Playing as a Duelist in Marvel Rivals can be fairly complicated as, despite your high damage, the low health of the heroes makes them a very easy target. This is specifically true for those Duelists who rely on diving into the enemy’s backline to take down the healers.
Psylocke is one such hero who can seamlessly dive behind the enemy lines and slash down her opponents with her katana. If you’re interested in learning Psylocke, the following guide will help you get accustomed to both her kit and playstyle.
Psylocke Overview
Psylocke is a high-difficulty Duelist who primarily functions as a dive hero when compared to other duelists like Punisher who would rather fight head-on. Her key ability is Psionic Crossbow where she will unleash powerful projectiles onto the enemies.
However, as you shoot the enemy, it reduces the cooldown of her other abilities. She can also throw shurikens at enemies with her Wing Shurikens ability. If Psylocke lands these Shurikens, she also gains bonus health which helps out while she is diving the enemy.
Psylocke can dash onto the enemy and deal damage to them with her Psi-Blade Dash ability. Additionally, she can also go invisible with her Psychic Stealth ability, where she receives a substantial movement boost.
Finally, Psylocke’s ultimate, Dance of the Butterfly, lets her deal massive damage to enemies in a large area as she uses her katana to land several devastating slashes. While this was an overview of what she can do, here’s a detailed rundown of her entire kit.
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Psionic Crossbow |
Psylocke releases a barrage of bolts from her crossbow and deals damage to enemies. Hitting enemies also reduces the cooldowns of her other abilities. |
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Abilities |
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Dance of the Butterfly |
Psylocke will land a series of devastating slashes on all enemies within a large area and deal devastating damage. |
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Psi-Blade Dash |
Psylocke will dash onto enemies while dealing damage to them. You can use this ability twice before it goes into cooldown. |
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Psychic Stealth |
Psylocke will go invisible upon activating this ability. |
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Wing-Shurikens |
Psylocke releases a couple of Shurikens that stick to enemies, deal damage, and grant her bonus health. She can press the ability again to recall the Shurikens. |
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Team-Up Ability |
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Psionic Disc |
Psylocke can rewind time for a few seconds and receive bonus health. This ability becomes available when Magik is on the field. |
Tips And Tricks To Play Psylocke
Psylocke is a very difficult hero to master as even though her kit seems simple, you’ll have to rely on landing your attacks, managing cooldowns, and successfully diving the enemy. Taking advantage of opportunities will be instrumental in being a good Psylocke player, and you’ll have to learn it if you want to rank up with her.
The first key aspect of her kit you’ll have to use effectively is the Psionic Crossbow. While it’s just her normal attack, this is what you’ll use to deal damage, which means you’ll have to land your hits accurately. Additionally, you also receive a cooldown reduction for landing your hits, which means that if you end up diving the enemy, your aim needs to be precise.
Psylocke’s Psionic Crossbow has limited ammo before it reloads, but you can spam it by holding down the attack button. This will allow you to deal the damage quickly instead of tapping your attack button multiple times. Unlike characters like Black Widow, the Psionic Crossbow isn’t too hard to aim with, so you shouldn’t have much trouble attacking the enemy.
The key idea behind playing Psylocke is you’ll start with your Psychic Stealth ability where you’ll go invisible and launch a flank attack on the enemy. Ideally, you don’t want the enemy Duelists and Vanguards to see you while you’re diving. However, if they are too busy fighting your team, you can still use the Psychic Stealth in front of them and initiate the dive.
Once you’re behind enemy lines, start hitting the healers or the backline DPS with your Psionic Crossbow. If you manage to land a couple of hits, preferably in the head, follow it up with your Wing-Shurikens. At this stage, they should be low enough that you can finish them off with your Psi-Blade Dash.
If the enemy converges onto you, it should be fine as your Psychic Stealth should be back from cooldown, and you can use it along with the Psi-Blade Dash to run away. If not, you can try taking on the second healer as well. If you can successfully deal with the enemy team’s healers and backline DPS, you have pretty much won the fight, as the enemy Vanguards won’t be able to stay alive anymore.
However, even though it sounds simple, it’s hard to pull off since the enemy team will be aware that you’ll try to dive into the backline. If you aren’t smart with how you approach the dives, all five of the enemies will jump onto you, and you’ll be pretty much feeding the enemy kills which will act as a detriment to your team.
Tips To Use Psylocke’s Ultimate
Psylocke has a very powerful ultimate, and it is one of the major tools when diving the backline. If your Dance of the Butterfly is active, you can dive onto the enemy backline, perform your basic combos, and then activate your ultimate.
Never use your ultimate ability on tanks as you won’t be able to kill them if they’re at full HP, and you’ll be wasting your ability. You should always save it for the enemy healers and DPS, who are much easier targets to kill.
If you time it correctly, you’ll be able to deal with the entire backline single-handled and secure a double or triple kill. Once you activate the ultimate, slash on the low-health healers first. Once the healers are taken care of, target the remaining DPS units who won’t be able to survive once the healers are dead.
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