Pyros
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Well Xin was added WAY after guinsoo left, it's a pure Icefrog hero, like everything for the past 5-6years or whatever(I mean pure icefrog as in him and his buddies plus whatever suggestion from players they use). So here I don't think it's really that thing. There are also some stuff that is different. Granted the 2 examples I was thinking of were done in HoN before(vision reduction ultimate Dark Lady/Nocturne and stance swapping to change skills instantly by 2 heroes I don't know the name of, Battlemaster or some shit in HoN and I think it's Darius? for LoL, but Darius might be the bleed guy instead). I guess the LoL uniqueness in design comes from heroes that use Energy as a ressource for example(ninjas), Kennen and Akali are both pretty cool heroes that play very differently than stuff in dota.Nearly every LoL champion has skills that mirror Dota heroes. They were made by the same person.
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Pretty much every initial champion was a copy of dota skills though, that's true. And very obvious.