Difficulty
Many say the difficulty of DotA exceeds LoL and it seems true . Many players are very competitive so the skill of your opponents also contributes to the difficulty . Getting into LoL is easier as of now because of the tutorials but DotA has already made plans for tutorials and there are already many guides that you can access in-game . There are many mechanics that are hard to learn and master in DotA but in LoL , everything is somewhat easier to learn .
There are many aspects that make DotA harder . For example when you die in a game , you lose some gold to the opponent . In LoL this is not the case . It is also easier to get gold in LoL so there is sometimes a point where you have heaps of money buy you are not sure what to spend it on . This is near impossible in DotA . If you ’ re looking for a more casual and easy game , LoL might be for you .
Skills
Each character has a set of skills that they can use in battle . There are a variety of skills in both games . Some say that LoL skills are very generic with characters having similar set of skills but this is mostly incorrect . In DotA , a character only has 4 skills and can only be levelled up four times at most unlike in LoL . This gives LoL more variety in a single hero when it comes to skills .
The skill animations are both different but again that is a matter of preference . DotA has some interesting effects such as being silenced or stoned by skills . Skills in DotA are also more important as the skills have a lot of effect as well as more cooldown and mana cost than in LoL . In LoL it is common to see many skills being used frequently as a result of the low cooldown and mana cost . You must be careful with your timing as it is easy to miss and waste a skill .
Map
The general idea of the two games is similar and so are the maps ; Three lanes with jungles in between . But there are many differences between the maps . First of all , there are many different maps in LoL but only one in DotA . There may be a change but it has not been confirmed . Currently ,