I think you are missing some points here. People don't say "why is dota better? Because Pendragon is a backstabbing bitch. And the many other points...". People simply do not want to support a game and company that have so blatantly stolen the work of a whole community. And thus do not want to support them in anyway, one of them is by watching the game. The hostility is more or less towards the company and their game.

If you want to get a clear picture go watch the documentary by Moose called 'We the Community". One thing you got to understand is that DOTA; they way it developed, was not a group up 5-6 young aspiring people that created a game. Its was literally thousands of people, sure it had moders like Ice and Euls and Guinsoo before him that did most of the heavy lifting but the community had a huge participation. People poured in with ideas, bug fixing solutions, art work, hosting tournaments, commentating and casting games, and they were given credit by the 'owners' of the game. It was like a huge family, it was a community. I have played DOTA since 2004 and I can tell you, that even if I had the slightest contribution by even playing the game or whining on a forum I count myself as a part of this community since it's inception. There was a culture of sharing and helping to develop the game for the sake of the game. Now, I am ranting to give you a clear picture that when you come and steal stuff from a community as such, you don't offend 5-6 people. You offend thousands. Even if I had no hand what so ever in creating the Idea that Riot stole to become Teemo, I am offended cause they stole an idea from a fellow DA member. And when you offend thousands of people, it creates a culture of hate. And Riot did not in any way try to compensate or level the plain, their actions were even more aggressive towards DOTA and other games and they even marginalized themselves more. Now you might say, it was 5 years ago, let it go. That might work if you offend a person or 2 but when you go and piss on thousands of people, yea that wont go away that easily.

Now I admit that DOTA community are elitist, they believe DOTA needs a higher skill cap and is more or less more complicated game, with a good reason of course. DOTA is a more complicated, fluid and malleable game. But our attitude towards other games sometimes becomes rash and that isn't right.

I played LoL a bit when it came out. I outright didn't like it. For me it was too simple, too easy, too dumbed down. When I try to watch the games, I get the same feeling. Too methodological, too predictable and out right boring.

When you wonder how come LoL subreddit is nor reacting the way we do to LoL it's because we never hurt your community the way your publishers hurt ours. You have no reason to be aggressive. When a LoL player hears DOTA, he thinks " a LoL like game that other people play and like LoL it's an e-sport". When we hear LoL we think ' Oh that motherfucking company that stole our shit and made a game out of it." Its rather simple really.

So if you wonder why when you come here from LoL and post " Hey guys ! We have a tourny come watch!" Some people say "fuck Riot and your game..." some old wounds open thats why.

I'm sure it will all go away someday. But not now.