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League of LegendsLeague of Legends (hereafter referred as LoL) is a MOBA (Multiplayer Online Battle Arena) game produced by Riot Games, which consists of several well known names such as Pendragon (founder of dotaallstars.com) and Guinsoo (creator of the version 5 series of dota).
IntroductionIn essence, you can call LoL an improved version of dota, it has all the things that dota has to offer, vast selections of heroes, neutral creeps, tower pushes etc.
GameplayIn general, its the same as dota, but wait, there's more.
First of all, its the implementation of ability points, ability points allows you to increase the damage of your spells. Its obtainable through means of buying items, or through some specific skills, or other method which will be mentioned below. The existence of ability points means that caster heroes are no longer limited, ever wish that someday that heroes like lina and puck can actually do something late game instead of just buying guinsoo and hp items?
Well you can, with ability points in LoL, those caster heroes has as much potential as physical carries, and can be a threat that everyone wants to take down ASAP.
Secondly, there's summoner spells in LoL, summoner spells are the spells you can bring with your player regardless of hero choice, which means that apart from the 4 skills that your hero have, you have 2 extra spells at your disposal. Summoner spells usually have a very long cooldown (with up to 9 minutes cooldown!!), but nonetheless it brings another layer of depth in the selection of summoner spells in conjunction of what hero you have.
Other than that, runes in LoL exists as superior form of creeps, means that in order to get that rune, you must first defeat the creeps, then only you could get the buffs, unlike dota where buffs can be obtained easily by being there when it spawned. Therefore not being able to spend much time to go around the map getting runes isn't that essential in LoL unlike in dota where you could suddenly be taken down easily by a dd/haste rune that can be obtained by just passing though the river.
Lastly, LoL is noob friendly compared to dota, by having a incredible tutorial which allows clueless beginners to learn what is creeps, towers, how to use skills and what you should do in the game. I know its may sound unnecessary, but imagine this, how hard and impossible to know what is happening when you first played dota, you can't even tell who's the heroes and who's the creeps. But in LoL, they have this step by step in game tutorial which introduces the game.
Leveling system, Runes and MasteriesLike every other online games, LoL have a leveling system which lets you level and gain more priority.
First its the Masteries, as you level, you can choose to spend your points to buff your hero, let it be attack damage, or armor. Same goes to runes, in LoL, runes stands for magical stones that you can buy to strengthen your hero, higher level provides access to higher level of runes, and the number of runes that can be equipped at once.
MatchmakingAs a player progress in the game, the game have a matchmaking system which will pit you against teams that have the same skill level as the player, therefore there's no risk of unsuspecting newbies getting pwned by veteran players.
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