How to freeze lane in Mobile Legends: Bang Bang? Freezing the lane in Mobile Legends: Bang Bang is a crucial strategy that involves strategically managing minion waves to control the battlefield.

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This tactic is particularly effective during the laning phase, allowing you to farm safely near your towers while denying your opponent access to gold and experience.

Alternatively, it can force enemy heroes to overextend in the game’s latter stages, especially when they have no turrets anymore.

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This strategy is viable throughout the game, with even professional MLBB players using it in tournaments. If you aim to use this strategy in ranked games, here’s everything you need to know.

How to freeze lane in Mobile Legends?

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During the laning phase, freezing the lane is essential, especially when facing an early game-centric lineup.

This strategy ensures that you avoid overextension and the risk of being killed by the enemy laner or jungler. To execute this tactic, refrain from attacking enemy minions until they are about to die, allowing you to still receive gold.

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Once you’ve depleted your minion wave, block the enemy minions from entering the tower’s range by positioning yourself in front of them near your tower’s perimeter.

How to freeze lane in Mobile Legends
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Wait for your next wave to arrive. This method not only ensures safer farming but also deprives the opposing laner of experience and gold.

In the late game, when enemies are reluctant to leave their base due to a lack of turrets and being at a gold and experience disadvantage, it’s crucial to prevent them from slowly regaining strength solely through farming and defending their exposed turrets.

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Freezing the lane is the optimal solution.

To execute this strategy, instruct your teammates to refrain from attacking minions in all three lanes. If any ally still requires additional items, encourage them to farm jungle creeps to catch up.

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By doing so, you compel the enemies to venture outside their base to farm minions and expose them to ganks. This tactic gains even more significance if the Lord has spawned, as it pressures them to contest it.

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