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How to counter Lylia
The heroes that beat them, how the matchups play out, and what to build against them.
Counter intel
How Lylia 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 Lylia 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 Lylia; red heroes lose to Lylia.
8 heroes that beat Lylia8 heroes Lylia beats
Best counters to Lylia
These heroes win this matchup — pick with confidence
“Since most of Lylia's damage comes from detonating her 2nd Skill, but setting up Gloom can be quite slow, nimble Assassins like Nolan and Ling counter Lylia as she'll have a tough time hitting them.”
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Helcurt🌲 Jungle
+3.5 pts
edge over Lylia
1/5 ranks
Natalia🌲 Jungle
+3.0 pts
edge over Lylia
2/5 ranks
Benedetta🌲 Jungle
+2.7 pts
edge over Lylia
3/5 ranks
Aldous⚔️ EXP Lane
+2.6 pts
edge over Lylia
2/5 ranks
Hirara🌲 Jungle
+2.5 pts
edge over Lylia
1/5 ranks
Mathilda🛡️ Roam
+2.5 pts
edge over Lylia
3/5 ranks
Joy🌲 Jungle
+2.5 pts
edge over Lylia
1/5 ranks
Gord🔮 Mid Lane
+2.4 pts
edge over Lylia
1/5 ranks
Lylia dominates these
Avoid these picks — the data says you lose
“Lylia counters Tank heroes without Blink skills, such as Carmilla and Hylos, who cannot easily escape Gloom's AOE range and are more susceptible to Lylia's high sustained damage.”
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Balmond⚔️ EXP Lane
+6.5 pts
Lylia's edge
1/5 ranks
Baxia🛡️ Roam
+3.1 pts
Lylia's edge
2/5 ranks
Zhuxin🔮 Mid Lane
+3.0 pts
Lylia's edge
1/5 ranks
Barats⚔️ EXP Lane
+3.0 pts
Lylia's edge
5/5 ranks
Jawhead⚔️ EXP Lane
+2.8 pts
Lylia's edge
1/5 ranks
Minotaur🛡️ Roam
+2.7 pts
Lylia's edge
1/5 ranks
Diggie🛡️ Roam
+2.6 pts
Lylia's edge
1/5 ranks
Eudora🔮 Mid Lane
+2.5 pts
Lylia's edge
1/5 ranks
Who wins the matchup, and when
Source: mobilelegends.comRanked pairings, past 7 days
Change in Lylia's win rate (in percentage points) when that hero is on the opposing team or on Lylia'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 Lylia wins about 3 more games out of every 100 with that hero than Lylia usually wins, and −3.0 means about 3 fewer. Hover a number for the exact wording.
The small bars show Lylia'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 Lylia'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
Angry Gloom
BuffSpeed Up
Magic ShockwaveCD: 4 Mana Cost: 40
AOESlow
Shadow EnergyCD: 1 Mana Cost: 32
AOESlow
Black ShoesCD: 45 Mana Cost: 120
HealBuff
What to prepare for against Lylia
Worked out from the official skill tags and ratings and our tracked builds.
- Lylia mostly deals magic damage, judging by the items in their tracked builds. Magic defense and the magic protections in the burst guide are the ones that apply.How to survive burst damage →
- 2 of 4 skills (Magic Shockwave and Shadow Energy) have the Slow tag. The crowd control guide covers what can be done about it.How to deal with crowd control →
- 1 of 4 skills (Black Shoes) has the Heal or Shield tag. The healing and shields guide lists the items that reduce those effects.How to counter healing and shields →
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
Lylia's win rate in specific matchups · Source: mlcounter.com
