User blog comment:JBox2D/Templar Assassin: Attempted DOTA Crossover/@comment-5234801-20140219014605/@comment-5234801-20140219023554

Yeah, you just said "she starts out as melee" and said you recently picked the game up, so I thought maybe there might be some confusion, so I got a bit overeager. I agree, DotA is a slower game, but I think you'd also agree that it's played differently: proper drafting is crucial (something at which I suck, which is why I prefer single draft and all random) and I feel there's a lot more emphasis on long term strategy than League which is more arcade-y and, despite popular opinion, is actually a lot more prone to snowballing due to the fact that items are both gold AND slot efficient for the most part. As a side-note, I think Diana might actually work in DotA if some of her kit scales with an attribute (like Skywrath's first spell scales with Intelligence), maybe Agility. I think she'd be a great Manta-Linken-Skadi-Butterfly carry this way (if not utterly broken).