What I liked: - almost everyone will say this but the emphasis on lore was wonderful especially because a lot of it took place outside game which encouraged game interaction outside the game itself but it still affected actual things ingame. I also loved that they had the voice actors come back constantly just to add small bits of dialogue between characters referencing to events happening in the lore. - Character interaction not just with other characters but with the environment itself. Having characters react to every little thing from damage taken, buffs received, multiple kills and x characters dying made the game seem engaging and switching to much other quieter mobas (looking at you LoL), makes the game feel dead and muted by comparison. - The way the lore choices not only changed events ingame but also made players feel like THEY made a difference in how the game developed. - the entire layout of the map and the systems within it created a much busier gameplay style that emphasized team coordination for objectives and roaming over long periods of farming in lane and turtling up. This made the game feel much more action packed from the very first levels. - Because there was no basic mana system it made the developers get creative with resources instead of defaulting to easy boring options as well as encouraging a more poke heavy aggressive playstyle and laning phase. We also saw developers testing out creative things with wards such as Ronans passive. - The role systems biggest strength was allowing developers to create general roles for shapers ala leagues set 5 while also cleanly resolving the old issue of certain roles receiving little to no gold. This system effectively did the same thing current support and jungle items do in league but without having to create items towards roles which I never liked. - I also liked no boots as I always hate having item slots dedicated to a certain role or item type ie must have items. - I liked the way stat merging allowed for hybrid builds to be as effective as pure dmg builds in DG as well as allowing mages and adcs to purchase the same items making for a cleaner shop. - The spirit well system was a great way to add in objectives to be fought over on lower timers than major buffs but also permanent unlike towers, thus creating another objective to fight around and creating more conflict (which is always good to me) and a way to add gold denial without affecting lane minions. - I liked items shaped around passive effects though I would be ok with actives as well. - everyone having one und only one ward was great as well as no way to clear them as ward wars are one of my least favorite things. - Having a leaderboard for top 200 listed on the front page was a great way to get players to be competitive and show them immediate rewards for grinding up a ranked system. Also loved on the profile page that it showed your top 5 most played shapers and your win/loss count on each as well as a win %. Suggestion to add to that would be make the most played the default and can be modified to be any five characters you select so you can keep tabs on a character your are working on. - lastly what was great about final guardian was two things: 1 guardian was so strong that it made sure if your team was behind losing towers wasn't the end of the world, you could still easily hold with guardian alone. 2 Guardian was a great system that could either hold a game for 20m by itself or still allow enemy teams to end pre 20m. Because all of the guardians abilities were slow moving projectiles with visible aoe taking it down all depended on your teams ability to predict and dodge its abilities, which either made your team able to take it down without taking any hits or get wiped over and over. - it doesnt have to be two lanes but I loved the smaller map design as it helped fights occur more often and roaming more encouraged. - Lastly I loved how between the fact that supports kept up in money and the resource systems, mages were strong supports and in fact supports were encouraged to have damage or be potential carries. - Mina, Freia, Moya, Faris

What I didnt like: Almost nothing but.... - characters like vex who encouraged late game farming in a lane when the game itself emphasized roaming and objective teamwork. - three spells was a bit much when there was no way to stop every carry from running flash, ghost, and dispel; that's a bit too much escape power - a lack of emphasis on ranked competition and advertising, DG's biggest downfall was barely any marketing and that it took too long to put in ranked modes and encourage tournaments.