i played it for 3 weeks but it didn ' t really keep my interest . i played a lot of LoL in diamond and the deal breaker for me was not having to farm minions or buy items . i guess selecting the path for your skill tree slightly makes up for it . the biggest problem for me is the immediate effect of someone on your team doing poorly . for comparisonin LoL if someone on your team feeds you can still carry the game by having superior farmingsuperior itemizationmatching their kills . in hots the only way you can stay in contention is to match kills . which brings me to the second and most important aspect when you get ahead in your lane in LoL you benefit . when you do it in hots your entire team benefits . its a very snowbally game and of course LoL can be as well but if 1 person is fed on the opposing team you can try to avoid them , kill the weaker players to catch up , farm better than them , itemize better than them . those options are simply not available in hots .