How to Play Layla Mobile Legends – Complete Guide

Layla Mobile Legends is one of the game’s classic Marksman heroes, a long-range damage dealer designed to deal massive physical damage from afar. With her Malefic Gun passive that increases damage at longer distances and a long ranged ultimate, Layla excels at poking enemies, pushing lanes, and melting targets from safety.

This is everything you need to know to play Layla MLBB right, and take advantage of one of the best MLBB heroes in the game. 

Layla Mobile Legends Overview

Let’s go through a quick overview of Layla MLBB to see what she’s all about and why she’s such a strong pick right now:

• Primary Role: Marksman
• Best Lane: Gold Lane
• Damage Type: Physical
• Difficulty: Easy–Medium
• Teamfight Role: Backline DPS, Objective Siege

Main Strengths

• Insane Long Range: Layla has one of the longest attack ranges in the game, letting her damage enemies and turrets safely.
• High Late-Game DPS: Once fully built, her sustained and burst damage can shred even tanky heroes.
• Waveclear & Poke: Her skills let her farm and harass simultaneously.
• Great Tower Pressure: Can hit turrets from outside their attack range.

Main Weaknesses

• No Mobility: Layla Mobile Legends has no built-in dash or blink — making her vulnerable to ganks.
• Squishy: Low durability means she dies quickly if caught out.
• Skill Reliant: Missing her skillshots (especially Void Projectile) heavily reduces her damage potential.
• Weak Early Game: Until her items come online, she struggles to trade versus aggressive enemies.

When to Pick Layla

• The MLBB team needs long-range sustained DPS compared
• You want strong objective and turret pressure
• Enemy lacks heavy early aggression

When to Avoid Layla

• High mobility assassins and divers dominate your laning
• You need a burst initiator or tank frontline

Layla’s Skills in MLBB

Here is a brief description of all the abilities of Layla Mobile Legends and how to use them effectively with a simple combo provided below:

Passive – Malefic Gun

Layla deals increased damage to enemies farther away from her (starting at 100% and increasing to 130% at 6 units away). This does not include Turrets.

Skill 1 – Malefic Bomb

Layla fires a Malefic Bomb in the target direction, dealing 200–400 (+80% Total Physical Attack) Physical Damage to the first enemy hit (can critically strike). Upon hitting an enemy, Layla’s Basic Attacks and Void Projectile gain extra range for 3 seconds, and she gains 60% Movement Speed that decays over 1.2 seconds.

The duration of the Movement Speed boost is doubled if an enemy hero is hit.

Skill 2 – Void Projectile

Layla fires an orb of Malefic Energy that explodes on hit, dealing 170–320 (+65% Total Physical Attack) Physical Damage to targets in the area and applying Magic Mark on them for 3 seconds.

When Layla hits an enemy with a Magic Mark, she deals 100–200 (+35% Total Physical Attack) Physical Damage to nearby enemies and stuns them for 0.25 seconds.

Ultimate – Destruction Rush

Layla fires a blast of Malefic Energy in the target direction, dealing 500–800 (+150% Total Physical Attack) Physical Damage to enemies in a line. Passive: The range of Layla’s Void Projectile and Basic Attacks is increased by 0.6–1.8 units.

Her sight range is also slightly increased each time this skill is upgraded. These kinds of abilities are why you’ll see the hero in MLBB tournaments as well as normal games.

Basic Offensive Combo

Skill 1 → Skill 2 → Auto Attack → Ultimate
This sequence maximizes poke, slows, and finishing potential while keeping you at a safe distance.

Best Layla Item, Emblem and Battle Spell Build in MLBB

Best Layla Item Build in MLBB

Layla scales higher with physical damage items. Covering her lack of mobility, she also needs items that would help her in that department. Here is the recommended build for Layla Mobile Legends:

Base Item Build

• Swift Boots – Boosts attack speed early.
• Windtalker – Attack speed + crit chance and movement speed — helps farming and roaming.
• Demon Hunter Sword – Excels vs high-HP opponents.
• Berserker’s Fury – Huge crit damage.
• Malefic Roar – Penetration to shred tanks.
• Rose Gold Meteor – Defensive option if enemies dive you.

Situational Items

• Wind of Nature – Grants temporary invulnerability to Physical Attacks.
• Immortality – Grants resurrection upon falling.

Best Layla Emblem Build in MLBB

This is the best overall for Layla due to increased attack speed, physical penetration, and movement speed, essential stats that help her damage output and survivability from range. Here is the recommended Emblem build for Layla in MLBB:

Marksman Emblem

• Emblem 1: Fatal – Extra Crit Chance and Crit Damage
• Emblem 2: Weapon Master – Bonus extra attack gained from equipment, emblem, talents, and skills.
• Emblem 3: Quantum Charge – Dealing damage with Basic Attacks increases Movement Speed for 1.5s and restores HP.

Best Layla Battle Spell in MLBB

Again, Layla’s problem is her mobility since she already has a lot of physical damage. Here are the suggested Battle Spells for Layla in MLBB:

• Flicker – Strongest choice for repositioning, escaping divers, or chasing kills.
• Inspire – Boosts attack speed to further enhance DPS and shredding power.
• Purify – Useful if the enemy team has heavy crowd control.

Summary

Layla is a quintessential backline Marksman — easy to pick up, dangerous at range, and terrifying in the late game when itemized properly. With careful positioning, smart use of her range-boosting skills, and a solid build, Layla can dominate team fights and objectives.