App Store Editors’ Notes

Has some good but matchmaking is horrendous.

So when I began the game it was great. Mostly placed in matches against bots in order to get a hang of the ropes. However after silver that’s when things took a strange turn. I was consistently getting matched in teams full of bots. I know they were bots because they would walk around in circles. There’s no way I could solo, as jungle and farming are very crucial to the game. I know I’m not a bad player, in league of legends wild rift I have reached emerald and I didn’t start losing in wild rift till I hit gold and that was uncommon. Losing at silver on a game that is arguable less tedious than WR is absurd. I really enjoyed the game with its characters and I love the Chinese lore, however this matchmaking system has left a sour taste. I don’t even want to touch the game anymore, it was so humiliating to run around trying to micromanage my whole team’s lanes while the opposite team rammed through them like butter. Let me say this, there should be NO SCENARIO in a MOBA game that real people should be teamed up with bots. It doesn’t matter if the person has to wait, there should be NO SCENARIO in which that should be the case. Allow people to get teamed up with real humans. There’s nothing that makes someone lose motivation faster for a game than unfair matchmaking.

Great Game

Great Graphics Great Character Design. But Awful Server Ping. Awful Targeting System. Horrible Hero Balance. Ranking Grade Makes No Sense. Towers Worthless even when there’s only two. They should take half health first shot then do more damage it’s a towers for a reason. I went 9-3-3 got A my teammate goes 7-6-11 and you’re telling me that’s S Rank.?Money Grab instead of giving you a certain amount of currency that’s needed for exclusive skins, they leave it up to chance where you can only get a good amount of the currency needed or get a low amount of currency needed. Shouldn’t have to spend 40 bucks to get an exclusive skins because I get a lower amount because of “luck”. Another problem is this game is stun central. Seems like majority of characters have a stuns which makes the game dull. Or you get frozen into place. Which I get it there should be an ability like that but for 3-4 seconds is way to long. And all the stuns and frozen skills should have the same amount of 2 seconds or less. Peaceful Fist needs to be NERFED he literally was getting attacked by two of us and of course I’m using musashi again worthless musashi and he has less then half a bar of health and I have full even use my ult but his shield saves him? Like are you people even trying to balance your game?? WOULD LOVE TO GIVE 5 STARS BUT I CANT CAUSE THERE ARE TO MANY PROBLEMS.

Best iOS MOBA

MLBB was my first mobile moba, and I’ve also been playing Wild Rift since launch…Honor of Kings is by far the best MOBA. HoK has the best graphics of the three, the gameplay is super balanced; fast quick matches, but still retaining deep mechanics. The monetization is the BEST in ANY MOBA whether it’s mobile or P.C. - tons of free skins, and the ones you pay for are like $1 - $10 (I haven’t even seen a $10 skin though I’m sure they are there). Compare this to wild rift, the cheapest skins are like $6, and the “cool” ones are $20. Honor of Kings respects our time and wallets, to a degree that the other MOBA’s do not. Social integration feels more rewarding than MLBB, like there is a purpose to adding random people and there are mechanics within HoK that help you consistently create or join pre-made parties. One things that I also love is the skins are very high quality compared to the competitors. You get an Epic skin in HoK and you FEEL how epic it is lol, the splash art, design, etc…HoK just has more bad**s skins so that’s awesome lol. I’ve played every MOBA under the sun. Honor of Kings is the best one period.

Please make some changes

With the mix of only about 3 minions spawning per lane every like minute and the fact that an enemy tower can kill most heroes within 3 to 4 hits I don’t see why if you actually play the game you should have to spend half of it spectating while your waiting 40 seconds to respawn it wastes so much player time and it’s really annoying that a tower will take priority on you auto lock and kill you just because an opponent is standing near it that just doesn’t seem fair and it slows the game down substantially when people can sit next to there overpowered tower that can kill you in seconds where you then will have to wait 30 to 40 seconds depending how long the game has been going I think it’s just a stupid way to go about this game mode wait times to respawn shouldn’t change at all during game and towers while they shouldn’t be pushovers shouldn’t be the only reason I’m dying because I can’t even reach my opponents it just seems like I’m spending more time spectating than actually playing I really hope something is done because I really do enjoy this game but I just wish it was a little more fast paced just at least change tower damage and wait times for respawns at least

It’s In thought better than mlbb

I think it’s good for the story of the characters and the quality may lack I bit but at all facts I like the game because if you were a player of Arena Of Valor they have some of the characters here too I love this game a lot and I consider it better than mlbb it just need some time and by the time it has it get better just like mlbb did too this is just the launch of it so keep it in mind that if this game is successful they might try to put more work into it (talking about graphics and quality) so if you’re into this game as much as me and my family members I’ll tell you what I told them in the time being has poor quality and low graphics but in time and if they see that it’s worth it they’ll probably give it more quality and graphics but of course this means it take more space so also keep all of the mentioning that I just made in mind for the future Thank you for hearing me out. -a loving and thoughtful comment 💖

The people whining about the game are bad

The reviews you see of people whining about “balance” and false reports are blowing things out of proportion, so much so that I don’t believe their cries of innocence because I know the ego that comes along with these games and the complete lack of self awareness that comes with an overwhelming majority of the players. When you’ve played mobas for over a decade you start to see patterns in the excuses, “ I dominated but got reported”, “ I did nothing and got falsely reported”, it’s the same set of excuses for players who probably got the punishment that they deserved but won’t tell you the details that got them the ban, it’s not even worth listening to these crybabies. The game is good, very much a mobile league of legends copy and it’s done very well. If you can’t handle it then move on to another game, no need to write whiny reviews out of ridiculous emotional states

Do not play this game

As I said, don’t play it. I use to think HoK was better than MLBB because if MLBB copied most of the HoK mechanic, it must mean HoK is a big deal. I was wrong. Here is my reason why: 1. Matchmaking: Terrible. If I was to compare, HoK matchmaking is farrrrr worse than MLBB. HoK saying that it was the player’s issue like do you play your own game. Imagine winning 2 matches then later, you go on a lose streak. And I speak of all players when I say this. Read the reviews here. 2. Heroes: 80% of the heroes here are useless. Like seriously. I played Xuance, holy is he ridiculously weak. What is the point of giving him awesome skill mechanics if he gets one-shotted or worse, deals little dmg to enemies. He is an assassin, then make him one. 3. Stun: For me, this isn’t a big issue but c’mon, at least give a small purify effect after each stun, like imagine, a 6 sec stun, followed by another 3 sec stun, followed by … like WHAT AM I SUPPOSED TO DO THERE? I would go on and on, but I’ll just say it again: do not play this game. I don’t understand how the Devs can ignore negative reviews like this when majority of players are voicing the same concern.

Terrible Matchmaking and Balance

Their current system still uses the “if you play well then we pair you with terrible players to balance out the teams” so you get stuck in a win-one-lose-one cycle unless you can carry your entire team every game. They do this to drag out the longevity of your play. The reporting system is absolutely trash where KDA is the only matrix to judge without caring about any actual gameplay. So if your team is losing and you sacrifice yourself to clear a lane, or if you are a physical fighter and your entire team has zero group fight awareness then TOUGH TIDDIES, you are gonna get reported. There is no appeal process where you can write anything. Tencent doesn’t care to make their game better, only for turning a profit from their player base. Just look at what they did to Clash Royale, which used to be meticulously balanced by Supercell. If you want to benefit from this unfair matchmaking system, look up 鸡爪流蒙恬, where you intentionally have terrible KDA but only focuses on taking down towers. Because your overall performance score will be so low you’ll always get better teammates.

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