Why You Should Play Dota

• League players pick it up easy

• Most of the Dota heroes are similar to Heroes heroes

• It is fun with friends

• You will offer a sacrifice of spare change in your steam wallet to become blessed by virtual items

• You will lose an easy bot match and contemplate your life

• You will be stuck in low prio and either love it or want to shoot your computer with a 50cal rifle

• You actually might suck at the video game but not realize it and say other people suck at the game when you are the one feeding the damn Bloodseeker

• You will waste a minimum of 30 minutes of your life having a heart attack.

• You WILL throw games

• You WILL become a racist

• You WILL start calling people racial slurs

• You WILL hate Russian people

• You WILL hate Beans

• You and your friends WILL end up hating each other

• You WILL become an all around much more hateful person

So yeh have fun playing Dota!

If anyone else plays dota here add some other reasons to play.

Beat me to making this thread. :(

Anyways, Defense of the Ancients differs from League of Legends.

The most unique mechanic in DotA is creeps and farming in general. Blocking creeps, pulling creeps into jungle camps, and denying your own creeps just so you can end up having more money than your opponent in lane. Keeping creep equilibrium is important (in lower ranking mmr this doesn't really apply, it's just good to practice).

Another unique feature to DotA is the fact that you can control more than one unit. There are many heroes in the game that can take over creeps and use them to their advantage, all while controlling your own hero at the same time. Meepo is the hero that I play religiously, and you have four other meepo clones to control. Some of the jungle creeps can give auras to help out. Some examples of these auras would be attack speed boost, damage boost, defense boost, healing boost, etc.

The best thing about this game is that all the heroes are unlocked. You can play anyone you want, and you don't have to save up points or buy points to unlock them earlier. Only thing that Valve puts out for sale is hats and HUD skins. You don't need these at all, they just make your hero look cooler. (y)

DotA is just more complicated to play, but still easy to learn. If you already have League mechanics down, then DotA should be no problem for you in low mmr.

If I have any more to add, I'll do so.

Glhf, friends.

Edited to satisfy Chrono.

• You WILL throw games

In-coming tags. :(

In-coming tags. :(

@ThePenguin

@Ghosty @Egossi ;)

Anyways, Defense of the Ancients is a much more complex game than League of Legends.

As a note for future reference: Do not negatively state anything on any MOBA / AoS game within these discussions. if you want to shitpost about one of them, post it in general where I will remove it anyway for being a shitpost.

This is a board that was previously league only and changed to be friendly with all others as a neutral ground of fun and discussion of games. not to say one game takes more skill than the other or is better than the other (which is actually proven to be impossible to prove) [Ex: "DotA takes more skill because you have to deny creeps and pull them to jungle to be able to kill jungle monsters; you also have to pick and choose what abilities you want to use since they all cost your whole mana bar. no summoner spells" yes dota is a more metagame intensive aka macro for you starcrafters. But then you look at league and see a vast majority of skills are 'skill shots' compared to DotA where a vast {i think the number is somewhere around the 85% range} majority of skills are 'point and click' and there is a lot more player on player action through leagues own way of denying {bullying in lane to push them out of xp range and freezing lane so they cant get gold or xp} and more pvp fighting going on where split second precise aimed skills allow for the edge instead of everyone mile away targeting with point and click to kill. this is known as a micro intensive or performance in moment style.]

As a note for future reference: Do not negatively state anything on any MOBA / AoS game within these discussions. if you want to fudgepost about one of them, post it in general where I will remove it anyway for being a fudgepost.

 

This is a board that was previously league only and changed to be friendly with all others as a neutral ground of fun and discussion of games. not to say one game takes more skill than the other or is better than the other (which is actually proven to be impossible to prove) [Ex: "DotA takes more skill because you have to deny creeps and pull them to jungle to be able to kill jungle monsters; you also have to pick and choose what abilities you want to use since they all cost your whole mana bar. no summoner spells" yes dota is a more metagame intensive aka macro for you starcrafters. But then you look at league and see a vast majority of skills are 'skill shots' compared to DotA where a vast {i think the number is somewhere around the 85% range} majority of skills are 'point and click' and there is a lot more player on player action through leagues own way of denying {bullying in lane to push them out of xp range and freezing lane so they cant get gold or xp} and more pvp fighting going on where split second precise aimed skills allow for the edge instead of everyone mile away targeting with point and click to kill. this is known as a micro intensive or performance in moment style.]

Wasn't really a shit post anyhow? In my own opinion from seeing and playing LoL, DotA is much more complex. That sentence didn't have the intention of coming off in a negative or bashful way towards the game.

My mindset was that this whole thread is to persuade other MOBA players to play DotA, which is the whole point of my post. Persuading people to convert to DotA or start playing the game in general.

Also for the record, DotA has lane bullies, and forty percent of the heroes in DotA have skill shots of some sort. ;) Flash farming is a mechanic used in both games. I know that, and that is why I never brought that up in my post. The micro intensive fights also occur, regardless of the "point and click" skills. You're going to get that in MOBAs.

I fixed my post to cut endless fighting, and I'll watch my wording next time to not trigger anyone in this MOBA division.

I suck at competitive but If you ever want to pub stomp invite me :^)

League of Losers. 'Nuff said ;)

Why I should play Heroes of the Storm:

• All my friends play it.
   
  
• One of my friends used to play DotA but transitioned to HotS.
  
• I'll get a card back in Hearthstone (probably)
  

Controversial Opinion Incoming!

Dota and LoL are taken way too seriously

PS Esports aren't real sports

Controversial Opinion Incoming!

 

Dota and LoL are taken way too seriously

 

PS Esports aren't real sports

Do these fucks look like they can throw a football?

Who needs Rosetta Stone when you have Dota 2, learn russian simply from playing the game

10/10 game, I learned russian.

@Goblin faggots what's your mmr dont tell me oh i used to be this, i want to know what your current mmr is.

@Goblin friendgots what's your mmr dont tell me oh i used to be this, i want to know what your current mmr is.

2400 Is what it reads.