Genuinely the most toxic community to attempt to join. MOBAs in general tend towards hostile communities, but LoL and HoN before it were downright abusive at all times. If you didn't start at god-tier, you were going to have a bad time and everyone would make sure of it - especially your own team.
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I played one LoL match where I told the team I was brand new. Immediately got called homophobic slurs because we lost. Never went back.
The only good MOBAs are Heroes of fhe Storm and Deadlock
I was more of an Awesomenauts man myself.
Deadlock is less a MOBA and more "taking the greatest hits album of video games and mixing it together in a big jug". You have to be fluent in a lot of games for it to make sense and thats long before your able to git gud.
I do love the asthetic, a supernatural 1940s NYC is inspired.
The second one, is literally how the League of Villains was founded, and named, in My Hero Academia. Yes, Mr Handy plays League, and so does his lizard bestie, Spinner.
Wow I never made that connection, that explains their vitriol much better. Also, Mr Handy lmao.
They came right out and said it in one of the later seasons. Before, we knew Shiggy and Spinner were League players because that's how they named their team and we knew they were gamers. Then a manga chapter came out and explicitly pointed out that they were playing League. I think the anime called it something else to avoid copyright, but it was also really obvious what they were talking about. We assumed before but it's been straight-up confirmed.
I swore off MobAs a decade ago. Then found Wild Rift when I got my Retroid Pocket 5. Playing short games with a controller while connected to a big screen monitor was genuinely some of the best multiplayer fun I've had. It helps that people find it too difficult to get into raging rants with a phone keyboard. I didn't really mind forums saying it's mostly bot games for a long time. Really makes me wonder why LoL isn't on console. They're leaving free money on the table by not porting this shit to console.
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