the game and give up. :/

Sc2 DotA, otherwise known as Aion of Strife, will best be done by creating new heroes, not copying from WC3.