LoL is much more passive in laning because of things like no smoke, flash, clairvoyance, heal, timing on camps, no runes, no teleports outside of summoner spell, super towers, etc.
Like I said, it doesn't necessarily make it worse since it's all preference, but I do believe it makes competitive matches much more boring to watch >_>
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