How Heroes of the Storm compares to LoL and Dota 2

Here is a last list of things that didn’t really fit into anything I mentioned before, but are still important distinctions from the usual formula:

Mounts: Every hero can ride a mount by pressing Z and channeling for a few seconds. The mount will give you increased movement speed until you attack or take damage, and cosmetically different mounts can be purchased or earned.

Stealth: Certain heroes can go invisible, but there will be a telltale shimmer visible to the enemy wherever they walk. There are a few heroes who can also detect stealthed enemies, but mainly you can outplay or be outplayed by a stealthed hero based solely on how close you are paying attention.

Vision and wards: Some heroes have access to talent that gives you a ward-like item, letting you place a totem down that provides vision of the area for one minute, but otherwise the only extra map vision you can get is by controlling watchtowers or certain hero abilities. Vision is, in general, slightly less important than in LoL or Dota, as you will usually be heading towards the same objectives as your opponents and because, as mentioned, you can see when a merc camp is taken. Shorter matches, grouped teams, and the lack of a jungler all tend to make your own team’s positioning more important than knowing exactly where the enemy team is.

Healing Orbs: There are seven minions in each wave; three melee, three archers, and a mage. When you kill the mage, it drops a healing orb for your team that will give nearby friendly heroes a small boost of health and mana.There is also a level one talent for some support heroes that will permanently increase your mana regeneration for every three healing orbs you collect.

Playing Heroes: Like League of Legends, there is a weekly free hero rotation and to play a hero permanently you have to buy it with in-game gold or real money. However, you can test out any Hero you’d like against AI in a special, one-lane map that lets you level up on command and reset your cooldowns. 

There are, of course, more small differences. Heroes of the Storm is a different game, after all. It’s free-to-play and going into full release on June 2nd.

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How Heroes of the Storm compares to LoL and Dota 2