I could really care less about the pro scene tbh. Maybe you are thinking of LoL's graphics when it first came out? I just loaded up LoL and Dota2 on max settings and LoL definitely looks better. The heroes in Dota2 seem so generic, they have zero character. There is also no way to customize your character to your playstyle with runes and masteries.

It is probably just a case of whatever you played first. I didn't like or enjoy mobas til a year ago when my brother got into LoL.

LoL metagame more or less stays the exact same strategy (solo mid, jungler) game after game after game after game for years on end. They let you think there's more customization with the rune pages masteries and skins but really they're just micro transaction money dumps that bring nothing to the game except put a cash barrier cost of entry to the game. You'll never see the same level of creativity put into designing teams for LoL, never see crazy stuff in the metagame like 0 minute tower rushes etc because the game shoehorns you into playing the same "support and carry, solo mid, solo other lane, jungler" team you see every round in LoL.

don't get me wrong it's a good game, it's just obviously catered towards children, mediocre to average-tier players, people who spend money on cell phone games

I haven't spent any money on the game. I guess if you want skins you could throw down money but that is just cosmetic.

not one TMO accnt has been banned but thx for trying to slander us again and again.

rnf be like

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I also enjoy League of Legends.

I played both LoL and Dota 2 for many years.

I found LoL to have the more hardcore competitive scene. Much stiffer meta required team gameplay. LoL is extremely repetitive, extremely stiff meta play, and very very unforgiving on strategy changes, build changes, and lane changes and lane failures. This makes top tier competitive play VERY BORING when everything has to be textbook from the item builds to the teamfighting to the jungles etc.

I quit LoL because it was too meta intensive in regards to 5v5 team fighting, jungles, and ganks. etc Everything is so much more punishing in LoL add the heavy reliance on 5v5 meta teamfighting and its an extremely difficult game to play at the top tier.

Most people I talked to moved to Dota 2 from LoL because LoL was too hard in the sense that it is repetitive, strict, and punishing and required too much reliance on teamwork and 5v5 teamfighting. I could list 100 aspects of LoL that make it more difficult than Dota.

I will probably check out HOTS thanks Gasoline for the feedback as an ex-LoL competitive player.

I had the exact opposite experience with LoL, but I quit maybe a year after it came out. Metagame was very rigid and uncreative, usually the same picks builds and strategies every game with wild drastic balance changes in patches being the only factor to stir things up. Generally the competitive scene was really uncreative, focusing on korea-tier gameplay rather than experimenting with new teams and strategies to get a competitive edge.

Dota on the other hand is a much more flushed out and refined game, and it shows because they've had so long to establish the balance of the game. Patches are often much less drastic and the metagame allows for a wider variety of strategies to be viable.

I've been on Dota 1 teams where we would test new things in scrims and regularly discover strategies that broke the game so hard they required 0 day nerfs like 5 minute rax and such. That never happens in LoL.

League has better hero design but the game itself isn't as good as the OG. Just my 2c.

yea anyone who says league of legends is a harder game than dota is retarded/trolling