Marvel Rivals Roles and Team-Ups
How Vanguards, Duelists, and Strategists share a fight — and which Team-Ups are worth swapping for.
Vanguard
You create space and eat the first cooldown. Anchor tanks walk the cart and hold shields or walls. Dive tanks go in with a follow-up and an exit. If you are farming elims off-angle, the supports are getting dived.
Duelist
Take off-angles after the tank commits; do not start the fight six seconds early. Poke heroes hold high ground. Flank heroes delete an isolated support and then get on the point. Your job is to convert space into deaths on the cart.
Strategist
Heal the person taking space, not the Duelist chasing a spawn room. Position behind cover the tank already paid for. Save a cooldown for the dive that happens after the first poke. Your ult is often the fight.
Team-Ups
Pick a pair that is actually queued. Season lists change; the client is the source of truth. Do not lock a hero whose identity is the bonus button if the partner instalocked someone else.
Comp math
2-2-2 is the default ask. 2-1-3 and 1-2-3 can work. Zero Vanguards is how backlines die. Five Duelists is a clip, not a strategy.