Marvel Rivals Top 500 Tier List - In Depth Explanation & Reasoning

[@NukeyHDMarvelRivals]

After more consideration and additional time playing in high level lobbies, I would definitely move Loki up to mid A tier and Adam/Iron Man to bottom A tier Thanks for all the kind words and feedback, Merry Christmas gamers! - discord.gg/nukeyhd

[@creeperman1295]

@@NukeyHDMarvelRivals Born again :D

[@davidsaribekyan7325]

I think if u use penny similar like a venom or hulk for more harassment and dmg instead of a traditional tank she outputs alot of damage. She's useless as a tank tho unless your constantly healed her survivability is bad

[@studentoflife8532]

Playing wolverine only for kidnapping and protecting backliners reall helped me think he's better than most people think. Tanks do not play the game when I'm up, if I have ult backliners are gonna die and the DPS that their healer showers with attention and love is getting kidnapped. Best part is that I don't have to overextend, I'm doing all these while getting healed.

[@daedalusdreamjournal5925]

As someone who mains thor recently, I can confirm that wolverine is an absolute menace against enemy tanks.

[@LFanimes333]

Aside from the insane Loki disrespect, this might be the most reasonable tier list I’ve seen so far.

[@regd6060]

It’s terrible, there’s a reason all the best teams run venom and warlock and it’s not because they’re B tier

[@mosmes02]

Not sure about venom, see far more hulks and Dr stranges than venom in high tier play.

[@SteveFard]

​@@regd606060 hours in the game and GM, yet to see that comp.

[@regd6060]

@@mosmes02 that comp is better but hulk often gets banned. Most common comp for the best team is strange, venom, warlock, mantis, and two dps depending on map

[@LFanimes333]

@@regd6060 “All the best teams run Venom” What is bro smoking?

[@durtyjohn9339]

Peni is a monster....against uneducated players

[@thescarecrow897]

even then , all they have to do is destroy her nest and shes just dead. Strange/Magneto are just better.

[@CasualCat64]

Blud

[@durtyjohn9339]

@thescarecrow897 it's just funny when I'm playing against a Jeff and I've deployed a bunch of mines, Jeff will ult in my minefield and die immediately

[@Laylofoshizle]

doesnt peni have one of the highest winrate in diamond?

[@NightshadeDE]

Think peni was written off a bit to easily she’s far more then an ult battery even if not s tier

[@YMan-zo5kg]

I want them to give warlock a flight ability. Like bruh he’s Adam freaking warlock and his healing or hp isn’t crazy. Like maybe something like Dr strange flight cooldown.

[@aznballaboi4life]

His mvp is literally flying around like a badass too! This is a good fix

[@PJCat242]

warlock has the highest damage output of any strategist in top 500 lobbies, the last thing he needs is more to his kit that isn't a buff to healing

[@YMan-zo5kg]

@ a buff to healing would be way more annoying and create more potential for goats which would be way worse than him having a reposition and counter dive tool that would be lore accurate as well. Also just nerf the team up then.

[@aznballaboi4life]

@PJCat242 he kinda has 2 healing abilities albeit the shared damage isnt exactly healing. It keeps the team alive. If i see 2 tanks on our team, Adam is a really good choice.

[@YMan-zo5kg]

@@aznballaboi4life he’s definitely strong and this game is not without its need of nerfs. I just personally love Adam warlock as a character and wish he could fly a bit for my own personal satisfaction and he is a little on the boring side.

[@LoL-sp3wu]

Luna's ult is WAY too long. Coming from overwatch I had like a timewindow that I innately wait and then I'm like "ok the ult is probably ending now so imma pop my psylocke ult so by the end of my animation Luna's ult will have ended" and IT JUST KEEPS GOING.

[@darrengartland1437]

Luna gets pushed hard in the games she’s in. Probably because she’s marketable? But yeah it’s silly.

[@Nykonix]

The quality of this tier list video coming from a smaller channel is insane. Easily the best tier list I’ve watched so far. Insta-subbed. Hope your channel grows, man.

[@NukeyHDMarvelRivals]

Thanks so much!

[@honkbrother8000]

As a gm loki one trick. Im offended. I think his an easy A. Definitely not S like luna and mantis tho. Has aoe healing and damage (remember aoe healing is what goats viable in ow.) Does solid damage gr8 burst heals with 3 clones and can counter most ults baptiste style. Very solid at countering and can kill flankers and divers. Gr8 when paired with a main healer who can cover for u when ur clones are down. One of the best off healers in my opinion.

[@preferableyoutuber5481]

he is better than luna and mantis. Simply because you get to make your entire team invulnerable every half a min. And I'd take 3 shot on a squishie as loki over any other sup's dmg potential

[@nasty8975]

​@@preferableyoutuber5481make your entire team invincible every half a min😂. Maybe if youre in quick play fighting bots.

[@Noggintoggin]

Loki is insane

[@onOOOO]

1st player in the world rn if I remember correctly plays Iron Man and Magik so don’t take the opinions of other people for cash. When played right characters can become absolute monsters.

[@bc9866]

Ironman + Hulk is a war crime

[@georgehernandez2156]

Cloak and dagger have insane survivability. You can create the healing bubble and switch to cloak, attack and evade with cloak when the bubble disappears

[@preferableyoutuber5481]

nope, you'll still get railed in higher rank.

[@bladethebeast2]

Peni isnt gonna be good against good players. As soon as someone knows what to do she gets no healing and the mines miss a lot of characters. Her biggest upside is cancelling ults but it sounds like she cant shut anyone off who is used

[@raygonzales197]

I love having Peni on the other team! I dink headshots all the time as Luna, Mantis and Adam. It charges ult fast ult and practically have it every fight or fight and a half.

[@miltaire3235]

Play Peni less as a frontline tank and more for CC’s and traps to support your backline and I don’t think she’s as bad as people maker her out. Set some traps to cut off escapes and web flankers and its gonna be hard for someone like Panther to dash free through your backline. Web a tank jumping into your team and they’ll eat some heavy damage. Web a squishy out of position and it’s gonna be easier for your DPS to clean up. That 3sec right click feels more powerful to me than the nest. I mean it’s a low cooldown stun on demand. That brief stun with focus from your team can get easy picks and have divers be a little more passive.

[@mari_zz]

What do you recommend learning if you've only been playing Scarlet Witch and need to actually learn the game as you rank up? It's happening to me :(

[@EngageTV]

Peni/Hela/Hulk/Jeff/

[@Cataphract1236]

Just pick a hero or two from each role and learn them. I would recommend Strange, Namor, Mantis

[@robot3153]

I’m in diamond 1, the only thing I’ll say about this list is that raccoon should be A tier, because of how much healing he can bring, enables double res comps, damage boost is up every 60 seconds if your team is actively fighting. And also be an easy flex pick. If you get stuck having to support you can easily play him and be impactful especially if Luna and mantis are banned.

[@PingachuS]

I don’t think he’s more valuable than other supports though. Should mantis and Luna be banned, Adam warlock, cloak/dagger and Loki are all better picks i think, albeit harder to play.

[@hfjdksalable]

@@PingachuSbut if you have a bucky or punisher he clears all those characters. Team-ups are such a good mechanic. Same with the Iron Man, hulk, strange combo. Iron is either c tier or a tier. Good game

[@Tava]

raccoon is just food once you get to like mid gm and psylocke is never banned and just farms you

[@hylianchriss]

I don't know, man. Also Diamond 1, 100% solo queue dps, and if I ever see any other supports than Mantis or Luna on the enemy team I always breathe out a sigh of relief. Especially Rocket and Jeff, you don't often get a clean one-burst kill on them, but they're so easy to hit and push back. As a dps, it's hard to rank other healers than Mantis and Luna Snow. As a Starlord main, it's hard to get much value out of my ult when the enemy team has both of those healers, as they do 90% of the time.

[@doodgoi9102]

​​@@hylianchriss Also diamond 1 Psylocke main and I agree. Jeff and Raccoon are hard to kill if they're dedicated players since their self heal and movement are strong but at least they're forced to leave. Luna and Mantis can straight up kill you and peel each other much better

[@johnsmith-ol9qj]

Key part 8:51 Penni can just stand on her web shot as well and that can’t be destroyed like her nest can. I see what you are saying about her being all or nothing with nest but a good Penni or a OTP will have webs setup up around points to zip to and reposition nest between fights so she’s always up. Plus web shot countering ults and being a 3 second cc is kinda busted if she’s not being focused.

[@LightAndDarkMdness02]

He's missing just how oppressive well-positioned Peni can be. She can be disgustingly oppressive as an anti-dive tank that holds points. She's just not for dive setups and is situational in ranked.

[@davidsaribekyan7325]

She's not really a tank. She's like a venom but with range. Really good at holding turns and corners. And protecting healers from being jumped on. Don't recommend her as an actual tank

[@gronm69]

Fantastic breakdown and tiet list aside from maybe loki which people have pointed out already 😄

[@Peryfc]

I love seeing so many new content creators for marvel rivals, keep up the good work 👍

[@mathushansuppiah6732]

@Peryfc we need u to make marvel rival videos!!!!

[@lens_hunter]

I just started playing yesterday. I eventually want to get into ranked. How should I go about learning champions? Should I learn two of each role? Should I stick to one role?

[@GarnetDust24]

It’s going to be very interesting to see how they balance storm. She’s underwhelming now but with a few buffs I feel like she’ll be unstoppable.

[@6ixpool520]

She was OP in beta and they nerfed her

[@its_Criminal1]

I think Loki is easily A. The Healing Domain is completely insane, he has the highest damage output of all the healers cause of the clones so his DPS is very high conpared to the others. His ult is ridiculous. You can adapt yourself for what's needed. If you need offensive power you can steal something like Hella, Hawkeye, Punisher, Strange, Etc And if you need defense you can just steal the luna snow or mantis. Another good thing about him is he's got very good survivability, you can swap with a clone, go invisible and heal, have the healing domain, He probably has the best survivability of all the supports cause his invisibility isn't time limited so he's not as easy to track as cloak and dagger, you can't really dive him, he puts the domain and then your dive does nothing which makes him extremely useful when there's a black panther, Even without the healing domain it's very easy to escape with Loki and I find myself almost never dying when I use him, and he's so fun to play. His heal too is extremely potent, with the 3 clones put down you can full heal everyone in like 3 shots. He's a very well rounded support

[@007-spideysense]

Great tier list Small thing to nit-pick but I'm tired of people saying "press Q" or "Press E" or "right click and left click" when it's a cross platform game lmao. The abilities have names and it's easy to communicate in a way everyone knows what you're talking about. Sorry rant over

[@NukeyHDMarvelRivals]

Totally fair good point!

[@hylianchriss]

I agree, as a PC player I've gotten so used to game guides on KZbin saying "press square", "press Y and then B while tilting your left stick", "press R2 while holding the backpaddle" or whatever. It always takes me three times as long because I constantly have to look up what actions those controller button presses correlates to lol

[@HorrorGeek9]

What an awesome perspective to listen to and great tier list dude. Every high ranked Black Panther I have seen has been a nightmare to deal with. It was interesting to hear your views on Storm and the potential danger there in the future for flying comps.

[@mikalokasso]

I think that Thor and Spider-man should be B. They just don’t get that much value compared to the alternatives. Rarely see Thor being played if Strange is not banned.

[@heavenly2k]

Woah where is that Scarlet witch skin from?

[@HOUROFPOW3R]

When people realise they can use Bucky ult to intentionally stagger enemy deaths it's so over lmao. Edit: This factor is actually also why Iron Fist is such a scrub stomper. It's not that he's just a statcheck champion that assassinates healers, but when he pops off he's killing one person at a time and people are running it down. Jeff ult can be accidentally bad for your team in bronze because it wipes everyone at once, meaning they will spawn and move back all as a team. I played Fist a bit yesterday in quickplay and had a very long highlight where I killed the same people twice because I just 1 by 1'd their team until I reached the same people again coming back from spawn out of sync. I've seen Bucky do the same thing in Plat/Dia lobbies more than once with his ultimate. I really hate the way he pushes snowballs personally.

[@natsuki8821]

As a Wanda main you've just gotta play different depending on who you're up against. She can play as a flanker or a front line. Just have to read the room.

[@polar6066]

guys by this natsuki means that you switch off wanda once youre not playing quickplay

[@cacanaynay]

What rank are you

[@aznballaboi4life]

Disagree on Loki, in the hands of a good, well aware player, hes good healer. Just hard to cuz people dont know how to place clones

[@bojanglespoonan8419]

Great video bro, really enjoyed your analysis bro. Thanks bro

[@Phoquehead]

0 fear "It would be like fighting 4 pharmercys" 1 fear

[@brycenb2994]

Storm future is already somewhat confirmed with ultron having a flight ability. It’s not perma flight tho.

[@darkking9836]

I’ve been playing namor since day 1 he is insane I’ve always been surprised to see people ranking him in C tier. It’s extremely easy to the lead the lobby in damage and kills and get value

[@mikalokasso]

Peni and Spider-Man make people fall into the trap where they think they’re doing something because they’re clicking a lot. The value just isn’t there. In plat you can get some value but then again, on plat you can do anything.

[@soumyosubhromukhopadhyay9727]

99% agree dr strange is the best tank, however, a venom is more sole-queue friendly purely or somewhat bcs of his overhealth or escape, and his backline pressure, whereas a dr strange might be powerful but looses if he's solo tank and a psylocke panther dives his supports

[@CasperTheGhost64]

Storm should get some aoe to her primary fire

[@CharlotCasdoa]

I really appreciate your efforts! Could you help me with something unrelated: I have a SafePal wallet with USDT, and I have the seed phrase. (alarm fetch churn bridge exercise tape speak race clerk couch crater letter). What's the best way to send them to Binance?

[@YeetusMan12345]

Your humor is S+. Please make more vids, big dog.

[@amateur-madman3047]

Why did Cloak and dagger get moved to b tier? 11:32 Damn that’s crazy the Hela’s in pubs suck

[@tomaspayan9062]

People underestimate Black Widow immensely. You just need a Mantis damage boost every 8 seconds and you can 1 tap any support or squishy dps. Not only that, you can also damage boost her with Storm while she spams chokes with her wind blades. Even if you can't 1 shot people, the AoE slow of her ult is super underrated. With some coordination, Black Widow can easily dominate.

[@0li-0li28]

Black Widow can’t get dmg boosted by mantis, Idk about Storm though

[@JR-kv6ez]

is mantis buff able to make widow's sniper a 1shot on 250hp?

[@JR-kv6ez]

@@Smithers-s That's not what I was asking.

[@xxcridonxx7614]

No. Damage boosts don’t affect widow’s sniper. The devs intentionally did this

[@JR-kv6ez]

@@xxcridonxx7614 ty

[@xxcridonxx7614]

@@JR-kv6ez no problem

[@Chrollo-f6p]

I agree with Hawkeye being a boring to use very low skill high rewards player. But that’s exactly why he’s so busted . I have him over Hela because it’s not that easy getting those 8 shots off with Hela. It’s more ez to use Hawkeye takes a little skill for Hela

[@creeperman1295]

RIP me being a Warlock main atm 😔

[@davidsaribekyan7325]

I use penny as a dps if im being honest. She does alot of dmg if played right. She can hold corners well and protect your back line from brawlers with the mines. Cant really use her as a traditional tank. You can also harass any flyers since she shoots non stop. Her stun is good for stopping alot of ults. She terrible open field tho

[@Brandon_The_Honored_One]

Thor isn't considered S-tier anymore? Im not sure in a 1 v 1 if there are any vanguards better than Thor. Im constantly destroying Magneto and Hulk in plat I rankings. The only vanguard that kinda gives me trouble is Strange. But even against Strange all my attacks go through his shield.

[@rigsr2112]

I got to top 500 just by playing iron fist, character is fine, but yeah he has a lot of counter play, he kinda plays like a spider man with how he easily get in and out, difference is he has a lot more of dps

[@Camo_bomb]

I’m very surprised that you didn’t exile Iron Fist immediately to D tier

[@Gaijins]

I’ve never played with a groot on my team that dosnt constantly protect the other team from dying with his stupid wall spam.

[@chiefinasmith]

If they give Adam one more pack, I think he’d be perfect. Maybe take away some power from his rez.

[@crusadereuropa]

How do you ban characters in ranked? Everyone just agrees to not play it?

[@Deathenvyify]

Unlocks at diamond rank

[@crusadereuropa]

@Deathenvyify ohh that's why I don't see that haha

[@rigsr2112]

100% agree with this list

[@lilcheerio3219]

good video man 👍

[@lordmew5]

26:29 i actually have seen this comp one time it was amazing it literally felt oppressive. Storm and cap gets the extra damage they need and storm provides the movement your needs strange plays defense when needed and mantis and luna heal whoever is needed and have plenty of CC as well as having both ults that just say no dying. This is what i want the game to becomes more of and less randomly thrown together teams that make no sense with 0 synergy.

[@cacanaynay]

Penny is bad because if they ban her then she's useless? What kind of argument was that 😭

[@NukeyHDMarvelRivals]

I never even said anything close to that 😭 Peni gets farmed and quickly deleted easily even with nest up, as more players become aware of how easily countered she is she will continue getting less and less value

[@chiefinasmith]

She’s bad because she gets shredded by Hawkeye and Hela

[@cacanaynay]

​@@NukeyHDMarvelRivals9:14

[@ryanghraizi5431]

W Psylock love

[@LoL-sp3wu]

I am in diamond and I thought wolverine was trash. Then I played a game where the enemy team had a good wolverine and he steamrolled our team dude. After a while we got our shit together and he became less effective but we still lost.

[@yob4928]

Wolverine not in s tier is crazy

[@Alex-ji5vg]

So most of the b tier list like venom, peni, loki, ect. Most people go with dps.

[@Noggintoggin]

Loki is insane dude

[@Syrin23]

Rocket is my main, and not listed, but my three others are two S tier and A tier

[@robforskinstein]

Here come all the Reddit experts to tell people “x” hero is only good against bad or low elo players while pros are playing said hero as we speak lmao

[@xCH0SEN1x]

I'm a Peni one trick 😂 😭😭

[@tutorial5914]

Hela is F tier in high rank because she's functionally disabled with her ban rate

[@spacemans4060]

Iron man at B? It's not like the world's best team plays him or anything...

[@SimplyDroog]

I see a lot of contradicting opnions in the comments so I just want to put rhis out ther: PC and Console only are 2 different worlds.

[@1HP_sec]

3:10 whenever she whats💀

[@yamnbam4346]

Disagree with Peni, she’s like A tier. Breaking her spider nest is easier said than done with the right comp. All you have to do is play around it, tbh. Even then, she can still use normal webs to place mines and/or heal herself.

[@CD-zi6rb]

She's bad if you don't have control over an area or aren't defending/are retaking point. And pretty much any actually competent player will know to just break the mine. Also not as tanky/lacking defensive tools compared to other tanks.

[@fable2830]

Deadass just won and mvp'd 10 games straight with her in plat to diamond she's a character that needs a good pilot, tho I do agree with some points she lacks self preserving defense tools outside of her nest that's pretty much it honestly

[@CD-zi6rb]

@@fable2830 Mvp-ing isn't anything special and you can do it with any character. The point of a tier list is to measure how good a character is when compared to other characters in the same class. Anyone can Mvp with even Black Widow consistently, the question is, how much easier would the game have been and how much more useful to the team would a character have been if you played any other duelist.

[@migavelligzz4728]

Peni was my main buh ive found Magneto a way better vanguard

[@justmyownclips1253]

8:02 Pretty much, but then you get my team. I see the Cap dive my backline and I figure they're fine, it's a 4v1. Then I immediately see him kill a support top right and escape no problem, I almost crashed out

[@Osmium2626]

There's 0 chance hulk which is the 2nd highest winrate tank in top500 is on the same tier as Thor who isn't even played by one-tricks anymore. Thor is in the gutter right now. Penny is also better than Groot.

[@nslio2]

penni better than groot? hell nah

[@0li-0li28]

In fairness Gamma Charge team up and Fastball special is the only reason why they run hulk tbh

[@coqueicebarnett6670]

Squirrel girl def underrated

[@shanecoffing]

Problem is ults are crazy in this game and hers is one of the worst. If they buffed her ult she can easily be top of A tier, but I would say she is bottom of A tier or top of B tier because when everyone starts popping ults you just throw easily avoidable damage. Her damage is insane tho, and once you get good at stun it really is broken.

[@awkwardcoconut7267]

Cant wait till hawkeye gets nerfed so i can actually have fucking fun in the game again 😂

[@sunset4079]

How do people already have 300 hours 😭😭😭

[@Sandovian]

Loki is an L because Loki dupes feed Mantis' mechanic

[@nicholustaylor9443]

The namor respext take my like and sub lol

[@glosade8497]

Grandmaster is top 500 now

[@itsthelaxer55]

Sick of the iron fist hate

[@owenalston3940]

Found the iron fist main

[@knowtruth847]

I knew ppl were sleepin on Logan

[@codysorenson4298]

The nest and her webs both heal her. Her cool downs are short, she can stop some ultimates, good mobility and is good at all ranges. Her and strange are the best vanguards in the game

[@mryellow6918]

Does like not damage tho and just falls over.

[@codysorenson4298]

@mryellow6918 she's a vanguard and she can easily have matches where she has the most damage. It's cool tho you can sleep on her. If you're worried about damage drop off on a vanguard your playing vanguard wrong

[@fable2830]

​@mryellow6918 are we talking about the same character?

[@eddy_is_a_squidpotatoe471]

This is a top 500 list, I could 100% see her being mid in higher elos. I'm plat 1 right now and I won so many games with her yesterday. She's really good depending on the map and if the enemy team doesn't know how important it is to destroy her mine mine turret.

[@dapper-alcremie460]

As someone who mains loki, no.

[@AntLeonardi01]

Game has barely been out 300 hours. Why burn yourself out like that?

[@theprophet8030]

There's no way you have 300 hours since game release let alone over 300 hours your lvl 36 iv got 100 hours and im lvl 40 insane click bait 😂

[@You_mad_wassup]

The Scarlet Witch disrespect is crazy

[@Topgamer357]

There’s no reason to ever use her unless you’re a fan of the character. I can’t think of one at least.

[@mochoman312games2]

​@Topgamer357 if your good with her then use her one thing about this game is is you know how to pl ay the character then you can win

[@CasualCat64]

Ban mantis and Luna snow >:)

[@echoesact3713]

You pushed me off in web fishing. L LIST

[@matrixman339]

Nah Jeff is the best.

[@bryannguyen6836]

time stamps please

[@turtle4935]

Both hela and hawkeye have an unconditional seasonal damage boost, next season hela can't 2 shot and hawleye can't 1 shot

[@DjNaste]

They will still be able to 2 and 1 shot without the damage boost, but the range and amount of charge it takes will be less egregious.

[@turtle4935]

@DjNaste I don't believe hela will 2 shot with 20% less dmg tbh Hawkeye might tho

[@DjNaste]

@turtle4935 you don't have to believe me, you can just do the math. All the numbers are available on the official website.

[@mryellow6918]

Idk how they designed hela and went yeah thats fine.

[@Entori-Wassabi]

Penni doesnt heal herself 😂 someone must not be playing penni

[@Entori-Wassabi]

Also being an ult battery doesn't matter because she can break them ult with a single right click

[@mryellow6918]

​@@Entori-Wassabican't stun hela, can't stun punisher.

[@Entori-Wassabi]

@@mryellow6918 true but she doesn't have to stop them to be considered as an A tier. cause besides doctor strange, which is an S tier, can any other tank stop them?

[@Onechanzetolive]

The Loki and Adam warlock take is a noob take he will change his mind in a month

[@Aydnpierce]

Truth. Saying that adams only value is the revive is crazy. The link is still super strong especially. And adam is crazy strong in 3 support lineups

[@Onechanzetolive]

@ the only bad healer is literally Jeff and that’s because his healing output is actually the lowest healing output and at high levels his ult is easy to counter

[@rafaelmelo9250]

This tier list is ass lol, thankfully it’s just an opinion and not fact.

[@0li-0li28]

Every tier list is an opinion to some extent

[@damianvaldez9390]

I swear Hulk in A tier is just propaganda. We’re taking the “he’s good if you know how to use him” thing too far. Even some of the best players are jumping around like hell, constantly bailing out of 1v1s. Watch Zbra if you don’t believe me, it’s literally what he has to do to get half the value of Strange. And you put him next to sit and snipe Magneto? Press shift and absorb everything Magneto?

[@robforskinstein]

Not a bad tier list breakdown, but I disagree with quite a few of your choices.

[@NukeyHDMarvelRivals]

respectful take! appreciate that, it's definitely all subjective!

[@HotSteamingJustice]

Brobrobrobrobrobrobrobro