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This game feels now like Dota... but bad.

NipSlipOnMyTip·12/22/2017, 4:50:20 AM·20 votes·1,842 views

Before I get destroyed by the downvotes let me just say this; I don't think either game is better then the other or vise versa, this is just my opinion of how the current state of the game is right now.

In Dota everything feels so busted that somehow the game feels balanced. This season in League everything feels so unbalanced that the game is almost unplayable. We have a champion that can 1 hit you in a single combo at any point of the game AND can do it every 5 seconds, runes/masteries that simply feel unbalanced (Why am I getting like 400 hp for killing one dude? What is the reason behind this and who made this rune a real thing? All Im watching is dravens 1v5 and if they get 1 kill the other team might as well just take their hands off the keyboard cause no way you're killing that guy), Everyone just gets insta bursted by everyone else, if you have any form of AD ratio you might as well build all armor pen items cause you will legit 1 shot someone, AP supports can out trade most ADC's and watching Nami, Xerath, and Janna just walk up to a AD and out trade them is unfun, Wonky hit boxes like Ezreal Q that synergize with an even wonkier klepto system that allows Ezreals to get like 50k gold by first back, and the list goes on and on. The game is so unfun now that I simply have no reason to play it. Urf came back which is suppose to be the time that most players have fun but the state of the game just makes the game mode not even enjoyable.

Maybe I got older, or maybe the game got worse, but this season just does not feel good.

30 Comments

bañ12/22/2017, 2:13:43 PM11 votes

And you know what the crazy thing is? Players always say, "IT'S PRESEASON IT'S PRESEASON!" But I doubt things will change once the new season starts.

Rester12/22/2017, 6:39:13 AM8 votes

I feel like League could take a few pages from Dota in the past years.

Like the fact there's only one crit item (Starts weak and can be upgraded to deal higher crit damage) and while you CAN stack multiple instances of crit you could surely find stuff better to buy. (Because half the time the crit stacking gimmick deals with a specific passive or effect)

ApexInTheCircle12/22/2017, 1:47:54 PM6 votes

I've been playing alot of HoTS lately and that game is so much fun that even when you're losing you're still having fun just because of all the extra objectives on the map that can swing the flow from a lose to a win. Plus no items means you can balance each hero on a one by one basis instead of items.

AmetDeCrypt12/22/2017, 6:31:56 AM4 votes

give it time. dota's been out for years. league just needs to keep breaking itself every preaseason and eventually it'll be just like dota.

MrPhamtom12/22/2017, 10:51:03 PM3 votes

Dota has always been the better game because it isn't afraid to do "crazy" things.

Some people at Riot share the same view as me, League has changed to have more Dota type designs and mechanics over the years.

In season 1-3, Wukong, someone with no depth, boring bruiser abilities, and a terrible cookie cutter design and gameplay was considered "cool edgy design" that had his own hype video.

Now at least Riot understands what an awful joke he was, and we have new designs like Gangplank, making Venn diagrams to make explosions, is dota tier icefrog snorting crack cocaine design that is actually creative and fun to play.

RainbowIcee12/22/2017, 11:35:45 PM2 votes

I don't feel the game is that bad, but i don't like the direction in which the game is going. Also having played newer MoBA's i gotta say league feels a tad bit outdated. League doesn't have a focus for example so it doesn't excel at anything. It's not about the PvP as different champions, runes and items are for different things. It's not centered around the towers as the towers are made of paper and don't hurt so they're just a small obstacle. It's about destroying the nexus but there's not alternate strategy to do that besides walking up to it and whacking it with a hammer. The more you think about it the older league feels like and had it started it today it would have never flown. Have you played battlerite? now that's a moba centered around Pvp and you can clearly tell, heores are balanced to fight other heroes, and they have hero specific runes to customize your fighting style. There was this other one called MxM had a really corny name but the core of the gameplay was a great idea, the game was about objectives and had multiple viable angles and strategy's going on at the same time that would help you destroy the core ( it's nexus ) and win. Then there's league, an economy based moba. Make money, use it to beat the competition. Buy some shiny scaling item better than what your opponent has to win. And that's the point of league, make money and push forward to whack the nexus. It feels outdated but it's still appreciated.

Built to Tylt12/22/2017, 6:41:31 AM2 votes

Strife > Dota or League.

TOO BAD IT's DEAD.

T4underbolt12/23/2017, 6:22:10 AM1 votes

Out of all broken hitboxes you co.plain about si gle target ezreal Q that is not even broken hitbox.

Jinx Hunter12/22/2017, 3:27:17 PM1 votes

Which DOTA? The Crappy 2 version or the real DOTA? DOTA ALLSTARS on WC3?

GigglesO12/23/2017, 2:15:46 AM1 votes

I keep asking for threads to lower all champions damage so that we can have less snowbally games. Tower will give more safety, and so that we aren't in a 1 shot meta but I keep getting downvotes.