What kind of game is dota?

DotA is the abbreviation of Defense of the Ancients, which can be translated as protecting ancient trees, protecting relics and protecting ancient relics. Refers to the multiplayer real-time battle custom map based on warcraft 3: Frozen Throne (produced by Blizzard Entertainment), which can support 10 simultaneous online games. Dota plays against two opposing teams, usually 5v5. The purpose of the game is to protect their ancient relics (the tree of life near Weifang and the frozen throne of natural disasters) and destroy each other's ancient relics. DotA is the only official World of Warcraft RPG map recognized by Blizzard Entertainment. Allstars series is updated by Icefrog, USA.

Dota used to be called RPG game, but now it is called moba game. Dota is the originator of MOBA game, and the word MOBA was invented because of its popularity. MOBA is the abbreviation of multiplayer online battle arena, and translated into Chinese is the general name of multiplayer online tactical competitive game and DOTA game. At the same time, MOBA also belongs to a subclass of real-time strategy games (RTS).

This kind of game, generally need to buy equipment in battle. Players are usually divided into two teams and compete with each other in the scattered game map. Each player controls the selected role through an RTS-style interface. However, unlike traditional hard-core RTS games such as StarCraft, this kind of games usually have no organizational units such as buildings, resources and training arms that are common in RTS games, and players only control the characters they choose. This kind of game is more inclined to RPG by nature.