Marvel Rivals features more than 50 heroes, and Team-Ups add another layer of strategy by allowing specific characters to combine their abilities. While every hero has access to two Team-Ups, one option is often more useful depending on the hero’s role, abilities, and the composition of the team.
Some Team-Ups provide straightforward damage increases, while others introduce completely new abilities, defensive tools, healing effects, or unique interactions between heroes.
Here are the best Team-Ups for every hero in Marvel Rivals, along with their base and enhanced effects.
Quick summary
- Every hero has two Team-Up abilities available.
- The best choice can depend on your team composition and the situation in a match.
- Some Team-Ups become significantly stronger when their enhanced effect is activated.
- Notable options include Mantis’ Star Blossom, The Punisher’s Ammo Overload, and The Thing’s Two-In-One.
Best Team-Up for every Marvel Rivals hero
Most heroes have a Team-Up that stands out as their strongest or most generally useful option. However, the alternative can still be effective in specific situations, particularly when its enhanced effect can be activated.
Here is the complete list of recommended Team-Ups.
Adam Warlock — Flawless Design
Partner: Ultron
Base effect: Cosmic Cluster also heals allies.
Enhanced effect: When Ultron is on the team, Cosmic Cluster creates an explosion when it hits.
Angela — Odin’s Unacknowledged
Partner: Loki
Base effect: Angela projects an illusion forward that uses Assassin’s Charge to attack enemies. Enemies hit head-on are carried through the air briefly.
Enhanced effect: Teaming up with Loki gives the ability two charges.
Black Cat — Binding Ties
Partner: Spider-Man
Base effect: Turn of Fortune is replaced with Spider-Web Grapple, which has two charges. Hitting an enemy steals Fortune and applies a Spider-Tracer. Striking a marked enemy with another ability triggers the mark for bonus damage.
Enhanced effect: When Spider-Man is on the team, hitting an enemy already carrying a Spider-Tracer temporarily immobilizes them.
Black Panther — Damisa-Tao
Partner: Storm
Base effect: Black Panther unleashes the elemental energy stored in his armor, damaging and slowing nearby enemies while applying Vibranium Marks.
Enhanced effect: Storm’s presence causes enemies within range to be launched toward Black Panther.
Black Widow — Burning Bullets
Partner: Phoenix
Base effect: Activation increases the Red Room Rifle’s fire rate. Her Plasma Cannon also becomes a hitscan laser that no longer requires charging.
Enhanced effect: Teaming up with Phoenix gives the Plasma Cannon a second charge.
Blade — Bleed for Battle
Partner: Moon Knight
Base effect: Blade gains Bloodline Awakening stacks after taking set amounts of damage.
Enhanced effect: When teamed with Captain America, taking critical damage immediately activates Bloodline Awakening, providing additional stacks and increasing the maximum stack limit.
Captain America — Voltaic Union
Partner: Thor
Base effect: Sentinel Strike becomes a Lightning Shield projectile. After two hits, Captain America launches the piercing shield four times.
Enhanced effect: Thor enhances the shield’s lightning energy, causing every Lightning Shield hit to trigger an additional burst of area damage.
Cloak and Dagger — Frozen Haven
Partner: Luna Snow
Base effect: Cloak and Dagger channel frost energy to encase themselves in an ice barrier. While frozen, they cannot move but can be healed and provide a weak healing aura to nearby allies.
Enhanced effect: Luna Snow greatly increases the strength of the healing aura.
Cyclops — Slim and Red
Partner: Phoenix
Base effect: Ricochet Force summons Phoenix Force energy that burns enemies over time. Hitting an ignited target with Optic Blast or Concussive Beam instantly triggers part of the remaining burn damage.
Enhanced effect: Phoenix’s presence allows Spark detonations to reduce Ricochet Force’s cooldown.
Daredevil — Devilish Affair
Partner: Black Widow
Base effect: Daredevil swings Devil’s Chain in a criss-cross pattern, damaging enemies and slowing them.
Enhanced effect: Black Widow increases the damage radius, while successful hits restore Fury.
Deadpool — “Hell-Yeah, Honey”
Partner: Hela
Base effect: Deadpool receives upgrades from Hel that allow his Desert Eagles or Katanas to be upgraded one additional time. The enhanced weapons gain additional effects, including piercing attacks, homing death-rattle bubbles, healing, and percentage-based true damage.
Enhanced effect: When teamed with Hela, both the Desert Eagles and Katanas can receive an additional upgrade.
Devil Dinosaur — Surf & Turf
Partner: Jeff the Land Shark
Base effect: Impact Beam becomes a frontal water spray that damages enemies and heals teammates.
Enhanced effect: Jeff can ride on Devil Dinosaur’s head. Both characters receive Damage Reduction and Continuous Healing while riding.
Doctor Strange — Psionic Vortex
Partner: Invisible Woman
Base effect: Maelstrom of Madness becomes Psionic Vortex, pulling enemies toward Doctor Strange. Shield of the Seraphim also gains additional shield value.
Enhanced effect: Damage dealt by Psionic Vortex provides Doctor Strange with proportional Bonus Health.
Elsa Bloodstone — Loudmouth Mercs
Partner: Deadpool
Base effect: Living Bullet becomes a special round that taunts, slows, and damages nearby enemies over time. When it returns, it heals Elsa based on damage dealt and increases the maximum gauge for her Inherited Instinct passive.
Enhanced effect: Deadpool dramatically increases the rate at which Elsa builds Instinct.
Emma Frost — Iced Out Diamond
Partner: Luna Snow
Base effect: Emma projects ice energy that damages and slows enemies. In Diamond Form, she creates an Absolute Zero Diamond barrier that blocks enemy attacks and movement.
Enhanced effect: Luna Snow causes Emma’s damaging abilities to apply Slow while in Diamond Form, including Telepathic Pulse.
Gambit — Favorable Odds
Partner: Magneto
Base effect: Gambit throws two magnetic cards that spin after hitting a character or the environment. They heal allies and damage and launch enemies.
Enhanced effect: The cards reverse their magnetic poles at the end of their duration and slam together, creating an additional burst of healing and damage.
Groot — Wild Wall
Partner: Mantis
Base effect: Groot creates a Wild Wall that continuously heals allies and grants Bonus Health to characters within its range.
Enhanced effect: The wall evolves after providing a certain amount of healing, increasing its healing output.
Hawkeye — Senbonzakura Strike
Partner: Psylocke
Base effect: Blast Arrow becomes Psionic Arrow. Hawkeye can store multiple arrows before releasing them simultaneously.
Enhanced effect: Psylocke increases the nocking speed of Psionic Arrows, which also explode when they hit enemies or the environment.
Hela — Deep Wrath
Partner: Namor
Base effect: Hela’s KOs spawn an Undead Monstro at the defeated enemy’s location. Piercing Night can command the Monstro to fire a Nightsword Thorn at the nearest enemy.
Enhanced effect: When teamed with Namor, every attack during Goddess of Death spawns an Undead Monstro at the point of impact.
Hulk — Savage Slam
Partner: Captain America
Base effect: Hulk leaps into the air and smashes the ground, damaging enemies while reducing other ability cooldowns based on his remaining Health.
Enhanced effect: Captain America causes the slam to apply Vulnerability to enemies hit.
Human Torch — Fiery Sparks
Partner: Jubilee
Base effect: Human Torch automatically detects nearby enemies and launches tracking Firework Sparks that chip away at their health.
Enhanced effect: Successfully hitting an enemy with a Firework Spark grants Human Torch Bonus Health.
Invisible Woman — United Siblings
Partner: Human Torch
Base effect: Invisible Woman creates a Flame Shield around an ally. The shield blocks incoming damage, heals nearby allies, boosts projectiles fired through it, and slows enemies that pass through.
Enhanced effect: Human Torch increases the shield’s radius and significantly boosts its shield value.
Iron Fist — Iron & Stone
Partner: The Thing
Base effect: Iron Fist unleashes a powerful uppercut that launches enemies.
Enhanced effect: When teamed with The Thing, the uppercut can immediately transition into a sweeping leg attack.
Iron Man — Thunder Overdrive
Partner: Thor
Base effect: Unibeam is enhanced both inside and outside Armor Overdrive. Lightning energy forms around the beam and deals bonus damage near its edge.
Enhanced effect: Thor significantly reduces Iron Man’s Armor Overdrive cooldown.
Jeff the Land Shark — Guardian of the Deep
Partner: Venom
Base effect: Jeff fires healing tendrils that provide Continuous Healing to linked allies. Excess healing becomes Bonus Health.
Enhanced effect: Venom allows the tendrils to also attack nearby enemies, dealing continuous damage.
Jubilee — Hellfire Sparks
Partner: The Hood
Base effect: When Attack Speed is enhanced, Energy Plasmoids become hitscan attacks that heal Jubilee on hit and can critically strike.
Enhanced effect: The Hood prevents the Void Magic Mark from being cleared, allowing Jubilee to maintain the hitscan attack form indefinitely.
Loki — Vibrant Vitality
Partner: Mantis
Base effect: Regeneration Domain grants allies within its range a Damage Boost, while the Runestone expands the domain’s radius.
Enhanced effect: Mantis causes Regeneration Domain to release a damaging shockwave that slightly launches enemies.
Luna Snow — Atlas Bond
Partner: White Fox
Base effect: Luna sends a spirit fox forward that Charms enemies and heals allies. Activating the ability also cleanses negative status effects from Luna.
Enhanced effect: With White Fox, the fox automatically returns after reaching maximum range while retaining the self-cleanse.
Magik — Chain of Cyttorak
Partner: Doctor Strange
Base effect: Chain of Cyttorak can tether two enemies simultaneously and pull them together.
Enhanced effect: Doctor Strange allows the ability to tether multiple enemies at once and bring the entire group to a single location.
Magneto — Metallic Chaos
Partner: Scarlet Witch
Base effect: Magneto swings a large Chaos Greatsword forward, damaging enemies.
Enhanced effect: Scarlet Witch transforms Mag-Cannon into a charged ability that consumes Magneto’s passive energy. Each tick of energy releases a Chaos Greatsword, while the Metallic Chaos projectile can also launch enemies.
Mantis — Star Blossom
Partner: Star-Lord
Base effect: Recasting Healing Flower on an affected teammate enhances and spreads its healing aura.
Enhanced effect: With Star-Lord, using Healing Flower on any teammate immediately activates the enhanced spell field and healing effect.
Moon Knight — Luminous Moon
Partner: Cloak & Dagger
Base effect: Moon Knight enters a Phased state and dashes forward. The ability ends with a Light Energy Healing Wave that heals Moon Knight and nearby allies.
Enhanced effect: Cloak & Dagger increase the Phased duration, dash distance, healing radius, and healing output.
Mister Fantastic — Fantastic Amplifier
Partner: Rocket Raccoon
Base effect: Mister Fantastic equips the Fantastic Amplifier, increasing his maximum Elasticity and allowing him to enter Inflation State.
Enhanced effect: Rocket Raccoon causes Brainiac Bounce to launch enemies.
Namor — Gamma Monstro
Partner: Hulk
Base effect: Namor summons an additional Gamma Monstro that continuously attacks the nearest enemy. Critical hits increase its Attack Speed, while Wrath of the Seven Seas causes it to fire a powerful beam.
Enhanced effect: Hulk allows Blessing of the Deep to create a Gamma-infused water barrier. Standing inside it accelerates Gamma Monstro’s cooldown and grants it a Damage Boost.
Peni Parker — Rocket Network
Partner: Rocket Raccoon
Base effect: Peni deploys an Armored Spider-Nest that periodically creates Spider-Drones and Armor Packs that provide Bonus Health.
Enhanced effect: Rocket Raccoon allows the Spider-Nest to regenerate its own Health. Rocket’s B.R.B. also generates Cyber-Webs and additional Spider-Drones and Arachno-Mines.
Phoenix — Circle of Life
Partner: Hela
Base effect: Psionic Detonation becomes Phoenix Netherfire, which applies a Telekinetic Mark and unleashes a series of explosions. The initial explosion briefly Stuns enemies, while subsequent blasts apply Healing Reduction and Sparks.
Enhanced effect: Hela causes every explosion in the sequence to apply multiple stacks of Sparks.
Psylocke — Mental Projection
Partner: Emma Frost
Base effect: Psylocke creates an illusion that dashes forward using Psi-Blade Dash while Psylocke enters Stealth. The illusion copies her attacks.
Enhanced effect: Emma Frost allows Psylocke to reactivate the ability and instantly switch places with the illusion.
The Punisher — Ammo Overload
Partner: Rocket Raccoon
Base effect: The Punisher throws an Ammo Overload Device. Entering its range grants Faster Firing.
Enhanced effect: Rocket Raccoon adds Infinite Ammo to the Faster Firing effect.
Rocket Raccoon — Planet X Pals
Partner: Groot
Base effect: Bombard Mode becomes an attack that launches Thorny Spores. The spores damage enemies while healing allies and granting Bonus Health.
Enhanced effect: Groot allows Rocket to ride on his shoulders and increases the duration of the Thorny Spores field.
Rogue — Mr. & Mrs. X
Partner: Gambit
Base effect: Every attack after activation creates a kinetic explosion that damages nearby enemies and heals allies.
Enhanced effect: Gambit keeps Rogue permanently in the “Hearts as One” state.
Scarlet Witch — Sorcerers Supreme
Partner: Doctor Strange
Base effect: Chthonian Burst becomes Mystic Burst, allowing Scarlet Witch to unleash a rapid stream of magical missiles.
Enhanced effect: With Doctor Strange, Mystic Burst becomes a toggle ability that can be used freely without consuming energy.
Spider-Man — Symbiote Bond
Partner: Venom
Base effect: Venom shares part of his symbiote with Spider-Man, allowing Spider-Man to create explosive spikes that damage nearby enemies and knock them back.
Enhanced effect: Venom adds Touch of Klyntar tendrils that continuously tether and damage enemies.
Squirrel Girl — Squirrel Missile
Partner: Iron Man
Base effect: Squirrel Girl gains a homing missile ability in which a squirrel rides Iron Man’s nanotech glove before exploding on impact.
Enhanced effect: Using Squirrel Blockade also launches a Squirrel Missile.
Star-Lord — Flora Munitions
Partner: Groot
Base effect: Star-Lord gains the ability to throw Twisted Thorn Seeds that sprout into Thorn Snares. Enemies caught by the snares take damage and are Rooted.
Enhanced effect: Groot increases the number of Thorn Snares and boosts their damage.
Storm — Jaws of Fate
Partner: Jeff the Land Shark
Base effect: Storm summons a torrential downpour that continuously heals herself and her teammates.
Enhanced effect: Jeff can swim inside Storm’s Omega Hurricane, creating a localized “Jeff-nado.”
The Hood — New Moon’s Shadow
Partner: Moon Knight
Base effect: Abyssal Veil becomes a Lunar Barrier that blocks projectiles. When the barrier breaks, it damages enemies and applies Damage and Healing Reduction. Enemies passing through are also briefly Blinded.
Enhanced effect: Moon Knight increases the barrier’s shield value, while The Hood’s attacks passing through it gain a bounce effect.
The Thing — Two-In-One
Partner: Human Torch
Base effect: The Thing enters an enhanced flaming state. Rocky Jab deals splash damage, while Stone Haymaker creates an explosion in a frontal cone.
Enhanced effect: Human Torch can lift The Thing into the air and slam him into the ground, damaging and Stunning nearby enemies. The Thing then automatically enters his flaming enhanced state.
Thor — Ragnarok Rebirth
Partner: Hela
Base effect: Fatal damage does not immediately defeat Thor. Instead, he gains a decaying pool of Bonus Health. Participating in a KO during this period revives him and restores some Health.
Enhanced effect: When teamed with Hela, either hero participating in a KO instantly revives Thor, restoring Health based on his remaining Bonus Health and granting Continuous Healing.
Ultron — SP//DR Sync
Partner: Peni Parker
Base effect: Ultron applies Imperative: Patch to all allies.
Enhanced effect: With Peni Parker, Imperative: Firewall applies to all Drones, allowing its effects to trigger multiple times simultaneously.
Venom — Abyssal Flames
Partner: Phoenix
Base effect: Venom infuses his symbiote with Phoenix Flames, replacing Dark Predation with a sweeping Avian Claw attack.
Enhanced effect: Each Avian Claw applies a Spark. At three stacks, the Sparks detonate.
White Fox — Lucky Loan
Partner: Black Cat
Base effect: White Fox receives an Orb of Life that restores Spirit Tail Energy and converts life energy into Nine-Tailed Aura. The aura tracks nearby allies and enemies, providing Speed and Healing to allies while damaging and slowing enemies.
Enhanced effect: Using the Orb creates a state in which Spirit Tail Energy is not consumed for a period, allowing free use of Spectral Surge and Fox Form Awakening.
Winter Soldier — Expert Instinct
Partner: Elsa Bloodstone
Base effect: Securing or participating in a KO grants a Culling Instinct stack. Each stack reduces the cooldowns of Winter Soldier’s other abilities, but all stacks are lost upon defeat.
Enhanced effect: Elsa Bloodstone increases the Bonus Health generated by Ceaseless Charge.
Wolverine — Blast Slash
Partner: Cyclops
Base effect: Savage Claw and Berserk Claw Strike gain increased attack range. Vicious Rampage is replaced by Kinetic Claws, which briefly lunges Wolverine forward and unleashes a flurry of slashes.
Enhanced effect: With Cyclops, Blast Slash remains permanently active.
Which Team-Up should you choose?
While the Team-Ups above are generally the strongest options for their respective heroes, there is no single choice that works in every match. Team composition, enemy heroes, map layout, and the ability to activate an enhanced effect can all influence which Team-Up provides the most value.
In many cases, the enhanced effect is a bonus rather than the deciding factor. Since players cannot always control which heroes their teammates select, it is often better to choose a Team-Up that provides useful benefits even without its enhanced version.
Team-Ups also receive balance adjustments as Marvel Rivals continues to evolve, meaning the strongest choices can change with future seasonal and mid-season updates.
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