MLBB 10th Anniversary: Confirmed Date, Free Skin & All Changes

The MLBB 10th Anniversary is the longest player-appreciation window Moonton has ever run for Mobile Legends: Bang Bang, and this isn’t a one-weekend party.

Between the Follow event already live, the Sep 4 kickoff, and Layla’s mini-game stretching into mid-November, this celebration covers close to three full months, and it lands right on top of a Season 42 patch that reshapes eight heroes and one map.

We’ve gone through the official posts from Moonton’s channels, the Advance Server numbers testers logged, and the regional coverage that’s filled in the gaps Moonton hasn’t officially confirmed yet. Below is the full breakdown: what’s locked in, what’s still soft, and how to plan your next ten weeks around it.

Official Timeline Schedule for MLBB 10th Anniversary

The branding is “Starward Decade,” tagged #MLBB10TH and #ALLINMLBB, with the slogan “Ten Years, Just One Touch Away.”

Visually, this is a cosmic, starry, party theme rather than the birthday-cake aesthetic older anniversaries leaned on.

MLBB launched in July 2016, and October 9 has historically been the anniversary’s peak date. 2026 stretches that single date into a full campaign.

Here’s the confirmed schedule as of late August 2026:

Date	What’s Happening
Aug 21 – Sep 3, 2026	10th Anniversary Follow event (pre-celebration, already live)
Sep 4, 2026	Official kickoff. Nana “Stardust Dreamer” Epic skin launch. Carnival Battle Pass opens
Sep 4 – Nov 1, 2026	10th Anniversary Celebration Battle Pass window
Sep 16, 2026	Season 42, the 10th Anniversary Special Season, begins
Sep 18, 2026	Chou 10th Anniversary Special skin drops (jigsaw puzzle track)
Oct 9, 2026	Peak day. Layla’s second Collector skin launches. Esports calendars mark a competitive break around this date
Into mid-November	Remaining missions, Memory Collection, shop rotations, and cosmetics

A quick editorial note on the sourcing here: the official @MobileLegendsOL posts are the anchor for the Sep 4 start and the Oct 9 Layla drop, and we’re treating those as fixed. Some third-party guides list Nana’s release as Sep 9 instead of Sep 4.

We’re reading that as a possible Battle Pass claim-window date rather than the actual celebration start, since it conflicts with the official kickoff post. The teaser trailer for the whole event dropped August 27, 2026, one week before launch.

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The Three Headline Free Skins in MLBB 10th Anniversary

This is the part driving the hype, and rightly so: three dedicated anniversary skins, all built to be earned through gameplay instead of a Diamond purchase, provided you keep up with the events.

Nana “Stardust Dreamer” (Epic)

Nana’s anniversary skin launches September 4, the same day the celebration opens. The theme leans cosmic-cute: she’s painting color onto tiny planets, with a purple stardust and unicorn-bunny visual identity that’s already circulating in official PH and global preview clips as the easiest first gift of the event.

You get it through the free Carnival Battle Pass track, no purchase required. You earn Anniversary Coins by leveling the pass through daily logins, matches, and weekly challenges. 

Advance Server testers logged roughly 1,200 coins needed for Nana specifically, against about 2,590 coins for a full pass clear. That gap matters if you play consistently; you’re not just covering Nana, you’ve got leftover coins for extra effects on top.

Chou “Starforged Glory” (Special)

Expected around September 18, tied to a separate Anniversary Jigsaw Puzzle event rather than straight Battle Pass progress, though some test builds also referenced Battle Pass milestone tie-ins.

The theme is a martial-arts-inspired anniversary look, with cleaner, more modern visual effects than Chou’s usual skin catalog.

Worth flagging for anyone quoting the skin name elsewhere: “Starforged Glory” (and the variant “Starforger’s Glory” seen in some regional coverage) is community-sourced, not an official Moonton title yet. Treat it as provisional until the in-game shop confirms it.

Layla, Second Collector Skin

This is the one that turns a good anniversary into the best one MLBB has run. Layla’s second Collector skin launches October 9, and the official teaser describes her as someone who “travels through the universe, using iridescent energy to awaken every star,” framed as the emotional center of the whole team. Community naming has settled on “Prismatic Rhythm,” a rainbow, star-VFX, magical-girl aesthetic.

Getting it isn’t a simple login claim. It runs through a dedicated point-collection mini-game, referred to in testing and later official coverage as “Stellar Gala.”

Tester numbers point to roughly 360 event points needed, with daily point caps, and a fastest possible clear around 14 days if you start on day one and don’t skip a single day.

Some regional coverage lists the Stellar Gala event window running Oct 9 through Nov 19, which gives you more runway than the “14-day minimum” number suggests, but the daily cap still means you can’t cram it into a weekend.

A Collector-tier skin as a free, grindable reward is rare enough that this is the single biggest reason players are paying attention to this anniversary at all.

Other Free/Earnable Stuff

Beyond the three headline skins, Advance Server testing and official teasers point to a genuinely stacked reward pile:

• Golden “10” battle effects, covering recall, spawn, and a gold-explosion elimination effect
• Anniversary battlefield icon, borders, and an achievement logo and title
• 10-Year Memory Collection: non-resetting missions where you collect “Memories” and claim each milestone once, including a physical-album-style collectible, a “Ten Years Together” frame, a personal 10-year account recap, an anniversary title, and a veteran’s anthem or emote, with more memorabilia slots still locked behind testing
• Random Special and Epic skin chests, plus Elite selection chests
• Free customization items, with testers reporting four or more distinct pieces
• Weekend Gift windows and a separate “Layla’s Stellar Gift” window
• A lifetime veteran reward: players who’ve logged 15,000 total matches across all modes can claim a 10th Anniversary avatar. If you’ve been playing since launch, check your match count now.

The Rank Party event already ran as an early warm-up lane in July and August: missions plus ranked play in exchange for coins, double star-raising and star-protect bonuses, and permanent Elite skins like Gloo’s Abominable Snowgloo, Kadita’s Anthem of Tides, and a choice pool covering Hanabi’s Golden Month variants, Hilda’s Bass Craze, Belerick’s The Deep One, and Valir’s Shikigami Summoner, alongside a random permanent skin pool. That was the appetizer. The main event started Sep 4.

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Season 42 Is Part of the Anniversary, Not a Side Patch

This is the detail that changes how you should actually plan your next month of Ranked. Season 42 isn’t a separate patch running alongside the anniversary; it’s officially the 10th Anniversary Special Season, starting Sep 16, and the sneak peek Moonton shared makes the intent clear:

• No new hero this season. That development budget went into anniversary content and revamps instead.
• Eight revamped heroes from different regions of the Land of Dawn get new visuals and, in at least one case, new mechanics.
• Northern Vale’s Direbear warrior gets a full skill revamp, not just a visual pass.
• Sanctum Island gets a full map visual redesign.
• The client picks up an anniversary lobby and UI treatment, with community leaks showing a Layla-centered season presentation screen.

Practically, that means draft-phase assumptions you’ve relied on all year are about to shift under eight different heroes at once, on top of whatever the Sanctum Island redesign does to jungle pathing and vision control.

If your Ranked squad is testing a freshly revamped pick in a real match instead of Classic first, you already know how that goes: someone force-picks the shiny new kit, gets outrotated because the numbers changed more than they expected, and the enemy jungler snowballs off it. Test revamped heroes in Classic before you take them into anything that touches your rank.

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What’s Confirmed vs. Still Soft

Locked in by official posts: the Sep 4 start date, the Aug 21–Sep 3 Follow event, Nana’s free Battle Pass release on Sep 4, Layla’s Oct 9 Collector skin, Season 42 starting Sep 16 with eight revamps and the Sanctum Island redesign, and the #MLBB10TH / #ALLINMLBB / Starward Decade branding.

Strong Advance Server consensus that could still shift before Original Server: Chou’s Special skin landing around Sep 18 via the jigsaw puzzle, the coin math (roughly 1,200 for Nana, 2,590 for a full pass), the Stellar Gala point total near 360 with daily caps, the Golden 10 effects and Memory Collection board, and the 15,000-match veteran avatar.

A rumored 30% Diamond discount in the first week is circulating on some regional sites based on older anniversary patterns, but it isn’t officially confirmed for 2026, so don’t plan a top-up around it yet.

Also worth a direct warning here: fake Facebook pages have already run phishing posts claiming a “10th Anniversary × Street Fighter free Ryu/Ken/Chun-Li claim,” asking players to log into an external site and tag friends.

That’s not a Moonton promotion. Every real reward in this event sits inside the in-game Event Center or comes through @MobileLegendsOL and regional official accounts, never an outside claim form.

How to Participate

You don’t need a third-party site, a Discord bot, or a Facebook registration form for any of this. It’s all in the client.

Right now, through Sep 3: open the in-game event page and finish the Follow tasks so you don’t lose the pre-celebration rewards.

From Sep 4: log in daily, play the required Classic, Ranked, or party missions, and prioritize the Carnival Battle Pass first, since that’s the direct path to Nana and to banked coins. Don’t spend Anniversary Coins on minor cosmetics before Nana is locked in.

Around Sep 18: work the Chou jigsaw puzzle daily, and keep that progress separate from your Battle Pass grind.

From Oct 9: start Layla’s Stellar Gala on day one. The daily point cap means skipped days can push the Collector skin out of reach by the deadline, not just delay it.

For Memory Collection, treat it as a long-term track rather than something to clear in one sitting, since milestones don’t reset and can be claimed once each.

And if you’ve played MLBB since anywhere near launch, check your lifetime match count now for the 15,000-match veteran avatar.

Is This a Different Anniversary?

Previous anniversaries handed out strong Epic or Special skins, Akai’s for the 8th, Fanny’s for the 9th. Putting a free, grindable Collector skin on the table for the 10th is an entirely different tier of reward.

Nana’s Stardust Dreamer is already being called one of her better skins in early PH and global preview coverage, making it the easy first target for anyone not chasing full completion. 

And because Season 42 pairs the free cosmetics with eight hero revamps and a map redesign, the patch changes what you’re playing, not just what your account looks like while you play it. 

The Memory Collection track, with its personal 10-year account recap, is clearly built for the players who’ve been logging in since the Land of Dawn first went live, and that’s a different kind of reward than a skin.

The celebration window is long enough, roughly early September through mid-November, that casual players can realistically finish Nana and Chou without rushing.

Layla is the one that punishes inconsistency, so if you only lock in one habit from this whole event, make it logging in daily starting Oct 9.

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The MLBB 10th Anniversary stands out as Moonton’s most reward-packed celebration to date, combining unprecedented free giveaways with sweeping gameplay updates via Season 42’s hero revamps and Sanctum Island map overhaul.

The official numbers for Nana and Layla are locked, the Chou details are close enough to trust for planning purposes, and the rest fills in as Original Server catches up to what Advance Server testers already logged.

Which free Epic or Legend skin dropped for you from the anniversary chest, which revamped hero seems poised for a day-one hotfix, and how are you adapting your macro rotations for Season 42 on the revamped Sanctum Island?