Talk:VPBE/@comment-3463132-20150114024533/@comment-3308937-20150116040208

Well, there's a reason Dota's balance is always seen as: when everything is broken, nothing is.

DFG was toxic in League because it did something no other item could do, it let you completely change your champions' playstyle. Regardless of if your champion was a tank, a bruiser, a support, or an AoE mage you could spend 3100 gold to make yourself a 100-0 burst assassin on top of the rest of your kit.

The general thing with items in league is that there's a lot of emphasis on stats and enhancing your champion's innate kit with those stats (ability power is a big example of this philosophy). I don't play Dota but it seems to be more focused on items adding extra things to your hero's kit and being able to focus specific playstyles around an item or combination of items.