Marvel Rivals Mantis guide: Abilities, ultimate, tips, more

Marvel Rivals may be all about destroying the enemy team, but without a powerful healer or support like Mantis, you’re getting nowhere.

Mantis is an iconic Strategist in Marvel Rivals, providing your team with healing, and utility, and some all-important damage boosts. However, what really makes her shine compared to other Strategist characters is that her healing and other abilities can lock on to your teammates instead of requiring you to aim at them.

Of course, you still need to have a line of sight, but it should automatically make Mantis your go-to support if your team consists of mobile heroes. However, to thrive, you’ll need to know how to play her, and what team you should add her to.

Mantis stats in Marvel Rivals

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• Class: Strategist
• Health: 275
• Movement: 6m per second
• Life Orb Cooldown: 4 charges with 3s recharge for each

Weapons

Mantis’ main weapon is her Life Energy Blast, a projectile that requires you to lead your shots. If you manage to land a critical hit, you can restore her Life Orb, allowing you to use your abilities.

Her Life Energy Blast stats can be found below:

Casting	Single projectile
Damage	50 per round
Speed	150m per second
Fire Rate	2.5 rounds per second
Ammo	20
Special Effect	Critical hit generates one Life Orb

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Abilities

Mantis excels at healing and giving damage boosts to teammates. However, using each ability consumes a Life Orb, making it extremely important to balance healing and landing your hits.

Ability	Details	What it does
Soul Resurgence	Casting: Surrounding spell field Healing amount: 150 Caster and Ally healing amount: 200 Movement boost: 3m per second Excess Healing conversion: 70% / 100 Range: 15m radius Duration: 8s Energy Cost: 3700	Release energy while moving providing healing and movement boost to surrounding allies. Excess healing turns into Bonus Health.
Spore Slumber	Casting: Single-cast projection generating spell field Damage: 10 Range: 3m radius Sedation Duration: 3.5s Effect: Illusions will appear beside the sedated hero. Illusion Health: 100 Cooldown: 15s	Throw a spore to Sedate the nearest enemy.
Allied Inspiration	Damage Boost: 12% Duration: 8s Cooldown: Consume one Life Orb	Use Life Orbs to grant allies a Damage Boost.
Natural Anger	Damage Boost: 12% Duration: 8s Cooldown: Consume one Life Orb	Use Life Orbs to grant Mantis a Damage Boost.
Healing Flower	Effect: Provides one-time healing and Healing Over Time One Time Healing Amount: 55 Healing Over Time Amount: 20 seconds Duration: 8s Cooldown: Consume one Life Orb	Use Life Orbs to grant allies Healing Over Time.
Nature’s Favor	Time required to leave combat: 3s Out-of-combat movement speed: 8.5m per second Effect: Consume One Life Orb for Healing Over Time Healing Amount: 12.5 per second Duration: 8s	Use Life Orbs to gain Movement boost when not injured and Healing Over Time.
Nature’s Soul	Cooldown: 120s	Adam Warlock enhances the power of Star-Lord and Mantis

Tips to play Mantis in Marvel Rivals

With Mantis, you’ll want to stay in the backline and poke the enemy as much as you can during fights, even if you’re not using too many Life Orbs on your teammates.

When you do use your Life Orbs on your allies, prioritize giving your heal orbs to characters that the other Strategists have trouble reaching or aiming their skills at, like Spider-Man or Iron Man. And give them a damage orb, too, if you can, especially if they’re contesting the enemy.

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Mantis’s job as a Strategist is to support your teammates, so you want to be increasing the Duelist’s damage, or the movement of the tank so they can get to protecting you better.

Remember to watch your Life Orbs during fights and try to dish out some damage whenever possible. The last thing you’ll want to happen is to run out of resources during critical moments.

Best team comp

Mantis is only as good as those on her team, so we recommend pairing her up with the following characters:

• Adam Warlock
• Magneto
• Rocket Racoon
• Luna Snow

Adam Warlock

Thanks to the Team-Up abilities, Adam Warlock and Mantis work perfectly together, both providing tactical healing, boosts, and movement when required. When they’re both placed at the back of the team, this combination is unfounded and is often regarded as the best backline composition in the game.

Check out our Adam Warlock guide for more details on the character.

Magneto

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Magneto is a pretty powerful addition to Marvel Rivals on his own, but when you combine him with Mantis, you’re able to hand out constant damage boosts to an already strong character, as well as some AoE sleep abilities to keep the rest of the team alive. A powerful addition like Magneto only becomes stronger with the help of Mantis.

Check out our Magneto guide for more details on the character.

Rocket Racoon

Rocket is the perfect addition to Mantis, allowing a little distance to be kept between the squishier allies and the enemy. After all, if Mantis is going to be using a lot of Healing Over Time abilities, she needs to be kept alive, and few backline characters can do that like Rocket Racoon.

Check out our Rocket Racoon guide for more details on the character.

Luna Snow

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Luna Snow is a fantastic complement to Mantis, particularly when they’re paired up in the backline. Luna Snow provides fantastic sustain and keeps herself alive, but she can also freeze enemies which, when combined with Mantis’ stun, causes chaos to even the toughest of enemies. Simply freeze an enemy, boost your allies’ damage, and let the Duelists take them down.

Check out our Luna Snow guide for more details on the character.

Best counters

Thanks to her healing, stuns, and damage boost abilities, having Mantis alive as an enemy isn’t ideal. So, here’s who we recommend to help take her down:

• Venom
• Spider-Man
• The Punisher
• Hulk

Venom

Quick hits, free movement by burrowing underground, and granting Bonus Health are all perfect ways to tackle Mantis as Venom. Players will want to burrow underneath the rest of the team and get close to Mantic. Once you’ve done that, grant yourself bonus health, attack fast, and use your tentacles to slow any reactions. Then either burrow or wall crawl out of there.

Check out our Venom guide for more details on the character.

Spider-Man

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Similarly to Venom, Spider-Man’s biggest counter to Mantis is his movement. Mantis doesn’t provide much damage, but rather increases the damage of others and keeps them alive. So, you need to avoid the team and dive straight for her. Wall climb, double jump, or pull her in with your webs and take her down fast.

Check out our Spider-Man guide for more details on the character.

The Punisher

The Punisher is power at either close or mid-range, putting him in the prime position to take down Mantis. Simply obscure the enemy team, and get to the backline to take her out with ease. As previously mentioned, she hasn’t got the power of attack The Punisher does, so as long as you get to her, you’ll be fine.

Check out our The Punisher guide for more details on the character.

That’s all you need to know about Mantis in Marvel Rivals. For more on the game, check out our full character tier list, how to get the current Twitch Drops, the best controller settings, Battle Pass details, all currencies, and the free Iron Man code.