If i may, I would like to add something to what has been said. It is my personal opinion that you cannot directly compare Dota and LoL. I say this because they are fundamentally different games. Certainly they have similarities, i mean just the fact that the following things are in both games can lead people to try and compare them: -Map -Item Shop -Lanes -Heros -Victory Conditions -Towers But the thing that makes LoL Unique from Dota and vice versa is that stat system. The truth of it is that if you took a late game intelligence hero from Dota and pitted them up against a late game LoL hero(like say for example, Viegar), it would not be pretty for the Dota Player. But at the same time, if you took a late game Agility and sometimes strength Hero from Dota and pitted them up against a late game LoL hero, who knows what would happen. Anyway my point is not to start a discussion of what heroes would win if they fought, my point is that Heroes in Dota and Heroes in LoL cannot be compared fairly because they serve in different roles. Many times the role of Intelligence heroes in Dota can be purely utility. In LoL there is no such thing as a pure utility character, Riot wanted to change the game so that everyone could do damage, so they did and it is not the same. So many of you have heard that Dota is really really imbalanced, and when you compare game play directly it certainly seems like it, and to be honest, it may well be imbalanced. But probably not in the ways you might think. But if you take a look at where these comments are coming from, it can be very revealing. The observation I have made is that the majority of the "Imbalanced" complaints are coming from LoL players trying out Dota. But for players that have played Dota first then LoL, then have come back to Dota 2 do not generally say that Dota is imbalanced. They don't think it because they know that there are roles to play in a Dota team that do not and cannot exist in a LoL team. You cannot compare Strength, Agility, and Intelligence to Attack Damage and Ability Power. But most people do, most people come into Dota trying to play Intelligence heroes like they might play Ability Power Heros and it does not work. They loose and get frustrated and complain that the game is imbalanced. As a final note, I will provide an example. I love Batrider and Puck, they are my best characters in Dota. While in LoL my favorite is Volibear. Notice that out of the blue I like a tank like Volibear. This is because if I had to "try" to compare character types in the games I would say that the closest thing to a Intelligence hero that LoL has are Tanks. If anyone has played Batrider, they know that he isnt really a high damage player, he is that guy that waits for Ursa to plunge and then when the enemy team thinks they have an advantage, he drags Ursa off into the sunset leaving the enemy team without one of their most important players. That, my friends, is called....UTILITY! And I think that it is a beautiful thing. Anyway, I hope that this has helped someone out there understand what I think is the biggest difference between the two games and why I think it is just foolish to compare them. They are both great games and I don't think that you can really say that one is better than the other(again, because as much as they have in common, they are very different games). I think you can say that you think one can be more enjoyable to play. My preference is Dota.
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