#mobas

[alphamecha-mkii]

Spacecraft 2000-2100 - Mobile Armored Strongpoint (MOBAS) by Alan Daniels

[ridragon]

League of Legends should be overtaken by otherkin and therians because they have like. All of the biggest categories and you could choose to main just that kind of animal depending. Canines or werewolf? Three choices not including cosmetic skins turning the champion into a dog. Felines? One character is literally titled "the magical cat." Mermaidkin? There's one. Vampire? Multiple. THREE DRAGONS! Many Eldritch horrors. A sorta manta ray woman.

[hundchentanque]

So I've finally started playing DOTA 2 thanks to Riot games putting Kernel level anticheat in league and the wonderful @sophie-spouting-specific-sighs guiding me through the initial hurdles.

Omniknight :3 I love this man so fucking much, the only thing that could make me love him more is if I put fucking skullbasher on him and make his attacks stun people. He and Legion Commander are becoming my two mains in this game, with him being my defacto go to whenever I want to and whenever he is needed. I love this goober so much.

[mattdemers]

Nice to see more esports people blogging.

Aui_2000 won The International (Dota 2's world championship) this year as a coach, and won in 2015 as a player. He went through this year as a bit of a retrospective, and covered a couple insightful things about teambuilding.

Nice read for people interested in the competitive side of esports, but might have a bit of specificity towards Dota 2.

[4lejandromagno]

[mygamereview]

From DOTA (2003) to League of Legends (2009): the Original Items Collection (Part 2)

Radiance (DOTA) vs Sunfire Cap (LoL)

Radiance is an item that inflicts 40 damage per second to nearby enemies. Sunfire Aegis in its earliest versions also inflicted roughly 40 damage per second to nearby enemies.

Eaglehorn (DOTA) vs Recurve Bow (LoL)

Eaglehorn confers 25 points of agility / attack speed to DOTA heroes. The recurve bow more or less does the same thing. With a single primary stat modifier, they're both unremarkable, but very similar.

Shiva's Guard (DOTA) vs Frozen Heart (LoL)

Their key functions are identical; they both offset physical damage, boost mana of user, and penalize nearby enemy units by slowing their attacks by 15-20%. Frozen Heart has accumulated additional attributes over the years, but retains the principle functions of Shiva's Guard. Shiva's Guard hails back to the days of WC III; so it is more or less the father of Frozen Heart.

The artwork for Shiva's Guard was lifted from the Warcraft III game. It served as an icon for a principle upgrade for the night elves.

Circlet of Nobility (DOTA) vs Crown of the Shattered (LoL)

Circlet gives a general boost to stats. Crown more or less does the same thing, at significantly higher values. Neither directly confers to attack stats, but serve to confer basic stat boosts to users. Their artwork is proximate, modelled on the same concept: a headband with a green gem front and center.

Lothar's Edge (DOTA) vs Hearthbound Axe

Lother's Edge is one of the few axes in DOTA that confers both attack damage, attack speed, and a special ability that increase move speed by 20%. Hearthbound Axe also confers attack damage, attack speed, and a "unique" attribute that increases move speed by 20. Their stat modifiers vary by value, but functionally are the same.

Note: WC III images are the property of Microsoft / Blizzard. WC III images employed in DOTA game are the property of Microsoft / Blizzard.

Backstory: DOTA is a WC III mod that got away from Blizzard, generating or inspiring future MOBA games. In response: Blizzard made it generally impossible for Blizzard users to "own" any custom game they create using Blizzard game tools. This makes sense: Blizzard is a business and generally does not support its competitors present or future. LoL is an unintended side-effect of Blizzard's free game editing tools. So, Blizzard indirectly created a competitor that consistently competes with their games in terms of user registrations and micro-sales.

"Gaming has no plagiarism like League of Legends." - Eugene Beatty

[thesocklesswonder]

I n the tags, tell me which game(s) and what hurts (and would you do it again). Please reblog - thanks!

For me, I played botw, acnh, and stardew until my thumb tendons threatened to explode. I'll probs do it again lol

[never-obsolete]

PC Gamer - May 2012

[blee-bleep]

ngl kitten, mommy nature is having a bad time rn

[fujii-draws]

IM SOBBING

MFW ME AND MY FRIEND ACCIDENTALLY ADOPT THE ENEMY TEAM EEVEE

(+Extra of my aggressive mewtwo friend actually getting attached to this dog.)

[kanataueda]

via twitter / @uraniwamoviecom

[avengedog]

Rutger's popping in

Some Gigantic fanart, to celebrate its return!

[thegentlemancollects]

[cyellolemon]

AMBROSE AND OLIVE!!!! SILLIES :)

[mirakurutaimu]

HAHAHA holy shit this void on the other team was flaming his team in allchat the entire game going on insane tirades and calling people slurs and shit, reported him and got confirmation that it went through not half an hour later

[gekinetic]