Talk:Yorick/@comment-4664737-20140416080343/@comment-15244341-20140525075323

Dota handles pets exactly like an RTS handles units (since, you know, it WAS an RTS): each unit is fully controlable by the user. This means that, unlike Tibbers, you actually have good control of every unit since you can set control groups and cycle through them with a press of a button. It also means that pets can get skills.

Best example would be to look for Lone Druid gameplay on youtube. One of his skills lets him summon a bear, much like Tibbers, which you have full control of since the start of the fame. Or Meepo. Meepo is hard.

The way LoL does pets is sort of underwhelming, though I do understand that they don't want the difficulty curve of the game to be set too high so I don't believe they will change it at all.