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Mobile Legends: Bang Bang roles and the best ones

A quick guide, in case you’re just starting out

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Mobile Legends: Bang Bang (MLBB/ML) is a mobile multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA) developed by Moonton. There are roles or classes in Mobile Legends that have their own distinct specialty. This ultimately affects the effectiveness and functionality of the team you and your teammates construct.

A role or class is a category that your hero plays throughout a game of MLBB. There are a total of 85 heroes you can choose from six roles: Tank, Fighter, Assassin, Mage, Marksman and Support. Some of these heroes fall into two roles sometimes; each of them having their own unique abilities, skills, and stats that work to both their advantages and disadvantages. It depends from hero to hero.

How well you can manage a hero and their role as well as their specialty depends on your familiarity to the hero as well as your capacity to be willing to learn to play other heroes, the more you play ML.

As mentioned before, heroes have their own set of skills, abilities, and stats that inevitably help a team win a game. Think of roles as the basic facets your hero has and through it, you can determine your hero’s specialties and limitations.

Tank

Tanks are naturally bulkier. What I mean by bulky is that they have higher Health Points (HP), armor, and magic resistance. On the other hand, their attacks don’t hurt as much on their own.

If you like being buff and beefy, then try the tank role. They’re the walking shield of your team. They can take a beating from the enemy team so other roles can do the wrecking for them. Tanks can do Crowd Control (CC) with stuns, slows, hooks, and barriers which help save teammates and trap enemies.

Sometimes having a tank in your team can make or break a game. Most other roles have attacks that hit harder but if all of your teammates have naturally lower HP, it won’t take long for the opposing team to target you one by one and wipe your team out.

If we’re being realistic though, if you’re the person who prefers sticking to the meta and everyone picks marksmen, you’re the kind soul that worked on getting good at playing this role and probably more. Tanks are essentially the guys and gals who protecc, while his/her team attacc. Yes, with two c’s because remember, tanks and crowd control.

Fighter

Fighters are melee heroes who have a good balance of HP, armor, magic resistance and attack damage. They usually attack by jumping into and out of enemy range.

Fighters are semi-tanks. They have significant attack damage while racking up a good amount of magic resistance, HP, and armor. This role often takes the jungle and can single-handedly accomplish objectives within the game.

Not every team needs a fighter, but it can help to have someone who has a good balance between attack damage and the damage they can take. It can be a little daunting to play fighter if you’re non-confrontational since they’re melee heroes.

If you think being tank is a little too tough since the role relies on teammates for damage, you can take the fighter role. Basically, if you like hitting hard, surviving hits, and also dealing significant damage yourself, use a fighter.

Assassin

Assassins are pretty much the role you’d think an assassin would take. They’re quick and deal a painful amount of damage. Assassins normally roam and jungle, but they essentially take marksmen and mages down when they linger with low HP or overextend.

As the name of the role would imply, they like to catch people off-guard by sneaking and roaming around the map and making sure they punish any overextensions, secure kills and maybe sometimes steal skills from other teammates. Assassins are often equipped with multiple blinks and flashes — sticking true to their name and their role.

Remember: Assassins have mobility, stealth and damage at their advantage, but they can falter with not as much armor, magic resistance, and HP.

If you like roaming around the map, dealing significant damage to enemies, and sneaking in and out of clashes to execute the killing blow or prevent yourself from dying, play the assassin role. They’re slippery heroes that are tough to deal with.

Marksman

This is the role you’re taught to play from the get go. ML let’s you play Layla, a marksman, to learn the basic mechanics of the game so it doesn’t seem to be a difficult role to place. But what does a marksman have over other roles? Marksmen have high attack damage, high changes of critical hits, and range.

Marksmen are similar to Assassins with damage and attack speed but the marksman has range and skills with an Area of Effect (AoE). These default abilities and skills for heroes under this type enable them to hit hard, fast, and from far.

Marksmen are often referred to as Attack Damage Carry (ADC) heroes. They’re heroes that hit hard which, by default, allow them to rack up a good number of kills in the game. Although they do stack up a ton of damage, marksmen can be soft.

They have the advantage or range, but if someone gets up close, they don’t have that much HP, magic resistance, and mobility to often save themselves alone. If you’re the type to push and deal a ton of damage yet have the capacity to feel out when you’re being targeted and stay reasonably cautious, play marksman.

Mage

Mages are ranged heroes like marksmen but, instead of physical damage, they deal a painful amount of magic damage. They are similar to a marksman with their disadvantages: mobility and low HP.

They do find their strengths in the same category: attack damage or for mages, magic damage. On top of that, instead of solely magic damage, mages have a variety of spells, stuns, and slows that cripple both selected enemy targets and any area of effect they cast their spells on. Their spells depend on mana so mages preserve mana until they can burst spells down on an enemy target.

A fair warning though: if anyone so much as sneezes your way, you are absolutely done for. Mages hit hard but are soft. They are also significantly slow. Almost anything that can chase mages down and nibble at its HP is it’s kryptonite.

They are good at crowd control and mages do well when asserting their dominance by consistently harassing their opponents and by bursting them down with spells.

Support

Supports are often healers. Think of them as medics in your team. They help heroes heal, as well as increase their chances of survivability in a fight. Their varied skills can often stun, slow down, and throw targets back but unlike mages, supports don’t often prioritize their attack damage.

Support roles efficiently partner with roles that are disadvantaged with HP, magic resistance, and mobility to help heroes farm and take kills.

Supports are an essential part of team dynamics, but they aren’t necessarily crippled of attack damage or magic damage. Many supports are capable of tanking kills. Although it isn’t their primary objective, they can still take kills and rack up quite a number themselves.

If working around your teammates, cheering them on, and healing them is what you’d like to do, play a hero under the support role.

What is the best role to play in Mobile Legends: Bang Bang?

That’s a trick question. The answer is all of them and none of them. If you and your teammates work on synergy, cooperation and teamwork, all of the roles are the best. A game like Mobile Legends: Bang Bang can foster the importance of diversity in teamwork when working towards winning.

Each role has its strengths and weaknesses but that is ultimately why it’s important to have a healthy mix of different roles in your team. If your team were to play the same role, you’ll find the role’s and their heroes default weaknesses become amplified — making it easy for enemy teams to win.

If you’re just starting out playing Mobile Legends: Bang Bang, ease into one role and maybe expand your skill set little by little. It’ll help you grasp the significance of each role and what they can give to the larger objective of the game: teamwork, fun, and practice.

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How did new CEO John Ternus do for his first Apple event?

Is a new golden age coming for Apple?

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For a brief moment, I thought Tim Cook was refusing to step down as Apple’s CEO.

Apple’s “Surprise and shine” event, which heralded the coming of the foldable iPhone Duo, started bombastically with a montage of cinematic moments spanning different genres. The main point was: “what’s the best way to start an opening scene?”

After what felt like an age, the all-too-familiar voice of Tim Cook came on, perhaps for the very last time. But rather than overstaying his exit as the former CEO, he describes that the perfect opener should be classic, as a car that is, quite symbolically, riding off into the sunset. He then explains that he’s not the main character anymore.

Last shot of Tim Cook at the Surprise and Shine event

“That’s your guy,” he said, before pointing to John Ternus, who steps into frame without an introduction or even a name card. It’s hard to image that this guy is the new face of Apple.

It’s the perfect end to Tim Cook’s tenure and as perfect a start for John Ternus’s.

Moving from an age of crisis to a golden age

After a decade and a half of being the face of the brand, Tim Cook stepped down from his tenure as CEO. He leaves the company in a much better state than when he took over. Thanks to him, the iPhone is now a household item. It’s a ubiquitous phone that draws millions of fans every time a new one comes out every year.

But his tenure didn’t start on a bed of roses. When he took over in 2011, it was in response to Steve Jobs’s failing health, who passed away soon after. He inherited a company constantly threatened by competitors trying to eat into Apple’s slice of the pie.

Indeed, Cook’s tenure was peppered with crises. He had to navigate Trump’s first reign, destructive as it was towards relationships in China. He had to figure out survival during the tempestuous pandemic years. Finally, he had to carefully build a strategy for the dawn of AI.

Cook is, first and foremost, a businessman. While the Jobs era was typified by innovation after innovation, Cook built upwards, turning Apple into a trillion-dollar company. Although we didn’t see a lot of new exciting segments introduced, the company built on what it was already good at, delivering a premium and refined experience.

John Ternus comes at an opportune time. Though the brand will always have a healthy share of diehard fans, Apple must now find the next big thing and rediscover the spice of years past.

A time for AI?

After his nonchalant introduction, Ternus immediately goes on the offensive and describes his vision for Apple Intelligence. Rather than dwell on NPUs, TOPS, and other metrics that a regular user can’t make heads or tails of, he described Apple Intelligence and Siri AI as a personal assistant. Usage versus performance, in other words.

If you’re an AI enthusiast, the renewed push towards Apple Intelligence should give you hope that the iPhone won’t just be a receptacle for other AI software. Rather, it’s building its own. Wherever the AI industry is going, Apple looks like it can keep up.

Now, if you don’t like AI at all, that’s fine, too. Ternus isn’t there just for the AI.

Unlike Jobs or Cook, Ternus comes from a strictly engineering background. In today’s world, hardware complements AI. The software must use NPUs after all. But, when the AI bubble finally pops, Ternus isn’t out of a job. In fact, if his track record is any indication, it’s just getting started.

Or a time for new hardware?

This year is absolutely monumental for Apple. Earlier this year, the company launched the MacBook Neo, its first budget-friendly notebook built for everyone. If you were looking to get into the MacBook lifestyle, now is the perfect time to buy in. A lot of users felt a subtle changing of the guard.

From there, you can feel Ternus’s influence already seeping in. And if it wasn’t obvious back then, it’s more than apparent now.

iPhone Duo

In his first ever “One More Thing,” Ternus started his tenure strong with the introduction of the iPhone Duo. Almost twelve hours since the phone’s announcement, I’ve never seen a more visceral reaction to the launch of a new iPhone.

Whereas most of their annual releases reveled in more incremental improvements that primarily tickled already dedicated fan, the iPhone Duo is something new. Everyone’s talking about it. It’s gotten so crazy that even Samsung, often more nonchalant with its prodding, openly attacked the foldable after teasing the brand to go foldable last year.

Though it’s technically not a new segment, the iPhone Duo is patching up the mistakes of past foldables. Rather than just pasting two screens together, Apple’s take feels like a unified whole, emphasized by an interface that seamlessly changes from folded to unfolded.

Where Tim Cook failed to illicit more than a modest ripple with the Vision Pro, Ternus flew to new heights with the iPhone Duo’s announcement. And the phone isn’t even out yet.

Now, there’s still a chance that the Duo won’t be a hit with sales, especially because of the price. But this is still a strong opener for Ternus.

Who is the main character?

“That’s your guy,” Tim Cook pointed.

I don’t think he was pointing in the right direction. Though the camera cut to Ternus himself, his first outing clearly states that the main character is no longer whoever is handling the reins. His decision to skip an official introduction feels intentional. The main character, after all, is the hardware itself: the iPhone 18 Pro, the iPhone Duo.

The entire event started with a bold declaration that everything was shot with an iPhone. It ended, in fact, with the same declaration. Channeling their inner Marshall McLuhan, Ternus’s Apple wants you to believe in the iPhone again.

Even as someone who doesn’t use Apple products mainly, I’m stoked to see what the new era will bring to the table. This is an exciting time for Apple. We might be in the first year of a new golden age.

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GadgetMatch Awards: Best of IFA 2026

Xiaomi 18 Fold, Govee, XGIMI, ARZOPA, Cuktech and more!

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We’re back at IFA 2026 in Berlin, checking out some of the coolest and most interesting tech on the show floor.

From smart home lighting and portable displays to projectors, power solutions, foldables, and more, these are some of the products and brands that caught our attention this year.

In this video, we take a look at: ‪

GOVEE‬

ARZOPA

CUKTECH‬

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XGIMI

Xiaomi

ASUS‬ x NVIDIA RTX SPARK

Watch until the end for our favorite finds from IFA 2026!

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How to spot scam emails and messages before they get you

Here are the telltale signs in a potential scam.

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The brazenness of scammers often goes through fits and starts. Within the last few weeks, I’ve had three separate people in my immediate circle fall for three separate scams. I’ve received similar emails myself. With the Christmas season approaching, we’re living in a particularly brazen period, and it’s time for a very important PSA. Here’s how to spot a scam email today:

Check the contents of the message

Most scam or phishing attempts today will ask you to submit sensitive information like your log-in details or bank information to a seemingly innocuous platform. Obviously, these platforms are fake, and you’re surrendering your information to a malicious party. Unfortunately, these scams are getting much better with disguising their deception. If you put them side by side with a real email or message, you might find it hard to spot crucial differences. So, how do you clock them before it’s too late?

Start with the actual message. Companies will not ask you to submit your details on an email or on a message. It doesn’t matter if the message is claiming an issue (someone allegedly using your card) or a reward (your points are about to expire). If it’s not your usual way of logging in or submitting this information, then it’s likely fake.

Some might even include a highly suspicious link that leads to a log-in page. If that link is from a link shortener (like bit.ly) or looks nothing like the company’s real site, don’t click it. If you do click, check the URL for anomalies. In the below example, “Maya” claims that someone else tried to change the email on my account. Besides how unofficial the alert looks, the button does not lead to Maya’s website.

Now, on rarer occasions, the message itself has telltale signs of deception: typographical errors, missing words, extra spaces. A normal message should have already filtered these errors out, so there’s a good chance that it’s a fake message if it has any of these errors.

Basically, if something feels off straight from the get-go, cast doubt immediately and be vigilant.

Check the sender

Ensuring a fake message is clean should be easy stuff for scammers. A simple spell checker can trick a simple user into doing whatever the scammer wants. One aspect that’s way harder to change is the sender.

An email might have the cleanest copy, but one look at the sender dismantles all deception. In three of the four scam emails I’ve seen in the past two weeks, the sender was the ultimate telltale sign.

In the example below (the same one as above), the sender presents itself as “MayaPH.” If you weren’t paying attention, you would have been fooled into thinking that this is actually Maya. But, if you open the sender information, you’ll see that it’s coming from an unknown email, rather than an official Maya email address.

On a PC, this is easy to check because the email address automatically pops up beside the sender’s name when you open the email. On mobile, you’ll have to press the drop-down button below the sender’s name.

Verify the information yourself

Let’s move to the next level. What if the message looks official and seemingly comes from an official sender?

Unfortunately, scammers today can also spoof senders. Meaning, they are able to send official-looking messages and mask themselves as official senders. In the below example, “BPI” sent me an alert saying that someone tried to spend PhP 19,250 from my account. Take note: this is the same thread where I got real messages from the bank, which the scammer managed to hijack.

The message looks real. I can’t spot a single typo. Now, if you spotted this and thought it was real, you’d enter a state of panic and click the link out of instinct. The scammer is depending on your instinct to do so. Here’s why you shouldn’t click it: That’s not BPI’s official website. It looks like it, but it’s not.

Of course, you can’t be faulted for not memorizing official company websites. In fact, I had to Google the URL just to confirm that it was fake.

A surefire way to make sure, though, is checking the supposed information yourself. When I got the message, I checked my BPI app immediately. There was no trace of the transaction, so I knew it was fake. You can also call them yourself using their official numbers.

This isn’t limited to banks, either. Another example I’ve seen is one claiming that your Spotify subscription failed to renew. In this case, you can manually check your Spotify app to see if your subscription hasn’t been renewed.

Scammers are hopeful that you panic and run to them, rather than the official channels.

Sometimes, friends cannot be trusted

Though we can avoid falling for traps ourselves, other people still can. After an account is hacked, the hacker’s usual play is to message the account’s contact list to get other people.

Because it’s seemingly coming from a loved one’s account, a user is more likely to follow whatever the hacker wants, including clicking suspicious links.

In my experience, this type of scam is rarer these days, but it’s not completely gone. I’ve had one experience wherein a contact from Discord messaged me and tried getting me to play a game with them. The game itself was non-existent. The goal was to have me click a suspicious link and install malware on my computer. The malware can then give the hacker complete access to my PC and every account it’s logged into.

It’s a very nasty malware, but it’s fairly easy to prevent. If you get a message from a friend that isn’t their typical behavior, contact them on a separate platform, preferably on one that doesn’t rely on the net like SMS. If that’s not possible, contact someone near to them.

Address a potential hack immediately

Even with all these precautions, sometimes we can’t prevent ourselves from falling into these scams. If you find yourself victimized by scammers, respond immediately.

First of all, secure the targeted platform first. If it’s an app or a service, change passwords immediately and add two-factor authentication. If it’s a bank, call and appraise them of the situation. You might have to spend some time with a frozen account or without a card, but it beats having all your money sucked dry.

Now, if you suspect that your entire device was compromised, disconnect from the internet immediately. A hacker is toothless if they can’t connect to their prey. Then, using another device, reset every account that the hacker might have access to. If you know how, manually disconnect your accounts from the affected device. Once clear, do a clean install/reset of the device to hopefully weed out the malware.

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