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How to counter Hanzo
The heroes that beat them, how the matchups play out, and what to build against them.
Counter intel
How Hanzo does against each hero in ranked matches, from mlcounters.app, data of 2026-10-05. The number is the edge in percentage points of win rate: +3.0 means about 3 more wins per 100 games than Hanzo usually gets (or loses, for the other side). Matchups with too few games are left out. Each list shows the eight most decisive, ranked from the most. Green heroes beat Hanzo; red heroes lose to Hanzo.
8 heroes that beat Hanzo8 heroes Hanzo beats
Best counters to Hanzo
These heroes win this matchup — pick with confidence
“Hanzo fares less favorably against heroes with lots of mobility, such as Fanny, Lancelot, and Arlott, since it's difficult to build stacks on them, thus limiting Hanzo's damage.”
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Natalia🌲 Jungle
+4.9 pts
edge over Hanzo
3/5 ranks
Zilong🌲 Jungle
+4.6 pts
edge over Hanzo
1/5 ranks
Wanwan🏹 Gold Lane
+3.5 pts
edge over Hanzo
3/5 ranks
Kimmy🏹 Gold Lane
+3.1 pts
edge over Hanzo
2/5 ranks
Ling🌲 Jungle
+3.1 pts
edge over Hanzo
4/5 ranks
Hirara🌲 Jungle
+2.9 pts
edge over Hanzo
4/5 ranks
Sun⚔️ EXP Lane
+2.6 pts
edge over Hanzo
3/5 ranks
Yin🌲 Jungle
+2.5 pts
edge over Hanzo
1/5 ranks
Hanzo dominates these
Avoid these picks — the data says you lose
“Hanzo's Ultimate enables him to poke or dive with relative safety, making him a serious threat to squishy heroes without mobility, like Layla, Ixia, and Zhuxin, while also disrupting the enemy in teamfights.”
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Popol and Kupa🏹 Gold Lane
+4.3 pts
Hanzo's edge
1/5 ranks
Luo Yi🔮 Mid Lane
+3.7 pts
Hanzo's edge
1/5 ranks
Hayabusa🌲 Jungle
+3.7 pts
Hanzo's edge
1/5 ranks
Saber🌲 Jungle
+3.2 pts
Hanzo's edge
1/5 ranks
Diggie🛡️ Roam
+3.1 pts
Hanzo's edge
4/5 ranks
Balmond⚔️ EXP Lane
+3.1 pts
Hanzo's edge
2/5 ranks
Baxia🛡️ Roam
+3.1 pts
Hanzo's edge
1/5 ranks
Yve🔮 Mid Lane
+2.9 pts
Hanzo's edge
3/5 ranks
Who wins the matchup, and when
Source: mobilelegends.comRanked pairings, past 7 days
Change in Hanzo's win rate (in percentage points) when that hero is on the opposing team or on Hanzo's own team, across all ranks. Based on the official ranked statistics; heroes with very few games can swing a lot, and a counter at one rank can disappear at another.
Read the points as wins per 100 games: +3.0 means Hanzo wins about 3 more games out of every 100 with that hero than Hanzo usually wins, and −3.0 means about 3 fewer. Hover a number for the exact wording.
The small bars show Hanzo's win rate in that matchup by game length, from 10-12 minutes (left) to 20+ (right), green above 50% and red below; the two numbers are the first and the last. “3/5 ranks” counts the rank brackets where the hero is on the same list. The official data gives no game counts, so a bar from a rare matchup can be noise, and games under 10 minutes are left out because they swing the most.
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What Hanzo's skills do
Each skill with the tags the official hero page gives it. Look for the ones that lock you down, move them or deal burst, then pick the answer in the counter guides. Source: mobilelegends.com
Ame no Habakiri
Buff
Ninjutsu: Demon Feast
Burst
Ninjutsu: Dark MistCD: 10
AOESlow
Kinjutsu: Pinnacle NinjaCD: 36
MorphMobility
What to prepare for against Hanzo
Worked out from the official skill tags and ratings and our tracked builds.
- Hanzo mostly deals physical damage, judging by the items in their tracked builds. Physical defense and the physical protections in the burst guide are the ones that apply.How to survive burst damage →
- 1 of 4 skills (Ninjutsu: Dark Mist) has the Slow tag. The crowd control guide covers what can be done about it.How to deal with crowd control →
- 1 of 4 skills (Ninjutsu: Demon Feast) has the Burst tag. Damage can arrive in a few seconds, so see the burst guide for what blunts it.How to survive burst damage →
- Hanzo's official durability rating is 70 out of 100. Damage that ignores part of their defense helps; see the physical and magic defense guides.How to beat high physical defense →How to beat high magic defense →
What this does not know
- This says what to look out for. It does not claim that any item wins the matchup.
- Skill tags are the game's short labels; the skills themselves are not read in detail, so a hero can do more than their tags show.
- Damage type is a guess from the items in tracked builds, and a hero with no tracked build falls back to their class.
Matchup stats
Hanzo's win rate in specific matchups · Source: mlcounter.com
