One of Marvel's most iconic heroes, Spider-Man, is among the 33 characters whose abilities you can take advantage of in Marvel Rivals. This incredible wall-crawler is arguably the fastest character in the game, using web moves to get in and out of fights with opponents. Using his high mobility, Spider-Man can stun enemies by trapping them with webs before finishing them off with quick attacks, making him a great ally for your team.
Spider-Man is a duelist character, which classifies him as a character who can cause a lot of damage in the DPS role. Similar to other duelists like Wolverine in Marvel RivalsSpider-Man has very low health, making him easily eliminated if you're not careful. Rated as a five-star difficulty character, Spider-Man can be difficult to play as his abilities are more difficult to achieve consistent success during matches.
All Spider-Man abilities
Shoot webs and swing
Many of Spider-Man's abilities have multiple chargesaccumulating a certain number of times before recovering after a cooldown. This gives Spider-Man ways to use specific abilities more than once before they run out, giving you more options than some characters in Marvel Rivals. However, using multiple charges to perform consecutive abilities will quickly lead to situations where Spider-Man is out of options.
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Spider-Man also has abilities that leave webs on enemies called Spider-Tracers. Enemies with Spider-Tracers are indicated by a web symbol above their heads, causing them to take more damage from some attacks and alter the properties of other Spider-Man abilities. Below is a table of all of Spider-Man's abilities and how Spider-Tracers can be applied or modified:
|
Ability |
Skill type |
Recharge/number of charges |
Description |
|---|---|---|---|
|
Spider-Power |
Primary Attack |
N/A |
Swing your fists forward to attack, dealing extra damage to enemies with a Spider-Tracer. |
|
Web Cluster |
Secondary Attack |
5 charges |
Fire a Web-Cluster web ball that deals damage and attaches a Spider-Tracer to an enemy hit. |
|
Web-Swing |
Basic Skill |
3 charges |
Soot a strand of web to swing. |
|
Come here! |
Basic Skill |
N/A |
Shoot the web to capture a hit enemy. If the enemy is marked with a Spider-Tracer, Spider-Man will be pulled towards them. |
|
Amazing combination |
Basic Skill |
2 charges |
Launches an enemy upwards, dealing extra damage to an enemy with a Spider-Tracer. |
|
Thwip and Flip |
To jump |
N/A |
Perform a double jump. |
|
Spider Sense |
Passive |
N/A |
Give a warning about enemies around you. |
|
Wall tracking |
Passive |
N/A |
Press the jump button to crawl on vertical surfaces and press the Primary Attack button to run across them. |
|
Spectacular Spin |
End |
N/A |
Launch Web-Clusters around you to damage and stun nearby enemies. |
The lack of cooldowns on many of Spider-Man's abilities can lead to combos using multiple skills in quick succession. For example, chaining Get Over Here! with the Amazing Combo skill is a great way to deal a lot of damage to an enemy quickly. Some characters, like Star-Lord in Marvel Rivalswill have most of their health removed from a simple Spider-Man combo, especially if you tag them with a Spider-Tracer first.
How to use Spider-Man Ultimate
Fix enemies for your team
The Spectacular Spin Ultimate for Spider-Man shoots webs in a large AoE around him, dealing damage to any exposed opponents near him. While this Ultimate can only be used to eliminate enemies with low health, it can be used in a variety of ways. When an enemy hit by Spider-Man's Ultimate has a Spider-Tracer, he is stunned in place as the webs wrap around them for a short period of time.
Landing a Web-Cluster attack to drop a Spider-Tracer on an enemy can be easy if you use Spider-Man's Web-Swing to reposition yourself behind enemy lines and quickly tag an enemy.
Stunning a group of enemies will allow the rest of your team to eliminate an opposing force no risk. Being able to web a tactician will allow Spider-Man to also quickly use other abilities to eliminate them, leaving an opposing group without their healer(s). This could be the boost your team needs to win a war of attrition, so be sure to activate Spider-Man's Ultimate to help achieve that goal.
However, landing Spider-Man's Ultimate effectively can be difficult, as enemies will quickly spot you if you are reckless. Due to Spider-Man's health, you can easily be eliminated while performing Ultimate if you don't catch enemies by surprise. Patience and timing are the two factors you should consider when you want Spectacular Spin to deal damage and stun as many opponents as possible.
Best team composition for Spider-Man
Join other wall crawlers
Team-Up skills in Marvel Rivals Give characters special abilities when they are in the same group. Some synergies are better than others, but Spider-Man is one of the rare characters who has multiple Team-Up combinations. This makes it much easier to determine which characters will pair well with the wall-crawler, sometimes even improving their arsenal of abilities.
The best characters to have on a team with Spider-Man are:
- Peni Parker
- Poison
- Squirrel Girl
Each of these characters has a partnership with Spider-Man, with Peni Parker sharing the same when Venom is around. With Venom, Spider-Man and Peni Parker win suit expulsion teama new ability where Venom shares part of the symbiote with both characters. By activating this new ability, Spider-Man can release explosive spikes that damage enemies near him and knock them back.
This Symbiote ability is a great way to finish off enemies that are low on health, giving Peni Parker and Spider-Man more consistent ways to secure kills. When Squirrel Girl is teamed with Spider-Man, he receive the Extra Web-Fluid Team-Upwhich gives Squirrel Girl a Web-Bomb ability. When using this, Squirrel Girl can trigger an explosion upon contact with the environment or an enemy, damaging them and immobilizing them for a short period of time.
Best tips, tricks and strategies to win
Be fast, be amazing
Spider-Man's difficulty comes from his low health and multiple skill charges, which make it difficult to determine when and where he should attack. Like Spider-Man, your the objective should be to quickly eliminate characters with low health on the enemy teamthen retreat to your allies. This hit-and-run style of play can be summarized in a few steps:
- Find out which enemy character is far from your team
- Tag this character with a Spider-Tracer
- Click and use a combo to quickly eliminate that character
- Use Web-Swing to escape before too many enemies overwhelm you
Skills like Get Over Here! allow you to reposition enemies, interrupting their actions and causing them to panic. This environment is where Spider-Man thrives, as the character's mobility makes him extremely difficult to pin down. Other teams with even the best characters Marvel Rivals will have difficulty pinpointing your position long enough to target you and interrupt your attack.
Targeting strategists is a fantastic way to disable a rival team's support, so try using your skill combos to take these enemies down first.
Constant movement and relentless offense only work if they are also combined with the patience to run away when you become overwhelmed. Your mobility also makes it difficult for your team to heal you, so be careful when facing enemies far from your allies. While Spider-Man's abilities may be strong in Marvel Rivalsthey are not enough to eliminate an entire enemy team alone, without help.