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Originally Posted by Gospy
Why does it matter as long as people are watching?
It doesn't as far as Riot are concerned. The fanaticism there was/is for bw in Korea is going to be hard to match by any other e-sport but I don't know what the total viewing figures for those things were.
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Originally Posted by Gospy
How so? I don't play HoN but I've heard it's pretty badly balanced.
I haven't played LoL in a long time but from what I gather there are only a handful (say maybe 20-25) characters who are playable at the highest level. In HoN there is a much wider range of heroes who are playable, probably more like 30-40, with at most 1 or 2 perma-banned heroes.
Additionally the range of gameplay in HoN is much greater. There are more viable strategies and especially laning compositions and the structure and balance of the game allows for a more action packed game.
At lower levels I can see LoL being a more interesting and much easier game to get into (although personally I absolutely hate the type of f2p model they now both use) but for the competitive scene HoN is a much more interesting game to watch imo.
Edit: Having looked up some stats for HoN there were 60(!) different heroes banned or picked at least once during Dreamhack Winter. 33 of them were banned or picked in at least 10% of games, with only 1 above 90%.
Last edited by Willd; 01-21-2012 at 05:00 PM.