Hear me out. I’m not saying that DotA is better than League because of what makes DotA special compared to League. The stuff that exists in DotA only, like choosing where to farm, etc. 

I’m saying that DotA is now better than League at what League is all about. How fast you are DURING team fights. As in how fast you think, move, act, process information. Decision making speed. EVERYTHING. 

In DotA for example, you don’t just do the same things every single fight and hope for a better outcome this time because of team coordination. All of us together managed to pull it off this time because we stuck together at the right time. 

No, it’s about I activated smoke screen on Riki before my third ability. I cannot afford to use my abilities in the same order every single fight with disregard to what’s in front of me, and still be entitled to a win. 

Sometimes I need to smoke screen first. Sometimes if I used it prematurely, everybody now has BKB activated, and now it’s on cooldown. Totally wasted. If I had used my third ability to escape the sticky situation when everybody activated their BKB, I would’ve survived for a while, escaped with the invisibility of my ulti, and then waited their BKB out, and then I cast my smoke screen, and slow them with my diffusal blade, and ending up winning the fight. 

Each time this choice has to be made at the right millisecond, otherwise everything will be lost. A hard support wouldn’t understand this because they are squishy and easy to kill all game long, and it’s always unload your abilities real quick before you die otherwise you didn’t help your teammates at all and you lost anyway, so it doesn’t matter as much whether crystal maiden has cast crystal Nova first before she ulties or not. She’s gonna die anyway and the decision as to when exactly she should ulti will always come down to a leap of faith. It can work and it could turn out to be a huge mistake and there’s nothing that she can do to stop the enemy PA from chasing her until she dies. 

With someone like Riki or Slark for example, there are a gazillion things that you can do to escape the Phantom Assassin jump. Which means, if you’re fast enough, there’s always a decision that if you were good enough you’d be able to figure out under pressure in literally no time and end up winning because of it. Abyssal the PA, use my third ability, and then I’m invisible, someone on the enemy team activates dust and all blinks on me, I then throw smoke screen and launch my counter attack, and get a Rampage. 

I’m getting goosebumps just thinking about this. 

Speed matters when you’re an unkillable hard carry. As a support you just unload your stuff and hope for the best. You don’t have to be a genius to make it happen. It’s a coin toss. 

But as a carry, there’s always a decision that you can make that can turn everything upside down because you have the potential to be unkillable and kill everybody. 

Figuring out that right decision in no time is a super power that requires infinite processing speed and quick thinking like nothing I’ve ever seen my whole life. It can only happen in DotA, not any other game that exists or can exist out there, because all other games have predetermined outcomes, with no choices that can change the situation in front of you, because the concept of unkillability everywhere else is contingent upon tanking only, not on escape and manoeuvrability. Not on being untouchable and using super powers to escape the death sentence. Only carries in DotA have that chance compared to any other type of hero or any other game in the whole existence. 

Should I activate my ultimate now on Slark or should I wait a little bit more until I really need it to escape or secure the kill. 

It is not about how fast you click your buttons like everybody else thinks. 

It’s about when you click those buttons, as fast as humanly possible, otherwise, you lost. 

No game that has ever been created has that. At least none that I’m aware of. 

We’re sitting on a gold mine. And you guys are still debating farming patterns. 

We have the best strategy team fighting game of all time. Make the most of it.