User blog comment:Krufix/LoL and HoN, The truth./@comment-176.227.154.70-20120511064810

Mostly, the biggest appeal of LoL, which HoN and DotA2 lacks, is that the champions are fully characters, not class-like characters. Yeah, they have a background, but you can't be that creative on that when they don't even have a name, nor you can give them a personalized design/skins/whatever.

To be honest, I did not enjoyed MOBA games until LoL just for that. And yeah, I know it's not even gameplay-related, but really, LoL designs made it for me.