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Marvel Rivals is and how the game functions overall. Marvel Rivals is a new 6v6 third-person hero shooter from NetEase Games in collaboration with Disney's Marvel Games. It is a free-to-play title available across all current generation platforms. Built on Unreal Engine 5, the game launched with eight original maps based on iconic landmarks seen in Marvel movies and comics.
NetEase Games has introduced a 35-character roster for Marvel Rivals with characters like Cloak and Dagger, Rocket Racoon, and Mantis. These characters are divided into three sub-classes, Duelists, Vanguards, and Strategists. From the Strategist sub-class, Mantis is an excellent character for all beginners and intermediate players. Here's how to play Mantis in Marvel Rivals.
Marvel Rivals: Mantis 101
Let us begin with a rundown of Mantis in Marvel Rivals. Mantis is a mobile Strategist character with the ability to take long and short-range fights with the ability to buff the damage of her teammates and heal them at the same time. Here's a complete overview of Mantis's move set:
Passive
- Mantis core gameplay revolves around her Life Orb mechanic, which fuels her heals and buffs. She has access to a maximum of 4 life orbs, with one being regenerated every 3 seconds.
- Her passive, Nature's Favour, provides Mantis with 40% increased movement speed whenever she's not damaged for 3 seconds.
Abilities
- Life Energy Blast: Her primary fire, Life Energy Blast, launches a fast-moving thorn projectile to deal damage. This ability is not affected by damage falloff, making it a hitscan ability. Landing critical hits with this ability instantly generates one Life Orb.
- Healing Flower: Her secondary fire, Healing Flower, places a heal-over-time effect on her targeted ally that lasts for 8 seconds. Upon casting, the target also gains an instant heal of 55 health. This ability consumes one Life Orb.
- Allied Inspiration: Grants a 12% damage boost on her targeted ally that lasts for 8 seconds. This ability consumes one Life Orb.
- Natural Anger: Grants Mantis a 12% damage boost that lasts for 8 seconds. This ability consumes one Life Orb.
- Spore Slumber: It has Mantis lobbing a projectile that explodes in an AOE, putting one opponent caught within to sleep. It deals 10 damage and creates an illusion behind her target that can be shot by the enemy team to wake the target up.
- Enemies hit by the ability will be stunned for 3.5 seconds, or until they take damage.
- Enemies will not wake up if they take damage for the first 0.5 seconds of the stun. This allows Mantis to shoot once immediately after using the ability without waking the opponent up.
- Soul Resurgence: Her Ultimate, Soul Resurgence, has Mantis enveloped by an aura that provides healing over time and increased movement speed. This ability lasts for 8 seconds and affects all allies within the radius around her, as well as Mantis herself.
How to Play Mantis
Mantis is a very straightforward strategist with high utility value, which can keep a team in fight for longer than usual and make enemies dump loads of utility to take objective sites. Playing Mantis is a little different from the other strategists in the game. Her fast movement speed makes her a very agile strategist who is able to deal damage and heal her team at the same time.
However, her life orb mechanic makes her healing a little tricky. To play Mantis efficiently, you must keep a tab on your Life Orb count at all times. Keep dealing constant damage alongside healing your team to keep your life orb recharging throughout the duration of the match. As for ultilizing her kit, you must stay at the backline at all times and avoid getting aggressive with the frontline of the enemy team. Your heals should primarily go to your Vanguards, and other Strategists. In between healing them, you can provide heals to your Duelist from time to time. As for her Ultimate, it functions similar to Luna Snow's Ultimate; you can use it to retake sites or keep your team alive against other Ultimates like Cloak and Dagger and Venom.
Aside from healing, remember to inspire your team in between the heals to give them a damage boost; this will help you recharge your ultimate faster. Moreover, your Duelists will end up taking out enemies much quicker than usual. Your bailout and clutch ability is the Spore Slumber, which is a tranquillizer orb that basically puts your enemies to sleep if they fall into its' area of explosion. You can use this ability to stop enemy divers if they get too close to you or if they get to close to your Vanguards. Mantis is an excellent strategist capable of healing and dealing damage efficiently no matter which game mode you're playing.
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