Summary
MOBAs, at their core, are team-based games. Every role has its purpose to fulfill. Marksmen need to carry the game by dealing damage, while EXP laners have to split-push their turrets and ensure the enemy laner doesn’t get fed. However, no role’s more selfless than the tank, peeling for your allies and sacrificing yourself to soak up damage.
Mobile Legends has a huge variety of tanks. Some, like Minotaur, provide CC and setups, so the damage dealers can follow up and kill the killing team. Others, like Lolita, instead provide shielding to protect the team. With such a wide array of heroes to choose from, here are the best Mobile Legends tanks that will carry your games!
Update on Jun 04, 2025, by Asad Kashif: Tanks continue to dominate the support meta as the new season rolls about, and certain patch notes make them even stronger than before. From anti-tank items like the Wishing Lantern taking a hit and now having reduced damage to several solid tank items, such as the Cursed Helmet, Radiant Armor, and Bruteforce Breastplate all receiving significant buffs, tanks as a whole are living lavishly. We’ve updated and expanded our list of best ML tanks and added several more options, including the reality-bending smug scoundrel, Chip, and the desert mummy, Khufra.
12Lolita
Shoot Back Enemy Projectiles
Lolita is Mobile Legends’s dedicated shield supply. Her passive allows her to give shields to nearby allies every few seconds, and also whenever she casts a skill. She also has the unique ability to completely block any incoming projectiles using her second skill, and repel them back onto enemies.
While Lolita doesn’t have a strong team-wide CC, her first skill stuns a single enemy for a decently long time with a very short cooldown. Her Ultimate can stun entire enemy teams if paired with other forms of CC from an ally, but usually, it’s just used for area denial or slowing enemies.
11Franco
Pull Enemies To Your Team
Every MOBA has a dedicated hook character, a tank with the ability to pull enemies to them. For Mobile Legends, this ends up being a resident viking, Franco. He’s a strong tank with an ability that makes it pretty much guaranteed to get your carry a kill by stunning an enemy to the point where there’s no outplay.
Franco’s first skill lets him pull enemies to him. This is difficult to aim properly, but if you get hit by it, you’re able to expect the entire enemy team to gang up on your inside their turret. This makes Franco a perfect tank to get more kills and to isolate targets, since his Ultimate lets him suppress an enemy unit for a long duration as well. However, since Franco doesn’t have any AOE Crowd Control, he stops being popular as you climb through ranks.
10Belerick
Reflect Enemy Damage
Heroes that exist specifically to counter other heroes don’t usually see that much play. However, Belerick is the exception. His entire kit revolves around hitting enemies who hit him, with the hits increasing if enemies hit faster. Since each match has at least one Marskman or ADC that builds attack speed, Belerick is incredible at dealing with them.
If you’re choosing Belerick, though, it’s important to check for a few things. If an enemy also has other high attack-speed heroes such as Thamuz or Zilong, Belerick is an amazing choice. He’s also good if you think the match will go on long, and the enemy Moskov or Layla could get a chance to get their items. However, if none of these conditions are met, another tank might be more viable.
9Carmilla
Damage Ricochets Between Enemies
Carmilla emphasizes what it means to be in a tank, not being able to do much without a good team backing you up. However, if you do have allies who are communicating and will follow up, there aren’t many tanks as good as her. Her ability to tank damage comes from her passive and her first skill, absorbing enemy defenses and regenerating health. Her second skill also provides a speed boost to let her escape on low health, as well as a stun.
The reason Carmilla can easily become unstoppable in a good team is because of her Ultimate. This skill allows Carmilla to link enemies together. These linked enemies all share a portion of the damage they take to allies they’re linked with. This can quickly skyrocket the team’s AOE, even doubling the damage if all five enemies are caught in certain scenarios. Furthermore, the linked enemies also share debuffs such as stuns, making single-target CC effects hit the entire team.
8Akai
Unstoppable Ultimate That Can Stun And Knock Away Enemies
If you’re tired of setting up perfect stuns for your team to follow up, only to be met with silence and crickets, you may want to use a tank that can hold its own and even deal enough damage to 1v1 the enemy fighter. For this, your best option turns out to be Akai, a tank that can be played both in Roam and as a Jungler.
Akai has a lot of things going for him. First, he gains a shield whenever he casts a skill. If he hits an enemy, he also deals increased damage to them based on his HP. Since you should ideally be building up a ton of HP on him as a tank anyway, this results in him hitting like a truck even without any damage items.
While using Akai’s Ultimate, you can position an enemy to be squeezes between you and a wall. This perma-stuns the enemy unit for all of Akai’s Ultimate’s duration, since pushing someone against a wall stuns them.
What truly makes Akai shine would be his Ultimate, one of the strongest CC abilities in the game. Upon casting it, Akai becomes immune to all forms of CC and instead pushes away enemies and interrupts them whenever he collides with them. This serves as an amazing tool that can save your allies by pushing enemies away, get you kills by pushing enemies to your allies so they can deal damage, or even as an escape tool, since Akai can’t be stopped during this skill.
7Atlas
Knock Up The Entire Enemy Team
One of the main things holding back tanks is their lack of mobility. If your team’s caught in a fight with you just a few meters away, you’ll have to waste your Flicker if you don’t want to have your team die. Atlas is a mile above his competitors in this regard, with his second skill letting him both dash and gain bonus movement speed afterward.
The rest of his kit is similar to other setup tanks such as Minotaur and Tigreal, with an Ultimate that knocks up the entire team, and a passive that applies copious amounts of slow on enemies near him. The reason Tigreal or Minotaur could be better choices is that Atlas’s Ultimate is more telegraphed, and enemies can escape it with a Flicker.
6Minotaur
Stuns, Healing, Tankiness
One thing you’ll find common in all the top tanks is their ability to output Crowd Control effects to multiple enemies. This is because of how oftentimes, fights are decided by a single defining moment. Even if an enemy Franco manages to snipe your Jungler, it’s not nearly as tilting as a Minotaur knocking up your entire team.
Minotaur has multiple ways to perform these knock-ups, with both his first skill and his Ultimate ability. He also functions as a decent healer and can take quite a few hits when in his Enraged state.
5Gatotkaca
Fly Anywhere On The Map To Stun Enemies
If you want a tank that can deal absurd amounts of damage while still soaking up damage for your team, Gatotkaca is one of the best options in your arsenal. His passive lets him perform an enhanced basic attack after taking a certain amount of damage. This deals a significant amount of damage and heals him for a portion of the damage dealt. If you build a Thunderbelt, even a full tank build can make you a threat to enemy carries.
Gatotkaca also has a game-defining Ultimate that lets him jump anywhere on the map in a long-range around him, dealing damage and knocking up all enemies in range. This lets Gatotkaca set enemies up even if he’s in another lane than his allies. you may also build him for full damage, where his Ultimate lets you kill multiple enemy heroes in a single combo.
4Hylos
Lots Of HP, Lots Of Damage
Hylos is the best tank in Mobile Legends if you’re playing solo. He doesn’t have any setups or CC apart from his first skill, but he can soak up amounts of damage no other tank can. Furthermore, he can do this while dealing damage to the enemy team that no tank should.
This is because his passive gives him more HP from items, making him extremely durable. His second skill, while it may seem weak, stacks up quickly and deals enough damage to kill the enemy’s carry even if Hylos doesn’t have his team backing him up, something other tanks cannot do.
3Chip
Make Any Fight A 5V1
Chip is a fairly new addition to the game, yet he’s quickly become a tank that just carries game by himself, especially if you’ve got a half-decently coordinated team. Chip can deal a decent amount of damage due to his HP-scaling skills, and he has access to some good Crowd Control as well. However, like with many other characters, what makes Chip so great is his Ultimate.
In any team-based game, an advantage in numbers lets you win fights. However, since MOBAs typically have three lanes, you’ll have your heroes split and divided. What Chip’s Ultimate does is that it can teleport your entire team ontop of an enemy to burst them down. There’s just not much the enemy can do if caught in a bad position with this, which makes this an Ultimate that just wins fights or forces the enemy to run away.
