Learn Dota 2: A guide for LoL players
Recently we’ve seen a surge of interest in Dota from people who play other games. Whether it’s due to The International or the new Reborn game client with custom games, the hype is definitely real. Transitioning from one game to another can be very hard. It’s easy to be frustrated by small differences between games. Learning new concepts can take time and patience, and the reward isn’t always clear. Sometimes you just need a small push, a helpful hint or some idea of where to start.
Our mission at Dotabuff is to help people learn and get better at Dota. As part of our renewed effort to help new players improve, today we’re launching a new micro-site: Learn Dota 2: Coming from LoL. It has helpful hints for LoL players, highlighting key differences between the two games.
Additionally, it has a Hero suggestion feature: choose your favorite LoL champions to find Dota Heroes you might enjoy:
Maybe you’ve been trying to convince a friend to make the switch, or have heard that someone is interested in Dota but doesn’t know where to start. We hope this will help! If you've ever played LoL, you may even just have fun checking out the hero recommendations.
Don't worry experienced players, we haven't forgotten about you! We've been hard at work cooking up new features and have a few very exciting things that we plan to share with you in the coming weeks!
" As a LoL player I want to learn Dota 2 So I can play any hero" ouch
"As a LoL player I want to learn Dota 2 So I can use a real client" SAVAGE
We have fun here
I think after Reborn its more usefull to make a guide how to transfer to LoL from Dota. Ty.
Dota is better than LOL, you better switch.
As a LoL player I want to switch to Dota so I can be introduced to the newest client bugs.
Well I loled
I think there's still a bit of work about the hero suggestion. I tryed 4 times, and out of them, here are the result of the number of dota hero i like to play out of the pool suggested:
I tryed with 6 favorite ad (was almost only playing that) --> 0 hero in dota that i like were suggested.
I tryed then with kogmaw + mf + 4 offtank i like, or a bit of ap/ad or my top 10 etc...
result : 0-0-1-2.
I can detail my 5th test:
picked: anivia, gankplank, kogmaw, mf, shaco, tryndamere, twitch and wukong
suggested: clinkz, bounty, viper, venom, techies, kunka, abadon, winter wivern
Why the fuck do i have 2 (up to 5) support, while i picked 0 support to begin with ?
Weirdly if i remove twitch for the picked list (so a hard carry !!!!)
suggested heroes become: venom techies, jugg, winterwyvern, abadon, kunka, pl, clinkz.
Why the fuck do i have more carry in suggested, after removing a carry ??
Btw panda, you missed your point, it's:
Dota is better than LOL, and LOL player cann't deny it xD
Oh, and while i'm getting serious again, techies has 0 star in pusher, that's seems pretty wrong
"As a LoL player I want to learn Dota 2 So I can forget Teemo"
Then you play against the most turtly Hero around, making you actually nostalgic for that poison-darting, mushroom-placing bastard.
I have played both games, and to be honest, i'm getting pretty mixed results here. Xerath and Razor? Razor is a mid game ganker who deals a majority of his damage with stolen attack damage, Xerath is a late game mage nuker (Something nearly absent from Dota) Nasus and Sand King???? OKAY THAT IS WHERE I DRAW THE LINE THAT MAKES NO SENSE AT ALL! Nasus is known for sitting in lane and farming all day, he is a hyper hyper hyper late game tank/carry, Sand King is a support. Legion Commander and Leona? Leona is a support that builds ability power to deal damage with her abilities, Legion Commander is a hard carry that snowballs off of duel damage.
That site is high quality as fuck. Really well done dotabuff, nice job.
Well I wont say Switch to Dota. I would say If you are already shit, slow hand and kiddish in lol pls dont come in dota to ruin games. If you are v good in lol, interested in strategies, quick mind, and wanna tryout more difficulties with perfection u can join dota and Dota needs only that kind of players
"As a LoL player I want to learn Dota 2 So I can forget Teemo"
"As a LoL player, I want to learn Dota 2 So I can troll with Techies"
Forsaking one troll for another
LoL is for amateurs
no, it's just a way different way between dota and lol.
The main one is that in lol you have to MASTER to the perfection a few skill, while in dota you have to be good (not perfect) in a very wide amount of skill
If you need help with translation to Polish i can do it for you ^_^
ALLIANCE ARE BACK
I love the "As a LoL player I want to learn Dota 2 So I can use a real client"
As if reborn is a real client lmao
aaaaaaaaaayyyyy finally giving some love to The Sexiest Voice in Dota and his opus magnum. about time!
this site is only about giving suggestion to ppl, u guys dont have to follow, some of them even named wrong the role of heroes, 100% heroes are free, just pick as u want. Trust me, with 2000+ matches i have played, its surely different from those suggestions
LOL IS BEST THAN DOTO(SHIT) :):) Cyka
I think a huge oversight that wasn't mentioned in the "Before you play" section was that AP doesn't exist. ADC items don't increase your damage if you are an ADC. Also, your abilities don't get stronger based on the items you have (except items like: Veil of Discord, or Aghanim's Scepter.) This adds a dynamic to the game that makes some heroes playable even with a lack of items and helps determine who has farm priority. It also makes certain heroes really strong early game but fall-off late game.
the site is great, but the hero suggestions aren't the best, while I haven't played much LoL I do know most of the champions and can say with complete honestly that
Tiny is nothing like thresh, a more fitting hero would be Pudge
Razor is nothing like Xerath, a more fitting hero would be Lina
Pugna is nothing like Teemo or Fiddlesticks, more fitting heroes would be Techies or Sniper
I enjoyed toying around with this website, but it needs a bit of work. Other than that it was really fun and interesting to see who compares in Dota to LoL
Truth be told by how reborn is working lately I can't say I could suggest to anyone to switch to dota. So whoever wrote those changing one liners should get laughed at
dota shit game , lol is better, and yes i say it becuz i dont want Lol trash
Gonna reverse this shit and learn LoL from dota.
all the LOL kids can suck my deek! , dota is life !
ive played both dota 2 and Lol. League for around 400 hrs gameplay time and dota for around 900. I checked out this.....thingy.... and the results were quite pleasing. I chose the champs i'm most comfortable playing with and clicked suggest, and viola! out of the 8 heroes suggested to me 6 of them were my most successful in dota. Pretty neat if i dare say so myself. :)
Just one little thing, hovering over the intelligence icon for dota 2 hero cards, it says primary attribute: intellect, instead of intelligence, maybe this was to make it more concise or maybe you thought lol players wouldn't understand intelligence as a concept (jk lol guys), but just in case it was a mistake
Dota is the game full of peenoise and peruvian and russian and kind of that . LoL is full of the kiddo and underaged-boy. Yea , may someone suggest me what to do then?
Stop playing
Currently the Enchanted Mango only has a 37.94% win rate. Although it is a challenge, together the Dota 2 Community has the ability to fix this tragedy. Please help. As gamers, we can make Dota 2 a better place.
lmao dota > lol
" the new Reborn game client with custom games, the hype is definitely real." LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL joke of d decade. Assholes fix d shitty bugs 1st
nt much interested playing "REBORN". fucking pings, bull shit servers, shitty game crash, connecting to dota 2 game co-ordinators and SAFE TO LEAVE under POOR conditions....... so OVERALL fuck d person who made d game 'REBORN' and every1 who r al maintaining it.
GUIDE FOR NAABS (;
none of the new champions. i have a friend who exclusively plays illaoi rip
if you're new to dota, just play limited heroes mode.
wait, we dont have it anymore?
Well it's 2019 and I was so bored and tried play LoL... Unpopular opinion but, LoL is harder than Dota 2 due to different mechanics from previous patches (eg Runepages). But I started playing LoL at early January 2019 compared to Dota 2 which was started like two days after EG won TI5, so it's still early to conclude about the difficulties between them.
Now I'm playing both games equally while managed to get some calibrating ranked matches up on my sleeves. Expected to get Silver (like almost to median elo), I got bronze instead. Meanwhile, I'm recalibrating Dota 2 rank and I'm matching up with players of an average of Archon VI, and my previous rank was Archon II, surprisingly. Is playing LoL improving my last hittings in Dota? hmm...
P/S: Someone need to update about the introduction to Dota from LoL as new champs are released by the time I'm typing this... Pyke is a mixture of Slark and Bounty Hunter, Neeko's passive works like Morphling but with the right side talent tree of lv20, Sylas shares Rubick's ultimate but he steals enemy champions' ultimates only... Pretty much about it. Looking forward for the updates soon!!