MLBB hero Marcel: Overview, skills, release date, and more

Marcel, the Soul Photographer, is a new support hero added to the Mobile Legends: Bang Bang (MLBB) advanced server. His kit is unique as it involves manipulating time, allowing him to stop everything. This includes enemy and ally projectiles. With the right hands and teammates, this skillset can lead to some fun and destructive interactions.

With that said, let’s take a deep dive into the new MLBB hero Marcel, including his skills and potential release date.

Marcel has a straightforward set of abilities, making him easy to pick up and play. Fully understanding his kit makes using him even more rewarding.

Marcel's unique magic allows his Basic Attacks to deal bonus Physical Damage that scales with his Total Physical Attack, Physical Defense, and Magic Defense, but they cannot Crit. He has naturally high HP Regen, but cannot benefit from extra Attack Speed. Additionally, a small portion of his extra HP is converted into Hybrid Defense.

Clemar, Marcel's split soul, automatically snaps photos of nearby enemy heroes, briefly immobilizing them and dealing True Damage based on a small percentage of their Max HP that scales with Hero Level. Marcel gains a shield equal to the damage dealt (one nearby ally can also receive the same shield). This effect has a short cooldown per target, which Marcel’s Basic Attacks can further reduce.

This passive incentivizes you to build more HP and defense items on Marcel. On top of that, it dictates his playstyle, encouraging you to stay close to both allies and enemies to fully maximize its effects.

Clemar focuses on an area around Marcel. After a short delay, he completes the shot, dealing high Physical Damage that scales significantly with Marcel’s Total Physical Attack, Physical Defense, and Magic Defense to enemies within range, and briefly immobilizing them.

This is a simple crowd control ability with decent damage potential based on the defense items you have.

Marcel enters a Tracking Haste state for a short duration, gaining increased Movement Speed. This bonus becomes significantly stronger when moving toward enemy heroes.

Use Again: Marcel dashes in the target direction, leaving a phantom behind. Clemar remains at the original location while Framed Moment is active.

This skill lets Marcel go paparazzi mode to chase targets. Having this much mobility allows him to utilize the debuffs from his passive.

After a brief delay, Clemar takes a wide-angle shot of a designated area for a short duration. During this time, Marcel enters Tracking Haste within the area, while all other units are placed into Frozen Moment (unable to move and immune to damage except from Marcel). All ranged Basic Attacks and projectiles are also suspended in Frozen Moment, dealing reduced damage once the effect ends.

Golden Hour resets the cooldown of Platinum Snap against all affected enemies.

Marcel's Ultimate is one of the craziest abilities in MLBB so far. He casts a Frame-Freeze on an area and stops everything inside from moving. This includes all heroes, summons, creeps, projectiles, and basic attacks that enter or exit the frame. Only Marcel can move freely in and out of the frame. Once the duration is over, everything starts to move at the same time.

What makes it even more devastating is that you can continue casting abilities and basic attacks into the frozen area during its duration. All of those projectiles and effects remain suspended in place. When the frame finally collapses, everything resumes simultaneously. This unleashes a sudden burst of delayed damage that can instantly overwhelm anyone caught inside.

There is no official release date for the upcoming support hero Marcel in MLBB yet. For now, you can access this hero in the advanced server. Keep in mind that this hero is still being polished and may be receiving changes in the future. We can have our own speculation on when this hero will arrive based on previous releases, like the Fighter hero Sora.

If we follow the usual formula, MOONTON Games usually releases heroes at the start of a new Ranked Season. That said, we can expect Marcel to arrive in MLBB sometime in early to mid March 2026.

We’ll update this article when more information becomes available. If you want to be ahead of the meta, make sure to check out our monthly updated MLBB hero tier list, where we list down the best picks for a higher win rate.