Mobile Legends: Bang Bang controls & keybinds

Drag out of the skill button in the direction you want it to go and release. Tapping the button instead casts at whatever the game picks as the target, which is fine for a skill that cannot miss and useless for a skill shot against something that is moving.

Because a thumb is not equally good in every direction. Where the phone sits in your hands decides which arcs follow the thumb's pivot and which ones cross it, and the ones that cross are measurably worse. Almost every player has a sector like this and almost none of them know which one it is. The lab on the hub page asks you for each direction in turn and draws the result.

Three is structurally better and costs nothing to try. With two thumbs, reaching a skill means your movement thumb is doing something else — so you stop moving at the exact moment you are committing to a fight. An index finger on the skills removes that entirely.

Drag the skill and release inside the cancel region instead of pointing it at a target. It is worth knowing exactly where that region sits on your layout, because it occupies screen your thumb travels across on the way to some directions.

The one that fits your hands, which nobody else can tell you. The useful principle is that moving the skill cluster is usually worth more than resizing it: a button in a direction your thumb aims well in beats a bigger button in one it does not. Measure your own directions first.

The game is built for touch and the control surface is the screen itself, which is why this entry records settings and layout rather than a button list.