Mobile Legends: Bang Bang Ultimate Hero Counters guide

Mobile Legends: Bang Bang is an ever-evolving mobile MOBA game where strategic gameplay and hero selection play crucial roles in achieving victory. Mastering hero counters is a key aspect of success, as it allows you to exploit the weaknesses of your opponents and maximize your team’s potential. In this guide, we will explore hero counters in Mobile Legends, providing insights into effective strategies for countering specific heroes.

What are counters?

Counters in Mobile Legends refer to heroes known for their abilities to disrupt and hinder specific opponents. This concept can also apply to items and in-game choices, but our focus in this guide will be solely on hero counters.

Essentially, these heroes excel at exploiting the weaknesses of particular picks, playing a crucial role in influencing the outcome of battles. Understanding and using these hero counters is key to success in Mobile Legends.

Counters to Hero properties

Mobility

If a hero lacks Mobility, they become an easy target, highlighting the immense importance of disrupting Mobility spells. This is where Khufra stands out as the most valuable yet challenging tank to handle. Apart from Minsitthar, he holds a unique position as the only hero equipped with an ability that effectively blocks any form of Mobility

Khufra’s disruptive capabilities make him a standout choice, providing not only defensive prowess but also strategic advantages. Another hero to consider is Phoveus, who cleverly uses enemy dashes to reduce cooldowns and trigger his ultimate. With them, you can counter heroes like Lancelot, Gusion, and Fanny.

Minsitthar’s Ultimate (King’s Calling)

You can charge forward and call 4 Royal Guards to form a field around him with the ultimate. The Royal Guards cannot move but will attack enemies in the field for ( +40% Total Physical Attack) (Physical Damage). Enemies in the field are slowed by 20% and cannot use movement skills.

Khufra’s Skill 2 (Bouncing Ball)

As Khufra, you can use bandage to wrap yourself into a magic bouncing ball, increasing own Physical and Magic Defense. Enemies trying to use blink skills to move across you will be knocked airborne.

Projectiles, DPS & AoE

In terms of countering projectiles, Lolita is the top choice with her second ability that blocks ranged attacks effectively. This makes her a strong pick against Marksmen and Mages, providing a shield for her team against threats like Granger‘s bullets or Chang’e‘s star shower.

On the other hand, for abilities that deal substantial damage without using projectiles, Estes emerges as a key support option. His ultimate ability ensures the team’s survivability, and with the right items, he can cast it frequently, offering a level of sustain that can make the team feel nearly invincible.

When it comes to dealing consistent damage over time (DPS), Belerick excels, making life difficult for enemies, especially Marksmen like Claude, Hanabi, and Obsidia, who might face dire consequences for targeting him. Equip Blade Armor with him, and you can easily counter them.

Lolita’s Skill 2 (Guardian’s Reflection)

You can raises your shield as Lolita and reflect all incoming ranged Basic Attacks and (Projectiles) in the direction of the shield for 3s. The damage and effects from the Unique Passives of an attacker’s equipment will not apply to the shield and will not be reflected.

Belerick’s Passive (Deadly Thorns)

For every 50 damage inflicted upon Belerick, he has a chance to shoot the nearest enemy unit, dealing Magic Damage. This attack can be triggered once every 0.4s. His HP obtained from Equipment and Emblems is increased by 30%.

Durability

Every hero can use items to cut through enemy defenses, but some heroes excel at quickly defeating tanks. There are two main sources of damage that prove highly effective against robust targets. Firstly, True Damage completely bypasses enemy defenses, allowing heroes like Karrie to effortlessly take down tanky opponents. Although stacking health can assist with damage control, Karrie’s ability to ignore defenses makes her unparalleled in dealing with tanks.

Alternatively, damage based on the enemy’s maximum HP is also potent. While resistances can reduce this type of damage, heroes like Lunox, Wanwan, or Valir find it easier to handle tanky foes compared to many of their counterparts.

Karrie’s Passive (Lightwheel Mark)

With Karrie’s Basic Attacks and skills, you can apply a stack of Lightwheel Mark on hit. Once a target has 5 stacks of it, the marks will turn into a lightwheel, dealing True Damage.

Valir’s Passive (Ashing)

Valir’s skills apply a stack of Ablaze to enemies hit, dealing Magic Damage. At 3 stacks, the fire detonates, dealing more Magic Damage to the enemy and stunning them for 1s.

Crowd Control

Having good crowd control (CC) is crucial for winning games. Some heroes can naturally avoid or escape CC without needing Purify. For instance, Kagura and Wanwan have skills similar to Purify that help them break free from control effects. Masha becomes immune to control effects when she’s down to one HP bar.Chou and Ling also briefly resist crowd control during specific skills, making them tougher to control.

But, when it comes to giving CC immunity to the whole team, Diggie takes the lead. His ultimate ability grants all nearby allies immunity to crowd control for a brief time, making him a game-changer in team fights.

Diggie’s Ultimate (Time Journey)

Diggie removes all debuffs on nearby allied heroes, including yourself and grants a shield and Control Immunity for 3s. You also gains Movement Speed for 0.5s.

HP and Shield Regeneration

Many heroes rely on shields or healing abilities for sustainability, but the introduction of Baxia brings a unique twist to countering regeneration effects without the need for specific items. His second ability not only addresses enemy regeneration but also provides a substantial cooldown refund upon hitting foes, making him a disruptive force on the battlefield. On the other hand, Esmeralda doesn’t directly impede HP and shield regeneration; instead, she excels at absorbing enemy shields.

Baxia’s Passive (Baxia Mark)

Baxia activates the “Baxia Mark” permanently, reducing the final damage received by 25. At the same time, Baxia will reduce the Shield and HP Regen of enemies hit by his skills by 50% for 4s.

Esmeralda’s Skill 1 (Frostmoon Shield)

Esmeralda gains Shield and 40% Movement Speed which rapidly decays over its duration for 4s. Meanwhile, you can gradually transform the shields of your nearby enemies into your own shield, capped at 50% of her Max HP.

Specific Hero counters

Now that we’ve covered the most important “generic” Hero counters in Mobile Legends, let’s take a look at concrete Heroes. Picking the right counter can definitely help to swing the game in your favour. Below you’ll find a table with the overall strongest counters to several Heroes that aren’t simply covered by the generic Mobile Legend Hero counters.

Table of Hero Counters in Mobile Legends

Disclaimer

For the sake of clarity, we forwent to name every single counter and instead focused on picks that heavily hinder the specific Heroes rather than just doing well in a 1v1 scenario.

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