History VideoGame / HonorOfKings

** recently they introduced a crossover with Manga/SaintSeiya , a Popular Manga and Anime franchise pretty famous in Latin America(fitting since this collab got introduce when game got a Latin Server), some heroes got skins that turned them into The Golden Knights, while Kai got the main Villain Hades

* SkillGateCharacter: Early time of playing the game will have you face a lot of these three: Arthur, Angela, and Daji. They're designed to be the types of 'easy to master' kind of heroes and are usually given for free, so they see a lot of plays at the lower levels.

The game is quite simplified compared to other MOBA. Firstly, there are no wards or fog of war[[note]]Technically it's there, but it's rendered pointless with the camera always fixated on the player, and the map situation can be still viewed from your allied units' POV[[/note]]. Secondly, each hero only has two normal skills as opposed to three. They do, however, still have a passive and ultimate skill. All of these allow for a fast-paced experience of the MOBA genre. Additionally, there are no consumable items in the game. The 'Regenerate' skill available to every hero allows you to regenerate a portion of health and mana over time as long as you don't take damage, and the first tower provides a regeneration pick-up item periodically until it is destroyed.

** Crossover skins with ''VideoGame/ArenaOfValor'' has been a thing, where the ''Honor of Kings'' heroes will receive the same skin with their respective ''Arena of Valor'' counterparts, with only a few exceptions:

** Ironically, Athena has a ComicBook/WonderWoman skin lifted straight from her ''VideoGame/ArenaOfValor'' rendition, but they are not ports to each other and it's treated as a mere skin rather than a separate character with a unique voice (therefore, Wonder Woman speaks Chinese). The other DC heroes did not cross over.

** Sun Wukong & Luna, Li Bai & Wang Zhaojun, and Lanling Wang & Hua Mulan all have couple skins (usually reserved for [[OfficialCouple official pairings]]).

* ChildProdigy: Zhuge Liang, who decoded a cryptic prophecy as a young boy. Unfortunately, [[spoiler: it led to the death of an entire family.]]

* {{Main/Crossover}}:

* DanceBattler: Diao Chan, in consideration that originally, she used her dances to seduce both Dong Zhuo and Lu Bu, eventually sparking Lu Bu to kill off Dong Zhuo. This time, her dances are accompanied by [[FlowerMotifs deadly pink flowers.]]

* GuestFighter: Tencent made a deal with Creator/SNKPlaymore to include [[VideoGame/SamuraiShodown Nakoruru, Ukyo Tachibana]] and [[VideoGame/FatalFury Mai Shiranui]] (and a [[VideoGame/SamuraiShodown Haohmaru]] skin for Musashi). Later on, they added [[VideoGame/SamuraiShodown Charlotte Christine Colde]] as the next guest in exchange for Gongsun Li appearing as DLC for ''Samurai Shodown (2019)''.
* HistoricalBeautyUpdate: The male characters especially are generally more attractive than their historical counterparts, with some going from mustached old men to beautiful {{Main/Bishonen}}.

* LadyOfWar: Mulan is beautiful, graceful and a deadly warrior, for this once, she doesn't bother with [[SweetPollyOliver the usual 'disguised as a man' tropes surrounding her.]]

* {{Main/Shoutout}}: Diao Chan's skins, Midsummer Night's Dream, and Midsummer Day's Dream, are based on the fairy queen from Theatre/AMidsummerNightsDream.

* AdaptationalBadass: Women in ImperialChina history didn't have much emancipation and usually didn't take the battlefield, so most of them got turned into full-fledged fighters (of course there were few exceptions like Hua Mulan or perhaps Sun Shangxiang). Likewise, Liu Shan was a definitive SuckSessor, but he's still in the roster, riding a robot and doing his best to support his team.

* Sun Wukong & Luna, Li Bai & Wang Zhaojun, and Lanling Wang & Hua Mulan all have couple skins (usually reserved for [[OfficialCouple official pairings]]).

*** Sun Wukong and Luna[[note]]Originally, Wukong has no love interest, the best he could afford was a nameless female monkey before he wrecked the heavens, and quickly forgotten when he started his pilgrimage.[[/note]]

*** Dongfang Yao and Xi Shi[[note]]Xi Shi's original husband, Fan Li, is absent in the ''HOK''-verse thanks to several other accounts that she didn't marry and instead got executed by drowning after doing her deed. Dongfang Yao simply fills in Fan Li's spot without mirroring his story too much.[[/note]]

''Honor of Kings'' is a MultiplayerOnlineBattleArena developed by [=TiMi=] Studio Group and published by Creator/TencentGames for the Chinese mobile platform. Released in 2015, it has become the most popular mobile game in China, with over 100 million daily active players. At first glance, the game resembles ''VideoGame/LeagueOfLegends'' (even aesthetically, as the map looked similar and there are bushes), but it differs from both this and the other mobile MOBA, ''VideoGame/{{Vainglory}}'': It uses a virtual analog pad to move the characters, thereby allowing gameplay that is viewed like League but controlled like ''VideoGame/{{Smite}}'' (just without the 1st person perspective).

* {{Main/Shoutout}}: Diao Chan's skins, Midsummer Night's Dream and Midsummer Day's Dream, are based on the fairy queen from Theatre/AMidsummerNightsDream.

* SkillGateCharacter: Early time of playing the game will have you face a lot of these three: Arthur, Angela, and Daji. They're designed to be the types of 'easy to master' kind of heroes, and usually given for free, so they see a lot of plays at the lower levels.

* WorldsMostBeautifulWoman: The game has the complete set of the UsefulNotes/FourBeautiesOfAncientChina: Xi Shi, Wang Zhaojun, Diaochan, and Yang Yuhuan. All of them are Mages. The gender inversion (4 most handsome ''men'' of Ancient China) only had one representative: Lanling Wang. And he's an Assassin.

''Honor of Kings'' is a MultiplayerOnlineBattleArena developed by [=TiMi=] Studio Group and published by Creator/TencentGames for the Chinese mobile platform. Released in 2015, it has become the most popular mobile game in China, with over 100 million daily active players. While at first, it looked a bit like a ''VideoGame/LeagueOfLegends'' (even aesthetically, as the map looked similar and there are bushes), the game differs from both this and the other mobile MOBA, ''VideoGame/{{Vainglory}}'': It uses a virtual analog pad to move the characters, thereby allowing gameplay that is viewed like League, but controlled with something similar to ''VideoGame/{{Smite}}'' (just without the 1st person view).

The game is quite simplified from every other MOBA. First off, there are no wards or fog of war[[note]]Technically it's there, but with the camera always fixated on you, it's rendered pointless, you can still view the map situation based on your allied units' POV[[/note]]. Secondly, each hero only has 2 normal skills as opposed to 3. They do, however, still have passive and ultimate. All these allowed a very quick, fast-paced experience of the MOBA genre. Additionally, there are no consumable items in this game. If you ever need to recover your health or mana, there is a 'Regenerate' skill that is always available to every one of your heroes which allows you to regenerate a portion of health and mana over time as long as you don't get hit, and as long as the first tower still stands, they will provide a regeneration pick-up item periodically. The lack of consumable items means that there are no ward items, but somehow it doesn't cause any serious problems in balance.

The objective of the game, like all MOBA games, stays the same, however: Take your team to eliminate the enemy core, while preventing them to do the same on your core.

For its earlier global release version, see ''VideoGame/ArenaOfValor''. The ''real'' global release of the game is in the works.

Due to its massive popularity in China, at least two spin-offs of this game are in development, and both of them are 'inspired' by other genres:

In the land called Continent of Kings, Gods descended and created humanity (mostly by the Goddess that created mankind, Nü Wa). They added an extra bonus: Arc Core, which can unlock humanity's hidden potential at a rapid speed, as it has the power to create and destroy in equal power. Civilization began to rapidly advance, eventually reaching a state of a far future with some technologies with the world still looking like a semi-advanced ImperialChina, but there are many who grew greedy and desired more of the power of the Arc Core, while some believe that such power cannot be given to other people willy-nilly so safeguards it. The conflict eventually escalates into two groups: The ones who seek to claim the core and those who seek to protect it. As time passed, various Chinese historical figures as well as mythological ones (and some from outside China) also rose with their own history in this particular verse. The Arc Core power also attracted one particular side-effect: Demons roamed the realm and preyed upon the innocents, so the two sides still fought over the core's powers in order to either repel the demons or use it for personal gains.

Due to its massive popularity in China, at least two spin-offs of this game are in development, both of them are 'inspired' by other genres:
* ''Honor of Kings: World'': An MMORPG-ish game akin of ''VideoGame/GenshinImpact''

Tencent also approved a certain group of web animators to create a comedic web animation series based on the gameplay hijinx of the game, with the series being occasionally featured at the news page of the game's site. It's titled ''王者？别闹！(King? (Then) Don't Make Troubles!)'' but unofficially translated as ''WebAnimation/LeagueOfNewbies''.

* AgeLift: The global server ages up both Angela and Xiao Qiao, thus making them look less of being TokenMiniMoe and making Arthur and Zhou Yu's relationships with them less controversial. Averted with Cai Wenji, however, she still stays the same as the 'young girl in a baby girl's body'.

* AntiGrinding: There's a limit of how many golds you can accumulate by playing for a week, so eventually, playing would bar you from even getting money. However, that doesn't include daily/weekly mission rewards.

** Ironically, Athena has a ComicBook/WonderWoman skin lifted straight from her ''VideoGame/ArenaOfValor'' rendition, but they are not ports to each other and it's treated as a mere skin rather than a separate character with unique voice (therefore, Wonder Woman speaks Chinese). The other DC heroes did not cross over.

** Aguduo takes inspiration from Ishar, the two are little girls accompanied by big fluffy creatures that sometimes they become separate units. But, while Ishar is a mage who is mostly separated from her creature, Aguduo is a jungler-tank with the ability to convert jungle minions, and she starts by riding her pet (so they count as one unit temporarily)

* {{Main/Shoutout}}: Diao Chan's skins, Midsummer Night's Dream and Midsummer Day's Dream, are based of off the fairy queen from Theatre/AMidsummerNightsDream.

* SkillGateCharacter: Early time of playing the game will have you face a lot of these three: Arthur, Angela and Daji. They're designed to be the types of 'easy to master' kind of heroes, and usually given for free, so they see a lot of plays at the lower levels.

** Guan Yu has a more passive, buffing skills when he's on a standstill state, and he has a more offensive skill set when he's on a momentum (has walked nonstop for a few seconds at minimum). His ult quickens his momentum gain, allowing quicker stance changes.

* AgeLift: The global server ages up both Angela and Xiao Qiao, thus making her look less of being TokenMiniMoe and making Arthur and Zhou Yu's relationships with them less controversial. Averted with Cai Wenji, however, she still stays the same as the 'young girl in a baby girl's body'.

''Honor Of Kings'' is a MultiplayerOnlineBattleArena developed by [=TiMi=] Studio Group and published by Creator/TencentGames for the Chinese mobile platform. Released in 2015, it has become the most popular mobile game in China, with over 100 million daily active players. While at first, it looked a bit like a ''VideoGame/LeagueOfLegends'' (even aesthetically, as the map looked similar and there are bushes), the game differs from both this and the other mobile MOBA, ''VideoGame/{{Vainglory}}'': It uses a virtual analog pad to move the characters, thereby allowing gameplay that is viewed like League, but controlled with something similar to ''VideoGame/{{Smite}}'' (just without the 1st person view).

''HonorOfKings'' is a MultiplayerOnlineBattleArena developed by [=TiMi=] Studio Group and published by Creator/TencentGames for the Chinese mobile platform. Released in 2015, it has become the most popular mobile game in China, with over 100 million daily active players. While at first, it looked a bit like a ''VideoGame/LeagueOfLegends'' (even aesthetically, as the map looked similar and there are bushes), the game differs from both this and the other mobile MOBA, ''VideoGame/{{Vainglory}}'': It uses a virtual analog pad to move the characters, thereby allowing gameplay that is viewed like League, but controlled with something similar to ''VideoGame/{{Smite}}'' (just without the 1st person view).

* ''Codename: Dawn Break'': A PlatformFighter game with the cast of ''HonorOfKings'', akin of ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros'' and ''VideoGame/MultiVersus''