Is Volibear based off of Ursa from DotA?

Xx420n0sc0p3sxX··3 votes·1,004 views

I've been playing some DotA 2, to take a break from league, and I came across a hero called Ursa. I instantly loved the hero. but he stroke me as very similar to Voli, both skill wise, appearance, and play style. Even though I was playing DotA 2, was in DotA as well. Let's look at the facts:

Both are bears Both were armor Ursa q is an AoE slow that does damage around himself, sound familiar? Both scale off of attack speed Both tend to build tanky (Ursa not always, but usually has a bit of tankiness) Both get damage from hp Both are great duelist Both have abilities that increase in power after basic attacking multiple times Both are basic attack reliant

The connections are plentiful, and all of them are strong. I'm not sure if it's just me, but the same people who made League also had relations with the creation of DotA. They ofc have their differences, but seem soooo similar, it would strike me as strange if it is a coincidence..

Thoughts?

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Renaille2 votes

Volibear is a tank. Ursa is a semi carry.

volibear can't kill Rosh as soon as he gets 900g.

SEKAI1 votes

His Dark Material/Golden Compass is where the inspiration for Volibear came from.

GreenLore1 votes

Volibear was actually created because of the popular fan demand for an armored bear.

And well he is tanky because he is fricking bear,I mean it wouldn't make sense for an armored bear to be squishy.

Xx420n0sc0p3sxX1 votes

While that's true, when Riot was making our bear friend (Or enemy Zilean), I sure they took some inspiration from Ursa.

The 2 champs/heroes are soooo similar in lore, gameplay, looks, and kit.

GreenLore1 votes

Uhm in what way are they similar in terms of lore? Ursas story is that his tribe was driven off of their home by evil forces and that he joined the sentinels for that reason. Volibear on the other hand had a vision of freljords destruction and joined sejuani to stop it(originally he joined ashe,but that got changed). Ursa from dota 2 wants to stop some kind of evil before its happening,so that is similar to volibears,but volibear was actually released a few weeks before ursa.

Also I don't think their kits are that similar. Ursa has an aoe as his Q,while volibear has one on his E and both have something that grants attack speed(but in volibears case it is just so that he can build up his stacks,while ursa just shreds his enemies).

Sure Voli has an ability that stacks with health,but thats more likely to be the case to reward building him even tankier,its not uncommon among tanks to have something that builds upon health.

So that are 2 abilities that have slight similarities,but 2 of volibears abilities and his passive have no similarities at all,so I guess that these similarities are more of a coincidence.

SLangedEdge1 votes

You would have to see which hero was released first, but they're pretty closely related (almost certain LoL borrowed elements from Dota on that one).

I mean it makes sense when the creators of LoL worked on dota first. Also, after the whole pendreagon fiasco stealing all the community work that dota put together. including ideas and designs.

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