Mobile Legends Bang Bang

 DEFINITION OF MOBILE LEGENDS BANG BANG

    Mobile legends bang-bang is an online multiplayer mobile game developed and published by Moonton. This game was released worldwide on July 14, 2016. The Mobile Legends Bang Bang game is included in online games such as Multiplayer Online Battle Arena (MOBA), is strategic in nature and is usually played by 5-10 people in 1 game. Mobile Legends Bang Bang is actually almost similar to games with the RPG genre (rolling player games), because we also have to raise our level to fight with our enemies in the game. It's just that in Mobile Legends Bang Bang, each player in the team directly faces off in a fierce battle round. According to Ulum Bahrul (2018) Mobile Legends BangBang usually has various types of heroes or what we can say is a hero.. Each person from the team that participates in the game can only bring 1 hero to 1 round of matches. When the match is over, they can choose another hero in the next game.

  In the Mobile Legends game Bang Bang, researchers often see that many students cannot be separated from their smart phones, whether they are around the house, on campus, in coffee shops, or in cafes. Mobile Legends Bang Bang game has indeed become very popular lately, previously there was also an online game called Clash of Clans (COC) which was also very popular. But over time the COC game began to be abandoned, and now many people have turned to the Mobile Legends Bang Bang game. This multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA) type game is in the "popular" category and was ranked first on the Play Store. Like MOBA (multiplayer online battle arena) games in general, there are characters that are certainly a favorite for every player, because apart from having extraordinary abilities, they are also easier to use.

    This game designed for Smartphones has a gameplay that focuses on one of the two teams fighting to reach and destroy the enemy's base while defending their own base to control the path, namely the three paths known as top, middle and bottom, which connect bases. In each team, there are five players who each control an avatar, known as a hero from their own device. Weaker computer control characters, called minions, spawn in the team base and follow three paths to the opposing team's base, fighting enemies and towers. Teamwork is key in this game. Each hero also has different skills from each other, therefore understanding the character of the hero used is very fundamental.

HISTORY OF MOBILE LEGENDS BANG BANG

   Mobile Legend is a kind of MOBA (Multiplescreen Online Battle Arena) game. Literally, it can be interpreted as a battle in an arena carried out by several players online. If we take it far back, the history of the MOBA (Multiplayer Online Battle Arena) game was actually initiated from the RTS (Real Time Strategy) genre which interestingly started before the 90s! One of the "fathers" of the RTS game itself is HerzogZwei, which was launched in 1989 for the Sega console. The Herzog Zwei game itself does have some MOBA (Multiplayer Online Battle Arena) elements, where we play a unit and aim to destroy the enemy base with the help of several AI-controlled units (In the same year, Blizzard launched one of the most popular RTS games, namely Starcraft for PC.

    Armed with the ability to create custom maps, a player named Aeon64 created the Aeon of Strife map which was the first to introduce a map system with three different lanes. Aeon of Strife is considered the forerunner of MOBA (Multiplayer Online Battle Arena) games. modern as we know it today. The popularity of Aeon of Strife continued until the history of the next MOBA (Multiplayer Online Battle Arena) game rolled when the emergence of Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos in 2002. Armed with Warcraft III World Editor, it was only in 2003 with the release of Warcraft III: Frozen Throne, a modder named Meian tried to combine various existing maps and gave it the name Dota Allstars which contains various heroes from various DOTA maps that were created in the 2002 period. Dota Allstars exploded and became very popular in its time. At this point, an important figure in the history of the MOBA (Multiplayer Online Battle Arena) game appeared, namely Steave Guinso Feak‟‟ who at that time was committed to developing the Dota Allstars map by creating various new heroes and also improving the game. the term MOBA (Multiplayer Online Battle Arena) is more accepted by the Indonesian people today.

   Fauzi Moch Prima (2017) The above mentioned game, MOBA (Multiplayer Online Battle Arena) game has some similarities. First, on average to win the game the players must destroy a special structure or building. Second, the players play a strong character and commonly called a "hero" with different strengths from each other.

   The third similarity is that MOBA (Multiplayer Online Battle Arena) focuses on the battles that take place in the arena, where over time the strategies used to win the game can vary, ranging from taking objectives, killing opposing heroes, or collecting gold by killing non-players. controllable character (creep or minion). This year the history of MOBA (Multiplayer Online Battle Arena) games has entered a new phase where MOBA games can be played on gadgets such as smartphones or tablets. This phenomenon, the University of North Sumatra, has again broken the tradition of MOBA (Multiplayer Online Battle Arena) which so far can only be played on PC, call it vaing glory or mobile legends because it is simpler and not as complicated as the MOBA game on PC.