User blog comment:Nabukad/A question: Why so sexually attractive females?/@comment-14482976-20131006173607/@comment-5331854-20131007123549

In the end, never forget: Tropes are Tools, neither bad nor good. I actually don't mind hypersexualized female characters when it's done well. When it fits to her personality. That's mostly the reason why people are more prone to bash MF than Ahri or Evelynn, since the other two have good reasons to be that sexy.

What I see is that the workers at Riot, for the most part, have understood that Tropes are just tools. They managed it that their non-sexualized female characters actually have a more impact than those in DotA 2 in my opinion with just their rooster. I don't know much about the DotA 2-lore (which actually helps with my comparison), but the rooster suggests a dark and deadly world. Not quite sinister and apocalyptic, but it's not that far away, either, so it makes sense to not have many oversexualize females. LoL, on the other hand, has many heroic figures as playable characters, so a heroic, light-hearted world will be expected by the players who are not yet familiar with the lore. A setting where you would expect many sexy characters... and yet there are few hypersexualized characters. That's baffling for those who did expect otherwise.

I would disagree with your last line, though, since you can't stop a trope anyway. But as I said, they learned to utilize it well by making the sexy females few, but meaningful. Unless it's MF. Sorry, Sarah.