I know this is a source of a large chunk of debate, but I've got friends playing both and I'm not sure which one I should jump into. I do "alright" at both but have obvious room for improvement.

Can anyone try to give an unbiased comparison to the two, or link to a source that can? :D

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Dota / Dota 2 because of the challenge, great art style, no runes or masteries, no pay to win heroes, no bans for saying "gg" at the end of a match, no shitty mods, great business model.

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I think laughing is better than DotA 2, but that's just my opinion.

12 years ago
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lol
hey...wait a second xdd

12 years ago
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I see what you did there.

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LoL is pay to win, so take DotA 2.

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How is it pay to win?
Explain this to me, lol.

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You have to play for game content(champions, rune pages, etc.). So it makes it pay to win.

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As you said, you have to play to get those. That doesn't make it pay to win, but play to win.

Yeah, I know you can unlock champions with money but that really shouldn't be an issue. I've been playing for 2-3 years and haven't spent 1 cent.

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I made a little mistake. I mean "pay" of course. If you donΒ΄t pay, than you get the content much later unlocked. If you buy all the heroes with real money at the start you can get runes earlier and so have a advantage over other players.

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Agreed on this. Runes does affect game play.

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That's not entirely correct, because owning every champion in the game doesn't make you a better player. Actually, if you try to learn every champion instead of select few , you're gonna end up sucking with all of them. You don't even need to buy them all until you're really high up there in rating. And bonus rune pages are useless if you don't have any runes to fill them up and you can't buy runes with real money, so in the end, a lot of those champions bought with your real money are useless, because you don't have the runes to use them to their full potential.

Saying money buys power in LoL is actually counting in your own laziness or lack of skill as a disadvantage, because you can easily outplay the guy with all champions using your single known and trusted one.

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erm ... no ?

and from a "casual" point of view, I enjoy LoL a lot more.

OP should just give both games a try and decide for himself.

12 years ago
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go away noob LoLz player:D

12 years ago
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your argument makes perfect sense ... not.

Why did you even bother to "contribute" to this thread?

12 years ago
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cus i love dota?:D

12 years ago
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No one gives a rats ass about whatever everyone else plays.
Just do your own thing and be happy about it.

To the op's question, both are great games with their own styles, both are also free, play both and decide with one suits you better.

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I like LoL, but DotA2 looks pretty good too.

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I enjoyed LoL, but their hero\runes buying model is awful.When i got to lvl 30 i haven't got my runepage maxed even for 1 character and i only had like 12 of characters at all.I realised how much time it will take to unlock all characters\runes that i need to be usefull for team, and dropped it.Tribes is another example of asslong grinding for stuff u need to be competitive.Now i'm playing Dota and having none of those nonsense.

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you know 3 pages with genaral runes would be enough ad-armour (ad cary jungle)
armour mr perlvl with gp 10 quints support
and ap quints ap per lvl blus yelows

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I got 92 Champions in 5 days w/o purchasing RP...it's not hard.

12 years ago
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Try them both out. I prefer LoL over Dota 2 as I think it looks allot better.

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LOL <3

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For me Dota is great, fantastic characters,beautifule graphic and it's harder than LoL.
I play both but lol is more boring 4 me.

12 years ago
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smite

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^

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Too bad Hi-Rez is a terrible company.

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Yet you've never played Tribes: Ascend, so why have an idiotic, and biased retort?

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I made no statement as to the quality of the games they make. I made a comment about the company.

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I have. I've also played Smite.

Allow me: Hi-Rez is a terrible company. So far at least.

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+1. Smite might actually be the only MOBA I can pick up in a couple of days :3

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LoL ftw. After 5 years of DotA and 3 years of LoL with no doubt I chose LoL.

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League of Legends FOR THE WIN, BECAUSE MY HEART BEATS FOR LOL AND NOT FOR VALVES SECOND DOTA... DOTA ISNT GOOD!

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League of Legends FOR THE WIN, BECAUSE MY HEART BEATS FOR LOL AND NOT FOR VALVES SECOND DOTA... DOTA ISNT GOOD!

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GO AWAY!:D

12 years ago
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dota 2

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both are terrible, but i rather play dota then lol

12 years ago
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Dota 2

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LoL if you want to have an easy and effortless time and everyone is dumbed down to an almost equal level because it requires no skill - This coming from an 1800 rating League player . Dota 2 If you want : Better graphics , Higher skill level roofs , More jokes , Amazing taunts , Quite assorted metagame . Killing an inhib in LoL is nothing , killing rax in Dota is like the rock that can cause a landslide .

TLDR; LOL IS EASY AND FUN . DOTA2 IS HARD AND FUN (with better graphics and neat functions)

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Well said, thanks :)

12 years ago
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true

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I agree because I enjoy playing dota 2, but this is so bias.

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For both communities are terrible as shit but Dota2 is better. LoL is bigger waste of time than dota2 and it's too easy.

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You got it wrong. Dota 2 is a bigger waste of time because it takes longer to learn fully.

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Not really, if you have LoL/Hon/Warcraft 3 Action RTS experience then it wouldn't take that long. You already have experiences with the genre. In 2 weeks just playing the game, you will get use to it, and know a huge chunk of the game.

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Not really. Yes, you have the basic concepts of laning, but unless you have played dota you still need to learn hero's/champions'/whatever' skills and builds, also you need to learn what items do.

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Isn't that what you have to do while playing LoL?

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As I said, you get the basic mechanics of the game but you still have to learn the heroes' skillsets, item and skill builds. Those are very different from game to game.

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I'll try DotA2 for sure, but i know already i'm going back to LoL after a short times since it's just the better game (yet) Dont get me wrong, i loved Dota and i still miss some heroes from that game, but there are a lot reasons why LoL is the better game =P

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lol its fun, and the learning curve easy to master in like amonth. ALso champs are really fun.

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lol

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The one you like the most. For me it was lol, now neither. Oh and not having all champions unlocked when you first start actually gave me a goal.

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Your goal is to have fun. Not play 20 matches just so you can unlock a good champion, who will get nerfed next patch.

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I have fun by playing until I can afford a FUN champion. If you don't that's not my problem, I clearly said it gave ME a goal.

12 years ago
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lol have worst player community i ever seen

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Agreed.

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Oh god no. When you are just starting in LoL most players are new too so they have no clue how to play either. When you are just starting in dota 2 you get called a faggot noob retard for not knowing how to play. As someone who played both games I can say dota's community is way worse.

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It is beta mate. In beta majority of people know how to play dota. So What you expect? What happens if you were new set with all level 30s?

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That's just not true.

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Dota :)

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Dota 2 is less craptacular.

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