Even if you’re born into a family of mages and expected to make use of the arcana, sometimes you just can’t save yourself from the allure of shiny blades and flashy moves. If you’re Gusion from Mobile Legends: Bang Bang, you may find yourself taking the best of both worlds, using your blades to deal magic damage and teleporting across the battlefield.
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To make the best of Gusion, you’ll need to hone your reflexes until your hands are faster than light itself. With all of his skills having two phases on top of also having ways to refresh skill cooldowns, you’ll be tapping a lot of skill icons to get your kills. As a reward, you’ll get yourself a Hero faster and flashier than anyone else, allowing you to flaunt your skills as you dash across the battlefield, getting kills in every lane.
Gusion’s Role
Gusion is one of the best assassins in Mobile Legends and deals bursts of magic damage using skill combos. He’s also one of the more difficult heroes to play, requiring fast reflexes to fully utilize his various dashes and skill resets.
As an assassin, Gusion possesses some of the strongest early to midgame damage of any Hero in ML, letting him one-shot any enemy marksmen or mage with a full combo.
Gusion is usually played in the jungle to let him farm quicker and reach level four before anyone else. His burst damage lets him clear camps quickly, and his dashes let him gank easily.
He can be played like a single-target one-shotting assassin similar to Saber by comboing all his skills together, but also someone who can use his skills to reposition and deal damage to multiple enemies.
However, while he can do a lot of stuff, his damage falls off late game. He’s also easier to counter since enemies can see if they’ve been marked by your first skill.
Gusion’s Skills
Like many other assassins, Gusion’s main source of damage is his skills. He has a passive that deals more damage to enemies on low health, and all of his skills combo with one another to one-shot targets.
Gusion’s Passive
Each time Gusion uses a skill, he gets a stack that buffs his next basic attack. This buffed basic attack deals enhanced magic damage that scales off of missing enemy HP.
This can stack up to four times, dealing the most damage if Gusion has cast four skills before using his normal attack.
Each of Gusion’s skills has two phases. This means that just using both phases of two skills is enough to fully charge his passive.
Gusion’s Skill One
Gusion’s first skill is a skillshot where he throws out a dagger, dealing damage. If the dagger hits an enemy, they’re marked for a duration of time. Gusion can then recast this skill to dash to the marked enemy.
If the enemy goes too far away from Gusion, the second phase of this skill cannot be used.
Hitting this skill is necessary to being good with Gusion, as all his damage depends on dashing behind an enemy. This skill is paired with his S2 to deal massive burst damage.
Gusion’s Skill Two
The second skill is Gusion’s main source of damage, throwing out a fan of daggers that deal magic damage each. After a period of time, or upon being recast, you recall the daggers back to you.
Each dagger by itself doesn’t do much damage, but if an enemy is hit by multiple, they can lose HP very quickly.
For this reason, the best way to deal damage with his S2 is by using it when enemies are close to you.
The daggers also deal damage on the way back, so even if you miss an enemy, you can still deal the full damage to them if you manage to get behind them.
The main way to get behind enemies to ensure all your daggers hit on recall is by using your first skill.
You can mark an enemy with S1, throw out your blades with S2, and then combo the skills together to call your blades back while dashing to an enemy.
You don’t need to rely completely on your first skill, though. Both phases of Gusion’s Ultimate, as well as any other dashes, can help as well.
You can even walk behind an enemy for this.
Gusion’s Ultimate
Gusion has had a relatively straightforward kit so far, but his Ultimate is what separates him from many other assassins.
At first glance, Gusion’s Ultimate is a simple teleport that lets him reposition. Upon casting his Ultimate, you can use it again to dash once more, albeit at a shorter range.
The main effect of this Ultimate is that it resets the cooldown of both your first and second skills, letting you use them again.
Using your Ultimate resets skill conditions. If you’ve marked someone with your first skill, using your Ultimate renders you unable to use the second phase to teleport to them. You’ll have to mark them again if you want to do so.
This gives you another chance to hit enemies with them if you’ve missed and your skills are on cooldown. However, the main purpose of this is to chain his skills together to double his overall damage.
You don’t have to wait for your skills to be put on cooldown to use this. If you’ve already sent out daggers, this lets you send out five more blades on top of those already on the map.
When you then recast Gusion’s second skill, you pull all ten blades to you, dealing double the damage to all enemies they pass through.
Gusion’s Best Builds
Gusion is a relatively straightforward Hero to build. You’d generally want to go for full damage, but having an item or two for counterplay isn’t a problem.
One-Shot Build
This would be your best build for most matches, letting you one-shot anyone marked by your S1. If you find yourself dying too often, you can replace an item for the Winter Crown or an Immortality Shield.
This will be your default build for Jungle. This is also the build you’ll be using if you play Gusion in the Midlane.
Anti-Tank Build
As an assassin, you’d usually want to avoid tanky foes. However, if you’re against lots of fighters and tanky roamers, you can utilize the Glowing Wand and Wishing Lantern to deal HP-based damage.
Sustain Lifesteal Build / EXP Lane Gusion Build
Gusion is an assassin, which means he dies rather easily. If you want a more carry-oriented build, you can aim for some lifesteal and cooldown reduction to contribute more to fights than a single takedown.
This build isn’t recommended for ranked, since Gusion’s personal damage will take quite a hit. However, if you have a strong team and are confident that you’ll get a gold lead, this can work.
Gusion Combos
None of Gusion’s skills do much by themselves; they only let him one-shot targets the way he does when utilized effectively with one another. For this reason, learning a few combos for specific situations can help.
Apart from just knowing how to do them, we also recommend you use the game’s practice tool to try the combos out until they become muscle memory. This helps you stay calm even amidst chaotic teamfights.
Basic Combo
The most basic Gusion combo has you use S1 to position yourself in a way that all your recalling daggers pass through an enemy. To do this, use your S1 to hit a target and cast S2 immediately afterward.
Then, use your S1 once more, followed by your S2. The overall combo should be S1 > S2 > S1 > S2.
This will be your most important combo (alongside your basic Ultimate one) and will let you one-shot most squishy enemies if you have enough of a lead.
The specific sequence of S2 and S1 when recalling depends on enemy position. If your daggers are between you and the enemy, use S1 first. If you’re between your daggers and the enemy, use S2 first.
Basic Combo – Alternative
This is a variation of the basic combo where you use S2 before you dash with S1. You use this when chasing enemies, to surprise them, or when you’ve used your S2 and an enemy has run away.
If you use S1 before S2 with your daggers far from the enemy, you’ll absorb them before they go through the enemy, dealing no damage whatsoever.
Basic Combo With Ultimate
If you’ve just reached level four and are going against full HP enemies, you’ll realize that your normal combo may not finish off an enemy. In such cases, you can use your entire kit to fully wipe your target out.
This deals almost twice as much damage as your basic combo on the condition that you end up using your Ultimate for it. In return, it confirms that you get a kill if executed properly.
Use your second skill to leave your first set of blades on the ground. If these manage to hit the enemy to lower their health, that’d be the best. However, even if they don’t, you’ll likely deal enough damage to kill them regardless.
With the first set of daggers out, use your Ultimate to refresh S2 and reposition in a place where you can hit your target with S1.
Afterward, immediately use S2 once more, followed up S1 to dash to the enemy and S2 afterward to recall your daggers, piercing the enemy with them.
The combo should look like this: S2 > Ultimate > S1 > S2 > S1 > S2
Another variation of the combo is S2 > Ultimate > S1 > S2 > S2 > S1.
Advanced Ultimate Combo
Once you get comfortable with the basic Ultimate combo, you can use this advanced version instead. This gives you more damage by adding in another set of first skills and also makes it more difficult for enemies to hit you.
The combo here is: S1 > S2 > S2 > S1 > Ultimate > S1 > S2 > S2 > S1.
Highest Damage Combo
The last combo to know should be Gusion’s highest-damage combo, utilizing both the sending off of daggers and their recalls at melee ranges to deal tons of damage.
There are many ways of doing this, but the general idea is to hit enemies point blank range with your S2 as you send your blades out.
A sample combo that allows you to do this is: S1 > S1 > S2 > Ultimate > S1 > S2 > S1 > S2.
