MLBB Aspirants 5.0: Selena Silverbolt Raiko & Obsidia Imperatrix Arashi Release Date, Cost & Guide
MLBB Aspirants 5.0 launches 9 October 2026 with two brand new skins: Selena Silverbolt Raiko and Obsidia Imperatrix Arashi, the first villain in the series. Full schedule, Premium Supply dates, 35 free tokens, draw costs, the two-skin pool advantage, and the cheapest step-by-step strategy.
MLBB Aspirants 5.0: Selena Silverbolt Raiko & Obsidia Imperatrix Arashi Release Date, Cost & Guide
By DragonGroot Team · Gaming Guides · October 2026
The Aspirants series finally has new skins. After the Unite rerun recycled Wave II and Wave III, Aspirants 5.0 launches on 9 October 2026 with two brand new entries: Selena's Silverbolt Raiko and Obsidia's Imperatrix Arashi. They are tied into the 10th Anniversary celebration, they share a storyline for the first time in the series, and one of them transforms into a full mecha mid-fight.
Same warning as every Aspirants event. Draws are 210 diamonds each, the featured skins are excluded from the first 10x guarantee, and a bad run can cost 4,000 diamonds or more. The good news is that this event hands out 35 free draws if you time it right. Get your diamonds lined up with DragonGroot before Phase 1 opens on 17 October and read the strategy before you pull.
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What Is Aspirants 5.0? The First New Skins in the Series Since 2024
The Aspirants line is Moonton's anime-mecha skin universe, and until now every entry has been a bright, heroic magical-girl design. Aspirants 5.0 breaks that pattern. For the first time the series introduces a villain, and the two skins are written as creator and creation on opposite sides of a war.
The official tagline from Moonton's reveal says it plainly: born of the same power, yet walking opposite paths. Selena is a 19-year-old student at Selrick Academy who turns against the faction that made her. Obsidia is the commander of the Enders, the antagonist faction, and the one who created Selena in the first place. That relationship is why the two skins look so different despite sharing one event.
Unlike Aspirants Unite, this is not a rerun. Both skins are completely new, and community previews are putting the animation quality at Collector tier, which is a step above where previous Aspirants waves landed. If you own every skin from the earlier waves and skipped Unite, this is the one that actually adds something to your collection.
Aspirants 5.0 Release Date and Full Schedule
The event launches on 9 October 2026 and runs for roughly a month. Both Premium Supply phases are already confirmed, and they are much shorter than the Jujutsu Kaisen windows earlier this year, so the dates below need to go in your calendar now.
| Milestone | Date |
|---|---|
| Aspirants 5.0 Draw Event Opens | 9 October 2026 |
| Grand Rebate Event (+3 free draws) | 9 October onwards |
| Premium Supply Phase 1 (16 Tokens) | 17 – 18 October |
| Premium Supply Phase 2 (16 Tokens) | 25 October |
| Event Ends (approx.) | Around 10 November |
Look at those phase windows. Phase 1 is two days. Phase 2 is a single day. The Jujutsu Kaisen phases gave you five days each, and plenty of players still missed them. With windows this tight, a slow payment on the wrong evening costs you 16 free draws. Set a reminder for the morning of 17 October and another for 25 October, and have your diamonds already in your account before either one opens.
The Two New Skins: Selena and Obsidia
| Hero and Skin | Role in the Story |
|---|---|
| Selena – Silverbolt Raiko | Selrick Academy rebel, the creation |
| Obsidia – Imperatrix Arashi | Enders commander, the creator |
Obsidia – Imperatrix Arashi
This is the one people cannot stop talking about. Obsidia is the first villain the Aspirants series has ever had, and Moonton leaned all the way into it. Dark armour, cold colours, and a presence that reads as a commander rather than a fighter. But the thing that sells the skin is the combat transformation. She does not stay in one outfit for the match. Preview footage shows her mecha form progressing through stages mid-fight, getting heavier and more mechanical as it goes, and it is unlike anything in the previous waves. If you want the darkest, most serious design in the whole Aspirants universe, this is it.
Selena – Silverbolt Raiko
Selena keeps the look that Selena players already recognise, then layers cyber-magitech over the top of it. The standout addition is her mechanical hound, a companion that charges into battle alongside her and makes the skin feel like more than a recolour. The skill effects go electric and silver, the dual-form switch gets its own cybernetic flourish, and the whole thing stays bright and sharp where Obsidia goes dark. Selena mains have been waiting a long time for a skin that touches her companion mechanic directly, and this one finally does.
Selena vs Obsidia: Which One Should You Chase?
Both are headline releases, so this comes down to taste and which hero you actually play. Here is the honest breakdown:
| Feature | Selena · Obsidia |
|---|---|
| Main style | Cyber-magitech · Dark mecha |
| Visual direction | Sleek and bright · Heavy and armoured |
| Signature feature | Mechanical hound · Mecha transformation |
| Story role | The rebel creation · The commander creator |
| Best for | Selena mains, cyber-anime fans · Collectors, mecha and villain fans |
Pick Selena if you play her regularly and want a skin that changes how she feels in a match rather than just how she looks. Pick Obsidia if you collect, if you love the transformation gimmick, or if you simply want the rarest design in the series. One practical note: whichever you choose, the draw system has a quirk that makes the second one much cheaper than usual, which the next section explains.
How the Aspirants 5.0 Draw Works (And Why Two Skins Changes Everything)
The Hope Amplifier system from Aspirants Unite is back. Every 10 draws gives you one Orb of Hope, each Orb lands on one of three Terrinia Boxes at random, and three Orbs on the same box opens it and drops a featured skin. The lucky case is 30 draws, the common case is 40 to 50, and a bad spread can push past 60.
The Two-Skin Pool Is the Biggest Advantage in This Event
Aspirants Unite had four skins in the pool. 5.0 has only two, and the system prioritises the featured skin you do not already own. That means the first box you open gives you one of the two, and the second box you open is guaranteed to be the other. There is no wasted box, no duplicate, and no pool switching to worry about. If you are chasing both skins, this is the cheapest Aspirants event to do it in.
The Featured Skins Are Not Part of the First 10x Guarantee
Your first 10x draw still guarantees an unowned Epic or better skin. But Selena and Obsidia are explicitly excluded from that guarantee. The only way to get them is through the Terrinia Box. Do not go into your first 10x expecting a featured skin to drop, because it will not. The guarantee is a consolation Epic from the general pool, nothing more.
Duplicates Still Convert
Any duplicate skin or emote you pull converts to Pass Fragments, and 30 fragments make a Pass. Minor, but it means nothing from the filler pool is completely dead weight.
Aspirants 5.0 Draw Cost and the 35 Free Tokens
| Item | Cost |
|---|---|
| Single (1x) Draw | 210 💎 |
| First daily 1x Draw (50% off) | 105 💎 |
| 10x Draw | 2,100 💎 |
| First 10x Draw (one-time 50% off) | 1,050 💎 |
| Premium Supply Phase 1 (17–18 Oct) | 16 free draws |
| Premium Supply Phase 2 (25 Oct) | 16 free draws |
| Grand Rebate Event | 3 free draws |
| Total free draws available | 35 draws |
Thirty-five free draws is 3.5 Orbs of Hope without spending a diamond on pulls. Add the daily 105 diamond draws across the month and a single discounted 10x, and a player who times everything correctly can reach the common 50-draw finish for roughly 7 Weekly Diamond Passes worth of real money. That is the entire point of the strategy below.
The Cheapest Way to Get a 5.0 Skin: Step by Step
This plan assumes you start with few or no diamonds and fund everything through Weekly Diamond Passes. If you already have a stash, it works even better, and the leftover goes toward the second skin.
Step 1: Do Nothing from 9 to 16 October Except Log In
The banner opens on 9 October, and the temptation to pull on day one is enormous. Resist it. There are no bonuses on launch week, no tokens, nothing. Every diamond you spend before 16 October is a diamond spent at full value with no return. Log in, claim your Grand Rebate progress, and wait.
Step 2: Buy 3 Weekly Diamond Passes on 16 October
The day before Phase 1 opens, buy three Weekly Diamond Passes. Each pass hands you 80 diamonds upfront and 20 a day after that, but for the Phase 1 recharge task it counts as 100 diamonds, not 80. Three passes count as 300 and clear the 250 recharge tier with room to spare. Check your pass purchase cap first, and if you are short, top up the gap through DragonGroot so the tier clears cleanly.
Step 3: Do Your Discounted Draw Before You Claim Supply Tokens
This is the trick most players miss, and it matters every single day of a phase. Your first 1x draw each day is 105 diamonds instead of 210, but only when you pay with diamonds. If you have Supply Tokens sitting in your inventory, the game spends those first and your discount is wasted. So the order each day is: discounted 1x draw first, then go to the Premium Supply board and claim your tokens, then use the tokens. Never the other way round.
Step 4: Clear Phase 1 on 17 and 18 October
Phase 1 is a two-day window. Your three passes have already cleared the recharge line, so now it is the spend line. Take your 105 diamond discounted draw each day, then claim and use your 16 Phase 1 tokens. By the end of 18 October you should be sitting on 3 Rebate draws, a handful of discounted draws, and 16 free ones, which is already two Orbs of Hope.
Step 5: Repeat for Phase 2 on 25 October
Buy three more Weekly Diamond Passes on 23 October, two days before Phase 2. Same logic, same 300 count against the 250 tier. On 25 October do your discounted draw first, then claim and use your second 16 tokens. That is 32 free draws plus whatever discounted pulls you took, which puts you at or past four Orbs.
Step 6: Finish with One Discounted 10x
Keep taking the 105 diamond daily draw through early November while your passes pay you 20 a day. Then, around 10 November before the event closes, use your one-time 50% off 10x draw at 1,050 diamonds to push you to five Orbs. Buy one more Weekly Pass or a small 290 diamond pack if you need to top the balance. Five Orbs is the common 50-draw finish, and the two-skin pool means your first box is a featured skin.
Total real-money outlay on this plan is around seven Weekly Diamond Passes across the month, which is a fraction of what a day-one 10x spender pays for the same result. The whole trick is patience: the free tokens and discounts do the heavy lifting, and your passes just fund the gaps.
Where to Buy MLBB Diamonds for Aspirants 5.0
Aspirants draws are expensive, which makes every diamond you save on the top-up itself count for more. Stick to the in-game store or a trusted third-party top-up platform that works from your player ID. Anyone offering Selena or Obsidia skins directly is running a scam, because these skins only exist inside the draw.
How to Spot a Safe Top-Up
DragonGroot ticks every box. Enter your User ID and Server, pay over UPI, and your diamonds arrive in about 3 minutes. Load your wallet before 17 October so you can clear the Phase 1 recharge tier the moment it opens.
Conclusion
Aspirants 5.0 is the best new-skin event the series has had in two years, and it is also the easiest one to overspend on if you pull on launch day. The two-skin pool, the unowned-skin priority and 35 free tokens all stack in your favour, but only if you wait for 17 October and 25 October and do your discounted draws before you claim tokens. Pick Selena or Obsidia, fund it with Weekly Passes, and let the free draws carry you.
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