User blog comment:Numerion/Why LoL and not other games/@comment-207.34.120.71-20110810205940

You know I share you sentiment, but I think I came into dota rather late, played it for 2 years then my friends started playing LoL and so I start too.

At first I got to say, even today, I feel that dota had more variety when it came to champion skills, yes there was a lot simple skills like zeus' ulti that just did nuke dmg. But I was more reminiscent of things like chen's and ench's ability to enslave jungle minions, AA's ulti, PA's pseudo invisibility skill, mana burn skills, storm spirit ulti, goblin techies!, sand king's impale, furion's skills, tauren chieftan's ulti, potm's ulti, OD's orb attack, I can probably go on for another 10 lines. There were things like terrain that came into play far more, especially with destructible forest, where you could eat your way through a wall of trees if you had enough tangoes. There was dust of appearance for invisible champions, there were item couries that added a whole another dimension on how you could screw over enemy team.

Don't get me wrong lol is fun, much better graphcis, much better fan service, but we get new champions every month, but the mechanics feel so stale. It's like they take skills from different existing champions and put them in a new combination on a new champion. I also feel that inability to drop/carry items for your teammates or use healing potion on a teammate is a minus. ( I understand the reasons behind why LoL items are handled the way they are, but I feel it's making sure you have a fail safe at the cost of taking away flexibility and important part of team play). I also feel that mechanics in LoL are a lot simpler than in dota, but at the same time it lets you focus on mechanics of skill usage rather than worrying about your items.

Sweet things in LoL are of course new maps coming out, dota could never get that, and also the leaver buster system.

I don't have favorite champs either, I've played a number of them over almost a year now, and I've liked some, hated others and haven't tried a few too. But the most discouraging thing is when you play to win, is getting a complete thrashing by enemy team in ranked game, because your carry is playing his champion for the 3rd time only or something similar. Meh, there's other frustrations, which I won't bother going into.

But it all comes down to, I play LoL because my friends play it, if they stop (or I get new friends XD), I will stop too.