Multiplayer Online Battle Arena (MOBA)

According to Wikipedia, Multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA), also known as action real-time strategy (ARTS), is a subgenre of strategy video games that originated as a subgenre of real-time strategy, in which a player controls a single character in a team who compete versus another team of players.The objective is to destroy the opposing team’s main structure with the assistance of periodically-spawned computer-controlled units that march forward along set paths. Player characters typically have various abilities and advantages that improve over the course of a game and that contribute to a team’s overall strategy. MOBA games are a fusion of action games, role-playing games and real-time strategy games, in which players usually do not construct either buildings or units.

These are the examples of Multiplayer online battle arena:
1. League Of Legends
2. Dota / Dota 2
3. Heroes of Newerth
4. Mobile Legends
5. Arena of Valor

As you play this games, you’ll be matched up with a stranger forming a team and also with a enemy team forming the same number of players. For example when you play League of Legends, you will select what mode you want like PvP(Players vs Players) is a 5 versus 5 game in Summoner’s Rift, Howling Abyss, or Rotating Game Mode(occasional events) and 3 versus 3 game in Twisted Treeline. In Summoner’s Rift you will pick a matchmaking type like Normal(Blind Pick), Ranked Solo/Duo, and Ranked Flex. Normal(Blind Pick) is a type of matchmaking when you can’t see the picks of the enemy team and you can invite 4 of your friends. Ranked Solo/Duo is a type of matchmaking when you can see the picks of the enemy team but you can only invite 1 friend per game. Ranked Flex same as the Ranked Solo/Duo but it is a 2-man, 3-man, and 5-man team. You can’t Ranked Flex with only 4 members in a team but you can start Ranked Flex alone. 

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In League of Legends you’ll be the one to buy your own champions to play in games.
And you can only play Ranked games when you reached Level 30 and having owned 20 champions. In ranked games you can’t pick the champions that have been banned by your team and enemy team, and the one that has been picked by the enemy or ally. But in a Normal Game(Blind Pick) you can pick any champions but you can’t pick the one that has been picked by your Ally.

You need to analyze on what to move next and you need to kill the minions to earn gold and experience to level up .
MELEE MINION:
Gold Gain: 21 gold (+0.2 gold/90 sec)
Experience Gain: 64 exp
CASTER MINION:
Gold Gain: 14 gold(+0.2 gold/90 sec)
Experience Gain: 32 exp
SIEGE MINION:
Gold Gain: 63 gold (+3 gold every 3 waves)

When you play MOBA Games there will always be a role.For example when you play League of Legends,  the main roles that is being played in League of Legends is Fighter, Tank , Assassin , Mage , Marksman, and Supports. As you play ranked games, you will select what role you want to play like top lane, jungle , mid lane , bottom lane, support, and there is Fill it means you want to play any role.

The more you play a game , the more you learn and understand it. In MOBA, you must always have strategies before playing and analyze a certain MOBA game. As a team you need to discuss on what you have to do on your next game and to predict your enemy and also their strategies. You need to push the enemies tower until you destroy their Nexus to win the game. Getting the objectives like killing dragon, rift herald, and Baron Nashor gives the entire team who killed the objective an additional buff. Overpowering the enemy team gives them pressure as they play the game. You always have to communicate with your team in chats or better if you have mic makes it easier to communicate with your teammates. Killing the enemy champions to earn a lot of gold and it makes your lane push a tower or getting an objective. You have to decide faster on what move you will make next because if you don’t decide faster, the enemy will surely attack you surprisingly and you will have a disadvantage to them. Don’t hesitate when your teammate/s calls a move like Diving the enemy in tower, killing a dragon, or pushing a tower. Destroying the enemy inhibitor makes your ally siege minion in to ally super minion. Also when you are pushing/destroying a Outer Tier Tower before 14 minutes it does have a Plating to make you push slower but gains more gold. When you destroy 1 tower plate gives you 160 gold.

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I chose League of Legends as an example of Multiplayer Online Battle Arena game because I’m already familiar with it and I played this game a lot. And that’s how you play League Of Legends and you can message me if you have any questions playing this game. Just remember this, life is not a game of luck. If you wanna win, work hard.

“In every time, in every world, the strong polish their fangs while the weak polish their wisdom.” – Sora