Honor of Kings Musashi: Build, Synergy, Counter (Pro Guides)

Musashi in “Honor of Kings” is a skilled warrior with a unique mechanic that reduces his skill cooldowns through enhanced basic attacks following skill usage. Building equipment for Musashi should concentrate on amplifying his attack damage to make each enhanced attack more potent, increasing his attack speed to land more enhanced attacks for skill cooldown reduction, and enhancing his survivability to sustain in close combat.

Items that enhance his core capabilities—attack power, speed, and resilience—are crucial to unleashing Musashi’s full potential on the battlefield.In team fights, his quick cooldown resets and Skill 1’s crowd control dispelling make him a relentless force. Items focusing on physical attack, cooldown reduction, and defense are key to maximizing Musashi’s battlefield dominance.

Musashi Skils and Abilities

Oni Hunter (Passive): After releasing a skill, Miyamoto Musashi gains a stack, each basic attack consumes one stack to gain different enhancements, and enhanced basic attacks are not affected by attack speed. After hitting, it reduces the cooldown of Sora Akari Slash and Godspeed by 1 second. One stack: If the target’s health is above 50%, Musashi slashes with his dual swords, dealing a total of 50(+135% physical attack) physical damage. If the target’s health is below 50%, Musashi performs a forward slash, dealing physical damage equal to (+100% physical attack) and an additional 9% of the target’s missing health as physical damage. Two stacks: Musashi dashes forward to the target, dealing 20(+100% physical attack) physical damage and a 50% slow for 1 second.
Cooldown: 0s Cost: 0
Tips: Use two stacks mainly for dashing, one stack mainly for damage.

Illuminating Slash (Skill 01): Miyamoto Musashi releases a sword qi that knocks down enemy projectiles in its path, dealing 350/400/450/500/550/600(+50% physical attack) physical damage to enemies in its path and reducing their movement speed by 50% for 1 second. While releasing Sora Akari Slash, Musashi is in a state of invulnerability. Cooldown: 12s Cost: 0
Tips: Can block bullets, and provides a brief period of invulnerability when released.

Extreme Speed (Skill 02): Miyamoto Musashi dashes forward, dealing 180/216/252/288/324/360(+40% physical attack) physical damage to enemies in his path. If an enemy is hit, Musashi gains a 300/360/420/480/540/600 point shield and reduces the cooldown of this skill by 50%.
Cooldown: 10/9.6/9.2/8.8/8.4/8s Cost: 0
Tips: Hitting an enemy grants a shield and reduces the cooldown of Skill 2 by half.

Niten Ichiryu (Ultimate): Miyamoto Musashi selects and locks onto an enemy hero, dashing to the target area, dealing 350/475/600(+70% physical attack) physical damage and knocking up targets for 1 second. Afterwards, the target is marked for a life or death duel for 5 seconds, during which all healing effects on the target are delayed until after the duel. Musashi is invulnerable during the dash and reduces incoming damage by 50%.
Cooldown: 50/45/40s Cost: 0
Tips: Provides invulnerability and damage reduction when released, can avoid certain skills.

Skill Techniques

Musashi’s Skill 1 can effectively interrupt enemy projectile skills, so timing is crucial. Use Skill 2 during duels and jungling to negate tons of damage. It’s best to use the ultimate in coordination with teammates to ensure kills. Frequent minor controls can be very troubling for Musashi.

Musashi Combo

Recommended Combo Sequence 01: Illuminating Slash, Extreme Speed, Niten Ichi-ryu, Extreme Speed, Niten Ichi-ryu Maintain at least 1 stack of passive at all times to make the combo more versatile.

Recommended Combo Sequence 02: Niten Ichi-ryu, Extreme Speed, Illuminating Slash Try to hit the enemy with Skill 2, the halved cooldown allows for a more versatile combo.

Best Partners

• Yao can keep up with Musashi’s high mobility and enhance his survivability. Additionally, Yao’s Skill 1 can compensate for Musashi’s lack of hard control in his minor skills.
• Musashi needs to fight continuously in crowds, but his survivability is not strong. Liu Bang can help compensate for this weakness.

Musashi Counter

• Musashi’s ultimate has a long preparation time; Jin Chan can use her Skill 1 for quick restraint, preventing Musashi from advancing to the enemy.
• Musashi relies on continuous fighting and refreshing shields for survivability; frequent control by Niu Mo makes it very difficult for Musashi.

Counter Techniques :Miyamoto’s ultimate has a maximum chase distance; quickly moving away from him when he locks onto you can dodge his knock-up effect.

Gameplay Techniques

Detail 1: Skill 1 can block bullets and provides a brief period of invulnerability.
Detail 2: Hitting enemies with Skill 2 reduces its cooldown by half.

Avoid being the first to enter the fight and try not to attack the front line. Flank and target the back line directly.