Summary
- Strategists are important characters in Marvel Rivals as they can heal and support their team members during tense matches.
- Loki is a powerful hero with illusions, healing, and the ability to mimic powers for strategic gameplay.
- Rocket Raccoon, Luna Snow, Mantis, Adam Warlock, and Jeff all bring unique abilities to Marvel Rivals.
Marvel Rivals is a fast-paced, team-based PvP shooter game that allows you to assemble your favorite Heroes and Villains, combining their unique abilities and playstyles to unleash devastating Team-Up combos that can turn the tide of battle and create unexpected gameplay moments. In the game, heroes are divided into three categories: Vanguards, Duelists, and Strategists.
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The Vanguard class deals damage and protects their team by focusing on durability and crowd control, while Duelists are the damage dealers with offensive abilities. Strategists, on the other hand, are Marvel Rival’s support characters, but their role goes beyond simply healing teammates. They can debuff enemies, create distractions, and provide buffs to allies, making them a crucial part of any team composition. Here are the best strategist heroes in the game.
Updated on December 12, 2024, by Kyle Chamaillard: We’ve decided to support this list by including more information about the Strategists in Marvel Rivals and to see where Cloak & Dagger lands among them.
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Loki
Ultimate Ability |
God of Mischief – Shapeshift into a teammate or rival and gain access to their abilities. |
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Team Up Heroes |
Hela |
Team Up Ability |
Ragnarok Rebirth – Hela gives Loki bonus health and can resurrect him when killing enemies. |
Loki is one of the most powerful yet downright interesting heroes in Marvel Rivals. His kit is a perfect blend of offensive abilities, disruptive tactics, and essential support. By using deception, the god of mischief can project multiple illusions that confuse enemies, cause distractions, teleport, and create openings for his team.
When under pressure, he can get close to his allies, activate the regeneration domain, and use Rune Stones to convert incoming damage into healing for his allies. His ultimate ability allows him to mimic any enemy or ally’s power (including their ultimate) to set up counterattack opportunities. He also deals damage using his auto-attack clones.
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Luna Snow
Ultimate Ability |
Fate of Both Worlds – Creates a circle around Luna that heals or boosts damage to her allies. |
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Team Up Heroes |
Namor, Jeff the Land Shark, Iron Fist |
Team Up Ability |
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Luna Snow is arguably one of the most powerful healers in the game, with the ability to deal large amounts of damage to enemies and heal allies. Her Share the Stage ability allows Luna Snow to concentrate healing on a specific target, making her invaluable for supporting tanks or mobile characters.
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She can also freeze enemies for a short duration, which can be crucial for crowd control and can also allow the team to focus fire on an enemy. She also has the Fate of Both Worlds ultimate, which offers her 12 seconds to dance, creating a large AOE to switch between either healing or damage boosting for her team.
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Cloak & Dagger
Ultimate Ability |
Eternal Bond – Unleash three dashes that can damage enemies and heal allies. |
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Team Up Heroes |
Moon Knight |
Team Up Ability |
Lunar Force – Allows Moon Knight to have a new ability that makes him invisible for a short amount of time. |
The duality of Cloak & Dagger might take some getting used to, but they are extremely satisfying to control once you wrap your mind around their alternating abilities. Great at healing allies and damaging foes, these two characters are a perfect balance for anyone who wants to be in the middle of the action while offering support when needed.
You can switch between the two with the press of a button, and both offer unique takes on similar abilities. Both can throw walls in front of them, but Dagger’s heals her team while Cloak’s blinds opponents and amplifies damage dealt to them. Both characters would be fantastic on their own, but having them share a character slot makes them a force to be reckoned with.
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Rocket Raccoon
Ultimate Ability |
Cosmic Yarn Amplifier (C.Y.A.) – Provides a damage boost to any allies in the area. |
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Team Up Heroes |
Punisher, Winter Soldier, Groot |
Team Up Ability |
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Rocket Raccoon is a small yet versatile character in Marvel Rivals. He carries a Gatling gun that delivers competitive damage output, making him a threat to enemies. His repair mode allows him to shoot healing spheres that bounce off of walls, offering a constant stream of healing to allies, promoting team survivability. This ability to bounce spheres off walls adds flexibility to his healing abilities.
Rocket’s jetpack grants him increased mobility to reposition quickly and avoid enemy fire. He is able to deploy the Battle Rebirth Beacon, a game-changer, providing armor packs and reviving fallen allies, while his ultimate ability boosts ally damage in a larger area. You can also pair him up with Groot to activate a more significant damage reduction buff when he climbs on Groot’s shoulder.
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Mantis
Ultimate Ability |
Soul Resurgence – Mantis creates a shield that consistently heals allies and provides a speed boost. Can provide extra health to teammates. |
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Team Up Heroes |
Adam Warlock |
Team Up Ability |
Guardian Revival – Adam Warlock can revive Mantis or Star-Lord and give them time to find a safe spot to respawn. |
Mantis’ primary role is her ability to absorb Life Orbs and use them directly to heal her allies and herself, as well as boosting their damage output on her own, making them more effective in combat. She has the ability to put enemies to sleep for a short duration, which can be used as a valuable crowd control mechanism to disrupt enemy pushes and also set up counterattack opportunities for your team.
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Soul Resurgence is her powerful ultimate, which speeds up the movement of her team and provides healing over time. Keep in mind that attacking enemies lets Manti heal more often by regaining a Life Orb. This also applies her Nature’s Favour passive ability to give her an additional movement boost when she is not injured. However, unlike other strategists with direct healing abilities, Mantis can’t fire heals directly at a teammate.
When an ally Mantis puts an enemy to sleep, the effect can be broken if the enemy takes any form of damage.
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Adam Warlock
Ultimate Ability |
Karmic Revival – Revives allies with temporary shields and lowered health. |
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Team Up Heroes |
Mantis, Star-Lord |
Team Up Ability |
Guardian Revival – Adam Warlock can revive Mantis or Star-Lord and give them time to find a safe spot to respawn. |
Adam Warlock offers a unique blend of support, control, and even offensive abilities. He excels at dealing additional headshot damage with his Quantum Magic strikes, contributing to the team’s overall DPS. He has a Soul Bond ability that allows him to unite allies together, granting them healing over time and distributing the damage taken among them.
His Avatar of Life stream also provides him with a bouncing stream of healing energy for self-healing and healing nearby allies. Adam’s ultimate Karmic Revival has the ability to revive fallen allies with lower health, offering them a second chance for the team. When he dies, Adam has a Regenerative Cocoon capable of resurrecting him by moving his body to any spot of your choosing.
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Jeff
Ultimate Ability |
It’s Jeff! – Can swallow enemies and allies. Damages foes while swallowed, can spit characters out anywhere before a timer runs out. |
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Team Up Heroes |
Luna Snow, Groot |
Team Up Ability |
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Jeff the Landshark is a unique, easy-to-play strategist in the game with an amphibious nature that adds an interesting dynamic to his gameplay. He deals burst damage by spitting out big balls of water. His Hide and Seek ability enables him to dive into the water and climb walls, providing Jeff with increased mobility and map control. Jeff attacks by unleashing a healing splash that sprays out the heals on the targets.
He also has healing bubbles that provide concentrated healing for a single ally who collects them. For his ultimate ability, Jeff dives into the ground in a similar animation to Venom and gets to gobble up everyone, both allies and enemies, and spit them out when he wants to. This can be used as a good crowd control mechanism, because enemies swallowed by Jeff take damage over time and do not have the ability to attack.
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