One thing that sets Marvel Rivals apart from other hero shooters is the variety of strategies involved. This keeps the game fresh and always makes you try something new. One of the most unique things the game introduced back in Season 0 is the teaming up of different characters. This way, playing certain characters in a team lets you add key buffs or abilities. So, here is the complete list of all Marvel Rivals team-ups and their abilities.
Note: We updated the Marvel Rivals team-ups list with the Season 5.5 update.
Active Marvel Rivals Team-Ups List
As of Season 5.5, there are 22 active team-ups in the game. Here is a list of all the active ones:
1. Symbiote Shenanigans
- Primary Hero: Venom
- Ability Key: Passive
- Ability: Healing Tendrils
- Team-up Boost: +150 Max Health
- Secondary Hero: Jeff the Land Shark
- Ability Key: X
- Abilities and Effects: Guardian of the Deep
Venom shares his symbiote with Jeff, creating a strong support pairing. As the Team-Up anchor, Venom gains 150 extra health. Jeff, while pressing the X button, generates a symbiote chain connecting them, which heals any allies caught within its tendrils over time. You can use it while in the hide-and-seek state to heal without being an enemy target. After it runs for a while, a burst of healing occurs.
2. Chilling Assault
- Primary Hero: Luna Snow
- Ability Key: Passive
- Ability: Winter’s Chill
- Team-up Boost: 15% Healing Boost
- Secondary Hero: Iron Fist
- Ability Key: E
- Abilities and Effects: Lunar Chi
- Secondary Hero: Emma Frost
- Ability Key: C
- Abilities and Effects: Iced Out Diamond
In the Chilling Assault team-up, Luna Snow grants the Winter’s Chill to both Iron Fist and Emma Frost. The former can now heal allies with Lunar Chi after activating Harmony Recover, while the latter can create an Iced Out Diamond barrier that blocks enemy attacks.
3. Rocket Network
- Primary Hero: Rocket Raccoon
- Ability Key: E
- Ability: Web Server
- Team-up Boost: 5% Healing Boost
- Secondary Hero: Peni Parker
- Ability Key: C
- Abilities and Effects: Armored Spider-Nest
- Secondary Hero: Star-Lord
- Ability Key: C
- Abilities and Effects: Astral Jump
When Rocket Raccoon and Peni Parker are on the same team, they create the Rocket Network/ Tech Pals team-up. While in this team, Rocket gets a 5% healing boost while getting Peni’s Web Beacon added to Rocket’s B.R.B. ability.
On the other hand, Peni Parker gets a new Armored Spider-Nest. This new ability works alongside her Cyber Webs and creates a secondary nest. Star-Lord also joins this team-up and receives an Astral Jump point, which he can teleport to from anywhere on the map.
4. Stark Protocol
- Primary Hero: Iron Man
- Ability Key: Passive
- Ability: Nano Tech
- Team-up Boost: 5% Damage Boost
- Secondary Hero: Ultron
- Ability Key: C
- Abilities and Effects: Nano Ray
Another Duelist-Strategist combo that works for the meta is the Stark Protocol team-up in Marvel Rivals. You can pick Iron Man as a primary character and unlock the Nano-Ray for Ultron. Then, Ultron can shoot lasers that pierce enemies and allies. The Nano-Ray blast damages enemies while healing teammates in their path.
5. Jeff-Nado
- Primary Hero: Storm
- Ability Key: C
- Ability: Shark Surge
- Team-up Boost: None
- Secondary Hero: Jeff the Land Shark
- Ability Key: Z
- Abilities and Effects: It’s Jeff-nado!
If you are looking to make the most out of the new Jeff, team him up with Storm. In the Jeff-Nado combination, they combine the ultimates for a solid impact. While in a team, Storm gets Shark Surge, which she uses to give Jeff the ultimate boost with the It’s Jeff-nado! This new combination deals a lot of damage when Jeff chomps down enemies, dealing additional shock damage. You can only cast the ability when both the ultimates are off cooldown.
6. Gamma Charge
- Primary Hero: Hulk
- Ability Key: Passive
- Ability: Gamma Boost
- Team-up Boost: +100 Max Health (Hero Hulk and Monster Hulk)
- Secondary Hero: Black Panther
- Ability Key: Passive
- Abilities and Effects: Gamma Vibranium Armor
The Gamma Charge team-up has been tweaked multiple times in Marvel Rivals, with its latest iteration featuring Black Panther. When teamed together, Hulk charges T’Challa with gamma radiation and strengthens his Vibranium armor. Moreover, when Black Panther’s health is low, he receives a gamma shield, blocking incoming attacks and becoming Unstoppable.
7. Arcane Order
- Primary Hero: Doctor Strange
- Ability Key: Passive
- Ability: Enchanted Enhancement
- Team-up Boost: +150 Max Health
- Secondary Hero: Scarlet Witch
- Ability Key: C
- Abilities and Effects: Sorcery Surge
- Secondary Hero: Magik
- Ability Key: C
- Ability and Effects: Chain of Cyttorak
The Arcane Order is one of the strongest team-ups in the current Marvel Rivals meta. When you pick Doctor Strange as the primary character and pair him with Scarlet Witch and Magik, it unlocks the Enchanted Enhancement Passive for him. This allows Scarlet Witch to cast Sorcery Surge, which lets her cast Secondary Fire from multiple directions, while Magik can unleash the Chain of Cyttorak, which links two enemies and slows them.
8. Stars Aligned
- Primary Hero: Captain America
- Ability Key: C
- Ability: Captain’s Spirit
- Team-up Boost: +100 Max Health and 5% Damage Boost
- Secondary Hero: Winter Soldier
- Ability Key: C
- Abilities and Effects: Stellar Impact
After leaving the Ammo Overload team-up, Bucky joined Captain America to create the Stars Aligned. Here, Captain America plays the primary role and gains the Captain’s Spirit passive. This enables Winter Soldier to jump to any ally with his bionic arm and slam the ground, dealing damage to enemies. Moreover, Steve and Bucky can also perform a clash, which creates a shockwave that slows enemies and deals solid damage.
9. Planet X Pals
- Primary Hero: Groot
- Ability Key: Passive
- Ability: Friendly Shoulder
- Team-up Boost: +150 Max Health
- Secondary Hero 1: Jeff the Land Shark
- Ability Key: C
- Abilities and Effects: New Friends
- Secondary Hero 2: Rocket Raccoon
- Ability Key: C
- Abilities and Effects: Old Friends
Planet X Pals is one of the team-ups where you actually team up with friends in Marvel Rivals. You enable the Friendly Shoulder passive by picking Groot as the primary character. This will unlock the New Friends ability for Jeff and the Old Friends ability for Rocket Raccoon. Press the C button and ride Groot’s shoulder to blast the enemies down. During the ride, the damage you take is reduced.
10. Fantastic Four
- Primary Hero: Invisible Woman
- Ability Key: Passive
- Ability: Fantasti-Force
- Team-up Boost: 15% Healing Boost
- Secondary Heroes: Mister Fantastic, The Thing, and Human Torch
- Ability Key: C
- Abilities and Effects: Wedded Harmony, Cooperative Comrades, and Storm Siblings
It is impossible to have the Fantastic Four in Marvel Rivals without them having a Team-Up Ability. In this team-up, Invisible Woman is the anchor, boosting Mister Fantastic, The Thing, and Human Torch by channeling Psionic Might. This grants the team temporary bonus health and helps them recover lost HP over time.
Invisible Woman gains the Fantasti-Force passive, while Mister Fantastic gets Wedded Harmony, The Thing receives Cooperative Comrades, and Human Torch unlocks Storm Siblings. Mister Fantastic also gains extra damage resistance, making him more durable during team fights.
11. Fastball Special
Fastball Special is an aggressive formation where Wolverine teams up with Hulk or The Thing to launch himself into enemies. With Wolverine’s Metal Cannonball ability and the allies’ Cosmic or Gamma Fastball (Hulk’s only works outside Bruce Banner form), they can hurl him for moderate damage and a knockdown effect. It’s best used to chase down escaping targets or disrupt distant snipers—just be careful not to throw Wolverine off the map or into a crowd alone.
12. Bestial Hunt
- Primary Hero: Daredevil
- Ability Key: Passive
- Ability: Blind Verdict
- Team-up Boost: 5% Damage Boost
- Secondary Hero: The Punisher
- Ability Key: C
- Abilities and Effects: Justice Sense
Daredevil shares his powers with the Punisher, allowing him to nearsight an enemy. The Punisher can then launch a devil-infused shock grenade to damage and blind his victims.
13. Blade of Khonshu
- Primary Hero: Moon Knight
- Ability Key: Passive
- Ability: Moon God’s Chosen
- Team-up Boost: 5% Damage Boost
- Secondary Hero: Blade
- Ability Key: C
- Abilities and Effects: Eclipse Edge
When activated, Blade is granted Khonshu’s blessing. He swings his Ancestral Sword in a powerful slash, dashing forward a short distance. At the end of the dash, he swiftly slashes four times, each strike sending a Darkmoon Blade forward. When a Darkmoon Blade hits an enemy, it bounces to nearby targets.
14. Deep Wrath
- Primary Hero: Hela
- Ability Key: Passive
- Ability: Death Kneel
- Team-up Boost: 15% Damage Boost
- Secondary Hero: Namor
- Ability Key: C
- Abilities and Effects: Tidal Dirge
Hela uses her necromancy to empower Namor’s Tidal Dirge. When he strikes with his trident, a spectral column that slows enemies is spawned at the targeted area.
15. Divine Armory
- Primary Hero: Angela
- Ability Key: Passive
- Ability: Celestial Command
- Team-up Boost: +100% Max Health
- Secondary Hero: Thor
- Ability Key: C
- Abilities and Effects: Thunderstrike Pike
In this team-up, Angela empowers Thor with a Thunder Spear that regenerates his Thorforce after every attack. After throwing a spear, Thor can instantly teleport to its location, triggering a second wave of damage to all enemies in the location.
16. Duality Dance
- Primary Hero: Adam Warlock
- Ability Key: Passive
- Ability: Cosmic Awareness
- Team-up Boost: 15% Healing Boost
- Secondary Hero: Luna Snow
- Ability Key: C
- Abilities and Effects: Light & Shadow Karma
When paired with Adam Warlock, Luna Snow lends his quantum energy to earn a new ability named Light & Shadow Karma. On triggering this ability, she’s able to turn damage rendered on nearby enemies into health regen points.
17. Ever-Burning Bond
- Primary Hero: Human Torch
- Ability Key: Passive
- Ability: Pyrokinetic Energy
- Team-up Boost: 5% Damage Boost
- Secondary Hero: Spider-Man
- Ability Key: C
- Abilities and Effects: Inferno Blast
When paired with Human Torch, Spider-Man’s webs are infused with Pyrokinetic energy. This results in the Inferno Blast ability, where he can launch a fiery web that also applies a lingering burn-tracer effect.
18. Explosive Entanglement
- Primary Hero: Gambit
- Ability Key: Passive
- Ability: Ace of Aces
- Team-up Boost: 5% Healing Boost
- Secondary Hero 1: Magneto
- Ability Key: C
- Abilities and Effects: Royal Blade
- Secondary Hero 2: Rogue
- Ability Key: C
- Abilities and Effects: Hearts As One
The mutant trio comes together for an explosive combination with Gambit acting as the anchor. The trickster shares with kinectic energy with both Magneto and Rogue. The former gets a new ability that detonates upon striking enemies, while the latter gets a kinetic explosion that damages nearby enemies and heals nearby allies.
19. First Steps
- Primary Hero: Human Torch
- Ability Key: X
- Ability: Two In One
- Secondary Hero: The Thing
- Ability Key: X
- Abilities and Effects: Flying Thing
In one of the more jaw-dropping team-ups, Human Torch uses his powers to lift The Thing up into the air before slamming him down upon a target with great force.
20. Primal Flame
- Primary Hero: Phoenix
- Ability Key: Passive
- Ability: Mind’s Grace
- Team-up Boost: 10% Damage Boost
- Secondary Hero 1: Wolverine
- Ability Key: Shift
- Abilities and Effects: Phoenix Warrior
- Secondary Hero 2: Black Widow
- Ability Key: X
- Abilities and Effects: Phoenix Sniper
Primal Flame sees the unlikely combination of Phoenix, Wolverine, and Black Window combine for a fiery team-up. Imbued with Jean Grey’s Phoenix Force, both Heroes gain abilities that cause lingering damage, as well as lifesteal.
21. Sword of Duality
- Primary Hero: Cloak & Dagger
- Ability Key: Passive
- Ability: From Shadow to Light
- Team-up Boost: 15% Healing Boost
- Secondary Hero 1: Hawkeye
- Ability Key: Shift
- Abilities and Effects: Moonlit Slash
- Secondary Hero 2: Psylocke
- Ability Key: C
- Abilities and Effects: Light & Dark Darts
Cloak & Dagger share light and dark energy with Hawkeye and Psylocke. The former’s Crescent Slashes get a blade wave that boosts healing for teammates, while the latter receives a Light Boomerang Dart that heals allies and harms enemies.
22. Vibrant Vitality
- Primary Hero: Mantis
- Ability Key: Passive
- Ability: Heavenly Guardian
- Team-up Boost: 10% Healing Boost
- Secondary Hero 1: Loki
- Ability Key: Shift
- Abilities and Effects: Deific Blessing
- Secondary Hero 2: Groot
- Ability Key: C
- Abilities and Effects: Wild Wall
Mantis grants her life energy to Loki’s Rune Stones and Groot’s walls. The resulting effect is a Damage Boost buff to the former’s Rune Stones, and a Damage Reduction buff to the latter’s Wild Walls.
Marvel Rivals Inactive Team-Ups
Every Marvel Rivals season brings team-up changes, which include making existing abilities inactive. We’ve listed all inactive Marvel Rivals team-ups below for reference to keep you in the loop. Don’t worry—there’s always a chance the devs will bring them back into rotation.
Ammo Overload
- Primary Hero: Rocket Raccoon
- Ability Key: Z
- Ability: Ammo Invention
- Team-up Boost: 5% Healing Boost
- Secondary Hero: The Punisher
- Ability Key: Passive
- Abilities and Effects: Infinite Ammo and Faster Firing buff
Ammo Overload is one of the strongest team-ups in Marvel Rivals, where Rocket Raccoon supports the Punisher. Rocket gets Ammo Invention and tosses an ammo overload device, and when the Punisher steps into its range, he gains infinite ammo and increased fire rate. The buff doesn’t affect the Punisher’s Culling Turret or Ultimate.
Symbiote Bond
- Primary Hero: Venom
- Ability Key: Passive
- Ability: Touch of Klyntar
- Team-up Boost: +150 Max Health
- Secondary Hero 1: Spider-Man
- Ability Key: C
- Abilities and Effects: Suit Expulsion
- Secondary Hero 2: Peni Parker
- Ability Key: C
- Abilities and Effects: Armor Expulsion
Symbiote Bond is a team-up ability in Marvel Rivals that links Venom with Spider-Man and Peni Parker. Venom shares part of his symbiote with them, activating unique powers—Spider-Man gets Suit Expulsion, and Peni gains Armor Expulsion.
These abilities let them fire explosive symbiote spikes (50 damage per strike) that push enemies back, making it a strong offensive tool. You can also use it to control positioning, launching rivals into hazards, or closer to your team’s setup.
Allied Agents
- Primary Hero: Hawkeye
- Ability Key: Passive
- Ability: Supersensory Vision
- Team-up Boost: 15% Damage Boost
- Secondary Hero: Black Widow
- Ability Key: C
- Abilities and Effects: Supersensory Hunt
As Allied Agents, Hawkeye shares his Hunter’s Sight with Natasha. When they are on a team, it activates the Supersensory Vision passive for Hawkeye. This gives Black Widow the Supersensory Hunt ability, which lets her shoot afterimages of enemies for 8 seconds.
Chilling Charisma
- Primary Hero: Luna Snow
- Ability Key: Passive
- Ability: Icy Disco
- Team-up Boost: 15% Healing Boost
- Secondary Hero: Jeff the Land Shark
- Ability Key: X
- Abilities and Effects: Frozen Spitball
With Luna Snow as the anchor, she and Jeff the Land Shark unlock the Team-Up Ability called Chilling Charisma. Luna gains a passive called Icy Disco, which enhances Jeff’s attacks by replacing his Aqua Burst with Frozen Spitball. This new ability deals increased damage and creates a slowing field on impact. It’s perfect for disrupting enemies and setting up follow-up attacks.
Operation: Microchip
- Primary Hero: The Punisher
- Ability Key: Passive
- Ability: Cutting-Edge Tech
- Team-up Boost: +25 Max Health and 5% Damage Boost
- Secondary Hero: Black Widow
- Ability Key: C
- Abilities and Effects: Pulse Rifle
When you pick The Punisher as the primary hero and get Black Widow in the team, this team-up happens. Punisher improves Black Widow’s rifle, turning her into an even stronger Duelist in Marvel Rivals. The team-up unlocks the Pulse Rifle ability that can fire a charged power beam with every straight fire shot. These beams pierce through enemies and hit multiple targets.
Atlas Bond
- Primary Hero: Iron Fist
- Ability Key: Passive
- Ability: Dragon’s Chill
- Team-up Boost: 10% Damage Boost
- Secondary Hero: Luna Snow
- Ability Key: C
- Abilities and Effects: Frozen Chi
Want to combine the power of a solid Duelist with Luna Snow in Marvel Rivals? Well, select Iron Fist as the primary character as his team-up with her can create a chilling chaos on the battlefield. Iron Fist boosts Luna Snow by channeling the Chi of Shou-Lao into her, making a Chi-infused frost ring. This ring knocks back and slows enemies with chilling damage while healing nearby allies; Iron Fist gains the Dragon’s Chill passive, and Luna Snow receives Frozen Chi.
Storming Ignition
- Primary Hero: Storm
- Ability Key: X
- Ability: Burning Hurricane
- Team-up Boost: None
- Secondary Hero: Human Torch
- Ability Key: X
- Abilities and Effects: Omega Fire
The Storming Ignition is one of the unique team-ups in Marvel Rivals. When Human Torch activates Supernova (ultimate), Storm can amplify her Omega Hurricane (ultimate) by selecting a Flame Tornado, creating an Omega Fire. Likewise, if Storm uses Omega Hurricane first, Human Torch can supercharge it into a Burning Hurricane with Supernova.
Any Flame Tornado caught in a Burning Hurricane grows in size and deals increased damage. This combo turns the battlefield into a fiery storm zone that’s hard to escape.
Guardian Revival
- Primary Hero: Adam Warlock
- Ability Key: Passive
- Ability: Soul Perseverance
- Team-up Boost: 15% Healing Boost
- Secondary Hero 1: Star-Lord
- Ability Key: Passive
- Abilities and Effects: Leader’s Soul
- Secondary Hero 2: Mantis
- Ability Key: Passive
- Abilities and Effects: Nature’s Soul
Strategists are one of the key roles of Marvel Rivals, and Adam Warlock stays on top thanks to his team-up with the Guardian friends. Adam Warlock is the anchor, enhancing Star-Lord and Mantis with revival powers. He gains a passive called Soul Perseverance, while Star-Lord and Mantis get death-activated passives—Leader’s Soul and Nature’s Soul. When downed, it’s smarter to retreat safely and then use the power of cocooned revival.
Lunar Force
- Primary Hero: Cloak & Dagger
- Ability Key: Passive
- Ability: From Shadow to Light
- Team-up Boost: 15% Healing Boost
- Secondary Hero: Moon Knight
- Ability Key: C
- Abilities and Effects: Full Moon
Lunar Force is a team-up ability in Marvel Rivals where Cloak & Dagger help Moon Knight with light and dark energy, creating a realm that grants him invisibility. This makes Moon Knight even deadlier, letting him strike unseen or reposition quickly. Use Moonlight Hook to dash across the field or close gaps rapidly and precisely. While invisible, follow up with Crescent Darts and Moon Blades to pressure enemies hard.
Dimensional Shortcut
- Primary Hero: Magik
- Ability Key: Passive
- Ability: Disc Master
- Team-up Boost: 15% Damage Boost
- Secondary Hero: Black Panther
- Ability Key: C
- Abilities and Effects: Wakandan Master
With Magik as the primary character for the Dimensional Shortcut team-up, Black Panther can rewind a few seconds, returning to a previous spot and gaining bonus health based on what he’s lost. Magik gains a passive called Disc Master, while Black Panther gets a new ability named Wakandan Master. This combo is perfect for hit-and-run attacks, and when timed right, it can unleash serious damage, especially dangerous for backline healers.
Ragnarok Rebirth
- Primary Hero: Hela
- Ability Key: Passive
- Ability: Queen of Hel
- Team-up Boost: 15% Damage Boost
- Secondary Hero 1: Loki
- Ability Key: Passive
- Abilities and Effects: Laufeyson Reborn
- Secondary Hero 2: Thor
- Ability Key: Passive
- Abilities and Effects: Odinson Reborn
- The siblings of Asgard come with a unique team-up in the game that can be strong if used correctly. If you pick Hela as the anchor, it will give her the Queen of Hel passive. While having this passive, if you have Loki or Thor on the team, they can be reborn or get bonus health by Hela’s will. To trigger this, Hela must land a last hit on an enemy. The resurrection does not work if Loki and Thor are thrown off the map.
ESU Alumnus
- Primary Hero: Spider-Man
- Ability Key: Passive
- Ability: Extra Web-Fluid
- Team-up Boost: 10% Damage Boost
- Secondary Hero: Squirrel Girl
- Ability Key: C
- Abilities and Effects: Webbed Acorn
Peter is known for his tech tweaks, and well, he doesn’t shy away from helping friends with them. As an ESU alumnus, Spidey gets the Extra Web-Fluid passive that activates the Webbed Acorn ability for Squirrel Girl. Using this ability, she can trap enemies in an ensnaring blast.
Metallic Chaos
- Primary Hero: Scarlet Witch
- Ability Key: Passive
- Ability: Chaotic Bond
- Team-up Boost: 10% Damage Boost
- Secondary Hero: Magneto
- Ability Key: C
- Abilities and Effects: Metallic Fusion
Metallic Chaos, a removed team-up from the game, used to require Scarlet Witch as the primary character. Her passive, Chaotic Bond, increased Magneto’s greatsword’s power. By pressing the C key, Magneto could unlock the Metallic Fusion to unsheathe the greatsword and deal massive damage to enemies. This combination made Magneto one of the strongest Vanguards in Marvel Rivals.
Voltaic Union
- Primary Hero: Thor
- Ability Key: Passive
- Ability: Thunderous Deity
- Team-up Boost: +100 Max Health
- Secondary Hero 1: Storm
- Ability Key: C
- Abilities and Effects: Charged Gale
- Secondary Hero 2: Captain America
- Ability Key: C
- Abilities and Effects: Charged Aegis
The Voltaic Union team-up was one of the most useful ones in Marvel Rivals due to the combination it provided. Here, Thor acted as the anchor hero who was a must to initiate the team-up. His Thunderous Deity passive gave Captain America the Charged Aegis and Storm the Charged Gale abilities.
During Charged Aegis, Steve received a solid movement speed bonus while having the shield imbued with thunder power, damaging the nearby enemies. On the other hand, Storm’s Charged Gale added a ricochet effect to her attacks, giving bonus lightning damage.
That is the complete guide to Marvel Rivals team-ups for the latest season. Which team are you forming with your buddies? Do tell us in the comments.
