Editing Player character (section)

===Multiplayer online battle arena===
[[Multiplayer online battle arena]] games offer a large group of [[Game balance|viable]] player characters for the player to choose from, each of which having distinctive abilities, strengths, and weaknesses to make the game play style different. Characters can learn new abilities or augment existing ones over the course of a match by collecting experience points. Choosing a character who complements the player's teammates and counters their opponents opens up a strategy before the beginning of the match itself.<ref name=":2">{{Cite web |last=Crider |first=Michael |date=Nov 6, 2017 |title=Why Are MOBA Games like League of Legends So Popular? |url=https://www.howtogeek.com/331389/why-are-moba-games-like-league-of-legends-so-popular/ |access-date=2020-07-17 |website=How-To Geek |language=en-US}}</ref> Playable characters blend a variety of fantasy tropes, featuring numerous references to [[popular culture]] and [[mythology]].<ref>{{Cite web|last=Marshall|first=Cass|date=2019-12-05|title=Riot's new games are League of Legends' best asset (and biggest threat)|url=https://www.polygon.com/features/2019/12/5/20992482/riot-games-announcement-lore-storytelling-legends-of-runeterra-league-of-legends|access-date=2020-09-07|website=Polygon|language=en|quote="Now it has lore that’s legitimately worth reading, in a collection of genres ranging from Lovecraftian horror to knights and banners fantasy to pirate power struggles."}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|date=2015-04-20|title=Blizzard's Worlds Collide When Heroes of the Storm Launches June 2|url=https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20150420005352/en/Blizzard%E2%80%99s-Worlds-Collide-Heroes-Storm%E2%84%A2-Launches-June|access-date=2020-09-07|website=Business Wire |language=en|quote="The free-to-play online team brawler brings together a diverse cast of iconic characters from Blizzard’s far-flung realms of science fiction and fantasy"}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Higgins |first=Chris |date=Nov 27, 2015 |title=The making of a Smite god: from mythology to main stage |url=https://www.pcgamesn.com/smite/how-smite-s-gods-go-from-mythology-to-main-stage |access-date=2020-09-07 |website=PCGamesN |language=en-GB |quote=Obviously we’re a game about mythology, so one of the things we look for is a mythological character that would be good to bring into the game}}</ref>