2011-07-31, 04:44 AM
Even Wrote:Because its not the same game, I never looked at LoL as a moba game, even tho it is. Its nothing near dota and hon, the only thing they have in common is the fact that you controll one hero. In LoL you can have duplicated heroes in all modes while in dota and hon you have to pick a certain mode to get that but its not used competitively. If the picking pool becomes minimal for a competitive player and the enemy knows this, they can just ban the heroes hes really good with and he have to pick a hero that the player is only decent with. For example [MSI]N0tail plays a really good pollywog priest (rhasta) but if the enemy bans that hero he will be forced to play something that hes decent with instead for example tundra (beastmaster).
If you played dota you know what Im talking about because how would you react if you couldnt pick slardar to counterpick stealth assassin? Or witch doctor to counter pick pudge?
If you really want to understand how important picking in hon is then I recommend you to watch this video http://www.own3d.tv/video/156362/_855_-_...SI_Fly_1_2
actually there is no all pick in ranked games in league of legends. it's bans + draft mode. it's just that you all don't pick at the same time and you have to lock in before anyone else can choose.
however, i agree that team composition is more important in hon than it is in lol. but team composition is still pretty damn important in lol. you can't just choose willy nilly and expect to win more than half your games. i played a rank game where we had a balanced team comp and the other team only had late game attack and mage heroes - no tanks or supports at all. we roflstomped them, it wasn't even close. they were forced to concede right at 20 minutes. then just today was the same situation where we had a balanced team comp, but this time the other team had 3 supports and 2 mages. we beat them pretty handily in every team fight because they didn't have enough cc or damage. all they had was sustain, which doesn't help when you have 2 mages on your team as the only source of damage.