Before even getting you started on the basics or staples you’d typically find in a MOBA (massive online battle arena), it is important to know that these specific genre of games are pretty tough to play – more so excel in. Although played out in fast paced sessions, it could take a while to fully situate you into the highlights of the game, and get you all pumped up playing.

Also, these types of games are obviously played in team efforts – meaning, no one person is can handle every core aspect needed for one team to win a bout. That being said, the better cooperation and balance you have in a team, the more rewarding the matches are, as well as more exhilarating they become.

The tough part about MOBAs essentially is that it is riddled with all the different functions of the different characters in the game, much more if you have a relative lack of backing, or knowledge on how the game works and stuff.

Usually in these types of games, you get to control a key character, buy sorts of items or upgrades within the game session (as you earn resource or earn levels), and ultimately get to corner the opposing team into further progress in the game.

The basic setup in a typical MOBA is for you to choose a hero, get racked up with a team of your own (which is usually by a 5 man team) and then pitted down against a competing team. During a game session, you’ll promptly be guided by computer controlled minions towards streaks of paths (or sometimes called lanes) in the given map. In a rock-paper-scissors effort and strategy, playing teams perform their best efforts into controlling these paths in order to gain leverage in the match.

Familiar to most MOBAs, experience and in-game resource is usually earned through killing of the enemy players. As you scour for experience and resources, you get to fund stuff to improve your hero in the game. As the game advances, so will the constant barrage of upgrades and skills be handed down to the players – the better their performance.

Getting a grasp towards enhancing your skills playing typical MOBAs can be very daunting at first, but will gradually be obtained through constant exposure and practice through your matches with different sets of players. Short guided tutorials are always thrown with these games to have you grasp a better concept of the game, but will always take you on the same route as any other title – each and every time. At the point you get a firm grasp of the basics, only shall you try live matches with other people -- for you not to get in the way of a team’s effort to win a game.

To purposefully gain a higher skill in playing these types of games too, you may want to stick onto at least two different roles. Excelling at a pertaining role in the game could provide leverage for your team, and getting to excel at another role gives you way farther understanding of how the game would flow in your favor. In return, not only that you get to pacify potential burdens in your team, you also get to actually see through enemy tactics at the same time.

And to seam it all together, the final key to get a load of leverage onto these games is great communication and understanding with your team. Experience comes through the lot of practice – being pitted over different challenges at different vantage points in a game. With this, you get to act in accordance with your team member’s action without them even having to lay down the specifics of the strategy at play.

With this, you may start prepping up on targeting specific roles in a game, take some great dry runs to familiarize you with all the assets therein, and practice to hone a better skill in these types of games. On the article to follow this 2-part series, we'll discuss into detail the core roles in a typical MOBA game. Until then, happy hunting!