Win, Pick and Ban Rates
Change vs 2026-09-25
- Tier
- unchanged
- Win Rate
- +1.0pt
Statistics from the official in-game HoK Camp (as of 2026-10-09).
Base Stats
- Max HP
- 3207
- Max Energy
- 200
- Physical Attack
- 175
- Magic Attack
- 0
- Physical Armor
- 150|20%
- Magic Defense
- 75|11.1%
- Movement Speed
- 360
- Attack Range
- Ranged
- HP Regen / s
- 46
- Energy Regen / 5s
- 50
Transcribed from the in-game hero status screen. Arcana bonuses are excluded.
Recommended Builds
When the enemy fields a high-HP frontline alongside a magic damage dealer.
Boots of Dexterity come down first at 700G, putting 50 movement speed and 20% attack speed on the board early. Sparkforged Dagger and Doomsday add another 55% attack speed, and Doomsday makes every basic attack carry 7% of the target's bonus HP. Daybreaker's Virtue lands fifth and doubles for ranged heroes: 30% physical penetration and +50 basic attack damage. Frigid Charge and Succubus Cloak add 150 physical defense and 300 magic defense, finishing at +131% attack speed and +2500 max HP.
This is what the Popular tab of the in-game Recommended Loadout screen showed on 2026-08-28. The number on each arcana is how many of the 30 slots it fills; each colour adds up to 10. The game also shows a rank and a win rate, but those shift from day to day, so they are not reproduced here.
Strategy Guide
The definitive run-and-gun marksman — his revolver fires on the move, his stacks shred defenses into true damage, and two teleports serve both chase and escape.
Best for: players who treat standing still as death — firing on the move, breaking armor into true damage at ten stacks, with two blinks keeping the kiting itself converted into damage.
Each bullet plants one stack of Destruction on whatever it hits. Skill 1 only fires 5 bullets at level 1, so weave in Basic Attacks to reach ten stacks. For the 5s of Destroyed Defense that follows, every Basic Attack and skill hit adds true damage on top. Barrage count is fixed by skill level — 12 at level 1 — and Attack Speed raises the firing speed, not the number of shots.
Blink away from the engage with Skill 2, then fire bullets while backing off. The Skill 2 passive only runs while enemy heroes are near Marco Polo himself, and it adds 20% damage. Movement Speed goes up as well, though that amount scales with skill level. Skill 3's blink is a second exit, but committing to the barrage leaves him crawling.
These combos are not official data. They are this site's own write-up, built only from the skill data transcribed from the in-game display; nothing that the skill text does not state is included.
- Armor break plus true damage keeps his output relevant against tanky frontlines
- Two blinks across Skill 2 and the Ultimate for total positional freedom
- Bullets count as basic attacks, so Passive stacks build extremely fast
- Crawls during the Ultimate's channel and loses it all to one hard CC
- Underwhelming damage until his attack speed items come online
- No burst — deny him sustained firing time and he goes quiet
Until your first attack speed item is finished, farming is the entire job. Skill 1 is your best CS tool — five bullets that clear minions and, when they carry through to your lane opponent, double as free harass. Every three bullets count as one basic attack, so your Passive's armor-break stacks build on their own while you farm. Even when the enemy engages, Skill 2's instant blink buys space immediately, letting you take CS a step further forward than most marksmen dare. Just keep one rule in the back of your mind: burn Skill 2 aggressively and you have no exit for the next several seconds.
Around 8 to 10 minutes, with your second attack speed item done, the Passive's armor break starts triggering in every single fight. Ten stacks shatter the target's defense, and every follow-up hit adds bonus true damage — the reason you can genuinely shoot it out with fighters and tanks who walk at you. Show up to Tyrant and mid-lane skirmishes, thread Skill 1 into the scrum to farm stacks, and keep an escape budgeted: Skill 2 first, the Ultimate's blink as the emergency reserve. Two dashes' worth of insurance converts directly into extra seconds of firing time — and firing time is Marco Polo's entire game.
The closer you get to full build, the more the Ultimate's three-second barrage becomes a fight-deciding weapon. The spray hits every enemy around you, fires faster with attack speed, and late game it cycles armor-break stacks almost instantly. Catch the enemy team clumped on Overlord from a side angle and their frontline's defense simply peels away. The flip side: you crawl while channeling, and one hard stun cancels the whole thing. Who on their team has hard CC, and is it up? Counting that before you channel is the single habit that improves your Marco Polo the most.
Your spot is the very back, at maximum Skill 1 range. Don't step up at the opening bell — pour bullets into the enemy frontline to build stacks while their crowd control gets spent. When an assassin dives, answer instantly with Skill 2 and keep shooting from the far side of your blink. Your window opens after their lockdown is committed: blink into a flank with the Ultimate and hose the whole fight down while drifting. Enemies with armor break active simply melt in order, so you don't need fancy target selection — just never stop moving, and never stop firing.
Counters & Synergies
Countered-by and synergy picks are this site's own reading, based on each hero's kit. What the official app publishes is how often heroes are picked together (see "Frequently Paired With" below); it does not publish any rating of how well they match up.
Frequently Paired With
The figures are the "match rate" published by the official in-game HoK Camp: how often these heroes ended up on the same team (fetched 2026-08-14). It is not a win rate, so a higher number does not mean a stronger pairing.
First Skill to Level Up
Source: the official in-game HoK Camp (fetched 2026-08-14). What to level after this depends on the matchup.
Skills
Chain Reaction
His Basic Attacks and skills deal an extra 100 (100 + 35% extra physical attack) true damage to enemies with Destroyed Defense.
| Details | Lvl 1 | Lvl 15 |
|---|---|---|
| True Damage | ||
| True Damage | 100 | 200 |
Resplendent Revolver
Every 3 bullets fired counts as 1 Basic Attack.
| Details | Lvl 1 | Lvl 2 | Lvl 3 | Lvl 4 | Lvl 5 | Lvl 6 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Base Damage | ||||||
| Base Damage | 120 | 144 | 168 | 192 | 216 | 240 |
| Energy Cost | ||||||
| Energy Cost | 75 | 69 | 63 | 57 | 51 | 45 |
| Projectile Count | ||||||
| Projectile Count | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 |
Roaming Gun
Passive: When there are enemy heroes nearby, he gains 15% Movement Speed and deals 20% extra damage.
| Details | Lvl 1 | Lvl 2 | Lvl 3 | Lvl 4 | Lvl 5 | Lvl 6 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Energy Cost | ||||||
| Energy Cost | 75 | 69 | 63 | 57 | 51 | 45 |
| MSPD Increase | ||||||
| MSPD Increase | 15% | 18% | 21% | 24% | 27% | 30% |
Fevered Barrage
Every 3 barrages counts as 1 Basic Attack.
| Details | Lvl 1 | Lvl 2 | Lvl 3 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cooldown | |||
| Cooldown | 50 | 45 | 40 |
| Energy Cost | |||
| Energy Cost | 75 | 60 | 45 |
| Base Damage | |||
| Base Damage | 170 | 235 | 300 |
| Barrage Count | |||
| Barrage Count | 12 | 15 | 18 |
Other Farm Lane Heroes
Stats: official HoK Camp, as of
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