Mobile Legends: Bang Bang turns ten this September. Moonton launched the game in 2016, and a decade later it is still one of the largest mobile games on the planet - so the tenth anniversary celebration is, predictably, being built around free stuff. Three skins have been confirmed so far, spread across September and October, and the headline one is a Collector skin you do not have to pay for.
Layla gets a free Collector skin
The big one is Layla "Prismatic Rhythm", her second Collector-tier skin and the centrepiece of the whole celebration. It becomes available from October 9, 2026.
Collector skins normally sit at the expensive end of MLBB's cosmetic ladder, so handing one out is a real gesture - though not a completely free one in terms of effort. You will need to play an event-exclusive mini-game to earn the exchange items that unlock it, which is Moonton's standard way of turning a giveaway into a retention hook. Expect a daily grind rather than a single login claim.
Giving it to Layla is also a deliberate choice. She has been the game's default starter marksman since day one, which makes her the closest thing MLBB has to a mascot and the obvious hero to hang a ten-year milestone on.
Layla, top left of the draft - the game's day-one starter marksman, and the hero carrying the anniversary Collector skin.
Two more free skins before that
Layla's is the finale, not the opener. Two other skins land first, both also obtainable for free:
- Nana "Stardust Dreamer" - an Epic skin, available from September 9, 2026 through the 10th Anniversary Battle Pass.
- Chou "Starforge's Glory" - a Special skin, available from September 18, 2026, earned via the Anniversary Jigsaw Puzzle event.
That gives the celebration a clear three-stage shape: Battle Pass in early September, puzzle event mid-month, then the Collector skin mini-game running into October. Moonton has also confirmed battle emotes for all three heroes - Layla, Nana and Chou - plus a set of 10-Year Collection rewards.
What has not been announced yet
Quite a lot, and Moonton has said as much - the studio's own wording is that there is plenty still to be revealed. Based on how the ninth anniversary ran, the pieces most likely still to come are a dedicated anniversary event hub, login rewards and free diamonds or fragments, a themed in-game map or lobby, and the usual anniversary patch with hero adjustments attached.
Worth noting what is not on the list so far: there is no anniversary trailer on MLBB's official channel yet, and no confirmed new hero tied to the celebration. Both would be normal for a milestone this size, so it is reasonable to expect more announcements over the next two to three weeks rather than to treat the current lineup as the full picture.
Ten years on, the pitch has not changed: five-versus-five, ten-minute matches, on a phone.
Ten years is the real story
It is easy to skim past the number. MLBB launched in 2016 into a market that was about to get extremely crowded, and it outlasted almost all of it - partly by getting the touchscreen MOBA controls right early, and largely by building an esports scene in Southeast Asia that other publishers are still trying to copy. MPL seasons in Indonesia, the Philippines and Malaysia are running right now, in parallel with all of this.
A decade of continuous operation on mobile is genuinely rare. The free Collector skin is the gift, but the anniversary itself is the achievement.
The celebration runs across September and October 2026 on Android and iOS, with the Battle Pass skin arriving first on September 9.
