How to Use Estes (2025): Skills, Emblems, Build, and How to Master His Healing

Updated for Patch 2.1.18 (September 21, 2025): Estes’ best build and emblem have been revised to match the latest meta.

If you’ve ever faced a solid Estes player, you know the feeling of watching a fight slip away as their teammates walk out with nearly full health. That’s the kind of presence Estes still brings in 2025. His healing doesn’t just keep allies alive; it buys time, turns trades into advantages, and forces opponents to burn through every bit of damage just to keep up. With the right build and emblem setup, you can take that same power and use it to anchor your team, making sure every skirmish and teamfight leans in your favor.

In this Estes ML guide, you’ll find the best builds, emblems, and strategies that make him one of the most reliable supports in the game. By the end, you’ll know how to get the most out of his healing, when to commit his ultimate, and how to turn even the toughest fights into wins for your team.

Quick Build Summary

The Estes ML build focuses on sustain, cooldown reduction, and defensive items so you can keep your team alive throughout every fight. Start with Flask of the Oasis, then build around mana sustain and protection depending on the enemy lineup.

Core build:

• Tough Boots (Favor blessing)
• Flask of the Oasis
• Enchanted Talisman
• Fleeting Time
• Twilight Armor
• Immortality

Spare equipment:

• Antique Cuirass
• Radiant Armor

Estes ML Skills

Passive Skill: Scripture of Moon Elf

Your passive charges energy over time, and when it’s full, your next basic attack deals bonus magic damage and slows nearby enemies.

First Skill: Moonlight Immersion

Heals an ally instantly, then restores their HP over time through a link. The link breaks if they move too far away.

🔑 Key note: Use this on your damage dealer or exp to sustain them in trades, then reset it with your ultimate for back-to-back heals.

Second Skill: Domain of Moon Goddess

Casts a glowing field that damages and slows enemies, with the strongest slow near the edges.

🔑 Key note: Cast it on choke points before objectives; the slow at the edge helps zone assassins diving your backline.

Ultimate: Blessing of Moon Goddess

Creates a powerful area of healing that restores HP to all nearby allies for several seconds. This is your game-changing teamfight skill.

🔑 Key note: Don’t wait until your team is low. Casting early maximizes total healing and often forces enemies to disengage.

Recommended Emblem Build for Estes

The Custom Support Emblem is the most effective choice for Estes in 2025. It improves your healing power, mobility, and defense.

• Agility (Tier 1): increases your movement speed for easier rotations.
• Tenacity (Tier 2): gives you extra durability when your HP drops.
• Focusing Mark (Tier 3): makes enemies take more damage after you hit them with a skill.

If you want more frontline presence, you can switch to the Revamped Common Emblem for added HP and regeneration.

Best Item Build

Core Items

• Tough Boots (Favor Blessing): Adds sustain and shortens CC duration, keeping you mobile in fights.
• Flask of the Oasis: Boosts healing and shields a low-HP ally when you cast.
• Enchanted Talisman: Provides mana regeneration and cooldown reduction so you can heal nonstop.
• Fleeting Time: Lets you refresh your ultimate faster, giving your team more chances to reset fights.
• Twilight Armor: Reduces burst damage from high-damage enemies.
• Immortality: Grants a second life in clutch situations and makes you harder to punish in late-game fights.

Spare Equipment

• Antique Cuirass: Reduces damage from physical heroes, especially marksmen and fighters.
• Radiant Armor: Best against poke-heavy magic damage compositions.

How to Play Estes

Laning Phase

Stay close to your gold laner if they’re facing heavy poke duos such as Layla with Diggie or Beatrix with Angela. Keep them healed through trades so they can focus on farming safely.

Rotations

Always keep an eye on the minimap and track where enemies are heading. When you rotate, move through your jungle instead of the river — it keeps you out of sight and reduces the chance of running into assassins waiting in bushes. Use your second skill to check those bushes before stepping in. If you pay attention to timers and map movements, you’ll always be in position when your team pushes towers, takes Turtle, or contests Lord.

Combos and Teamfighting

Your basic combo is simple: drop Domain of Moon Goddess, land an enhanced basic attack, and cast Moonlight Immersion to sustain your ally.

In bigger fights, position yourself so you can reach both front and backliners. Cast Blessing of Moon Goddess early so your team benefits from full healing across the fight. Keep Flicker ready — sometimes you’ll need it to move in and save someone, other times to escape when enemies dive on you.

If you want to maximize your healing, link an ally with Moonlight Immersion, then pop your ultimate. This resets the cooldown of your first skill, letting you cast it again right away. After that, drop Domain of Moon Goddess to slow enemies and make it harder for them to disengage.

Recommended Battle Spell

Flicker

Flicker is the best choice for Estes, given that he doesn’t have that mobility to get on a clash quickly; you can either use it to blink inside a clash to heal all your allies or blink out to escape a messed up engagement.

Counters and Synergy

Counters to watch out for:

• Burst mages like Eudora and Kadita who can take you down before you ult.
• Anti-heal items such as Necklace of Durance, Dominance Ice, and Sea Halberd that limit your sustain.

Best allies with you:

• Tanks like Tigreal and Atlas who thrive with constant healing.
• Damage carries like Claude and Karrie who dominate in long fights.

FAQ: Estes ML Build (2025)

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Editor’s Note: Mobile Legends is always changing, and so are our guides. We update them every patch to keep you ready for the current meta.