Overview

Mantis is a Strategist hero in Marvel Rivals, wielding life energy and empathic abilities to heal, buff, and disable enemies. As a member of the Guardians of the Galaxy, she is a versatile support hero with sustained healing and crowd control tools.

Abilities

Primary Fire: Life Energy Blast

• Fires a fast-moving energy thorn.

• Damage: 50 per shot

• Ammo: 20

• Fire Rate: 2.5/s

• Critical Hit: Yes

• Projectile Speed: 150m/s

• Special Effect: Critical hits generate 1 Life Orb instantly.

Secondary Fire: Healing Flower

• Heals an ally over time and provides an instant burst heal.

• Healing: 55 HP on cast, 20 HP per second for 8 seconds.

• Consumes 1 Life Orb.

E - Allied Inspiration

• Grants an ally a 12% damage boost for 8 seconds.

• Consumes 1 Life Orb.

F - Natural Anger

• Grants Mantis herself a 12% damage boost for 8 seconds.

• Consumes 1 Life Orb.

Shift - Spore Slumber

• Puts an enemy to sleep for 3.5 seconds.

• Damage: 10 on impact

• Cooldown: 15s

• Special Effect: Creates an illusion that can be destroyed by enemy teammates to wake the affected target early.

• Enemies won’t wake up if damaged within the first 0.5 seconds.

Q - Soul Resurgence (Ultimate)

• Heals all allies in range for 200 HP on cast and provides 150 HP per second for 8 seconds.

• Overhealing grants bonus HP (max +100 per ally).

• Movement Speed Boost: 3m/s

• Energy Cost: 3700

• Mantis benefits from all healing and buffs herself.

Passive Abilities:

• Nature’s Favor: Grants 40% movement speed boost after being out of combat for 3 seconds.

• Nature’s Soul: Converts Life Orb consumption into self-healing over time.

Team-Up Abilities:

• Nature’s Soul (with Adam Warlock): Revives Mantis in a golden cocoon at the location of her death instead of respawning at base.

Strengths & Weaknesses

Strengths:

✔ Sustained healing with strong buffs. ✔ Spore Slumber can disable key targets for easy takedowns. ✔ Life Orb mechanics allow for tactical healing and damage boosts. ✔ Ultimate provides one of the best team-wide healing effects. ✔ Good synergy with other Strategists and Guardians of the Galaxy heroes.

Weaknesses:

✖ Limited mobility; relies on positioning. ✖ Healing Flower and Allied Inspiration cannot stack, only refresh. ✖ Spore Slumber can be broken if the illusion is destroyed. ✖ Very dependent on Life Orbs for maximum effectiveness. ✖ Cocoon respawn ability has a long cooldown of 120 seconds.

Strategy Guide

• Use Spore Slumber to disable high-value targets like Duelists and damage dealers.

• Rotate between Healing Flower and Allied Inspiration for effective ally support.

• Keep moving forward to maintain Nature’s Favor movement speed.

• Use Soul Resurgence before major fights to provide healing and bonus HP to the entire team.

• Coordinate with Adam Warlock to take full advantage of the Nature’s Soul revive.

Lore

Mantis, the empathic Guardian, has the ability to influence emotions and harness life energy to support her allies. Despite her gentle nature, she is a skilled martial artist and a powerful healer in battle. Captured by The Collector, she escaped alongside Sai and Jeff the Land Shark and now seeks to reunite with her found family, the Guardians of the Galaxy.

Cosmetics

Costumes:

• Default (Mantis)

• Knowhere Corp (Rare)

• Jade Maiden (Epic)

• Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 (Epic)

• Galactic Wings (Legendary)

Final Thoughts

Mantis is a strong healer with great team utility, blending sustained healing, buffs, and powerful crowd control. She thrives in team compositions that need consistent healing and tactical disables. If you enjoy playing support heroes who can also influence battles with status effects, Mantis is a great choice in Marvel Rivals!