Joy is a assassin hero with hard 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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Joy works best with heroes with that can provide powerful support or have strong initiation, like Angela and Hylos.
Joy is countered by heroes that can restrict mobility skills, such as Minsitthar and Khufra, due to her kit's heavy reliance on her 2nd Skill.
Level up in this order when playing Joy:
Meow, Rhythm of Joy!
Look, Leonin Crystal!
Humph, Joy's Angry!
The "Child of Miracle" who returned to the Leonins after years of wandering.
Joy becomes Angry! each time her skill hits a non-Minion enemy, dealing 100 (+80% Total Magic Power) Magic Damage and increasing her Movement Speed by 60% that decays over 4s (hitting the Leonin Crystal will also grant the Movement Speed effect). This effect has a cooldown of 4s for each target. Joy's Basic Attack will deal 65 (+65% Total Physical Attack) (+65% Total Magic Power) Magic Damage.
Joy summons a Leonin Crystal at the target location, dealing 200 (+40% Total Magic Power) Magic Damage to nearby enemies and slowing them by 30% for 1s. The Leonin Crystal lasts up to 2s.
Joy dashes in the target direction, dealing 120 (+40% Total Magic Power) Magic Damage to enemies in her path. Hitting an enemy or the Leonin Crystal allows Joy to cast this skill again within 0.8s and gain 1 Beat Energy. Casting this skill on the beat increases the skill damage by 100% and grants a 80 (+60% Total Magic Power) shield that lasts 3s. This skill can be cast up to 4 times in succession.
Joy increases her Physical & Magic Defense by 15 (+10% Total Magic Power) and gains 30% Movement Speed. Over the next 3s, she pulses 8 times, dealing 120 (+40% Total Magic Power) Magic Damage each time to nearby enemies. Each Meow, Rhythm of Joy! cast on the beat increases this skill's damage by 40%. If perfect rhythm is achieved by hitting every beat with Meow, Rhythm of Joy!, Joy also gains 40% Spell Vamp while this skill is active. This skill unlocks when Joy acquires Beat Energy. Casting this skill with 3 Beat Energy will remove all debuffs on Joy and make her immune to slow effects while this skill is active.
Skill Order: Prioritise skills in this order — Skill 3 → Skill 2 → Skill 1.
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In teamfights, Joy should summon a Leonin Crystal with her 1st Skill and use it as a springboard for her 2nd Skill to enter the battle. Continue to chain her 2nd Skill on the beat to unlock her Ultimate. Finally, use her Ultimate to finish off the enemy.
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In the laning phase, Joy should place her 1st Skill on top of the enemy, then use her 2nd Skill to dash through both targets and continue to chain her 2nd Skill on the beat for damage.
Community-ranked Joy builds, sorted by popularity. Each build was uploaded by a real player and is refreshed every 6 hours.
Arcane Boots
Genius Wand
Concentrated Energy
Holy Crystal
Divine Glaive
Queen's Wings
Damager assembly: Yes, many people will ask a lot of questions, but how is the EXP line obliged to tank somehow anyway, even though you can't, although with the wings of the queen, they will hardly be demolished quickly, even if you attack first to start a fight or to aggress on yourself so that the roamer can safely catch and destroy with adk / mage.
Magic Boots
Concentrated Energy
Divine Glaive
Holy Crystal
Queen's Wings
Wishing Lantern
Survival Build: Weird build, right? However, with these items, your survival rate is too high and you can easily survive any enemy attack with activated revenge, even if it is 1 in 5, you guarantee your survival rate from the ultimate, which heals from hitting the enemy and revenge with the wings of the queen, which reduce incoming damage by 75% together, taken against the strong damagers if there are no tanks.
Vengeance · Reflect Damage
Thrill
Weapons Master
Temporal Reign
The emblem and perks are designed to have a greater impact on files so that you can destroy Adcs or Magicians or Assassins who want to destroy your damagers.
Thrill
Festival of Blood
Temporal Reign
This is designed to maximize the vampirism of skills, if you realize that you will not be able to tank, then I advise you to take this emblem, since the combination of survival with the second and ultimate increases greatly, but the damage subsides.
Guide to EXP Joy *exclusively*
EXP LINE (DAMAGE). Damager assembly: Yes, many people will ask a lot of questions, but how is the EXP line obliged to tank somehow anyway, even though you can't, although with the wings of the queen, they will hardly be demolished quickly, even if you attack first to start a fight or to aggress on yourself so that the roamer can safely catch and destroy with adk / mage.
EXP LINE (SURVIVAL). Survival Build: Weird build, right? However, with these items, your survival rate is too high and you can easily survive any enemy attack with activated revenge, even if it is 1 in 5, you guarantee your survival rate from the ultimate, which heals from hitting the enemy and revenge with the wings of the queen, which reduce incoming damage by 75% together, taken against the strong damagers if there are no tanks.
EXP LINE (damage). The emblem and perks are designed to have a greater impact on files so that you can destroy Adcs or Magicians or Assassins who want to destroy your damagers.
EXP LINE (SURVIVAL). This is designed to maximize the vampirism of skills, if you realize that you will not be able to tank, then I advise you to take this emblem, since the combination of survival with the second and ultimate increases greatly, but the damage subsides.
Battle Spell. Revenge: Used against heroes with strong physical or magical damage, then any ADC or mage.Adc is unlikely to take you down with one poke, however, there are times that you need to spend just to survive if you hit 1 in 5 or the team just did a bad initiation.
Ice Hunter's Arcane Boots
Genius Wand
Holy Crystal
Concentrated Energy
Divine Glaive
Wishing Lantern
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Flame Hunter's Tough Boots
Holy Crystal
Concentrated Energy
Divine Glaive
Wishing Lantern
Blood Wings
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Retribution · Jungle Special
Thrill
Seasoned Hunter
Temporal Reign
Cd reduction additional adaptive attack Fast level
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BLUE. ....
RED. ...
Burst fade pa rin to yaa?? (Burst damage hehe). Cd reduction additional adaptive attack Fast level
Battle Spell. Red r✔ Blue r✔
Ice Hunter's Arcane Boots
Holy Crystal
Divine Glaive
Concentrated Energy
Brute Force Breastplate
Wishing Lantern
Best for damage and defense
Retribution · Jungle Special
Thrill
Seasoned Hunter
Temporal Reign
Best for joy, as jungler and damage dealer.
Maybe just play more Joy and you will be a pro lol
Best Equipment . Best for damage and defense
Jungler. Best for joy, as jungler and damage dealer.
Battle Spell. Useful to junglers.
Ice Hunter's Arcane Boots
Genius Wand
Concentrated Energy
Holy Crystal
Blood Wings
Divine Glaive
Can switch Ice Retri to Flame Retri if enemy has low mobility
Retribution · Jungle Special
Thrill
Seasoned Hunter
Lethal Ignition
Lethal Ignition is better practically compared to Temporal Reign, it increases your succession rate to pick off
I am a Joy player since her launch, with a total of 1000 ranked matches with 87% win rate.
Burst. Can switch Ice Retri to Flame Retri if enemy has low mobility
Burst. Lethal Ignition is better practically compared to Temporal Reign, it increases your succession rate to pick off
Battle Spell. Jungling
Tough Boots
Concentrated Energy
Clock of Destiny
Oracle
Ice Queen Wand
Immortality
Благодаря этой сборке вы будете иметь много брони а так же Вампиризма, что позволит долго находиться в сражениях. Жезл Снежной королевы позволит замедлять цели а так же добавит стойкости. Бессмертие просто как завершение сборки опционально замена предмета на удобный для вас
Vengeance · Reflect Damage
Inspire
Festival of Blood
Temporal Reign
Всё рассчитано на то чтобы вы могли достаточно долго сражаться
Гайд для игроков которые очень хотят попробовать поиграть на Джой, но не готовы к требованиям высокого темпа для того что быть полноценным убийцей
Стойкость - жир. Благодаря этой сборке вы будете иметь много брони а так же Вампиризма, что позволит долго находиться в сражениях. Жезл Снежной королевы позволит замедлять цели а так же добавит стойкости. Бессмертие просто как завершение сборки опционально замена предмета на удобный для вас
Через стойкость. Всё рассчитано на то чтобы вы могли достаточно долго сражаться
Battle Spell. Берем только Отмещение и только его. Оно добавляет выживаемости и в целом стойкости на линии-файтах
Ice Hunter's Arcane Boots
Genius Wand
Holy Crystal
Concentrated Energy
Divine Glaive
Winter Crown
This biuld good
Retribution · Jungle Special
Rupture
Seasoned Hunter
Lethal Ignition
Ts is one ****
Joy guide
Burst. This biuld good
Burst. Ts is one ****
Battle Spell. Joy is better with retri
Rapid Boots - Dire Hit
Windtalker
Windtalker
Windtalker
Windtalker
Windtalker
Crazy rapid boots
Windtalker
Windtalker
Windtalker
Windtalker
Windtalker
Rapid Boots - Dire Hit
Crazy windbreak
Retribution · Jungle Special
Thrill
Seasoned Hunter
Temporal Reign
mage emblem cuz joy is mage type
crazy tips
Girl Chaser. Crazy rapid boots
Girl Chaser. Crazy windbreak
Burst . mage emblem cuz joy is mage type
Battle Spell. Depends what lane
Arcane Boots - Dire Hit
Sky Piercer
Genius Wand
Holy Crystal
Concentrated Energy
Winter Crown
The sky piercer can be used in different ways to kill a group of heroes that are inside the turret so that no one can ascape with low hp left, While the other equipments are for damages boost, And the winter crown can be used to resist damages from Heroes
Retribution · Jungle Special
Thrill
Master Assassin
Temporal Reign
You can try to use this emblem set if you want because this emblem can be used on different heroes with a slow cooldown especially joy on the second skill, But with this emblem set it differ to 1.5 faster
A helpful way t- (Yeah im just here for the diamonds)💎
Buy the sky Peirce first if you want to kill first. The sky piercer can be used in different ways to kill a group of heroes that are inside the turret so that no one can ascape with low hp left, While the other equipments are for damages boost, And the winter crown can be used to resist damages from Heroes
Overpowered for joy mains. You can try to use this emblem set if you want because this emblem can be used on different heroes with a slow cooldown especially joy on the second skill, But with this emblem set it differ to 1.5 faster
Battle Spell. Don't use the retri when you farm but when it is necessary, use it
Magic Boots - Encourage
Concentrated Energy
Holy Crystal
Brute Force Breastplate
Divine Glaive
Winter Crown
It's good for crowd control heroes, and also the brute force is optional and the winter crown you can change it into wishing lantern or genius wand depends on your enemy
Magic Boots - Encourage
Genius Wand
Concentrated Energy
Holy Crystal
Divine Glaive
Winter Crown
this build is okay if your enemy is not tanky
Retribution · Jungle Special
Thrill
Seasoned Hunter
Temporal Reign
first the thrill for the early game damage and the seasoned hunter for fast farm the last one is temporal reign for faster cooldown of joy skill
CC REDUCTION AND FAST COOLDOWN. It's good for crowd control heroes, and also the brute force is optional and the winter crown you can change it into wishing lantern or genius wand depends on your enemy
BURST. this build is okay if your enemy is not tanky
The best emblem of all time for joy . first the thrill for the early game damage and the seasoned hunter for fast farm the last one is temporal reign for faster cooldown of joy skill
Battle Spell. Just be calm when your going to retri a objectives and be confident that you can get it
Behemoth Hunter's Tough Boots
Starlium Scythe
Holy Crystal
Concentrated Energy
Blood Wings
Wishing Lantern
To fast kill the enemy mm
Retribution · Jungle Special
Swift
Seasoned Hunter
Lethal Ignition
To fast fram and fast rotation
Follow my guide to fast rank and mmr to joy And like my tips thank you
Joy build. To fast kill the enemy mm
Asasine. To fast fram and fast rotation
Battle Spell. Retribution true damage to target creeps or minion
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. 3 hard counters in Joy's top matchups this patch.
Answers to the most common Joy questions from the Singapore MLBB community.
Joy is currently balanced (situational) with a 48.68% 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.
Joy is a assassin hero jungle lane. Stick to the role the hero is designed for — forcing a assassin 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 Joy right now are Lolita, Sun, X.Borg. Lolita alone can flip a Joy 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.
Hard counters to Joy: Lolita, Sun, X.Borg. These heroes' kits fundamentally suppress Joy — expect a +3% or larger win-rate swing in the opponent's favour.
Joy pairs best with Nolan, Karrie, Zhuxin. Nolan 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.
Joy has a hard difficulty rating. Beginners should practise the combo sequence in custom mode for at least 20 games before taking Joy 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 Joy, 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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