| Scisca said: I've never played any MOBA games. Can you tell me exactly what makes a MOBA game? |
Usually a 5 per side match, on a map with 3 lanes that are defended by allied and enemy towers and the lanes converge at a home base at either end of the map. In between lanes is open areas noremally referred to as jungles where there are other things you can kill to gain in game money, XP and sometimes temporary buffs. In each lane you have squads of minions that spawn every 20-30 seconds that you kill (the enemy minions) for in game money and XP (or some variant that lets you gain levels and obtain buffing items). The object of the game it to destroy enemy towers in the lanes and then push into the enemy base to take the final objective which may be a home tower or a base "guardian". Most matchess take between 20 - 60 minutes depending how evenly matched the teams are.
Some games have variants that include more of a battle arena with no lanes and different objective for winning (like accumulating points from killing enemies) and other variants involve a one lane map and 3v3 or 1v1 match.
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