Marvel Rivals Team-Ups changed fundamentally in Season 9. The old anchor-bonus model is no longer a safe reference: every hero now has two selectable Team-Up loadouts, each with a Base Effect that works on its own and an Enhanced Effect that requires the listed partner. This Marvel Rivals Team-Ups guide is a master reference for the live system, covering every active Team-Up ability, both effects, the required partner, and the roles on each side of the pairing.
The practical rule is simple: choose the Team-Up for what its Base Effect gives your hero first, then treat the partner as an upgrade condition rather than a requirement to make the loadout function. That distinction matters in solo queue, where a partner can swap heroes at any time. It also makes this reference useful beyond a single patch because the structure of the system can be checked independently from individual balance numbers.
How Marvel Rivals Team-Up Abilities Work After the Season 9 Rework
Season 9 replaced the previous Team-Up framework with a ground-up system rework. The official Season 9 patch notes introduced the new model, while the live hero interface now presents two Team-Up choices for each hero. You equip one choice at a time. If your composition changes, return to the hero-selection or spawn interface and review the Team-Up choice instead of assuming the loadout you started with is still the best one.
- Base Effect: the part of the selected Team-Up that belongs to your hero. It does not need the listed partner to function.
- Enhanced Effect: the extra interaction, stronger version, added charge, passive bonus, or altered behavior that becomes available when the named partner is on your team.
- Partner: the hero who enables the Enhanced Effect. A partner is not automatically the hero receiving the ability.
- Activation: some Team-Ups add an active ability, some modify an existing skill, and some are passive. A few Enhanced Effects require both players to confirm a shared interaction, such as Gamma Fastball, Stars Aligned, or Primal Punishment.
- Role pairing: Team-Ups can connect heroes within the same role or across Vanguard, Duelist, and Strategist. Deadpool is the special case because his role is flexible.
Do not memorize a universal keyboard button for Team-Up abilities. The live UI shows the correct input for the selected hero and platform, and controls can be remapped. What matters for composition planning is whether the effect is passive, replaces a normal ability, creates a new active button, or needs a mutual interaction. Players who want to practice that decision-making around specific heroes and compositions can use Marvel Rivals coaching alongside their own match review rather than treating a Team-Up name as an automatic reason to force a draft.
How to Choose Between Two Marvel Rivals Team-Up Loadouts
Because every hero has two choices, the practical question is not which Team-Up is best in a vacuum. The better choice is the one whose Base Effect fits the match and whose Enhanced partner has a realistic place in the draft. This keeps the system useful even when teammates swap heroes and prevents a composition from becoming dependent on a bonus that disappears the moment one player changes roles.
- Start with Base Effect value. Compare what each option gives your hero with no partner present. Mobility, emergency defense, self-healing, crowd control, or a safer ranged tool can be more reliable than a higher-damage Enhanced combo.
- Check the actual partner, not just the Team-Up name. If that hero is already in the composition, the Enhanced Effect is effectively free value. If adding the partner would break role balance, do not force it.
- Identify the activation type. Passive enhancements are easy to maintain. New active abilities demand cooldown management. Mutual interactions require coordination and can fail if the other player is busy, out of range, or unwilling to confirm.
- Re-evaluate after swaps. A Team-Up selected at the start of a round may lose its Enhanced Effect after a teammate changes hero. Use the spawn interface to reconsider the other loadout.
- Separate balance changes from system rules. Damage, healing, cooldowns, and control durations can move from patch to patch, but Base versus Enhanced and partner identity are the stable parts to check first.
When learning several heroes after the rework, rotate through both loadouts in real matches instead of judging them only from text. That makes it easier to understand range, timing, and whether a nominally useful Enhanced Effect fits your preferred role. Players already working through multiple hero goals can use Marvel Rivals proficiency progression as a separate progression option; it does not replace the need to learn the current Team-Up activation rules.
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All Marvel Rivals Team-Ups by Hero and Role
As of September 5, 2026, the live Season 9.5 roster contains 53 heroes and 106 selectable Team-Up abilities. The official Team-Up reference separates Base Effect from Enhanced Effect. Rather than putting all 106 choices into one oversized matrix, this guide groups heroes by role and gives every hero a separate block. Read the two options under your hero, compare their Base Effects first, and then check whether the listed partner is already part of a sensible composition.
Marvel Rivals Vanguard Team-Ups
Vanguards use Team-Ups to alter frontline pressure, survivability, mobility, control, and the way core defensive abilities work. The partner can improve the selected option, but the Base Effect remains the first thing to judge when you are deciding between a hero’s two loadouts.
Angela
- ASGARDIANS OF THE GALAXY — Star-Lord (Duelist)
Base Effect: Reveal a targeted area, then reactivate to slam down and Ground enemies caught by the impact.
Enhanced Effect: With Star-Lord, the slam also grants Angela Bonus Health based on how many enemies it hits. - ODIN'S UNACKNOWLEDGED — Loki (Strategist)
Base Effect: Send an illusion forward with Assassin's Charge to carry enemies struck from the front.
Enhanced Effect: With Loki, Angela gains a second charge.
Captain America
- STARS ALIGNED — Winter Soldier (Duelist)
Base Effect: Leap to an ally, grant Bonus Health to both heroes, and redirect part of the ally's incoming damage to Captain America.
Enhanced Effect: With Winter Soldier, both players can confirm a rally charge that grants nearby allies Bonus Health and Speed; the base leap also grants its target Speed. - VOLTAIC UNION — Thor (Vanguard)
Base Effect: Sentinel Strike becomes a Lightning Shield projectile; after two hits, Captain America can fire four piercing shield throws.
Enhanced Effect: With Thor, each Lightning Shield hit triggers an additional area-damage burst.
Devil Dinosaur
- PRIMAL PUNISHMENT — The Punisher (Duelist)
Base Effect: Replace Primal Bite with two magnetic cannons whose explosive shots apply Bleed.
Enhanced Effect: With The Punisher, both players can confirm a mount interaction; The Punisher rides Devil Dinosaur, gains Damage Reduction, and is limited to Adjudication/Deliverance and Scourge Grenade while Devil Dinosaur absorbs part of his incoming damage. - SURF & TURF — Jeff the Land Shark (Strategist)
Base Effect: Impact Beam becomes a frontal water stream that damages enemies and heals allies.
Enhanced Effect: With Jeff, he can ride Devil Dinosaur; both gain Damage Reduction and continuous healing while the interaction lasts.
Doctor Strange
- GAMMA MAELSTROM — Hulk (Vanguard)
Base Effect: Maelstrom of Madness becomes Gamma Maelstrom, charging energy much faster and removing the usual Anti-Heal drawback.
Enhanced Effect: With Hulk, casting Gamma Maelstrom preserves some stored energy, and Gamma energy no longer decays. - PSIONIC VORTEX — Invisible Woman (Strategist)
Base Effect: Maelstrom of Madness becomes Psionic Vortex, pulling and Launching enemies toward Strange while improving Shield of the Seraphim.
Enhanced Effect: With Invisible Woman, Vortex damage converts into Bonus Health.
Emma Frost
- ICED OUT DIAMOND — Luna Snow (Strategist)
Base Effect: Fire a frost attack that damages and Slows; Diamond Form can also create a Zero Diamond barrier that blocks attacks and movement.
Enhanced Effect: With Luna Snow, after activating Diamond Form, all ability damage applies Slow, and Soul Wave also applies Slow. - SPIRIT BREAKER — Mantis (Strategist)
Base Effect: Damage the summoned Soul Crystal to convert that damage into Bonus Health for Emma Frost.
Enhanced Effect: With Mantis, shattering the Soul Crystal grants a one-time Bonus Health burst and shortens Mind Control's cooldown.
Groot
- BUBBLE BUDDIES — Jeff the Land Shark (Strategist)
Base Effect: Retreat into a Bubble Shield that makes Groot Invincible and heals him while he remains inside.
Enhanced Effect: With Jeff, the healing is stronger and overhealing becomes Bonus Health. - WILD WALL — Mantis (Strategist)
Base Effect: Wild Wall continuously heals nearby allies and grants Bonus Health.
Enhanced Effect: With Mantis, the wall evolves after enough healing and provides stronger healing.
Hulk
- GAMMA FASTBALL — Wolverine (Duelist)
Base Effect: Enter Furious state for Speed and Attack Speed, while also unlocking Dances With Werewolves for a low-Health Unstoppable window.
Enhanced Effect: With Wolverine, both players can confirm Fastball Special; Hulk throws Wolverine forward and enters Furious. - SAVAGE SLAM — Captain America (Vanguard)
Base Effect: Leap and slam for area damage; the remaining Health at impact affects cooldown reduction for Hulk's other abilities.
Enhanced Effect: With Captain America, the slam also applies Vulnerability.
Magneto
- MAGNETIC RESONANCE — Emma Frost (Vanguard)
Base Effect: Create a magnetic projection that mirrors Magneto's movement and abilities from the enemy perspective.
Enhanced Effect: With Emma Frost, the projection gains much more Health and remains until destroyed or recalled. - METALLIC CHAOS — Scarlet Witch (Duelist)
Base Effect: Summon and swing a Chaos Greatsword for frontal damage.
Enhanced Effect: With Scarlet Witch, Mag-Cannon becomes chargeable and converts stored energy into multiple Chaos Greatsword projectiles that can Launch.
Peni Parker
- ROCKET NETWORK — Rocket Raccoon (Strategist)
Base Effect: Armored Spider-Nest periodically produces Spider-Drones and Armor Packs that grant Bonus Health.
Enhanced Effect: With Rocket, the nest can self-heal and Rocket's B.R.B. also creates Cyber-Webs plus Spider-Drones and Arachno-Mines. - VIBRANIUM MECH — Black Panther (Duelist)
Base Effect: Activate to briefly grant Cyber-Web Cluster an Attack Speed and Damage Boost.
Enhanced Effect: With Black Panther, activation also deploys a frontal Vibranium Shield and reduces Cyber-Web Cluster's Vibranium Energy cost.
Rogue
- EXPLOSIVE ENTANGLEMENT — Magneto (Vanguard)
Base Effect: Defensive Stance expands into a stronger magnetic field; absorbed damage is converted into Southern Brawl damage.
Enhanced Effect: With Magneto, Southern Brawl also knocks enemies back and deals extra damage if they collide with a wall. - MR. & MRS. X — Gambit (Strategist)
Base Effect: After activation, Rogue's attacks trigger kinetic area damage and heal nearby allies.
Enhanced Effect: With Gambit, Rogue remains permanently in the Hearts as One state while this Team-Up is selected.
The Hood
- CHAOS COLLISION — Scarlet Witch (Duelist)
Base Effect: Create an arcane zone that damages enemies and stacks Damage and Healing Reduction; reactivate to teleport to its center.
Enhanced Effect: With Scarlet Witch, the teleport releases a shockwave that damages nearby enemies and pulls them toward The Hood. - NEW MOON'S SHADOW — Moon Knight (Duelist)
Base Effect: Abyssal Veil becomes Lunar Barrier, blocking projectiles; when broken it damages enemies, reduces Damage and Healing, and can briefly Blind enemies who cross it.
Enhanced Effect: With Moon Knight, the barrier is tougher and The Hood's attacks passing through it can bounce.
The Thing
- TWO-IN-ONE — Human Torch (Duelist)
Base Effect: Enter a flaming enhanced state where Rocky Jab splashes and Stone Haymaker creates a frontal explosion.
Enhanced Effect: With Human Torch, Torch can lift and slam The Thing to damage and Stun enemies, automatically starting the flaming state on landing. - UNBREAKABLE FORCES — Invisible Woman (Strategist)
Base Effect: Gain Psionic Armor that converts missing Health into Bonus Health.
Enhanced Effect: With Invisible Woman, the conversion is stronger and taking enough damage triggers a healing pulse for nearby allies.
Thor
- DIVINE ARMORY — Angela (Vanguard)
Base Effect: Throw a Thunder Spear that restores Thorforce per enemy hit, then leap to its detonation point for a second area strike.
Enhanced Effect: With Angela, the leap also grants Bonus Health. - RAGNAROK REBIRTH — Hela (Duelist)
Base Effect: Lethal damage instead creates a short decaying Bonus Health window; joining a KO during it revives Thor with part of his Health.
Enhanced Effect: With Hela, KO participation by either hero can immediately revive Thor, with recovery scaling from remaining Bonus Health.
Venom
- ABYSSAL FLAMES — Phoenix (Duelist)
Base Effect: Phoenix energy replaces Dark Predation for a short window with Phoenix Touch, a sweeping frontal slash.
Enhanced Effect: With Phoenix, Phoenix Touch applies Sparks; reaching three stacks detonates them. - BLOOD LEECH — Blade (Duelist)
Base Effect: Cellular Corrosion siphons Health from every enemy still linked to Venom.
Enhanced Effect: With Blade, selected Venom abilities also provide a burst of healing.
Marvel Rivals Duelist Team-Ups
Duelists have the largest Team-Up selection in the current roster. Their choices range from new attacks and movement tools to healing, Bonus Health, crowd control, ammo changes, marks, and altered versions of existing abilities. Because there are many Duelist pairings, use the hero headings below instead of trying to compare the entire role at once.
Black Cat
- BINDING TIES — Spider-Man (Duelist)
Base Effect: Turn of Fortune becomes a two-charge Spider-Web Grapple that steals Fortune, applies Spider-Tracer, and enables bonus damage when another ability detonates the mark.
Enhanced Effect: With Spider-Man, grappling an enemy already carrying Spider-Tracer briefly Immobilizes that target. - FELINE ALLIANCE — Black Panther (Duelist)
Base Effect: Taking damage stores Vibranium Energy; at the threshold Black Cat can explode it for damage, knockback, Speed, and Bonus Health.
Enhanced Effect: With Black Panther, the explosion no longer needs the energy threshold and can be triggered on demand.
Black Panther
- DAMISA-YAO — Storm (Duelist)
Base Effect: Release elemental power from the armor to damage and Slow nearby enemies while applying Vibranium Marks.
Enhanced Effect: With Storm, affected enemies are pulled toward Black Panther. - DIMENSIONAL SHORTCUT — Magik (Duelist)
Base Effect: Use a Limbo disc to return to an earlier position, gain Bonus Health, and create an explosion that damages enemies and applies Vibranium Marks.
Enhanced Effect: With Magik, Black Panther can cancel the teleport sequence before completion.
Black Widow
- ALLIED AGENTS — Hawkeye (Duelist)
Base Effect: Rifle hits build Focus. At three stacks, the next shot gains Hunter's Sight damage and piercing properties.
Enhanced Effect: With Hawkeye, critical hits preserve the Focused state until Black Widow misses a critical hit. - BURNING BULLETS — Phoenix (Duelist)
Base Effect: Boost Red Room Rifle fire rate and convert Plasma Cannon into an instant hitscan laser that does not need charging.
Enhanced Effect: With Phoenix, Plasma Cannon gains a second charge.
Blade
- BLADE OF KHONSHU — Moon Knight (Duelist)
Base Effect: Dash with a heavy sword cleave, then unleash four rapid slashes that launch bouncing Darkmoon Blades.
Enhanced Effect: With Moon Knight, each Whirlwind Slash creates an additional Darkmoon Blade. - BLEED FOR BATTLE — Captain America (Vanguard)
Base Effect: Taking set amounts of damage builds Bloodline Awakening stacks.
Enhanced Effect: With Captain America, critical damage can trigger Bloodline Awakening immediately, add bonus stacks, and raise the stack cap.
Cyclops
- KINETIC KIN — Gambit (Strategist)
Base Effect: Enter a short kinetic state with major movement and jump improvements.
Enhanced Effect: With Gambit, Optic Blast and Concussive Beam attack faster during the kinetic state. - SLIM AND RED — Phoenix (Duelist)
Base Effect: Ricochet Force gains Phoenix burn interaction; Optic Blast and Concussive Beam can detonate part of the remaining burn on ignited enemies.
Enhanced Effect: With Phoenix, Spark detonations reduce Ricochet Force cooldown.
Daredevil
- COMPREHENSIVE DEFENSE — Iron Fist (Duelist)
Base Effect: Objection! becomes a 360-degree club spin that damages nearby enemies, deflects projectiles, and restores Fury on successful deflections.
Enhanced Effect: With Iron Fist, Daredevil also regenerates Health throughout the ability. - DEVILISH AFFAIR — Black Widow (Duelist)
Base Effect: Swing Devil's Chain in a crossed pattern to damage and Slow enemies in front.
Enhanced Effect: With Black Widow, the attack covers a wider area and successful hits restore Fury.
Elsa Bloodstone
- LOUDMOUTH MERCS — Deadpool (Flexible)
Base Effect: Living Bullet becomes special ammo that Taunts and Slows its target while damaging nearby enemies over time; after a timer it auto-recalls, healing Elsa based on damage dealt and increasing the Inherited Instinct passive cap by one gauge block.
Enhanced Effect: With Deadpool, Elsa builds Instinct much faster. - PREHISTORIC TRAP — Devil Dinosaur (Vanguard)
Base Effect: Deploy Smoky Snare; Diablo watches the trap and Immobilizes and damages approaching enemies while gas deals area damage.
Enhanced Effect: With Devil Dinosaur, Elsa can store and maintain two traps.
Hawkeye
- MOONLIT SLASH — Cloak & Dagger (Strategist)
Base Effect: Crescent Slash becomes Moonlit Slash, healing and boosting healing for allies while damaging enemies and applying Vulnerability.
Enhanced Effect: With Cloak and Dagger, Hawkeye gains a three-hit light-blade follow-up sequence. - SENBONZAKURA STRIKE — Psylocke (Duelist)
Base Effect: Blast Arrow becomes Psionic Arrow; charging stores extra arrows that release together.
Enhanced Effect: With Psylocke, Hawkeye charges and nocks faster and the arrows gain an explosion.
Hela
- DEEP WRATH — Namor (Duelist)
Base Effect: KO participation spawns an Undead Monstro at the defeated enemy; Piercing Night commands it to attack a nearby target.
Enhanced Effect: With Namor, attacks during Goddess of Death can spawn Undead Monstros at impact points. - HEL TENDRILS — Venom (Vanguard)
Base Effect: Soul Drainer becomes Hel Tendrils, pulling enemies toward the hit point and linking them with an escape Slow.
Enhanced Effect: With Venom, Piercing Night fires a denser symbiote thorn volley, and direct hits restore Hela's Health.
Human Torch
- FIERY SPARKS — Jubilee (Strategist)
Base Effect: Passively detect nearby enemies and send tracking Firework Sparks to chip them down.
Enhanced Effect: With Jubilee, a successful Firework Spark hit grants Human Torch Bonus Health. - STORMING IGNITION — Storm (Duelist)
Base Effect: Storm-charged fire creates a persistent Fire Vortex that pulls and damages enemies.
Enhanced Effect: With Storm, Omega Hurricane can become Burning Hurricane, and interactions with Flame Field can generate Flame Tornadoes.
Iron Fist
- IRON & STONE — The Thing (Vanguard)
Base Effect: Gain a powerful uppercut that Launches enemies.
Enhanced Effect: With The Thing, the uppercut can flow directly into a sweeping leg follow-up. - KUMIHO PALM — White Fox (Strategist)
Base Effect: Hits from Yat Jee Chung Kuen burst-heal nearby allies.
Enhanced Effect: With White Fox, Yat Jee Chung Kuen gains a much longer lock-on distance.
Iron Man
- GAMMA CHARGE — Hulk (Vanguard)
Base Effect: Armor Overdrive becomes Gamma Overdrive, adding a Gamma Shield and strengthening Repulsor Blast and Unibeam output.
Enhanced Effect: With Hulk, Pulse Cannon becomes Gamma Pulse Cannon, gaining a Gamma Shield interaction and stronger damage behavior. - THUNDER OVERDRIVE — Thor (Vanguard)
Base Effect: Enhance Unibeam with a volatile lightning ring that deals extra damage to enemies near the beam's outer edge, including during Armor Overdrive.
Enhanced Effect: With Thor, Armor Overdrive's cooldown is reduced substantially.
Magik
- CHAIN OF CYTTORAK — Doctor Strange (Vanguard)
Base Effect: Chain of Cyttorak can tether two enemies and drag them toward the same point.
Enhanced Effect: With Doctor Strange, the chain can catch multiple enemies in the pull. - VOID PENTAGRAM — The Hood (Vanguard)
Base Effect: Stepping Discs used inside the magic circle refund energy and summon a Limbo Demon.
Enhanced Effect: With The Hood, those Limbo Demons gain much more Health and attack range.
Mister Fantastic
- CLOBBERIN' RESEARCH DEPT. — The Thing (Vanguard)
Base Effect: In brawler stance, Stretch Punch becomes a chargeable Brawling Punch that grants Bonus Health from damage and Launches on a full charge.
Enhanced Effect: With The Thing, Distended Grip also gains a chargeable hammer attack with the same Bonus Health and Launch payoff. - FANTASTIC AMPLIFIER — Rocket Raccoon (Strategist)
Base Effect: Equip the Fantastic Amplifier to raise maximum Elasticity and gain active access to Inflation State.
Enhanced Effect: With Rocket Raccoon, Brainiac Bounce Launches enemies it hits.
Moon Knight
- BLOOD MOON — Elsa Bloodstone (Duelist)
Base Effect: Deploy an Ankh Trap that creates an Ankh and calls one Talon of Khonshu to pull enemies toward the center.
Enhanced Effect: With Elsa Bloodstone, triggering the trap calls multiple Talons into the area. - LUMINOUS MOON — Cloak & Dagger (Strategist)
Base Effect: Dash while Phased, then emit a Light Energy wave that heals Moon Knight and nearby allies.
Enhanced Effect: With Cloak and Dagger, the phase and dash last longer, the healing wave is stronger and wider, and Moon Knight receives additional healing after the phase.
Namor
- CHILLING CHARISMA — Luna Snow (Strategist)
Base Effect: Launch a Frost Tide that damages, pushes back, and Slows enemies in its path.
Enhanced Effect: With Luna Snow, Frost Tide gains an extra charge and crashes at maximum range for another area hit and stronger Slow pressure. - GAMMA MONSTRO — Hulk (Vanguard)
Base Effect: Summon an extra Gamma Monstro that attacks nearby enemies, speeds up after critical hits, and can fire a beam after Wrath of the Seven Seas.
Enhanced Effect: With Hulk, Blessing of the Deep creates a gamma water barrier that accelerates Monstro recovery and boosts its damage.
Phoenix
- CIRCLE OF LIFE — Hela (Duelist)
Base Effect: Replace Psionic Detonation with Phoenix Netherfire: a marked area erupts in a short stun followed by larger blasts that apply Healing Reduction and Sparks.
Enhanced Effect: With Hela, every blast applies additional Spark stacks. - TELEKINETIC BEATDOWN — Rogue (Vanguard)
Base Effect: Fire a telekinetic shockwave that lets Phoenix Force strike the target and blink between nearby enemies, applying Sparks and healing Phoenix.
Enhanced Effect: With Rogue, each hit applies more Sparks, heals Phoenix more, and increases the maximum number of strikes.
Psylocke
- LIGHT & DARK DARTS — Cloak & Dagger (Strategist)
Base Effect: Release Light Darts around Psylocke to damage enemies and heal herself, leaving a Shadow Domain that can return her to Stealth.
Enhanced Effect: With Cloak and Dagger, the domain is larger and each re-entry into Stealth triggers another dart burst. - MENTAL PROJECTION — Emma Frost (Vanguard)
Base Effect: Send an illusion forward to use Psi-Blade Dash while Psylocke enters Stealth; the illusion copies her attacks.
Enhanced Effect: With Emma Frost, Psylocke can reactivate the ability to swap positions with the illusion.
Scarlet Witch
- HEX FIREWORKS — Jubilee (Strategist)
Base Effect: Dark Seal becomes Plasmoid Seal and can be detonated a second time to damage enemies and apply Vulnerability.
Enhanced Effect: With Jubilee, Mystic Projection continuously heals Scarlet Witch. - SORCERERS SUPREME — Doctor Strange (Vanguard)
Base Effect: Activate an 8-second state on an 8-second cooldown that replaces Chthonian Burst with free-casting Mystic Burst.
Enhanced Effect: With Doctor Strange, the effect becomes a toggle, allowing Mystic Burst to stay enabled until turned off.
Spider-Man
- PARKER POWER-UP — Peni Parker (Vanguard)
Base Effect: Gain Sticky Spider-Bomb, which damages and marks enemies; if unused in time it detonates on Spider-Man and refills Web-Cluster ammo.
Enhanced Effect: With Peni Parker, Web-Cluster marks improve and detonating Spider-Tracers grants Bonus Health. - SYMBIOTE BOND — Venom (Vanguard)
Base Effect: Create a symbiote spike burst that damages and knocks back nearby enemies.
Enhanced Effect: With Venom, extra tendrils tether and damage enemies caught in the burst.
Squirrel Girl
- ESU ALUMNUS — Spider-Man (Duelist)
Base Effect: Throw Webbed Acorn to explode on contact, damaging and briefly Slowing enemies.
Enhanced Effect: With Spider-Man, Webbed Acorn also creates a sticky Web Area; enemies inside suffer continuous Slow that builds into a Stun if they remain too long. - SQUIRREL MISSILE — Iron Man (Duelist)
Base Effect: Launch a homing nanotech squirrel missile that explodes on impact.
Enhanced Effect: With Iron Man, Squirrel Blockade also launches a Squirrel Missile.
Star-Lord
- FLORA MUNITIONS — Groot (Vanguard)
Base Effect: Throw Twisted Thorn Seeds that grow into Thorn Snares, damaging and Rooting enemies who step on them.
Enhanced Effect: With Groot, more snares are created and each snare deals more damage. - STAR-SOUL — Adam Warlock (Strategist)
Base Effect: Place a Telekinetic Beacon that Star-Lord can return to from anywhere; if defeated, he can respawn at the beacon.
Enhanced Effect: With Adam Warlock, KO participation reduces the beacon cooldown.
Storm
- GOD OF THUNDER — Thor (Vanguard)
Base Effect: Wind Blade becomes a hitscan lightning beam that detonates when it hits a target.
Enhanced Effect: With Thor, Bolt Rush becomes Chain Lightning that can jump between enemies. - JAWS OF FATE — Jeff the Land Shark (Strategist)
Base Effect: Create a downpour that continuously heals Storm and nearby allies.
Enhanced Effect: With Jeff, Omega Hurricane lets Jeff swim inside the cyclone and form a localized Jeff-nado.
The Punisher
- AMMO OVERLOAD — Rocket Raccoon (Strategist)
Base Effect: Deploy an Ammo Overload device that increases firing speed while Punisher fights inside its area.
Enhanced Effect: With Rocket Raccoon, the same device also grants infinite ammo. - BESTIAL HUNT — Daredevil (Duelist)
Base Effect: Gain piercing bullets with a Damage Boost effect.
Enhanced Effect: With Daredevil, those rounds destroy enemy-created walls and shields more efficiently.
Winter Soldier
- EXPERT INSTINCT — Elsa Bloodstone (Duelist)
Base Effect: KO participation grants Culling Instinct stacks that shorten other cooldowns; stacks disappear on defeat.
Enhanced Effect: With Elsa Bloodstone, Ceaseless Charge grants more Bonus Health. - TIMELESS VETERANS — The Punisher (Duelist)
Base Effect: Unlock Burst Spike, a forward electrical blast from the bionic arm that damages and knocks enemies back.
Enhanced Effect: With The Punisher, the burst also applies Grounded and produces stronger knockback.
Wolverine
- BLAST SLASH — Cyclops (Duelist)
Base Effect: Temporarily extend claw range and replace Vicious Rampage with Kinetic Claws, a short lunge followed by rapid slashes.
Enhanced Effect: With Cyclops, the Blast Slash state remains active instead of being temporary. - PAIR OF THREES — Gambit (Strategist)
Base Effect: Enter Kinetic Enhancement for better mobility; attacks add delayed kinetic bonus damage.
Enhanced Effect: With Gambit, Wolverine receives continuous healing during the enhanced state.
Marvel Rivals Strategist Team-Ups
Strategist Team-Ups frequently change healing, protection, utility, cooldown behavior, or the way an existing support ability interacts with teammates. In solo queue, the Base Effect is particularly important because it stays available even if the Enhanced partner later swaps to another hero.
Adam Warlock
- COSMIC CYCLONE — Storm (Duelist)
Base Effect: Allies connected by Soul Bond gain a Speed Boost.
Enhanced Effect: With Storm, Soul Bond also grants linked allies a Damage Boost. - FLAWLESS DESIGN — Ultron (Strategist)
Base Effect: Cosmic Cluster can heal allies it hits.
Enhanced Effect: With Ultron, Cosmic Cluster also creates an impact explosion.
Cloak & Dagger
- FROZEN HAVEN — Luna Snow (Strategist)
Base Effect: Encases the current hero in protective ice, preventing movement but allowing incoming healing and emitting a small healing aura.
Enhanced Effect: With Luna Snow, the allied healing aura while Frozen becomes significantly stronger. - OBLIVION SHROUD — The Hood (Vanguard)
Base Effect: Lightforce and Terror veils become stationary Twilight and Void veils that respectively weaken enemy damage and enemy healing passing through them.
Enhanced Effect: With The Hood, both veils become wider and allies who pass through gain a temporary Damage Boost.
Gambit
- FAVORABLE ODDS — Magneto (Vanguard)
Base Effect: Throw two magnetic cards that separate and spin, healing allies while damaging and Launching enemies.
Enhanced Effect: With Magneto, the cards reverse polarity at the end, collide, and explode for another burst of healing and damage. - SPARKLING STAFF — Jubilee (Strategist)
Base Effect: Spin the staff to heal nearby allies, damage close enemies, and block most incoming projectiles.
Enhanced Effect: With Jubilee, Bayou Bash and Big Easy Impact also provide a healing aura.
Invisible Woman
- FIRST FAMILY — Mister Fantastic (Duelist)
Base Effect: Make Invisible Woman and nearby allies Invisible while providing healing and Speed; the effect can return after they leave combat.
Enhanced Effect: With Mister Fantastic, the healing, Speed, and Invisibility duration are all improved. - UNITED SIBLINGS — Human Torch (Duelist)
Base Effect: Create a Flame Shield on an ally that blocks damage, heals nearby teammates, boosts allied projectiles passing through, and Slows enemies crossing it.
Enhanced Effect: With Human Torch, the shield becomes larger and much stronger.
Jeff the Land Shark
- GUARDIAN OF THE DEEP — Venom (Vanguard)
Base Effect: Link allies with healing tendrils for Continuous Healing; excess healing converts into Bonus Health.
Enhanced Effect: With Venom, the symbiote tendrils also lash nearby enemies for continuous damage. - MR. POOL'S INTERDIMENSIONAL TOY BOX — Deadpool (Flexible)
Base Effect: Spit a Deadpool plushie that Taunts nearby enemies and creates a healing mist for allies.
Enhanced Effect: With Deadpool, the Taunt is stronger and enemies in the area also take damage.
Jubilee
- HELLFIRE SPARKS — The Hood (Vanguard)
Base Effect: While Attack Speed is enhanced, Energy Plasmoids become hitscan, can critically hit, and heal Jubilee on hit.
Enhanced Effect: With The Hood, Void Magic Mark does not clear, allowing the hitscan state to be maintained. - VAMPIRIC KIN — Blade (Duelist)
Base Effect: Create a Vampiric Field that grants Life Steal to allies fighting inside it.
Enhanced Effect: With Blade, allies inside the field also receive continuous healing.
Loki
- VIBRANT VITALITY — Mantis (Strategist)
Base Effect: Regeneration Domain also grants allies a Damage Boost, and the Runestone increases the field's reach.
Enhanced Effect: With Mantis, deploying the Domain sends out a nature shockwave that damages and slightly Launches enemies. - VILLAIN'S ILLUSION — Hela (Duelist)
Base Effect: Target a fallen hero and temporarily assume that hero's form without access to the copied Ultimate Ability.
Enhanced Effect: With Hela, the transformation lasts longer and lethal damage while transformed or during Loki's Ultimate reverts him to Loki with some Health instead of causing a KO.
Luna Snow
- ATLAS BOND — White Fox (Strategist)
Base Effect: Send a spirit fox forward to heal allies and Charm enemies; activation also cleanses Luna Snow.
Enhanced Effect: With White Fox, the fox returns after reaching maximum range, creating a second pass while retaining the cleanse. - DUALITY DANCE — Adam Warlock (Strategist)
Base Effect: Soul Bond links nearby characters; damaging linked enemies or healing bonded allies restores Luna Snow's Health.
Enhanced Effect: With Adam Warlock, critical hits from Light and Dark Ice reduce the cooldowns of Absolute Zero and Ice Arts.
Mantis
- STAR BLOSSOM — Star-Lord (Duelist)
Base Effect: Recast Healing Flower on an ally who already has it to enhance and spread the healing field.
Enhanced Effect: With Star-Lord, every Healing Flower cast immediately triggers the enhanced healing field. - VITALITY PACT — Adam Warlock (Strategist)
Base Effect: After defeat, move as a soul, heal nearby allies, and choose where to reform; Natural Anger also improves Nature's Favor healing.
Enhanced Effect: With Adam Warlock, the soul can create Soul Bond with teammates for healing over time and shared incoming damage.
Rocket Raccoon
- MAMMALIAN BOND — Squirrel Girl (Duelist)
Base Effect: Scatter Vitality Acorns that heal on direct contact or pickup and provide a teamwide cooldown benefit.
Enhanced Effect: With Squirrel Girl, Rocket gains additional acorn charges. - PLANET X PALS — Groot (Vanguard)
Base Effect: Bombard Mode becomes Thorny Spores, creating a field that damages enemies while healing allies and granting Bonus Health.
Enhanced Effect: With Groot, Rocket can ride Groot and the Thorny Spores field lasts longer.
Ultron
- SP//DR SYNC — Peni Parker (Vanguard)
Base Effect: Imperative: Patch applies to every ally instead of a single target.
Enhanced Effect: With Peni Parker, Imperative: Firewall can affect all drones and support multiple simultaneous triggers. - STARK PROTOCOL — Iron Man (Duelist)
Base Effect: Encephalo-Ray becomes Nano-Ray, firing multiple damaging nano-projectiles.
Enhanced Effect: With Iron Man, Imperative: Firewall also launches homing missiles that deal area damage.
White Fox
- LUCKY LOAN — Black Cat (Duelist)
Base Effect: Restore Spirit Tail Energy and send Nine-Tailed Aura to seek allies and enemies, healing and speeding allies while damaging and Slowing enemies.
Enhanced Effect: With Black Cat, Spirit Tail Energy is not consumed for a short period. - PSIONIC FOX — Psylocke (Duelist)
Base Effect: Fox Form Awakening no longer costs Spirit Tail Energy and immediately starts at maximum duration.
Enhanced Effect: With Psylocke, Fox Form Awakening has a much shorter cooldown.
Deadpool Team-Ups
Deadpool is the flexible-role exception. His Team-Up effects can change depending on the role he is currently filling, so his two choices are best read separately from the fixed Vanguard, Duelist, and Strategist groups.
Deadpool
- GUMBO CHIMICHANGAS — Gambit (Strategist)
Base Effect: Leap forward with kinetic energy; the landing scatters damaging Chimichangas, while Strategist Deadpool also heals allies.
Enhanced Effect: With Gambit, the landing blast also Stuns enemies. - HEL-YEAH, HONEY — Hela (Duelist)
Base Effect: Hel upgrades the active Desert Eagles or Katanas one extra tier, adding weapon-specific pierce, homing, healing, or true-damage behavior depending on Deadpool's role.
Enhanced Effect: With Hela, both the Desert Eagles and Katanas can receive the extra upgrade instead of only the active weapon.
The most important reading habit is to compare the two choices for the hero you intend to play, not just search for a favorite partner. A strong Base Effect can be the safer solo-queue choice because it remains available through teammate swaps, while a more specialized option can become better when the Enhanced partner is already locked and the composition actually supports the interaction.
How to Read Team-Up Partners and Role Combinations
Team-Up partners do not follow a fixed role formula. Vanguard-to-Vanguard links such as Hulk with Captain America can add frontline pressure, Duelist-to-Duelist links such as Blade with Moon Knight can add offensive tools, Strategist-to-Strategist links such as Luna Snow with Adam Warlock can reinforce sustain, and cross-role pairings can add damage, control, mobility, or protection where a hero normally lacks it. The matrix therefore lists both roles instead of pretending that one pairing type is universally stronger.
For draft decisions, first ask whether the Base Effect solves a problem your hero has in the current match. Then check whether the Enhanced partner is already part of a sensible six-hero composition. If the only reason to add the partner is to activate one Enhanced Effect while weakening healing, frontline coverage, range, or objective control, the Team-Up is usually not worth forcing. In coordinated competitive play, the same principle applies: build the composition first, then use Team-Ups to improve it. Players focused on ladder progression can pair this reference with a planned Marvel Rivals rank progression route rather than changing heroes only to chase one synergy.
Mutual-interaction Team-Ups deserve extra attention because the partner merely being present is not the entire activation sequence. Gamma Fastball needs Hulk and Wolverine to confirm the throw; Stars Aligned adds a shared rally for Captain America and Winter Soldier; Primal Punishment lets The Punisher mount Devil Dinosaur after confirmation. If an Enhanced Effect does not seem to fire automatically, check whether the description calls for a second player's action before assuming it is bugged.
Season 9 to Season 9.5 Team-Up Changes
Season 9 established the rebuilt system; Season 9.5 did more than add another hero. The Hood entered the roster with two personal Team-Up choices, while several existing Team-Ups received numerical or mechanical tuning. The official Season 9.5 balance post is the correct source for those changes, so older Season 9 values should not be carried into the current matrix.
- Season 9.5 roster: The Hood joined as a Vanguard. Two new selectable Team-Ups for The Hood: Chaos Collision with Scarlet Witch and New Moon's Shadow with Moon Knight. Hood-linked Enhanced Effects on Jubilee, Cloak & Dagger, and Magik also became usable with the partner actually available.
- Surf & Turf: Devil Dinosaur and Jeff the Land Shark Maximum base duration increased from 4s to 5s; ally healing from the water stream increased from 40 to 60.
- Gamma Maelstrom: Doctor Strange and Hulk Cooldown reduced from 8s to 6s.
- Metallic Chaos: Magneto and Scarlet Witch Enhanced Chaos Greatsword projectiles gained a minor Launch Up effect.
- Damisa-Yao: Black Panther and Storm Base area damage reduced from 40 to 30 and cooldown increased from 12s to 15s.
- Cyclops / Kinetic Kin: Ricochet Force cooldown reduction per Optic Blast hit increased from 0.15s to 0.25s as a Cyclops base adjustment; with Gambit selected for Kinetic Kin, the Enhanced Concussive Beam attack-frequency bonus increased from 10% to 15%.
- Prehistoric Trap: Elsa Bloodstone and Devil Dinosaur Enhanced Smoky Snare health reduced from 100 to 50 and its control duration reduced from 1.5s to 1.2s.
- Deep Wrath: Hela and Namor Enhanced Undead Monstro single-hit damage reduced from 15 to 10.
- Luminous Moon: Moon Knight and Cloak & Dagger Cooldown reduced from 15s to 12s. Base dash duration and distance increased, while the Enhanced version added a short healing-over-time effect after leaving Phased state.
- Telekinetic Beatdown: Phoenix and Rogue Team-Up damage increased from 45 to 55.
- Sorcerers Supreme: Scarlet Witch and Doctor Strange Base became an 8s duration on an 8s cooldown; Enhanced became a toggle that keeps Mystic Burst replacing Chthonian Burst until switched off.
- Favorable Odds: Gambit and Magneto Launch Up frequency from the spinning magnetic-card field changed from 0.5s to 1s.
The Hood is especially important to the 9 to 9.5 transition. Jubilee's Hellfire Sparks, Cloak & Dagger's Oblivion Shroud, and Magik's Void Pentagram could already reference The Hood as their Enhanced partner before he became playable; his Season 9.5 release made those Enhanced states realistically activatable in a live composition. For his own mechanics, the separate Marvel Rivals The Hood guide covers the rest of his kit beyond the two Team-Up rows shown here.
Removed and Legacy Team-Ups After the Season 9 Rework
The Season 9 rework means old Team-Up tables cannot be updated by simply changing a few numbers. Season 8.5 used the previous anchor and secondary-hero structure, including anchor bonuses that are no longer the basis of the live system. Seventeen old Team-Up names returned in the rebuilt catalog, but returning names do not guarantee that the old activation rules, bonuses, or effects still apply. The ExpCarry Season 9 overview provides the wider patch context; this page should be used for the current hero-by-hero reference.
Nine Season 8.5 Team-Up names are absent from the active 106-entry catalog:
- Arcane Order
- Blessing of the Kumiho
- Chilling Assault
- Fastball Special as a standalone Team-Up name
- First Steps
- Primal Flame
- Psionic Mayhem
- Sword of Duality
- Symbiote Shenanigans
That does not mean every underlying idea vanished. Fastball Special, for example, survives as the Enhanced interaction inside Hulk's Gamma Fastball rather than as the old standalone Team-Up entry. The safe rule for returning players is to ignore legacy anchor bonuses and search the current hero-by-hero list by hero, Team-Up name, or partner before building a composition around a remembered Season 8.5 interaction.
FAQ
The questions below address the points most likely to cause confusion when moving from the old Team-Up system to the Season 9 model.
Does a Team-Up partner have to be on my team for the Base Effect?
No. The selected Base Effect belongs to the hero and works without the listed partner. The partner is required for the Enhanced Effect.
Can I use both Team-Up abilities for one hero at the same time?
No. Each hero has two selectable Team-Up loadouts, but only one is equipped at a time. Recheck the selection when you return to spawn if the team composition changes.
How many active Marvel Rivals Team-Ups are in Season 9.5?
There are 106 selectable Team-Up abilities across 53 heroes, with two choices per hero. Future hero releases or system updates can change that total.
Are old Team-Up Anchor bonuses still part of the current system?
No. Season 9 rebuilt the Team-Up system and removed the old anchor-bonus framework. Do not use old Season 8.5 stat bonuses as current values.
Why is my Enhanced Effect not activating even though the partner is present?
First confirm that you selected the correct Team-Up loadout. Then check whether the Enhanced Effect is passive, changes an existing ability, or requires a mutual interaction. Some pairings need an explicit confirmation from both players.
Did Season 9.5 replace all Season 9 Team-Ups again?
No. Season 9.5 kept the rebuilt framework, added The Hood's two selectable Team-Ups, enabled his partner-dependent Enhanced interactions in live drafts, and adjusted several existing Team-Ups rather than replacing the system again.
Conclusion
The current Marvel Rivals Team-Up system should be read as two layers: a Base Effect you select for your own hero and an Enhanced Effect that comes online when the named partner is present. The hero-by-hero sections above keep those layers separate without turning the guide into a 106-row spreadsheet, while also avoiding the main mistake left by pre-Season 9 guides: treating old anchor bonuses or old Team-Up tables as current rules.
When choosing a loadout, compare the two Base Effects first, then check whether the Enhanced partner belongs in the composition you already want to run. Revisit the selection after teammate swaps, pay attention to mutual-interaction abilities, and use the current hero sections rather than legacy names when a patch changes values. That approach keeps Team-Ups useful as a composition tool instead of turning them into a reason to force an otherwise weak draft.
