Hanabi is a ninja-themed marksman who fights with throwing daggers rather than a bow or firearm, giving her a distinct silhouette among MLBB’s ranged carries. She’s built around hitting multiple targets at once rather than focusing pure single-target damage, which makes her stand out as a marksman who can contribute meaningfully to group fights rather than just picking off isolated enemies. Players drawn to a marksman with more team-fight presence than the typical kite-and-poke carry tend to gravitate toward her.
Role and playstyle
Hanabi plays the standard marksman farming pattern early — clearing lane creeps efficiently and building up her core items — but her kit differentiates her once fights start. Her basic attacks and skills are designed to pierce through or bounce between multiple enemies in a line or cluster, so she rewards positioning that lines up several targets rather than isolating one priority target the way many marksmen do. Her ultimate reinforces this further, functioning as an area tool that can pull grouped enemies together and punish teams that clump up in fights, giving her a genuine team-fight identity on top of her lane-phase carry duties.
Strengths
Hanabi’s multi-target damage output makes her unusually strong in chaotic team fights where enemies are grouped, since she can generate value from several targets simultaneously rather than needing a clean pick on one hero. Her ultimate also doubles as a way to punish poor positioning from the enemy team, turning what would be an even fight into a lopsided one if opponents don’t spread out. This gives her more team-fight utility than many pure single-target marksmen.
Weaknesses
That team-fight strength comes with a tradeoff in pure 1v1 output — Hanabi isn’t the sharpest choice when a fight comes down to isolated dueling against a single well-positioned opponent, since much of her kit’s value depends on hitting more than one target. She also still carries the general marksman vulnerability to dive and crowd control, needing peel from her team to stay safe and deliver her damage from a stable position.
Build direction
Hanabi’s itemization follows core marksman logic — early attack speed and sustain items to farm safely, moving into a mix of physical damage, attack speed, and critical strike as the game progresses. Because her value is amplified when she can hit multiple enemies, positioning items and defensive options are worth adapting based on how much the enemy team punishes her for stepping forward into range of a group fight, rather than sticking to one fixed build every game.