The reason why this MOBA based mobile game got 100 million download is because of the fairness between heroes. There are lots of massively online battle arena that you can play on both iOS and Android. You can play Heroes Arena, Heroes Evolved, MOBA Legends and lot more. But the best from what I mentioned is Mobile Legends because of there is no hero that is too overpowered as everyone can counter with another. If there is someone that Miya is too imbalanced or Yun Zhao maybe because they don’t know how to counter this hero. So below we want to share to you a list of all heroes in Mobile Legends : Bang Bang and how you can counter them in laning, item build, team clash and hero.
Akai
Like what we’ve mentioned in our Akai item build and strategy guide he has a great weaknesses in kiting. If you are a ranged hero with good CC such as Miya, Clint, and Layla just slow them and do hit-and-run (kiting). His ultimate is very predictable and once cast, just spread out and runaway. Use your escape skills if you are too close to him. If he use his first skill against you, just run away from him as Akai is good in both defense and offense and if you are a carry /marksman which his priority target, you can tank his damage unless you are well fed and you have enough life steal.
The best way to counter Akai is to pin him down on early which is easy for you as you can kite him hard. If you can manage to outclass him with your equipment, countering him is not really difficult.
Heroes counter to Akai – Pick hero that has good crowd control and escapes such as Clint, Bane, Yun Zhao, etc. ou can also use Karina and her passive that works with Akai. Her passive will deals additional bonus damage based on 8% Hp that already lost in her target. With Akai has the biggest Hp because of his natural item build, you can inflict much damage using Karina.
Items to counter Akai – Get item with CC such as Froze and Ice Frost. And the most counter for all tanks, are Astral Wand for magic penetration and Wind Chase for armor penetration.
Alice
To counter Alice you need to prevent her to reach her strongest in game – the late game. Due to her passive, Alice is snowballing without a limit and can become the biggest threat in long game. So when we are fighting against Alice we need to ensure that this will be a short game by taking down towers as fast as possible and focus on team objective. There is also a way to counter Alice and her skills such as when she ultimate, just run away from her and never tank the damage because it do lifesteal that makes her almost immortal against AD in this state.
Heroes to counter Alice – Because of her invulnerability with basic attacks and lifesteal while she is in her ultimate state, it is hard for AD carry to counter to champion. The best way to do is to pick champion that can do burst damage that can kill her without giving her a chance to lifesteal. You can pick Gord, Karina, Kagura as a good counter against Alice.
Items to counter Alice – Build your hero with item that boost magic power massively such as Guardian Relic, Astral Wand and Blood Wings.
Alucard
One of the biggest threat to almost squishy heroes in game. The biggest downside of Alucard is he is too item reliant. So if he not get fed in the early game, he is useless in late game. When I’m fighting against Alucard I make sure that I can outfarm him. He is melee, squishy and doesn’t have decent damage in early game. He is very easy to get kited. The only thing he can do to you is to gap-close and attack you. But that still not good enough because he has no crowd control and as marksman you have better damage against him. I play aggressively when laning against Alucard and the common scenario here is to leave me in lane and go jungle. He is good in jungling because of his sustain. But him going to jungle and me in laning, I can ensure that I can outfarm him really hard unless my teammate will feed him. In most MOBA I played I always focus in farming and that experience makes me not to get hard dealing with Alucard who also rely in farming.
Heroes to counter Alucard – The same with Alice who use lifesteal to sustain, you can also use burst heroes to prevent him from taking advantage with lifesteal. You can use Karina against him. But the common match-up I seen with Alucard is going against marksman as most players believe that Alucard can assassinate most marksman easily. Well not if you can harass him on the first place and outfarm him. You can use any marksman to counter him hardly it is the way on how you play the game.
Items to counter Alucard – If you are AD go for lifesteal such as Tooth of Greed and Fallen Sword. If you are spell caster, go for additional burst and CC. And the number counter in against Alucard is Blade Armor that is good against lifesteal.
Alpha
Alpha is lack of gap closer which will makes easier for you to kite him. His skill is also predictable due to the animation. Never get too closer against him if you are marksman. Stay with your range and never go on Alpha’s range as he has good CC and damage too. Stay away from bush as most Alpha players are using bush to get near to you. Once they get near they will CC you to death with slows and stack damage.
Heroes to counter Alpha – If you are playing as marksman just stay with your range. You can pick heroes with good escape and CC such as Clint, Miya, Bruno or you can take advantage with your long range with Layla. Alpha is a good bruiser and you can’t trades easily with other fighter hero unless you are well fed. Tank is better counter to Alpha but what is really annoying is his slow that will makes his teammate kill you. Keep in mind that there is no really invincible in this game. Even well fed 1v5 can still kill the full item hero.
Items to counter Alpha – buy items with CC that will help you kite Alpha effectively. If you know that you can out farm him, focus on damage so you can do trades with him by simply standing and do auto-attack.
Balmond
One of the easiest hero to counter because of his predictable mechanics and low mobility. You can simply kite him to death once he cast his spin-to-win skill or miss the gap closing skill. The common mistake of most players who are against Balmond is giving him a chance to regenerate from killing minions. Keep in mind that if you engage in him, don’t give him a chance to go back and recover his Hp. Just try to punish him as many hits as possible and while not giving him a chance to fight back.
Heroes to counter Balmond – Go for heroes with good all in such as Alpha, Yun Zhao, Bane. For easy match up, play marksman against him and kite him all day. Surely they will change lane and find a noob player from your teammate who don’t know how to counter Balmond.
Items to counter Balmond – Go for CC items such as Frost and Ice Force. It is usual for Balmond to raise his HP so he will get a lot from passive so he will build most from Hp and Armor. Buy damage penetration to tear his defense such as Wind Chaser and Astral Wand.
Bane
This guy has good stacking damage and sustain. The best way to counter it is go all-in and using burst. Don’t give him a chance to enjoy his Rum as well as stack his damage against you. He needs to get 4 stacks to unleash his passive. But doing all-in and kill him immediately before he can do 4 attacks he can be easily killed in this way. It is not good throw cheap shot from time to time that can easily be healed with Rum. His strategy is to harass you by doing hit-and-run. Make sure this guy can’t runaway from your burst and you can counter him easily.
Heroes to counter Bane – Play heroes with all-in kit or burst such as Yun Zhao, Miya, Natalia, Karina, Freya etc. Don’t engage if you can’t kill him as this is always your downside against him. Keep in mind that he has rum and he can recover immediately if you can’t kill him in one engagement.
Items to counter Bane – Go for burst damage such as Wind Chaser and Astral Wand. You can also invest with lifesteal that will improves your laning trades against him. If you are tank, get Blade Armor to improve your armor and sustain yourself from his debuffs.
Bruno
From his kit you will think that Bruno is the best hero in Mobile Legends because of his passive that deals with critical strike, burst, and crowd control. But like what I’ve said there is no such overpowered in this game as devs ensure that all heroes has their own pros and cons. And the best thing to counter Bruno is harassing him and killing him without giving a chance to fight back. His skills are somehow predictable and you can dodge or unless minimize the damage. Among all marksman, Bruno has the least potential in terms of trade. If Clint can do double attack on every skill, Miya improving attack speed with passive and ultimate, Layla can boost basic attack damage using range, Bruno has a passive that works with ability and increasing critical chance up to 20% which is nothing compare to other marksman capability in trades. So playing against Bruno, you must push him to make trades and own him. You must also be wised with his ultimate. You must not let his ultimate bounce between two heroes. If you are solo it will only do little damage. Bruno will find a chance to make his ultimate ricochet and do damage well. You must counter it by spreading out so it will not bounce between heroes.
Heroes to counter Bruno – I tried most marksman against him and he can do nothing about how you will own him in laning. Just make sure you will are going to outfarm him so you can handle him in late game. If you are playing using assassin or fighter, just harass him as he doesn’t have sustain too and he is too vulnerable in close quarter combat. You can easily harass him using Alucard or other tank heroes with incredible gap closer.
Items to counter Bruno – Outclass him with damage, get any items based on either physical or magic that amplifies damage. You can get Blade of Destruction for outstanding damage or Tooth of Greed for both sustain and damage that you need for trades. If you are a tank you can buy Heart of Steel to deny his 20% crit strike chance.
Chou
To counter Chou first you need to know his role in game. If you know his intention and the mechanics on how he will perform it, you can counter him hardly. Chou is assassin type that is capable of bursting damage against his squishy target. He has a good CC that can be initiate an attack or turn the tide of the entire game. He is always looking for carry. So if you are playing as tank, you must support your carry and peel it with crowd control. Like most assassins, Chou is vulnerable to crowd control when he is not charging. He has 2 seconds invincibility with crowd control and if you see him in this stage and you are a carry, run away and make a gap from him as possible. From this skill you can predict his next actions and you can counter it. If you are a tank and you see Chou charging go to your carry so you can peel him once Chou completed charging and ready to attack.
Heroes to counter Chou – Playing against Chou, select a hero with a good escape and mobility. If you are carry, play using Clint as he has escape. If you are tank, make sure that you can protect your carry well with your skill once Chou get near to his target. You can pick Tigreal and Lolita for slowing and stunning effect.
Items against Chou – If you are a carry, outfarm him and boost your damage as possible so you can kill him before he can go close to you regardless of not using any crowd control. Critical items such as Blade of Destruction and Blade of Despair is a good choice for damage.
Clint
The safest pick among carries because of his good escape, good range with passive, and good spamming abilities for kiting. Doing damage without leaving his safe zone. The best way to counter this guy is to go trades to death by going not in front of him but from the back so he is not able to use his escape. Clint is rounder and to compare with other carries in terms of trades he can be easily out-damage by other marksman especially Miya. Unless this Clint is well fed or out farm everyone in game.
Heroes to counter Clint – Natalia is a pain in most marksman especially against Clint who relies in range and poke. With Natalia you can easily go from his back using your invisibility and go all-in with smoke bomb, basic attacks and ultimate. You can also use Layla against him, with additional damage from range I’m pretty sure you out damage him in trades unless you don’t know how to farm well and he has more item sets than you.
Items to counter Clint – Just go for damage and lifesteal for a safe trades. In trades, the heroes that has this two stats always win. I don’t think you need CC for Clint as he has no reason to run from you. He will stand and everything will be based on your damage output.
Eudora
The main role of Eudora in team fight is to annoy the entire team with her crowd control. Because of AoE effects it is not easy to avoid her CC unless you know how it works. Keep in mind that you will only get stun if effect of her passive, Semiconductor applies on you. So as long as you are not under with her passive you are safe from getting stun. To prevent your hero from getting effect of semiconductor you must avoid her skills. Do not worry because it is predictable and easy to avoid if you play champion with good mobility. I also found an easy counter to Eudora if you are not going all-in instead of punishing her with poke and hit-and-run from your basic attack.
Heroes counter to Eudora – Go for lane bully such as Bane, Clint, Miya, Nana, and etc. This is a kind of hero that can kite or poke their laner until it reach low life for a full engage. Eudora has no sustain so just make his life low until you can burst him with your all in. The good key in fighting Eudora is not giving her a more than 2 seconds to use her semiconductor against you.
Items counter to Eudora – Buy items that improve burst damage. Eudora is squishy champion and with a good item you can eliminate her in less than 2 seconds. It is also good to consider buying magic resist in terms your hero has less mobility and you can’t avoid not getting hit with her skills.
Fanny
A very mobile hero that has perfect kit in going in and doing some damage against his target. The main weaknesses for this champion for you to use and counter her is her damage and defense. She doesn’t have outstanding damage that can makes her trade with carries. She also doesn’t have enough tankiness to play the role that most tanks do. I also found this hero difficult to play since her cable only working with terrain and not with hero itself which come tricky for Fanny players to use it accurately. Not really a hard match up for any hero that is why they play it most of the time as jungler. So usually Fanny will come in your way as gank and there is nothing you can do about it than to outfarm her and make sure you have better items than her so you can kill her in a trade.
Franco
This hero will become effective in game if you let him to become effective. If you don’t know how to dodge his hook as well as how can you take advantage his low mobility in game. He has somehow predictable with his hook and only newbie players can easily get it with or you are playing with Pro Franco. Well to avoid hook, you can either go out of his range, or use minions to cover up. You can also use your abilities to dodge his skills. Dodge his hook all day and he will become useless for the entire game. While in his ultimate, Franco is vulnerable from attacks. So make sure to focus your fire against him once he cast his ultimate. He can’t avoid these attacks as he can’t cancel the animation from his ultimate. There noob Franco who just hook without team follow up, don’t be afraid, cast your all skills against him and he will be a dead meat for sure.
Heroes counter to Franco – I believe he is more a support hero than a carry and just like a support hero, you can counter him any other heroes as long as you can dodge his hook. For easy match up you can play marksman and kite him all day. Clint is the safest pick against him since you can use your escape for every hook he will do. You must keep your distance from him so you will not be the victim of his ultimate.
Items counter to Franco – He is very poor in mobility and you can CC him with no problem. Buy Frost or Ice Force for additional CC. Most players build their Franco as tank so go armor and magic penetration against him such as Astral Wand and Wind Chaser.
Freya
A good rounder hero that is good in both offense and defense from gap-close to crowd control. A safe pick hero from spending cash in game. Though as a rounder she can easily out-damage by other carries. You can also tear down her defense with effective items against tank and her mechanics is also predictable too. If you know what she is doing in game, you can easily make her ineffective. Her in goes with jumping in you, ultimate for damage and defense and attack speed buffs that adds crowd control. So if you can escape her jump she can’t execute her combo to you or you can just run away and wait until her ultimate ends.
Heroes counter to Freya – She has poor mobility too aside from her gap-closing skill. Using ranged heroes such as Layla and Clint, you can kite and poke her without giving her a chance to fight back. If she successfully dive in front of you, just escape and get help from your tower. If you are well fed, you can simply stand and kill her with your auto attack. If you are playing as fighter, Freya has weaknesses against sustain, you can counter Freya using Alucard and Alice having an outstanding lifesteal in game. Just sustain the trade until his ultimate ends and that will be also the end for her.
Items to counter Freya – go for lifesteal that will gives you sustain in trades. You can buy Tooth of Greed or Fallen Sword. Buy an armor/magic penetration that will tear her defense when she under the state of her ultimate. If you are playing as marksman and you are planning to kite her all day, you can buy Ice Force for additional crowd control.
Gord
Another mage in Mobile Legends and just like with most mage, he is also squishy. What makes him useful in game is his threat of burst damage. To counter Gord, make sure he can’t make a stack from you that amplify his damage. There are several ways to counter Gord who has low in mobility, sustain and predictable skills that leaves him vulnerable for attacks. Position is the major key to outplay this guy. The crucial part for him is when he cast his ultimate where he leaves himself defenseless. With a good position you can save yourself from this attack while hitting him hardly into his death. We all know that he will spam you as that is his specialty. Dodge most attacks which come predictable in terms of range then look for the right moment to unleash your all in.