User blog comment:Dracko40/The Angry Illithid: Heroes of Newerth (An Opinion)/@comment-3319556-20110602135627

Yeah, HoN is just a prettied-up stand-alone version of DotA without as much content and some over the limitations of WC3 overcome. I gave it a try before LoL just to get away from the DotA scene. I have to say, I despised it. It was too pretty, hard to tell where the characters end and the terrain begins. Everybody looked too similar to each other. I was disgusted. One game and that was it, uninstalled, deleted, forgotten.

When I tried LoL, I loved it. Clean, simple, fun