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| Hiiro326:
--- Quote from: johnnyboy on October 31, 2012, 02:24:07 AM ---that article... ...trolled super hard. unless he's serious, in which he is completely wrong. dota 2 has a meta, and it changes all the time. --- End quote --- That's what he's saying, Dota 2's meta changes all the time, it's not a stable meta, like LoL in earlier years. --- Quote from: Proog on October 30, 2012, 11:57:49 PM ---Lol that article is a complete joke. --- End quote --- Hardly. |
| Proog:
League of Legends has the most boring cookie cutter meta possible, how is that interesting in any way at all? Being the most effective is alright if you do the same old stuff routine which is the stale metagame they run over there. Picks aren't interesting, heroes are getting boring and they hardly balance people to give the competitive drafting pool a larger variety. A shifting meta means the competitive scene is always going to have something interesting, keeping teams from running the same one trick pony lineup every time. In Dota 2, you see constant patches balancing and tweaking heroes that are either OP or UP to make room for loads of new strategies. You can run lanes all sorts of different ways in Dota because doing the unexpected will give you a better edge compared to knowing there will always be a jungler and a solo top/mid, there's no skill involved in that. Balance is another thing, in the International 2, Morphling, Lycan and Naga Siren were all ridiculously OP, being constantly drafted. Right after, all of them were beaten with the nerf stick and buffs were given to underplayed heroes like Jakiro and Batrider. Now both of them are creeping towards top pick/ban statuses while the other 3 are now taking a back seat more often as opposed to being pick Lycan, win game. Even without the buffs or nerfs on some heroes they can still be picked up by a team to throw curveballs at the enemy team. When EHOME did their signature carry Tiny, even some of the best carries were trampled by the Tiny Wisp combo that always ensured a great game to watch. Having all those factors keeps a fresh meta that won't get boring, because Icefrog actually gives a damn. /rant Dota as a whole has also had a much older competitive scene going through different phases, and it's because people learn how to beat the top strategies because they balance stuff so well. Nothing can stay at the top forever, because if it does then you're going to see more repetition than the Call of Duty series. Also NaVi drafts are best drafts, you can't plan when you have no idea when they're going to pick someone to wreck your stuff like Pudge or Axe. They also make the weirdest things work like jungling Huskar or intercepting enemy waves with a 3 melee trilane. Interesting not stuffty new stuff. |
| Acid:
You literally just described league of legends in it's early stages |
| Proog:
So what you're saying is League got unbearably worse? Makes sense. |
| Camera:
Upcoming champion is The Shredder from TMNT. |
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