Marvel Rivals Beginner’s Guide: All 33 Characters and Their Play Styles

With hours on the clock for the release of Marvel Rivals, Here is a full explanation of how all the 33 characters work and which hero you can play at the start to make your gaming more fun.

The game has 33 characters up for players to experience on the release of the game. They can live out their dreams to play as their favorite Marvel hero. The characters are divided into 3 different characters based on their play style. 

• Duelist: These are DPS characters with low to moderate health and fast movement speeds to rack up kills on the map they have high damage potential.

• Vanguard: These are Tank characters with high health and moderate damage potential, which helps determine the pacing of the game if used correctly.

• Strategist: These are characters with support abilities that vary from healing to crowd control skills. These characters are slow but very crucial to the team.

Here is the list of Heros in the game with their character difficulty rating to play as them:

Duelists

Black Panther

Difficulty: 4/5 

Black Panther is the first duelist character released for the game. He is the hardest character in-game to master with fewer ranged abilities and purely depending on the melee attack. To make up for this the character can leap from in and out of action easily, and players get an attack boost when his health is below 100 points.

Hawkeye

Difficulty: 4/5

He was among the recently revealed characters for the game. His play style is very similar to the play style of Hanzo from Overwatch, he requires very precise aiming to play. With a long aim on the enemy the more damage they deal.

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Hela

Difficulty: 3/5 

She has a very fast fire rate and very low special abilities making her play style depend on good aim, and coupled with a low effective crowd control abilities players should play her with caution.

IronMan

Difficulty: 2/5

He can zoom around the map with his suit’s flight abilities and has very strong damage on the use of skills, the only downside is that repulsors have very low range forcing players to approach close to the action once his ultimate is used has the freedom to obliterate any enemy from sky anywhere on the map.

Magik

Difficulty: 3/5

For the player who rushes head first into enemy teams trying to disrupt their formations, she can take out teams solo, and she can regain health with successful melee hits on the enemy. She has Demon form which makes these abilities a bit stronger making her an aggressive character.

MoonKnight

Difficulty: 3/5

He is one of the characters with a double jump ability that coupled with his grappling hook and glider makes him a very fast-moving character, his attacks are AoE attacks making a huge threat to the enemies in the group.

Namor

Difficulty: 2/5

He is for players who like to deal with persistent damage with long-range attacks, he is the perfect choice for you, with his trap and AoE attacks making a him threat to enemy teams from long distances.

Psylocke

Difficulty: 5/5 

She is for the player who likes high-risk and high-reward play styles, she has one of the highest damage attacks among the roster that depends on the distance from the enemy the closer you are more damage you deal out. To make for this more damage you do to enemies it heals your health and makes your next successful hit deal more damage.

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Squirrel Girl

Difficulty: ?/5 

She is one of the characters that is slated to release post-launch so much is known about her skills and play style.

Spider-Man

Difficulty: 5/5 

As Spider-man players, they can swing around the map but it is not as easy as it looks, a lot of skill is required to play with this movement and he only deals melee damage. So, players need to play strategically by dealing damage and moving in&out of action. 

Star-Lord

Difficulty: 2/5

He is a character with fast movement to him so players need to deal out persistent damage to take down enemies.

Storm

Difficulty: 3/5

She is a fusion character of both duelist and STrategist where her ability to control weather boosts damage or movement to her teammates while dealing damage to the opponent depending on the weather she uses.

Punisher

Difficulty: 1/5 

He is one of the easiest characters to use in the game with two modes of attack a full auto with moderate attack and a shotgun with high damage, along with that he can use a grapple gun to move and deploy a turret to deal high damage in short amount time and rack kills.

Winter Soldiers

Difficulty: 2/5

He is very good for players who like to concentrate on one particular enemy he has a skill that shoots a winch and pulls them close to him to deal high damage and terminate them from the map. He has ultimate where slams on the ground the from air and within a short time limit if the players take down an enemy the player can use the slam again giving them the ability to chain them to change the flow of the game.

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Vanguard

Captain America

Difficulty: 2/5

Players can play him true to his comic accurate style which is an as good lead in leading an attack on the enemy team he can refelt damage onto enemies for a short while, with a ranged attack which throws his trusty shield which ricochets among enemies once before returning him to him. He is a good damage sponge as a tank.

Doctor Strange

Difficulty: 3/5

He is a duelist character with tank health he can deal out high damage while being a damage sponge, and he can open gates that help in the movement of his teammates. He has a shield that can take most of his damage before his actual health goes down.

Groot

Difficulty: 1/5

He is the easiest tank character to play where his basic attack is an AoE damage attack with the ability to put walls as defensive barriers which boost his attack or regen his health.

Hulk

Difficulty: 4/5

Players can play as three different hulks. One is Bruce Banner with a pistol as his attack which helps in building up his ult which helps him change into Hulk, he has the lowest health among the roster of characters. His first Hulk form is most the players spend in which he deals melee damage while soaking up damage. If you can survive long enough in this form it unlocks the final form called Monster Hulk which dishes out huge damage and can take out enemy teams as solo.

Magneto

Difficulty: 2/5

He is one of the most favored tanks in the early beta which can deal out decent damage with a good health bar for a tank with walls that can soak up damage he is the best introductory tank character to understand the class works.

Peni Parker

Difficulty: 3/5 

She has healthy regen abilities which can help the player stay in the game without getting killed she has traps in the form of spider bots and webs that deal damage to the enemies.

 Thor

Difficulty: 2/5

He plays as a charged character as players deal successfully hist he builds up his thor force and players can use this thor force to use different abilities to damage the enemies. The cost of these varies from one thor force to three thor force.

Venom

Difficulty: 3/5

He is one of the fast-moving tanks with his borrow skill and single-use swing to cover large distances on the map while dealing damage to the enemies, along with it his attacks slow and give him a bit of health on successful hits.

Iron Fist

Difficulty: 4/5

He is one of the post-launch characters of the game with quadruple jump skills self-healing and dealing moderate damage to enemies. His play style is not yet determined but Devs has said he is one of the hardest Tank to master.

Black Widow

Difficulty: 4/5

Her play style is similar to Widow Maker from Overwatch. She can take out enemies in a single attack while staying agile. Along with Iron Fist and Squirrel Girl, she is a post-launch character.

Wolverine

Difficulty: 4/5

Not much is known about his play style he was absent from bets and will be released post-launch of the game.

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Strategist

Adam Warlock

Difficulty: 2/5

Players who keep dying and want a second chance can resurrect in the game giving players a a chance to prove themselves, they can spam it as it has a timer on it. But dying too many has its disadvantages. He has moderate damage and healing abilities in supporting his teammates.

Jeff the land shark

Difficulty: 2/5

He is one of the meme characters introduced by devs, to make the players hate them. As him, players can swallow enemies' characters and spit out their enemies making them take damage in doing so. He can traverse the map under the floor making him invulnerable during the movement.

Loki

Difficulty: 4/5

His basic attack either delas healing to teammates or damage to enemies so the player can spam the attack button regardless of the aim to contribute in the match. But his difficulty comes in his ultimate where he can transform into any of the characters from the roster and use their skills for a short while here comes the difficulty in mastering him as a support character.

Luna Snow

Difficulty: 3/5

Like Loki, she has an attack that either heals buffs or damages players depending on which team they are on. Her ultimate acts as an AoE attack which heals players while dealing damage and debuffing the movements of enemies. 

Mantis

Difficulty: 1/5

She is one of the easiest supports to master with a healing ability that can be used as fast as possible and a large AoE healing ability to help teammates.

Rocket Raccoon.

Difficulty: 1/5

He is one of the most damage-dealing supporters on the roster. He has a synergy with Groot where he rides on his back making a tank character on his back while dealing damage that is on par with the duelist class in damage numbers.

Cloak & Dagger

Difficulty: ?/5

They are a dua character where the player has the freedom to change between cloak or dagger where cloaks help in helping teammates while dagger helps in sealing skills and ultimates of enemies when hit with her skills. They are absent from the beta release of the game and are part of post-launch characters.

The game is expected to launch with 4 game modes with more in the future to come. They are Domination, Convoy, Convergence, and Conquest.