Mantis | Marvel Rivals

Biography

Stranded in the Timestream Entanglement with the other three members of the Guardians, Mantis has to fight to survive. She taps into the life energy flow and nourishes her allies, while also using her mental powers as a strategic advantage.

Mantis knows how everyone feels and she can affect emotions in others, which proves to be an advantage on the battlefield.  She wants to escape this paradox so that she can continue the search for her previous team members, Sai and Jeff, who she befriended while they were all captives of the Collector.

Overview

Role – Strategist
Difficulty – ★✩✩✩✩
Tier – A
Team Up – Adam Warlock

Abilities

Normal Attack (Left Click): Life Energy Blast –Fire an energy thorn and regain one Life Orb after a critical hit. Try to get as good at aiming as possible, as landing headshots will help you dish out more healing and damage boost by creating more leaves.

• Soul Resurgence (Q) – Release energy around her while moving, providing Healing Over Time and Movement Boost for surrounding allies. Perfect timing on this ability can allow your team to push forward and crush the enemy team’s backline. That’s why is very important to get it as fast as possible because it will usually win you the fight.
  
  
• Spore Slumber (LShift) – Throw a spore to Sedate the nearest enemy. This ability helps Mantis deal with potential flanking Duelists that can otherwise be deadly! Remember just it has short range but is not that hard to hit, so its better for characters like Magik and Black Panther.
  
  
• Alied Inspiration (E) – Consume Life Orbs to grant allies a Damage Boost. Keep an eye out for members of your team who are about to pop off, as keeping a buff on them constantly will help them obliterate enemies even faster, winning you even more games! Also, it’s a great character for boosting flankers because it stays for a while, and they have enough time to take advantage and kill someone.
  
  
• Natural Anger (F) – Consume Life Orbs to grant herself a Damage Boost. Despite being a support, don’t underestimate the damage that Mantis can dish out, so don’t be afraid to give yourself Damage Boost! When some duelist is trying to 1v1 you, on top of that you are very hard to hit due to your small hitbox, receiving a headshot out of nowhere will make them think twice about attacking you again.
  
  
• Healing Flower (Right Click) – Consume Life Orbs to grant allies Healing Over Time. This ability makes Mantis a great pick with characters that tend to dive or rush back into the enemy lines, as you can heal them even when they are not in sight!
  
  
• Nature’s Favor (Passive) – Receive a Movement Boost when not injured and Healing Over Time when consuming Life Orbs. Thanks to Nature’s Favor, Mantis can quickly get in position and surprise unsuspecting enemies with a few headshots, instantly giving your team an advantage!
  
  
• Nature’s Soul (Passive) – Team-Up Ability – Adam Warlock enhances the rebirth power of Star-Lord and Mantis, granting them the power of cocooned revival. They need to sweat so much to get you, then risk everything to kill you, and now they have to do it all again.

Strengths

Mantis works great with diving Vanguards and flanking Duelists as she can use her Healing Over Time and Damage Boost with each dive! But Mantis is one of the Strategists that is Jack Of All Trades and can fit perfectly in any comp.

Weaknesses

The only thing she lacks is that she doesn’t have any movement ability which can be a problem sometimes.

Counters

Spider-Man, Star-Lord

Unlike characters like Magik and Black Panther who are also flankers and strategists and are usually weak against them, Mantis has Spore Slumber (LShift) that, due to these two big hitbox and very close range, is easy to hit. But with Spidey and Star Lord that is not the case.

Star Lord, even tho he likes close range, doesn’t want to be in your face to kill you and can move a lot with a smaller hitbox, so Spore (Lshift) becomes a lot harder to hit.

In this case, I recommend trying to play close to cover and safe spots so Star Lord has to risk more getting you. If you can not escape a clean 1v1 duel don’t be afraid to shoot him, and don’t forget to use Natural Anger (F) and damage boost yourself. You will think that you are a Duelist, not a Strategist when you see how much damage you do.

Against Spidey it’s the same thing basically, but also if you time it right a lot of time you can hit your spore on him much more often than Star Lord.

Team-Ups

Mantis’ Team-Up works wonders for her survivability, as, outside of her sleep ability, she is pretty easy to dive and pick off as she doesn’t have that many defensive or movement abilities. However, thanks to Nature’s Soul that Adam Warlock grants her, she can afford to play more comfortably as she gains an extra life, which is always welcome in a shooter game!

Synergy

Mantis will fit in perfectly with both Dive and Rush compositions thanks to her ability to heal targets out of the line of sight and the movement speed bonus on her ultimate!

Tips and Tricks

Save your Spore Slumber (LSifht) for Duelists who are bound to dive you and try to pick you off as it will give your team enough time to help you.

Make sure to pre-hot your diving teammates. Use Allied Inspiration (E) on heroes that are popping off with damage.

Loki’s Clones make an easy target to head-shot, which will regenerate your Life Orbs!

Remember to do damage, a lot of damage, she can easily take advantage by just doing that, especially when your team is in a safe position, and you do not have to heal that much. That will make her get her ult a lot faster and you know that means you will win the next fight because that’s how good it is.

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