What Aulus is bad at
- No hard crowd control of his own — relies on teammates to lock down targets
- Needs several Basic Attacks to ramp Fighting Spirit, so burst can kill him before it starts
- Aulus, Charge! only reduces damage from the front, so flanking CC still lands cleanly
- Falls off against sustained poke that keeps him out of Basic Attack range
Every counter below works by pressing one of these.
Hard counters to Aulus
Pick one of these and the matchup is decided before the fight starts.
YveMageHardYve's ranged zone control and slows keep Aulus outside Basic Attack range, so he can never accumulate Fighting Spirit stacks before her poke wears him down.
NolanAssassinHardNolan's overlapping Dimensional Rifts pull Aulus into their centre and burst him in the opening seconds of a fight, before his stacking Fighting Spirit passive has time to matter.
AtlasTankHardFatal Links yanks Aulus into the enemy team the instant he tries to charge in with Aulus, Charge!, turning his own engage into a guaranteed pick against him.
AuroraMageHardAurora's Frigid Glacier freezes and slows through Aulus's slow-removal window, stopping his stack-building Basic Attacks before he closes distance.
BenedettaAssassin · FighterHardAn Eye for An Eye blocks damage from any source for 0.8 seconds with Control Immunity, so she eats The Power of Axe outright and stabs back for a 1.5-second stun before Aulus's stacks matter.
Soft counters
Favourable, but Aulus can still play around them.
ArgusFighterSoftEternal Evil clears Argus's debuffs and converts everything he deals during it back into HP, so he simply heals through a full Fighting Spirit rotation, and Demonic Grip's stun-and-pull interrupts Aulus mid-trade.
GordMageSoftGord's long-range poke chips Aulus down before he is close enough to land a single Basic Attack toward Fighting Spirit.
BaxiaTankSoftBaxia Mark's flat reduction blunts every one of Aulus's ramped-up hits, and Shield of Spirit's mark halves the HP regen The Power of Axe heals him with, so he loses the extended trade he needs to win.
HanzoAssassinSoftKinjutsu: Pinnacle Ninja sends Hanekage in through terrain while Hanzo's real body waits invincible somewhere else, so he can burst Aulus and simply return to it before Fighting Spirit stacks reach full value.
Luo YiMageSoftLuo Yi's Rotation zones slow by 60% and her Dispersion cones chip from outside axe range, so Aulus arrives late and separated from his target and Fighting Spirit decays before it builds.
Items to build against Aulus
You cannot always change your pick. You can always change your fourth slot.
Dominance Ice40 Physical Defense plus Fortress Shield blunt his ramped-up Fighting Spirit attacks, and Lifebane cuts the lifesteal he sustains on.
Blade ArmorReflects damage on the Basic Attacks Aulus relies on to build stacks, punishing him for auto-attacking.
Winter CrownNegates the burst window right after The Power of Axe lands, when Aulus's enhanced Basic Attacks hit hardest.
Do not pick these into Aulus
Heroes whose own counter list names Aulus — these matchups go the other way. A red dot marks a hard counter.
Why Aulus works
Common questions
Who counters Aulus in Mobile Legends?
Argus, Yve, Nolan, Atlas, Aurora all beat Aulus. Yve is the hardest counter: Yve's ranged zone control and slows keep Aulus outside Basic Attack range, so he can never accumulate Fighting Spirit stacks before her poke wears him down.
What items should I build against Aulus?
Dominance Ice: 40 Physical Defense plus Fortress Shield blunt his ramped-up Fighting Spirit attacks, and Lifebane cuts the lifesteal he sustains on. Blade Armor: Reflects damage on the Basic Attacks Aulus relies on to build stacks, punishing him for auto-attacking. Winter Crown: Negates the burst window right after The Power of Axe lands, when Aulus's enhanced Basic Attacks hit hardest.
What is Aulus's biggest weakness?
No hard crowd control of his own — relies on teammates to lock down targets