- There's no recall, it's buy your own portal scroll.
This adds another layer of complexity in itself, reduces passive game play that you see in lol in the laning phase making it a bit harder to get used to then lol. It is also easier to come back from a gank in lol due to no gold loss on death, that's why junglers don't gank as much as compared to dota2 (usually), except the fucking lone druids who spend 40 mins in the jungle thinking that is how to win a game.
- Much less metagame (no Masteries, Summoner Spells, Runes)
Actually dota2 has a incredibly dynamic meta game which is a pleasant change to the typical top mid duo bot and jungle with their respective typical champs. Junglers are not needed and the variety of 5 man comps allows for a ton of different strategies. While masteries are good, runes just feel like an ip sink which are needed to not suck. Oh yeah and fuck flash
- No need to unlock Champions (which is still a bit of an overwhelming choice to me)
Overwhelming but obviously better then having to unlock then
- IMO Item progression is much slower
This fits better with the metagame for dota then lol as there is less ned for strong items to be useful compared to lol except for carries and a few other heroes.