A League of Legends fan tries Arena of Valor
We got some kills, died a lot, and discovered my bloodlust in Tencent’s massive mobile hit
I like MOBAs. I like watching them and I like playing them. I’ve dabbled in League of Legends, Heroes of the Storm, SMITE, and even tried out Paragon for a while. But I always go back to LoL. There’s something about Summoner’s Rift that’s comforting.
LoL was my first MOBA, and I’ve been playing on and off since Season Three. I know I’m terrible at CS-ing, and I have an unfortunate tendency to get baited by low health bars. But I understand the game enough to have a passable grasp on mechanics (and confuse my editor with that last paragraph).
So when my boss asked me to try out Tencent’s Arena of Valor on our Twitch channel, I thought “it’s basically a LoL mobile port, how hard can it be?”
Spoiler alert: Much harder than expected.
It actually started off pretty well. I played Veera, a succubus-looking mage with giant bat wings, and managed to pull off a few sweet kills.
