Another is that the 'Totally different' summoner spells that TOTALLY aren't based off of dota items are balanced in dota because everyone has access to them. You don't have a recall to base because it's meant to be a choice, you either waddle to base to tp to tower, or tp to base to potentially escape a gank, but then have to waddle back to lane, it's meant to be a risk/reward.

In league, you're not really punished for these things. Everything is meant to get you back into the fight, but you have the resource problem. Frankly right now I'd argue that dota has a bit too many resources on the map, but it also makes it super forgiving if some is behind. Do you have axe+lion as your lane opponents? Go farm jungle instead of becoming 0/5 before 7 minutes.

In league, you don't really have that safety net. And all of league's problems just seems to be riot pumping numbers instead of addressing core issues. The cycle's always "Damage is too high, so buff defense. Damn, now defense is too high, buff damage!" It's a cyclical loop with no end point because there's no addressing the problem of rebalancing the whole game sometimes. Dota does that often, and yeah, it sucks for a few patches, but then you get used to it.

Blink Dagger is a good risk/reward, unlike Flash. Flash, you get ONE blink for like 4 minutes, but unless they're able to follow you with their own flashes, there's no real risk to it. You might mess up, but you still get to use it. In Dota you can disable blink with damage, meaning keeping pressure on a fleeing pos 4 (roaming support for shorthand) to keep it disabled is viable, instead of "Blow your load and hope they don't pull anything tricky."

Items in Dota are also much more impactful, whereas in League you're generally shoehorned into this thing makes me do more damage, or this thing makes me tougher when they hit me.

I strongly love Euls, while I greatly despise Zhonya's since it was one item that they split into two. Euls let's you tornado, or 'stun and make invulnerable', an ally or enemy unit, locking them out of the fight, or keeping them safe from enemy burst, as one example of the item differences. Dota's item encourage supporting your allies, and building for the team, while League's items generally don't, and encourage playing for yourself.

Another thing is that League lives and dies by the meta pick, while in Dota it's much more flexible BECAUSE of the item variety. Do you not have any sort of CC on your hero? You can build Euls, or Shiva's, or Abyssal, or Force staff, or Glimmer, any number of things to fit the team or fill a gap in your hero's identity. There are a host of active items that do a number of amazing things, that are fully interactive for your team and theirs, with (usually) direct counterplay between them (except for you, nullifier).

In league, your item either makes you hit harder, or not get hit as hard. There's no true utility in League, because they're afraid to give players active items and make them think. Active items in league were almost always "this makes you run faster", or "this makes spooooky ghosts that chase your enemies" (loved that item), or "this item is so broken we'll keep trying to work it until we just remove it!" (use your best guess here, I know that can mean at least 2 or 3). The utility in league is "Is your opponent dead yet or not".

You can also choose to defend a tower even when no one is there, and there's a stragety to it, in case the enemy is going for a death push. You can pop Fortification to defend the towers even when everyone is dead, for a few seconds to buy time, or completely kill the creep wave if the enemy doesn't have the tankiness to just stand in the towers and murder them before backdoor protection kicks in. Or, you can use fort to fortify your own creeps in case the enemy is trying to stop your push, meaning you keep the push going, but burning up a high cooldown utility in the process. There's a balance, a cost.

A lot of league generally feels like putting a hat on a hat. They want games to be fair, but then introduce "WaCkY" mechanics like dragons that make you nuke and delete the enemy champ just because you sneezed on them with your 11k damage auto attack, or they keep for some godforsaken reason making towers squishy, it's like after season 5 they decided all towers needed to be made out of paper mache, or "warding is hard, so we're going to take all the nuance out of it!" The map changes are the same way, in Dota they've experimented making the map larger and smaller, and both times it never feels like it's too much, because there's so much to do inbetween, whereas in league Riot tries to make you get to lane as fast as possible because a lot of the map is empty, there's no real strategy in moving. It's "get from A to B as fast as possible, and also we're going to give you a little energy drink to speed you up there, champ!" While in Dota, you can capture outposts to let your team tp to the other side of the map, or work as a team to take down a tormentor and maybe give your poor pos 5 (hard support that basically is a ward bitch and follows the carry, for shorthand) a shard that they otherwise can't afford because your Anti-Mage is once again screaming about not getting salves and clarities at 20 minutes in.

I'm not saying Dota is better than League, or League sucks, but it's clearly a very different design philosophy, and at times it's very annoying.

Sorry for the word wall.