Marvel Rivalsis a 6v6 team game where you often have to rely on your allies to achieve victory despite good individual performances. As such, it may feel frustrating when you have been doing everything possible and yet you’re unable to win because of skill difference between your team and the opponent.
As it happens, it’s possible to solo carry games, and certain heroes that will make your task quite easy. If you’re looking to rank up solo, here’s a guide on all the heroes who can do that efficiently, including their move lists and potential counters to look out for.
While the heroes mentioned here will make it easier to solo carry, the player skill will matter at the end of the day when it comes to results and ranking up.
Overall Tips On Solo Carrying
Solo carrying in a team game like Marvel Rivals is undoubtedly difficult. There are too many variables and sometimes doing your absolute best isn’t enough. However, even though there isn’t a perfect method to what works, you’re able to always try to do the right thing to increase your chances.
One of the most essential tips to solo carry in this game isplaying around objectives. It is very easy to get carried away in securing kills. However, being the highest kill-taker on the scoreboard doesn’t mean you played well as you never focused on objectives which led to the opposition win.
Another crucial tip to consider when trying to solo carry games is increasing andimproving communication. Ranked games can be frustrating and its easy to lose your cool and flame your team for making a mistake. However, you must not forget that flaming your team won’t simply make them perform better.
attempt to be a leader in-game and encourage your team even when things look down. A positive attitude can go a long way and help you win matches that may seem completely lost from every possible scenario.
Finally,switch heroesif there is an imbalance. If your team has already picked Duelists, go for a Vanguard or a Strategist. You can get MVP while playing both of those classes, and your choice can become the difference between a win or a loss.
The Punisher
ThePunisheris a well-roundedlow-difficulty Duelistwho can deal massive damage from the backline and shred through both tanks and enemy healers with ease.
Use your weapon tofire at enemies like
Shoot apowerful shotgunat enemies
Punisher will shoot at enemies with two Gatlin Guns
Punisher can deploy a turretthat will deal massive damage
to enemies while blocking incoming projectiles.
Scourge Grenade
Punisher can throw a smoke grenade at enemies to blind them
while pushing himself backward.
Warrior’s Gaze
Punisher does not lose sight of his enemy even when they
Team Up Abilities
Infinite Punishment
If Rocket Racoon is in the team, he can throw an Ammo Overload
Device that will provide Punisher with Infinite Ammo and high fire rate.
How To Solo Carry As The Punisher
Punisher’s game plan is very simple. All you do issit in the backlineand shoot at the enemies. The reason why he is so good is becausehe can cover both long and short ranges. His Adjucation and Culling Turret will help you deal with tanks that keep their shields up all the time.
Once you start shooting at the enemy tank’s shield with your turret, they will get shredded, allowing you to take them down easily. If someone jumps at you, switch to your Shotgun and you can take them down in two hits at most.
As Punisher,you are extremely self-sufficientwhen it comes to firepower and mobility,and if you ever need heals, just look for one of the health packs on the map to top yourself up. You won’t have to rely on either your healer or your tanks to get anything done. As long as your aim is good, you will melt down everyone easily, thereby clearing up objectives and grabbing wins.
If things look rough, or you get surrounded, use your Scourge Grenade ability to run away.
Finally, your Ultimate ability is also very powerful, and you should use it to clean up enemies whenever its ready.
Possible Counters For The Punisher
While Punisher is quite strong, there are a few heroes who can make things difficult for you.Magnetois the first one you should look out for as while Punisher can damage his shield, the former can return it back using the Mag Cannon ability. This will mean that Punisher won’t be able to shoot freely at Magneto’s shields, unlike the case of other tanks.
Jeff the Land Sharkis also annoying for Punisher as he can swallow the latter along with his turret and throw him off the map. Punisher can also be swallowed during his ultimate ability, which means a lot of his kit is rendered meaningless.
Finally,Hawkeyeis a hard counter to Punisher as the former can simply one-shot the latter with his arrow. This will mean that Punisher will die before he even has a chance to shoot which will make it hard for him to solo carry games.
Hawkeye
Hawkeyeis a high-difficulty DPS unit who can shoot arrows from a distance to shut down his enemies.
Hawkeye canshoot a powerful arrow and deal
Hawkeye can release three explosive arrows
Hawkeye is able to trace the afterimageof enemies
and shoot at them to deal damage. He doesn’t need
Hawkeye can unsheath his Katana and slash at enemies.
Hawkeye can release a powerful arrow that can slow
enemies and knockdown airborne targets.
Hawkeye can perform a double jump to reach elevated platforms.
Archer’s Focus
Hawkeye can focus on a target and deal devastating damage to them
using his Piercing Arrow
Supersensory Vision
Hawkeye allows Black Widow to share the Hunter’s Sight ability when
they are in one team.
How To Solo Carry As Hawkeye
Hawkeye is all about aim and if you’re confident in that, he is your best choice to solo carry games. As Hawkeye,stay at the backline,charge up your arrow, and shoot down enemies with a single shot. He’s also the only hero in the game who can do that which makes him a top contender to solo carry games.
If an enemy is a Duelist or a Strategist, they will get one shot by Hawkeye, and in the case of Vanguard, you’ll need two hits at most. This means that as long as you have good aim, you’ll practically need just a couple of shots to clean up the map and free up objectives.
Additionally, he also has defensive capabilities where he can deflect incoming projectiles, knock back enemies with Crescent Slash if they get too close to him, and jump away to higher platforms with Skyward Leap.
If enemies every jump at you, fire your Blast Arrow at them as well since it deals a lot of damage and will push them backwards.
Yourultimate is also exceptionally strongand is particularly good at taking down flying enemies. Finally, being a backline hero, you never have to worry about heals as you can always grab the health packs on the map if you need one. This means you can do everything by yourself and never have to depend on your team to create openings for you.
Possible Counters For Hawkeye
Hawkeye is susceptible to any hero who can chase him even after he has knocked them back with Crescent Slash. There are two heroes who can do this effectively:Spider-Man and Psylocke. If you ever see these two heroes on the map and if they’re good, you are in for a hard time.
Both of them are extremely mobile and its hard to aim at them no matter how good you are. They will rush at you even when you try to push them back and will shut you down with easy.
Venom
Venomis a low-difficulty Vanguard unit that soaks up enemy attacks and acts as the team’s primary frontline.
Venom can use his tentacles to deal
Venom can dive underground and emerge
while dealing massive damage to enemies over
Venom can use his swing to travel across the map
The amount of health gained increases when Venom’s
Venom can jump onto enemies from a high vantage
point and knock them up.
Venom can use his tentacles to grab onto enemies
and deal damage if they fail to flee.
Venom is able to crawl and run over walls
Touch of Klyntar
Venom can share his Symbiotic powers with Spider-Man
and Peni Parker who in turn can deal damage to enemies.
How To Solo Carry As Venom
Solo carrying with Venom is probably one of the easiest things to do in Marvel Rivals. For starters, you’re able to deal a lot of damage to enemies with your Dark Predation ability. Since it has infinite ammo, you can spam it constantly, which will be very annoying to deal with.
Venom is one of those Vanguard units who candive into the enemy backline. If you ever see the enemy healer and backline DPS being a problem, use your Venom Swing to jump onto them and then your Frenzied Arrival ability to knock them up. Finally, simply spam your Dark Predation to take them down.
One of the key points about Venom when it comes to solo carrying isusing your Symbiotic Resilience properly. As long as you have this ability off cooldown, you cannot die. Once you activate it, and it goes into cooldown, run away from the fight for a bit and jump back in again when its ready. Just make sure to use itwhen your health drops below 25%, as that is when you get the maximum boost.
This will mean that you will never die, and the enemy will continue to focus on you, which will help you create space.
Always remember that solo carrying doesn’t always mean taking kills, but it also means single-handedly creating space and enabling your team to grab wins.
As Venom, you can do that easily, since your Symbiotic Resilience ability makes you immortal. If you ever feel you might die and there’s nowhere to run, use your ultimate ability as you not only deal damage, but also generate bonus health for yourself, which once again allows you to hold your ground in battle.
Possible Counters For Venom
Magnetois arguably one of the most difficult heroes to play against as Venom. This is because one of the most important parts of Venom’s kit which is Dark Predation gets negated by Magneto’s Metallic Curtain ability. Additionally, Venom’s attacks will charge up Magneto’s Mag Cannon which will deal devastating return fire towards the former.
Hakweyeis also annoying to play againstas Venom since he can chip down your health and can take you down in two hits by hitting your head. In such a case, even your Symbiotic Resilience won’t help you.
Magneto
Magnetois a low-difficulty Vanguard unit that can block attacks from enemies and reflect them back to deal reverse damage.
Magneto can throw magnetic rocks whose damage
Magneto can gather materials from the surrounding
to create a meteor that upon crashing deals massive
damage. It can also suck in enemy projectiles for more
Magneto can summon a shield around an ally. When that
Magneto creates a shield around himself which in turn absorbs
damage and creates Mag-Cannon charges
Mag Cannon
The charges Magneto gathers can be converted into a Mag Cannon
and launched at the enemy. The more stacks he has, the higher is
Magneto’s Greatsword is empowered by Scarlet Witch and he can
wield it to deal devastating damage.
How To Solo Carry As Magneto
Magneto is all about absorbing damage and throwing it back at the enemy. He can counter most of the DPS units in the game who have massive firepower, which is a major portion of the entire roster.
As Magneto, yourkey abilities are Iron Bulwark and Metal Bulwarkwhich you may either use on your allies or yourself. This will pretty muchnegate all kinds of projectile attacksthat the enemy might be throwing at you, which is going to happen a lot as players love to spam attacks.
All you have to do iskeep creating your stacksand use your Mag Cannon to deal devastating damage back at the enemies. This means enemies will always be at low health which will make it hard for them to engage.
You can also drop your Metallic Curtain to block off any incoming projectile in-case the Bulwark abilities are on cooldown.
Finally, whenever you have the chance, use your ultimate ability to absorb projectiles and crash it to wipe out multiple enemies. This will pretty much frustrate the enemy team as their attacks will be futile, and you will keepstanding like an immovable wallin front of them, making it easy to capture objectives and grab wins.
Possible Counters For Magneto
Magneto does not have any direct countersas if you’re smart, you’ll be very hard to kill regardless of the enemy. However, what you need to be careful about is the usage of your Bulwark abilities. If enemies corner you due to poor positioning, they can easily shatter your shields and leave you vulnerable.
Apart from that,Spider-Man can be an annoyingenemy to deal with as he can stun you and prevent you from using your abilities.Mantis is also very difficult to play againstas she can put you to sleep, which also prevents you from using your Bulwark shields, thereby putting you in a vulnerable position.
Spider-Man
Spider-Manis a high-difficulty Duelist unit that can swing across the map and damage enemies by shooting spider webs.
Spider-Man can shoot a Web-Cluster and attach a
Spider-Man can launch Web-Cluster in multiple directions
Spider-Man can swing across the map covering large distances.
Get Over Here
Spider-Man can shoot a webbing and pull an enemy close to him.
If the enemy is marked by Spider-Tracer, Spider-Man will get launched
Spider-Man can launch an enemy and deal damage. Enemy with
Thwip and Flip
Spider-Man gets notified when enemies are nearby.
Wall Crawl
Spider-Man can crawl and run over walls, thereby covering difficult terrain
Spider-Man gains Symbiotic abilities from Venom and can deal damage
to enemies while knocking them up.
Extra-Web Fluid
Spider-Man can give Squirrel Girl a web bomb which she can throw at
enemies.
How To Solo Carry As Spider-Man
Solo carrying as Spider-Man will be a little more difficult than the rest as the character is hard to play. However, once you get used to his kit, nobody will be able to stop you from ranking up, not even your team.
As Spider-Man yourbiggest strength is the agilitywith which you’re able to easilydive enemy backlineand destroy their DPS and healers. All you do is swing in, attach a Spider-Tracer, use your Amazing Combo ability in combination with Spider-Power, and finish off your enemy.
If there are multiple enemies, activate your ultimate, which will stun enemies, damage them, and leave room for you to finish them off. However, on account of yourWall Crawl, Spider Swing,andThwip and Flip,it’ll bevery hard to lock you down.
As such, you’re able to easily take care of at least two to three enemies by yourself, thereby creating a massive advantage for your team and clearing up objectives. Finally, if enemies are trying to run from you, apart from using all your movement abilities, you can also use Get Over Here and pull them close to you.
This is sometimes important when your other options are on cooldown. Always remember,cooldown management is importantif you want to solo carry as Spider-Man.
Make sure every time you press an ability, there’s a purpose to it instead of wasting it. It will take some time to learn the timings, but once you do, you will rank up very fast.
Possible Counters For Spider-Man
Mantisis one of the best counters to Spider-Man as she can put him to sleep, thereby rendering all his abilities useless.Scarlet Witchis also decent against Spider-Man as her Chaos Control ability can drain the former’s health very fast.
Mantis
Mantisis a low-difficulty Strategist who can heal allies, put enemies to sleep, and provide buffs to the team.
Normal Attack
Life Energy Blast
Mantis shoots an energy thorn and regains a Life Orb on
Soul Resurgence
Mantisreleases energy around her where she provides healing overtime
to all allies along with movement boosts. Any unit at full health gets the healing
Mantis can put an enemy to sleep.
Allied Inspiration
Mantis absorbs a Life Orb and grants damage boost to allies.
Mantis absorbs a Life Orb and grants self damage boost.
Mantis consumes Life Orbs and provides allies healing over time.
Mantis automatically receives movement speed and healing over time when
Mantis receives rebirth when paired with Adam Warlock.
How To Solo Carry As Mantis
Mantis can do a lot despite being an easy unit to play, and she’s able to single-handedly change the course of a fight. Firstly,she can deal very good damagewith her Life Energy Blast. Being a backline hero, you’ll constantly annoy enemies with your headshots while also gaining Life Orbs for yourself.
Your healing overtime is very good,and your team will always be healthyas long as you are alive, making it very easy to control objectives. Additionally,you can boost the damage of your DPSwhen they trigger their ultimate abilities to make it easier to take down enemies. Finally, if you feel like it, you can increase your own damage and keep shooting your Life Energy Blast at the enemies dealing devastating damage.
Her ultimate is also very powerful asthe bonus health can pretty muchnegate all kinds of burst attacks. All you need to do is time it right when an enemy is about to land a massive AoE ultimate, and your team will heal faster than they take damage. This will mean that anenemy’s ultimate ability will be completely wasted,and now your team is at a massive advantage.
Overall Mantis’s utility is unmatched in the game and her ability to deal damage, heal allies, buff allies, and shut down enemy ultimate, makes her one of the best characters for solo play.
Potential Counters For Mantis
While Mantis is very strong, she is also extremely squishy and is susceptible to dives. A hero likePunishercan shoot her down from a distance and kill her very quickly.
Hawkeyeis also a very annoying hero to play against as he can one-shot Mantis from very far away, making it difficult for her to play the game.
Jeff the Land Shark
Jeff the Land Sharkis a low-difficulty Strategist who primarily functions as a healer in the game.
Jeff shoots powerful AoE projectiles at enemies
It’s Jeff
Jeff can dive into the ground and swallow all enemies
and allies within a AoE, thereby dealing damage to the former
and launching everyone at a distance.
Hide and Seek
Jeff can dive underground with only his fin visible and receive
healing during the duration.
Healing Bubble
Jeff drops healing bubbles on the ground that can be picked
up by allies for heals and movement boost.
Jeff’s abilities are powered up with Ice when paired alongside
Jeff can ride over Groot’s shoulders and receive reduced damage
in return.
How To Solo Carry As Jeff the Land Shark
Jeff is very simple to play, but very effective as he has amazing potential to solo carry a team. While his Joyful Splash ability is very good, his true value comes from theHealing Bubble skill. These bubbles are like health packs that you can pretty much drop anywhere on the battlefield. This allows your team to stay a lot longer on the objective, making it easier to win games.
All you need to do is drop the bubbles in and around the objectives so that your allies get healed during fights. Additionally, you canshut down a lot of enemy ultimates by simply swallowing themand pushing them away from your team. If you time your abilities correctly, you may also protect your allies by swallowing them, and they won’t take any damage from AoE ultimates of the enemy team.
Thereby,you will be wasting your enemy’s most powerful skills and create a massive advantage for your team. Finally, its very hard to lock down Jeff since he can use the Hide and Seek ability to run away. This will help you to run away in case anyone tries to dive you.
Possible Counters For Jeff
The biggest counters to Jeff are enemies with high mobility. If there is aSpider-Manon the enemy team, he can simply jump away when you try to land your ultimate. The same goes for heroes likeVenom, Hela, and Iron Man,who can all run away from Jeff’s ultimate ability.
If you can’t catch them, they will threaten your entire team and your ultimate will be wasted.Hawkeyeis also difficult to play against as he can land headshots on you and kill you before you get to get close to him.
Hela
Helais a medium-difficulty Duelist who can rain down destruction on enemies from the sky.
Hela throws Nightsword Thorns at enemies
Hela rises to the sky and rains down destruction
Hela can transform into a Nastrond Crow and travel
Hela throws a grenade that can suck in enemies
Hela summon a group of Nightsword Thorns and
Whenever Hela gets a kill, a Nastrond Crow spawns
in the that location and explodes, damaging nearby
Team-Up Abilities
Queen of Hel
Hela grants bonus health to Loki and Thor when she scores
a kill.
How To Solo Carry As Hela
Solo carrying as Hela is pretty simple as she has a well-rounded kit that deals damage while also providing her with an escape. Hela’s Nightsword Thorns deal massive damage when you hit someone on the head, so that should always be your primary target.
If someone jumps at you,use yourAstral Flock ability to run awayto a safe location. Additionally, if you see multiple enemies diving, drop yourSoul Drainer to stun the enemiesand then use Astral Flock to escape.
Whenever your Ultimate is available, use it in a way where you’ll have a view over multiple enemies and can take them down all at once. Overall, she has a very simple kit, but her damage and ability to escape makes her hard to deal with, and she can snowball games very quickly.
Your damage and ability to wipe out multiple enemies with your ultimate will help you to create space for your team and thereby make it easy to capture objectives.
Possible Counters For Hela
Hela doesn’t have any direct countersas her escape makes it hard to dive, while her damage is too high to deal with. However, if the enemy team picks Hela, you have to be careful as they can do the exact same things you may be doing. If they outperform you, there’s nothing you can do but accept the loss.
Additionally,Hawkeyeis a good counter to Hela as he can one-shot her, thereby removing the threat of the unit entirely.
