Top 5 Best Mages in Mobile Legends: Bang Bang (MLBB) for 2024

As Mobile Legends: Bang Bang (MLBB) continues, the battle is given a glimpse into how some of these dominant mages will emerge in the corner of the year-2024. Importantly, these characters are famous for their high burst damage and crowd control, making them pretty imperative to a team's victory or defeat. 

Here's how to find out which of the five top mages will do well for MLBB in 2024 by looking for highest wave-clear potential, game-changing ultimates, and overwhelming crowd control.

 

Yve

Skill Breakdown:

• Passive: Galactic Power – Gains extra skills, stacking to increase damage output the more she casts her skills.

• Skill 1: Void Blast - Fires a high power energy blast, each of it inflicting AoE, slowing enemies and damaging.

• Skill 2: Meteor Fall - Calls down a falling meteor, inflicting large area damage and slowing the enemy.

• Ultimate: Real World Manipulation – Hugely spawns a grid she can pound on enemies multiple times for sustained AoE damage.

 

 

 

Community Feedback:

Yve remains the strongest pick in crowd control and zone denial. Players love her ultimate, Real World Manipulation, which gives a team an excellent chance in team fights by zoning opponents and keeping continuous pressure. However, she is vulnerable to high-mobility assassins due to reliance on positioning.

Lylia 

Skill Breakdown:

• Passive: Angry Gloom – Gain movement speed when picking up her Shade bombs.

• Skill 1: Magic Shockwave - Shoots a wave of energy to cause damage to all enemies in its path.

• Skill 2: Shadow Energy - Plants bombs which explode when hit by her Magic Shockwave, then significant AoE damage.

• Ultimate: Black Shoes – Restores Lylia's HP and movement, retrying for combat in the act.

 

 

Community Feedback:

Lylia is a total terror in the right hands - providing unmatchable mobility and burst damage. Her ultimate, Black Shoes, gives her the ability to do high-risk plays with minimal penalty, which puts her up at the top for aggressive players. She's very squishy, however; so many players rather play her a little until she can kite and outmaneuver foes to stay at the top of tier lists.

Lunox

Skill Breakdown:

• Passive: Dreamland Twist - Light/Dark swap: Changes her skillset

• Skill 1: Chaos Assault - Energy orb, deals damage and shred magic defence.

• Skill 2: Order & Chaos - Chaos Darkening: Bursts more damage for increased interval.Brilliance: Invulnerability and movement.

• Ultimate - Power of Order & Chaos – Auto-casts skills based on Lunox's form, deals or provides survivability.

 

 

Community Reactions: 

Lunox is amazing, transitioning between damage output and survival, with no character at least not in this tier list. She appears to be as flexible and frightening as you can get, and people love how versatile she is, labelling her even as the "queen of sustain" since Brilliance form is basically unbeatable. Provided strategic planning on her part, she is impossible to deny in any game.

Valentina

Skill Breakdown:

• Passive: Primal Force - Drains enemies' magic power while gaining for herself.

• Skill 1: Shadow Strike – Deals damage at a distance to enemies marked as well as hurt them.

• Skill 2: Arcane Shade – Dash in a direction resetting the cooldown on the Shadow Strike.

• Ultimate: I Am You – Copies the ultimate of any hero currently in-game. This, therefore, allows a different response to be given out in team fights.

 

 

Community Reaction:

Valentina is highly unpredictable in the game, because she can take the ultimate of any opponent. The community has listed her as one of the most versatile picks mainly at high ranks due to her ability to sometimes turn the enemy's own strength against them. Her power, however, depends upon the composition of the enemy team.

Cecilion

Skill Breakdown:

• Passive: Overflowing – With each cast of a skill, gets enough mana to be perfectly survivable at maximum.

• Skill 1: Bat Impact – Deals damage proportional to max mana and extra AoE damage.

• Skill 2: Sanguine Claws – Immobilises the enemies in their place to be set up for a combo.

• Ultimate: Bats Feast - Calls out a swarm of bats to damage and overtime slows down the enemies.

 

 

Community Reaction:

Cecilion is a scaling nature, making him almost untouchable in the late game. Some even call him the "mana monster," but his crowd control and high burst damage made him a staple in long, drawn-out matches. His early-game weakness and dependency on mana make him a double-edged sword.

Among the many impactful roles of MLBB, the mage is perhaps the most versatile. Whether Yve zoning power, Lylia's high mobility, or simply Valentina's unpredictable ult steal, these five mages form a definition to the meta of 2024. Now, though the community might like more traditional heroes with their special skill set, experience through feedback shows that is indeed where the true mastery lies in MLBB.