Despite MOONTON Games, the Chinese game developer behind Mobile Legends: Bang Bang being based in Shanghai, China, that doesn’t stop players from all around the world from playing this game. In this piece, we will learn how to manually change the server in Mobile Legends.
The hotspots in the game include countries like Brazil, Myanmar, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, and the Philippines. Have you ever wondered why playing on your server means you never get to match up against players from other countries? MLBB divides up their servers regionally, which means players usually only match up with players in the same country or nearby countries.
Mobile Legends: How to change and play in a different server
If you live in Asia, you would probably not match up against players in Europe or America, and vice versa. Unfortunately, MLBB does not have a dedicated option that allows players to switch servers as of now. If players would like to experience playing in a different country, here are three ways one can try to change the server in Mobile Legends.
1. Using a VPN to change your country
Almost everyone is familiar with the term Virtual Private Networks, or VPNs for short. Essentially, they are applications or software that allow you to temporarily encrypt your IP address and disguise it under a different country. Conventionally, people can use VPNs for a multitude of reasons, such as accessing online content not found in their own country, security and privacy reasons, or such as yourself, wanting to play with people from different countries. It is possible to use a VPN to play on different MLBB servers, so long as you follow the steps below.
Although there are both subscription-based (paid and premium) as well as free VPNs available to download, not all VPNs are easy to use and allow users to choose the country, so here are a few recommended VPNs that are a compromise of both.
- NordVPN: One of the best VPNs on the market right now, offers over 100 countries to choose from, but is paid and will require a monthly subscription.
- ExpressVPN: One of the top VPNs as well, but is also paid. However, they offer a 30-day money-back guarantee, in case of an unsatisfactory experience.
- Turbo VPN: A free VPN that offers paid premium services at a higher cost. The free version allows users to choose from a small pool of servers.
- Hotspot Shield Free VPN: Offers up to 500MB of data per day, but is limited to one server only.
Step-by-step guide to setup a VPN
- Open up the App Store/Google Play Store and search for your VPN of choice
- Download and install the VPN
- Open up Settings, go to Apps, and look for Mobile Legends
- Click on Mobile Legends: Bang Bang, and click on Storage
- Click on Clear Data to delete your account data from your phone.
- If you wish to keep your old account, be sure to bind it to either a Moonton, Google, Facebook, etc. account so you can log back in after creating a new account on a different server.
- Run Mobile Legends Bang Bang again and let it re-download all the data.
- Activate your VPN when creating your account. Congrats! you should have created an account on a different server
2. Playing in the Conquest of Dawn Contest
The second way to play on a different server is through the Contest tab in MLBB. Here, you will find the Conquest of Dawn, which is a game mode that bests players across the world against each other to earn points for their country.
Players can play in a different server by simply clicking the top left corner and selecting a different server but be prepared to face lag issues.
3. Using a country-specific app
Another way to play MLBB on a different server is to use a completely different app! This method involves downloading and installing an APK, so sorry iOS users! One of the alternative MLBB apps is Mobile Legends VNG, which is the Vietnamese version. Simply search for Mobile Legends VNG APK in your browser and download the APK from a reliable source.
Be careful, as some APK sites will feed viruses into your phone instead of the actual game, so there is some risk involved here. Once you have downloaded the APK, you can open your File Explorer, install the APK, and run the game.
Mobile Legends is indeed an international sensation, so hopefully, Moonton can integrate the option to switch servers in-game soon. For now, let’s stick to using VPNs, playing Conquest of Dawn, and playing on MLBB VNG. That’s it for our server change article in Mobile Legends!
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Hello, in don’t know what happens, but since last night i just match up with brazilian player and my ping is red all the time, i used to got match up with Indonesian, Vietnam and philippines which is means that i was in asian server right? Could you help?
It could just be an error in the matchmaking system, and ML is always updating it every patch. There might just be full matches in your server so you are being matched with players from other servers. Hope you have some smooth games soon, good luck!
I’m also facing the same issue. I used a VPN to fix some matchmaking error but after that I keep getting matched with people in different server. And I cant go back to my old server
Did it go back to normal?
This problem used to happen in Philippines a lot the problem lays within your internet provider there are tutorials on YouTube how to fix that it happened to me too
hello i don
t know what happens last night but i switch sever to my other character in my account i switcher server but i can
t back to my main server also i use my gmail account plss help meI want to change my mlbb server