Why Smite is better than League of Legends 

Smite is a great game, but the ranked system is crippled by the low player base. U can be bronze playing against plat simply because there’s no one playing. Smite would do great if there were people playing it

League does in fact have music on it's login screens, depending on what event/new champ will be on the front page it will play their theme song. The ''journey'' screen that doesn't have any music only shows up for people brand new to the game because it shows beginner missions etc.

I want a new video when Smite 2 comes out

instructions unclear, I downloaded dota 2 by mistake

I play League since 2012, once I tried smite , I was like, why tf we are not playing this instead of league ? Everything is better or funnier. I ended up playing both, but League more often. I think its the herd spirit, why everybody just stays with league.

I will open this by saying I played Smite a handful of times many years ago. Like I remember when Scylla was released. I was not good at the game or really even aware of how it worked on an in-depth level (was simply too young). From what I have seen in videos of Smite and gameplay commentary, I think I enjoy League more for a couple of reasons. The top-down camera perspective allows me to play the game more like a commander, and it fits the strategic elements of the game well. League is about micro (lane/jungle) and macro (map/team) level play, and rewards you for thinking about what you’re going to do. This may also be true for Smite, but it’s certainly true for League. I do enjoy 3rd person games, but I usually just play MMOs for that. League was a weird adjustment, but after getting used to it, I’ve grown to enjoy it. As for game modes, I do think Summoner’s Rift is simply a timeless classic. Because it’s the core game mode alongside ARAM, players have spent years learning every bit of detail about the map and how champions interact with it. From a gameplay perspective, I imagine I would like laning in Smite more than I would in League. I’m a jungle player because I like the freedom and control of the gamestate you have, but the different camera perspective may make lane play more exciting for me. The thing that really drew me into League in the first place are the characters and lore and in-game universe. I’m a big fantasy enjoyer, so all these crazy and diverse champions make the game so much fun to play. Smite has very cool characters as well, and some of the character designs are really awesome, I don’t want to discredit them. Smite is also (for the most part) set out of real mythology, whereas League is completely custom. Obviously there’s still tropes and repeated ideas, but most of the roster is iconic and entertaining. Some of League’s champs are a little forgettable in my opinion, though. Overall I can’t compare the two games, as I don’t play Smite. I always thought Smite looked a little… clunkier, almost? With models and graphics and whatnot. League’s older champions definitely fit that bill as well but the visuals for newer characters are amazing, not to mention all the music and incredible cinematics. Also they go all out for Worlds, League’s championship tournament, which I love. I’m not even crazy about e-sports, but it’s very cool.

I can agree that initially the 3rd person aspect of Smites combat gives you a much more "feel like im in the fight" gameplay, but overtime with league it pretty much feels like that too, especially with the newer champion kits. Fully agree with practice tool needing to add all champs and let us trial skins

I've been meaning to try Smite, pretty insightful video, short and straight to the point. Nice job X'3

Since nobody has mentioned this yet, League DID used to have two other game modes. Those being Twisted Treeline and Dominion. Twisted Treeline is a 3v3 map containing a smaller map with two lanes and a jungle in the middle. Dominion is similar to Arena in Smite but it is mostly a capture and control game mode. These two were unfortunately retired as official game modes in league sadly.

Great video! Good job! Until I pressed the sub button I thought you have like a 100k+ subs or something... you deserve it. Even tho I'm not completely agree with your arguments this was quality work. I've read some of the comments and a lot of people are disagree with you - that's amazing! You shouldn't take that as a bad sign or something. It's very good that you have your own oppinion. If you allow me I'll add some differences between both games. The community in league is very toxic and unfriendly, the smite community from the other side is the complete opposite. For me Smite was way much better than league in the beginning, now is the other way around. I think that the balance team in Smite did a poor job and kind of take out the fun of the game (I don't know how long have you played Smite - I perosnally play since open beta and have reached level of 160 and 80+ gods on rank10 several years ago so I have played a little bit), and the league balance team is doing their job way much better (not perfect for sure, but at least they try to make the game enjoyable). Maybe if you put some more hours in league you could appreciate it. Btw I don't know if you're familiar with that but the main reason why Smite is dead game (sadly for me) is because they don't have China market. Since there is religion reason the China version of the game is few patches behind and every god have some other name and story so it wont affect the real worshipers or something like that. Just because of this Smite was doomed. :(

To be honest I’ve played both a lot casually 100+ hours with that being said smite takes it for me. Smite is just more accessible and enjoyable for me i grew up a console player so there’s a lot of comfort when playing smite as comparison to LoL. Smite being third person allows for me to have an insane feel for the game when your mobility isn’t limited by a click, I saw a comment speaking on the excitement of LoL but they should know about how it feel to maneuvers so freely in the game allowing the ceiling for player position and fights to be higher and the fights more intense to add to this I think smite fights are way harder than league although league to me is about preemptively outplaying your opponent in a fight in smite a lot of the clashes are fast paced high pressure and best of all for me no clicking to move or hit someone oh yeah you have to AIM and hit shots so that’s another layer even if it’s a small one now characters items and their kits in both games balance wise to me are the same they’re mobas expect it thankfully I don’t have to talk cosmetics as presented in the video smite wipes the stain of brownie mud that is LoL. Now I understand if someone says to me well who plays smite and I’ll tell them it’s more niche than it’s big brothers dota and LoL due to it as a product not being sold to the public very well. What I’ll give LoL that smite doesn’t have is its little details omfg that sound when you kill a little minion tickling you is a amazing. LoL has a bigger community so its easier to get into since there’s a lot of guide channels and patch updates, smite doesn’t really have this type of community present and only few RU-vidrs really provide this insight also they’re not as entertaining (not gameplay just personality I have seen very few) I recommend these smite RU-vidrs mast & inters3ct. Mast is enjoyable to watch and honestly will fill the void of farming in a moba with cool conversations and inters3ct is THAT GUY for smite info, guides, and gameplay, I really wish we had a tyler1 or yk like jynxi with siege to bring more interest. I said earlier that as a product smite wasn’t sold very well, well the fact that we don’t have personality does not help people aren’t gonna play game unless it’s marketed well or personalities reel them in. Ty so much for your time.

Btw, you have a chance to get random skins via skin shards for free just by playing the game - same with champion/champion shards. You can also get 960-1200 blue essence for disenchanting champion shards for the first time to second time(decreasing with value with every disenchant). If you decide that you want the champion you can also just enchant the skin shard for blue essence for half the price, and you can usually do this every level up. Good video, tho I will wait until smite does its visual overhaul.

4827 hours clocked me: this guy's hardly played at all

Friendly reminder to anyone stopping by. This video is my opinion so it's not to be taken as truth. Please take your own time to come to your own conclusions on which is better between these 2, as they're both great games. I just personally enjoy Smite because of the 3rd person perspective, but maybe you like top down better. It's all about your own preference.

League of Legends also has a plethora of cosmetics, even in the profile picture department and borders, it's just that most of them are exclusive to events that have usually past. They did start adding more banners for lobbies now a days in their events to test the feature out and some skins have borders if you buy a package with them. Also, you can get free champion, emotes and wards skins by playing the game well and getting chests. And receiving honours for doing so which gives key fragments to build into a key to open said chest. Not to mention that events give you rewards just by playing the game, receiving something called an orb that guarantees a champion skin (which more people want), although, the skins are both random from chests and orbs, that compels someone to play the champion if they have a skin on them and try it out some more, in the process you are basically learning the champion and getting better at the game in my opinion. I didn't play some champions because I didn't think I will like them, but I tried them out after having skins on them or simply by playing ARAM and it changed my perspective on how a lot of champions play and feel. Not to mention that the League of Legends community is really big, I watch videos from different RU-vidrs that play a variety of champions and have different playstyles just to learn more about the game, most people wouldn't really watch pro players playing seriously but there are plenty of pro-players that make montages and/or funny videos with their games, even if playing seriously, they still make you enjoy the complexity of the game by simply dumbing it down and making an enjoyable video, although, you don't learn that much from it, it's still enjoyable. I played Smite for a while as well, for roughly 200 hours, I enjoyed it and I liked the champions quite a bit, it's easier to get champions in Smite mostly because of the daily missions being more rewarding rather than league's "win of the day, get 50 blue essence and 400 XP" which just speeds up the levelling to get champion capsules to get a random champion shard which you would usually keep if you don't have the champion since it's cheaper or just burn it altogether to get Blue essence from it in return if you have the champion, you can also keep it if it's a champion you want to get mastery on to simply fuse with a mastery token to receive a mastery level up on said champion. The gameplay was just fine in my experience, although I hated the fact that I couldn't see behind me and I had to do so by looking at a mini-map, but when I saw that god were coming towards me from behind on the mini-map, I just couldn't do much about the opponent behind and in front of me, making it difficult to play since on league you have a 360 degree angle at all times and can use abilities even behind you without a problem. The one game mode I enjoyed the most though, was Joust, which reminds me of Twisted Treelines on LoL, it also used to be a 3v3 game mode which I used to play with my friends, but it had 2 lanes just like Assault, it was pretty nostalgic because of the 3v3 aspect. Some people don't have a whole group to play with, usually 2-3 people are the norm now a days for most close group of friends and I had lots of fun being a full team most of the time when playing Twisted Treelines. The only reason I don't play Smite is because of the simplicity, yes, it's a fun 3rd view perspective on a MOBA but that really makes it either too easy to play or too hard depending on different scenarios, I prefer to be fully in control of my movements just like in league, also, most people in Smite don't really know some MOBA mechanics, like wave control and other aspects like that, I usually took advantage of it to the best of my extend with the tools available, although, it's really hard to do so BECAUSE of 3rd person view, which makes the strategy aspect of it even simpler, since you don't usually build up much of waves to fight or even freezes to keep your enemies from getting farm and making them stuck on the lane. MOBAs need a complexity to them for people to have skills to master and strategies to build, stripping that away by changing the camera should come with another skill to master, skill shots are easier because you simply aim them in front of you and have a big area of effect on them, which makes it easier than League's, maybe the changes needed aren't in regards to champions but rather the average MOBA experience itself, making it more like DOTA may make it more complex and people might be drawn to it more, or maybe adding a difference to how jungle and having more objectives on the map would make it even more enjoyable to play competitively. I haven't played Smite in a while but maybe they did add those things recently without my knowledge since I don't really stay up to date with it. overall, I think that Smite still has things to improve before even competing with League of Legends in regards to gameplay, yes, it has a 3rd person view and some extra cosmetics but that's mostly it from what I even see on this video, just some extra cosmetics such as the announcers, jumping circle, titles and level up animation.

I believe the reason SMITE can go all out on skins is thanks to their brilliant God Pass System. Even when you're a relatively new player, you own all the gods and thus have access to their skins. In League, earning a champion can be quite a grind, especially for the newer ones. That said, I do think that League's skins feel higher of quality, both artistically and in terms of maintaining the readability of a character's model. SMITE, on the other hand, gives me a bit of a mobile game vibe, perhaps due to their heavy marketing of cosmetics and the sheer multitude of things you can buy- it's a bit overwhelming, really.

they made a great game with smite but they failed to sell it to people but league took over the moba community I wish there is more people playing smite or hots this 2 games are better then both dota 2 and league

I've played both. Biggest disappointments in Smite is how all champs are balanced for Conquest and not other games modes. In League, champs are made stronger or weaker in ARAM to compensate. Matchmaking is awful in Smite due to player base. Also, as an ADC main, its hard to hit autos against players with good movement, and auto attacks are same range as all spells in the game. So you have to work so hard to deal decent damage while a mage pops you in 2 moves at the same range. Still fun though.

I completely agree that League should add the ability to try every champ (and possibly every skin) in practice mode. That being said, thank goodness League doesn't have skin sponsorships with IRL companies. As a lover of the League lore, it would be a dealbreaker to see KFC Trundle splitpush with a drumstick. It would feel like a forced advertisement to me.

Do not speak of console smite. It is an accursed existence.

The video did sounded to me very biased, not applicable to the generality. Based just on the feeling and likes of you personally, specially in the part of the gameplay which was the most important one. The point of the rotating modes maybe strong enough to sustain itself if not linked to a personal opinion. The part about champion trial and skins is so true tho, league does nothing to show you how to play either. (I know about the tutorial but it is so bad).

While the practice mode point is a very good one, everything else is completely subjective and a matter of opinion.

the league menu does have music! for a new champ or event or skinline or what have you. I think its just cuz its a new account that it doesnt show all that? Which is definitely an odd choice by Riot

Smite is a fantastic game that needs polish, even all these years later - they just never got the game feeling like it should. You also seem to have played Smite for too long to remember how disorienting movement spells are (especially blink) when one is new to the game. I personally believe the vision is better in Smite as you get punished harder for not using vision tools (wards and minimap), similarly to how I feel that Dota has better vision mechanics than League bc not using them is punishing. Other people are right: both games have poopy kaka client and this point is moot Smite IS more fun and your instincts are on point, but you just haven't played League in any meaningful capacity; whilst I appreciate you trying to not get into detail about game mechanics as such, I think you'd make a much better video if you had more material for comparison. Smite's skins put the majority of games out there to shame with how frequent and high-quality they are.

I've played Smite quite a lot, I love it, it's addicting and it's challenging when you first start and it never stops being difficult because you always fuck up and learn things even if you are pro. But I personally feel that Smite and League cannot be compared just because of the fact that they have different camera views. It TOTALLY changes the gameplay, completely. It's day and night. Yes they are both mobas, yes they both have (kinda) similar maps, champs, skill sets and items etc etc, but just the fact that Smite is third person changes EVERYTHING. League of Legends is beautiful in his own way, the champs are so aesthetic, the synergy between them, the animations, the originality of the skill sets of the champs, the lore, everything is so polished, you can tell is runned by a professional company. But the gameplay is just not for everyone. League couldn't have a third person camera view, because League is actually fine as it is, that camera view just works, worked and will always work. The way you can be aware of the whole map, the way of casting skills in LoL is different, it's actually hard, but in a different strange way compared to Smite, aiming changes just because of the third person view. In League you also have to be super aware of your cursor which I personally find annoying and disengaging from the game. Thing that doesn't happen in Smite, is just simpler, AWSD like most games, and that also changes how you dodge skills. It's a different gameplay and requires different mechanics. With Smite you can actually train like an FPS player, because is (kinda) similar to a shooter. I got better at Smite by playing AimLab lol. Although I assume you would also benefit from AimLab if you're a LoL player but I don't know to what degree, because aiming is not the only important part in LoL, clicking and moving the fucking camera takes so much time, practice and effort that you either like that or you hate it. I feel like it's comparing apples and oranges, because even tho is the same genre, the gameplay just hits different, it's hard to explain. You can just choose a game solely on the camera view, everything else is just secondary because that's the primary thing that matters when you choose between this games. You either like LoL camera or you don't, I feel like there's no in between. Most people I know in Smite hate LoL camera, but I never encountered someone that hated Smite's third person point of view. Maybe they were bad at the game so they "hated" it, because it's true, it's hard cause you have to actually aim your basic attacks, also the spatial awareness you need is kinda differrent when trying to successfully aim your skills, but disliking Smite's third person point of view is hard/rare. Smite is just so cool visually and immersive that I would be surprised if someone didn't genuinely like how it looks or how the gameplay is. There's no better word, Smite is just cool. And with Smite 2 this got even better. If Smite had more players it would be perfect. It has almost everything, good gods, good skins, good abilities, good maps, good visuals, free good skins, chests and free gems, (as you said) you can try out skins before buying, good and forever challenging gameplay, constant updates, what more do you want? BUT I feel they can't be compared. Now if you want to compare Smite vs Paragon (now Predecessor) that would make more sense to me. Or the Classic comparison between Dota and League would also make more sense.

One thing that is something to be added is that League has one of the best twitch prime drops out of all of them and also there's the hextech crafting system in place which allows you to earn Key Fragments for Keys and earning S's on champions gives you Hextech Chests so it is entirely possible to find fully free to play players with all the champions and many many skins. Another thing that's a bit strange is the Smite skins changing the entire game design on some of the skins which can make it a bit hard for newer players to differentiate between certain gods and goddesses Take my like and comment for the algorithm, great video!

An added bonus to Poseidon's bald eagle, RNG chooses different poses everytime you use the Ultimate.

Loved SMITE since day 1, id love to see it get more people

iv played both games enough to fully unlock the roster without $$, the option to test not only characters but even demo the skins is a huge win for smite, as far as skins go i think leagues skins are comfortably a degree of magnitude higher quality/detail but at the end of the day id be lying if said getting dabbed on by bald eagle poseidon wasnt the funniest shit .

From someone who has played both games since late 2011 I personally favor Smite more. The gameplay, the third person aspect, Mythology, are all my favorites. As far as cosmetics and other purchasable options League has done a way much better job in my opinion. Smite feels more cash grabby now whereas League's prices have for the most part stayed the same (390, 520, 750, 975, 1350, 1820, etc.) with weekly discounts, hextech crafting, prime capsules, and personalized stores. To go into detail, when Smite came out, for about 4 years skins were direct purchase at 400 or 600 gems depending on the quality of the skin. Then they added the dreaded gatcha system of chests where you can spend the said 400 gems (sometimes 200) at a small percentage chance of getting a skin you want (unless you owned some of the skins already from that chest). If you want the skin directly, the price is about 1200 gems. Granted league has a higher player count so that's why their skin prices have stayed the same (not including the price of RP) where Smite's player count has been a steady dedicated thousands of players.

So Smite is more casual friendly, more immersive in its gameplay, has a better menu, and better access to cosmetics, some of which are hilarious… I agree. But does that make it the better game? While the controls for League are hard to get used to, Smite has always felt pretty clunky to me. Some abilities feel like they do nothing, while League characters have cohesive kits with clear goals. Some of the graphics and animations can be quite dated. Not to mention how there’s not nearly as many people playing Smite so queues can be kinda rough and half the people I face feel like bots. The game doesn’t have the same effort put into its balance, its design, its anything really, other than cool skin crossovers so they can make more money? Im giving Smite a lot of shit but I do think it’s really fun and I think this is a great showcase of what Smite has to offer, but not really a compelling argument for how League is worse.

while I do enjoy and play both games pretty evenly now, there is one huge massive insanely crazy better thing I will always say smite does infinitely better than league, and that's the jungle. In league there's like two camps that actually drop buffs and both of them always just go to the jungler by default, in smite every single camp outside of two middle ones have buffs or map effects that make it way more engaging and proactive. It also has the benefit of making other roles actually engage with the jungle occasionally like the duo lane needing to contest a neutral spawning buff or solo lane fighting over their neutral buffs. Going from smites jungle to leagues jungle was an insane shock with how much more baren leagues is. I never felt like I had any reason to go for jungle camps outside of just not falling behind, while with smite every single time I play jungle I constantly am dropping buffs for teammates, contesting neutral camps, hell there's even an item that places wards on camps you defeat so even with basic xp camps you still leave a tangible map presence for getting them. I will always take every opportunity I have to spread the message about how much more engaging and fun the jungle role is in smite compared to league, it's one of the biggest gaps between the two for me.

I love both games but Smite needs a quality of life update imo.

As a player who've been playing league for almost 7 years, I find smite more enjoyable cause its playstyle is way better, in league if you're ahead in kills/gold etc means insta win, but in smite you can legit just farm, play around objectives push lanes and you can comeback from a bad start or a losing game, so this war vs smite and league is lowkey pointless cause smite is better.

Came here after the Smite 2 announcement

you forgot duel game mode, which is essencially the joust 3v3 but its 1v1 instead, and its locked to ranked only

Does PC exclusive still count if it runs on a potato

I played Smite for 5 years nonstope before playing League and my take is Smite is a great game only if you play with a 5 stack, going solo on that game is a horrible experience. If you are outside the US (I'm from LAS) you have to wait so much to get into a game that I often just change my server to Brasil so I can actually play but then I have to play on constant higher ping. If one thing Smite does right is their modes, Joust is so fun and I loved Arena so much. And their Gods design is so fun like champions on League tend to become redundant or fucking overloaded while on Smite I feel like the devs do a good job of keeping things fun and not just reduing some abilities onto a new God. And their skins always slaps. Like almost everyone we feel like the game is amazing but playing the game outside US is so annoying since the playerbase is almost nonexistent.

I think that the bias for Smite showed a bit too hard here. Although I agree on many points about lackluster client, limiting ways to learn champions / see skins without outside help form youtube, and the lack of gamemodes. I think you overlooked some key points that should make league sound better to the newer player. Also I would like to mention that it feels unfair for you to truly compare when you don't have nearly as much time in League as Smite, just like I would like to warn that I am the complete opposite with a limited number of hours on Smite. Every time you level up your account you get champion capsules that give you shards of a random character, you can use them to unlock champions with the in-game currency, but with a often substantial discount. And if you never wanted that champion, you could exchange the shard for pure blue essence to help buy champions. As a league player mainly whom only played smite a hand full of times (and enjoyed it). I think that Smite feels too cluttered for both it's client and in game. I feel a bit overwhelmed with all the pop-ups, different keybinds on the hud for things that I have yet to use or understand, and overall discourages me from logging in. But that could just be because of unfamiliarity and lack of understanding since i've played league for about 3 years pretty consistently now. I agree that it is annoying to not have a real preview of a skin inside the game itself, but riot has been very welcoming to SkinSpotlights as a sort of 'official' response to only having the splash art in the client. As for the quality of the skins, I think some of leagues skins are amazing and truly something to witness, some are just trash due to how outdated they are since league has been going on for over a decayed. But what you cannot say about their skins compared to Smite is readability. I personally have a harder time telling who is who with skins, but that problem is in league too but to a lesser extent in my opinion. Once again that could be familiarity talking I would need to get info from a new player of both games None the less I think that after watching this video I may give smite a bit more of a chance since I do love mythology and I did really like Melrin's gameplay

i would suggest you look back at league's client visuals after uve finished the tutorial because right now they're only showing you the boos and gift you get as a newcomer

I think what League offers really is its competitive scene - the climbing up to the end of the ladder. Players are more towards being competitive these days. Smite does not offer that same scene. In Smite you can play competitively when you are in Bronze but you'll be matched with someone who is Platinum. That insane skill difference is why many players do not play Smite. Which brings me to the actual player base of Smite, even though you mentioned that Smite can be played with different consoles, it still lacks that player base. Unfair matching, lack luster competitive scene, poor player base is why Smite fell off to League of Legends. I think its also unfair that you don't have the same game time for both games, whereas you did not touch upon League's in game currency mechanics and inventory. Each time you level up, you'll be rewarded a capsule with blue essence, orange essence, champion shards, mythical essence so that you can play those champions you want to try; and instead of buying directly in the shop, you can unlock champion shards for at least 75-90% Blue essence in your inventory. Orange essence are for skins, you can get skins without paying for RP. Mythical essence is for exclusive, limited-time cosmetics, you can also get them without paying for RP. as you play more competitive or just quick play you gain these rewards which encourages the player to play more because of the free stuff they can get. You did not point this out in the video. I commend Smite for its 3rd person tho, I really liked that one but only that one. I played the game for also 3 years while I played league since 2012.

I choose league over smite for numerous reasons, however I play smite more cuz I don’t have a pc. I have league on my phone but it’s not the same but I was happy as shit when it dropped on iOS. I like league more cuz a) I fell in love with it first outta genuine love for playing it, my love for smite came from not having access to a pc anymore but a ps4 back in 2016 and I was actually looking to see if league was on console and instead smite came up. The camera view for smite is cool and all, but I fell in love with league for everything it had to offer, the gameplay, the characters, the maps, the graphics, the vibe of the game, the tone, the feel, the color palette, I loved the whole game. Contrary to what people may feel, I like the fact that you don’t have to typically actually aim in league considering it’s so fucking hard and significantly harder to play smite on a console than a pc considering the aiming settings and input settings for controller are lacking. It’s cool to have skill gaps, but when taking out that major skill gap, and when the game boils down to strictly gameplay, teamwork, and good or bad decisions, it makes playing the game and enjoying the experience and actually experiencing the game easier. It’s harder to get absolutely dogged on before you can even react in league, sweats in league just have bigger brains than you and play better and have better builds, sweats in smite is like playing sweats in a shooter game like cod or Fortnite…it’s annoying as shit cuz you stand NO CHANCE cuz they either are aim botting, or the skill gap is so insane they might as well be aim botting. And the smite characters and gameplay is wayyyyyyyyyyy more toxic than league. Essentially, smite is more obnoxious than league

Saw gameplay, and I'm not finishing this video. League gameplay: Spends most of the time just explaining how the most basic mechanics work. "I just don't like it hehe" Smite: This is good, because I like it, and it's more assessable. (Did not mention any facete of gameplay other than it has skillshots?) This is the definition of "Hurr hurr, I can explain the thing in a mocking tone, so it's bad."

There's an option in League to get skins for free thru drop chests and honor systems

maybe i should give smite a try as its one of the mobas i havent really played (and ill prob enjoy the arena gamemode like i do in lol or eternal return)

Riot kinda fixed the issue of trying out before buying in Wild rift, but wr is considered it's own game

Smite is just overall more convenient in most aspects. It amazes me that people put League on such a high pedestal over Smite while lacking something as basic as an actual practice mode to test out champs and skins. Actually insane that the biggest game in the world can't be bothered to add that. Smite 100% does skins and cosmetics better, and a lot of league players even agree with that. Being able to see every little detail on the skins due to 3rd person makes it more worth shelling out real money imo. Smite's #1 problem is that the game has zero presence in the Asian market in the east. This is mainly due to Tencent having control over essentially everything and being the only door into China. Plus they're already profiting from their ownership of Riot/League so there's no point in allowing a rival in. I don't remember the exact situation, someone can correct me if I'm wrong, but iirc at the start of Smite's lifespan there was a pro Chinese team that had no idea what certain gods did because they had never seen them prior to the tournament they were in due to Tencent's restrictions on god releases.

The fact that you started by comparing smites main menu to Halos was pretty indicative of the quality of the video. Its very surface level and most of your points just boildown to personal preference which is fine, but you hardly even mentioned the actual differences between the modes summoners rift and conquest like the different lengths of lanes and hiw that makes them play differently. Or even how jungling differs between the 2 games. As someone who played smite all the way through high scool and has switched to league since i know there are many points you could make what would be more substantial than what was offered.

I started playing smite during the closed beta when they gave Tribes: Ascend players an invite code. I've played it every year since, sometimes taking a multi-month long hiatus to curb burnout. I love Smite and truly enjoy it more than LoL solely for the 3rd person movement. However, I'm so close to never opening that game again, as HiRez, or whatever studio they made to continue developing this, continues to fail putting in ANY creativity or effort into development. All the abilities are the same shapes that have been in the game 4 years ago, no actually new mechanics, all the items are constantly the same, conquest changes are hardly anything, and there is NO build diversity with almost every god. There's a handful that you can build assassin instead of warrior and vice-versa, but that's it. Meanwhile, LoL consistently makes massive changes to all the items, the map, objectives, and insanely different new champions. I feel Smite could actually compete with LoL in marketshare if they put more effort into creative development of their game, instead of more loot box and $100 event skin bullshit trying to milk their dying community more. And now saying "Fuck You" to all the beta players who supported the game with the Poolseidon skin that was promised to be NEVER available again, to only recolor and remaster the skin, and sell it again. Fuck HiRez, it's just a money-grubbing company that couldn't give less of a shit of it's community.

I really wish there was a league of legends that played like smite. I enjoy characters that are in League but don't like playing league. If kayn could be played in smite i'd be so happy

This is his opinion all these league fanboys I swear.😂 I used to play league and once smite came out I started playing it more and quit league in 2020 and stuck to smite. I actually prefer the 3rd person view than looking at your character from a birds eye view. I guess its because I come from fps games and 3rd person shooter games. Smite is more fun and you get to see the skins in the game up close as well I love that! So stop the hate it's his opinion go play league you don't need to watch the video.

Biggest comparison I make to say smite is better than league is accessibility to the characters via the god pass in smite, considering the price, it is more than worthwhile and pays itself off as time goes on as you play, cause with league it tries and gives you time to learn the champions, but when you either barely play the game or flat out regret getting a champ due to a lack luster gameplay loop, it becomes more of a absolute slop of a time sink rather than playing for your personal enjoyment. And for that’s what I think good moba design is having access to the roster you play the game for. Everything else about both games are just comparing apples to oranges. Both are related to each other by the genre but only on the surface.

I think I like SMITE way better is because it feels less outdated in the first place. I mean cmon... how long are we gonna stick to the top down MOBA? You see great new ideas like Battlerite and Gigantic and they just die? I'm glad SMITE is alive but only because it has a heavily popular theme to it (Mythology) and retains A LOT of classic MOBA elements, yet changes so many things by being a 3rd person WASD type. I also love the gameplay mechanics in general, aiming abilities and comboing, specific characters being combo characters and honestly allowing devs to make very complex characters in terms of movement and ability effects because players are able to actually play them properly instead of having to click the screen 50 times like in LoL. And the movement is also a fantastic part, there are SO many movement abilities that also pair well with other abilities into combo potential that is also easy to execute thanks to the WASD system. Also building feels easier because the menu seems way simpler compared to league with so many damn icons everywhere. I know SMITE 2 will adapt a more LoL like build system, but I doubt they will make overly complicated and will definitely have a nice, similarly simplistic UI that shows you all build paths etc. Unlike in league where it's kind of confusing what you should build, you constantly see people buying a hundred low tier items and then not knowing which items to buy, when to upgrade. I hope SMITE 2 sticks to the simple keep building one item at a time, just divert it into being able to build an item from different smaller items to fit more diversity in early game.

I played smite since closed beta to around Season 5 or 6 tbh i dont remember when I stopped, and the reason i did was because all the new gods to me were boring and I had the same form of gameplay in some other god, of corse there are exceptions (Janus for exemple is probably their best designed god of all time). Begining of this year i tried to get back i to smite they got better with god design il give them that, but I absolutely hate their skins, for 1 verg simple reason THEY BREAK SILHUETTE, i cant stress this enough i had over 6k hours in smite i came back and i didnt understand who i was fighting alot of the times, that was ok if it was a new god its to be expected, just to check the scoreboard and be like WTF THATS FENRIR! Its fundamental game design and character design, to never break silhuette to much, there must be what its called "fundamental truths" for exemple in league they would never give senna a tiny weapon (She has a weapon thata bigger than ber) but in smite well i seen stuff like fenrir not being a dog, or well for exemple in this video there was chang'e holding a sword i believed it was belona for a second. There are incidents where league skins are p2w in small things but smite takes it to another whole lvl and thata my biggest problem with it, its fine if youre a casual player but MOBAS tend to be competive and thats what I look for in them, if i wanted to just have fun a chill id play a single player game or some other form of multiplayer game because in my opinion they are the pinicle of competition in games.

@5:38 this point is also incorrect in regards to league and leagues minion system as a whole, and why league is far more in depth gameplay-wise compared to smite. Destroying a nexus does give super minions, but the super minions have an aura that buff nearby minions by a lot and champions by a small amount. Also minions are stronger if your team is ahead allowing waves to push automatically for your team, but this can of course also be used as a catchup mechanic when behind since you can safely farm at tower. It allows for much more in depth decisions in regards to wave control and minions, compared to smites "push the wave and keep it outside of tower" playstyle, which just caters to choosing gods with strong wave clear being the obvious better option.

Loved Smite since 2012 and don't generally like League, but I think that League skins have their own unmatched aspects. Smite has been taking IPs like RWBY (My favorite piece of media) and integrating it into the game, where League does the opposite. League doesn't just make 4 skins, they make 4 skins, create a music video for them that's been viewed close to 600 MILLION times, and then those skins get an entire sub fandom dedicated to them. Or they create a different line of skins, and then those get an entirely new video game based around them. League is unmatched in terms of turning things into massive events.

the problem i have with smite skins is that it changes the entire champions identity. if i hopped into smite and saw a fuckin pool noodle running at me id have no clue what god it is and how to play against it. its unique yes but every league skin still has their identitiy to the champion intact

leagues basics being undodgeable is annoying. no skill shots or chance for jukes. just left click and it hits

You can get skins through the chest system in league aswell. Overall it's probably up to personal preference. I personally hate the 3rd party view, I get dizzy, dissoriented and overall frustrated with how Smite plays

As a dota2 player, i put smite in download after the first minute of the video. Great job!💪

league biggest drawback now is that u need to be good mechanically and impactful at the game to have fun, back in the days everyone sucked so it was easier to find balanced skill matches. Now i feel like someone who comes new has to really play a lot to just start having fun after some time

Conext: I have 1000 of houers in league and only about 300 in Smite. The option to look at stuf you d like to buy is 100% "better"/"ammazing" in Smite. I wished i could try stuf in leagues Practice tool without buying it! So far i do agree with what is said in this video. While i still agree that the Smite "main menu" is better then leagues "client", i still consider bouth shity for spamming all this advertisment for a crap ton of stuf i couldnt care less about. But yes even myselth with way to many houers in league has a hard time finding the rigth "sub menus" in the league client. Now to the points i feel you didnt put league in a fair position: League also has: Play to unlock skins (with the hextech chests events etc). Way to many cosmetics like skin specific borders for the loading screen. (Added on top to your personal border) Titels based on your "achivments" Achivments Icon borders unlocked by leveling / ranked. Regardless if you still play league or smite after more then 100 houers your a lost cose.

also smite is f2p friendly i have like 130+ skins including exclusive and limited skins and spent like 10$ in total there's always a way or another to earn some skins

I prefer Smite but thats bc I enjoy the faster pace of the game (not needing to last hit minions, Jungle is more impactful early, can clear better, faster rotations etc) and it also has less splitpushing as well as more outplay potential from properly using relics.

great vid i rly liked it my only criticism is that i think maybe cuz of your bias you tried to find fault with league a lot more then with smite i played both games extensively and i like a lot about smite. i agree that smite has nice sides but you should address some off it down sides two. Most importantly i think the two games are so different that i wouldn't be making such a statement that one is better then other i think both excel in there own fields.

funny how u mention u feel more like a spectator while playing league. in the original lore, you, the player, take the role as a summoner and you choose a champion for the game. this is proven by some champions who would actively talk to or about the 'summoner'. so in a way ur right but thats why it works.

So league is on phone, unlike smite. It’s called wild rift. That’s all

I think about skin thematics and not crossovers is a matter of leagues identity, their thematics, skin lines and cosmetic have such a strong concept on their own (the good ones, there’s obviously flops like zenith games) that league does not have the need for crossovers to attract new public by pulling of the popularity of the show, it’s also because rito is so greedy they won’t do it.

New title : Why I prefer smite over league

also smite has duel which i think league would greatly benefit from, I know a lot of league players including myself that have to set up 1v1s through discord servers instead of having the mode in game

I don’t think enough was said about the gameplay. I have much more time in Smite than League, but the biggest reason I prefer smite is not bc of skins, or the menu music, it’s the gameplay. Click to move and auto attack is just so clunky to me. Using WASD to move while being able to aim with my mouse simultaneously is such a better experience. I also think a lot of comments about League being better here are so oblivious to the idea that just because your game has 20x the player base, does not inherently make your game better. League has been around a bit longer than Smite and has a much larger budget. They can advertise their game much more than Smite. If League had WASD movement I would play it a lot more, but using click to move and shoot is just so clunky and feels outdated to me. I will say though that the character diversity in League is in general superior to Smite. Every champ in League feels entirely unique in their own way whereas Smite has a lot of Gods that are so similar to one another which takes away from diversity of class selection. I don’t think one game is inherently better than another, but I don’t understand why more people won’t give Smite the chance I think it deserves.

Okay I gotta say that is kinda unfair to compare both games since the 3rd person Camera makes it more comparable to a Hero Shooter, and YES I KNOW ITS CATALOGUED AS A MOBA, but it just doesn't feel as one for me, its more like its own thing and thats why it appeals to a more niche audience.

Its all about preferences yes. I can also agree that not being able to test champions before buying it is bad, mobile version has it, but still doesn't let you test skins. It would've been a great feature. And about top down/3rd person perspectives - in league you play as summoner who more of an observer, so he needs no see entire battlefield toake decisions, in smite you play as god, as character you chose so theres different perspective. Thank you, it was interesting to listen about Smite, a game i didn't know existed but now im interested.

You can get skins for free, its randomized and you have to play alot to get keys from being high honor and chests from someone getting S in games on a champion. Riot Also implemented Arena as well, they have always looked to have 3 permanent game modes. people can also simply look up videos of the skin on youtube if needed before purchasing, and you didn't mention anything about wild rift which is similar but can be played on a tablet. i dont play smite but im not entirely biased that league is or not better, just pointing out missing information

This video should be created like 2 years ago....

It is fucking baffling League doesnt have an Arena mode yet (or rather it did, it was called Dominion but they shut it down because the billion dollar company could not be arsed to upkeep it) The cool thing about Arena is that it gives players room to practice and master their character's micro mechanics in a low-risk but still live environment (how they play, what they can do, what they cannot do, what items work best, what build combinations are viable, their movement strats, their combos etc) while not forgetting about teamfights. Once the micro is done they can then focus on learning the macro aspects offered by the other game modes (game sense, team coordination, team composition, obective priority, spawn timers, positioning, gold efficiency) without worrying about learning micro at the same time. I used to be an Ezreal and Vel'koz main, two champions which are mechanically very intensive to master, and I always recalled how painful it was to have to learn both how to play my champion and worry about CS, getting ganked, team comp, etc at the same time because Summoner's Rift was my only option to practice said champions whenever I wanted (and sometimes, not even then because i either get sorted into a role i dont want or get my main banned or picked before me.)

The only reason why i think smite is better is because of movement, i don't have to constantly click back and forward

Theres a huge amount of points that you ignored in this video, and... theyre the main ones honestly. Smite is aimed at the more casual playerbase, its why the ranked system is awful (top 16% for diamond, or top 2% for the highest rank in the entire game outside of top 50 players... really?) Its embarrassing how easy it is to achieve the top ranks if it wants to be considered a competitive game, which by the game modes, skins, the fact its available on switch etc. is why it isnt a competitive game, its purely casual. The best comparison is smite is saints row and league is gta. Its great for what it offers but theyre not even the same type of game anymore. Smite is awesome if you want to just chill and play a few games with friends while chilling out after a long day. Dota is aimed at the hardcore 10,000 + hour moba players, and league is the middle balance. Ultimately you should choose whatever fits the style that you want.

Wonderful video, i here am a Smite fan and would pick it over lol. To me i think that Smite got a better art team than lol. I read a comment about ranked, fir ne it doesn't matter since I refuse to play ranked(mainly because if my Internet)

You're great at editing videos

i've played both. i think league surpassed smite because of it's camera angle innitially. the angle introduces much more complexity where you can zoom your camera around your whole map at any second. this means whilst in smite i was playing one view the whole time. in league i see everything. that extra complexity goes a long way for game mastery potential. i should say that when i played it i did enjoy smite. but it kind of felt like a less fleshed out and less complex itteration of league. i agree with your comments about the client even if over time it had grown on me; for ne wplayers its not very interesting.

What holds smite back is the low player base. You can’t play a there is only solo duo in ranked so you can’t play with friends in ranked

If anything I felt Smites client was cheap by comparrison.

I would love to try it if everything in the game didn't look like it was made in 2012 and hasn't been updated since

wow i come on to this video thinking i would disagree, but for once i agree, league defientley is low-maintaince and kind of outdated to other mobas, to be fait i never played smite (altough ur video inticed me to try it out) and barely played dota 2, but already it so obvious, as long time league player, i guess u kind of get addictated to the game just like a toxic relationship, and the reason u stay on it, is bcz ur too lazy to get out of it and find somebody new, u just get used to the b.s, but i never thought how could that turn off new players who already played previous moba's. all in all i appreciate ur video, it helped me remeber they are other fish in the ocean, bcz goddamn league can be a harsh mistress 😔

I know this already because my brain told me

U cant also look up the skins on youtube before you buy the skin, they show you in detail all the animations 🎉

I will say smite has better quality of life and just more to offer in game modes. Main menu is nice rather than a client that sometimes has music for a new champ or event. League use to have so much more to offer years ago but now its just the same 2 game modes with a ranked system that's filled with a awful player base and at low ranks account bots. Skins can go either way with smite having more customization with options for everything. I use to play smite everyday in middle school and tried to come back to it but trying to learn again and going against people that have been playing for years is not fun. The lower player base kills it for me and league has the same problem with smurfs and everything but I still feel better learning a completely new game and sometimes getting stomped cause of misplays and bad itemization against certain champs.

Interface barely matters. No one plays MOBAs for the interface. Gameplay, Smite is no where near as deep as league. You may think the close up over the shoulder camera is good but I think it sucks because it more easily shows the age of the models/animations which don't look that great. It almost feels goofy. Atleast in league it's topdown so it feels like we are moving chess pieces around. League CANNOT be played on console. There's too much going on in the game. I need to constantly be aware of what's going on. I need to be able to tab and see my opponents items and CS numbers, I need to be able to move my camera around the map. I need to be able to go through shop quick and easy by typing the name of itmes etc. Smite is not as deep so you can play it on console. Smite skins are also much much lower quality on average than league skins, at least the league skins that werent made 8 to 11 years ago. League is not the most complex game, its not dota but it strikes the best balance between being a good looking game thats deep while not being babys first moba like smite.

dope video... still not playing smite tho lol

league of legends client is a experience in its own right

And if it's so good why doesn't anyone play it?

I never could stand how League looked, so ur definitely not alone in that regard. Smite is in my opinion way more visually interesting and pleasing and simply "feels better" to me. Also I love the pay 10 bucks and get every old and new god pack.

This didnt age well since smite 2 is coming and the devs of smite just gave everyone the middle finger.

not everyone taking the video super seriously 😭 like chill

for the title - as a league player.. gameplay wise,agree. league focused to much on their business and esports recently and rely too much on content outside of the main gameplay that is not even applied in actual game... and feels like mostly riot serve the pro players and people that spend a lot for skins. those people that mute music so they can play without distraction... and the champions and cosmetics.. still guessing if its really hard to make a large update to the game to give them the treatment like the mobile version wild drift where u can see the 3d model of your champion and skins ,they adapted what other moba do in their lobby.. but they can't really do it in pc and I think why smite gameplay could be better than league because league started as what it is and can't really do anything to it but improve what they have,

This is a rather disappointing video. I have long since liked smite and league, playing league since 2013 and smite off and on since 2016. However, these takes are pretty bad for comparison of two games. This was bordering on game journalist levels of bad takes. Both games are fine, but to compare the two you would first have to actually play both in equal measure. Or at least for a length of time that doesn't just scream "picked it up for a week and hardly played." I love smite for the concept, the lore, and some of the gameplay, but I cannot stress more that the many things it has in game modes hardly hold up in comparison. Conquest feels like a beheaded attempt at matching summoner's rift. I understand that three lanes isn't unique to league, but I struggled to find anyone in smite that felt it could compare. If you don't like league that's fine, but the arguments you made were shallow, uninformed, and made with cherry-picked, favorable attributes.

Sadly for me SMITE skins are kind killing the game. I love the ones that fits the Gods lore and they only make it look cooler. But they gone way overboard with the "funny" skins. What League does way way better than smite is that no matter the skin you can easily know what champion it is. Riot really wants that the silhouette of a champion to stay the same no matter the skin so it will be easy to recognize. In Smite you have Thor over there and right next to it is a Hotdog and a Can of Beans that are actually Gods too. What is the point of having a game with literally Gods but turn them in some V-Tubers or some Jokes. Sadly for me when skins like that are in the game, the game itself becomes a joke and I can't take it serious. Also it is really hard for a new player to understand what is he fighting against. I would really really really love an option in the game to disable all the skins or not lore accurate skins. I love how the Gods look but when a giant cat mews at me (and that is supposed to be the freaking Jormungand....) sorry but no... That being said, after over 20.000 hours in League and @100 in Smite I can say that I enjoy playing Smite more. But God I hope in Smite 2 they will tone down when it comes to skins.

В лигу я играла 8 лет, полтора года назад запустила смайт и понеслось)) В смайте много проблем которых нет в лиге. Большой порог входа в игру для новичков, даже с моим опытом в лоле и высоким эло , начать побеждать в смайте было тяжело. Дисбалансный подбор матчей, грандмастер может играть против сильвера в ранкеде. Очень затянутые матчи в завоевании и практически полное отсутствие возможности выиграть засноуболенную игру быстро. И главное - отсутствие баланса чемпионов в различных режимах. Я всегда ругала лигу за плохой баланс, но по сравнению со смайтом, лига - это шахматы. В дуэлях в смайте некоторые чемпионы имеют 65% винрейт. И ты либо играешь на метовых пиках, либо не играешь в этот режим. При всем при этом смайт интереснее лиги, он скилкапнее, динамичнее, сложнее. Если вам нужен реальный челенж, то смайт вас затянет. Но я думаю хайрезы никогда не исправят все вышеупомянутые мной вещи, у них нет цели сделать игру идеальной. Поэтому смайт так и останется нишевой игрой жанра для тех кто в теме. Хотя потенциал у игры был и есть, и в моем сердце смайт >>> лига

After passing out in multiple discord calls watching my friend use Porofessor and having Nunu’s throw his game, I won't be getting into league. The spam clicking is abhorrent and out dated as a movement technique, especially for a game where you move a single character rather than an army. I cant wait for smite 2 because then my friend MIGHT try it again lol.