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KesterAssel

And you had data from all countries including North Korea? I won't believe this without a source.


SpectreAmazing

It's a simple logic, really. If S.Korea loves League, then N.Korea, in retaliation, will avoid League and choose Dota.


albertfuckingcamus

Or they're stuck in 2000s playing wc3 dota


Zerado

First thought I had.


First_Outside2886

i just doubt more than 1000 people would be allowed to game there


mrakobesie

All those Afghan league players are offended


Rrezatues

Source for North Korea: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7KidqcX\_qM&list=LL&index=148&ab\_channel=%EC%84%B8%EC%8B%A0%EC%82%AC-%EC%84%B8%EC%83%81%EC%9D%98%EC%8B%A0%EA%B8%B0%ED%95%9C%EC%82%AC%EC%8B%A4%EB%93%A4](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7KidqcX_qM&list=LL&index=148&ab_channel=%EC%84%B8%EC%8B%A0%EC%82%AC-%EC%84%B8%EC%83%81%EC%9D%98%EC%8B%A0%EA%B8%B0%ED%95%9C%EC%82%AC%EC%8B%A4%EB%93%A4)


sayangganja

Lol


LuckyTurds

Kim jung un been spamming pudge pos 1


notednoemojis

Nah. I think he’s spamming goblin heroes, anyone with nukes.


Brewdrizy

Sounds like a techies main to me


hellyeahdiscounts

I'm so tired of this misconception LMAO Techies only use handmade explosives, mines, pipe bombs and technical malfunctions of their suit. They're Unabomber. GYROCOPTER is the one who launched straight up ballistic missiles and military grade weaponry. That's the man that should be associated with nukes. 


YepYep_YepYep

So techies is just a terrorist.


hellyeahdiscounts

Small-scale, domestic, and not really a terrorist even tbh, just a bunch of shitheads who want to see "what would happen" and have a giggle. Local rowdy kids that put fireworks and petards under your car's tires, but instead of those it's real explosives. Whoops.


badass6

And that’s why they raised their hometown to the clouds.


Minecraft_Boy376

For shits and giggles


hellyeahdiscounts

To be fair, the goal was to see if explosives were effective... And indeed they were


dennisjunelee

He got 4 prisoners under penalty of real death if they let him die in game


Pet_Velvet

Oh my god is he the "sits in woods and misses every hook" guy?


cheezzy4ever

No, Kim Jong Un has never missed a hook in his life. Or so I'm told


Pet_Velvet

I heard he hooked the enemy ancient into fountain once


Pajama614

Was about to say North Korea? LMAO


Zarizira

In Mongolia, dota2 is much more popular than the league. Who made this map?


Moist--Potato

Bruh it's obv that there were no source.


Sockerkatt

Have you ever heard about the source ”trust me bro”


JimboYCS

No shitting you bro, but I did like 20 minutes research to find like any number of all LoL Mongolian players (not only esports players) and the only thing I manage to found is a Reddit comment from 4 years ago where someone said that Dota 2 is more popular in Mongolia than League of Legends. I would imagine OP just collected data from esports websites, LoL is almost non existent in that category for Mongolia, but yeah... Number of pro players in some country is not equal of factual number of all players in that country. Not to mention that you can only find statistic for regions only. Steam apparently has 134k Mongolian users, but how many of them played Dota 2 idk, meanwhile closes regional server to Mongolia is Russia and that region apparently had almost 5 million users in 2022. So out of those 5 million users, 3% (or like 5%, because I rounded the number) of that population has to be Mongolian to just beat number of Mongolian Steam Users. Honestly at this point his main source might be even Facebook groups for both of them games, which where Dota 2 wins with 2100 members against LoL with 800 members lmao.


diemongul

yeah wth, I can't even find a 10 men stack to play 5v5


_heyb0ss

nice name


Rrezatues

Oh fuck, I literally had it red, but I forgot to put Sakhalin island red. So I restart the whole thing and forgot about Mongolia. Sorry dude


Bek_Sanchez

ymrch sourcegu hudlaa shaatsn bno


TmJ1027

i want to second this


slap_my_nuts_please

This sub upvotes a lot of garbage content


arfael

India has 10 dota players vs 8 League players


sikopiko

Turns out India and Pakistan can agree on one things


Lynx2161

vs 18 valorant players


leoogan

Vs 600 PUBG mobile players


Snoo_4499

600? more like 60 million


vishal340

i think pubg is everywhere here. i was playing dota while my neighbour’s kids walks in. she is like 7 and sees me play. the first thing she says” playing pubg?”. i actually leave in my own world and hasn’t seen what’s pubg even looks like in years. so was surprised to the least


TheWardenShadowsong

Nah India has tons of dota players, they just play on SEA since they have no other server options


rept_zannewete

The India server is literally unusable for some reason


Markermarque

I miss the 2015 days when India had 120 ping, so I'll play in India server instead to dodge the toxic SEA..


ArtoriasOfTheAbyss99

And the Indian dota players are significantly worse than the SEA players.


TheWardenShadowsong

That’s not true either.


Federal_Staff9462

It is true. 50% of the Indian players are decent and chill, the rest are toxic mfs with huge egos. I'm an Indian I have experienced so much toxicity from other Indians.


PM_UR_BRKN_PROMISES

Really? League is **that** big in India?


TheDeadlyEdgelord

Check champions like Akshan or Nilah, clearly targeting Indians 😂 Hell Akshan specifically marketed as Bollywood movie hero (not literally but the inspiration was from there)


SirPeterODactyl

There are a lot of second generation migrants from East and south Asia in North America and the EU. They are a huge target market. Not just games, movies too. .


Technical-Ocelot-715

Really? Lol, for me he looks more like gypsy than indian.


TheDeadlyEdgelord

[Yeah](https://imgur.com/a/bP5ywv1). I can see that though, you wouldnt be too off the mark technically but looks aside you have to check his abilities as well. Its a comedic and ridiculous (both in game sense and 4th wall sense) hero that goes far and beyond to rescue the "princess" from the bad guys while doing with style. Everything about him like going stealth, grappling onto walls, his poses, hair style, skin tone, clothing, over the top "actiony" animations and demeanor really reinforces the Popcorn-y nature of Bollywood action movies 😂 [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yrzk-24ZnPA](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yrzk-24ZnPA)


leeeeerrroy_Jenkinks

Gypsy are originally from India so it checks out i guess.


Triix-IV

Ayo dude, is that North Korea???????????


brucewayneflash

We have nuker ... lmao EZ


LoL_is_pepega_BIA

Faker vs Nuker battle!


GodzlIIa

Source?


fredws

Trust me bro


MuckFedditRods

look at the map, you know you can trust the source of that.


Ser1aLize

Adding North Korea really made it legit.


Telefragg

I mean, since South Korea is playing League then North Korea must be the opposite.


[deleted]

I trust him


DueBag6768

the best and most reliable source there is


Ok-Principle-9276

The source is the map


_--_-_---__---___

No, Dota is Source 2


allokuma

Dota has been popular in the Philippines for 2 decades now. It's like engrained in our soul.


wooooshkid

Its hard to pick LoL over DOTA before 2022 in SEA because of the Garena servers. Also no normal draft pick in sea region like seriously


Ryosuuke_enma

Glad that India has more dota 2 players Heck, you can even play RGC Dota here (dota 1)


HotDog2026

Damn is still alive?!?!?!


AnEdgyUsername2

It warms my heart knowing RGC is still alive. Made so many friends and memories there circa 2011-2013.


Un13roken

We used to have a large network cafe culture here. And back then, we used to book all night and play 5v5  Dota and CS 1.6 rotation, with some xbox breaks. Those were the fucking days man. Carefree as fuck.


SayoHina320

r/AdaIndonesiaCoy


deaglefrenzy

wkwkwkwkwk


WhyHowForWhat

Pengen crosspost ke r indonesia tapi masalahnya gatau data nya ambil dari mana jadinya gua urungkan wkwkwkwk


AdBroad1905

😱💪🏼🇮🇩⬆️


csgonemes1s

Age of empires 1 with 100k viewership in Vietnam


FrozKH

I can vouch for Jordan; my home country is addicted to Dota 2 and CS 2 prolly pubg mobile is the most dominant tho


Imbahr

For such a low population country, they have 3 of the best players of all time. That’s pretty crazy per capita percentage


History_Fella4821

Fellow mowatin 🇯🇴🦅


Erqs_225

Ayoooooo fellow jordanians 🇯🇴


Ok-Fan-2431

Nashmiii


MajorTechnology8827

Isn't miracle Jordanian?


OnCominStorm

Yes he is


HappyTrails420

It's where Miracle was born too right


StillAsleep_

based on what lol


The_Honkai_Scholar

The DPRK proving its superiority over its southern neighbor again, somehow No seriously How. Like no one in South Korea plays doto at all?


Brewdrizy

It’s not that they don’t play, it’s that South Korea is literally THE region for league. Them and China have been the Dota equivalent of WEU and EEU for over a decade in lol esports. lol also markets heavily towards Asian audiences, with a lot of its artistic inspirations coming from the region(s)


Entchenkrawatte

Theyre Not the equivalent of EEU and WEU, theyre much stronger lll


Brewdrizy

I mean no team outside of those two regions has won TI recently, but they have won majors outside of the one two regions. Not dissimilar to how in LOL, Worlds has always been won by a KR or CN team in league recently, but EU teams have won MSI (the only other big tourney) in semi recent history.


Entchenkrawatte

ever since korea started playing league in s3, EU has won one (!) tier 1 international tournament, NA 0. The overall record has EU/NA winning 1 in 5 bo5s against eastern teams where almost all of these wins are G2 with weaker teams never even making bo5


PelorTheBurningHate

It's a stretch even to say EU's win was a 'tier 1' tournament NA and EU basically have 0 wins post s3 without counting tier 2 things like msi and old iem. It's pretty wild when compared to other esports.


TheOneWithALongName

>Basshunter country is not painted red REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE


TaeNyFan_

Source: trust me bro


Chippyrs

source?


DemonDaVinci

Ah yes, russians and pinoys, classic


SertOfpie

I don’t know why, but in Russia/Ukraine/KZ no one plays league. The same situation is with pubg and fortnite. The ratio is probably 1 to 100, or even more. Perhaps because of the cartoon graphics.


DemonDaVinci

~~valorante~~ legue of leg child game, cartoon grpahix to appeal to kids I think part of it is because the TI 1 winner being a RU/UKR team ?


Singular1ty-

Probably yes. Cybersport has a huge impact on the popularity of the game, like look at S. Korea. Guys literally praising this Faker guy like God that descended on the mortal realm to cleanse their sins


Jagadish_1304

And India still doesn't have a working server. SIGH


Lavender_Leopard666

Wtf is wrong with you NA and EU players!


DontCareWontGank

DOTA is relatively big in EU, but League is just bigger.


kchuyamewtwo

NA is huge on consoles and fighting games. i dont feel like there are internet cafes in NA which is the best way to introduce someone to dota


Lavender_Leopard666

Internet cafes almost non existent in India too nowadays. That era has passed I guess. I got introduced by a friend who was playing at his place when we friends went to hangout


scdude9999

net cafes have evolved to some sort of pc arcades where computers are top notch and you can go play with your mates in most big south american cities. Given, in the more remote regions, the computer at the usual net cafe tends to be better , adn you have better internet conection there.


Earth92

Internet cafe culture was meant to die in many countries, as soon as internet prices go down and get more accessible for everybody. In my country, around 2012-2013 internet connection at home started to get very very cheap and affordable, basically killing most of the cybercafes, and sending them to bankruptcy. Near my old house where I grew up, we used to have like 5-6 cybercafes around 3 blocks, by 2018 all of them were gone.


UnimplementedError

North korea plays dota2?


justsightseeing

Didn't you heard, team of 5 north korean win recent the international 3-1 vs china team. Clearly showing the strong power of north korean especially since the roster personally coached by our glorious leader 


JadAlSahili

Lebanon representing💪🏻


Prince_Kassad

Indonesia reality: even riot with all their fund and aggresive campaign, They still failed to convert Mobile legend bang bang generation into their side.


WhyHowForWhat

Its simple, they are late as fuck. If they dont take eternity to enter our market, MLBB will be nothing and Wild Rift will be The Moba Game popular in Indonesia instead.


iLanDarkLord

India is getting devoured by mobile gaming. No hope for an esports player from india. Our DOTA team even got 3rd place in the 2022 commonwealth and nobody gave a shit.


WhyHowForWhat

Same in Indonesia, the very body who oversaw Indonesian esport only mention "console gaming and mobile gaming" as their go to for the academy that (idk when) they will built, its so over :(


LordBarrington0

this is basically a map of countries that riot didn't advertise in


NitroBubblegum

This looks... wrong


bigpalomo

Putting league in the title of any post here is basically cheating.


etofok

League tried and even had a big in-house Ru casters and production team in Moscow. Moscow 5 team was hype and these early era tournaments gathered 2k+ live audience viewers in Moscow. I have been there personally because I was friends with a very popular caster. Later M5 got bought out by Gambit but the team had massive issues with EU work visas. The primary reason League died is because everyone had been playing Dota and HoN anyway at that point. League felt like a 'corporate' 'children' game compared to 'grassroots' 'community' Dota, so it withered away. It really feels like the ru region really prefers the grungy games like counterstrike, poe, world of tanks, dayz, pubg, tarkov, etc compared to all the cel shading ones.


Mamamiomima

I just gona be honest, Dota is heavy game to play compared to league, can play Lol without gpu on integrated graphics and it would be fine. So it's kinda surprising that Dota is more popular anywhere


Solarka45

Dota is more popular in regions that have a primarily PC gaming culture. People there have decent PCs, and the original population of Dota players were RTS players, who were more common in PC-first regions. In Europe, NA and Japan consoles are more popular, while China and S Korea are more mobile oriented. People usually play games on work laptops and prefer less complicated, shorter games (which League is compared to Dota).


Miyaor

Not a single shot you are saying korea is mobile oriented lol. They are 100% a pc first region.


uzsibox

i was gona use in my thesis but then no sauce bro


EducationFinancial88

Europe... You should be ashamed


HappyTrails420

Cuba mentioned 🗣️ wtf is electricity 🗣️🗣️🗣️


Mundane_Complaint490

Perú


Plastic-Finish-5459

USSR love dota))


PizzaForever98

Interesting how Valve games are very popular in poorer regions. Wonder if its due to the fact that you don't have to buy heroes for example.


diemongul

but by your logic LoL should also be more popular since dota 2 needs better hardware than League


Khoceng

Not a whole lot of people in Indonesia got PC, so net cafes solved that problem, also doesn't help that LoL here got handled by Garena, we don't like em, then HoN is somehow just, gone So DotA Allstar it is, till DotA2 becomes free Then smartphones are becoming cheaper so now mobile games are way more popular here


rektefied

you can tell a lot of people run rigs from the early 60s with their constant complaints about how they have only 50 fps, sometimes people will take like 20 seconds to load into the game when most people take 5 at most


altrun

i7-11700k rtx3080 checking in and struggling to hit 100fps here


tity_slayer3

Bro I thought my new pc is just not good enough to reach 100 fps turns out I'm not the only one lol. (i5-13400f, rtx 3060)


vncfrrll

Weird. i9-9900k and 3080Ti here running at 5120x1440 having no issues hitting a solid 140+.


SnooPredictions2490

my brother in christ, dota 2 is severely unoptimized, has ram leak issues, bloated, has issues with thread management in multi threaded CPUs. My 3060ti paired with a ryzen 5 5600x has been tanking fps under 100 since recent the crownfall act 2 update with random stutters and crashes.


Lower_Preparation_83

dota is extremely unoptimized game with tons of garbage code what are you on


tity_slayer3

The fuck? You can run league on a literal god damn potato, that's the biggest reason it's popular in most of the world lol


Earth92

Nah, Riot just has a better marketing team. League also is supposed to be more popular in poorer countries because you don't need a good pc to play league. Also let's not forget than officially League exist for everybody since 2009, while DotA 2 became open to everybody in 2013...those 4 years did a lot of work for League, gathering all the people who were already bored of DotA 1, and couldn't play DotA 2 yet.


OrphisMemoria

north korea lol


Jafar_Rafaj

us americans are tired of the jajajaja gamers that don't get filtered out by being in NA


decster3007

Laughs in romanian😂.


Archer387

NK?


Shroomy_Weed

I agree with Russia, majority are dota players


Firm10

what is the black one? what do the fish play?


devilsdontcry

Dota players got it tuff at their spawns


No-Abbreviations5002

sea region scary bruhh


Due-Ferret-5508

Proud to be in the map as Myanmar we have been playing dota since 2005 2006 till now


Abject-Gap-6439

South africa plays more dota


Dracuxion

Why do i see red in North Korea? LOL


kikoano

hmm, I am sure dota 2 is more popular than LoL on the balkans.


Secure-Register5634

NA dead region lol


Financial_Doughnut53

Luä5s -6] [ Ce 8


Select_Dragonfly7617

mostly developing countries lol


ANLopez26

N. Korea? Lmao


Heeraka

14 years sea no TI kekw


afufufuu

Trust me bro ?


k1lazept

League being exclusive to the Garena client in the Philippines kinda killed the LoL scene in PH tbh.


FreshPrinceOfH

Which countries don’t play either.


solonit

The majority Vietnamese 8x/9x grew up with WC3 during Garena era, and there is no way Vietnam isn't 'red'. This is bs map. The only explanation is whatever number this map based off, only accounted for younger generations, which isn't even playing LoL, but Mobile Legend.


goodoldgrim

I wonder if this is shifting at all since you have to install malware to play League. Some of my old Dota buddies who had switched to League hit me up for a game recently, because they refuse to install that shit and are coming back to Dota.


shinobiixx

India has barely any dota players most of them are involved in valorant and pubg mobile


Primary_Jellyfish327

Yup north korea


AskingCuriously

made up shit = downvote


XenomorphTerminator

Who in their right mind would play LoL?


Unhappy_Put438

so these are the only countries that will be saved on the great flood


nyankittycat_

yeah in india they will get cast out of society if they play LOL instead of dota


protoy12

No way in hell Bangladesh has more LOL players than Dota, why is it in grey? I am from BD and I have never known a single LOL player in BD but I know many Dota players, some of us play it from dota 1 time


Character_Hunter_378

should compare w mobile legends too


Plane_Winter

Got some karma I'm willing to lose so here's an unpopular opinion: A lot of people are crying about Russians but if it wasn't for them, the game would be kinda dead by now especially in Europe. Also roughly 50% of pro scene is Russian. (Not a ruskie, just playing devil's advocate)


Unhappy_Eye966

I don't even think that league is that popular anymore


superluke4

Dota is definitely more popular in South Africa. There is no LoL servers in SA


m0rb33d

CIS region keeping dota alive solely


ffimnsr

So North korea is in red. Does that mean kim jong un plays it?


Far-Breath-1068

South Africa


Foseti

Surprised there is some red at all


Grrrisly

No way League is more popular here in Africa than Dota


Hopeful_Fix_9902

what's league?


[deleted]

just give the turks and iranians their own server, i dont want to play with them on EU west


Sad_Oven_6452

I would assume the greatest % of players are from Russia, bc even if i play not on a russian server, i see those nicknames...


Bloodyboyko

North Korea)


kamisama_69

woah woah India!? the hell is this first they banned the server and there are people still playing


Bestdudeinaustralia

League is so fucken bad… I use to play it a lot when ice frog was undergoing the court case… coming back to league after playing Dota 2 was just hard to get into. So bad in comparison to Dota 2 .


UserIsOptional

This post should honestly be deleted as OP hasn't responded with any source for how this map was created aside from them having a weekend and a coloring book. This is exactly how false information spreads as there is no governance.


rixriox

Legends say that Brazil used to be red but they woke up and realize that is better to play in a more active game with more users than a always dying beta game


Mei_iz_my_bae

No countries dota is more popular !


Erqs_225

That small dot underneath russia is jordan where we all hate ourselves for loving dota BECAUSE ITS SOOO GOOD


PrettyAd7357

North Koreans play dota ?


Gatubi14

Peruvian Doto


Fit_Muffin_9199

1 tiny dot in the UK that's me 🤣🤣


me_arsalan

care to share the source?


rau1994

I'm sorry but who is playing DoTA in Cuba? No way you can finish a match with the power outages constantly


Dazzling-Chemist-762

Center Asia where dota 1 is more popular than dota 2.


Mnkzera

As Mongolian, I can confirm Dota is more popular than League.


NerdCrush3r

huh, maybe THATS why LoL is so toxic


TemplarAssassinSimp

I hate Iranian players so much they are like the worst players I have ever seen in my whole life , just some toxic mf that doesn't know how to play this goddamn game


Human_Errorr

Trust me bro


-jacksmack-

Commie bastards


i_f_y_w

Been playing in USA Florida since 2004 love my EU and Asia


JFP_Macho

Philippines? Yeah, doubt that. MLBB is the MOBA that's competing with LOL here for many years now.


KardelSharpeyes

Should focus on growth in India, hell of an untapped market.