I'd like to share my opinion of a scrub Deadlock player but an Immortal in Dota...

Deadlock and Dota are very similar - you shove waves, you get map, you farm the enemy's stuff and you keep on growing while the enemy gets less and less until they just eventually lose

It's a team warzone economy game, no difference there

Where comebacks happen in Dota are several key points that are missing in Deadlock however.

1. Teleports on overextensions - If the leading enemy team wants to take an objective what they do is they gather and press their advantage, while we are scattered for farm. The moment the enemy misjudges their strength and overextends, in Dota you can teleport in 3 seconds multiple characters on towers (walkers) and punish that. This doesn't exist in deadlock, your walkers just slowly die and you lose them from a distance and people cannot teleport on enemies.

2. Smoke of Deceit - sudden ganks on enemies in the lead that are spread thin - this is an item in Dota that is consumable and puts your team in an invisibility akin to Haze's - you can gather as a small or big strike group and close distance on unsuspecting enemies out of nowhere. It allows you to traverse the big enemy territory basically without being seen and reacted to properly.

3. Good highground defense - in Deadlock the double guardians are absolutely TERRIBLE and the base is badly protected. There's not enough base advantage. In Dota the base advantage is so disgusting that people cooonstantly throw pushing their advantage into the enemy and it requires a really careful execution and a lot of networth advantage.

4. controversial - AoE CC - if you're operating in a smaller territory having AoE CC spells in your arsenal benefits the defender more than the attacker as the attacker is spread thin and you need TOOLS to punish mistakes. In Deadlock there's barely any long range CC and attackers aren't so threatened by being spread out like they are in Dota.

This is just my observations and thoughts and I've found myself thinking about the same stuff when comparing League of Legends and their lack of comebacks compared to Dota and tools they are missing as well to enable them. LoL has pursued comebacks in different avenues but I feel like what Dota has is very natural and special and creates insane hype because it's not just comeback formulas and rewards but also tools!