MLBB Core

Estes Build Guide

Stats for mythic rank, last 7 days — third-party aggregation, not an official Moonton figure.

Written by EllieAnth — playing MLBB since 2017 (9+ years), peak rank Mythical Immortal, 1126 stars.

How to itemise Estes and, more importantly, why each item earns its slot.

Overview

Why this build works on Estes

Estes revolves entirely around sustaining his team during continuous teamfights using Moonlight Immersion and his ultimate, Blessing of Moon Goddess. However, his kit consumes vast amounts of mana and relies heavily on low skill cooldowns to keep allies alive. Without proper mana management and cooldown reduction, Estes becomes completely helpless once his skills are exhausted. This build focuses on maximizing ultimate uptime, removing mana constraints, and enhancing his healing output through increased sustainability. By lowering cooldowns and strengthening his defense, Estes can constantly remain linked to allies, providing relentless continuous healing while surviving focused enemy attacks in group fights around key map objectives.

Build order

  1. 1 Magic Boots - Favor
  2. 2 Enchanted Talisman
  3. 3 Fleeting Time
  4. 4 Oracle
  5. 5 Athena's Shield
  6. 6 Immortality

Item by item

Magic Boots - Favor

Early

Magic Boots - Favor provides essential movement speed and early cooldown reduction, allowing Estes to reposition easily while keeping up with allies. The Favor passive automatically restores extra health to the lowest HP teammate whenever Estes uses Moonlight Immersion or Blessing of Moon Goddess. This turns his single-target healing into a powerful multi-target sustain tool during early skirmishes around the Turtle, giving his team a massive health advantage.

In-game passive Unique Passive - Passive - Favor: Success

Enchanted Talisman solves Estes' severe mana consumption issues through its continuous mana regeneration passive. Because Moonlight Immersion and Blessing of Moon Goddess demand constant casting, this item ensures Estes never runs dry during extended teamfights. Furthermore, the substantial cooldown reduction allows Estes to maintain his skill links much more frequently, enabling continuous energy charging for Scripture of the Moon Elf to repeatedly slow pursuing enemies.

In-game passive Unique Passive - Mana Spring: Regenerates 15% Max Mana every 10s.

Fleeting Time dramatically reduces the cooldown of Blessing of Moon Goddess whenever Estes secures a kill or assist. Since Estes naturally gathers assists by linking to allies during teamfights, this passive constantly resets his ultimate's availability. Having Blessing of Moon Goddess available for nearly every clash allows Estes to keep his entire team topped off continuously, completely overwhelming the enemy team's burst potential during crucial high-ground pushes or Lord contests.

In-game passive Unique Passive - Timestream: Hero kills or assists reduce the Ultimate's current cooldown by 30%.

Oracle

Core

Oracle directly synergizes with Estes' kit by boosting incoming shield and health regeneration effects. This amplifies the massive self-healing provided by Blessing of Moon Goddess and improves his survivability while linked via Moonlight Immersion. By significantly increasing the health recovered, Estes becomes remarkably difficult for enemy assassins to burst down, granting him the durability required to stand amidst his allies and cast Domain of Moon Goddess safely.

In-game passive Unique Passive - Bless: Received Shield and HP Regen effects are increased by 30%.

Athena's Shield

Situational

Athena's Shield provides necessary magic damage reduction upon taking magic damage, protecting Estes from explosive magic burst champions. Because enemies often target Estes first to cut off his healing supply, gaining instant damage reduction keeps him alive through high initial spell damage. This survivability ensures Estes can pop Blessing of Moon Goddess in time, surviving the initial ambush and quickly restoring his own health alongside his teammates.

In-game passive Unique Passive - Shield: Upon taking Magic Damage, gains 25% Magic Damage Reduction for 3s (applied before taking damage). Regains this effect 5s after leaving combat.

Immortality grants Estes a crucial second chance in late-game teamfights through its revival passive. Should enemies successfully focus down Estes first, the brief revive window and defensive shield allow his ultimate's lingering heal or refreshed skills to immediately cast upon revival. This turns a potential enemy initiation into a bait, allowing Estes to rise back up, activate Blessing of Moon Goddess, and turn the fight around.

In-game passive Unique Passive - Immortal: Revives 2.5s after death, gaining 16% Max HP and a 220-1200 shield (scales with level) that lasts 3s (210s cooldown).

Adapting the build

No build survives every draft. These are the situations where the order above should change.

Against heavy burst magic damage

Prioritise purchasing Athena's Shield right after completing Enchanted Talisman instead of rushing Fleeting Time. The instant magic damage reduction prevents enemy mages from wiping Estes before he can cast Blessing of Moon Goddess. Once surviving the initial burst is guaranteed, return to building Fleeting Time to restore ultimate uptime.

When your team needs maximum ultimate uptime for frequent teamfights

Rush Fleeting Time immediately after Enchanted Talisman before investing in defensive options like Oracle. If the enemy team lacks explosive single-target burst, resetting Blessing of Moon Goddess through frequent assists allows your team to constantly force objective fights around Lord and Turtle with full health.

When the enemy team focuses you down first in late game clashes

Prioritise Immortality ahead of Athena's Shield if physical damage threats or mixed focus are overwhelming you. The resurrection passive forces enemies to commit excess skills to kill Estes twice, buying precious time for allies while allowing Estes to pop Blessing of Moon Goddess upon reviving.

Item recommendations come from the game's own hero data. The explanations are AI-generated from Estes's ability kit and the items' in-game passives, and are checked automatically against the item list — they never introduce an item the game does not recommend for this hero.