User blog comment:YurdleTheTurtle/LoL & DotA 2 - AMA and Information Blog/@comment-5686533-20121121104020

In my opinion, this is not something like "LoL is easy, DotA is hard" (I got a LoL account with 60 champions at least and a Dota 2 beta key (and 4 beta keys to send...)), for me "LoL is in the average and DotA has both hard and easy". I mean, for the items cost, LoL's items has "average" cost, DotA's early items has very low cost (53g a branch, 150g a 3-atribute item), but DotA's late items has high cost (3200g just for a Reaver, 2150g the blink dagger).

And about heroes, in DotA, some of them are extremly easy to play (Skeleton King, Viper, Ursa) and other are extremly hard (Invoker, Meepo).