Marvel Rivals: All Defensive Abilities To Avoid & Not Attack

Some defensive abilities are just too much trouble to deal with in Marvel Rivals. These can either make the enemy fully invincible, allow them a powerful counter-attack, or healing so high that you will need to burn all of your abilities. In those cases, it is better to pick a different target, get behind cover, or heal up instead of trying to beat the toughest damage sponge in front of you.

While some of these defensive abilities make the enemy immune to direct damage, it might be possible to land a negative status effect in some rare cases. That can include detriments like slow or blindness in Marvel Rivals. Not every matchup works, so you will want to experiment with your main character against these moves. At other times, working with your team can possibly stop an overwhelming enemy, even if it means the use of several good cooldowns.

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Heroes You Should Avoid Attacking
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How To Overcome These Defenses
- They Can Be Beaten By Enough People

Heroes You Should Avoid Attacking

You’re Just Helping Them By Shooting

A few absolutely powerful abilities keep a character protected for a few seconds. Attacking them directly is even worse than simply ignoring them. Thankfully, Marvel Rivals has clear animations for moves and stances, plus some very audible lines when an ability is triggered.

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The abilities below used by various characters can be quite a challenge to face. So, to make things easier, the table below lists all the abilities used by heroes in Marvel Rivals you should avoid during a match.

Ability	Character	Effect	Duration	Notes
Indestructible Shield	Hero Hulk	Hulk gains a 200 value Shield, and his allies in 5m gain a 100 value one	2.5 Seconds	100% damage to Hulk fills his Ultimate meter; 10% to his allies also fills it. Monster Hulk cannot use this ability
Dragon’s Defense	Iron Fist	He gains a 30% damage reduction. Gains 150 Max Health and 1.5 Bonus Health per hit	1 Second, but you can cancel it early	He cannot attack while in this stance. Cooldown is significantly reduced during Living Chi
Dark Teleportation	Cloak	Cloak and all allies in 10m gain invincibility	2 Seconds	Breaks if a character attacks
Blessing Of The Deep	Namor	Namor flies up 7m and becomes immune to damage	3 Seconds	Namor can descend early
Astral Flock	Hela	Dash up to 18m at a speed of 15 m/s	Hela can end the dash early	Hela is invincible during the dash
Reflexive Rubber	Mr. Fantastic	He gains a 300-value Shield. 60% of damage taken is reflected back as a projectile	3 Seconds	Mr. Fantastic has gets a -35% speed penalty
Freedom Charge	Captain America	Captain America gains 150 Bonus Health and 100 to all allies in a 4m radius	10 Seconds	Every second, Captain American gains another 100 Bonus Health, and his allies 60
Regeneration Domain	Loki	Heals 100 per second and converts 30% of damage taken to healing	5 Seconds	Doppelgangers will use this move at the same time, possibly tripling the effect.

How To Overcome These Defenses

They Can Be Beaten By Enough People

There are other defensive abilities that can be overcome with a lot of firepower in Marvel Rivals. This can come in the form of your ultimate attack or everyone focusing on the same enemy. Still, destroying them might put you in a bad place if their team can just follow up the sacrifice.

Ability	Character	Effect	Duration	Notes
Metal Bulwark/Iron Bulwark	Magneto	Gives him or an ally a 300-value shield	2.5 Seconds	Every 100 damage absorbed empowers Magneto’s Mag-Cannon damage
Berserker Rage	Wolverine	When he attacks or is hit, he gains increased damage and 150-300 Bonus Health before dying	Depends on the amount of Rage	3 Seconds after gaining Bonus Health, Wolverine heals and his Rage is removed
Dagger Storm	Dagger	Heals 55 value each second within a 5m radius	6 Seconds	Dagger can launch this or place it at her feet
Fate of Both Worlds	Luna Snow	Heal 250 per second or give a 40% damage boost	12 Seconds	Both effects cannot overlap. Luna cannot attack while active
Soul Resurgence	Mantis	Heal 100 per second within a 15m radius, with 70% of excess healing turning into Bonus Health	8 Seconds	All allies in the sphere gain a 3 m/s movement bonus
Ironwood Wall	Groot	Groot gains 40 Bonus Health when he or his allies attack, up to a total of 250	Until destroyed	The wall has 700 health and breaks when the convoy hits it
Cyber Web/Bionic Spider-Nest	Peni Parker	Heals 25 per second and grants up to 150 Bonus Health	Indefinite/destroyed	Peni can only have three Cyber Webs. Bionic Spider-Nest has 350 health.