Mobile Legends: Bang Bang's Best Assassin

Key Takeaways

• Assassins must deal quick damage, be mobile, and excel at expressing their skills.
• Lancelot, Gusion, Saber, Helcurt, Hayabusa, Suyou, Fanny, and Ling are the best assassins in Mobile Legends.
• This style of play is demanding on skill and can be difficult to play well without practice.

Each role in Mobile Legends has specific tasks to perform. The sharpshooter is the late-game carrier, the roamer ensures the team can fulfill its responsibilities, and the experience laner absorbs damage and splits and pushes towers. The most fun part of an Assassin's job is to keep the enemy team's damage dealers from being noticed.

There are many things you need to be a good assassin. You need to be able to deal a lot of damage quickly, and you need to have a way to get in and out of combat without being detected. Assassins are generally fast-paced, making them the best heroes for skill expression. Among the many assassins in the game, we present you the best assassin in ML.

8 lancelot

At first glance, Lancelot may seem like the perfect assassin. In the right hands, he certainly could be. He has an absolutely ridiculous level of mobility with skill 2, and his skills can negate all forms of damage at the right time. With such a good bundle of skills and a passive that increases damage by up to 40% with just a dash, Lancelot is very powerful as a solo pick.

However, at higher ranks some problems arise. Lancelot is not very good at clearing the jungle, and due to his mobility, he wants to get more gold from his gang, so he has to struggle early on. If Lancelot is ambushed early and left behind the enemy team, he won't be able to catch up as easily as some of the other items on this list.

7 Gusion

If you want flashy play, Gusion is the coolest hero in MLBB. His skill set includes throwing daggers, which he can call back to himself. What makes him so fun to play is that there are infinite ways to change his position. What this means is that you can teleport behind an enemy and hit them all with a dagger.

Combining your second skill with your first is the surest way to ensure that all your daggers pass through enemies, but you can also use the second phase of your ultimate to rush through enemies or simply walk behind them.

His skill 1 throws a devastating dagger that marks enemies. When recast, you can instantly teleport backwards. This is used in conjunction with the second skill, the aforementioned dagger throw, to deal a high amount of explosive damage. His ultimate takes him from just a fun assassin to an assassin with infinite outplay potential, allowing Gusion to flash in one direction and gain a second charge for all of his skills. This allows you to double the amount of daggers at once to blast targets with high HP, or use two skill casts on different enemies.

6 force

Saber epitomizes what it means to be an assassin. All of his kit is focused on destroying a single target. He's a very simple character, with point-and-click target execution with an unavoidable stun. However, despite its ease of play, it can compete with the best assassins due to how powerful its ultimate is.

His ultimate is a direct counter to other assassin junglers as well. This is because in order to respond effectively, you need purification combat magic, which junglers who need to be punished cannot have. This makes Saber an excellent choice against everything else on this list, taking them down before they can do anything to outsmart you.

5 Helkurt

Helcurt's revamp took the meta by storm, leaving this cunning monster cat roaming the shadows in every match. However, as people learned how his passive worked, he wasn't as popular as he used to be. Still, he's a solid assassin who can turn invisible and execute the enemy team's sharpshooter or mage in one hit, and he also has good utility on his ultimate. Helkart's passive makes him invisible when out of combat. This invisibility powers all of his skills and is refreshed each time he receives a takedown. His first skill is a way to close the gap with a dash that silences enemies it hits, making them unable to cast skills. When cast while invisible, it scares enemies away. This works perfectly with his second skill, which deals damage that is very difficult to aim when enemies are moving. All this and his ultimate, which provides a debuff to the entire enemy team, makes him a very powerful assassin.

4 Hayabusa

Hayabusa may not have the best roaming mobility, but his dash allows him to change positions several times in battle. His ultimate also makes him impossible to target for the duration. These two elements in his kit make him one of the hardest assassins to catch off guard.

Hayabusa's slash in ultimate is random. This means that enemies can stick together and split the damage onto your tank or minions. However, if you attack an enemy with skill 1 or have a stack of passives, your attack will prioritize that enemy.

Getting kills with him is also easy, as one simple skill on Ultimate is enough to wipe out most of the dirty heroes on your roster. There are ways to deal with him, including Natural Wind and Winter Club, but a good Hayabusa player can bait and defeat these fairly easily. Additionally, the ultimate's short cooldown and AOE allow you to jump back in before one or more of your targets regain immunity.

3 demand

Assassins, despite their ability to take down their targets and easily enter or exit difficult situations, are balanced around the fact that they have no means of defending themselves if caught. Being able to switch between Assassin and Warrior at will completely negates this disadvantage.

Suyou's passive allows you to switch between different modes depending on whether you have the skill or have it tapped. Tapping the skill puts you in assassin form, increasing movement speed and attacking faster. Other Assassin skills focus on executing targets with bursts of damage and do not deal sustained damage. However, if you choose to have one of his skills, he immediately gains massive damage reduction, higher base attack power, and damage over time for the skill.

2 hips

Each character has a skill floor that can be used appropriately and a skill cap that corresponds to the height of what you can do with that character. But Fanny's cables give her infinite potential to improve beyond this limitation. If Fanny is good enough, the match is already decided. But the sheer difficulty required to properly control her prevents her from taking the top spot.

Fanny's energy runs out very easily. If you plan on playing her, don't engage enemies without the blue buff.

Her skills are better suited to fast-paced fighting games or third-person shooters than MOBAs. The key to her kit is Skill 2, which allows Fanny to throw a cable and pull herself to where it connects. What turns this simple technique into something that requires hundreds of hours of investment is the ability to use multiple cables simultaneously and use net vectors and geometry to figure out where they should go. Playing Fanny also requires the mental challenge of figuring out where the cables will take you, as well as the reflexes you'd expect from a rhythm game or FPS rather than a typical MOBA.

1 ring

Ling has a unique kit in Mobile Legends that allows her to stand on terrain and camouflage herself. He can then jump from one wall to another, making him a very mobile assassin. His first skill allows him to jump to a nearby wall as long as he has energy. It has a ridiculous amount of range and speed, making it one of the best movement abilities in the game.

Ling also has another dash that deals damage and an ultimate that deals damage near where he lands and makes him completely immune before planting his sword. You can then use this sword to reset the cooldown of your second skill up to four times, allowing you to perform five individual skills almost instantly.

His ability to use this mobility to track enemies and retreat safely, combined with his ultimate gives him complete immunity to all incoming damage and effects, makes him the strongest assassin and one of the best junglers in Mobile Legends.