Hanabi is a marksman hero with easy difficulty. This is a live guide — win rate, pick rate and counter data refresh every 6 hours from real ranked matches.
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Hanabi works well with heroes who can initiate with CC, such as Carmilla and Atlas, so she can focus on maximizing her bounce and Ultimate damage.
Hanabi is weak against heroes with high burst damage, such as Lancelot and Zilong, because they can quickly take down her shield.
Level up in this order when playing Hanabi:
Ninjutsu: Soul Scroll
Ninjutsu: Equinox
Ninjutsu: Petal Barrage
Leader of the Scarlet Sect, in the Scarlet Shadow of the Cadia Riverlands.
Hanabi's Basic Attacks and skills will launch Petal Blades after hitting a target, dealing 30% damage, and bouncing up to 4 times to nearby enemies. Bounces from her Basic Attacks inherit her Attack Effects.
Passive: The secret Ninjutsu of the Scarlet Shadow makes Hanabi immune to control effects when she has a shield from any source. Active: Hanabi gains a 300 (+40% Total Physical Attack) shield for 5s. When the shield is active, Hanabi gains 20% Movement Speed and 25% Attack Speed, and 20% of her damage dealt to enemy heroes will be added to this shield (only adds 10% of the damage dealt to non-hero units). This shield cannot exceed 50% of Hanabi's max HP.
Hanabi fires the energy Kunai in the targeted direction, dealing 350 (+80% Total Physical Attack) Physical Damage to enemies along the way and reducing their Movement Speed by 60% for 1s. Enemy units hit will also be marked, allowing Hanabi's next Bounce Damage from Basic Attacks to deal 30 (+100% Total Physical Attack) Physical Damage on them with no damage decay.
Hanabi throws Higanbana in the targeted direction, dealing 300 (+50% Total Physical Attack) Physical Damage to the first enemy hero hit and immobilizing them for 0.8s. After 1s, Higanbana will bloom at the location of the first hit, dealing 300 (+50% Total Physical Attack) Physical Damage to nearby enemies. Subsequent hits on the same target decay to 30% damage.
Skill Order: Prioritise skills in this order — Skill 3 → Skill 2 → Skill 1.
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In teamfights, start with Hanabi's 2nd Skill to slow the enemies, then follow up with her Ultimate to immobilize them and let loose with Basic Attacks. During this time, use her 1st Skill accordingly for more damage and survivability, and keep up the damage with her bouncing Basic Attacks.
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In the laning phase, use Hanabi's 2nd Skill to poke the enemy and mark them, and continue to chip away their HP with Basic Attack bounces before using her 1st Skill and engaging them head-on.
Community-ranked Hanabi builds, sorted by popularity. Each build was uploaded by a real player and is refreshed every 6 hours.
Blade of the Heptaseas
Power Potion
Blade of Despair
Malefic Roar
War Axe
Immortality
Best item for hanabai
Inspire · Enhance Basic Attacks
Rupture
Master Assassin
Focusing Mark
This emblem for hanabai
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Hanabai item 1hit. Best item for hanabai
Hanabai emblem. This emblem for hanabai
Battle Spell. Plus negative aura
Tough Boots - Dire Hit
Corrosion Scythe
Demon Hunter Sword
Rose Gold Meteor
Windtalker
Great Dragon Spear
KoTun
Petrify · AOE Control
Thrill
Festival of Blood
Brave Smite
KoTun
KoTun. KoTun
KoTun. KoTun
Battle Spell. KoTun
Rapid Boots
Corrosion Scythe
Sea Halberd
Demon Hunter Sword
Rose Gold Meteor
Malefic Gun
For Tanky and Squishi Heroes like Alpha,Dyroth,Minatour,Ruby
Rapid Boots
Corrosion Scythe
Windtalker
Golden Staff
Wind of Nature
Rose Gold Meteor
For Attack Speed heroes like Miya,Mellisa,Zilong,Thamuz,Karrie
Aegis · Protect Squishy Heroes
Fatal
Weapons Master
Weakness Finder
Hanabi's early game base attack speed is not enough for hero like Miya/karrie so this emblem with all attack speed increasing talents will provide a lot of help in early to mid game because of hanabi's passive
nothing
Anti-heal Ranged Build. For Tanky and Squishi Heroes like Alpha,Dyroth,Minatour,Ruby
Attack Speed Build. For Attack Speed heroes like Miya,Mellisa,Zilong,Thamuz,Karrie
Marksman. Hanabi's early game base attack speed is not enough for hero like Miya/karrie so this emblem with all attack speed increasing talents will provide a lot of help in early to mid game because of hanabi's passive
Battle Spell. Aegis is the best spell for hanabi in teamfight,because of it's 750 you will have enough time to finish of low health enemy hero or can run to save yourself if low on HP
Swift Boots
Corrosion Scythe
Demon Hunter Sword
Malefic Gun
Sea Halberd
Wind of Nature
VELOCIDADE DE ATAQUE
Aegis · Protect Squishy Heroes
Swift
Weapons Master
War Cry
VELOCIDADE DE ATAQUE
💖 VELOCIDADE DE ATAQUE
VELOCIDADE DE ATAQUE. VELOCIDADE DE ATAQUE
VELOCIDADE DE ATAQUE. VELOCIDADE DE ATAQUE
Battle Spell. 💖
Haas' Claws
Windtalker
Sea Halberd
Berserker's Fury
Blade of Despair
Rose Gold Meteor
It is the better way to made a build instead to use sky piercer with hana
Aegis · Protect Squishy Heroes
Swift
Bargain Hunter
Quantum Charge
To increase attack movement or speed it's work a lot or useful
Use this method for win
Fast speed . It is the better way to made a build instead to use sky piercer with hana
Quantum change . To increase attack movement or speed it's work a lot or useful
Battle Spell. To hold
Nice hero Ang damage item
Windtalker
Swift Boots
Haas' Claws
Berserker's Fury
Wind of Nature
Malefic Roar
This critical build allowing Hanabi to kill the enemy faster without her 1st skill, while combining marksman critical emblem could still boost her damage and life steal. Yes this build offering better damage and life steal but her shield collected from her 1st skill would not that thick, yet again better life steal and damage. Why is this better than Corrosion & Golden staff build? The life steal it still there even without her 1st skill in this critical build More over to explain: Windtalker: Boosting her damage and clear lane faster, since it's gain bouncy damage to the creep and enemy Swift boots: actually it's really depends on the enemy compositions, but swift boots more preferable to boost her attacks speed after buying windtalker Haas' claws: it's great for Hanabi since her basic attack is bouncy she can gain more life steal than any other hero, while boosting her critical chance and attack speed. Berserker's Furry: this item to finish her critical build, gain massive critical attack and critical chance, Wind of Nature: it's to sustain from enemy assassin, it's conditional you can build this item any slot you want, either it's 2nd or 3rd Malefic Roar: to penetrate enemy tank
Windtalker
Swift Boots
Haas' Claws
Berserker's Fury
Wind of Nature
Rose Gold Meteor
Explanation: Windtalker: Boosting her damage and clear lane faster, since it's gain bouncy damage to the creep and enemy Swift boots: actually it's really depends on the enemy compositions, but swift boots more preferable to boost her attacks speed after buying windtalker Haas' claws: it's great for Hanabi since her basic attack is bouncy she can gain more life steal than any other hero, while boosting her critical chance and attack speed. Berserker's Furry: this item to finish her critical build, gain massive critical attack and critical chance, Wind of Nature: it's to sustain from enemy assassin, it's conditional you can build this item any slot you want, either it's 2nd or 3rd Rose Gold Meteor: tis item is not a core item for Hanabi in this build, but it's perfect to sustain from enemy mage, combining with her 1st skill, it work just perfect
Flicker · Mobility
Fatal
Weapons Master
Quantum Charge
This 'Fatal' talent allows Hanabi gain massive critical damage even without extra attack speed from her 1st skill. 'Weapon master' to synergy with 'fatal' to cover the overall damage. 'Quantum charge" as I was saying this critical build doesn't always depends on her first skill to enhance her damage, I wanted to keep her 1st skill to escape, so to chase enemies 'Quantum charge' is a must.
It's for user Hanabi who is bored with attack speed build, meanwhile this critical build actually giving more damage and sustainability for Hanabi,
Critical - Penetration . This critical build allowing Hanabi to kill the enemy faster without her 1st skill, while combining marksman critical emblem could still boost her damage and life steal. Yes this build offering better damage and life steal but her shield collected from her 1st skill would not that thick, yet again better life steal and damage. Why is this better than Corrosion & Golden staff build? The life steal it still there even without her 1st skill in this critical build More over to explain: Windtalker: Boosting her damage and clear lane faster, since it's gain bouncy damage to the creep and enemy Swift boots: actually it's really depends on the enemy compositions, but swift boots more preferable to boost her attacks speed after buying windtalker Haas' claws: it's great for Hanabi since her basic attack is bouncy she can gain more life steal than any other hero, while boosting her critical chance and attack speed. Berserker's Furry: this item to finish her critical build, gain massive critical attack and critical chance, Wind of Nature: it's to sustain from enemy assassin, it's conditional you can build this item any slot you want, either it's 2nd or 3rd Malefic Roar: to penetrate enemy tank
Critical - Sustain. Explanation: Windtalker: Boosting her damage and clear lane faster, since it's gain bouncy damage to the creep and enemy Swift boots: actually it's really depends on the enemy compositions, but swift boots more preferable to boost her attacks speed after buying windtalker Haas' claws: it's great for Hanabi since her basic attack is bouncy she can gain more life steal than any other hero, while boosting her critical chance and attack speed. Berserker's Furry: this item to finish her critical build, gain massive critical attack and critical chance, Wind of Nature: it's to sustain from enemy assassin, it's conditional you can build this item any slot you want, either it's 2nd or 3rd Rose Gold Meteor: tis item is not a core item for Hanabi in this build, but it's perfect to sustain from enemy mage, combining with her 1st skill, it work just perfect
Critical - chase. This 'Fatal' talent allows Hanabi gain massive critical damage even without extra attack speed from her 1st skill. 'Weapon master' to synergy with 'fatal' to cover the overall damage. 'Quantum charge" as I was saying this critical build doesn't always depends on her first skill to enhance her damage, I wanted to keep her 1st skill to escape, so to chase enemies 'Quantum charge' is a must.
Battle Spell. In this critical attack build Hanabi basic attack already good without the extra attack speed gained from her 1st skill, so you can keep her 1st skill to avoid offset. And battle spell flicker would be perfect for extra 'run'
Corrosion Scythe
Swift Boots
Demon Hunter Sword
Golden Staff
Malefic Gun
Rose Gold Meteor
This is for Hanabi most used build in latest season, also the build recommend if you're using Hanabi. Perfect for using when enemy doesn't have much for burst damage dealer. Still this build works well because of the malefic gun and rose gold meteor, providing long range and survivability shield.
Corrosion Scythe
Magic Boots
Demon Hunter Sword
Golden Staff
Hunter Strike
Rose Gold Meteor
This CD Reduc works well if enemy marksman is weak against Hanabi, this build can sustain Hanabi and have more survivability because of low CD of skills that you can use more often, this also benefits Hanabi ult to have lower cool down specially lategame to control enemies. Now maybe you're asking why there's hunter strike? Well ist because if you already build Hanabi trinity build, Hanabi now can deal good amount of damage and attack speed, so having hunger strike benefits her in this build. Hunter strike gives 15+ pen and also 10+ CD Reduc that helps her skills, not only that but hunter strike passive also works to Hanabi, hitting enemy and having 50% extra moveset speed that decays overtime. Rose gold for survivability.
Corrosion Scythe
Rapid Boots
Sky Piercer
Demon Hunter Sword
Golden Staff
Windtalker
This is for Hanabi Snowball build that I'm currently using, this build provides good amount of damage specially to early game and Snowball enemies. As usual build we change Abit. First we have the rapid boots, we need that for extra movement speed and Regen effect so we can heal enough in teamfights. Next we build sky Peircer, yes I know you're thinking that Hanabi with sky Peircer is a bit risky since of her vulnerability and need to stack. Hanabi Snowball build core is Sky piercer, we need that to easily pick off enemy in early game, it also benefits Hanabi passive by bouncing attacks, it can take down enemies and kill instantly. This can also burst enemy in lategame, providing massive amount of damage. If you build this, you just need to be careful in early because it might lack of damage but if you snowball with this, you can now be aggressive with your teammates. I do not recommend this if your team is constantly getting killed, you can stay with normal build to have enough Damage. Now for wind talker, this works with the attack speed and movement speed, this benefits alot with sky Peircer. After you build all of these, you can sell rapid boots for any survivability/defense item, only if you needed
Corrosion Scythe
Warrior Boots
Demon Hunter Sword
Golden Staff
Malefic Gun
Rose Gold Meteor
This build for fighter emblem is the same as the build we use to go with Hanabi, but with little changes. You can choose either warrior and tough boots, it's for sustainability since enemy can't easily take you down early with Hanabi first skill immunity and aegis. Next is malefic gun, if you don't need range base on enemy composition, you can go with malefic roar instead for more pen but if not, stick with malefic gun for distance. This build set will work very effective on fighter Hanabi, you'll notice the difference in team fights. Using this build and the recommended emblem set, with player skills. Hanabi can be meta and beat the meta marksman now like Claude, Karrie, etc.
Aegis · Protect Squishy Heroes
Swift
Bargain Hunter
Quantum Charge
Hanabi has a lot of emblem set, this one is for casual playing Hanabi and for also competitive rank. Swift for extra 10% attack speed at the start of the game, self explanatory. Next is Bargain hunter, this is for early item for Hanabi and having 95% of their base price can help Hanabi to build faster. The last one is Quantum charge for extra damage for basic attack and also movement speed, this also restores HP which is good for Hanabi.
Inspire
Pull Yourself Together
Quantum Charge
This is for Hanabi CD Reduc set, this help Hanabi specially to the skilled players to use her skills much often, this is for spamming her skills having low cool down and also for her spell Aegis, reducing it's cool down to 75% to 60%, this help much having ready active spell to counter ganks, And Quantum charge, Sefr explanatory.
Swift
Weapons Master
War Cry
This is Hanabi Snowball emblem set, the one I'm currently using now and the one I can recommend to the Hanabi pro players. with this Hanabi can deal good amount of damage in early game, it benefits her bouncing attack more on this because of the damage can do. Swift is self explanatory, Weapon master talent is for Hanabi increase damage to snowball in early game. Weapon master can help a lot for overall Hanabi performance, The last one is war cry. I know War cry don't count Hanabi multi hit attacks to activate the war cry and hitting enemy only counts as one, still Hanabi separate hits can still activate the war cry. making her damage increase more with the 8% of war cry.
Swift
Weapons Master
Weakness Finder
Moving to the fighter emblem new passive, Dealing hybrid lifesteal is useful for both Fighter and marksman heroes now. This emblem set provide sustainability during team fights specially early game. First of all is swift for extra attack speed since we using fighter emblem, it will lack attack speed provided by marksman emblem itself. Swift makes fighter emblem useful for Hanabi, Next is weapon master for more damage etc, and Weakness finder for long team fights, making Hanabi stand much longer and finish the game.
Keep Hanabi at the backline, protected by supports, and use Aegis or shields to maximize her passive immunity during team fights. Use these guide for your own prefer play style.
Hanabi comfort build. This is for Hanabi most used build in latest season, also the build recommend if you're using Hanabi. Perfect for using when enemy doesn't have much for burst damage dealer. Still this build works well because of the malefic gun and rose gold meteor, providing long range and survivability shield.
Hanabi CD Reduc build. This CD Reduc works well if enemy marksman is weak against Hanabi, this build can sustain Hanabi and have more survivability because of low CD of skills that you can use more often, this also benefits Hanabi ult to have lower cool down specially lategame to control enemies. Now maybe you're asking why there's hunter strike? Well ist because if you already build Hanabi trinity build, Hanabi now can deal good amount of damage and attack speed, so having hunger strike benefits her in this build. Hunter strike gives 15+ pen and also 10+ CD Reduc that helps her skills, not only that but hunter strike passive also works to Hanabi, hitting enemy and having 50% extra moveset speed that decays overtime. Rose gold for survivability.
Hanabi Exclusive Snowball build. This is for Hanabi Snowball build that I'm currently using, this build provides good amount of damage specially to early game and Snowball enemies. As usual build we change Abit. First we have the rapid boots, we need that for extra movement speed and Regen effect so we can heal enough in teamfights. Next we build sky Peircer, yes I know you're thinking that Hanabi with sky Peircer is a bit risky since of her vulnerability and need to stack. Hanabi Snowball build core is Sky piercer, we need that to easily pick off enemy in early game, it also benefits Hanabi passive by bouncing attacks, it can take down enemies and kill instantly. This can also burst enemy in lategame, providing massive amount of damage. If you build this, you just need to be careful in early because it might lack of damage but if you snowball with this, you can now be aggressive with your teammates. I do not recommend this if your team is constantly getting killed, you can stay with normal build to have enough Damage. Now for wind talker, this works with the attack speed and movement speed, this benefits alot with sky Peircer. After you build all of these, you can sell rapid boots for any survivability/defense item, only if you needed
(New) Hanabi Sustainability build meta. This build for fighter emblem is the same as the build we use to go with Hanabi, but with little changes. You can choose either warrior and tough boots, it's for sustainability since enemy can't easily take you down early with Hanabi first skill immunity and aegis. Next is malefic gun, if you don't need range base on enemy composition, you can go with malefic roar instead for more pen but if not, stick with malefic gun for distance. This build set will work very effective on fighter Hanabi, you'll notice the difference in team fights. Using this build and the recommended emblem set, with player skills. Hanabi can be meta and beat the meta marksman now like Claude, Karrie, etc.
Hanabi comfort emblem set. Hanabi has a lot of emblem set, this one is for casual playing Hanabi and for also competitive rank. Swift for extra 10% attack speed at the start of the game, self explanatory. Next is Bargain hunter, this is for early item for Hanabi and having 95% of their base price can help Hanabi to build faster. The last one is Quantum charge for extra damage for basic attack and also movement speed, this also restores HP which is good for Hanabi.
Hanabi CD Reduc emblem set. This is for Hanabi CD Reduc set, this help Hanabi specially to the skilled players to use her skills much often, this is for spamming her skills having low cool down and also for her spell Aegis, reducing it's cool down to 75% to 60%, this help much having ready active spell to counter ganks, And Quantum charge, Sefr explanatory.
Hanabi Exclusive Snowball Emblem set. This is Hanabi Snowball emblem set, the one I'm currently using now and the one I can recommend to the Hanabi pro players. with this Hanabi can deal good amount of damage in early game, it benefits her bouncing attack more on this because of the damage can do. Swift is self explanatory, Weapon master talent is for Hanabi increase damage to snowball in early game. Weapon master can help a lot for overall Hanabi performance, The last one is war cry. I know War cry don't count Hanabi multi hit attacks to activate the war cry and hitting enemy only counts as one, still Hanabi separate hits can still activate the war cry. making her damage increase more with the 8% of war cry.
(New) Hanabi Fighter Emblem set. Moving to the fighter emblem new passive, Dealing hybrid lifesteal is useful for both Fighter and marksman heroes now. This emblem set provide sustainability during team fights specially early game. First of all is swift for extra attack speed since we using fighter emblem, it will lack attack speed provided by marksman emblem itself. Swift makes fighter emblem useful for Hanabi, Next is weapon master for more damage etc, and Weakness finder for long team fights, making Hanabi stand much longer and finish the game.
Battle Spell. For me the best spell for Hanabi is aegis because it can help Hanabi stay longer on teamfights, having immunity, sustainability and also the shield with this spell. She can clear enemy faster and pick off one. Another reason for this is because Hanabi have no mobility skill like dash, this can help Hanabi more than using flicker spell. As I said, Why flicker is not good for Hanabi? Well the reason for that is Hanabi is weak in early game, yes flicker can help for potential ganks but Hanabi vulnerability is still problem. That's why i prefer aegis for Hanabi spell.
Corrosion Scythe
Golden Staff
Demon Hunter Sword
Rapid Boots
Malefic Roar
Rose Gold Meteor
Corrosion Scythe can help you to slow the enemy movement speed, rose gold meteor helps you to counter the cc or mage hero and for late game add (wind of nature) and remove the boots
Aegis · Protect Squishy Heroes
Swift
Weapons Master
Weakness Finder
Use the emblem for more speed attack and movement speed
For solo player and Hanabi user.
Anti tank hero. Corrosion Scythe can help you to slow the enemy movement speed, rose gold meteor helps you to counter the cc or mage hero and for late game add (wind of nature) and remove the boots
Attack speed and movement speed + spell vamp. Use the emblem for more speed attack and movement speed
Battle Spell. Aegis can help you to escape and anti cc hero
Swift Boots
Corrosion Scythe
Demon Hunter Sword
Golden Staff
Wind of Nature
Malefic Roar
Attack speed and damage
Aegis · Protect Squishy Heroes
Fatal
Weapons Master
Quantum Charge
provides increased attack speed, physical attack, and lifesteal, making it ideal for sustained damage dealers
Hanabi
Hanabi. Attack speed and damage
Hanabi. provides increased attack speed, physical attack, and lifesteal, making it ideal for sustained damage dealers
Battle Spell. Aegis (Battle Spell) Aegis grants a shield that absorbs 750 (+50 per level) damage for 3 seconds. If there are nearby allied heroes, the shield is also applied to the nearest ally with the lowest HP (but at 50% effectiveness). Cooldown: 90 seconds Best Used For: Protecting yourself or an ally during fights. Countering burst damage from assassins and mages. Enhancing survivability for low-mobility heroes like Mark
Each counter is classified by how hard the matchup tilts: Hard kit-level suppression (+3% WR or more), Soft playable tilt (+1-3% WR), Minor slight edge only.
Popol and Kupa
Soft
WR 52.4%
+2.6%
Barats
Soft
WR 49.0%
+2.3%
Khufra
Soft
WR 53.2%
+2.3%
Answers to the most common Hanabi questions from the Singapore MLBB community.
Hanabi is currently meta-defining (elite pick this patch) with a 54.88% win rate in ranked play over the last 7 days. Our tier list is refreshed every 6 hours from real match data across all ranks from Epic to Mythic Glory — see the live number at the top of this page for the latest status.
Hanabi is a marksman hero gold lane lane. Stick to the role the hero is designed for — forcing a marksman into an off-role almost always drops their win rate by 3-5%. Check the Overview tab on this page for the recommended lane layout.
The strongest counters to Hanabi right now are Popol and Kupa, Barats, Khufra. Popol and Kupa alone can flip a Hanabi matchup by several percent — if you see any of these picked, adjust your build or lane assignment. Full counter list with live win-rate impact is in the Counters tab.
Soft counters: Popol and Kupa, Barats, Khufra. The matchup tilts against Hanabi but is still playable with careful positioning and itemisation.
Hanabi pairs best with Roger, Balmond, Lolita. Roger synergy is particularly strong this patch — combo-drafting them together boosts your win rate in ranked. Full synergy list with partner win-rate deltas is on the Synergy tab.
Hanabi has a easy difficulty rating. Beginners should practise the combo sequence in custom mode for at least 20 games before taking Hanabi into ranked. The Skills and Tips tabs on this page walk through the exact combo order used by Mythic-rank SGS players.
The Builds tab on this page shows the highest-voted community builds for Hanabi, sorted by popularity and refreshed every 6 hours. Each build lists the exact item order, emblem talent path and battle spell — pick the build that matches your current patch version.
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