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It's sort of casual in a good way

Published December 11, 2015
4 out of 5 starsScore: 80/100

I didn't finish too many games this year, and this game is mostly to blame. I think I'm at about 400 matches played and I'm still playing 1-3 matches daily.

This game is at it's most basic just another MOBA/DOTA clone it plays very similarly to LoL and DOTA 2 with 2 key exceptions:

-The team levels up not the individual.

-The game takes place on many varied maps.

I love the different maps and different objectives it makes the game a lot more strategic compared to it's competition.

The team leveling I have mixed feelings about; it's a great mechanic to prop up the new players and the not so good players to ensure they can contribute throughout the entire match; if you have a bad start you can recover in some situations; very rarely do you ever get the feeling that you have lost or won the match in the first 5 minutes in this game which seemed to happen all the time in LoL. While it's great to prop up the new players, it also has the effect of holding down the top performers, I remember having matches in LoL where I felt like I had almost single handedly won the game for my team because I was able to outlevel in my lane and turn that into a steamroll of ganks in all lanes; that never happens in this game, there are never any bad games, but there are also very rarely any exciting dominations either. More competitive but less exciting I guess.

One thing that I think this game got wrong is that the team level means far to much, if the other team gets more than a few levels ahead of you which can very easily happen due to one poor team fight, the rest of the game becomes very difficult.

I didn't think I'd get sucked into another one of these after 300+ hours of LoL and straight up hating DOTA 2, but here I am and it's great.

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