Free Content
The biggest difference between League of Legends and DotA 2 is the kind of paid-for content.
- In DotA 2 you can play all the heroes available for free. You only pay for optional items that change the appearance of your heroes. All prices are given in Euro. The content created by the Community, a portion of the proceeds goes to the Creator of the article.
- League of Legends, it provides you with a week ten Champions available to play for free. These vary from week to week. If you want to play a Champion permanently, you need to buy this. This goes with either influence points, you will earn a chore to Play through, or with real money and purchase the Riot Points. In addition, each Champion's Skins that change the appearance. Skins you can buy with Riot Points.

LoL-Champion-Shop
Runes, masteries and skills
- In League of Legends, you will enhance with runes and masteries your profile. Each Rune and each championship brings you a permanent Bonus, for example, "+ 0.25 attack speed". Runes you need to buy with influence points with each Level-up you receive a mastery point which you can distribute to your liking.
- In addition, you can specify before the beginning of the game two special skills - for example, "teleport", "Heal". Also, you can teleport with "recall" at any time in the base of the tele. DotA 2 does not have runes and masteries, even the special abilities. Only the Items "Teleport Scroll" and "Boots of Travel" teleport back to the base or to an allied building.

The available skills
Other Differences
- The skills of the "League of Legends"Champions are generally weaker than the DotA heroes, but a shorter Cooldown.
- In DotA 2 there is in addition to the Shop at the base (blue in the picture) the Side-Shop (yellow) and the Secret Shop (red). The Side-Shop located at the corners of the Top and Bottom Lane, the Secret Shot in the Jungle. You can also get Items by courier deliver.
- Inhibitors (League of Legends) are built up again after some time, barracks (DotA 2) remain permanently destroyed.
- You can attack in DotA 2 friendly units and buildings in order to "denyen" to kill the self means, or to destroy, so the enemy gets no experience.

Position of the DotA Shops