Mobile Legends: Bang Bang Ultimate Hero Counters guide

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Mobile Legends: Bang Bang is a constantly updated mobile MOBA game where smart strategy and choosing the right heroes are essential for winning. Knowing which heroes are strong against others – called ‘hero counters’ – is a vital skill. It lets you take advantage of your opponents’ weaknesses and help your team play its best. This guide will teach you about hero counters in Mobile Legends, offering helpful tips on how to effectively counter different heroes.

What are counters?

In Mobile Legends, “counters” are heroes that are strong against specific opponents, able to disrupt their strategies and limit their effectiveness. While certain items and decisions can also act as counters, this guide will focus specifically on how heroes counter each other.

These heroes are really good at taking advantage of what other heroes struggle with, which can heavily impact battles. Knowing which heroes are strong against others is essential for winning in Mobile Legends.

Counters to Hero properties

Mobility

Heroes who can’t move easily are vulnerable, making it crucial to stop opponents from dashing or teleporting. Khufra is a particularly strong, though difficult, tank because he’s one of the only heroes – besides Minsitthar – with an ability that completely shuts down enemy movement skills.

Khufra is a great pick because he can disrupt enemies and offers both strong defense and a strategic edge. Phoveus is another good option; he’s able to shorten his ability cooldowns and activate his ultimate by cleverly using the dash attacks of his opponents. Together, these heroes can effectively counter fast-moving assassins like Lancelot, Gusion, and Fanny.

Minsitthar’s Ultimate (King’s Calling)

As a huge fan, I’ve discovered that his ultimate is amazing! You rush forward and summon four Royal Guards to create a zone around you. They stay put, but they relentlessly attack anyone caught inside, dealing damage based on your attack power – it’s a significant boost! Plus, enemies trapped in the zone are slowed down by 20% and, crucially, they can’t teleport or dash away – they’re totally locked in!

Khufra’s Skill 2 (Bouncing Ball)

Playing as Khufra, you can activate a bandage ability that turns you into a bouncy ball, boosting your physical and magic defenses. If enemies try to teleport or dash through you while you’re in this form, they’ll be launched into the air.

Projectiles, DPS & AoE

When it comes to defending against ranged attacks, Lolita is the best option thanks to her ability that blocks projectiles. This makes her a great choice against damage dealers like Marksmen and Mages, protecting her team from threats such as Granger’s shots or Chang’e’s ultimate ability.

When it comes to protecting teammates from significant, direct damage – not from ranged attacks – Estes really shines as a support hero. His ultimate ability greatly improves the team’s ability to stay alive, and if built with the right items, he can use it often, providing a constant boost to health that can make the team incredibly resilient.

Belerick is a champion at consistently dealing damage over time, making him a tough opponent. He’s particularly effective against Marksmen heroes like Claude, Hanabi, and Obsidia, who will struggle if they try to attack him. Using the Blade Armor item with Belerick makes countering these heroes even easier.

Lolita’s Skill 2 (Guardian’s Reflection)

As Lolita, you can raise your shield to reflect all incoming ranged basic attacks and projectiles for 3 seconds. However, any unique passive effects from the attacker’s items won’t affect the shield or be reflected back.

Belerick’s Passive (Deadly Thorns)

Belerick has a chance to automatically attack the closest enemy with Magic Damage every time he takes 50 damage. This attack can happen up to every 0.4 seconds. Additionally, he gains a 30% bonus to his maximum HP from items and emblems.

Durability

Heroes can all use items to break through enemy defenses, but some are especially good at quickly defeating tough, tanky opponents. Two types of damage are particularly effective against these robust targets. First, True Damage ignores all enemy defenses, allowing heroes like Karrie to easily take down tanks. While increasing health can help reduce damage, Karrie’s ability to bypass defenses makes her uniquely powerful against them.

Damage that’s based on an enemy’s total health can also be very effective. While defenses can lower this damage, some heroes – like Lunox, Wanwan, and Valir – are better at taking down tough, high-health enemies than others.

Karrie’s Passive (Lightwheel Mark)

Karrie’s attacks and abilities apply a stacking effect called Lightwheel Mark. When a target has five stacks of this mark, it transforms into a Lightwheel, inflicting significant, unblocked damage.

Valir’s Passive (Ashing)

Valir’s abilities mark enemies with a burning effect called ‘Ablaze’. Each hit adds a stack, and after three stacks, the fire explodes, dealing significant magic damage and briefly stunning the target for one second.

Crowd Control

As a player, I’ve noticed that controlling the crowd – or ‘CC’ – is super important if you want to win. Luckily, some heroes are naturally good at dodging or escaping those control effects, so they don’t even need the Purify spell! For example, heroes like Kagura and Wanwan have abilities that work a lot like Purify, letting them break free. Masha is really interesting – she actually becomes totally immune to CC when she’s almost dead, down to just one HP bar! And then there’s Chou and Ling, who can briefly shrug off CC while they’re using certain skills, which makes them really hard to pin down.

Okay, so when my team really needs to avoid being stunned, slowed, or otherwise messed with, Diggie is my go-to guy. His ultimate is amazing – it basically gives everyone around him a temporary ‘get out of jail free’ card for crowd control. Seriously, it can completely turn the tide of a team fight!

Diggie’s Ultimate (Time Journey)

Diggie eliminates all negative effects from nearby allied heroes—including himself—and provides them with a shield and immunity to control effects for 3 seconds. He also receives a temporary boost to movement speed for 0.5 seconds.

HP and Shield Regeneration

Most heroes stay alive using shields or healing, but Baxia offers a new way to deal with enemies who quickly recover health. His special ability stops enemies from regenerating and also gives him a speed boost when he hits them, making him great at disrupting fights. Esmeralda takes a different approach – instead of stopping healing or shields, she actually takes enemy shields for herself.

Baxia’s Passive (Baxia Mark)

Baxia permanently gains the “Baxia Mark,” which lowers the damage he takes by 25%. Additionally, when Baxia hits enemies with his skills, he cuts their shield recovery and health regeneration in half for 4 seconds.

Esmeralda’s Skill 1 (Frostmoon Shield)

Esmeralda gets a shield and a significant boost to her movement speed for 4 seconds, though the speed boost fades over time. She can also convert shields from nearby enemies into her own, up to a maximum of 50% of her total health.

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

Hero	Counter	Reason
Aldous	Grock	Well-timed wall will cancel his ultimate
Belerick	Burst damage Gatotkaca	Belerick’s passive only triggers once upon taking damage, no matter whether it’s 200 or 2000
Estes	Burst Baxia	Enough burst helps to kill targets before Estes can heal them up since he heals over time Baxia cuts down his healing
Fanny	Khufra Franco Ruby	Khufra’s 2nd ability cockblocks her cable movement Franco’s hook and his point-click ultimate lock her down Ruby’s amount of CC also disrupts Fanny heavily
Franco	Lolita Grock	His hook is also coded as projectile When Grock is charged, the hook of Franco doesn’t work
Harith	Esmeralda Khufra	Esmeralda absorbs his shields Khufra denies his jumps
Johnson	Diggie Grock	Diggie’s ultimate denies engage Grock’s wall disrupts Johnson’s ultimate
Khufra	Akai Martis Valir	Both Akai and Martis can push him away from their team while he uses his 2nd skill, also good disruptive abilities to deny his combo Valir’s knockback does the job as well
Ling	Helcurt Any Stuns	His jump will kick Ling off walls, his silence will keep Ling from using other abilities
Lolita	Esmeralda	She absorbs her shields
Lunox	Chou heavy lockdown	Chou has enough follow-up CC on his own to burst her down while she is locked down, but layering CC does the job as well
Natalia	Rafaela Lesley Aldous	Rafaela’s 1st ability makes Natalia visible Lesley’s ultimate makes Natalia visible Aldous’s ultimate makes Natalia visible
Odette	any CC	CC cancels her ultimate which is her main source of damage
Selena	Diggie Khufra Lolita	Diggie to purify her 2nd skill Khufra to prevent her from jumping in Lolita to block her 2nd skill
X-Borg	Chang’e	She can melt him from afar, destroying his Firaga Armor and denying his ultimate
Zhask	Claude Estes	Claude’s ultimate one-shots Zhask’s spawns Estes outheals Zhask’s DPS unless far behind
Tigreal	Any stuns	Any stuns can counter Tigreal’s ult and second abilty
Bruno	Hayabusa Helcurt	Any ultimate based hero like Hayabusa can counter Bruno easily
Atlas	Nana Kaja	Nana’s Molina can stop Atlas’s stun Divine Judgement of Kaja can stop Atlas
Popol & Kupa	Badang Zhask	Badang’s Fist Break and Fist Crack combo can counter Popol & Kupa easily Zhask’s ultimate can counter easily
Luo Yi	Helcurt Harley	Helcurt’s Shadow Transition stops Luo Yi’s abilities Harley’s Deadly Magic and Poker Trick combo can counter Luo Yi
Cecilion	Dash based Heroes	Any hero that can reach out to Cecilion can kill him easily as Cecilion’s is a ranged hero
Pharsa	Hanzo Natalia	Hanzo’s ultimate can kill Pharsa easily Natalia’s passive can silence Pharsa
Aamon	Ruby	Ruby can fight him head-on due to her tremendous spell vamp along with physical and magic defense gained from her passive
Aldous	Nana	Nana can turn him into a slow-moving animal as soon as he lands, when using ultimate skill.
Badang	Wanwan	Wanwan can jump over Badang’s wall and can remove the stun from his passive and trigger the other effect of Tiger Pace
Bane	Hayabusa	Hayabusa can easily close in on Bane, evade his abilities, and quickly eliminate him.
Beatrix	Natalia	Natalia’s simple combo of Claw Dash and the Hunt is enough to burst her down.
Chou	Silvanna	Silvanna can out-damage him in a 1v1 situation and can also close the gap with Cosmetic Lance if he tries to get away.
Dyrroth	Guinevere	Guinevere can dash out of the fight using the invisibility mechanic of Spatial Migration
Esmeralda	Thamuz	Thamuz can deal enormous physical and true damage in close combat.
Gloo	Alice	Gloo’s ultimate is beneficial for Alice when he get closer.
Hanzo	Natalia	Natalia can roam around the map unnoticed and can eleminate Hanzo when he uses his ultimate.
Yin	Sun	Sun can immediately turn an intense 1v1 situation into a lopsided 3v1 situation in Yin’s ultimate.
Vexana	Kagura	Kagura can cancel Vexana’s combo if casted at the right time, and can counterattack.

Disclaimer

To keep things simple, we didn’t list every possible counterpick. Instead, we highlighted heroes that strongly disrupt the enemy team’s strategy and specifically counter key heroes, rather than just winning individual matchups.

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2026-01-05 10:42