Hawkeye | Marvel Rivals

Overview

Role – Duelist
Difficulty – ★★★✩✩
Tier – S
Team Up – Black Widow

Biography

Clint Barton has no superpowers or enhancements, but his skills make him an equal member of the Avengers. He has an incredibly sharp eye, a focused mind, and a steady hand. Hawkeye is the most prolific marksman alive.

Clint wasn’t always with the Avengers. He was initially a S.H.I.E.L.D. operative, working directly under Nick Fury. But, when Thanos wiped out half of all living beings in the universe, Clint lost his family and became the Ronin, a vengeful dark version of himself. He eventually found his way back and is now working with his friends to survive the Timestream Entanglement and get home to his family.

Abilities

Abilities:

• Piercing Arrow (LClick) – Shoot a powerful arrow. His main and most devastating attack, you can literally one-tap people if you hit those heads. The only trick with it is that you have to track the target for a little bit so you can charge your shot. It is a projectile, making it a little bit harder to hit a shot than for example Hela, but it’s a very fast one, so don’t worry you just need a little bit of practice.
  
• Blast Arrow (RClick) – Shoot three explosive arrows. To be honest with you this ability you will not use that often, even you have it almost all the time due to that his LClick does so much more damage and it takes almost the same amount of time to do it. The only thing that can be useful is spamming at some shields and grouped up tanks.
  
• Crescent Slash (LShift) – Perform a frontal slash with a katana, launching hit enemies into the air. This is his best defensive ability, amazing to push off divers that want to be in your face like Spidey or Venom.
  
• Hypersonic Arrow (E) – Shoot a Hypersonic Arrow, dealing additional damage to enemies in its path but if they are above the center of the screen you will knock them down. This is also a great finishing move due to the fact he fires it very fast, and it’s not that hard to hit.
  
• Skyward Leap (Space) – Perform a double jump in the direction of movement. It looks like we are gonna a see some cool kill cams against Hawkeye, amazing ability for dodging bullets and avoiding dangerous spots.
  
• Archer’s Focus Passive – Aim at an enemy to improve focus, enhancing the damage inflicted by Piercing Arrow.
  
• Hunter’s Sight (Q) – Capture Afterimages of enemies in his view. Damage dealt to an Afterimage is transferred to the corresponding enemy. Your arrows will be at 100% charge all the time, so don’t stop shooting.
  
• Roning Slash Melee – Swing a wakizashi to strike frontal enemies, deflecting all incoming projectiles. This is his normal melee attack and is very hard to master due to the timing.
  
• Allied Agents – Team-Up Ability – Hawkeye can share his Hunter’s Sight with Black Widow, enabling her to catch sight of and damage afterimages of enemies. Maybe she can profit even more from this due to her being a hitscan character/

Suggested Combo

Whittle down enemies from afar with Hypersonic Arrow and Piercing Arrow. Close in using Skyward Leap and unleash massive AoE damage with Blast Arrow. When enemies charge, repel them with a well-timed Crescent Slash.

Strengths

Hawkeye is the only hero who can consistently get picks in every fight, making him very annoying to play against.

Weaknesses

Due to his large hitbox and lack of movement, he is very weak against flankers and dive characters.

Counters

Psylocke

Not only can she easily get to him, but her knives and shurikens could easily hit his big hitbox and one-tap combo him in a second.

Try to play around with your supports and use your Crescent Slash (LShift) and Skyward Leap (Space) to keep your distance from her because that’s where you have bigger chances.

Tips and Tricks

Practice your critical shots and you will easily carry the game.

Be patient at the beginning until you learn projectile speed.

Use Crescent Slash (LShift) and Skyward Leap (Space) to keep distance from close-range enemies.

Try to play in the line of sight of your Strategists if they have flankers or dive characters.

Don’t forget to melee against projectiles, you will be amazed how many times you will survive because of it.

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