Lancelot Guide

Lancelot: The Perfumed Knight - A Comprehensive Guide

Alright, here's a comprehensive MLBB guide for Lancelot, focusing on his primary and secondary roles, recommended builds, emblems, talents, counter items, and item adjustments.

Lancelot is primarily an Assassin hero known for his high burst damage, mobility, and immunity frames.

• Primary Role: Jungle
• Secondary Role: EXP Lane (Less Common, but Viable in Certain Situations)

General Lancelot Playstyle Tips:

• Early Game: Focus on farming efficiently in the jungle. Secure buffs and prioritize early ganks to snowball your lead. If you're in the EXP lane, play safe and focus on farming until you can get a few core items.
• Mid Game: Look for opportunities to pick off squishy targets like Mages, Marksmen, and other Assassins. Use your mobility to rotate between lanes and secure objectives.
• Late Game: Play around your team. Wait for the enemy team to use key crowd control abilities before diving in. Position yourself to burst down priority targets. Utilize your ultimate's invincibility frames to dodge crucial enemy skills.

I. Jungle Lancelot

Lancelot thrives in the jungle due to his fast clear speed and ability to gank effectively.

A. Build 1: Burst Assassin

Description: This build focuses on maximizing Lancelot's burst damage, allowing him to quickly eliminate key targets.

• Items:
  1. Tough Boots: Reduces magic damage and crowd control duration. (Early game can be replaced with Swift Boots for speed)
  2. Hunter Strike: Provides physical attack, cooldown reduction, and movement speed after damaging a hero. This helps with mobility and burst damage.
  3. Blade of the Heptaseas: Grants physical attack and HP, but most importantly, it grants a passive that deals extra damage on your first basic attack after being out of combat.
  4. Malefic Roar: Provides physical attack and high physical penetration, allowing you to damage tanks and durable heroes effectively.
  5. Immortality: Provides physical defense and HP, and the passive revives you after death, giving you a second chance.
  6. Blade of Despair: Grants very high physical attack and movement speed, and its passive increases your damage against enemies with low HP.
• Emblem: Assassin
  • Tier 1: Agility (Movement Speed)
  • Tier 2: Invasion (Physical Penetration)
  • Tier 3: Killing Spree (Restore HP and Increase Movement Speed after a Kill)

B. Build 2: Sustainable Assassin

Description: This build sacrifices some raw burst for more sustain and survivability in extended fights.

• Items:
  1. Tough Boots: Reduces magic damage and crowd control duration. (Early game can be replaced with Swift Boots for speed)
  2. Hunter Strike: Provides physical attack, cooldown reduction, and movement speed after damaging a hero. This helps with mobility and burst damage.
  3. Blade of the Heptaseas: Grants physical attack and HP, but most importantly, it grants a passive that deals extra damage on your first basic attack after being out of combat.
  4. Endless Battle: Provides a mix of physical attack, mana regeneration, cooldown reduction, movement speed, and lifesteal. The passive also deals true damage after using a skill.
  5. Malefic Roar: Provides physical attack and high physical penetration, allowing you to damage tanks and durable heroes effectively.
  6. Immortality: Provides physical defense and HP, and the passive revives you after death, giving you a second chance.
• Emblem: Assassin
  • Tier 1: Agility (Movement Speed)
  • Tier 2: Invasion (Physical Penetration)
  • Tier 3: Killing Spree (Restore HP and Increase Movement Speed after a Kill)

C. Counter Items (Jungle):

• Against High Physical Defense Tanks (e.g., Khufra, Atlas):
  • Replace Blade of Despair or Immortality with War Axe. War Axe provides continuous damage and HP regeneration when dealing damage in combat, helping you shred through tanky heroes.
• Against Heavy Crowd Control (e.g., Nana, Aurora):
  • Consider purchasing Athena's Shield after Blade of the Heptaseas if magic damage is the biggest threat. Alternatively, build Rose Gold Meteor for a magic damage shield when your HP is low. Replace Malefic Roar or Blade of Despair depending on whether you need more damage or survivability.
• Against Heroes with High Healing/Shielding (e.g., Estes, Rafaela, Uranus):
  • Build Sea Halberd early in the game. This reduces the enemy's healing effect. Replace Blade of the Heptaseas or Malefic Roar depending on whether you need burst damage or physical penetration.

II. EXP Lane Lancelot

Playing Lancelot in the EXP lane is less common, but it can work if you can safely farm and outplay your opponent. It requires good mechanics and map awareness.

A. Build 1: Bruiser Lancelot

Description: This build focuses on sustained damage and survivability, allowing Lancelot to trade effectively in lane and participate in team fights.

• Items:
  1. Warrior Boots: Physical defense and movement speed.
  2. Hunter Strike: Provides physical attack, cooldown reduction, and movement speed after damaging a hero. This helps with mobility and burst damage.
  3. War Axe: Provides continuous damage and HP regeneration when dealing damage in combat.
  4. Endless Battle: Provides a mix of physical attack, mana regeneration, cooldown reduction, movement speed, and lifesteal. The passive also deals true damage after using a skill.
  5. Malefic Roar: Provides physical attack and high physical penetration, allowing you to damage tanks and durable heroes effectively.
  6. Immortality: Provides physical defense and HP, and the passive revives you after death, giving you a second chance.
• Emblem: Assassin or Fighter (depending on preference)
  • Assassin Emblem:
    • Tier 1: Agility (Movement Speed)
    • Tier 2: Invasion (Physical Penetration)
    • Tier 3: Killing Spree (Restore HP and Increase Movement Speed after a Kill)
  • Fighter Emblem:
    • Tier 1: Bravery (Physical Attack)
    • Tier 2: Invasion (Physical Penetration)
    • Tier 3: Festival of Blood (Lifesteal based on Damage Dealt)

B. Build 2: Poke & Burst Lancelot

Description: Focuses on poking the enemy laner with skills while still maintaining burst potential to punish mistakes. This build requires more careful mana management.

• Items:
  1. Warrior Boots: Physical defense and movement speed.
  2. Hunter Strike: Provides physical attack, cooldown reduction, and movement speed after damaging a hero. This helps with mobility and burst damage.
  3. Blade of the Heptaseas: Grants physical attack and HP, but most importantly, it grants a passive that deals extra damage on your first basic attack after being out of combat.
  4. Magic Blade: Provides physical attack and magic defense. The passive creates a shield that absorbs magic damage when your HP is low.
  5. Malefic Roar: Provides physical attack and high physical penetration, allowing you to damage tanks and durable heroes effectively.
  6. Immortality: Provides physical defense and HP, and the passive revives you after death, giving you a second chance.
• Emblem: Assassin
  • Tier 1: Agility (Movement Speed)
  • Tier 2: Invasion (Physical Penetration)
  • Tier 3: Killing Spree (Restore HP and Increase Movement Speed after a Kill)

C. Counter Items (EXP Lane):

• Against High Physical Damage Dealers (e.g., Yu Zhong, Paquito):
  • Build Brute Force Breastplate after Hunter Strike. It gives physical defense, HP, cooldown reduction, and its passive increases your movement speed and physical and magic defense when using skills or basic attacks. Replace Malefic Roar or Blade of Heptaseas depending on your damage needs.
• Against Magic Damage Dealers (e.g., Guinevere, Lunox):
  • Build Athena's Shield or Rose Gold Meteor after Blade of Heptaseas. These items provide magic defense and shields to mitigate magic damage.
• Against Sustain/Lifesteal Heroes (e.g., Esmeralda, Uranus):
  • Build Sea Halberd. Replace Malefic Roar if you need to reduce their healing/shielding capabilities.

Important Considerations:

• Item Prioritization: Adjust your item build based on the enemy team composition and the game's flow. Don't be afraid to deviate from the standard build if necessary.
• Skill Usage: Practice your Lancelot skill combos. Use your first skill to dash between targets, your second skill to deal damage and apply a mark, and your ultimate to burst down enemies or escape danger.
• Map Awareness: Pay attention to the minimap and anticipate enemy ganks. Rotate to help your teammates when needed.
• Team Communication: Communicate with your team about your intentions and coordinate ganks.