I've occassionally played some Dota2 before but I'll be mainly switching to Dota2 after League releases their kernel level anticheat. I mostly play on arch linux (the league of linux community is the best), and I love that Dota2 supports linux natively while I have to literally hack my system and, in the past, patched some binaries to ensure that league barely works on my system. I'd often have the game crash on me right before the game starts because League's spaghetti code can't handle my system.
Overall, I feel like Dota2 is the better game holistically. The UI is better polished, the gameplay is more well balanced, and it doesn't feel like a shithole like League feels like now. I have long been contemplating making the switch, and I feel stupid at this point sticking to League up until they literally kick me out of their game because they want to require a kernel-level anticheat (aka spyware) that will block me from playing on my linux system.
I grew up playing League and I'll miss it, but I love MOBAs and Dotas is the de-facto best there is. My relationship with League can best be described as Stockholm Syndrome at this point, and I'm happy they're releasing me.
Welcome :) we'll be glad to have you. If you have any questions, feel free to ask.
You're definitely joining during a time with the best updates to the game in a while, large changes have been made that try to make the community around the game better and better. Bans to smurfs and cheaters, better detection, a behavior score system and so on.
How much do you know about Dota gameplay compared to League?
Thank you 😊 i know there’s no jungle (a fact that i learned the hard way after trying to jungle with dragon knight) and that there’s couriers and hidden shops and stuff. Some skills kind of transfer to dota but the map is just so much larger and there’s a lot of little things that people do (creep pulling, etc) that it feels like there is a lot to master :)