Okay, so I am very biased towards this game, but it’s a part of our family name at this point. I have spent countless hours at cybercafes with my little brother and big sister playing this game. Even our parents who aren’t really into gaming watch a lot of the eSports scene. I have met a lot of degenerates and awesome people and also downright unusual people on this game, like one time I met this Vietnamese 6 year old in Archon rank (6 and playing DOTA to a rank that high), a friendly ass guy from Thailand who is actually one of my good friends for online gaming now and a murderer from Myanmar. SEA server sure is a place huh. The balance is actually really good for a competitive game. Not a single hero feels bad to play (to me at least). The gameplay mechanics are also very in depth and the skill ceiling is very high: it always feels like you can improve at one aspect or another. I have 2.1k hours in this game and can say I have never gotten past Legend.



However, the game is held back by one big thing: how high the barrier to entry has gotten. You just cannot start anymore. While I love how indepth the mechanics are it also makes starting the game insanely hard, I kid you not when I started the game I was brainlessly fighting enemies under their tower just for kills since I thought that was what you did: play a team deathmatch. Even kids in my school who played other mobas tried the game but found it way too complex.



Overall I wouldn’t recommend it to anyone with a life due to required time devotion but if you want to try it go ahead but be warned of how hard the game is for new players even if you’ve played games like League before.