Multiplayer Online Battle Arena (MOBA) is possibly the most popular genre in the world of PC games. Arena of Valor should feel familiar to anyone who has played League of Legends or even Dota 2. It features a fairly traditional 5 versus 5 matches that take place in a three-lane arena filled with varies nooks and crannies hidden between towers. A relative new entry to the MOBA market, SmashMuck Champions lets you play as absolutely weird heroes like a robot shark and a platypus unicorn.

A character from a MOBA game usually has skills or spells it can cast which makes it stand out from the rest of the characters. League of Legends a.k.a LoL is one of the best MOBA games out there. MOBA battlefields are top-down and mouse driven, like strategy games, but players control only one unit at a time.

The minerals could only be used to upgrade each hero’s armor or attack damage, and there were no specific items to be purchased the way there are in today’s MOBAs. Heroes of the Storm is a new game offered by Blizzard Entertainment that has made a lot of fanfare with over 9 million signups in the Beta version.

Star Conflict is a massively multiplayer game which includes both PVP and PVE. The MOBA genre has more resemblance with role-playing games (RPG) in gameplay, though the MOBA genre focuses on multiplayer battle in an arena while RPG typically revolve around a single player story.

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The massive success of eSports has led to plenty of competition on PCs, but so far mobile games that are ready for professional competitive play have yet to really break through. By building on the years of development and iteration that had already gone into the original game, DOTA 2 exhibits a level of complexity that’s unparalleled in the MOBA genre-a complexity that Valve Software uses to facilitate a deeper range of strategic options.

Each hero in Planet of Heroes can be customized with the game’s unique strategic customization system, which relies on over 200 runes that can be combined to create more than 20,000 different skill configurations. But here’s the thing: the objectives are different on every map, and sometimes in every game of every map.

Though due the difference of how items and abilities scale in DotA and League of Legends, DotA is much more of a “team’s effort game” where map control and organized battles mean so much more as the damage comes in short bursts and a slight slip up could lose you the game while in League of Legends the carry’s personal KDA (kill to death to assist ratio) for an example, where the battles are much more based on “sustained damage” and “tactical outmaneuvering” rather than “strategic map control” is much more important simply because a well equipped highly item dependant (hyper carry) hero who lands his or hers skill shots can solo the opponents team as long as your teammates are literary there just as a … Read More...