MLBB 10th Anniversary 2026: Full Schedule & Free Skins Guide

The MLBB 10th Anniversary is not a single-week party this year. Moonton has stretched the celebration into a near three-month campaign, the “Starward Decade,” running from late August through mid-November 2026, and if you’ve been half-tracking the teasers without pinning down the actual dates, you’re not alone.

The Follow event already went live on August 21, the Recharge Bonus started September 1, and the real kickoff lands September 4.

Between then and Season 42’s arrival on September 16, enough is happening on both the cosmetic and the competitive side that treating this like a normal patch cycle will cost you rewards you can’t get back.

We pulled together the full timeline, the three free skins, the veteran track, and what actually changes on the battlefield once Season 42 drops, so you can plan around it instead of scrambling on October 9 wondering why everyone’s suddenly playing Layla’s mini-game.

What MLBB’s 10th Anniversary Changes This Season

Season 42 doesn’t add a new hero. That’s the first thing worth clocking, because it tells you where Moonton put the budget this cycle: eight hero visual revamps, a full skill rework for Masha, and a Sanctum Island redesign, rather than a fresh kit to learn on day one.

Masha’s rework is the one drawing the most reaction in advance-server clips. Early footage points toward a heavier berserker identity, and the community split is predictable: players who liked her old invulnerability-and-split-push niche are annoyed, players who wanted her to hit harder in a straight fight are not.

We’d like to give you exact Turtle and Lord scaling multipliers for this specific anniversary patch, but Moonton hasn’t published those numbers for Season 42 yet, and we’re not going to hand you made-up figures dressed up as patch notes.

What we can tell you with confidence: a season built around eight revamps rather than a new hero usually means the draft-phase shakeup comes from kit changes, not jungle-objective math.

Expect revamped heroes to jump in pick or ban priority for the first week or two while everyone figures out the new numbers on Masha and the other seven, and expect that noise to settle faster than a genuine objective-scaling change would.

Practice the reworked kits in Classic before you take them into Ranked. Somebody on your team is going to test Masha’s new combo live in a ranked match and feed the enemy jungler, and it won’t be you if you’ve already run the numbers yourself.

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The Full MLBB 10th Anniversary Schedule

Here are all confirmed dates across the campaign, official Moonton posts, and the in-game Events tab as the source of truth.

Third-party shops and advance-server leaks fill in the gaps, but treat those numbers as soft until they show up in your client.

Date	What Happens
Aug 21 to Sept 3	10th Anniversary Follow event (pre-party)
Sept 1 to Sept 21	Recharge Bonus, rebate worth up to 2,629 Diamonds
Sept 1	Argus “Raiden Maru” Exquisite Collection goes live
Sept 4	Official kickoff. Carnival Battle Pass and A Decade of Legends open. Nana “Stardust Dreamer” becomes claimable
Sept 4 to Sept 7	Battle Privileges: every hero and 100 skins on free trial, new Emblem trial, triple star-raising, double Protection
Sept 4 to Oct 4	Call Back Friends, free Special skin for reactivating an inactive friend
Sept 4 to Nov 1	Celebration Battle Pass and A Decade of Legends run in full
Sept 16	Season 42, the 10th Anniversary Special Season, begins
Sept 18 to Oct 25	Skin Jigsaw Puzzle, unlocks Chou “Starforger’s Glory”
Oct 9	Peak day. Layla “Prismatic Rhythm” Collector skin and the main celebration
Oct 9 to Nov 19	Layla’s Stellar Gala mini-game
Into mid-November	Remaining missions, Memory Collection, shop rotations

MPL Malaysia Season 18 is scheduling a competitive break around October 9, which lines up with Moonton treating that date as the peak of the whole campaign rather than just another patch day.

The Three Free Anniversary Skins in MLBB 10th Anniversary

This is the part everyone’s actually here for. Moonton is giving away an Epic, a Special, and a Collector skin through three separate tracks, and you can’t clear all three in one sitting. Each one needs its own window of daily play.

Nana: Stardust Dreamer (Epic, the Widest Window)

Nana’s skin runs September 4 through November 1, earned through the Carnival Battle Pass on Anniversary Coins.

Community tracking has her shop cost around 1,200 coins against a full free track worth roughly 2,590, so consistent daily logins should clear her with coins to spare.

She’s a cosmic-cute redesign, tiny planets and star-trail skills layered onto her existing kit.

The Battle Pass free track also carries an Epic Skin Selection Chest (pick one of ten), a Random Epic Skin Chest (one of fifteen), and a returning-reward choice between 5th Anniversary Miya “Moon Priestess” and 7th Anniversary Johnson “Starblazer,” per Moonton’s own sneak peek.

Chou: Starforger’s Glory (Special, the Shortest Window)

Chou’s window is September 18 through October 25, the tightest of the three, and it runs through a Skin Jigsaw Puzzle rather than a currency grind.

Complete missions, collect pieces, assemble the skin, no Diamonds required. The redesign leans into a forge-and-starlight fighter look, gold and cyan replacing his usual palette.

Because the window is short and overlaps with Season 42’s launch, this is the one people forget about while they’re busy testing revamped heroes.

Layla: Prismatic Rhythm (a Free Collector, Finally)

A free Collector-tier skin is close to unheard of in this game, which is exactly why Layla’s track is the one players are building their whole October around.

Her window runs October 9 through November 19, and advance-server testers put the unlock cost at 360 event points earned through a mini-game called Starfall Breaker, where a chibi Layla dodges meteors and collects energy across three hearts and a set of power-ups.

Daily point caps mean you can’t binge it in one night. Testers clocked the fastest clean clear at roughly 14 days if you never skip a daily.

Points	Reward
20	7-day trial card
100	Two hero fragments
180	Two lucky tickets
260	Two premium skin fragments
360	Layla reward card and the Prismatic Rhythm Collector skin

Five free weekly revives are available through sharing if you drop a run early.

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A Decade of Legends (the Nostalgia and Veteran Track)

Running the same September 4 to November 1 window as the Battle Pass, A Decade of Legends is a separate, claim-once mission board built for long-time accounts rather than anyone chasing skins.

Moonton’s confirmed free list includes a 10th Anniversary theme avatar border, a Years of Play title, the “10 Years with You” Dynamic Avatar (the first animated avatar of its kind), a personal 10-year account recap, a veteran’s anthem emote, and a globally limited, individually numbered physical artbook.

Advance-server testers described a 12-slot memory board, with a few requirement rumors attached: one source pegged the Dynamic Avatar to 13,000 total matches or 40,000 Diamonds recharged by August 31, another widely repeated figure ties a separate 10th Anniversary avatar to 15,000 lifetime matches across all modes.

Neither number has shown up in an official post yet, so check your own event page rather than planning around a leak.

What is real is that Moonton already ran a limited student-org giveaway of the physical artbook in Indonesia, which confirms the stock is genuinely capped and numbered, not just marketing language.

Other Free and Earnable Rewards (Not the Three Skins)

Outside the three headline skins and the veteran track, the campaign is stacking a long list of smaller rewards: golden “10” recall, spawn, and elimination effects, the Birthday Fireworks interactive effect through the Gameplay Challenge (running to October 25), an anniversary battlefield icon and achievement title, random Special and Epic selection chests, rotating Weekend Gift windows, and the Call Back Friends program running September 4 through October 4 for a free Special skin tied to reactivating a lapsed friend.

The September 4 to 7 Battle Privileges window deserves its own mention.

Free trials on every hero and 100 skins, a new Emblem on trial, triple star-raising, and double Protection is the best few days of the whole event to actually test something before you commit resources to it in Ranked.

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Recharge Bonus (Live Now: Sept 1 to 21)

The Recharge Bonus is already running and closes September 21. Any recharge amount unlocks a package valued at 769 Diamonds: a random Basic skin you don’t already own, a Task Skip Voucher, and ten free draws on the September Collector pool, which is your shot at Argus “Raiden Maru” without spending on it directly.

Hit 250 total Diamonds recharged during the window and the package jumps to a value of 1,860 Diamonds, adding three Aspirants Unite Tokens for September 16 through October 8, three more for October 9 through November 7, a universal discount voucher, and design-contest and MPL skin vouchers for Zilong and Badang.

If a Weekly Pass or a top-up you were already planning counts toward that 250-Diamond total, confirm it on the in-game event page before you split purchases across multiple recharges.

That token math is also why the community immediately read Aspirants 5.0 as locked for October 9 the moment the dates went live: the two token windows line up exactly with that date.

Season 42: the Anniversary Special Season (Sept 16)

Officially branded the 10th Anniversary Special Season, Season 42 launches September 16 with eight regional hero revamps, a full Sanctum Island visual redesign, and a Layla-centered season presentation across the new UI.

Masha’s kit rework is the only one of the eight named so far, and trailer language points toward eight distinct regional identities (tundra, pitch, desert gunslinger, Abyss, Arena, coast, ocean guardian, yin-yang east) without confirming which heroes fill the remaining seven slots.

No new hero this season means the meta shift comes from re-learning eight kits at once rather than banning one overtuned newcomer out of every draft.

Give the revamped heroes a week in Classic before you touch them in Ranked. Draft priority and jungle pathing will feel different the week of September 16 regardless, simply because eight heroes’ matchup math just changed at once.

Paid and Adjacent Content Sitting on the Same Calendar

Not everything on this calendar is free, and creators are already stacking it against the anniversary content.

Argus “Raiden Maru” opened the September Exquisite Collection on September 1 as his first Collector skin, alongside returning Collectors Novaria, Harith, and revamped-effects returns for Yi Sun-shin and Yu Zhong.

The Recharge Bonus’s ten free draws are the F2P way to chip at that pool without buying crests directly.

Aspirants 5.0 lines up with October 9 based on the token schedule, and creator leaks name Eudora “Imperatrix Arashi” and Selena “Silverbolt Ryuko” as the likely skins in that gacha, though names in leaks change right up to launch.

Older rumors from earlier in the year mentioned a 30% shop discount across anniversary skins; treat that as unconfirmed until it actually appears in your client, because it hasn’t shown up in anything official yet.

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How to Actually Play This as a Player

If you’ve only got limited time across the next ten weeks, the order that gets you the most for the least effort looks like this: spend September 4 through 7 abusing the free trials and triple star gain in Battle Privileges.

Log in daily starting September 4 for Battle Pass coins; Nana’s the easiest of the three free skins to clear.

Pull in one inactive friend before October 4 if you want the Call Back Friends reward. Don’t sleep on Chou’s puzzle between September 18 and October 25, since it’s the shortest window of the three and the easiest to forget while Season 42 is also demanding your attention.

Start Layla’s mini-game the moment it opens on October 9, because 360 points against a daily cap means roughly two weeks of not missing a single day.

Check your own lifetime match counter against A Decade of Legends’ board as soon as the event page appears in your client, since the artbook and Dynamic Avatar thresholds are account-specific.

One more thing: ignore any Facebook page promising a free “collab skin” tied to this event. Every legitimate reward in this campaign sits inside the client itself.

What’s Confirmed and What’s Still Rumored

Locked in by official posts and trailers: the September 4 start, Nana’s skin on the same day, Layla on October 9, Season 42 on September 16 with eight revamps and the Sanctum Island redesign, the Follow event, the free lists inside the Battle Pass and A Decade of Legends, the numbered physical artbook, and the Recharge Bonus terms.

Backed by consistent advance-server testing and creator reporting, but not yet an official Moonton post: the 360-point Layla track and its Starfall Breaker rules, the roughly 1,200-versus-2,590 Anniversary Coin math for Nana, the 14-day fastest clear for Layla, Aspirants 5.0 landing October 9, and the Masha revamp footage.

Still soft: the exact Battle Pass level needed for Nana, which seven heroes fill the remaining revamp slots, the precise artbook mailing process, the 15,000-match and 13,000-match avatar thresholds, and any shop-wide discount. None of those have appeared in an official post as of this writing, so verify them against your own in-game event tab once Phase 2 details roll out.

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Ten years in, MLBB’s 10th Anniversary is the first time Moonton has handed out a free Collector-tier skin, and that alone is worth restructuring your next two months of play around. 

Between Nana’s Battle Pass track, Chou’s short puzzle window, and Layla’s slow-burn mini-game, the smartest move is treating this like three separate deadlines instead of one long event you’ll get to eventually.

While exploring the Season 42 revamps and completing the free event tracks honors the anniversary’s spirit, this year’s true prestige lies in the limited-time premium gacha pools available alongside them, featuring Argus’s mecha Collector skin available now and Aspirants 5.0 launching on October 9.

Free tokens alone tend to leave players a handful of pulls short of guaranteed pity on the rare cosmetic, and running dry on the final day of a once-in-a-decade pool is the kind of progression gap you don’t get a second chance at.

If you were going to recharge at some point anyway, the fastest way to lock in your pulls and keep your roster ready for both the free tracks and the paid gacha is to buy ML Diamonds now through Joytify, so your account’s fully stocked before the Aspirants 5.0 window opens.