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Marvel Rivals Guide

Marvel Rivals Team Comp Examples

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Updated on Feb 28, 2025
Feb 28, 2025

Overview

One of the signature features of hero shooters like Marvel Rivals is the ability to transform your team comps on the fly throughout a match.

This allows you to adapt according to your team's needs, to counter the enemy team, to the current position of the map, and so on.

In general you can mix and match the roles as need, but make sure to have at least 2 Strategists as there isn't a hero that can solo heal just yet.

In this guide, we'll cover different team comps and how they work so you can understand the right situations for each.

Triple Strategist ("Triple Support")

Triple Support abuses the power of Strategist ultimate and healing uptime to outsustain your enemies. It's been a rising choice in the Season 1 meta and evokes feelings of the GOATs meta of Overwatch (although it isn't anywhere as bad).

The main components are a solo tank that can anchor the frontline, two DPS, and three Strategists (ideally with at least two that have defensive ultimates.

Cycling the three defensive ults is the key to the success of a triple Strategist comp. Each Strategist must use their ults one at a time. Combined the team can have around 40 seconds total of healing ultimates. If two supports accidentally use their ults at the same time, the strength of the comp suddenly falls apart.

MagnetoDuelist
Moon KnightDuelist
Star-lordDuelist
Cloak and DaggerStrategist
Luna SnowStrategist
Adam WarlockStrategist

Anti-Triple Support

In response to the rising popularity of Triple Strategist comps, new metas have been developed specifically to counter their high amounts of healing. The focus of this team is trading out defensive ults for the ability to KO through any amount of healing.

Groot and Moon Knight farm their ults and combo them together. Not even Luna or Mantis' ult can survive against the combo so it's a guaranteed fight win when they land it.

Thor uses Awakening Rune to constantly pressure the 3 enemy Strategists. His damage is high enough to burst through their healing allowing him to secure elims when no ults are being used. Rocket's C.Y.A. damage boost empowers Thor's ult to one-shot all heroes with 300HP or less.

Magneto simultaneously enables and counters Cloak & Dagger. When the enemy C&D ults, he can easily KO her with his ult. If his C&D is ulting, then using his ally bubble shield is the best ability to keep them alive against the enemy's attack.

MagnetoVanguard
GrootVanguard
ThorVanguard
Moon KnightDuelist
Cloak & DaggerStrategist
Rocket RacoonStrategist

Gamma Charge Team-Up

Built around the incredible power of the Incredible Hulk's Gamma Team-Up, this team comp plays for high bursts of damage from Iron Man and Strange. Iron Man's Gamma Overdrive Unibeam is the main power of this comp due to its high dps.

Psylocke can help deal with hitscans trying to counter Iron Man. She also excels at harassing the backline if the rest of the team is focused on the Vanguards. Cloak and Mantis utilize their healing and offensive abilities to empower their teammates.

Both teams plan their attacks and defense around the long duration and cooldown Gamma Overdrive. Defenders have to kite the attack since it can kill through almost any healing in the game. The Gamma team attacking want to save their resources to time their aggressive attacks with Iron Man.

HulkVanguard
Doctor StrangeVanguard
Iron ManDuelist
PsylockeDuelist
Cloak & DaggerStrategist
MantisStrategist

Dive

Dive comps become more popular at higher levels of play. The strategy is to form a full team around heroes who can all quickly engage and attack a selected target and inflict a burst of damage too high for the enemy to survive. has become one of the strongest methods of winning team fights.

The most important abilities for Vanguards and Duelists in a Dive comp is mobility to traverse the map, bypass the enemy front line, and then escape to safety after executing their target. All four of these heroes possess similar levels of mobility that enable them to suddenly attack from multiple angles all at once.

Mantis’s damage boost helps to ensure her allies can inflict enough damage to actually secure the eliminations. Rocket spams healing orbs toward the enemy team where his allies are about to arrive. He and Mantis also have a high level of self survivability which is needed to stay alive during their teams dive.

Venom Vanguard
The ThingVanguard
Star-LordDuelist
Spider-ManDuelist
Rocket RaccoonStrategist
MantisStrategist

Brawl

Brawl comps lack a lot of ranged damage but excel in close-range fights. These heroes want to stay grouped together and be an impenetrable force.

By staying grouped up, the entire team benefits from Invisible Woman and Jeff’s AoE healing and maximizes Storm’s AoE damage boost. Having Wolverine gives them a massive advantage in the Vanguard battle.

Thor and Groot are the heavy hitters in this comp and use walls along with their high bursts of damage to thwart the enemy team's attack attempts with their own reactive offense.

Also vital to the success of this brawl comp is the speed boosts from both Jeff and Storm. Groot, Thor, and Wolverine being able to quickly chase down targets who can't outrun them makes this death ball difficult to counter.

ThorVanguard
Groot Vanguard
WolverineDuelist
StormDuelist
Invisible WomanStrategist
JeffStrategist

Poke

For teams who prefer to keep their distance and like to rely on superior aim mechanics, poke comps are an excellent choice. On open maps like Convoy on Yggdrasil, poke comps are dominating.

Magneto is an ideal poke Vanguard because, in addition to his bubble barriers, his shield can absorb an infinite amount of damage. Between his primary and secondary fire, he also applies a good deal of ranged pressure.

Behind him are ranged DPS like Hela, Hawkeye, and Namor who can rain down long-ranged snipes that can wipe enemies that don't have mobility or defensive options.

Lastly, are versatile Strategists who can keep their team up while providing ranged pressure of their own. They each also have crowd control options and defensive ultimates to peel the backline against divers.

Poke comps need to constantly reposition and rotate to maintain their distance from the enemy team. They have a massive advantage in long-range fights but are weaker if the enemy gets right on top of them.

MagnetoVanguard
HelaDuelist
HawkeyeDuelist
NamorDuelist
Luna SnowStrategist
MantisStrategist

Area Control

Marvel Rivals' MOBA aspects shine on Domination maps. Building your team around heroes' ability to manipulate the environment and hold down a single area can make for overwhelming wins as the enemy team often struggles to find a way to break through your team's defense. Peni’s traps and mines, combined with Groot's walls transform the objective into a death zone for the enemy team.

If the enemy team manages to get through the first line of offense, Rocket’s Team-Up with The Punisher and Winter Soldier quickly gives them back the advantage. Bucky’s hook also combos with both Peni’s mines and Groot’s walls. Since the team will be playing grouped up the entire match, Dagger’s and Rocket’s AoE healing provides a ton of sustain, and both of them farm ult super quickly in this comp.

Peni ParkerVanguard
GrootVanguard
The PunisherDuelist
Winter SoldierDuelist
Rocket RacoonStrategist
Cloak & DaggerStrategist
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