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

No offence intended - but I'm probably one of the only people that can discuss LoL & Dota2 on a very high level in this thread.

I've reached 2500 ELO in S2  EUW under the name Waterbomberz (Now 1900 as Sockiem - name change). That's higher than most pros. However I'm a DotA/Dota2 competitive player... I've been sponsored by Phantoms/Briton/Millenium/Eclypsia/Madgaming just to name a few over the past 7 years. Yet I'm very far skillwise to many pros... I just really play LoL to chill (because I find it "reflexive" like counter-strike ; just need to be fast ; no need to think). On the other hand Dota2 implies regularly checking enemy inventory (we can't just check it with scoreboard) & thinking a couple steps ahead when it comes to placement/warding/ganking/objectives.

When you said that Dota2 has less "stats" than LoL - you couldn't be more mistaken. We have armor & armor reduction (basically ArPen & Armor) - Magic resistance and magic increase. Damage (it's a stat) - Crit - ATTRIBUTES (Int/Agi/Str) etc. LoL's main differential is CDR. However CDR actually LOWERS the skill required to play the game. Because of CDR it's near impossible to calculate exactly when a spell will come off CD ; I know every CD/Manacost/Range/Damage of spells/items in DotA/Dota2. This allows me to know when to do certain things. LoL is more about "feeling" things.

Things that DotA/Dota2 has that LoL doesn't and makes it far more complex is the damage category. We have pure, indexed, universal, magic, physical, superior magic, mixed, direct hp removal... To give you an idea pure damage deals a fixed amount regardless of magic resistance/armor but doesn't go through magic immunity. However something like universal damage can be reduced by magic resistance but goes through magic immunity.

For every 1 thing you need to know about LoL, you need to know 3 or more about DotA/Dota2. However I won't diss either game on any point. I like LoL for what it is & I like DotA/Dota2 for what they are ; I prefer Dota2 because it TRULY is more competitive than LoL ever will be and the "proof" is that no team can currently scratch the #1 team in the world (Invictus Gaming, that also has a section on LoL). In LoL a top 15 team can upset the #1 team of the moment. In fact one of the top teams in LoL is WE (World Elite) which was regarded as a tier2 team at most in DotA (so much that the full roster transferred to LoL instead of Dota2). A little clip of the mighty MISAYA (a.k.a the best twisted fate in the world) on DotA youtube.com/watch?v=-S3l-ILQin0

Sorry for the long post but it's