When you want to try something new, LoL players will spam report before the game even starts. It's like they are stuck with the mentality that if it's not the meta, they will report. A huge *****fest for the metagame.

Yesterday, I had a game where I wanted to play as AP Janna in mid. The Morganna on my team was telling me she'd report me for trolling if we shared mid. I don't see anywhere that says you can report for sharing mid. Someone on my team dodged and on the next Champion Selection, I pick Janna and go against that same Morganna mid. She was screaming I'll report after game before the match even started. Guess who won the lane.
I did. Guess who won the game? My team. Guess who was still reported by Morganna? I was.

Today in DotA 2, I wanted to try something crazy. I wanted to go to mid-lane as Axe. No one threatened to report me. No one threatened to grief if I did. They just said aite cool and we started the game. I got lucky and was able to win, but no one said anything about how weird this strategy was. They even commended me for trying something new and making it work.

The average LoL player has a closed mindset towards anything Meta-breaking. Anything that is not a top tier pick is grounds for reporting according to them. I don't know about you, but I think this needs to change.

When DotA2's competitive scene grows, you'll see the same thing happen with their community's "mindset"

I've noticed that the dota2 community is a lot nicer because it's smaller and because the meta in Dota doesn't seem to be as defined. People in that game actually try to help you for the most part, and once I raged for like 10 mins straight and the worse insult I got was " You're 1-x man", never was called noob or stupid or retarded.

Going mid with Axe isn't that far fetched. . . Since he has a long range DoT that gives you an MS buff. . .

Why do people care so much about false reports? As long as you do well, people shouldn't mind. Now, if you go AS Maokai, and you feed 0-10-3, expect to be reported and probably punished.

If you feel confident, do it (:

probably has to do with most people not knowing how to play Dota so they see something and assume that it's "correct"

In Dota, they would just blacklist you from their host server. Eventually you'd have no where to play.