What are the best mobile MOBA games?

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Best mobile MOBA games	Price	Co-Op	Genre
-- Vainglory	-	Online PvP	MOBA
-- ARENA OF VALOR	-	Yes	MOBA
79 Mobile Legends: Bang Bang	-	Yes	MOBA
-- Onmyoji Arena	Free+	Yes	MOBA
-- League of Legends	Free	Online PvP	-

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score 35 · Answer 1

Vainglory

Top Con

Could be dying

Queuing is taking longer these days. See More

Top Pro

Game modes for any length of time

Variety of game modes and 40+ heroes and easily the best of these 3. See More

MeticulousAntheia's Experience

The PC version is being continually improved on since release. You won't be switching to this moba if you already play another PC moba, but game can still be enjoyed if you want a more relaxing/new experience. See More

Specs

Co-Op:Online PvP

Genre:MOBA

Top Con

Too much of a grind and way too many currencies

The rewards in the game are frequent and negligible, and it really does not add up. See More

Top Pro

Can play on PC (Steam)

A good and continually improved PC gameplay experience See More

Tyler S. Huang's Experience

Account hacked, poor customer support, long queues, lack of players and many trolls. These are the reasons that have destroyed a beautiful game with good heroes, graphics and gameplay. Very long queue and there is no good credit/karma system. Everyone dodges matches and afk without much penalty. The match lasts 10 minutes but more than 5 mins spent on queueing. It is a complete waste of time. Long network downtime that lasts up to 10-20 hours almost after every update/patch. Network connectivity issue, lag and ping. No matter how beautiful the game or graphics is, there is a dreadful feeling to even start a match. See More

Top Con

Playing as a team in person is a huge advantage

Due to how difficult it is to communicate with other online team members the easiest method to get that communication working is to just play together in person. Of course this gives an advantage to those that do so. See More

Top Pro

Works well on tablets

Tablets, with their larger screens allow for a good sense of control over the game, which makes Vainglory something that plays best on larger screens devices due to how much is happening on the screen. EditComment References 1 See More

EfficientBanaitja's Experience

The game play is engaging, fun. There seems to be better team synergy with the characters and their roles. See More

Top Con

No longer supported, Community edition only available

Vainglory devs lost their servers and released a Community Edition, which is currently on pause development-wise. The game has been pulled from Steam, Samsung, and Amazon platforms, and is only available on iOS App Store and Android Play Store. Developers intend to get back to the game in the future, but there's no definite timeline. See More

Top Pro

More advanced gameplay

Meaning more rewarding (and more punishing). See More

Top Con

Artwork kinda sucks

Top Pro

Heroes with diverse abilities

Top Pro

Cross platform Android and iOS support

Vainglory is available for Android devices through the Google Play Store, and the App Store for iOS tablets and phones. Users on both platforms are able to play together. See More

Top Pro

Everything can be unlocked through play

Top Pro

48 available heroes (as of March 2019)

For a mobile MOBA having 48 characters to choose from is not too shabby, which gives a nice level of choice to the player as well as stretches the content of the game for those that want to learn and customize each one. See More

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score 35 · Answer 2

ARENA OF VALOR

Top Pro

Better than the rest

AoV is a top 3 game in the genre by being better than the other clones using the same or similar UI as well as gameplay and controls. See More

Top Con

Super slow movements of the characters is boring

ImpartialOkuninushi's Experience

Dead game See More

Specs

Co-Op:Yes

Genre:MOBA

Top Pro

Fancy graphics

Top Con

Support could be better

KnowledgeableAdikia's Experience

I have a LTE That works just fine with other mobas, yet on AoV the connection is weak and I have to deal with delayed character movements which ruins it entirely for me. See More

Top Pro

Great variety of gamemodes

Top Con

Un-original, lackluster depth and regulated communities

AoV players must be tired of saying "we're not copies of LoL, Tencent bought out Riot so they own the IP". As much of a copy this game is, it doesn't deliver anywhere near an experience that LoL offers. Better stick to something more original and true to MOBAs like Vainglory. See More

HumbleKingu's Experience

nice See More

Top Pro

Good Hero balance

Top Con

Buggy, hero can get stunned forever in battles

PrivateMetztli's Experience

This game requires both strategies and skills. Every player in the team have it's own unique role and is meant to do different things in-game. There are certain objectives and the whole team must get it together instead of 1 single jungler carrying the whole game. Great graphics and story that makes you feel really involved. Despite toxic children, the community is great. Everything is more fun and mature thean MLBB so definitely give it a try. See More

Top Pro

Cool quests and heroes

Top Con

Pay to play game

Top Pro

Ability needed

This isn't a game for unskilled players. See More

Top Con

Stupidiest game of all 3

Top Pro

Requires skills

Ability needed. Isn't a game for unskilled player. See More

Top Pro

Cross platform support

Top Pro

Frequently updated

Top Pro

Ranked reward system for good play

Top Pro

Report system finally works

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score 57 · Answer 3

Mobile Legends: Bang Bang

Top Pro

Large community

A lot of people play the game, so it's easy to find matches at any time. See More

Top Con

Rude players community

Players often insult each other in the battle chat. Most the time so many words are being censored that you only see asterisks. See More

InquisitiveAusrine's Experience

It is the industry standard. Best moba for beginners. Always ahead of viewership and playerbase See More

Specs

Co-Op:Yes

Genre:MOBA

Top Pro

Great controls

The game has very good control. Auto targeting or manual. If auto then you can chose the one with the lowest health or the closest to your hero. See More

Top Con

Low skill cap

Many heroes lack movement/dodging skills while alot of skills are auto target/homing. this makes the skill level quite low and makes broken characters hard to counter. See More

AffableArohirohi's Experience

Play well See More

Top Pro

Simplicity

Different characters are easy to notice against the map. See More

Top Con

Horrible chat

Players advertising their channels and baiting with "free skins". See More

Tyler S. Huang's Experience

Fast gameplay, no connection issues, large community of players that keeps the game moving forward. Both default game modes, classic and rank have a good number of players. You can’t play a 10 player match when there’s only a small pool of players. Game ping and sync requires some waiting time but game runs smoothly when it begins. Since it’s a MOBA you don’t have to expect top rated graphics but rather more focused on easy controls and quick movement especially when switching lanes. Team fight can sometimes end very quickly due to burst damage so by the time you reach the destination, the fight is over. I switched over from VG to MLBB and in contrary to many players recommending VG, I discourage you from playing VG due to their smaller community. MLBB is a good middle ground and I gladly accept with satisfaction. See More

Top Pro

The most popular MOBA game

After PC MOBA games. See More

Top Con

The developers pay little attention to real issues

Newer heroes are allowed to be OP to get people to buy them, and older heroes are forgotten. See More

TranquilThoosa's Experience

It a fun game that is being constantly updated. The graphics are also dope. The biggest thing though is how every hero is amazing in there own way See More

Top Pro

Credit score to discourage trolls

Good credit score that tracks a player’s gameplay, and not dodging matches. See More

Top Con

Bad matchmaking

The matchmaking of this game is bad and you will encounter really noob players when you play solo. It makes it super hard or impossible to rank up. So you have to take the burden to play with friends who play well. So people cannot play ranked unless or until their friends are willing to do so. EDIT: MLBB devs have implemented a feature that pairs premade teams. For example, if you form a party of 3 and queue up, you will be matched against enemies that also hold a 3 man party. This can be viewed and confirmed on the scoreboard. And as for every game, there will always be those are superior or inferior in skill - games like LoL are no exception to this. What makes MLBB different is the new system mentioned above that no longer matches solo players against premade teams. If everyone from your team queues solo, u can expect that the enemy team is composed of solo players too. Same when you queue up with a full 5 man team, the enemies will be a premade 5 man team as well. See More

DecisiveTashmetum's Experience

I almost try all types of moba but ml only more fun and player friendly moba... I like it very much See More

Top Pro

40+ heroes to choose from

There are a number of well-balanced heroes and items to choose from. See More

Top Con

Too much lag

Although the developers are trying hard at every patch to fix the lag and the lag spikes, it remains a major problem, leading to AFK players. See More

AwesomestBolina's Experience

Mobile legends is the most greatest game of moba See More

Top Pro

Built-in streaming system

MLBB contains a native streaming system for all players. You can stream your own game or watch other players without having to switch hosts or change app. See More

Top Con

Map hack bug

Developers focus more on getting money than fixing this bug. See More

ImpartialOkuninushi's Experience

no bullshits, no gimmicks, pure MOBA See More

Top Pro

Developer feedback and reporting players

Fast AI feedback on reporting players that are showing trolling behaviour, etc.. See More

Top Con

Broken ranking system

Lose a star, lose a rank. See More

VigilantArnakuagsak's Experience

A lot of heroes completely unbalanced.... Frustrating. Definitely not recommended See More

Top Pro

80+ heroes to choose from

There are a number of well-balanced heroes and items to choose from. See More

Top Con

Stun - disable meta game

Most heroes have stuns and disables, which makes the gameplay challenging. Too many stuns doesn't allow players to show their full skill-play since after the 3 sec stuns there are very few ways to escape and probably leads to an instadeath. See More

DecorousErimon's Experience

Easy control and unique heroes. Good developer who always make great event. I don't know why this site use 2016 trailer. See More

Top Pro

Premade and solo queue composition

MLBB devs have implemented a feature that pairs premade teams. For example, if you form a party of 3 and queue up, you will be matched against enemies that also hold a 3 man party. This can be viewed and confirmed on the scoreboard. And as for every game, there will always be those are superior or inferior in skill - games like LoL are no exception to this. What makes MLBB different is the new system mentioned above that no longer matches solo players against premade teams. If everyone from your team queues solo, u can expect that the enemy team is composed of solo players too. Same when you queue up with a full 5 man team, the enemies will be a premade 5 man team as well. See More

Top Con

Imbalanced heroes

They pay attention more to their new heroes. Their old heroes have become useless and are not taken in ranks, and meanwhile they are underestimated. Even though most players complain about imbalance, they ignore it. They keep buffing new overpowered heroes more and more but do nothing to their old but loyal heroes of the initial Mobile Legends. How sad to see your favorite heroes be called useless. See More

DelightfulMithra's Experience

I wanted to create another account with the same gmail and my previous account has been deleted. I was not notified at any time that my account would be deleted and now I cannot recover it. See More

Top Pro

Constant updates

So you wouldn't get bored playing it. See More

Top Con

Awful matchmaking system and imbalanced heroes

The matchmaking system is garbage in this game. It's like the game wants you to lose, by queuing you with terrible low tier players against high tier players. Also, it can put you in a very imbalanced position, for example, 5 high level mythics against 2 low tier mythics, 1 legend (tier lower than mythic) and 1 epic (a tier even lower than legend). The skill difference can be so huge that for the stronger side it may be like playing against bots, an easy win. Next thing is heroes, you'll see the same heroes being banned and picked every single game. Because heroes are unbalanced, there are dozens of heroes not being picked or banned at all. Every new hero is broken so that people will buy them for easy win. This game is more of a pay to win game. See More

Top Pro

Constant reworks and balancing

The game is constantly being improved by character reworks and rebalancing. Often times, the player base's opinion is considered before making such changes. See More

Top Con

Membership advantage

The Starlight Members in the game usually always win not for skills but rather "Pay-to-win". this is a lie See More

Top Pro

New heroes every 2 weeks

Heroes are released pretty quickly every two weeks — there has been new heroes like Lancelot, Hylos, Odette, Zhask, and there's already a new hero in the Test/Advanced Server in Asia called X. Borg (as of this time of update). See More

Top Con

Could not be played in some countries

Top Pro

Developers show a lot of love for the game and community

Frequent surveys on decisions, game changing updates, lots of generous events make this game the most fun to play and encourages supporting the game. See More

Top Con

Bugs

Heroes like Fanny, Kagura and Johnson have so many bugs which are yet to be fixed. See More

Top Pro

Nice ranking system

So nice, that you can get to the highest rank with the first hero you receive. See More

Top Con

Skins boost stats

You can have stat bonuses if you buy a skin with real money, but the bonuses can be considered neligible (e.g. +8 Physical Atk for Assassins/Fighter/Marksman, +8 Magic Power for Mages, and +100 HP for tanks). See More

Top Pro

No wards

Supports are more valuable. See More

Top Con

Has players that know what is better for the games

Some players in the community act like they know what is the best. All developers action is WRONG because they're not following what-is-the-best for that player. See More

Top Pro

Constant Updates

So you wouldn't get bored playing it. See More

Top Con

Graphics is the worst out of the 3

Top Pro

Balanced gameplay

Most games are very close. There are no champions that are "broken", and matchups place you with and against players of equal skill levels. See More

Top Con

Your account may get deleted if you try to create another with the same email address

When creating another account with the same email address your previous account will be deleted without any notification, and there's no way recover it. See More

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score 8 · Answer 4

Onmyoji Arena

Top Pro

Fair mechanics

Runes are fixed and not upgradeable. See More

Specs

Co-Op:Yes

Genre:MOBA

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Top Pro

Skins are just aesthetic

No pay to win bonus stats on skins. See More

Top Pro

Fantastic game

Great graphics, great gameplay, great texture and effects. Good set of characters. Can easily go head to head against expensive characters using cheaper ones. Overall you're gonna have a great time playing the game. Only issue would be long queue time. See More

Top Pro

Great art style

The Japanese art style is unique and easy to the eye. See More

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score 8 · Answer 5

League of Legends

Top Pro

The world's biggest e-sports title

League of Legends is the worlds top e-sport title. It raises e-sports to a completely new level, making it real sport, no compromise. It's funny that people still think of "biggest e-sports" as of "highest prize pool", playing other games, they are acostomed, that there is nothing except Worlds championship and another couple of big events. On the contrary League of Legends is a constant big event. Although it's not the first in highest prize pool on Worlds, its e-sports competition is not limited by rare championships here and there. That's why it is the biggest: Since 2010, it has several professional leagues, with four major: LEC (Europe), LCS (N.America), LCK(S..Korea), LPL (China) and more than 10 "not major" in Russia, Turkey, Latin America North, Latin America South, Brazil, Vietnam, South-East Asia, Australia and Oceania, Japan, Taiwan and more. It has big "physical" infrastructure, studios and "stadiums" (usually one per region, but they have more than one in S.Korea and China) are built to take regular championship events. Each region has large "TV"-teams, a large number of analysts and casters. Major regions have more than one caster teams, one of which is English-speaking. Overal, several days a week they produce kinda "6 hours expensive tv show." They have two seasons a year (splits). In each, 10 teams are competing. Each team plays 2-3 games each week, So the total number of games is around 10-15 a week. Teams have a large infrastructure. Each has several coaches (strategic, analyst, etc), sports psychologists, cooks, etc. In major and some other regions, each organization have 10 or more players, who also play in challenger league (as the second team) and/or are raised to play in the main team somewhen and/or for substitutions in the main team. So, LoL is a real sport and the biggest of e-sports ever. See More

Top Con

Long games (average 25-30 min) and leaver penalties

Long games aren't bad per se but when paired with leaver penalties (not just for ranked games but also normal games) it means once you start a game you are practically locked to your computer for a good amount of time. See More

Specs

Co-Op:Online PvP

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Top Pro

14 free champions in weekly rotations

Top Con

It's boring

It's repetitive, always the same, not challenging, gets boring very fast. You can feel that the game is made to get money in for Riot and not to make you happy or excited. Its not like that. See More

Top Pro

Offers free skins

Top Con

Terrible graphics

Models of champions looks flat. See More

Top Pro

Frequently updated

LoL has frequent patches pushed to the game client. However, with every patch new bugs appear. See More

Top Con

The community is very toxic

Your teammates will most likely be hostile towards you for every mistake. See More

Top Pro

More beginner friendly than other direct DotA successors

Compared to other direct DotA successors such as DotA2 and HoN, LoL has simplified mechanics. There are no "denies", there's less penalty for dying and no item purchase is require to teleport back to base. See More

Top Con

Bad matchmaking

Top Pro

Free to play

It's free to play without being pay to win. See More

Top Pro

The most popular MOBA by a huge margin

More than 27 million players log in each day to play the game and more than 67 million players log in to play each month. It has peaked at 7.5 million concurrent players. See More

Top Pro

Largest diversity of champions with unique play styles

Having 144 champions League of Legends ought to offer the greatest diversity, and it delivers. Many champions have long combos that need precision in positioning and timings on par with fighting games, while others can be effective without combos at all. Also, many champions feel really unique (not necessarily complicated) in play style, unseen in other MOBAs. See More

Top Pro

3 different maps

There are three different maps that users can play on, which offers a bit of a change up of play and familiarity as well as allows for the player to not get burnt out on a singular stage played over and over again. Also, there are game modes with new experimental maps. See More

Top Pro

Balanced game...requires skills

The game is quite balanced and second its skill(requires) dependent. See More

Top Pro

New Champion every 3 - 4 months

It may sound not much (and it was much more frequent), if you don't realize there are ~150 champions already. See More

Top Pro

Fun mode every weekend! New fun mode every second weekend

There are a number of fun modes that are switched on Friday evening and switched off Monday evening, rotating every two weeks. This include always highly awaited URF (Ultra Rapid Fire), AR URF (all-random URF), Nexus Siege, Hunt of the Blood Moon, Legend of the Poro King, Doom Bots of Doom, Hexakill, Ascension etc. See More

Top Pro

Constant champion reworks and visual updates

They are updating champions that have "outdated" gameplay/visuals on a regular basis. And usually, they hit bull's eye, giving those champions new life and making them feel "right" to the player (there are much more praises than complaints from the community). See More

Top Pro

League of Legends Championship Series

League of Legends Championship Series (LCS) is a weekly 10-team league. See More

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What are the best mobile MOBA games?

5 Games Considered

Vainglory

My Recommendation for Vainglory

My Recommendation for Vainglory

Could be dying

Game modes for any length of time

Too much of a grind and way too many currencies

Can play on PC (Steam)

Playing as a team in person is a huge advantage

Works well on tablets

No longer supported, Community edition only available

More advanced gameplay

Artwork kinda sucks

Heroes with diverse abilities

Cross platform Android and iOS support

Everything can be unlocked through play

48 available heroes (as of March 2019)

ARENA OF VALOR

My Recommendation for ARENA OF VALOR

My Recommendation for ARENA OF VALOR

Better than the rest

Super slow movements of the characters is boring

Fancy graphics

Support could be better

Great variety of gamemodes

Un-original, lackluster depth and regulated communities

Good Hero balance

Buggy, hero can get stunned forever in battles

Cool quests and heroes

Pay to play game

Ability needed

Stupidiest game of all 3

Requires skills

Cross platform support

Frequently updated

Ranked reward system for good play

Report system finally works

Mobile Legends: Bang Bang

My Recommendation for Mobile Legends: Bang Bang

My Recommendation for Mobile Legends: Bang Bang

Large community

Rude players community

Great controls

Low skill cap

Simplicity

Horrible chat

The most popular MOBA game

The developers pay little attention to real issues

Credit score to discourage trolls

Bad matchmaking

40+ heroes to choose from

Too much lag

Built-in streaming system

Map hack bug

Developer feedback and reporting players

Broken ranking system

80+ heroes to choose from

Stun - disable meta game

Premade and solo queue composition

Imbalanced heroes

Constant updates

Awful matchmaking system and imbalanced heroes

Constant reworks and balancing

Membership advantage

New heroes every 2 weeks

Could not be played in some countries

Developers show a lot of love for the game and community

Bugs

Nice ranking system

Skins boost stats

No wards

Has players that know what is better for the games

Constant Updates

Graphics is the worst out of the 3

Balanced gameplay

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Onmyoji Arena

My Recommendation for Onmyoji Arena

My Recommendation for Onmyoji Arena