Talk:VPBE/@comment-3463132-20150114024533/@comment-1920550-20150116212025

I disagree completely with what you've said. To note i'm not saying either one of the games is superior to the other...both have massive...almost glaring design flaws. However...i don't agree that stat-based items represent meaningful choices...like i said before it only means you either deal more damage or tank damage better. From what i saw and played LoL bases it's item pool on stats to increase the base power of a champion's kit, while Dota 2 adds additional effects with stats acting as cake-icing (which i agree to an extent). You mentioned "magic resist tanks, poaching junglers, health-shredder carries" as examples of League niches...Galio is about the closest to an MR tank in the game...and he's almost completely un-played...Poacher's Knife was build for jungle poaching...no one uses it because of how poorly desinged it was...health-shredder carries, you've got Vayne, who due to so much whining will like get a nerf somewhere this season and Kog'Maw who got nerfed into near-oblivion...no one builds Zeke's and DFG...well we know what's gonna happen to that...on the other hand...you've had, EVERY. SINGLE. CHAMPION. since Vel'Koz with 2 single forms of CC...slows and knock-ups/backs....that's 7 different champions....and when was the last time there was a champion with a fear...a taunt...a silence...a supress...a polymorph? And those champions got so many nerfs that most of them (not all) are almost impossible to play atm. Lee Sin is still the Jungle King even after nerfs and pre-season changes. The preseason patches up to 5.1 lessend that somewhat (multiple jungle buffs, jungle item build choices, buffs to un-loved junglers)...but it's like one step forward League isn't good at cimenting niche items and champions...that's why Kallista is having a hard time and is considered UP despite being perhaps one of the best teamfight based ADC's...that's why they removed items like Sword of the Divine, one of the best niche items in the game, instead of reworking it....