Continuing where we left off yesterday in our Arena of Valor [Free] guide series, today we are focusing on The Armory and how to win games through intelligent itemization. If you missed the previous guide on the basics of MOBAs, go check that out. Also, if you're totally new to what Arena of Valor even is, take a look at our review. In future guides we'll dig deeper into the individual roles and typical builds for them, but all of those things depend on an understanding of how these main systems work first.

The Basics of a MOBA

What is a MOBA"
Hero Types
Typical Team Composition
Last Hitting and Gold Generation
Typical Team Positioning
MOBAs Have Guidelines, Not Rules

The Armory and How to Win Through Items

Basics of Itemization and Ability Scaling Viewing Items in The Armory
Building Magic Defense and Armor
Study Each Game, Think of Other Things You Could Have Built

Basics of Itemization and Ability Scaling

The main thing that originally appealed to me about playing a MOBA is that unlike an MMORPG where you can spent months grinding for one specific item, items in games like Arena of Valor are totally temporary. You can buy all sorts of dumb things from the in-game shop, see how they work, and not be tied to any of those decisions beyond that one game. Like many games that lean on RPG-style character statistics, heroes in Arena of Valor all have their base stats, as well as different ways abilities scale with bonuses.
Arena of Valor actually does a fairly good ...