A Smooth Criminal said:
Okay here's the thing. I like both games, I play both games, I play League a lot more extensively, HOWEVER I think that League is the inferior game. I don't respect it and I think that it's on the same slide that World of Warcraft got put on because of the developers turning greedy.
Riot, or I guess Tencent, continuously raise prices and release the same old rehashed content day in and day out. The sheep in the community just continue to buy the crap they bring out. It's just tiring.
On top of that, League is finnicky. There are certain periods where the game can be unplayable, like now. At least to me, some people might enjoy the unbalanced nature of it. The new items are a mess, AD casters are WAY too strong, most AP casters are outshined, manaless casters with sustained damage (Akali, Kat etc) dominate while armor is now reduceable by about 80%. Seriously, the game has turned into "whoever has Ezreal and more AD bruisers wins". Champions like Lee Sin, Ezreal and Akali just stomp all games.
This isn't the first time it's happened though, there have been periods in the past where it's been the same, like when Morde was able to 1v5 teams, Gunblade dominated everything with its stackability and Tryndamere was 3 shotting tanks. It's just the inconsistency of the balance of the game that makes me dislike it.
DotA 2 doesn't have these problems. The game is laid out a lot nicer with a much greater learning curve. On top of this, the community is a lot better than that of League, not everyone is a trolling A hole who's just poison to the League community.
Also, when you die in DotA 2, it's generally YOUR fault. You weren't beaten because Karthus' ult shot you down to 5fps, you weren't beaten because the enemy snuck into your bush while the lane was pushed and you weren't killed because the enemy Blitz happened to grab you because there was no creep wave. you were killed because you over extended, got caught out by the enemy or blocked yourself inbetween trees with creeps.
Finally, in DotA 2, skill MATTERS. If you're getting kills, you're contributing a lot to your team. If you're denying creeps, you're stopping their carry from farming. If you're supporting correctly, you're taking your team into end game. In league none of this matters most of the time. If you play League, flash is the solve all key to everything and even if you do die, the enemy team gets barely anything for it, League always just boils down to who has the stronger champions. If you have champions like Lee Sin, Ezreal, Katarina, Shen, Darius and Leona, then you're going to beat the enemy team who has less than 3 tanks.
Sorry if what I'm saying makes little sense... I just pulled an all nighter to kick my sleeping habits back into shape.
FINALLY! SOMEONE ELSE WHO FEELS MY PAIN!
Still Blitz "happened" to grab you? Surely it's your fault you got grabbed because you couldn't juke it no? Keep out of range until the next minion wave? It's what I do.
I'm pretty sure if you had LS, Ez, Kat, Shen, Dunkmaster and Leo you would win. 6v5 would tend to do that XD
And ward the lane bushes. Gawd. People and their lack of wards... It's a crying shame, it really is. I have noticed the trend lately when at some point in the transition from early to mid game Purple Team's bot lane will get 4 man ganked, both die then lose their tower. It happens almost every game and I honestly don't remember it being that common in Season 2...
The absolute chaos in the game now is hilarious. I will say the amount of armour pen is stupid as it stands now, you're right about that. The League of Cleavers is still very much alive, i'm sad to say.
I'm waiting for someone to find out that X item is stupid on Y Champion. Ezreal is OP? Really? Are you supposed to build a Cleaver on him now or am I missing the point? He's good sure, but he still requires
some skill to play well. The amount of times i've missed a kill by fucking up my last Mystic Shot are uncountable. His autoattack range makes up for his other high ranged abilities. He has to be in their faces to autoattack and that's super bad for a carry. Caitlyn is my Try Hard Mode AD carry because of her crazy safe attack range and escapes. Ez is my "just having fun" AD because he's such a troll when you think about it. Getting chased by 3 guys? Better keep pew pewing at them while running away :3 Oh I just jumped a wall on 50HP, you mad bro?
It must say something about the game when Riot introduces a Champion with a stupid skill ceiling, buffs her three times (I think she is getting buffed again next patch as well,) she has literally the highest post 6 burst damage in the entire game statistically and NOBODY plays her. Even the highest level players. Why play Syndra when you can play Win Nao and/or Free Win?
They keep going on about "skill ceilings" on the new people like Nami having to choose who to heal/damage, Elise having 2 modes, Vi having the most finnicky and unreliable Q in the game yet people will always prefer the guy who has 15% armour pen active all game and has the most reliable CC I have ever seen. It's annoying. Completely understandable, but annoying nonetheless.
To be fair, in most solo queue games, it is about skill. People can get outplayed all day and laugh baiting is still the most effective strategy ever created. I guess 5 man premade teams are about skill even moreso. We can literally build a perfect synergy team from scratch but one mistake throws the game.
At least Riot is chilling out on the new Champion releases. The next one hasn't even been teasered yet.
It's a really fun game, I suppose it's a broken game as well at the moment but in my opinion that just makes it more fun. Like how MW2's multiplayer was the best CoD multiplayer ever made. So much broken shit. SO FUN.
