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Dota 2 vs. League of Legends: Updating the numbers

League of Legends just hit monthly user milestone, Dota 2 just hosted one of the most successful tournaments of all time, but how do the numbers compare in 2016? The world’s top two MOBA, sharing one of the biggest markets, are often compared neck and neck by not only what type of players frequent each game, but how many players are actively playing.

In 2014, eSports enthusiast Zoe Hawkins compared the two by numbers, and today I’d like to give an update to see just how far we’ve come in two years. I’ll follow a similar structure as I feel the original post encompasses the important aspects.

Number of players

On September 13th, Riot co-owners Marc Merrill and Brandon Beck told Polygon that they’d estimate League’s active monthly player base at around 100 million. While they haven’t released a statement regarding the peak concurrent users, there is a rough 33% increase annually, which means that number should sit around 13-14 million peak concurrent players. Don’t take the number to heart as it’s just my maths, and not official.

Dota 2 is slightly easier to track with Steam Charts offering an updated number of players frequently. August 2016, after the International, Dota 2 saw an average of 635,795, with Peak players at 1,117,519. The number is still surprisingly lower than League of Legends, even though their number has not been officially released yet. According to Dota 2’s official Blog, the unique players in the last month is currently over 13 million, which is a significant increase since the last time we talked numbers. If my maths is correct, that’s on average 87 million less than League of Legends.

The most surprising deduction from the above figures is that even though League of Legends is not strictly free-to-play (in-game purchases, heroes, skins, etc), they still outmatch Dota 2 on a monthly basis.

Prize Money

League of Legends offers a unique monetary system for players and organizations involved in the LCS. The LCS is the League Championship Series, which involves a circuit of professional tournaments paying out at each competition. The players who are part of the LCS also receive a salary, so this comparison is tough one to make. In 2015 the LCS World Championships had a prize pool of $2.13 million, while the crowd funded Dota 2 International 2015 prize pool sat at $18.4 million.

In latest 2015 Valve instated the Majors which paid out $3 million each (there were three). The International 2016, which ended in August, had a whopping $20.7 million prize pool, which is the highest prize pool for any eSports, to date.

The overall numbers speak for themselves, as well as the highest earning eSports players are mostly Dota 2, according to eSports Earnings, who make up the top 55 players in the World. While it seems Dota 2 is winning by a mile, we cannot forget that League of Legends has a very unique system comparable to conventional sports and it’s hard to gauge which title offers the bigger prizes. However, in terms of tournament winnings, Dota 2 takes this one.

Viewership

The most recent data showcasing League viewership came from the 2015 LCS World Championship where League boasted an all-time recording breaking viewership. Below is an extraction from their official statement on 2015 Viewership:

Total cumulative daily unique impressions (the amount of unique viewers that tuned in every day via online and television channels) reached 334 million over the four weeks (from 288 million in 2014). In fact, over the course of all 73 games, we saw an average concurrent viewership (ACU) of over 4.2 million, with the average fan watching for well over an hour per viewing session.

And for the Grand Final:

For the final between SKT and Koo Tigers in Berlin’s Mercedes-Benz Arena, peak concurrent viewership (PCU – the highest number of fans tuned in at any one point) was 14 million – up from 11 million in 2014. Overall, the unique viewer count for the Final was 36 million – a record-breaking high for any esports event and a climb from last year’s Samsung White-Royal Club matchup at Sangam Stadium which drew 27 million unique viewers.

Dota 2’s 2015 International brought in roughly 20 million viewers, after their partnership with ESPN for TI5. This number is still considerably low when comparing League’s performance in 2015, but with a larger player base comes larger viewers.

While we would have to wait for the 2016 World Championships (starting next month) to compare it directly to the International 2016, we can compare their numbers to the above shown information. Valve have not released the exact numbers for the 2016 Dota 2 International, but Dota 2 did top the Twitch. tv charts in August with over 33.2 million hours watched. The one number released was for the opening match of the International which brought in 1.1 million viewers.

Rising Competition

If we take a look at the two titles, operating in the same genre, there isn’t any real competition. Smite (the last comapred title) has fallen off considerably, and the only title which now somewhat comes close is Overwatch which has seen considerable growth over the past few months. Overwatch, however, is still in its infancy, and while the numbers are growing, they are still miles away from. For the Atlantic Showdown which took place at Gamescom, Overwatch pulled in 75,000 concurrent viewers. The ELEAGUE Overwatch Open kicks off next month, and again this will truly gauge whether this eSport can compete.

So, from the above numbers it seems League of Legends is still the dominant MOBA, with Dota 2 forever trailing. However, we’d like you fight it out in the comments.

Malevolent Naix (lane)

DotA2 Hero: Lifestealer

Purchase Order

Start

Only if you get before 7 min

Extension/Situational

Hero Skills

Feast

Open Wounds

Infest

Talents

Malevolent Naix (lane)

1.	Pros and Cons
2.	Start Itens
3.	Core
4.	Core extension/Situationals
5.	General Gameplay
6.	Skills Comments

Pros and Cons

Good jungler
Best lifesteal ability in game
Good 1v1
Hard to kill mid-late game(very tanky and has “free bkb”)
Great carry
Easy to farm with
Not so item dependent

Cons
Low attack speed
Small mana pool
normally easily countered by bane.

– enemy has high hp str carry like alch, sven, sk, balanar, etc
– your team need a versatile tank

Start Itens

You will need this for the last hitting process since you’ll be harrassed.
Often i just w8 few seconds after the begging and buy a queling blade at side shop, because it helps a lot, but this is optional.

If you think you wont be so much harassed, another start build option is Gaunlets + tango + Healing salve + 3iron branches. You will get a nice stats boost (more life, dmg and mana) and also gaunlets can be used to build drums after.

Midas is great item especially before 5,6 min but 7,8 min is still ok. It grants you IAS and will help you farm and lvl up more.

Orb of Venom: its a great item on naix especially if you want to go agressive and try some kills early. The slow synergizes well with your skill and the extra damage over time is nice too.

Phase Boots: I used to buy power treads for naix, but then I realized that phase boots is a lot better. With treads you have more AS, but quite often, enemy heros managed to escape with red hp wich frustrated me a lot. So i tried buying phase boots, and the result was amazing: nobody can escape open woounds + phase boots! Also, the +24 dmg make a huge diference in early game last hitting. So i really recomend you to buy phase over treads, at least give it a try! (note: now that open wounds has limited range, phase boots is a MUST for naix)

Armlet of mordiggan is a MUST. For strenght hero, is one of the best dota benefit/cost item.
It will give you AS, armor, dmg and hp regeneration.
Your lifesteal skills will counter the side-effect of -40hp/sec. And if you need a fast heal just ult in a creep.

Orchid Malevolence is an awesome item on naix. Lots of pro players builds this for lifestealer for these reasons:

1) it gives a REALLY NEEDED mana pool (25*19=475 mana) and regen (150%) so you will be able to cast all your spells everytime you need them.
2) It gives you 30 attack speed, that synergizes with your passive.
3) It gives you 30 damage.
4) It amplifies 25% on the target!!
5) AND its silence is a pretty nice disable. It is ALWAYS good to silence enemys: Imagine yourself against a hero with escape skill like, magina, qop, gondar, etc. You silence them, they will panic they cant run! or imagine silencing a nuker, he will be useless against your 6 sec rage + 5 sec silence! Also in teamfights, silencing key heros can be game breaker.

[b]Skull basher[/b] because of its bash wich synergizes with the IAS of rage. and It will be devasting especially after your Hyperstone!

Note:Drums is a great item. A must in competitive games. But in pubs you can skip it.

Core extension/Situationals

For core extension, you may consider assault cuirass or mjolnir. because the IAS synergizes with your passive skill.

I almost always go for AC, because it gives you a HUGE armor, making you even more tanky. and the -5 armor aura is rly nice and amplifies even more the extra dmg from your passive and malevolence!

I only go for mjolnir if someone is already doing AC. since it dont stack.

Abyssal is really a good option too especially to shutdown another enemy hard carry holding a bkb and because you already have skull basher (saving slots!). Also in that same “counter enemy scenario” you can think in buying Heavens Halberd or Blade mail.

Tarrasque is always a great choice for str heros.

I go daedelus when my oponents dont have high hp.

Think of bkb if the other team has a lot of disables and rage isnt enough.

MKB when i need to counter evasion.

With naix, I prefer going AC rather than Desolator, but its still a good choice.

General Gameplay

Naix is a great farmer. Last hitting with him is very easy.
Lane is a lot better then jungle because you can set up some kills early on, because you rage and open wounds.

Try to finish your phase boots and armlet at 15min max and after that you must profit from his excellent mid game presence.

Always carry tp scroll with you in case a teamfight happens (especially if you already have armlet). Dont hesitate to tp to another lane who has enemy creeps for free farm.

Skills Comments

Rage
“Your free Black King Bar, furnished with a temporary Hyper-Hyperstone ! Because you have an ultra-low casting animation, you can press on Rage’s hotkey at the last moment in order to avoid that projectile spell.

This skill, combined with Feast and the right items, allows you to deal effectively with heavy tanks, carries and support heroes, as I’ll elaborate later.”