League vs Dota vs Smite
Been playing all 3 for years.
League of Legends arcady style and ease with controls attracts most of the gamers (unfortunatelly even the younglings) ,its cartoonish colors are eyes friendly and relaxing ,and gameplay can be very fun and surprisingly tactical.
Unfortunatelly League community is deemed one of the most toxic, suggested it might have more toxic players than ,all of the other games in all genres, combined. They ,the players ,might not even be all that guilty for it, it is the way Riot paved the way, and now they are trying in all ways possible to redo their mistakes with botnet reports, honor system, and will continue to do so ,years to come. League of Legends is the bone marrow of toxicity, from the queue dodging, over troll bans, towards chat quality ,and the gameplay itself.
Dota 2 is a dark place, and i mean dark, like ,its the opposite of league, brimming with shady sounds and chilling concept, a bit more, mature content, with hell of a lot more strategy and synergy between teamplay compared to league. It is the cradle of moba genre, and it has matured providing much more content than just the 3lane map. It is fast paced, unforgiving, and cruel place, where worthy will be separated from, the others.
All that aside, by my taste its a bit more stresfull with gameplay, since it requires MUCH more concentration than you usually need while gaming, one tiny mistake can make a comeback and finish the game in a matter of minute, mid and lategame. Tower strenght scaling, crowd control skills, map vision , fog, all function in a way, that can punish you if you neglect them.
Smite is mythical. Its strange, the view, but not too strange for those who played FPS games. It implemented Quests, Chests, and Currency systems better than all other moba games. The gameplay is very immersive since it is played in a different view, so to speak, the feel of the game is very much different. Smart-Chat system the famous "V" is the best thing that has happened to moba genre since icefrog, and aside of providing amasing tactical options, it induces anti-toxic enviroment, with the worst thing said in the average game being the "You Rock" ,one must aplaud the genius of it.
Now than it has a few subjective or objective flaws, concerning the clunky menu, chaotic tabs, and plain graphics(which got better now over the time), some of the things you need you cant find, while you see the things you dont need. But as such ,subjective ,those may be upgraded in the future and are tiny flaws.
I myself will stick mainly with Smite ,secondary occasional League match, and that will not change in the near future. Everything wrong with the league is what smite did well, but one can not go immune to the league gameplay and lore charm, so ill linger on, thinking
about how with great community come great problems.
Sincerily Raist