The Complete MLBB Beginners Guide: Master the Fundamentals to be a pro in Mobile Legends

For new players to Mobile Legends: Bang Bang (MLBB), feeling a bit lost in the humongous, high-paced battle arena? Do not worry! This guide will give players all the necessary tools to get started with your MLBB on the right track. We will take you through the basic tips and strategies, ways of prioritizing objectives, balancing equilibrium, mastering your role, and finally heroes.Whether a player is casual or professional, this MLBB Beginners Guide is designed to help you understand the basics and more sophisticated mechanisms of the game, helping you get closer to victories.

MLBB Basics: Essential Tips for Beginners

Before diving into advanced mechanics, one needs good habits. They will then assist later when dealing with more aggressive opponents. 

Here are some fundamental tips:

• Stay Calm and Don't Spam: Spamming abilities cause bad control. Try hovering the skills and shoot your direction sharply. Patient.

• Minimap Monitor: This is checking the top left minimap for positions of enemies and objectives. Knowledge is power, and knowing where the enemies are is a good advantage.

• Kill to Objectives: Upon killing, quickly rush up to grab objectives, such as a turret, the Lord, Turtle, or buffs near you; always attack the objectives nearest to you that matter.

• Listen and Pan: You could pan your camera to reveal possible enemy threats or listen for skill usage so that you are prepared for the opponent once you take the jungle camp.

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The Balance: Lane Control

The key to success in MLBB is controlling your lane. Equilibrium forms when both teams are roughly at the same strength, and the minions on both sides are neither pushing on nor getting pushed. Of course, this easily changes with the decisions made by the players.

A balanced minion war gives you the chances to farm, ambush enemies, split push, or compete on a neutral objective like Turtle or buffs. In all situations, make sure that you attempt this push in balance towards the enemy side and push them back to their turret, so that you can roam and possibly gank, or assist your teammates.

Key takeaways:

Keep your minions at a balance with theirs. At least, if not more, than theirs is. 

Push the Lane to the Red Line: Once you take control, push your lane deep into the enemy's territory-red line. This will create breathing room for the rest of your team to invade or complete objectives safely.

Objectives:

Knowing your objectives goes hand in hand with winning in MLBB. Let's break it down and discuss what the most essential objectives are, when to take them, and more.

Turrets: Clear the first row of turrets on the onset - before 5 minutes. Since killing them gives gold bonus, this will whittle down their shield a little bit.

• Lord (Spawn Time: 8:00): Once Lord is dead, he helps to push the weakest lane while his death creates powered minions for all the lanes. Coordinate your waves to push along with the Lord.

• Turtle (Spawn Time: 2:00, Every 2 Minutes)-The Turtle gives a shield, gold, and XP to all the team. It is one of the top priorities in the early game.

• Blue Buff-It reduces cooldowns and mana costs, as well as regenerating health and mana when minions or jungle monsters kill it. This is a must for mages and energy-based heroes.

• Red Buff-It gives extra damage including true damage and slows. Thus, it is very important for marksmen and fighters.

• Lithowanderer: Provides a moving ward and mana regeneration in the river. Take this for control.

• Gold Crab: Gives additional gold for 18 seconds. Taking this is important for scaling.

Roles: 

Mastering your role is what will make or break your team. 

Here's how every role works:

Roamer (Tank/Support/Fighter):

Job: Roaming, peeling for the team, vision setup via ambushes. You lead your team, giving a tactical advantage in fights. The role is necessary for advancing the balance by securing vision and crowd control (CC).

Midlane (Mage/Support):

Job: In midlane, job is clearing the wave to earn gold and experience and roaming with your roamer to help out sidelanes and secure early kills. Mages are given the job of dishing out most of the burst damage in team fights, which might just win you that early objective.

Jungler:

Job: Farm neutral jungle monsters to get levelled up as fast as possible. You should reach level 4 right before the 2-minute Turtle spawn, in which you can gank sidelanes. Don't waste time farming minions in lanes before the 5-minute mark. That time is spent chasing buff and objective neuters, like in the image above.

Gold Lane (Marksman/Scaling Heroes):

Job: Farm as many minions as possible, but particularly the turret minion for gold. Zone out your opponent in lane by dealing more damage. Only join team fights when your lane is even; otherwise, farm to scale.

Exp Lane (Tank/Fighter):

Job: Survive in lane by using your tank or fighter abilities to keep yourself alive. Assist your teammates in early fights but remember that your job is to deal with split-pushing heroes in the late game.

What Hero Should Players Buy?

The heroes you buy and use are critical to how fast you go. 

Here's how you should choose the right heroes for you:

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• Hero of the Week: You get to play and practise new heroes through weekly roster changes.

• YouTube Guides: Learn about your potential heroes from a PRO before buying them. Get educated on their mechanisms, strengths, and weaknesses.

• Follow the Meta: Consult tier lists and buy the top heroes if you need some rapid rank boosting.

• Check Ban Rates: Try not to play heroes with high ban rates in ranked games, as they might get banned and thus become unavailable during draft picks.

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How to Train Mechanics for a New Hero:

• Understand the Skills: Read through any new hero's abilities and watch gameplay videos.

• Practice Mode: Use practice mode to understand mechanics and ranges.

• Situational Tests: Play the hero in actual gameplay scenarios. Once familiar, proceed to ranked matches.

Positioning: Maximise Your Range and Damage

• Make Use of Your Max Range: Learn how far your basic attacks and abilities can go. Try to use these as an advantage by attacking from safe distances.

• Know Your Role in Team Fights: Stay in the frontline as a tank. If you're a marksman, make sure to have a tank or fighter for protection in the backline.

Draft Mode (Epic and Above)

You will move into the draft phase from Epic rank onwards, where you and your opponents get a chance to ban heroes. Monitor the global ban rates but be flexible to the region's meta. Learn at least two roles and several heroes to become versatile.

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Map Awareness and Communication:

• Spoken Commands: In-game stickers and quick commands can be used to convey strategy in the most efficient way possible.

Builds and Emblems: Crafting the Best Setup

• Follow Top Global Builds: Try to see what items top players are building for your chosen hero. Look for core items that fit well with your hero's kit.

• Levelling Emblems: Focus on upgrading the emblem for your preferred role. Avoid spending BP on physical or magic emblems early on—focus on levelling up your core talents.   

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Battle Points (BP) and Tickets:

• BP Management: Achievements and AI battles are quick ways to earn BP. Spend it wisely by expanding your hero pool first, then focus on upgrading emblems.

• Ticketing System: Use tickets to reward emblems more than skins. These are of more worth when earned at an early stage.

Equipped with this guide,players now have all the knowledge you will need to hit the ground running in Mobile Legends: Bang Bang. Perseveration and remaining vigilant over the minimap and objectives, of course, are what will win it. Be it ranked climbs or just to have fun playing with friends, strategies there wait to do you good in-game and push you toward that win with your team.

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