Comprehensive Mantis Guide: Abilities, Ultimate Moves, Tips, and More in Marvel Rivals

While the compelling goal in Marvel Rivals is the elimination of opposing teams, the absence of a robust healer like Mantis can impede your progress. Her unique role as a Strategist is crucial for elevating your team’s performance through healing, utility, and essential damage enhancements.

What truly distinguishes Mantis from other Strategists is her ability to automatically lock onto teammates for healing and buffs, alleviating the need for precise targeting. This makes her an invaluable asset, particularly in teams composed of agile heroes. To harness her full potential, however, players must understand her mechanics and optimal team compositions.

Mantis’ Stats

Mantis in Marvel Rivals — Source: Dexerto / Netease

Class: Strategist
Health: 275
Movement Speed: 6m per second
Life Orb Cooldown: 4 charges, each recharging in 3 seconds

Weapons Overview

Mantis wields the Life Energy Blast, a projectile weapon that necessitates leading your shots. Successful critical hits restore her Life Orb, allowing for greater utilization of her abilities.

Here are the key statistics for the Life Energy Blast:

Casting	Single projectile
Damage	50 per shot
Speed	150m per second
Fire Rate	2.5 rounds per second
Ammo Capacity	20
Special Effect	Critical hits generate one Life Orb

Mantis Attack in Marvel Rivals — Source: Dexerto / Netease

Abilities of Mantis

Mantis shines in both healing capabilities and providing damage boosts, but utilizing her abilities features a critical resource management aspect since each ability costs a Life Orb. Striking the right balance between healing teammates and dealing damage is vital.

Ability	Details	Function
Soul Resurgence	Casting: Surrounding spell field Healing Amount: 150 Caster/Ally Healing: 200 Movement Boost: 3m/sec Excess Healing Conversion: 70%/100 Range: 15m radius Duration: 8 sec Energy Cost: 3700	Releases energy while in motion, providing healing and a movement boost to nearby allies; excess healing converts to Bonus Health.
Spore Slumber	Casting: Single-cast projection generating spell field Damage: 10 Range: 3m radius Sedation Duration: 3.5 sec Effect: Creates illusions beside the sedated hero Illusion Health: 100 Cooldown: 15 sec	Casts a spore that sedates the closest enemy.
Allied Inspiration	Damage Boost: 12% Duration: 8 sec Cooldown: Consume one Life Orb	Transfers Life Orbs to provide allies with a damage boost.
Natural Anger	Damage Boost: 12% Duration: 8 sec Cooldown: Consume one Life Orb	Utilizes Life Orbs to enhance Mantis’ own damage.
Healing Flower	Effect: One-time healing and Healing Over Time One-time Healing Amount: 55 Healing Over Time Amount: 20 sec Duration: 8 sec Cooldown: Consume one Life Orb	Grants allies a healing over time effect using Life Orbs.
Nature’s Favor	Time to Leave Combat: 3 sec Out-of-combat Movement Speed: 8.5m/sec Effect: Consume one Life Orb for Healing Over Time Healing Amount: 12.5 per sec Duration: 8 sec	Utilizes Life Orbs for Healing Over Time when not engaged in combat.
Nature’s Soul	Cooldown: 120 sec	Enhances the powers of Star-Lord and Mantis.

Gameplay Tips for Mantis

To maximize Mantis’s effectiveness, maintain a position in the backline and focus on hitting enemies while preserving your Life Orbs for key moments. Targeting allies, especially those with mobility challenges like Spider-Man or Iron Man, with your healing or damage boosts can greatly tip the scale in your favor. Pair damage orbs with your heal orbs whenever possible to enhance their impact.

Screenshot of Mantis in Marvel Rivals — Source: Netease / Marvel

Mantis’s primary role as a Strategist is to elevate the performance of her teammates. Whether by amplifying a Duelist’s damage output or bolstering a tank’s movement, every action counts. Thus, monitoring your Life Orbs is essential for maintaining resource availability in critical encounters.

Optimal Team Compositions

The effectiveness of Mantis magnifies with the right teammates. Consider teaming her up with:

Adam Warlock
Magneto
Rocket Raccoon
Luna Snow

Adam Warlock

The synergy between Adam Warlock and Mantis is extraordinary, as they provide strategic healing and tactical boosts when paired. This dynamic duo positioned at the back offers unparalleled support and is often regarded as one of the game’s most formidable backline combinations.

Magneto

Magneto stands strong on his own, but alongside Mantis, his damage output and area-of-effect abilities complement her healing, creating a sustained front against the foe. Their combined strength turns Magneto into a formidable powerhouse.

Rocket Raccoon

Rocket provides essential distance between allies and foes, ensuring Mantis’s longevity while she employs her Healing Over Time skills. His abilities to protect squishy teammates align perfectly with Mantis’s support capabilities.

Luna Snow

Luna Snow pairs beautifully with Mantis, especially when positioned in the backline. She provides significant sustain and crowd-control through freezing abilities, making it easier for Mantis to apply pressure with her stun and support effects.

Effective Counters to Mantis

Given Mantis’s healing capabilities and utility as a damage booster, eliminating her should be a priority for opponents. Here are effective counters:

Venom
Spider-Man
The Punisher
Hulk

Venom

With swift attacks, the ability to burrow underground, and capacity for granting bonus health, Venom excels in engaging Mantis. By burrowing close to her, players can quickly strike while avoiding retaliation.

Spider-Man

Spider-Man leverages his exceptional mobility to bypass her support roles. By swiftly diving toward Mantis and leveraging his web-slinging abilities, Spider-Man can eliminate her before she provides meaningful support to her team.

The Punisher

With impressive versatility in both close and mid-range combat, The Punisher poses a significant threat to Mantis. By obscuring other enemies and targeting her from the backline, he can effectively neutralize her influence in the match.

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