The best characters in Marvel Rivals season 0

There are 33 completely different characters in Marvel Rivals, however not each hero (or villain) is equal. Within the aggressive shooter’s season 0, which is known as Doom’s Rise and is considerably shorter than an everyday season, each character is viable however there are some who’re clearly extra highly effective than the remainder.

Under, we’ve compiled a breakdown of the present Marvel Rivals meta by noting the 9 finest characters (three from every function: duelist, vanguard, and strategist) who’re performing very properly in season 0. And whereas the meta will in fact proceed to shift, with new heroes rising to the highest, all of those are nice characters you may take into any match when you’ve mastered them with a purpose to improve your possibilities of successful.

On this Marvel Rivals information, we’ll stroll you thru the finest characters in Marvel Rivals, inform you what makes every of them so highly effective, and the way it is best to (ideally) construct your group with them. We’ve additionally listed out all at the moment out there heroes in a desk beneath.

One of the best characters in Marvel Rivals season 0 meta

One of the best characters in Marvel Rivals proper now (in alphabetical order) are:

After testing out every hero within the recreation, we’ve put collectively the above checklist of finest heroes based mostly on the facility of every character’s package (their energetic and passive talents), their consistency, their ease of use, and their capability to hold a group. There are another unimaginable heroes in Marvel Rivals that can doubtless make it onto this checklist sooner or later, however they’re at the moment solely actually dominating at increased ranges, and are subsequently increased talent ground heroes which can be troublesome to advocate until you’re an unimaginable shot (corresponding to Hawkeye and Hela).

So far as how these characters match right into a group, let’s take a fast take a look at the present composition meta in season 0.

One of the best group comp appears to be that stable 2-2-2 — two of every class — which provides you a pleasant stability of every part. This lets you have a beefy predominant tank like Physician Unusual and an off-tank like Thor, a robust throughput healer like Jeff the Land Shark paired with a healer that additionally will increase injury like Mantis, and a bunch injury vendor like Moon Knight paired with an murderer like Iron Fist. The two-2-2 appears to be probably the most constant composition as a result of it presents the broadest protection by way of what a group usually wants. And earlier than we get the meta settles with a season 1 stability patch, you could be ready for something. This comp will do it for you.

The one different group composition that we’ve seen do properly is the 1-3-2 comp, with only one tank, three damage-dealers, and two healers. This forces you to dedicate a healer nearly solely to your one tank to maintain them alive, however offers you the pliability of a bonus injury vendor to take care of an issue participant on the opposite group, like a sneaky Scarlet Witch or a sniping Hawkeye. This group composition does rely closely on the duelists to capitalize on alternatives shortly, and can doubtless fall off at increased ranks when groups are coordinated sufficient to only burn the one tank down as shortly as attainable, giving them a number of room to navigate targets.

Under, we’ve damaged down what makes every of the 9 finest heroes within the recreation so good.

Cloak & Dagger (Strategist)

Cloak & Dagger are two quite simple heroes in a single, making them extra advanced to play than both Jeff or Mantis. Nevertheless, Cloak & Dagger’s talents — when woven collectively — can create a really highly effective storm of therapeutic and injury, which will be troublesome to beat for many enemies.

What makes Cloak & Dagger a stellar assist, nevertheless, isn’t even their final capability, however Cloak’s Darkish Teleportation capability, which makes allies briefly invisible and untargetable. This single capability can negate ultimates like Jeff’s It’s Jeff! and even Scarlet Witch’s Actuality Erasure. Even higher, it requires nothing from Cloak’s allies aside from to be near him, so it’s a probably game-saving capability which you can pull off with none voice chat or coordination.

Physician Unusual (Vanguard)

Physician Unusual is a tank who appears weak on an preliminary look, however is definitely extraordinarily highly effective in the correct arms. The place Thor and Venom let you drag your group to victory by killing squishier characters, Physician Unusual is ready to lead the group the place he desires them to go together with his highly effective protect and big stun final.

However the true energy of Physician Unusual — particularly while you’re taking part in with buddies over voice — is the Pentagram of Farallah portal. This factor permits your total group to maneuver to a different space of the map in seconds, permitting for a robust flank. You possibly can even shoot highly effective assaults like Iron Man’s final by way of the portal and onto an unsuspecting group beneath.

Physician Unusual is a really high-skill tank, but when you know the way to play him, you may lead your group to victory with out a lot effort.

Iron Fist is a damage-dealing machine, particularly superb at diving into the backlines of enemy groups and wiping squishy duelists and strategists off the map. That is often on account of his Yat Jee Chung Kuen enhanced melee assaults, which deal extraordinarily excessive injury in a brief period of time.

His triple leap, kick, and wall-run talents additionally make him very troublesome to flee for many characters, and unimaginable to catch for many vanguards.

Jeff the Land Shark (Strategist)

In season 0, Jeff the Land Shark is the very best character in Marvel Rivals, largely on account of his ease of play. His Joyful Splash therapeutic waters have limitless vary and might heal a number of characters directly in the event that they’re stacked up, making Jeff probably the most environment friendly healers on the market. His Aqua Burst main assault additionally does very excessive injury for a strategist, making him troublesome to tackle solo if you happen to can’t get the drop on him.

However the purpose most individuals hate taking part in towards Jeff — and what makes a Jeff with good map information so harmful — is his It’s Jeff! final, which sees the shark swallow everybody in a small space. Jeff can then safely spit out his allies earlier than carrying everybody from the enemy group off a cliff. This can be a probably game-winning final that may be very troublesome for you and your teammates to counter or escape.

Mantis is a potent healer in Marvel Rivals, able to enabling each herself and her allies to deal excessive quantities of harm. Her package is comparatively easy, as she makes use of therapeutic orbs to both heal allies or considerably increase ally injury. However these two talents — paired along with her highly effective stun — provide you with unimaginable instruments to work by way of nearly any scenario.

On prime of her uncooked therapeutic all through and injury capabilities, Mantis’ ult basically makes your allies invulnerable with how highly effective its therapeutic is, and the bonus well being it brings may help counter many different highly effective final talents if timed appropriately.

Moon Knight’s sheer capability to deal injury in a big group of heroes makes him extraordinarily potent within the present meta. A well-thrown Ankh paired with an correct Moon Blade and a few Crescent Darts can remove total groups of low-health characters in seconds. Moon Knight customers who’re capable of cover their Ankh’s in unpredictable or difficult-to-reach spots can create a kill field that may be very troublesome to keep away from for strategists, and might make incoming injury unpredictable.

Moon Knight’s Hand of Khonshu ult additionally expenses in a short time, does a ton of harm, and will be troublesome to flee for slow-moving characters.

Thor is an absolute powerhouse of a tank, able to soloing squishy targets in seconds whereas utilizing his Awakening Rune capability. However Thor is much more than simply his woke up state, and all of his talents can generate group wins very frequently if you realize what you’re doing.

All of his instruments make him considerably extra advanced than a tank like Venom, so not each Thor in your group means a free win. However a Thor on a rampage is able to diving right into a group, eliminating strategists, and diving again to their allies with out even getting near happening.

Venom will get the award for easy however highly effective. Simply by being within the fray, he’s a large risk, and studying the timing on his Symbiotic Resilience capability — which provides him a large bonus well being protect based mostly on his lacking well being — takes little or no apply to grasp.

Past simply being simple to get on-line, Venom has a decently excessive talent ceiling together with his swing and floor pound, and he’s able to performing as each frontline tank and shock backline murderer relying on what you want within the second.

Winter Solider has a number of issues going for him, which makes him each troublesome to grasp, and intensely highly effective. His main assault offers a lot injury that it could possibly kill a number of low-health strategists and DPS in two pictures. His hook capability additionally makes him nice for shock eliminating characters like Adam Warlock or Mantis.

However what actually makes Winter Soldier scary is his Kraken Influence final, which not solely allows a robust execute that may make all heroes simpler to take down, however resets on every kill. An efficient Winter Soldier can chain final after final till your complete group is eradicated, permitting you to scrub up the target and win the match.

All characters checklist in Marvel Rivals

Under is the complete roster of 33 Marvel Rivals heroes as of season 0.

For extra Marvel Rivals guides, right here’s a listing of all identified codes, all Staff-Up talents, all maps and modes, and a take a look at the sport’s roadmap.