If you want to know if you should play a MOBA/ARTS: for Dota 2: watch this video (featuring MS Paint)
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and watch the Roshan guide, no way you'll be able to kill him again without feeling guilty :D
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Let me clarify his comment to avoid more people calling him stupid.
The creator of LoL invented the term MOBA in an attempt to distance himself from DotA. Due to the fact that LoL popularized the genre, this term took hold, and many hardcore DotA players loathe the term as much as they loathe LoL. I could be wrong here, but I believe the term that DotA players prefer is ARTS (Action Real Time Strategy.)
It's like referring to a hero as a champion, or vice versa. Or to use a non LoL reference, it's like calling a digimon a pokemon.
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I left that part out, but that's actually one of the reasons hardcore DotA players hate the term MOBA. Many feel that Guinsoo betrayed and plagiarized DotA simply to make a buck for himself (Disclaimer: I am not agreeing nor am I disagreeing with this) and they dislike him and anything related with him enough to dislike the term MOBA and use their term. While Guinsoo created the game, he left and then used the MOBA word to refer to LoL and how it was different from DotA. DotA, meanwhile, had been calling itself an ARTS for quite a long time before this, but due to the widespread popularity of LoL, MOBA caught on instead of ARTS. (See: Mobafire.com)
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Don't think that's entirely true. ARTS was used by Gaben to describe Dota 2, but prior to that (actually prior to even the term MOBA), people used the term DotA-style, DotA-esque, DotA-like etc. as at the time when people thought about the genre that DotA was, all they could picture was DotA - a combination of a number of different genres.
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Wrong, Icefrog did.. when Guinsoo left it was still partly broken, crude, contained alot of useless stuff (remember the sword lying around on the map) and would have never risen to the point it stood in its prime.
Also why I dislike LoL is Pendragon if you know the story.
Guinsoo took it over from Eul, Icefrog took over from Guinsoo and so on...
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I don't. Feel free to tell it. It may be beneficial to the discussion as a whole.
I, for one, haven't played any of the MOBA/ARTS games for quite a while though. I only entered the thread because I couldn't believe people are still going on with this holy war thing.
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A lot of people still hate him for that today. Even today he is acting liek a douche in LoL, maybe you saw some discussions on the riot forum about him.
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Dota 2, language should be restricted to English only.. No russian chat please :( :P
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There are language options when you find a match... I wish they would add Spanish and Portuguese though.
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Did you really needed to start this?Its almost the same as start world war 2 all over again!
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This!
LoL=easy to learn, hard to master.
Dota2=Put your time and effort in it and you will have loads of fun.
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Also
DOTA is based around unique heroes with very different abilities, strengths and weaknesses. It’s about situations. Every hero has a weaknes and often every hero does have a “counterpick” (another hero) who can exploit that weakness and wreak them.
That's why you need to know what to pick and put up a strategy with your teammates or friends. (Don't bother with this in public games, rare it happens when you get 4 other randoms talking about what to pick and what you guys wanna have as a strategy)
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let's also make a thread called "which will be better Xbox ONE or PS4". but after this is done...
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If you have time to waste and you want to learn how to play the more serious MOBA http://www.purgegamers.com/welcome-to-dota-you-suck
And my two cents into this. I have played more than 1200+ games of LoL and now I have played about 750+ games of Dota2 and I can say that both games have there pluses and minuses but Dota is more complex and complete game. It's harder but at the same time it gives you more choices of how to tackle your enemies team composition etc. I just dont want to talk too much.
P.S. And dota is made by Valve! Valve>Riot
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Just saying that it's kinda funny that you think the game in beta is more complete.
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When in doubt, buy what the shop suggests for you: starting, early game, core: then go on to situational. Even better, try the ingame guide system, which will help you with skillbuild, itembuild, and small descriptions on general ideas what you can do with the selected hero. Just look for the book icon in the top left corner of the screen.
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Really needed individual comments for each of these eh? English isn't everyone's first language, no need to be an ass about it.
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Another fucking flame war eh? For me I stand with no game here. I enjoy both games and play them from time to time.
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I've been wondering why Dota 2's hero movement feels sloppy and unresponsive compared to LoL. This has to do with the turn rates of characters. It's not instantly like in LoL. Moving in a little circle instead of turning around immediately makes you turn faster.
Also Dota 2 feels a lot more slowpaced. Mana costs of every hero I've played with so far (16~) are very high. A QWE combo at lvl 3 drains your whole mana bar for example. Mana regen without any items is awfully slow, you don't have any customization as far as I know like masteries or runes.
LoL has a better UI ingame and Dota 2 has a better main menu. It's like league of legends took out all the irritating stuff like the movement system from Dota and Dota 2 stayed true to its core. I must say Dota 2 has some fun mechanics like the secret shop and a day and night cycle though.
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The turn speed of characters is due to the fact that some characters have skills depending on where they are facing. Mana cost will depend on the hero. I much prefer Dota 2's UI to LoL's, I find the LoL small and difficult to read. Its mostly personal opinion.
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What game is better,and why?
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