Dota 2 skill floor and ceiling are far higher than League. League pros wouldn’t be able to even touch Dota 2 at a competitive level.
The worst metas are the ones where the strong heroes can completely 1v9 dominate a game if the player is a smurf. Tinker, Arc Warden, Meepo, anything that can split push hard while also killing everyone without there being anything you can do, against them you can’t win through teamfighting and you can’t win through splitpushing.
Tried to play Lifestealer last night, enemy CK just did anything I could do but better. Bursts harder, lifesteals harder, crits harder. His armor shred wrecks Lifestealers low armor down to nothing. I was at a complete loss as to what to buy or what to do, I felt so unbelievably useless and helpless.
But he has to dump 2 charges onto the wave while staying in range to do so, which is just strictly inferior to Viktor doing the same with with one button press that he can walk away from.
No, none. It’s not even close. There’s a reason why you never send the ADC to match a splitpushing bruiser at any point in the game. Jax will just helicopter perma-E dodge every attack, Fiora can do 100% max health true damage with vitals, Yi will easily win once he gets inside Q range, which happily outranges almost all ADCs, and gapcloses any ADC that takes the time to launch a single autoattack.