User blog comment:Krufix/Dota2 - Is it REALLY so much harder than LoL?/@comment-89.2.38.26-20130121231510/@comment-216.36.26.248-20130122084035

Aside from the competitive aspects, I agree wholeheartedly with this post.

My disagreement with the competitive part stems from the fact that DotA does not have the sheet volume of players that LoL does. By proxy, it does not have as many top tier teams as LoL does. The end result being that the ones who actually make it to the finals are much closer in relative ability. Comparing the communities is apples and oranges, really.

I'd also like to add that DotA punishes you much, much harder for poorly timed aggression and being out of place. Very long duration crowd control and health bars that are smaller relative to incoming damage have that effect.

And I think the OP gave too much credit to LoL's stat diversity while ignoring most of the stats in DotA. In LoL, your builds are mostly cut and dry depending on character and role.