Ooh, tough topic.
10: Rylai, Crystal Maiden (Defense of the Ancients 2)
My favourite support from DotA 2 (I don't like DotA 2, but when I did play it I did pretty well with Crystal Maiden). Her mana aura goes a LONG way towards fixing the stupid mana gating problems the game imposes on every single hero in the game and her array of disables is amazing, while her ult is worthy of a top-class nuke mage.
9: Jinx, the Loose Cannon (League of Legends)
Harley Quinn as a MOBA character. Crazy, ditzy, snarky and completely psychotic, she's also a fun as HELL to play (in no small part due to the fact that she's as overtuned as FUCK). She's also the first LoL champions whose /laugh emote
loops when it ends and she does Jake's "Shakin' It" dance from Adventure Time. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpRypccXif8]
8: Lord Erebus (Demigod)
Demigod was one of the saddest wastes of a great game in history. Admittedly it WAS the second major MOBA and the developers didn't really understand the appeal of the genre (loads and loads of characters) so they went for depth rather than breadth- every character in Demigod is several times deeper than any other character in any other MOBA, which is why there were only 10 of them. Erebus is the most awesome vampire I've ever seen in a MOBA- he can drain blood, turn into a cloud of life-draining mist, turn into a swarm of damaging bats, unlease a devastating hypnotic pulse than stuns every enemy nearby and command an army of the undead. Every other "vampire" in the genre is a pretender compared to him.
7: Shendelzare, the Vengeful Spirit (Defense of the Ancients 2)
My favourite DotA 2 hero. Sexy, menacing and packed with utility, her swap ability has so many uses. She can catch out and doom an enemy hero better than almost any other character except Pudge (and I hate Pudge).
6: Vi, the Piltover Enforcer (League of Legends)
Jinx's sworn enemy, Vi is a hextech punk rebel who loves to beat up criminals with her two mighty power fists. A lighning bruiser
par excellence, she's a deadly ganker from the jungle and is attractive while barely showing any skin. She plays to my strengths- a kamikaze initiator who flies into your team, singles out your most important member and locks them down while taking and dealing out huge punishment.
5: Evelynn, the Widowmaker (League of Legends)
LoL's answer to Rikimaru (and aesthetically to Queen of Pain), Eve is a dead-sexy dhampyr assassin who attacks with weaponised hate and agony. I have a soft spot for Eve since (hipster glasses on) I truly played her before she was cool. Back in the old days, Eve was considered by FAR the worst champion in the game, to the point that simply picking her would often provoke calls of "gg" from your team. I persisted with her and managed to succeed and when she received a few buffs her popularity exploded so drastically that she almost took over the game. In fact, she was so unbalancing that Riot was forced to deliberately
break her while they worked on a full rework for her. Striking with lightning speed, Evelynn makes a mockery of your ward network and can snowball until she's tearing your entire team to shreds.
4: Sejuani, the Winter's Wrath (League of Legends)
For a long time one of the most useless champions in LoL (COMPLETELY overshadowed by Amumu, who basically did the same thing only better) Sejuani's eventual rework gave her a new lease on life. A warrior princess riding a huge wild boar wielding an icy morningstar, Sej is tanky as hell, intimidating, LOADED with CC and she's simply my strongest champion. When I want to win, I play jungle Sejuani. Plus I still have her embarasingly stripperiffic original skin. [http://www.devilsmmo.com/sites/default/files/uploads/images/leagueoflegends/sejuani_concept_art_1280x731.jpg]
3: Ahri, the Nine-Tailed Fox (League of Legends)
She's not a kitsune, dammit, she's a gumiho! What the hell's the difference? Well what's the difference between a Cherokee Indian and a Bombay Indian? Rated the sexiest character in LoL by a landslide, Ahri earns this position despite being surprising un-skanky in her dress sense. A powerful high-mobility mage assassin, Ahri is another mid who doesn't so much snowball as landslide you. Her Charm is one of the game's best CCs in the game and she can put out powerful DPS as well as devastating burst. Finally, she dances to 'Run Devil Run' by Girls Generation. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krNyEn1CKGY]
2: Sona Buvelle, the Maven of the Strings (League of Legends)
Some call her boring, some call her OP, ALL call her sexy. Sona is my favourite support. She fills the "jack of all trades" role nicely, being able to poke, heal and provide move speed buffs for her team. And her awesome AoE stun ultimate can decide entire fights, which is exactly what a support wants to be able to do to make them feel relevant. Additionally, she's the 4-time consecutive winner of the annual "Best Boobs" contest on the LoL forums.
1: The Rook (Demigod)
Didn't see this one coming, did you? Yep, that titanic stone golem that looks like a walking castle, bigger than
any other object on the map apart from the Citadels, is actually a
playable character. He makes a 6-stack Cho'Gath look tiny. Why don't more MOBAs have characters this outrageous?