What Saber is bad at
- Extremely low HP and no true damage mitigation, dies fast if Triple Sweep whiffs
- Scaling falls off hard late game compared to other Assassins with stronger item ratios
- Triple Sweep is single-target, giving him little teamfight presence beyond one kill
- No escape tool besides Charge, which is also his primary engage
Every counter below works by pressing one of these.
Hard counters to Saber
Pick one of these and the matchup is decided before the fight starts.
BaratsTank · FighterHardBig Guy's stacking Hybrid Defense blunts a burst dive that only lands three hits, and Detona's Welcome suppresses Saber for 1.2 seconds the moment Triple Sweep ends.
MashaFighter · TankHardThree HP bars each shrug off an instance of lethal damage, so she survives Triple Sweep outright, and Thunderclap's cooldown resets on every bar lost to keep her on top of him.
ArgusFighterHardEternal Evil cleanses his debuffs and converts everything he deals as the Fallen Angel back into HP, so he outlasts Saber's entire Triple Sweep burst and punishes him once it's on cooldown.
BelerickTankHardDeadly Thorns fires back off the damage Saber pours into him, punishing every basic attack in the Charge-into-Triple Sweep combo.
Soft counters
Favourable, but Saber can still play around them.
MiyaMarksmanSoftHidden Moonlight cleanses her debuffs and conceals her out of Saber's lock-on, and she comes back out at full Moon Blessing stacks to burn him down.
SunFighterSoftSun's clones bait Saber into wasting Triple Sweep on a fake target while the real Sun escapes or counters.
FredrinnFighter · TankSoftCrystalline Armor banks the damage Saber deals him and converts it back into HP, and Energy Eruption's taunt turns the dive around once Triple Sweep is spent.
Items to build against Saber
You cannot always change your pick. You can always change your fourth slot.
Do not pick these into Saber
Heroes whose own counter list names Saber — these matchups go the other way. A red dot marks a hard counter.
Why Saber works
Common questions
Who counters Saber in Mobile Legends?
Barats, Miya, Masha, Argus, Sun all beat Saber. Barats is the hardest counter: Big Guy's stacking Hybrid Defense blunts a burst dive that only lands three hits, and Detona's Welcome suppresses Saber for 1.2 seconds the moment Triple Sweep ends.
What items should I build against Saber?
Antique Cuirass: Stacks damage reduction against Triple Sweep's three-hit burst combo. Immortality: Survives the burst window and lets a target punish Saber once his cooldowns are down. Blade Armor: Reflects damage off the enhanced Basic Attack from Charge, punishing his melee engage.
What is Saber's biggest weakness?
Extremely low HP and no true damage mitigation, dies fast if Triple Sweep whiffs