Among the Duelist characters, Hela is perhaps the strongest due to her powerful abilities in Marvel Rivals at the time of writing. The goddess of Death and sister of Thor and Loki, Hela deals tons of damage to enemies with attacks that can almost hit some enemies. With absurd DPS, immobilization ability, and surprising mobility, Hela is a versatile character who can be successful on almost any team.
Dueling characters are heroes and villains with low health and high DPS that help your team score eliminations. Unlike support strategists or defensive vanguards, the number of duelists on your team generally affects your party composition in Marvel Rivals the most. Many duelists will leave your team vulnerable to defeat, so having strong duelists like Hela can help your allies if you understand how to use their abilities.
All of Hela's abilities
Take down opponents quickly
Hela has a relatively simple set of tools that make up her skills in Marvel Rivals. Most of Hela's abilities are designed to help her get quick killsespecially on weaker characters on an enemy team. Targeting enemy Duelists or Tacticians will help Hela with this goal, but only when you use specific abilities to immobilize opponents and make them easier to defeat.
The table below outlines all of Hela's abilities, including how long it takes for them to recover:
|
Ability |
Skill type |
Cool |
Description |
|---|---|---|---|
|
Night Sword Thorn |
Primary Attack |
8 thorns (recharge) |
Throw Nightsword Thorns to hit enemies. |
|
Piercing Night |
Secondary Attack |
8 seconds |
Fire multiple Nightsword Thorns that detonate after a short delay. |
|
Astral Herd |
Basic Skill |
12 seconds |
Transform into a Nastrond Crow to glide, becoming immune to damage. Press this skill input again to undo the transformation. |
|
Soul Drainer |
Basic Skill |
12 seconds |
Project an explosive Hel sphere to stun nearby enemies. |
|
Nastrond Storm |
Passive |
N/A |
Defeating an enemy will spawn a Nastrond Crow, exploding after a certain period in a small AoE. |
|
Descent of Hel |
Passive |
N/A |
Hold the jump button to fall slowly when in the air. |
|
Goddess of Death |
End |
N/A |
Fly into the sky and release Nastrond Ravens from each hand at will. |
Nightsword Thorns deal some of the highest damage in the gameespecially when landing headshots on enemies. One or two of these attacks critically hitting against an opponent can eliminate low-health enemies, such as Luna Snow or Adam Warlock in Marvel Rivals.
Nightsword Thorns pair well with Nastrond Crowstorm, allowing Hela's kills to damage nearby enemies. A deadly crow's AoE blast from a defeated enemy punishes enemy groups that are too close. When combined with Piercing Night, Hela has multiple ways to eliminate targets, reducing the number of rival teams to turn the tide.
How to use Hela's Ultimate
Hel rain from above
Hela's Ultimate launches the character into the air, keeping her in a fixed position until finished. While this may seem weak, similar to how Iron Man in Marvel Rivals is exposed by standing still during her Ultimate, Hela has few vulnerabilities. To begin with, Hela's health increases by 800 when using her Ultimatemaking her extremely difficult to eliminate, even if the entire enemy team targets her.
Since Hela remains in the air during her Ultimate, the Ravens she releases with her primary attack are capable of dealing a lot of damage to enemies. Since these crows are like AoE bombs that you throw at enemies, you want aim each swarm of crows at groups of targets. With each enemy you eliminate, Hela's passive ability will activate, causing defeated opponents to explode and cause even more damage to those around them.
Characters like Magneto and Doctor Strange in Marvel Rivals can use their shields to block Hela's Ultimate, but not for long. Hello You have ten seconds to use your Ultimategiving you plenty of time to use Crow's infinite attacks.
You have to use Hela's Ultimate in a place where enemies can't avoid itas in a contested objective. Enemies can avoid Hela's Ultimate by hiding behind walls, as Ravens do not easily destroy a map's environment.
Best team composition for Hela
Join the other gods of Asgard
Among the other characters in Marvel Rivals Hela can join a team. Here are some of your best options:
- Thor
- Loki
- Hawkeye
- Adam Wizard
Thor and Loki share a Team-Up ability with Hela called “Queen of Hel.” When this ability is active, Hela can resurrect Thor and Loki during her respawn phasebut only when she gets an elimination. This is an incredibly powerful ability that can occur multiple times as long as Hela deals finishing blows to her opponents, allowing you to bring back two allies at once under the right circumstances.
Given how quickly Hela gets eliminations, you can keep reviving Thor and Loki perpetually during a match. Having Adam Warlock on your team means Hela can also be brought back from the dead using the Tactician's Ultimate ability. With other characters that deal high critical damage, like Hawkeye, you eliminate enemy teams as they have to take down your squad multiple times to win fights.
Best tips and tricks, strategies to win with Hela
Stay alive to make sure others don't
As a Duelist, it's Hela's job score kills against high priority targetslike the strategist characters of an enemy team. Quickly using Hela's explosive damage with her primary and secondary attacks can easily destroy any pillar of support an enemy team has. Hela works best in fights where she is uncontested, shooting enemies from afar with critical hits using her Thorns projectile.
Astral Flock offers more mobility than you'd expect with Hela. You can use this ability to retreat from enemies that dive behind your team to hunt you down, or reach high places on maps to find the perfect spot to attack. Try stay behind your Vanguard If you have one on your team, you'll have enough protection to use this ability sparingly as it has a long cooldown.
Stun enemies to prepare them for critical attacks of Hela and her allies. As you score more kills, you can trigger Hela's passive frequently so that more AoE blasts destroy the enemy team's defenses.
You can also use Hela's Ultimate to avoid danger, but only do this when you have few options left. Hela works best by dealing as much damage as possible to enemieswhether to weaken them for their allies or to eliminate soft targets. By using Hela's abilities to reduce enemy numbers, the rest of your team can act aggressively to pursue game-winning objectives. Marvel Rivals.