Iron Fist is a dueling character in Marvel Rivals whose abilities reflect his mastery of martial arts, using skills to take down any enemy that stands in his way. As a close-range melee fighter, Iron Fist always wants to get close to enemies that he can eliminate quickly. With a series of strikes, Lin Lie can prove that he is the Immortal Iron Fist by disrupting the synergy of rival teams.
Along with some of the best characters to play Marvel RivalsIron Fist is a duelist, one of three classes you can choose from. Duelists specialize in dealing damage and scoring kills on high-priority targets. This archetype also has fairly low health, making them more fragile than tank-like Vanguards, but slightly tougher than support Tacticians.
All Iron Fist abilities
Channel Chi to defeat your enemies
As a rising dragon born with monastic techniques, Iron Fist's abilities are designed to strike hard and fast, with unrelenting fury. Each of Iron Fist's techniques is best used in melee combat, with some passive abilities allowing him to stay alive longer than you might think. The table below explains all of Iron Fist's abilities in Marvel Rivals:
|
Ability |
Skill type |
Cool |
Description |
|---|---|---|---|
|
Jeet Kune Do |
Primary Attack |
N/A |
Hit the target enemy with Jeet Kune Do, a series of punches and kicks, reducing the cooldown of Dragon Defense with each hit. This attack causes Iron Fist to charge towards the enemy he is attacking. |
|
Yat Jee Piece Kuen |
Secondary Attack |
N/A |
Move forward to chase the target enemy and unleash a series of attacks. |
|
Dragon Defense |
Basic Skill |
16 seconds |
Assume a defensive stance with increased Chi to block attacks and gain Damage Reduction. Once Iron Fist comes out of this stance, he gains bonus health and can counterattack with Yat Jee Chung Kuen. |
|
K'Un-Lun Kick |
Basic Skill |
12 seconds |
Dashes forward, delivering a flying kick upon hitting an enemy or reaching full range, dealing damage to nearby enemies. Damage increases as the enemy's health decreases. |
|
Harmony Recovery |
Basic Skill |
12 seconds |
Cross your legs and hover in the air, channeling Chi to regain health. Excess healing converts to bonus health. |
|
Crane jump |
To jump |
1 second |
Perform up to three consecutive jumps while in the air. |
|
wall runner |
Passive |
N/A |
Run horizontally along the walls. |
|
Chi Absorption |
Passive |
N/A |
Assists in taking down enemies, allowing Iron Fist to absorb their Chi and gain bonus health. |
|
Chi Vivo |
End |
N/A |
Become living Chi and increase Iron Fist's speed, damage, and attack range, delivering stronger punches and reducing the cooldown of Dragon Defense. |
The Wall Runner and Crane Leap passives give Iron Fist more mobility than some Duelists, except others like Iron Man in Marvel Rivals. Iron Fist is capable of chasing down almost any opponentusing both primary attacks to quickly destroy health. With Harmony Recovery, Iron Fist can still heal himself, making him a character who doesn't always need to rely on someone else to heal him.
How to use Iron Fist Ultimate
Empower all skills at once
The Supreme Living Chi Strengthens all of Iron Fist's greatest traits at oncegiving you more chances to make an impact on the enemy team. This Ultimate is best used when your team is trying to achieve an objective, especially if a bulwark of an opposing group's defense has been defeated. For example, if the enemy team loses its only healer, activating this Ultimate will give you a damage boost capable of destroying health bars to pieces, without the enemies being able to recover.
The speed bonus granted by Iron Fist's Ultimate must be used to close the distance to fleeing enemies. Characters with mobility options, such as Moon Knight and Captain America in Marvel Rivalscan sometimes evade Iron Fist long enough to return and escape you. Using Living Chi can help you relentlessly offend these characters, who will suddenly be unable to retreat from your attacks.
You can already advance with punches like Iron Fist, but your Ultimate increases that range to an absurd degree. When used in conjunction with his triple jump and wall running, no character is safe while his Ultimate is being used.
Best team composition for Iron Fist
Utilize team skills and other mobile characters
Iron Fist only has a Team-Up ability in Marvel Rivalsgiving another character a new passive effect for one of their abilities. As a result, the The best team composition for Iron Fist should consist of characters that can support your overall strategy. Iron Fist's fragile health can be supplemented with the character's own defensive abilities, but it's nice to have another character who can help create Lin Lie's preferred situations.
Some of the best characters to pair with Iron Fist are:
- Luna Neve
- Captain America
- Hawkeye
- Thor
- Winter Soldier
Luna Snow is the only character with the Team-Up ability created when Iron Fist is also on a team. Luna gains a new passive ability called Dragon's Chill when this happens, as Iron Fist channels Shou-Lao's Chi into the Tactician character. As long as the two remain together, Luna Snow can activate an icy ring of herselflaunching enemies close to him and healing allies who are in the same AoE.
Luna Snow's new ability through her partnership with Iron Fist also deals damage to enemies while applying a slowdown effect that reduces their movement speed for a short period of time.
Other Melee-focused characters like Thor and Captain America pair well with Iron Fist as they also want to get closer to their enemies. With the right offensive plan, an Iron Fist and any of these Vanguards can attack enemy formations, tearing them apart and scoring some important kills. Winter Soldier and Hawkeye, two great medium and long-range damage dealers, can support this process by eliminating enemies weakened by Iron Fist.
Best tips, tricks and strategies to win
Go after characters with lower health
One of the best strategies to adopt as Iron Fist is try to dive behind an enemy team to eliminate their most valuable characters. In many cases, this often means going after the tacticians, whose healing abilities keep most teams alive during intense fights. The high damage done by Iron Fist makes them devastating for these characters, eliminating them in seconds if they are caught off guard.
Iron Fist thrives on the front lines, destroying the enemy's health when all your skills they are chained. The combos you can chain together with Jeet Kune Do in Yat Jee Chunk Kuen offer ways to kill enemies quickly while gaining bonus health quickly with Iron Fist's Chi absorption passive. Even characters with a lot of health like Hulk in Marvel Rivals They will have little chance against you if you use all your moves against them without contest.
Guerrilla tactics are one of the best ways to use Iron Fist, diving in, taking out a character, and then returning to your team. Iron Fist's wall running and triple jump make him much more mobile to implement this strategy.
Iron Fist's risks come from poor health. Enemies can attack you quickly, forcing you to flee and use Harmony Recovery frequently. However, this healing ability doesn't last long, so you have to get used to it. activating Dragon Defense in the right situations to avoid taking damage and reducing any punishment that comes your way.
Don't forget how Iron Fist's basic attacks launch him towards enemiesclosing the distance even against enemies that seem far away. This can apply to situations where you need to attack a character in the air, like Iron Man or Storm.
You need to be aware of the cooldowns of skills like Iron Fistas many of his abilities have long recovery times. Without mobility options or Dragon Defense, you have little chance of winning some fights, especially if you are fighting more than one enemy. When you combine all of Iron Fist's abilities and Ultimate into Marvel RivalsEnemy characters will fall quickly as you confidently thin out the number of rival teams.