DoTA and League of Legends

[Michailov]

Big dif twebeen LoL 'n Dota is: There's no AP.

Everyone have "The same amoutn of MR" (50% iirc) and there's no way to boost your spells...ie; EVEYRONE IS A AD CARRY!

Havin played dota quite alot before, LoL was a huge step in the right direction of the game. Transferin from LoL to Dota would be to turn in your cellphone for 2cups1wire

However it still have some mechanics that LoL lacks¨~
1: Loosin gold when you die, its a good mechanic to remove the 'RUSHIN IE'. And it's good for a more diverse item buyout as you'll be forced to buy more "earlygame items"
2: Denyin creeps, good ol denyin creeps
3: Denyin champs....WHEN THEYRE SAFE >:]]]]]
4: No flash, LoL lack the no-flash.

 

[weker]

You are no better than HoN fans you claim are trolls.

I am yet to see LoL fanboys telling the HoN forums about sales going on in the game XD,
but they are just as bad really.

 

[Tanakh]

http://forum.lol.garena.com/showthread.php?177-Differences-between-DotA-and-LOL

I still prefer HoN which is similar to DotA over LoL because I think LoL champion moves too slow. By the time you see anything happening, you're unable to move away from the skills. And deny, I can't express my love for denying enemy that which I can't do in LoL.

Deny FTW! It adds sooo much to early games.

 

[Comic Sans]

You are no better than HoN fans you claim are trolls.

I am yet to see LoL fanboys telling the HoN forums about sales going on in the game XD,
but they are just as bad really.

That's only because S2 has safeguards in place to prevent it. Before HoN went F2P you had to have a purchased account to post meaning that someone who wanted to troll would have to play $30. As of now, I believe you have to be verified in order to make threads (I could be wrong, but I am pretty sure you can't just make an account and post). That was pretty obnoxious of those players to do, but it was a very small fraction of the overall population copy/pasting a post in order to get the referral bonuses.

 

[weker]

You are no better than HoN fans you claim are trolls.

I am yet to see LoL fanboys telling the HoN forums about sales going on in the game XD,
but they are just as bad really.

That's only because S2 has safeguards in place to prevent it. Before HoN went F2P you had to have a purchased account to post meaning that someone who wanted to troll would have to play $30. As of now, I believe you have to be verified in order to make threads (I could be wrong, but I am pretty sure you can't just make an account and post). That was pretty obnoxious of those players to do, but it was a very small fraction of the overall population copy/pasting a post in order to get the referral bonuses.

you assume that it was only new player's making these forum posts, and it wasn't, there were plenty of high level players who got banned for doing it.

 

[Aircross]

Guinsoo balances League of Legends and IceFrog balances Dota. That's enough of a difference.

hint: Icefrong is the better game designer.

 

[Hamish Durie]

LoL is still growing while DoTa2 is trying to convert the mass amount of people who played (and liked) DoTa 1

only times will tell really

 

[Atmos Duality]

Guinsoo balances League of Legends and IceFrog balances Dota. That's enough of a difference.

hint: Icefrong is the better game designer.

Easy man! You can kill a guy with that.
I nearly fell out of my chair laughing when I read "Guinsoo balances League of Legends".

Guinsoo (and his crew) sucks at balancing because he doesn't take genuine (read: non-personal, analytical) criticism well, at all. So when he makes sweeping gameplay changes, they tend to be based on the absolute WORST sources of information (those based on popularity).

This has the hilarious effect of older champs/content getting outmoded CONSTANTLY (relative to the metagame) unless said champ is really popular.

(just as an example, Cassiopeia didn't receive any significant changes for MONTHS because she accidentally got left out of the Free Rotation for a very long period of time)

Icefrog takes in information, and actually crunches the numbers. DotA's INITIAL balance is much better than LoL's, but it's also a MUCH harsher game to play, which lends itself towards one side gaining an unstoppable advantage much more often and snowballing to a quick win than in League.