Mobile Legends: Bang Bang: How Argus Breaks an Aulus Freeze

To break an Aulus lane freeze as Argus in Mobile Legends: Bang Bang, avoid early trading at levels one and two, charge your Warmonger passive on neutral creeps, pull minion aggro into your outer turret, and execute an all-in duel once you unlock Eternal Evil at level four.

Aulus relies on passive physical attack and attribute scaling that unlocks in stages at levels 4, 8, and 12 through his axe enhancement mechanic. In the opening minutes, Aulus lacks hard crowd control and burst damage. An early freeze attempt isolates Aulus far from his turret and forces him to absorb chip damage from your minions, giving Argus several distinct windows to reset the lane.

Resetting Minion Waves and Managing Warmonger

Do not engage in prolonged basic-attack trades when Aulus sets up between your outer turret and the minion wave. Instead, use lane control techniques to force the wave to crash:

1. Charge Warmonger on secondary targets. Hit the river Lithowanderer or EXP crab to fully charge your demonic energy bar without absorbing damage from Aulus. Reaching full charge primes an empowered double strike that heals Argus based on damage dealt.
2. Poke from bush cover. Step out of the lane brush to land Meteoric Sword on Aulus. This deals physical damage, slows him, and leaves a demonic curse trail that grants Argus bonus movement speed to step back safely.
3. Pull creep aggro toward your turret. Walk alongside the enemy minion wave to draw its targeting. Pull the creeps toward your outer turret perimeter to break Aulus's hold, then cast Demonic Grip to grapple back toward safety. Once the minions enter turret range, the lane equilibrium resets.

Punishing Aulus at Level Four

Unlocking Eternal Evil completely flips lane priority. An Aulus attempting to freeze the wave near the river boundary must overextend to maintain position, leaving no escape route once he commits his movement skill.

• Bait the engage: Allow Aulus to trade until your health drops to roughly one-third of your maximum pool. This tempts him to activate his ultimate and leap forward with axe strikes.
• Trigger the counter-burst: Cast Eternal Evil to remove all active debuffs, gain four seconds of immortality, and convert incoming post-activation damage into health.
• Stack attack speed: Activate the Inspiration battle spell alongside your ultimate. Inspiration eliminates basic attack delay, spikes attack speed, and triggers continuous Warmonger double strikes to eliminate Aulus before your immortality ends.

Core Itemization and Next Macro Actions

To maintain lane dominance after breaking the freeze, build attack speed and on-hit percentage damage:

• Swift Boots: Complete these first to maximize attack speed during early trades.
• Corrosion Scythe: Purchase this as your primary core item. Its passive basic-attack slow prevents Aulus from kiting away during your ultimate duration.
• Demon Hunter Sword: Build this second to shred Aulus's scaling health pool with percentage-based physical damage.
• Situational Third Core: Pick Golden Staff to accelerate Warmonger procs, or Malefic Roar if Aulus invests early in physical defense items such as Antique Cuirass.

Once Aulus dies or recalls, hit the outer EXP lane turret immediately. Warmonger double strikes trigger directly against structures, allowing Argus to strip gold plating rapidly. After taking the outer turret, avoid grouping for clustered 5v5 team fights where Aulus's wide area-of-effect swings excel. Instead, invade the adjacent enemy jungle camps and maintain deep split-push pressure in the side lane to force uneven rotations.