5 Best Counter Heroes for Popol and Kupa in Mobile Legends

Top 5 Best Heroes to Counter Popol and Kupa in Mobile Legends

For those of you who want to fight Popol and Kupa in the Land of Dawn, you must know the heroes who can counter them.

Popol and Kupa are a Marksman duo that has high Physical Damage, crowd control effects, can disrupt enemy movements and can trap enemies in the lane.

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However, Popol and Kupa are also quite vulnerable to heroes who can burst, isolate, and disrupt their skill setups before they deal damage.

Many heroes have high mobility, strong crowd control, or long-range burst damage that can nullify their strategies and make them unable to poke in Team Fights.

In this article, we will discuss some of the best Popol and Kupa counter heroes who can fight them in the Land of Dawn.

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Popol and Kupa Skill Explanation

Popol and Kupa aka the Icefield Companions are one of the heroes Marksman which is often used by Junglers and Gold Laners in Mobile Legends: Bang Bang.

In Mobile Legends: Bang Bang, Popol is accompanied by animals. Wolf who became his loyal friend, namely Kupa, and also became his skill.

He excels with his unique mechanism, namely two units (Human and Wolf), can provide high damage, crowd control (CC), is able to split push, is strong in the early game, can be a hyper carry or Jungler and can lock enemies with lock skills and traps.

Popol's Passive Skill 'We Are Friends' allows Kupa to recover a maximum of 10% HP per second after not receiving damage for 5 seconds.

When Kupa falls, Popol brings Kupa to the battle area for 3 seconds with a cooldown duration of 30 seconds.

After dealing 3 consecutive attacks to his enemy, Kupa will enhance Popol's next attack and allow him to deal (220% Total Physical Attack) Physical Damage when hit by his enemy.

Kupa has 2500 (+1200% Total Physical Attack) HP, has 100% attributes and other Popol item effects, but does not include active, jungling and roaming tools.

Skill 1 is divided into 2 parts, namely With Kupa mode 'Bite 'em, Kupa!' and Without Kupa 'I Need You, Kupa!'.

In With Kupa 'Bite 'em, Kupa!' mode, Popol will throw a spear at the enemy to deal 80 – 170 (+100% Total Physical Attack) Physical Damage.

Then, it will order Kupa to bite the enemy to give 100 – 190 (+100% Total Physical Attack) Physical Damage and provide an attack for 3 seconds.

In Alpha Wolf Form, Kupa will attack, bite 3 times and stun his enemies for 1 second.

In Without Kupa mode 'I Need You, Kupa!', Popol meditates so that Kupa comes to the battle area and Kupa will return if this skill is not interrupted within 3 seconds.

Skill 2 is divided into 2 parts, namely With Kupa 'Kupa, Help!' and Without Kupa 'I Need You, Kupa!' modes.

In With Kupa 'Kupa, Help!' mode, Popol will summon Kupa to protect him, gaining 240 – 330 (+200% Extra Physical Attack) Shield while dealing 240 – 330 (+50% Total Physical Attack) Physical Damage to nearby enemies and slowing them by 35% for 0.5 seconds.

Kupa will assist Popol in battle for 3 seconds. In Alpha Wolf Form, Kupa will approach Popol to protect him and knock nearby enemies into the air for 0.2 seconds. Shield and damage are increased to 125%.

In Without Kupa mode 'I Need You, Kupa!', Popol meditates so that Kupa comes to the battle area and Kupa will return if this skill is not interrupted within 3 seconds.

His skill 3 is 'Popol's Surprise', Popol will set a trap that will explode after the enemy steps on it to deal 70 – 100 (+200% Total Physical Attack) Physical Damage.

Then, paralyzes it for 1 second, creates a frozen area for 4 seconds and reduces the Movement Speed of enemies in the area by 20%.

Popol will hold three traps, gaining one stack every 16-22 seconds. All three traps will last for 60 seconds.

His Ultimate Skill 'We Are Angry!', Popol and Kupa will enter Enranged State mode for 12 seconds.

During this mode, Popol and Kupa will gain 15% Movement Speed and increase their Attack Speed to 1.3x.

Kupa will become Alpha Wolf Form to gain 1500 – 3500 HP, increase his other skills and restore his full HP.

List of Heroes to Counter Popol and Kupa

Popol and Kupa are annoying Marksman because they have damage from traps and Basic Attacks, durability from Kupa and crowd control that can disrupt your team.

Additionally, Popol and Kupa can pose significant threats in combat. Therefore, pick heroes with fast burst damage, strong crowd control, trap-stopping abilities, silence, long-lasting stuns, and high mobility that can disrupt their rhythm.

Popol himself doesn't have an escape skill and Kupa becomes easier to isolate without Popol.

With these heroes, you can make Popol and Kupa feel insecure in battle and can eliminate them both easily.

Nolan

Nolan aka the Cosmic Wallpaper is one of the Assassin heroes often used by Junglers and is also a counter hero for Popol and Kupa in Mobile Legends: Bang Bang.

He excels as an agile Assassin with high burst damage and fast skill cooldowns, making him a deadly Jungler.

His advantage is that he has high mobility to get in and out of battle, is capable of ganking and has a deadly crowd control effect (slow).

His Passive Skill 'Dimensional Rift, he will leave his Rift active for 5 seconds while slowing down the enemy 30%.

When the Rift is hit by another Rift, the Rift will activate and pull Popol and Kupa to the center while dealing 220 (+140% Extra Physical Attack) Physical Damage.

Every time the Refit is hit by Popol and Kupa or Creep, Nolan will gain 15 Energy and recover 150 (+120% Extra Physical Attack) for himself.

If the enemy is hit by his Refit, then the damage after the first attack will be reduced by 40%.

In Cosmic Leap mode, Nolan will not give or take damage for 5 seconds.

However, he will increase his next Basic Attack to go to Popol and Kupa and deal (+120% Total Physical Attack) Physical Damage while leaving his Rift.

Damage from/to Minions or Creeps will not prevent Nola from gaining this effect.

His skill 1 is 'Expansion', Nolan will cut the area in front of him with his Cosmic gauge to deal 230 – 480 (+40% Total Physical Attack) Physical Damage while leaving his Rift on Popol and Kupa.

His Skill 2 'Gauge', Nolan will move towards Popol and Kupa while slashing with his Cosmic gauge to deal 70 – 220 (+13% Total Physical Attack) Physical Damage to Popol and Kupa and leave his Rif.

His Ultimate Skill 'Fracture', Nolan will slash Popol and Kupa's location 3x and deal 120 – 180 (+50% Extra Physical Attack) Physical Damage with each slash while leaving 3 Rifts.

He will also slow Popol and Kupa by 30% for 0.5 seconds. His Rift will activate automatically when Nolan runs backwards.

Masha

Masha aka the Wild-oats Fist is a Fighter and Tank hero who is often used by EXP Laner and is also a counter hero for Popol and Kupa in Mobile Legends: Bang Bang.

As a Fighter or Tank, he is very tough, pushes turrets quickly, is able to solo Lord/Turtle quickly, and has high durability thanks to his 3 layers of HP.

Then, he also has high Movement Speed, painful damage and is immune to crowd control so he is an expert in 1v1 and split push which is difficult to beat.

Her Passive Skill 'Ancient Strength', Masha has 3 stacks of HP which makes her not die until it's all gone.

She can ignore one attack every time she loses 1 stack of HP. When she only has 2 stacks of HP left, her skill only costs 50% of her original HP.

When Masha only has 1 stack of HP left, she doesn't have to spend her HP to use skills.

His skill 1 'Wild Power', will function in two modes, namely Passive mode and Active mode.

During Passive mode, Masha will gain Power of the Wild which causes her Basic Attack to deal extra Physical Damage of 1 – 60 (+0.5% Physical Attack Extra) % from Popol and Kupa's HP and will not affect Turrets or Bases.

In Active mode, Masha will use 24% HP to increase her Movement Speed by 60% for 1.5 seconds.

It also increases the extra Physical Damage from his Power of the Wild by 2 – 4 (+1% Extra Physical Attack)% of Popol and Kupa's HP and gains 50% extra Attack Speed from his next 2 Basic Attacks.

Her 2nd skill 'Howl Shock', Masha will use 24% HP and deal 200 – 300 (+100% Total Physical Attack) Physical Damage and reduce Movement Speed by 50% for 2 seconds.

His Ultimate Skill is 'Thunderclap', he will spend 34% HP to attack Popol and Kupa and he becomes immune to control effects.

Then, she deals 200–500 (+200% Total Physical Attack) points of Physical Damage, slowing them by 25% for 2 seconds, and pushing Popol and Kupa back. This skill's cooldown resets every time Masha loses one stack of HP.

Masha's other skill is called 'Life Recovery', she will get Energy when dealing damage to Popol and Kupa and extra Energy when dealing damage with her 'Wild Power' (Skill 1).

After leaving the battle for 3 seconds, Masha will activate this skill again to use half of her Full Energy stack to restore 1 full stack of her HP and she will be immune when using this skill.

Harith

Harith aka the Time Traveler is a Mage hero who is often used by Gold Laners and Mid Laners and is also a counter hero for Popol and Kupa in Mobile Legends: Bang Bang.

He excels as an agile Mage with high burst damage, extraordinary mobility from 'Chrono Dash' (Skill 2), capable of passive shields that make him thick, strong in the late game, short skill cooldowns and can be a Gold Laner, Mid Laner or Jungler.

His Passive Skill 'Key Insight', he will get 7% – 35% Hybrid Lifesteal for Popol and Kupa who are nearby.

His skill 1 is 'Synchro Fission', Harith will create a Phantom of himself in a distant location.

Harith and his Phantom will release Synchro Fission to deal 236 – 376 (+86% Total Magic Power) Magic Damage to all enemy units in their path.

When 2 Energy Waves collide, an explosion occurs and deals 590 – 940 (+210% Total Magic Power) Magic Damage to all enemies including Popol and Kupa in the explosion area.

With his second skill, 'Chrono Dash,' Harith dashes towards Popol and Kupa. When he takes magic damage from Popol and Kupa, he generates a shield that absorbs 185–310 (+140% Total Magic Power) damage and increases his next basic attack.

Harith's enhanced Basic Attack will deal 225 – 350 (+100% Total Physical Attack) (+100% Total Magic Power) Magic Damage while slowing Popol and Kupa by 40%.

When hit by Popol and Kupa with their enhanced Basic Attack, it will reduce the cooldown of 'Chrono Dash' by 3 seconds.

His Ultimate Skill is 'Zaman Force', Harith will use his Key to use Zaman Force.

When the multidimensional Rift appears, its cooldown will be reduced by 4 seconds.

The refit will slow Popol and Kupa in the area by 70% and will slow other enemy heroes by 35%.

If Harith is hit by the Rift, he will use his 'Chrono Dash' (Skill 2) to absorb the energy inside and reduce the cooldown of 'Synchro Fission' (Skill 1) by 1 second and 'Chrono Dash' (Skill 2) by 3 seconds. Furthermore, Harith will gain 15% Resilience while in the Rift.

Lesley

Lesley aka the Deadly Sniper is a Marksman and Assassin hybrid hero often used by Gold Laners and is also a counter hero for Popol and Kupa in Mobile Legends: Bang Bang.

He has great damage especially True Critical Damage in the late game, excels in long-range Poke and Snipping, high mobility thanks to his camouflage ability and is effective for Pick-Off thin heroes with 'Ultimate Snipe' (Ultimate Skill) to lock the target.

Her passive skill, 'Lethal Shot', if Lesley doesn't take damage for 5 seconds, her next Basic Attack will gain extra range, 50% Critical Chance, and (+100% Total Physical Attack) True Damage (20% extra damage to minions).

Each point of Physical Penetration obtained will be converted into 0.5% Critical Damage, but this Critical Damage is reduced to 140%.

Her Basic Attack restores 5 energy points, and Lethal Shot doubles the amount restored. Lethal Shot's cooldown resets every time Lesley uses the skill.

Her skill 1 is 'Master of Camouflage', Lesley will camouflage to get 2x her Energy regeneration, get 40% Movement Speed and extra Physical Attack 85 – 135.

This phase lasts for 3 seconds until Lesley takes or deals damage. Popol and Kupa can detect Lesley's position through the distortion around her.

Her skill 2 is 'Tactical Grenade', Lesley will throw a Tactical Grenade towards Popol and Kupa while jumping backwards.

He will also deal 150 – 300 damage to Popol and Kupa, then push them back.

Lesley can use this skill during Ultimate Snipe to cancel the status and fire a Fatal Bullet at Popol and Kupa. Lesley's attack will trigger as long as there are any unused Fatal Bullets.

Her Ultimate Skill 'Ultimate Snipe', Lesley will gain sight of Popol and Kpa who are nearby, then lock on to them and fire 4 Lethal Bullets continuously to deal 250 – 350 (+80% Extra Physical Attack) (+5% enemy lost HP) Physical Damage. 

He also recovers 10 Energy when hit by Popol and Kupa. His bullets can be blocked by other enemies.

If this skill is interrupted, each bullet reduces the skill's cooldown by 10%. While passive, Lesley's critical chance increases by 5% – 15%.

Lesley's buff will increase each of their HP by 10 when dueling with Harley.

Hayabusa

Hayabusa aka the Crimson Shadow is an Assassin hero who is often used by Junglers and is also a counter hero for Popol and Kupa in Mobile Legends: Bang Bang.

He has high mobility thanks to 'Ninjutsu: Quad Shadow' (Skill 2) which allows him to blink many times for farming, ganking and escaping.

Apart from that, he also has big burst damage, spell vamp, is good at 1v1 duels and 'Ougi: Shadow Kill' (Ultimate Skill) which makes him immune.

His Passive Skill 'Ninjutsu: Trace of Shadow', Hayabusa's attacks will give up to 4 stacks of Shadow Mark when hit by Popol and Kupa.

Each stack will be active for 6 seconds and increase Hayabusa's damage to Popol and Kupa by 5%.

His Skill 1 'Ninjutsu: Phantom Shuriken', Hayabusa will throw 3 Shurikens towards Popol and Kupa, each dealing 150 – 250 (+70% Extra Physical Attack) Physical Damage and slowing them by 35% for 2 seconds.

If Popol and Kupa are hit by the Shuriken, they will only receive 30% of damage after the first attack.

Hayabusa will also restore 10 energy for every enemy hero, including Popol and Kupa, hit. In Passive mode, Hayabusa will gain 3% – 18% Spell Vamp.

With Skill 2 'Ninjutsu: Quad Shadow', Hayabusa will rush towards Popol and Kupa and release 4 Phantoms that move in any direction.

The phantoms will linger at the end of their path or attach to Popol and Kupa, dealing 130–180 (+30% Extra Physical Attack) points of Physical Damage and slowing them by 40% for 2 seconds. Hayabusa will then stop if he hits another enemy while he is advancing.

If this skill is used again, Hayabusa will teleport to his Phantom area and reduce the cooldown of 'Ninjutsu: Phantom Shuriken' (Skill 1) for 1 second.

If the Phantoms attach to the heroes Popol and Kupa, then they will deal 130 – 180 (+30% Extra Physical Attack) Physical Damage to Popol and Kupa.

With his Ultimate Skill 'Ougi: Shadow Kill', Hayabusa will merge with his Phantom to deal 6 attacks to Popol and Kupa in the area, each dealing 140 (+75% Extra Physical Attack) Physical Damage.

Hayabusa will attack enemies that have his Shadow Mark and each will use the Mark to deal 45 – 85 (+20% Extra Physical Attack) extra Physical Damage.

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So, that's the information about the list of Popol and Kupa counter heroes that you can use in Mobile Legends: Bang Bang right now!