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Arena of Valor

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Master the battlefield in Arena of Valor, an epic 5v5 Multiplayer Online Battle Arena (MOBA). Lead your team across a classic three-lane map filled with towers, jungle monsters, and formidable bosses. Choose from an ever-expanding roster of over 100 heroes, including Tanks, Assassins, Mages, and Support. Whether you're playing a quick 1v1, a 3v3, or the standard 5v5, coordination and strategy are key to victory. Experience stunning visuals, balanced gameplay, and the thrill of competitive ranking in the world's most popular mobile MOBA.

Dinsun Expert Review

Our Expert Score

92/100

Arena of Valor remains a titan in the mobile MOBA space, and for good reason. The 5v5 matches are tuned perfectly for mobile—averaging about 12 to 15 minutes—which hits that sweet spot between tactical depth and accessibility. The hero roster is incredibly diverse, with characters that feel distinct not just in their abilities, but in their lore and visual design.

The controls are incredibly responsive, which is vital for a game where a split-second flicker or ultimate can change the tide of a match. While the learning curve can be steep for newcomers, the tutorial and bot matches provide a safe environment to practice. It’s a high-production, competitive experience that truly rivals its PC counterparts in terms of balance and polish.

Dinsun reviewed on: Wed Feb 25 2026

Features

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Classic 5v5 MOBA gameplay optimized for mobile

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Roster of 100+ unique heroes with DC Comics collaborations

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Fast matchmaking and 15-minute matches

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Stunning 60FPS high-definition graphics

Featured In

Find the Hero for You
Find the Hero for You
Your guide to the characters and classes of Arena of Valor.
Be a Better Teammate
Be a Better Teammate
5 tips to lead you to victory in Arena of Valor.

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Q&A

No, Arena of Valor focuses on skill and strategy. Monetization is primarily for cosmetic skins and faster hero unlocks, but all heroes can be earned through gameplay.

Ratings & Reviews

Mobile MOBA: Best In Class
Thu Feb 15 2018 NGAjoe

I’ve dabbled in a few MOBAs on PC, and love the concept, but the community was awful, and the time commitment was unaffordable. Fast forward about six years, and I almost exclusively play video games on the phone these days (after kids are in bed). Arena of Valor combines a strong pedigree (produced by the owners of League of Legends), with a well-balanced community encouragement system, with great frame rates and visuals, mixed with a really nice tutorial that opens up the whole system for you over several days, mixed with joystick based controls that feel right at home on the phone. Oh, and disregard all the negative reviews about balance issues: This game has been out for *years* in China, so trust that those kinks have been smoothed out long ago—no offense to those reviewers but skilled players will win over unskilled players, all heroes have distinct strengths and weaknesses. I’ve played this longer than any multiplayer (video) game to date, to include my Counterstrike days. If you’re new to the concept of what a MOBA is or why you should play (you should), this is *the* one you want. And lastly, you don’t need to pay a cent to play with about a dozen different heroes and unlimited play time. You’ll be matched with players of equal skill regardless. This is a solidly constructed app that takes a serious competitive game and makes it accessible and fun to play at nearly any time. Have fun with this one! Most Recommended!

I love this game but...
Fri Jan 01 2021 ahadhsbdbdhe

I love this game to pieces. I’ve been playing for about two year on multiple accounts and it’s amazing. The characters are all unique, most are pretty fun, the graphics are amazing, and so many other positive things about this game, hence why I gave it five stars. For the most part all the characters are balanced but in the recent rework of Butterfly, where they changed how most of her kit worked, they, instead of increasing her pick rate and her play style, they instead made her broken, unfair, a nuisance, and over all just unfun to play against. I now dread lobbies where there is a Butterfly on either side. She no longer has to worry about positioning, and whether or not she can win a fight because now that she can spam her abilities(which got buffed drastically), she no longer has to worry about losing a fight. The flow that I’m seeing from most butterflies and the one or two games since the rework are : Ult onto a squishy(I.e. mage, marksman, supports) S1 to deal huge damage based on how many are hit since it scales and on top of that gain a rather large shield, S2 to finish the squishy. By this point she would already have her ult back, Ult, S1, S2 repeat. This seams like for the most part how old belt would work but the kicker is that she can HEAL from it. As long as she is spamming she can just keep spamming until the whole team is dead. In my opinion, I think they should nerf her overall or make it so she can’t spam abilities so she can regenerate almost all her health, similar to what they did to Quillen awhile ago, where he would be able to heal 2/3 of his health from one use. As I said, I love this game but Butterfly is making it unplayable.

Fun Game
Thu Dec 28 2017 TheUltimateAppReviewer

This game is definitely enjoyable, but I’m not sure I see too much skill involved as far as controls. I’ve only been playing for a few weeks, but so far, it seems as though gameplay just consists of spam buttons. It is extremely difficult to overcome an enemy that has had a better start than you, which gets frustrating sometimes. As a long time Vainglory player, the action spamming in this game is quite enjoyable for a change, but once you’ve played for a few days, there isn’t too much strategy and skill involved, unlike Vainglory. Once you understand your heroes abilities, and the fun of spamming the “attack” button with Valhein starts to wear off, the game starts to lose some fun. Also, in the rare occasion that both teams are pretty equal, late game is a little annoying. Both teams just bunch up in middle lane and try to push, which takes forever, and I feel like the game doesn’t move forward. I mean, both teams can just keep killing each other forever, so I feel like this game is in need of something like the “kraken from Vainglory”. Although it does have the dragons, they do not really change the flow of the game as much as I would hope. However, I love the colorful roster of heroes and the 5v5 action. Overall, I feel as though this game is only really fun on the winning team, but has great potential with the wonderful heroes, so far so good community, and well known developer. Hope this helps thanks!

Great game, but with a huge downside
Mon Aug 03 2020 ThatDude2412

I really enjoy this game a lot and I would love to keep playing it, but there is a MASSIVE downside to the game as well. I was playing the game normally and trying out new heroes and sometimes I would do REALLY bad. Like so bad I wouldn't get a kill. And I wanted to change heroes but I can't in the middle of the game and I knew if I left I would get penalized, so I continued playing. I would still get penalized because I would get reported by other players ( I think) and all of the reports would be valid. Now I have a credibility score of 69 ( no joke). You need 70 to play pvp and I can't get into a single multiplayer bot match after waiting for others to find me so I can do a multiplayer bot match for 10 MINUTES STRAIGHT!!! How am I ever supposed to play another pvp if I can't even get into a bot match to raise my credibility score up?! I think instead of doing it to where you can't play pvp, I think it should just be "play with people with the same credibility score". It would be so much more fair. If you get a credibility score below 70 and you try to get into a multiplayer bot match for 3 days like I did and can't seem to get into one game (even after waiting in several lobbies for 10+ minutes), then I would just consider deleting the game because let's face it... you're not going to get into another pvp match and you're going to be stuck playing 1v1 bots all day.

Solid. Not perfect, but solid.
Sat May 26 2018 Witheringpond6

The featured review on this game that’s been in the App Store for months touts it’s balanced because it’s been out for some time in China. This game has characters that are not balanced. They even made an April fools joke this year about the bad balance. I am not a new player, and though I’m not a pro, I don’t consider myself to be bad. There are several characters that can take on others 2-3 v1. Also, several mages can build full tank and still 2 shot. Marksmen in the game, though all semi squishy, range from blaster 2 shoters to useless potatoes. I do really like this game. I’ve played enough to have made gold rank in 3 separate seasons and hit level cap. I’ve bought several characters and am exited about the new updates. But I can’t write a review that claims this game is balanced more than any other MOBA or that the new characters for sale don’t <usually> hit the game turned up a little higher than what’s fair and need a nerf in the following patch. (Looking at you Superman) At the end of the day you can unlock all non cosmetics for 100% free and only need to buy stuff if you don’t wanna wait. There is NO pay to win and it’s not hard to unlock the arcana (runes) that you need to min/max just from playing the game to level cap. One side note I would have to new players. Be willing to play more than 1 character type, don’t be the guy racing to lock in 1 character and refuse to play anything else, mix it up! And remember- how many kills you get means nothing if you only get losing reward at the end of the match.

Highly entertaining game but...
Thu Oct 18 2018 Ryuzukii

Game is flawless so far, no bugs, easy going etc. The only issue I’ve ran into is the matching system, it happened at least to me since the last patch, I was a 60% win rate player both in classic mode and ranked before the last patch, after the patch I get matched against full diamond ranked teams me being platinum at the time now gold II with a 46% win rate, I get matched with every kind of troll in the game and AFK player, me getting a kda of a minimum of 2-4 deaths and 5 to 10 kills in one game while my team is composed of feeders and an afk,I didn’t know what a losing streak was till now, 16 losses in a row is just pitiful thanks to afk players and trolls or feeders, the matching system honestly should be fair and not place a diamond team against a team of silver or gold players with less than 1000 matches and the hero selection screen should be changed into something where players get divided into the role that suits them the most for example if a player is good with Butterfly (assassin/jungler) the game should give that player the option to call jungle or fill spot before anyone else does and give priority to that player to jungle, I’ve run into people who play a hero like Murad who in my opinion is the hardest jungler assassin to master in RANKED for the first time costing the match to other players, besides all that the game is near perfect and enjoyable, I rate it a 4.2 for now.

TL;DR - Hey, it’s good
Wed Jan 31 2018 DeebleDobble

There are of course some hiccups here and there but being that it’s still newer to North America, I’m sure they’re plenty aware of what’s going on. The only reason I can’t 5 Star is due to the the fixation on negativity by the game itself. AFK warnings posted all over every menu, you get sent a message every time (yes, every time) a team member (usually chosen at random) has connectivity issues followed by a warning for you to not do the same thing, all kinds of info given on consequences for every reason, and then caps are placed on gold and exp. I really like this game, but the restraints and lack of positivity take their toll. Speaking of the gold cap, I don’t understand why it’s there. We earn such a minimal amount for winning matches that it has yet to feel “worth it” when trying to save for a specific character. Plus, what benefit does buying all the characters do for anyone when battling? There aren’t any special weapons to be bought with gold that are then used in battle to make your character wreck the entire enemy team right as the battle starts or something. If there wasn’t the cap, I know that I’d keep playing long after I got all the characters as they are released because it wouldn’t change how anyone battles. So, why limit something that doesn’t effect or enhance the main reason almost all of us have the game? I don’t know if there will be more of a focus on having a positive, or even civil, interaction within the community but I would really enjoy seeing that. I like this game a lot and are more than enough toxic communities in gaming.

< 70 Credibility? You’re screwed.
Thu Apr 04 2019 Princess Starshimmer

Title says it all. For those who haven’t gotten the game yet, credibility score is something that is designed to keep you from being an overall bad person when playing, which is fine. The real issue is how you get credibility deducted, and how much, and the penalties for a low one. The score goes up to 100, and below 90 you cannot join ranked matches. Okay, that’s fair. But below 70 and you can’t join standard PvP matches you HAVE TO play Player vs AI/Bots. The problem is, no one plays vs AI. My score is 69. If I finish one, just ONE AI match, I’m good. But the queue never pops. There is also the issue of reporting. Reporting someone can deduct 10+ points off of their score. And you can get reported for anything! Hell, if someone is feeling particularly douchey, they can report you for cheating because you beat them and they’re a sore loser. Personally, most of my credibility loss is due to bad connection, which results in unintentional AFK. Being AFK deducts your score by itself, but get reported for it? Well you’re screwed. I just wish the score deduction wasn’t so severe, and you could recover from it. If you have a < 70 credibility score, just get grouped with other people with low credibility. The whole deal with the AI matches is stupid because you can never recover. Aside from my rant, this is an amazing game. I really enjoy, I wouldn’t be complaining about NOT being able to play it if I didn’t. Just make sure you’re a team player, and for the love of all that is or is not unholy, play on a good connection. You’ll regret it if you don’t.

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