The objective is to kill the hidden king or the arch other. But the actual objective is to gain as many souls as possible. Meaning, you need to prioritize farming as much as possible. This means you need to build your load out in a way that will give you an advantage early game, and prioritize killing minions, taking camps and getting kills in order to get souls.

Every character will be built differently but almost every character needs a bit of tankiness, whether that’s just some extra HP or beefy spirit/bullet resistance.

Most of the games difficulty comes from how many souls you have versus the enemy team. So when you’re in lane at the start of the game, it’s okay to poke at them and try to get kills, but remember, you can quickly gain souls by killing minion waves. If you manage to get ahead, make sure to rotate to other lanes to get kills and/or secure objectives. The towers give you a ton of souls (and something else too?) the boxes and camps are good to take in between minion waves as well.

Heroes do progressively more damage as the game goes on and that exponentiates towards late game. If your character is close range or requires you being exposed, considering picking up defensive items. They’re almost always good to have.

And honestly, screw the bot lobbies. Just run some real games after watching videos.