Mobile Legends X.Borg Guide: Best Build, Emblem and Gameplay Tips

X.Borg is a very strong fighter with his slow burn and burst damage, which can be used in both the early and late game stages in Mobile Legends. As a good offlaner Borg is well known in the community. In the currnet META he is also very good as a Jungler. Due to his jungle clearing ability and late game sustain, many professional players are playing him in big Tournaments. He got some massive damage skills with low CD. As per the say Set me on fire so don’t forget to activate the Heat Mark on the enemy. In this META, X.Borg is a very useful hero to rank up very quickly even if you playing solo. In this guide, we will be seeing these hero skills, items, emblem, as well as some tips and tricks on how to play X.Borg in Mobile Legends.

We have previously discussed how to master playing with other Mobile Legends heroes like Ling, Wanwan, Pharsa, Carmilla, Hayabusa, Hylos, Atlas, Luo Yi, Yu Zhong, Aurora, Khaleed, Freya, Khufra. So make sure to check these hero guides as well. For now, let’s focus on X.Borg.

Skill Analysis

X.Borg is a hero that has four abilities which are one passive and three actives. In this X.Borg guide, let’s see what are his abilities in Mobile Legends, and when you can use which skill to get the best out of him.

Passive – Firaga Armor (BUFF)

X.Borg’s Firaga Armor inherits and takes all damage for X.Borg when it’s active. When the Armor is destroyed, X.Borg will disengage from the Armor and roll in the direction of the Joystick (he is immune to damage [and control effects but suppressed] in the process). The Armor’s energy is gradually regenerate while X.Borg is in the Armorless State. At full energy, X.Borg re-equips the Armor and restore it to 30% of his [Armor HP]X.Borg’s fire damage causes enemies to heat up [up to 6 times]. Enemies at maximum temperature will drop Firaga supplies when they take fire [damage] from X.Borg. Picking up a Firaga supply restores 10% of Armor HP, or 10 energy while in Armorless State.

Skill 1 – Fire Missiles (AoE)

X.Borg sprays fire in the target direction, dealing (+60% Total Physical Attack) (+40% Total Magic Power) 7 times over 2 seconds to enemies in range (only 75%–100% damage against minions). Enemies at maximum temperature are dealt True Damage instead.
Armorless: The attack area becomes narrower but longer, while the damage is reduced to 60% of that in Armored state.

Skill 2 – Fire Skate (CC)

X.Borg plants 5 Fire Stakes at the edge of the fan-shaped indicator and retrieves them after 1.7 seconds, each dealing (+20% Total Physical Attack) and pulling the enemies in the path toward him. Firaga Supplies in the path will also be retrieved if touched by Fire Stakes.
Armorless STate: X.Borg adjusts Fire Stake Launcher to increase its range and shorten the distance between Fire Stakes.

Skill 3 – Last Insanity (Blink, Burst)

X.Borg charges forward in the target direction while rotating and spraying fire, dealing 200–250 (+130% Extra Physical Attack) (+90% Total Magic Power) Physical Damage 7 times and slowing enemies by 25%. He stops upon running into an enemy hero and will slow them by an addiitonal 40%. After 3 seconds from the start of the skill, X.Borg’s Firaga Armor Firaga Armor will detonate, dealing [300–700 (+target’s 15% Total HP) True Damage to nearby enemies]. If the armor is destroyed before it can self-detonate, it will only deal 50% of the damage. When his Armor detonates, X.Borg will dash a short distancein the Joystick’s direction and enter Armorless State while removing all debuffs from himself.
This skill cannot be used in the Armorless State.
Use Again: X.Borg stops spraying fire and immediately detonates his Firaga Armor.

Skill Up Method for X.Borg

Max out skill 1 first followed by skill 2 and ultimate whenever available.

Best Emblem Set and Spells for X.Borg in Mobile Legends

Emblem Set

To effectively play X.Borg in the Exp lane and as a Jungler, players are expected to use the Custom Fighter Emblem alongside whichever Talent best suits such player’s gameplay. However, we’ve brought up some of the best Emblem/Talent Set-up that is advisable to be used for X.Borg:

The Custom Fighter Emblem ever since its Revamp, provides players with access to 3 different talents. Hence, for X.Borg Emblem Set-up, the following setup is expected of players:

• In the First Talent, we choose Agility as it provides extra movement Speed mostly useful for Early game Farming and domination.
• In the Second Tier Talent, players can pick Festival of Blood for extra spell vamp. X.Brog’s first skill greatly benefits from spell vamp as it allows to regen health while dealing skill based damage. He can poke enemies and get his health back, it is also useful for staying longer in fight. This gives an early advantage if X.Borg is able to get a few kills. This is the most popular and most effective talent from Fighter Emblem.
• In the Third Tier Talent, players can pick Brave Smite as it restores 5% max HP after dealing damage to enemies with his skill. This talent will also help when is health is very low. X.Borg’s most damage comes from his skills. So it will be easier for him to make the best use of this talent.

Spells

In our opinion Flicker is the most useful spell while you queuing as solo, by using flicker Borg can escape from any tricky CC situation. At first, the firaga armors burst and if you use flicker after that then you can dash a long way from the enemy. Or else you can use Sprint or Arrival ( playing as 5 man lobby team and got two laning heroes, helps you to defend turret or ganking )

While playing him as a Jungler you must pick Retribution. In this current META he is very good jungler to counter tanky heroes with his true damage.

Best Builds for X.Borg in Mobile Legends

X.Brog’s most damage comes form his passive and other skills. He is not a basic attacker. So it would be better to build him with physical damage, health regen/ life-steal items and some physical or magical defense items based on the enemy lineup. We have set out the following template in our guide to try out with X.Borg on the Mobile Legends battlefield.

Start building the Warrior boots while laning, but if the enemy laner deals magic damage build Tough boots. For the second item you can get War exe. War exe give enough early game damage and sustain. If you need more survivability in the team fights, it will help you to stay loner in fight because of it’s passive with stacks. For the third item Ice Queen Wand is very item for X.Borg popular form a very long time, although it’s a magic item, it helps him to slow down the enemies and deal more damage with his first skill. After getting two items, it is better to get a defense item. For X.Borg Immortality is very good option. It give even more chance for X.Borg to survive after losing his armor getting killed with Immortality will give his armor back one more time. To increase damage more Blood lust exe is a good item. It deals more damage with it’s passive. Brute Force Breastplate will allow X.Borg to deal damage wile chasing down the enemies as it increases movement speed after using skills. To increase his sustain even more Oracle is a good item, it gives lots of HP. Then if the enemy has more magic damage heroes build the Athena Shield and of the enemy has more physical damage dealers Antique Cuirass will be a very good item.

Mobile Legends X.Borg Gameplay Tips

X.Borg is very good as the offlaner hero, we personally suggest that play as Borg in the EXP lane. It will help you to farm faster while defending the turret. This hero completely relies on his S1 and player’s common sense. But he can be played as a Jungler in the current season (S29). We can break it down in three phases. Our X.Borg guide includes the perfect game plan for the early, middle, and late game in Mobile Legends.

Early Game

While playing him as the Jungler, start off taking the Purple or Orange buff depending on the Lithowanderer’s spawn position. Clear the buff near Lithowanderer’s spawn area. Killingthe Litho will help you to get level 4 faster and rotate earlier than enemy jungler. Don’t hesitate to charge enemies in the early game, his armor will save him. Enemies have to put some extra effort to him after taking down his armor. Try to get level 4 as soon as possible by clearing the jungle creeps, take enemy jungle also if there is any chance, it will help to stay head of the farm.

Mid Game

In the mid game phase try to push turrets, don’t indulge yourself in unnecessary fights. Farm whenever you get chance, remember Borg is fully dependent upon his HP so in this order you can buy your core items too. Use this skill combos to execute enemy in this stage. Rotate with your team and look for some easy kills then take down important objectives.

S1+Basic attack+S2+S1+S3

Late Game

X.Borg is very strong in the late game. Due to his first skill and true damage passive, he can burn enemies HP slowly. It’s hard to chase X.Borg without blink skill heroes. Wait for you tank to setup a good ultimate with multiple enemy CC’ed together. It’s the best time to use your first skill to heat them up and finish them off with true damage Ultimate.

Always try to heat enemy with your skill 1 or Ultimate, it will slow them and force them to take true damage. Use second skill to prevent enemies from escaping, but if enemy do that with their blink power just use your flicker during ultimate and finish them. Try to cast this skill sets in late stage You can not fight back after immortality, so use your ultimate as an escape tool. He is very weak against high magic damage heroes.

Skill1+Skill3+Skill2+Flicker+Skill3+Skill1

That’s all for today’s guide about X.Borg in Mobile Legends. Do you prefer to use X.Borg in any other way? Let us know in the comment section below!

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