The graphics are much better and more detailed. The interface and game mechanics are more fluid. The overall product of Dota 2 appears more polished (to me) than LofL.
I'll admit though, waiting ~10-15 minutes to get a match going sucks in comparison of the <1 minute in LofL.
The Peruvians suck too.
to me the league mechanics seem more fluid in reality, the games just better optimized, if i play on a laptop, my dota struggles to run properly when league runs on max settings and it shows over a 100 fps in-game.
the biggest thing is that league has a team builder, which means that if you only play mid, thers a 90% chance that you will get your mid each time you queue. supporting in league doesnt even suck, either.
Which really solves a lot of problems, if everyone gets the role that they want (and league put in effort so not only the carry and the mid roles are fun to play), very few players will want to ruin the game, and this leads to massively increased game quality.
i mean i guess its personal preference but in reality i cant even handle dota anymore after playing league for a month because of how super toxic it is and how you cant do anything about it when some guy jsut decides to ruin your game coz he wants to. and he can just go nexct game, and ruin it too without consequence, whereas in league he would get permabanned.
i dont even care that league is 'for casuals' and dota is 'high skill players with muh skillcap', im a fucking casual and if i cant play a proper damn game of dota after years of learning and grinding to reach 4k i am just gonna move to league where i can get a proper game without even needing to care about it.
i dont mean to fangay about league on a dota forum, sry, got vcarried away :D dota is still in my heart, and ill follow and watch every pro dota tournament!
the reason I play dota and not lol is because dota was there first
dota 2 is closer to dota(basically a graphical update of the wc3 maps) than lol will ever be
smooth transition
I don't play dota because of the comunity, I don't play because of boobs on a character and I don't play because I like the ingame sounds
I simply play it because it is closer to the game that I liked playing before there was a 1 Million price pool to win a competition in it that gathered all the morons you are currently complaining about
also if you want to complain about the game, could you do that in game to some other noob lol players and pet each other on the head to how good you are for playing lol
and please, don't come back to dota, you are obviously not fit for the game
this was the least insulting thing I could have wrote you, I feel almost sorry for not insulting you even a bit tbh
now go away and don't come back
LOL is just for fucking kids and also for people that dont have improvement in dota . Lol sucks
dota was not exist for me when i started
and just look how LOL looks, it is just ugly and casual
you wont believe me, but i used to think that too 2 months ago
anyway, ill go and do that, i respect myself too much to waste time on a 50-50% chance of having a ruined game just because dota devs do not care to make the game playable for the casual pub player.
there is no question that the proffesional dota is lightyears above professional league , though.
p.s. i didnt play dota1.
yeah LOL is ugly when you look at pictures, but its super smooth to play and all roles are fun.
where is the thrill and action fighting with wooden swords when you can have the ones of steel
LoL doesn't feel right. It pretty much enforces the players to follow one laning formula for every single game. I don't play it, so I don't know if it's still true, but even if it isn't, LoL players could confirm that it's done that for years.
I don't like the mechanics either. Not being able to deny isn't fun. 98% of items only giving stats or passive effects isn't fun either.
Honestly though, the biggest reason is that I don't feel like learning what another 100+ different characters' skills and abilities are from scratch.
I have a friend who plays lol and yes without a doubt the game is more fun for casual and oriented to suit mass majority and more fast paced. But for me personally I've been playing dota 1 ever since it was introduce to me back in my highschool days. Currently im 22 years old and I dont feel like changing to other game cause i dont get much free time anymore and learning something new is a waste of time if your trying to balance studies, girlfriend, family, life in general. It feels like dota has always been there for me to play and improve and i love the strategic oriented efficiency that exist in dota game mechanics. Support is yep "ward bitch slave" in lower level but the thought of improving and getting in higher level by just having impact as a simple support leave you with a great feeling of satisfaction itself. Dota toxic community teaches me that you should just focus on your role in life and forget the flamers and win the life journey
learn how to do proper support guys,it's seriously not "ward bitch slave" and real fun when you do it correct at the first 10 mins of game
you can make yourself immortal too with proper positioning since you don't really want to be at the middle of the fights
edit: like an old saying,you can't love what you don't understand much
about dota and league,suits yourselves,preference i guess it's just for to have fun anyway
i think that team builder thing is nice to add on the dota tho
cauz lol is unskilled and casual. last patches of dota feel like they want that way cauz they want to gather more people. i hope they wont destroy dota as well for the sake of money and overpopulation
last patches of dota is pretty good imo,don't really see it's destroying
for me it always feel good to add see something new
LoL censors profanity in chat, it has absolutely no come-back mechanics, and the only way for players to communicate is to type in chat (no mic system, no chat wheel, very primitive alt-click indicators). basically things we take for granted in dotes
in league, barracks respawn. checkmate mister no comeback mechanics. (actually probably the main reason why i ended up playing league, it being uniquely different from dota, enough to make it a new experience but still fun).
also chat filter is disablable. but yeah, there are truts in that.
i mean my point is clear, the reasons why i see league as better for the average gamer is because it emphasises on pubs, basically in my 1 month of playing league ive pretty much never had a straight up unpleasant and ruined game all of us so frequently get in below 5k mmr.
dota is literally a game for the top 3% of the playerbase.
its not that im unwilling to learn, its more that i played league and became spoiled, i turn on dota, i get 4 assholes in my game who all pick cores junglers afk farm despite what the team needs, i say fuck off and bye, instead of sucking it deep, and go play a game where my time doesnt get wasted by some asshole teammates who dont even care to pick like civil players.
I mean sure, you say "you can just support", but maybe i dont always want to play position 6 sacrifical ultrahard support all the time.
once again , idont mean to flame on dota or say that league is all that better game and tell you to play it.
a lot of spell animations are better than the dota ones, its not all black and white, but thats at least a valid reason :)
im just bored of consistently having 30% of my games ruined by anti-game "players". also bored of playing alone, and i never said that i quit dota lul.
I know dota is more toxic than ever it was nowadays but u can't do anything about it man just try ur best to get out of 3k
i mean its a waste of time, im hovering around the 3.8k-4k mark, and im well aware that the toxicity and ruined games arent going to end when my 3.8k mmr becomes 4.1k mmr. its gotten to the point that when i started playing league, i didnt even imagine that i'd literally get 0, straight up 0 ruined games. I expected at least 10%, realistically also 30%.
anyway i feel like with each comment im advocating for leauge, which i shouldnt be doing, i mean it really is a game for casuals, too bad im a casual tho.
its not that im unable to win, its just that there is this unnecessary barrier that toxicity of the random pick phase in dota gives you. after learning better i just dont understand how have i ever put up with this :D
Ok, end of thread summary.
Players prefer DotA2 over LoL because:
> Better Graphics
> Old Habits of playing DotA for years / Dislike of Gameplay
> Them being the top 1% of the player base and they outclass LoL in terms of skill too much
/thread (mods are free to close this thread unless a new realistic reason pops up)
Objectively speaking after countless of discussion with my friends, LoL is more about landing your spells properly and dota is more slow paced, and strategic oriented
Pretty sure every single non retarded LoL player I know have said dota is more complex in terms of decision making and strategies, it all comes down to preference, really
Both suits different taste and only morons bother thinking which game is superior unironically
For the most part, OP is right about Dota. Lol seems like a much more inviting place for casuals. Maybe Dota should adopt the forced role system.
@ProWeeabo that is kinda right, and while hitting our spells is a big part of your teamfight, that simply counts as a gameplay skill and mechanic, league isnt about landing skills, in the end its only a bit less strategic than dota (the difference in the small "skill cap" things is rather big, though), to the point that the best league players would rival the skill of 7k+ pubstars in dota if given time to adapt and learn the game properly simply because their strategic sense will be exactly that, of a highest tier pubstomper.
the same the other way around, if a 4-5k goes to league, after learning the game he will become a relatively high tier (top 10-5%) player in no time.
smаshing the keyboard for flаming must be more fun than just shоuting at them with voice chat... 
if they heard someone shouting at them they definitely would hsut up (or just cry to papa rito because their feelings are hurt and need to be comforted) unlike the keyboard smаshfеst where noone would s.hut up because text cant really express the current feeling unlike voice does
Objectively speaking after countless of discussion with my friends, LoL is more about landing your spells properly and dota is more slow paced, and strategic oriented
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most things are skillshots, every character usually has some kind of super forced gimmick which is fine but a little annoying
if there was more active items and not just 9999 +stat items it would be more palatable to me
I've played both and in my experience lol is way more toxic. But it has this team builder, which is really damn good. Other than that the games are so different. Dota allows you to be a lot more creative. In league every game looks the same and i simply got bored of it in 1-2 weeks of playing. All the champions do more or less same things depending on role. That is not the case with dota, even after several years of playing. Maybe coz i dont play stuff casually.
honestly no one cares why/if you like LoL more than dota, its preference. Also stop posting on this topic already people.
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They are so different games that you cant say one is better than the other. It all comes down to preference and whether or not you're just a casual
well i had in mind straight up game-ruining, not toxic, which is similar but different. its more about picking gamelosingly suboptimal team comps (which i guess happens in league too but you can just dodge the game without getting low priority and -25 mmr) or shadow amulet afk, courierfeeding, shared tango abuse, etc.
i myself went on to play jungler (which unlike in dota, is the most active and early playmaking role), and its kinda easily comparable with the feeling that dota gives you tbh. it is true though that the other roles are a bit one-dimensional especially not in the highest rank.
I kinda cared about peoples opinions as to why they prefer dota over league, and im going to share what i learned from this thread with my friends. and ofc im recommending the people i meet in league who seem like good players to try dota out, both games are good and having knowledge of the other game can only make you better.
Any one who thinks lol is Better than dota then please stop playing dota and go play that stupid game
OP you make me wanna try that game. Where can I download it from Steam page? O wait...
Joke aside, does LoL have some statistics about total players each month, how many online,etc what's the site?
mobile legend
No way, mobile legend is just pure shit. Even the competitive matches n tournaments are shit, characters n skills look so shit as well.
lol is alot more toxic actually, the good thing is u have option to turn off all chat which is 80% about trashtalk.
LoL gameplay is alot different from DoTA so it is hard to compare. I dislike the idea that you have to unlock champion by buying them.
The only dota elitist in this thread is some party legend trash 
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considering that dota has no team builder, no punishment for toxic players or game ruiners, no way to enforce quality of ranked pub games, i fail to see any reason to play dota2 if you are not at least 6k mmr and aiming to play somewhat competitively.
the support roles arent even fun to play when all your cores are toxic as fukc and just make you out to be some ward slave and flame you for everything, even if you are making the right play.