Mobile Legends Overview
Mobile Legends: Bang Bang is a 5v5 Multiplayer Online Battle Arena popularly known as MOBA game for Android and iOS platforms created by Moonton, a game developer company in China, and it was released in November 2016. It is free-to-play but has in-app purchases, and this includes Diamonds which you can use to buy heroes and skins and are completely optional as the game stands for their title "5v5 Fair MOBA for Mobile".
Mobile Legends, considered an action real-time strategy (ARTS) game, is a genre of strategy video games that originated as a subgenre of a Real-time strategy game, where a player controls a single character in one of the two teams. The objective of the game is to destroy the opposing team's main structures, especially the base, kill enemy heroes, and defend your base with the assistance of periodically spawned AI units or minions who fight forward with you along the set paths.
Amidst its popularity, Mobile Legends also encountered controversy, and this is the Riot Games (League of Legends Publisher) lawsuit against Shanghai Moonton Technology (Mobile Legends Publisher) in the Central District Court of California on July 6, 2017, as it had infringed on several trademarks in the game, including the game map, which looks similar to the well-known Summoner's Rift. Moonton later released a statement on their Facebook page, blasting the media about "unreal information and rumors" and claiming that "its copyright has already been registered and protected in multiple countries all over the world" and "Moonton has independent intellectual property rights" and "threatened legal actions against the media and competitors".
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Mobile Legends Features and Download
These are the following features of Mobile Legends, as also seen on Google Play Store:
1. Classic MOBA Maps, 5v5 Battles
Real-time 5v5 battles against real opponents. Fight over 3 lanes to take the enemy's tower. 4 jungle areas. 18 defense towers. 2 Wild Bosses. Complete reproductions of classic MOBA maps. Full-on 5v5, Human vs. Human battles. A triumphant return to genuine MOBA gameplay.
2. Win with Teamwork & Strategy
Block damage, control the enemy, and heal teammates! Choose from Tanks, Mages, Marksmen, Assassins, Supports, etc. to anchor your team or be match MVP! New heroes are constantly being released!
3. Fair Fights, Carry Your Team to Victory
Just like classic MOBAs, there is no hero training or paying for stats. Winners and losers are decided based on skill and ability on this fair and balanced platform for competitive gaming. Play to Win, not Pay to Win.
4. Simple Controls, Easy to Master
With a virtual joystick on the left and skill buttons on the right, 2 fingers are all you need to become a master! Autolock and target sifting allow you to last hit to your heart's content. Never miss! And a convenient tap-to-equip system lets you focus on the thrill of battle!
5. 10 Second Matchmaking, 10 Minute Matches
Matchmaking only takes 10 seconds, and battles last 10 minutes, glossing over the quiet early-game leveling up and jumping right into intense battles. Less boring waiting and repetitive farming, and more thrilling action and fist-pumping victories. At any place, at any moment, just pick up your phone, fire up the game, and immerse yourself in heart-pounding MOBA competition.
6. Smart Offline AI Assistance
In most MOBAs, a dropped connection means hanging your team out to dry, but with Mobile Legends: Bang Bang's powerful reconnection system, if you get dropped, you can be back in the battle in seconds. And while you're offline, your character will be controlled by our AI system to avoid a 5-on-4 situation.
Mobile Legends Quick Review
Mobile Legends is a very popular mobile MOBA game, especially in the Philippines. It is commonly called by players as ML or MLBB. Events and tournaments are also being held by two big Philippine Telecom Companies, Globe and Smart, to encourage more Filipino mobile users to play Mobile Legends.
From my perspective, Mobile Legends accents are mostly copied from League of Legends (LoL) because you can get the feel of the LoL map and characters while playing ML. And it features much of what players would expect from a PC MOBA game like DOTA, League of Legends, or SMITE, including laning, jungling, item builds, hero roles, hero abilities, skins, and much more.
The interesting part with Mobile Legends is that you can buy your equipment even without going back to your fountain, and you don't need to buy a potion as you have a spell called regen which will heal your health point for some time. This is a fast-paced game, where on one run, you only need at least 10-20 minutes of gameplay to win or lose.
If you are attached to PC MOBA like DOTA 2, LoL, HoN, SMITE, or Heroes of the Storm, you might have a hard time adapting to mobile MOBA games, especially Mobile Legends. But if you enjoyed playing Mobile Legends, you surely love it. Aside from its quick gameplay, which saves you valuable time, it is also portable because you can play it anytime, anywhere, with your Android or iOS phone; just be sure to have a good signal reception of 3G/4G/LTE/5G to experience smooth gaming. If you're experiencing lag due to high ping, see how to lower your ping (fix lag in Mobile Legends).
Some of the known Mobile Legends competitors in the mobile MOBA community are the following: Wild Rift, Vainglory, Heroes Evolved, Garena Arena of Valor (AoV), Heroes of Order & Chaos, and Heroes of SoulCraft, among others. Most of these MOBA games have similarities with each other, so expect to be confused about what MOBA game you will going to choose.
In conclusion, Mobile Legends has both Dota 2 and LoL aspects combined, making it a fun game. To know more about the game, continue reading its Guide, Tips and Tricks.
Mobile Legends Guide
This Mobile Legends guide is intended for newbies or starters, or even advanced players who are looking for some information. To familiarize Mobile Legends, it is important to know every single detail of the game, its different game modes, the heroes, skins, emblems, abilities, and gears, which will help you survive all the way.
Game Modes
Mobile Legends has five different game modes:
1. Match Up Mode - Player vs Player 5v5 (Casual Gameplay), Trilane map.
2. Ranked Game - Same as Match up but competing for Ranks (Warrior, Elite, Master, Grandmaster, Epic, Legend, Glorious Legend), Trilane map.
3. Brawl Mode - 5v5 PvP fight with a Random Choice of Characters, Single lane map.
4. Human vs. AI - 5 players vs 5 AIs depending on Difficulty, Mode, + you will need to invite 4 others to get started. (or leap of faith by finding 4 others by random), Trilane map.
5. Custom Mode - 1 vs 1+, this mode is Human vs. AI, but you can play alone and have up to 1-5 AIs against you.
Match Up Mode and Human vs. AI are already available after the tutorial, while you can unlock the Brawl Mode at level 3, Ranked Game at level 6, and Custom Mode at level 7.
Heroes
There are 120 heroes currently available which you can choose from right now in the game, and the following are some of the ML heroes: Akai, Alice, Alpha, Alucard, Argus, Aurora, Balmond, Bane, Bruno, Chou, Clint, Cyclops, Estes, Eudora, Fanny, Franco, Freya, Gatotkaca, Gord, Grock, Harley, Hayabusa, Hilda, Irithel, Johnson, Kagura, Karina, Karrie, Lapu-Lapu, Layla, Lolita, Minotaur, Miya, Moskov, Nana, Natalia, Odette, Rafaela, Roger, Ruby, Saber, Sun Wukong, Tigreal, Vexana, Yi Sun-Shin, and Yun Zhao. The number of Mobile Legends heroes is expanding as it releases more updates.
Most of the heroes are available through either buying them using in-game credits or real money (converted to Diamonds). These heroes are categorized into 6 different roles: fighter, tank, mage, assassin, marksman, and support.
Heroes of Rotation or Weekly Free Heroes. In the beginning, you're given a few heroes for free, and then after that, you have to obtain them through currency (diamonds). But putting the thought of currency (diamonds) aside, you can still play decently as some of the heroes through the hero rotation. Every week a new group of heroes becomes free for you to play until the week is up.
Skins
You can buy hero skins in the shop using diamonds (thru Codashop, Top-up Mobile Legends, Buy diamonds for the Philippines, and pay using Globe, Smart/Sun, 7-Eleven, GCash, ATM/Bank Transfer and Abra). You can also get free diamonds in Mobile Legends by joining seasonal ML free skin events. Skins will give you extra stats and buffs, which leads the game to become a pay-to-win, which most players don't like. If you opt not to spend money, just collect battle points by doing dailies with rewards and aim to win in every game to earn more battle points.
Emblems, Abilities and Gears
You can personally customize, craft, and arrange your emblems, abilities, and gears based on your preference. This will give you instant buffs and extra stats depending on what will suit your role and gameplay.
Emblems are used to enhance your hero, depending on your role.
Abilities are special spells that you can use for survivability.
Gears are just a list of recommended equipment sets for each hero, which you can also change depending on your role.
You can buy or collect the materials that you need to level up your emblems.
Basic Info
In your basic information, there's a profile detail including your region, username, rank, title, recently received heroes and skins. Other tabs include fight info, favorite heroes, past results, credit score, and replays. This will help the player track their records and watch their improvements.
Sync your Facebook friends
There's an option where you can sync your Facebook or Google account in the game. By doing this, you will instantly see all your friends on Facebook or Google with Mobile Legends account.
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Mobile Legends Tips and Tricks for Newbies
This Mobile Legends Tips and Tricks will be a help for newbies, a.k.a. starters or beginners, to level up and win games.
Layla - First Hero for Newbies
Layla is the first hero you're given when you start the game, so you don't even have to waste any points on this hero. And for being the default hero, she is actually one of the best used.
Layla is a Marksman class, a ranged character making her very good for attacking turrets while the minions take all of the heat. This hero is also good for taking down enemy heroes even if she's fighting close quarters.
Her skills are pretty much ordinary range character stuff. All of them are long-range skills, and each deals decent damage, enough to gradually harass and kill enemies.
Her third skill, Destruction Rush, is where the heavy damage lies. Using that on a hero is the best way to deal good damage and gets you a good opening to take them out.
So for the first free hero, Layla is better than given credit for and definitely worth a play.
Tips for Layla
The default item is recommended build for her. It gives her life steal, damage, and some defense.
Kite your enemies. To learn kiting, you want to attack, cast a spell, move your character forward or backward, and then attack again. This is also known as animation canceling. Practice doing this, and you will deal a lot more damage.
Layla ultimate is used to be a finisher when trying to snipe off running enemies. It is recommended to use when enemies have less than 1/8 health for a guaranteed kill.
Just continue using Layla to earn more Battle Points (BP), which you can use to buy more heroes.
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The following tips will help you to play Mobile Legends wisely, which will give you a higher chance of winning rate:
Tip 1: Clear the Jungle with Your Ally
Most people would just go straight to lane the moment the minions spawn. What most don't know is that you and your lane partner can kill 2 jungle creeps and arrive in the lane for a level 2 advantage. That gives you the opportunity to get the first kill the moment you show up in the lane. Ideally, you should run a marksman with a support or tank that can engage or have crowd control capabilities to get an early first kill.
Someone like Franco paired with a marksman like Layla or a mage like Alice would really decimate lane opponents when Franco is able to land a hook! You will also need to bring the execute battle spell to execute your enemy that is running away from you.
Tip 2: Focus on Learning a Hero or Character
For many beginners, it can be overwhelming to keep learning new characters, especially if you still don't know the basic mechanics of the game.
For example, as Layla gets to max level, she is able to fire at towers without getting into tower range. That means she is great for turret sieges WITH your team. As long as she is protected in the front, she can fire away and destroy towers quickly.
Fanny can move around the map quickly with her chains, and it requires a bit of practice to get used to her extreme mobility. I have seen good Fanny players getting away with dying in situations where most players would accept their fate.
Franco's hooks also take a bit of practice to keep landing them. Sometimes, you have to gauge whether your enemy will try to juke your hooks or walk in a straight line. Most new players will walk in a straight line, but more experienced players will make use of side steeping on going to bushes to make your hooks harder to land.
Tip 3: Do Your Dailies
Every day, when you log in, you get 2 free chests. Each chest will refill every 4 hours, so you can get 1 new chest every 4 hours. Each chest will have experience, battle points (BP), hero tickets, emblems, and magic dust. These are all useful items to help you advance in the game. Make sure to log in daily to get them!
Also, the medal chest reward gives you more goodies, and you will need to play a couple of PvP matches to open that. Normally, 2 wins would allow you to open a medal chest. The medal chest will give you premium skin fragments, which allows you to buy premium skin for a character upon getting 100 of them.
Tip 4: Big Bosses: Turtle and Blue Knight (The Lord)
Oftentimes, new players will not pay too much attention to these two bosses in the game. The turtle gives extra gold to your team, while the Blue Knight is a strong boss that will push a lane for you upon defeating him. You can have your entire team push with him and try to get towers and, eventually, the nexus.
Now, at lower levels, most people won't contest too much. However, in ranked games, players will try to get every advantage they can and sneak in either the Turtle or Knight. The best time to do either objective is when you either ace the opponent team close to your base or when you catch 1 or 2 players out near the center of the map.
Always get every advantage you can to increase your odds of winning the game!
Tip 5: Lane Pushing
This is an unknown concept to new players. You want your minion wave to build up, so they stack up, and they will help siege the enemy tower for you without you being there. To build up a minion wave in your favor, you will need to kill the opponent minion wave with your hero so that your minions stay unharmed. Eventually, your minions will stack up, and a huge wave will form to help you push a lane.
The easiest way to do it is when a huge minion wave of the opposing team forms. You use your hero to clear it, and this reverses the process, and you will start building your own minion wave. Once that is done, you can go support other lanes while you let the lane you left do its magic.
Tip 6: Destroying Towers
Tower siege allows you to get closer to the enemy nexus. Frequently, players will spend too much time trying to kill enemy players and forget that their ultimate goal is to destroy the enemy nexus. A typical newbie game will consist of players trying to get high kill scores while ignoring tower kills. Keep in mind that when you die to a tower dive for being too aggressive and wanting to kill the enemy, it opens up to a counter-tower siege.
Only tower dive if you are way ahead of the enemy team or you are confident of killing them without dying. And we all know that most new players can't do calculated risks too well…
Tip 7: Communicating with Your Team Mates
There are four buttons you can opt to use if you are not a fast typist on your tablet or mobile phone. There is attack, retreat, group up, and various short phrases to communicate your point across. Below are what you can quickly say to your teammates:
Well Played – Say that when your teammate makes a good play
Attack the Lord – Use this on trying to kill the Lord (Only after you have gained an advantage against the enemy team)
Rally and Push – Call your teammates to group up
Request Assistance – Ask for support to defend or attack your enemy
Clear the Lane – Basically clearing minion waves to start a lane push
Prepare for Team Fight! – Gather up and fight a 5 v 5 battle!
Defend the High Ground – Calling your allies to protect your base
They are useful commands to rally your team. Don't neglect it!
Tip 8: Grouping Up for Team Fights
After the laning phase, it is usually when your ally groups up to siege towers. Most new players will just do their own thing, so it is vital that you use communication pings to huddle everyone together for a team fight. This is a great time to use the "Prepare for Team Fight!" command line to let your team know it is time to group up.
Also, make sure to know your team positioning in big 5 v 5 team fights. As a marksman and assassin, you don't engage until your frontline initiates first. Sometimes, the enemy team will engage first, and you are forced to fight them without your front-line tanking. Unless you are far ahead and can do some serious 1 v 3 or more, you are not going to out-damage 3 people most of the time. Be wise, and don't go too offensive, especially if you are a squishy marksman.
Tip 9: Praise Your Team Mates More
A lot of times, you may get upset at your teammates for making poor decisions and get caught out. Yelling or cussing at them won't do you or your team any good. It doesn't contribute to you winning more. Just give up putting down teammates.
Instead, praise every small thing they do right. If they group up with you, say a good job. If they get a kill, say nice! This instills confidence in your team, and they are more likely to make good decisions. Everybody wins, and your odds of winning go up as well.
Tip 10: Have Fun
Last but not least, focus on having fun and not be too outcome-dependent on whether you win or lose. In MOBA games, in order to win, you will need to learn to take losses as well. Always look to improve your mechanics and learn from each game you play. Focusing on improving will make you much better in the long run.
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