With around 33 heroes in the Marvel Rivals roster, it might seem daunting to learn how to play each one and see which hero suits your playstyle. For some, picking up heroes to master can be easy, while others might have a bit of a hard time. If you prefer lending a supporting hand to your friends, then you would be right at home picking any of the Strategists. One popular Strategist to use in your team is Mantis, as she is considered a healer and is the best at what she does. In this guide we show you how to play as Mantis in Marvel Rivals.
Marvel Rivals Mantis Build Explained
As a Strategist, Mantis is perfect to use as a supporting role in a team. Not only can she heal herself and her teammates, but you can also use her abilities to grant damage boosts to an ally or to Mantis herself. Let’s go through all her abilities, followed by how to play as Mantis in the game.
All Mantis Skills & Abilities
Normal Attack
| Ability | Description | Effect |
| Life Energy Blast | Fires an energy thorn which regains one Life Orb after dealing a critical hit. | Damage: 50/round Projection Speed: 150m/s Fire Rate: 2.5 rounds/s Ammo: 20 |
Abilities
| Ability | Description | Effect |
| Soul Resurgence | Creates a force field around Mantis. Stepping into it will heal allies over time and also create a movement boost. Extra healing gets converted into bonus health. | Total healing: 150 Caster+Ally total healing: 200 Movement boost: 3m/second Excess Healing Conversion: 70% / 100 Radius: 15m Duration: 8s Energy Cost: 3700 |
| Spore Slumber | Sedates nearby enemies by throwing a spore and creating a Mantis Illusion beside them. This illusion can be attacked to awaken them. | Damage: 10 Radius: 3m Duration: 3.5s Illusion Health: 100 Cooldown: 15s |
| Allied Inspiration | Boosts ally damage by using a Life Orb | Damage boost: 12% Duration: 8s |
| Natural Anger | Boosts Mantis’s damage by using a Life Orb | Damage boost: 12% Duration: 8s |
| Healing Flower | One-Time Healing Burst Amount: 55 Healing Over Time Duration: 20s Casting Duration: 8s | One-time Healing Burst Amount: 55 Healing Over Time Duration: 20s Casting Duration: 8s |
| Nature’s Favor (Passive) | When out of combat, Mantis receives a movement boost. Whenever her abilities are used, Mantis receives a weakened heal over time. | Activation time after leaving combat: 3s Movement speed out of combat: 8.5m/s Healing Amount: 12.5/s Duration: 8s |
Team Up Ability
| Ability | Description | Effect |
| Nature’s Soul | Star Lord and Mantis can be revived inside Adam Warlock’s cocoon right where they were killed. Inside the cocoon, Mantis should decide her reviving spot within 12 seconds. If left undecided, she will return to base. | Cooldown: 120s |
How To Play As Mantis In Marvel Rivals
Mantis’s skillset has something different that sets her apart from the other Marvel heroes. She can utilize her Life Orbs to constantly heal or boost damage on herself and her allies. There are four Life Orbs to use, and once you use a Life Orb, there is a 3 sec cooldown. Critical Hits using the Life Energy Blast ability will help recover Life Orbs immediately. Now that you know how Life Orbs work, let’s see how to fit Mantis best in the team.
Since she is a support character, Mantis is a great pick when not dealing with the frontlines. It is best to pair Mantis up with stronger heroes like Star-Lord, Psylocke, or Rocket Racoon. If you wish to go with Mantis’s Team Up Ability, then have her paired up with Adam Warlock for additional healing from the both of them. You need to pair up Mantis with tankier characters so she won’t be a target of enemy attacks and can focus more on healing.
As for her attacks, keep Mantis out of reach from enemies and focus on using her ranged attacks when cornered. Keeping her close to allies is the best way to play as Mantis, and her damage boost on herself and allies will be beneficial during a match. You can also stun enemies using Spore Slumber, but make sure you don’t wake them up by attacking them. Overall, Mantis is a great healer and offers huge boosts of HP regeneration when you use her skills right.
Mantis isn’t the only hero that you can pick while playing Marvel Rivals, as we have guides covering how to play as Squirrel Girl, Cloak and Dagger, and Wolverine that you can check out.