Hanzo Hero Guide For Mobile Legends: Bang Bang

Assassins are the most difficult, high-risk, high-reward characters in Mobile Legends: Bang Bang, having you get up close with the enemy carry who’s hidden behind the team’s tanks and supports and then get out after swiftly dispatching them before you get killed yourself. However, for those who want to try out assassins but aren’t a fan of the risk involved, the demonic ninja Hanzo presents himself as a worthy pick.

The revamped Hanzo is a character who can dive 1v5 into the enemy team and still not die, since you won’t ever be putting his real body at risk. He’s a strong Jungler who can clear monsters faster than anyone else and can get fed quickly to become a one-shotting machine before your foes ever get a chance to keep up.

Hanzo’s Role

Hanzo is an amazing assassin who you’d be playing in the Jungle. With his instant Jungle clear using his first skill and quick repositioning with his Ultimate, you’ll always be farming with him, even amidst ganks.

Unlike Heroes who need to put themselves in danger, Hanzo’s use of an astral projection lets him bypass any need for risk, letting him dive into enemy teams and hit his first skill to clear multiple targets.

Hanzo’s Skills

Hanzo is one of the easiest assassins in Mobile Legends. His first skill lets him Jungle easily, his second skill is a dash, and his Ultimate grants him an enhanced set of skills.

His Ultimate in particular is one of the strongest in the game, letting Hanzo negate any damage to his original body while in this state.

You can use this to your advantage and dive into the enemy turrets, even from inside your own base.

Hanzo’s Passive

Whenever you damage enemies with either your normal attacks or your second skill, put a stack on them. This passive doesn’t do anything by itself, instead only serving as a condition for your skill one.

You can see these stacks as an indicator on your target.

Hanzo’s Skill One

You can only use this skill on enemies with five marks of your passive. Upon use, it has different effects depending on your target.

If used on an enemy Hero or an Epic Monster like the Turtle or Lord, you deal a burst of damage to them and recover a portion of your missing HP.

The main use of this skill is on smaller Jungle camps, though. Using this on any Jungle monster makes you instantly kill them and absorb the EXP and gold gained over a short period of time.

This is one of the main things that differentiates Hanzo from other assassins and what makes him the fastest Jungler in the game.

Hanzo’s Skill Two

Hanzo’s second skill is a medium-ranged dash that creates a field that deals damage over time and slows enemies. This skill gives Hanzo the much-needed mobility after his revamp that he simply didn’t possess before.

The actual range of the dash is a bit smaller than what the skill indicator shows, as the last part is only for the field, not for Hanzo’s dash. If you’re dashing through walls, you can mistakenly bump into them due to this.

This field’s damage has auto attack effects, which means it can proc weapon passives such as Demon Hunter Sword’s and also stack Hanzo’s passive. However, this damage cannot Crit.

Hanzo gains a slight burst of movement speed while walking over this field.

Hanzo’s Ultimate

Hanzo’s Ultimate is the core of his kit and what makes him such a safe assassin to play. Upon using the skill, you dash out in a direction and take on an astral form, leaving behind your original body.

During your Ultimate, your original body is completely immune to all forms of damage and cannot be displaced.

While in your demon form, you gain increased movement speed, the ability to pass through terrain, higher attack damage and attack speed, as well as new, enhanced versions of both your first and second skills.

If you run out of time while using your Ultimate, your original body gets pulled to wherever you are currently. This can be dangerous, since you can die if caught unaware.

However, if your demon body dies, you return to your original body at reduced health and become completely immune to damage and CC effects for a brief duration.

You can also recast the skill to cancel your Ultimate early and get the same effect.

While in your demonic form, you cannot use your first skill on anyone but enemy Heroes. In return, it deals significantly higher damage and renders you untargetable for a short period of time before the damage is dealt.

Also, in this form, you can use your skill one even if an enemy doesn’t have max stacks of your passive, but the damage will be lower.

Your enhanced skill two remains mostly the same, but gains increased range and damage. This lets you dash across a longer distance and close gaps even easier.

Lastly, every time you get a kill, you increase the duration of your Ultimate. Timing your Ultimate properly and ensuring you don’t get pulled amidst the enemy team is integral to being good with Hanzo.

Best Hanzo Build

Hanzo requires you to hit enemies multiple times to charge up his first skill. As such, going for attack-speed items lets you attack quicker, stacking up your passive in shorter periods of time.

One of the best attack speed items in the game, the Golden Staff, synergizes well with Hanzo’s kit for this. The weapon’s passive lets you perform multiple attacks at once, every third attack.

This means you can stack up your passive with just three hits instead of five. With enough attack speed, this means you can fully charge it up in a single second.

To add onto the attack speed and the Golden Staff passive, you’d want to use items like the Corrosion Scythe or Demon Hunter Sword to make use of their on-hit effects that apply to each of your normal attacks.

Corrosion Scythe increases your attack speed and slows enemies down on each normal attack hit, whereas the Demon Hunter Sword deals extra damage based on the enemy’s current health.

Since Hanzo’s second skill carries on-hit effects, this means both Corrosion Scythe and Demon Hunter Sword’s effects will be applied to enemies who take damage from it as well.

As for your other items, you can go full damage, making use of Physical PEN items like Malefic Roar and Hunter’s Strike, or conditional executions like Skypiercer if you’re confident you’ll get kills to stack up its passive.

Lastly, you’d want to complete your build with a Blade of Despair for the highest Physical ATK stat in the game, as well as a passive that makes it easier to execute enemies and confirm kills, or the Sea Halberd.

Hanzo Tips

Hanzo may have a relatively simple kit, but there are many things you can do that make use of his unique Ultimate.

Hanzo’s Demonic Form Can Go Outside The Map

One property that many flying-type traversal skills with the ability to pass through terrain have is that they can be used to go outside of the map.

This can let you ambush enemies from where they have no chance of ever seeing you if you use your second skill to close the distance.

You can also use this to negate any damage by flying too far for enemies to hit you. This can let you safely reposition, or even recall at times.

You Can Use Your Ultimate To Run Away

If you recast your skill early or if you get killed while in your demonic form, you return to where your original body was. This might make many think that you can’t use your Ultimate to escape enemies anymore.

However, the truth is different. You may not be able to cancel your skill early to do this like the pre-revamp Hanzo, but so long as you don’t die, you can wait for your timer to run out. This will teleport your body to you.

Use The Immunity From Your Ultimate

Another aspect of Hanzo that you can use to your advantage is him essentially having two sets of HP, as well as immunity frames. You can use this to negate sure-kills, such as Saber’s Ultimate or Aldous’s punch.

You do this by immediately casting your Ultimate when you see an enemy assassin approach. The enemy can kill your demonic form, but instead of dying, you revert to your original body.

Since you’ll be immune for a bit, this will waste the enemy’s skills, leaving the enemy assassin having to wait for their cooldown. Use this opportunity to go all in.