Resolution: Dota 2 is a better game than League of Legends

I will try to counter the arguments posted in disfavor of League of Legends in this debate. Having no knowledge of the fan heroes of League of Legends is not an indicator of their absence. Go and chess are very popular games. I know many chess players since I am a fan of chess and I actively play on the internet. On the other hand there are many popular go players in history which are familiar names for players of go. But I have a very fuzzy picture of the most famous of them. I know that Go Seigen is the Garry Kasparov of go. But all the other players that I read about briefly I cannot remember. In chess I can name from memory all the players that were the best of their time starting from Gioachino Greco, Andres Danican Philidor, Le Bourdanaise, MacDonald, Staunton and Morphy that were in their prime even before the creation of an official title of world chess champion beginning with Steinitz. That is in no way a detraction of the best players in the history of go, and by analogy there must be many heroes of League of Legends that are not known to avid players of Dota2 and original Dota. The DFC Intelligence report that League of Legends would have a smaller player base than Dota2 has apparently been retracted[DFC_report_retraction]. Which leaves no doubt for now in the previous known data that League of Legends has an order of magnitude more active players than Dota2. The analogy between WoW-GW2 and LoL-Dota2 is I believe in favor of the argument that League of Legends is the better game. in that there is a comparison between a games with no monetary entrance as are GW2 and Dota2 and ones that have them like WoW and League of Legends. League of Legends has restricted access to the roster of heroes as opposed to Dota2 with no tumbling of popularity by that reason alone[LoL_restricted_features]. This is in the same way that WoW has a monthly fee as opposed to GW2. Having players join many more games in progress despite the restrictions is an indicator of the better game that is League of Legends because of the existing community. Freedom is similar to the restrictive features argument above since you can buy League of Legends and have all the freedom you want, you can play for free and be restricted or you can go to Dota2 and be free and unrestricted. People have been going in droves to League of Legends despite the so called freedom of Dota2. The two games have similar graphic requirements which makes that a nonissue. Also League of Legends being in a subjective way a worse looking game is no indicator of community success. According to Wikipedia sales numbers the first two popular handheld game consoles had a similar order of magnitude difference in sales. One of them was the Nintendo Gameboy with 100 million sales and shades of green screen, while the other was the Sega Game Gear with a colored and bigger screen. The argument of accessibility and depth is flawed because it is constructed around complexity. The complexity of the two games is similar even though there are some details that differ. What is important is that a player overcomes the initial learning curve required to start playing the game regularly when arguing in favor of one of the games. League of Legends has the community that drives the game forward by having the existing players want to teach their friends about the game. For the player coming to the game to meet and play with friends the finer details separating LoL and Dota2. They just want to understand what the fuss is about their friends newly found online time waster. [DFC_report_retraction] http://www.rockpapershotgun.com... [LoL_restricted_features] http://eune.leagueoflegends.com...