League Of Legends (LOL) Opinions!

Good for what it does but I'm a Heroes of Newerth fan.

Strengths:

Accessible

Free

Forgiving

Looks amazing (I'm a sucker for the cel-shaded artstyle)

Summoner Skills are a really nice concept

Recall is great

Community is much better

Bad:

Brush

No denying

Barracks respawn making super-creeps lose strength

No side-shops

No runes

Have to unlock heroes

Pool is lackluster when only given a few choices

Building on the other point the selected pool for any given week can be unbalanced just because of what heroes can be picked

No real competitive scene like what Heroes of Newerth has

The game isn't setting out to be a dota clone and that is mostly why I don't like it. Making a game easy to get into is fine but stripping most of what I like about the game for some things that are good or things that are entirely bad is not cool.

Good for what it does but I'm a Heroes of Newerth fan.

Strengths:

Accessible

Free

Forgiving

Looks amazing (I'm a sucker for the cel-shaded artstyle)

Summoner Skills are a really nice concept

Recall is great

Community is much better

Bad:

Brush

No denying

Barracks respawn making super-creeps lose strength

No side-shops

No runes

Have to unlock heroes

Pool is lackluster when only given a few choices

Building on the other point the selected pool for any given week can be unbalanced just because of what heroes can be picked

No real competitive scene like what Heroes of Newerth has

The game isn't setting out to be a dota clone and that is mostly why I don't like it. Making a game easy to get into is fine but stripping most of what I like about the game for some things that are good or things that are entirely bad is not cool.

Whiteblade999

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Good for what it does but I'm a Heroes of Newerth fan.

Strengths:

Accessible

Free

Forgiving

Looks amazing (I'm a sucker for the cel-shaded artstyle)

Summoner Skills are a really nice concept

Recall is great

Community is much better

Bad:

Brush

No denying

Barracks respawn making super-creeps lose strength

No side-shops

No runes

Have to unlock heroes

Pool is lackluster when only given a few choices

Building on the other point the selected pool for any given week can be unbalanced just because of what heroes can be picked

No real competitive scene like what Heroes of Newerth has

The game isn't setting out to be a dota clone and that is mostly why I don't like it. Making a game easy to get into is fine but stripping most of what I like about the game for some things that are good or things that are entirely bad is not cool.

Memoryitis

Good for what it does but I'm a Heroes of Newerth fan.

Strengths:

Accessible

Free

Forgiving

Looks amazing (I'm a sucker for the cel-shaded artstyle)

Summoner Skills are a really nice concept

Recall is great

Community is much better

Bad:

Brush

No denying

Barracks respawn making super-creeps lose strength

No side-shops

No runes

Have to unlock heroes

Pool is lackluster when only given a few choices

Building on the other point the selected pool for any given week can be unbalanced just because of what heroes can be picked

No real competitive scene like what Heroes of Newerth has

The game isn't setting out to be a dota clone and that is mostly why I don't like it. Making a game easy to get into is fine but stripping most of what I like about the game for some things that are good or things that are entirely bad is not cool.

Whiteblade999

I play DotA with my friends via Lan. Should I switch to LoL or DotA is way better?

I was playing league of legends one day but then I realized I wasn't 12 years old or a girl. So I took off my panties and went to Heroes of Newerth where the real men play.

-tears-run-red-

I play DotA with my friends via Lan. Should I switch to LoL or DotA is way better?

ABRed

Your bad points are pretty poor, I disagree. Firstly Brushes are good, they add more depth to the game. No side shops just make the game simpler, but I don't think it actually looses anything from not having these in, that said I wouldn't mind if they were in. Pool is lackluster when only given a few choices, I actually like this, you have to earn champions and choose who you want, unlocking is fun, besides this isn't an issue for ranked play as you need 13+ heroes to even play it, meaning you have a decent selection to choose from. As for the competitive scene, it will come soon, it is already starting, by season 2 it will be on par with HoN in terms of what is available for competitive play, and the game doesn't cost money. The only negatives I agree with are the lack of denyingl and no runes. Those are my biggest flaws with the game. I don't see why denying is not present, it is fun.wigan_gamer

Having guranteed invisible spots is annoying and just gives a safety net where using the fog of war should be coming into play for juking instead of just giving free invisiblity. The game needs a courier to move items if you don't have a sideshop, running back means you lose XP and gold which is not optimal. I'm against unlockables that give others an advantage, due to the nature of games like this some heroes counter others and maybe someone has a hero unlocked that counters one of the ones in the pool you picked or someone picks an unlocked hero and no counters are in the pool means you got screwed unfairly. The competitive scene is still small and I see it going the TF2 (small) route instead of HoN route(large) without a Tournament mode that unlocks all heroes for a scrim.

The hero argument is invalid, there is no such things as "others have advantages because they have a certain hero" if you;re good at the game you can take on all 5 enemy heroes, towards the end, with any kind of hero, to unlock you just have to play or if you're lazy "pay" (like you do for HoN by default), you have no advantage with a certain hero over others. Most peoeple never even use most of the heroes so another poor argument, people play what they're best at, a few heroes for each type not a few tenths of heroes and unlike HoN that was released competitively after a short beta, LoL just got the first competitive season and tournament after an extremely long beta since, unlike HoN you have lots of new heroes that aren't copy paste from DotA and a lot can go wrong.DanielDust

Sorry to burst your bubble but heroes DO have advantages against each other, it is the reason there is a thing called counterpicks. You are right a lot can go wrong when a hero can take on all 5 unless you fed him nonstop which that isn't a balance concern but the team feeding. I know how the unlock system works and it is a way to force variety instead of giving us the whole pool (I'd rather pay $20 or $30 for the game and get them all right off the bat btw but I refuse to pay for microtransactions and skins) where the heroes will determine the strategy and not what a developer feels like forcing on you that week. HoN has 13 heroes that don't work in competitive and 2 or 3 of those are seeing reworks here soon.

actualy lol has terrible balance imo , those hero tiers are realy stupid idea , trier 1 champion has no chance againts higher tier champions (there is some exceptions tho ) when they made the game so casual they actualy limited the quality :( looking forward to Bloodline Champions , looks like something hardcore and fun !Farkeman

Not being able to afford to make mistakes, heroes dying so fast and easy =/= balance, it just makes HoN hardcore, DotA is where you go for balance, HoN is where you go if you want to be on the endge, to feel hardcore and LoL is where you go if you want a decent fun game.

[QUOTE="Farkeman"]actualy lol has terrible balance imo , those hero tiers are realy stupid idea , trier 1 champion has no chance againts higher tier champions (there is some exceptions tho ) when they made the game so casual they actualy limited the quality :( looking forward to Bloodline Champions , looks like something hardcore and fun !DanielDust

Not being able to afford to make mistakes, heroes dying so fast and easy =/= balance, it just makes HoN hardcore, DotA is where you go for balance, HoN is where you go if you want to be on the endge, to feel hardcore and LoL is where you go if you want a decent fun game.