I played HoN the last few days. Thus far, I'm unimpressed. It looks beautiful, I'll give it that. But it feels like a face-lifted dota, that you have to spend about 30 minutes figuring out which hero and what item is it's dota-equiv. Not to say it's a bad game. If you were content with Regular DOTA, then the next logical step is HoN.

I feel LoL is a lot bolder. Completely different and new items, as well as completely new heroes. There are some heroes in LoL that are inspired by dota heroes. But HoN has carbon copied their heroes from DOTA.

Also, the match-making. People complain about the LoL grind, but at least it's a lot better than the Warcraft 3 game list where host will kick you for no reason before the game starts.

Not to mention, the summoner spells, mastery customizations, and soon to be runes. AND ITS FREE. Yeah, LoL has some grind to it, but I don't mind that since, actually playing the game itself is fun.

I know, the meta-game of LoL is currently in the crapper, but that's something a few patches will remedy. overall, I'm more impressed with LoL's direction than HoN's. HoN doesn't have much meta-game issues, because it isn't really a new game - just kind of a face lift of an already existing one.

All of the people supporting HoN in this thread have been banned! Haha, let them play their crappy game!

LoL's match-making is better. It still has problems, sure. But the way you join games HoN doesn't even *try* to improve on Warcraft III's game list method.

I like they want to move away from the farming focus of DOTA with LoL. Sure, they need to pull it back some, but still, I like what they're doing thus far.

The developers are very vocal in the community about making changes to fix the current meta-game.

All it'll take is for a few balance tweaks and LoL will be a great game, IMO.


There's nothing wrong with Face-Lifting DOTA and giving it a new coat of paint. But HoN just feels like the same game I've played for 5 years. LoL feels like a more progressive, new game, with overall more options for custimization in runes and masteries/summoner spells. New heroes that are familiar but new and unique. (Every HoN is essentially a carbon copy of a Dota Hero.)

If you're just looking for DOTA with new graphics, then sure HoN is a good game. I was looking for something more progressive. I like what Riot is trying to do, and I feel like they're pretty close to succeeding.

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Originally Posted by Nick In Action This game is 10x better. Goto the link below and click the link at the top of the page it takes you to. You will get a notice in your e-mail about the open beta. Have fun and don't support Riot. Why do they deserve our money when they can't even release a full game?]