Marvel Rivals Venom guide: Abilities, ultimate, tips & more

Venom is a Vanguard character in Marvel Rivals, and to be as impactful as possible you’ll need to understand how his abilities, ultimate, and playstyle work.

As a Vanguard in Marvel Rivals, your purpose is to be the team’s front line, allowing your Duelists to launch powerful strikes against the opponent team.

Venom is one of the strongest Vanguards in the game, having tremendous health and the ability to deliver incredible damage to enemies with his symbiote tendrils. He can also escape disputed areas with his swinging powers.

Venom stats in Marvel Rivals

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• Class: Vanguard
• Health: 650
• Movement: 6 m/s

Venom is a powerful Vanguard hero in Marvel Rivals. He’s got excellent Health and good movement speed. While he can deal solid damage, he excels at disrupting the enemy team so other Duelists can hone in for the kill. 

Season 1.5 meta changes

After the Season 1.5 patch, a couple of Venom’s abilities have been adjusted including the knockback effect of Frenzied Arrival and the energy cost of Feast of the Abyss. These are the full changes:

• Adjust the knockback effect of Frenzied Arrival from vertical to inward, with an inward knockback angle of 75°.
• Reduce the energy cost of Feast of the Abyss (ultimate ability) from 2800 to 2500.

Weapons

Venom’s symbiote tentacles function as a weapon, emerging as four pinpoint daggers from his body and damaging the enemy in the center. They’re most effective when used in close proximity to opponents since they deliver significant damage and quickly deplete their health.

His Dark Predation stats can be found below:

Casting	Quad-cast delayed spell field
Range	15m
Attack Interval	0.9s, with a 0.1s interval between each tendril
Damage	20
Critical Hit	Yes

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Abilities

Thanks to his abilities, Venom can also generate Bonus Health for himself, Dash to a specific location, crawl over walls, and surprise enemies with his Ultimate. 

Ability	Details	What It Does
Feast of the Abyss	Casting: Single-cast spell field that surrounds the caster Movement Boost: 80% Range: 7m spherical radius Maximum Duration: 4s Damage: Inflict damage equal to 50% of the target’s health, followed by an additional 50 damage Energy cost: 2500 Special Effect: 100% of damage dealt is converted into Bonus Health	Burrow underground for free movement. After a duration or by left-clicking, devour enemies above to deal damage based on the enemy’s current health and generate equivalent Bonus Health
Venom Swing	Casting: Dash Maximum Webbing Length: 30m Cooldown: 8s	Launch webbing forward, allowing for a singular swing in the desired direction
Symbiotic Resilience	Casting: Instant Cast Cooldown: 15s Special Effect: Grant 100 Bonus Health and convert 100% of lost Health into Bonus Health	Generate Bonus Health against damage. The lower Venom’s Health, the greater the Bonus Health generated
Frenzied Arrival	Casting: Targeted Maximum Distance: 40m Minimum Distance: 3m Range: 6m spherical radius Damage: 65 damage, with damage falloff starting at 2m from the center of the spell field and decreasing to 40% at 6m Cooldown: 8s	Dash to the target location from a certain height. Upon landing, damage nearby enemies, launching them up toward the landing point
Cellular Corrosion	Casting: Spell field that surrounds the caster Range: 8m spherical radius Damage: The spell field deals 5 damage, increasing to 80 damage if the target remains in the area for a duration Cooldown: 8s Special Effect: Tendrils apply a 15% Slow on the target and take 3s to inflict damage. If the distance from Venom exceeds 11m, the tendrils will detach	Unleash tentacles to Slow enemies within reach. Enemies unable to break free in time will suffer damage
Alien Biology	Web-Crawling Speed: 3 m/s Sprinting Speed: 9 m/s	Press Space to wall crawl, and while crawling, left-click to sprint
Touch of Klyntar (Passive)	Team-Up Bonus: +150 Max Health	Venom shares a part of his symbiote with Spider-Man and Peni Parker, activating their symbiote abilities. Spider-Man and Peni Parker can convert the symbiotes into explosive spikes that inflict harm on nearby enemies and relentlessly drive them back

How to play Venom in Marvel Rivals

Venom is a tank character with massive amounts of health and regeneration abilities, but that doesn’t mean you can run full DPS at your enemies and not be killed. Your objective with Venom should not be to eliminate enemies, but to disrupt the other team’s top DPS and healers so Duelists can close in and drain their health.

Because you can swing and climb walls on every map, you may flee combat with low health bars and take a moment to plan your next attack on the opposition team. Your F ability allows you to crash into a fiercely contested location, grabbing enemies with Cellular Corrosion and spamming left-click attacks on them.

While on the run, it is best to have a healer regularly heal you as you continue to disrupt your enemies with powerful tentacle attacks. Once your ultimate is recharged, take a step back to heal before burrowing underground to deliver a surprise strike on the opponent’s DPS and healers.

Venom has a learning curve, but once you’ve figured out how to wield the symbiote, he can cause some real carnage on the opposition squad.

Best team comp

In terms of the best team comps for Venom, we would recommend pairing him with the following characters:

• Spider-Man
• Peni Parker
• Luna Snow
• Mantis

Spider-Man / Peni Parker 

Venom, Spider-Man, and Peni Parker all work exceptionally well together in Marvel Rivals. Venom can share his symbiotic with both characters which gives them their own symbiotic abilities. They can harness these new skills to send out explosive spikes that will damage and push back enemies. 

Venom will also benefit from an additional 150 HP in this team comp. 

Don’t forget to check out our dedicated guides for Spider-Man and Peni Parker before using this team comp.

Luna Snow / Mantis 

Venom is a great damage dealer but it’s important to make sure he’s kept safe on the battlefield. This is why we would recommend teaming him up with Luna Snow and Mantis. 

Both of these heroes can ensure Venom’s health stays intact. Mantis can also provide a damage buff thanks to her Allied Inspiration ability.  

You can check out the best ways to use Luna Snow and Mantis in our dedicated guides.

Best Counters

If you’re fighting a Venom and struggling to survive, we’d advise trying out these counters in Marvel Rivals:

• The Punisher (& Rocket Raccoon)
• Iron Man

The Punisher (& Rocket Raccoon)

The Punisher’s Deliverance weapon can deal excellent damage against Venom and chip away at his health. If your Punisher is accompanied by a Rocket Raccoon as well you’ll be even more powerful thanks to Rocket’s ability to give Punisher infinite ammo and a faster fire rate.

We’d strongly advise making sure you’re running both heroes against a Venom for this reason.

You can check out how to play The Punisher, and Rocket Raccoon in our full guides.

Iron Man

Iron Man is particularly good at disrupting Venom’s attacks, especially that pesky Frenzied Arrival dash. If you’re less worried about dealing massive damage, and simply want to slow Venom down, then Iron Man is a solid counter.

We’ve also got a full guide for playing Iron Man you can check out.

That’s all you need to know about Venom in Marvel Rivals. For more on the game, check out our full tier list, Twitch Drops, the best controller settings, Battle Pass details, all currencies, and the Iron Man code.