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[Akhier the Dragon hearted]

   MOBA while technicly could mean a large category of games has been specialized to LoL and such. Basically the other games that would fit it already have a category IE FPS.

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[penguinofhonor]

I go into blind pick and my team picks Cho'Gath, Alistar, Blitzcrank, Hecarim (me), and some other bruiser/tank. Nobody autolocking carries and two potential supports? This is going to be a good game.

I switched to jungle Riven and the last guy switched to Katarina so we had damage, and then we proceeded to stomp that game. We had great cooperation and witty banter. I wish all my solo queue games could be like this.

[RedKing]

Huh. Usually teams that are that weak on ranged don't fare so well. Guess the enemy didn't have any good kiters.

We had the weirdest 3v3 ARAM last night:

Soraka (me)
Xerath
Galio

vs.

Garen
Master Yi
Alistar

True, we had range and they didn't, but they were tanky foos and all they had to do was build MR. And even with some magic pen, Soraka's Q was like throwing shiny purple Skittles at them. I mostly wound up trying not to die and acting as a renewable health/mana pot.  Of course, because of that I was typically the FIRST to die. 

[penguinofhonor]

Blitzcrank is one of those "fuck your kiting" champions, I feel. Alistar also helped.

[KaelGotDwarves]

ARAM session starting up... AGAIN.

Add KaelGotRice on NA.

[Alkhemia]

   MOBA while technicly could mean a large category of games has been specialized to LoL and such. Basically the other games that would fit it already have a category IE FPS.

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I always called them Dotalikes games since it was the first big one beside that starcraft 1 custom map like how games are Diablolikes and Rougelikes

[penguinofhonor]

I've never heard the term Diablolike.

Just added Kael. I'll join the ARAMing as soon as he adds me back.

[Frumple]

AoS. AoS is the original acronym; DotA is an AoS map. It's pretty analogous to referring to roguelikes as roguelikes, really.

[IronyOwl]

Strictly speaking, that'd be more analogous to referring to roguelikes as rogues.

It's also a bit harder to say than MOBA, so I'm kind of in favor of going with that acronym just for that.

[Frumple]

Moba's two syllables, yes, but I've definite preference for the aesthetics of A oh Ess. Moba is... I'unno, kinda' base. It's like mud, without the awesome applications thereof, but still possessing ringworms (a large chunk of the player base).

Anywaaay. ARAM's fun. Lots of things die. Sion is a scary monster DX

One that is really really painful. Yikes. Also I've learned I'm a mostly terrible everything, but a particularly bad udyr. Did manage to break even on k/d like... twice, though! Something like that. I call it better-than-could-be.

[Akhier the Dragon hearted]

   Well that was interesting for a first "real" game though it was against AI. I rand picked Galio or however you spell it and managed to do better with him then I thought I would though I died a lot. Our team had an Annie who fed the AI team's Annie then AFKed for the second half of the game. Then we lost because my team seemed to have only one person with any skill and its hard to carry a game when the opposing team all have been fed to some degree or other. Next game if I rand Galio I will at least be able to do better as I understand what he can do.

[cerapa]

I dont think you can actually feed bots. As far as I understand, they get all their stuff on a timer.

[lemon10]

   Well that was interesting for a first "real" game though it was against AI. I rand picked Galio or however you spell it and managed to do better with him then I thought I would though I died a lot. Our team had an Annie who fed the AI team's Annie then AFKed for the second half of the game. Then we lost because my team seemed to have only one person with any skill and its hard to carry a game when the opposing team all have been fed to some degree or other. Next game if I rand Galio I will at least be able to do better as I understand what he can do.

Don't bother playing against bots. Play against humans, that way you will learn how people play. In addition, most of the people you will play against at the start will suck as much as you (the other 25% (or more) are smurfs that are using low level accounts).

After playing VS AI for a while, you will see that they have definite patterns that are easy to exploit (with some champions being better then others at being able to do it).

[Akhier the Dragon hearted]

   Why yes playing against bots is not going to make me better but it will let me learn the controls and various things with only one team worth of players yelling at me. I plan to play versus AI till I get my first kill in a game then move on to playing versus real people who suck as much as me (or not who knows).

[Techhead]

They used to get their stuff on a timer, AFAIK, I haven't been playing longer than a few months.

But currently, bots that are doing better will definitely have better stuff. Bots can have weak laning and mid-games, which translates to bad late games, usually, but if a game drags on or the bots start ending sprees, they can catch up in items. Also, don't get in team-fights with Intermediate AI bots on an even footing. Their coordination and robotic reflexes will stomp you.