Marvel Rivals Support Tier List – Healers & Shields

Gambit has sat near the top of the Strategist meta since Season 5, and multiple nerfs across Season 6.0 haven't been enough to knock him down. He's a flexible, versatile healer, and the competition beneath him simply hasn't risen to challenge that. Season 6.5 brought no meaningful balance changes to his kit, so he carried his Season 6.0 strength straight through to the new season without interruption. Right now, there's no real argument for placing him anywhere other than S Tier.

His staying power is rooted in the combination of tools he brings. Gambit has both a cleanse and anti heal, which together make for one of the strongest fight control kits any Strategist can run. The cleanse, Purifying Pickup, strips every status effect from a target in a single activation, meaning it shuts down every status effect based ultimate in the game alongside the regular stuns and debuffs heroes apply through their base abilities. Pair that with anti heal and he can swing a fight toward his team on his own with properly timed cooldowns. His damage is strong enough that dueling or assassinating independently is always a viable option, and two charges of Big Easy Impact give him a clean escape when he gets focused. For teammates pushing or diving the enemy backline, Explosive Trick and Bridge Boost let him back that dive all the way to the back of a fight and give flanking allies a real advantage.

Invisible Woman earned her spot at the top through a combination of strengths that are each solid on their own and genuinely strong together. She took nerfs in Season 6.5 that made her slightly weaker across the board, but her kit held up well enough to stay firmly in S Tier.

Staying alive is the foundation of everything she does. The instant she's in danger, she can vanish, which lets her dodge death in a meta where diving supports is one of the most common strategies at high rank. Most Strategists don't have that kind of survivability. Her push/pull gives her real fight control and can knock dangerous dive heroes off their target before they finish the engagement. Her ult is now more in line with the rest of the healer roster after the 6.5 nerfs, but it's still a reliable tool. She's a safe, consistent pick in almost any team composition and one of the harder Strategists to actually punish.

Loki's S Tier spot is tied almost entirely to one thing: copying ultimates. He can duplicate the ult of any hero on either team, and in competitive play, the most common use case is copying Invisible Woman or Gambit when one of them gets banned. That way your team still walks out of the draft with two strong ultimates even after losing a top Strategist to a ban. He can also copy offensive ults when the situation calls for it, giving him flexibility no other Strategist can offer.

Remove that copy mechanic and his meta presence drops considerably. He took a slight nerf in Season 6.5, but it wasn't enough to push him out of the top tier, and he kept showing up in successful competitive lineups after the patch. His value is most realized at Diamond and above, where teams are actively drafting around the ultimates he mirrors.

Rocket got an odd nerf in Season 6.0 that felt out of place based on his performance at the time. It didn't touch his core healing output, though, so his actual usefulness went unchanged. Season 6.5 then gave him a buffed Team Up with the newly added Mister Fantastic, and Star Lord's side of their shared Team Up also got a buff, adding more utility options when those heroes are in the lineup.

His S Tier spot reflects the sheer range of what his kit covers. His ultimate gives your team both a healing boost and a damage boost at the same time, which is a rare combination for a Strategist. On top of that, he provides constant revives and long range healing that lets him support teammates without needing to be close to the action. The one knock on him is a relative lack of burst healing, but the sustained output and versatile ult value more than cover that gap. There isn't much bad to say about Rocket in this meta.

A big buff in Season 6.0 brought Cloak & Dagger back into the conversation. They can now cast two of the same veils at once, which doubles their healing coverage in a single use. More importantly, Dagger's veil now applies an instant 60 HP on hit. That gives them two fast methods of burst healing that can be stacked quickly even under pressure. If their ult weren't so easy to counter, this kit would push them into S Tier. The ult is the one thing keeping them at A.

They're still a strong pick regardless, with consistent output and solid defensive tools. Dark Teleportation phases them and their entire team into an untargetable state on a fairly short cooldown, making it one of the better team survival abilities any Strategist has access to. Their burst healing uptime alone makes them a reliable choice in most compositions.

Mantis isn't really a healer in the traditional sense. Her kit revolves around buffing her team repeatedly, which indirectly amplifies everything her allies do. The damage boost she applies to herself and teammates compounds across a full squad, and in coordinated play, that translates into kills that wouldn't have happened otherwise. Her Season 6.5 stats back this up, with strong performance figures despite not offering heavy raw healing.

Her value drops off significantly without coordination, though. Solo or duo queue players won't get the same return that an organized group will, because her buffs only matter if teammates are positioned and timing plays around them. In a random lobby, you're at the mercy of whether your team can act on the advantage she creates. In the right environment she's highly effective; in a disorganized one, her actual output will feel lower than her tier position suggests.

The big change for Adam Warlock in Season 6.5 is that he can now fly. Mobility matters a lot for Strategists, especially in a meta where supports are constantly under pressure, and flight directly improves his most important ability. Before, slow movement speed limited where he could position for team revives. Now he can fly to a better spot quickly before popping his ult to bring teammates back, which is a real improvement in how reliably he can land it at the right moment.

His ult brings the entire team back to life, one of the strongest single ability effects in the Strategist class when the timing works out. He can also resurrect himself once every two minutes without spending his ultimate, giving him extra survivability in prolonged fights.

There's a real chance he slides back toward B Tier as the season goes on. Hela and Hawkeye are dominant right now, and that creates pressure on any hero who benefits from safe positioning or elevated movement. For now, his kit is performing well enough to sit at A Tier, but keep an eye on whether the current meta shifts before committing to him as a main.

Jeff the Land Shark has hit every tier on this list at some point since launch. In Season 6.5, he's settled into a stable A Tier position, and a few specific changes made that happen. The biggest is that his ultimate now heals the entire team, which removed a painful trade off his kit used to force. Previously, swallowing enemies with his ult meant leaving your team without healing for its duration. Now both things happen at once. His healing bubbles also apply a speed boost to teammates, which is especially useful on domination maps where reaching the objective before the other team creates an immediate positional edge.

Dealing damage and healing simultaneously gives him an efficiency other Strategists don't offer in the same way. He's not outperforming the S Tier healers in any specific category, and that's precisely why he lands at A rather than higher, but within this tier he earns his spot through consistent, versatile output that holds up across a range of compositions.

Ultron picked up buffs in Season 6.5, but they haven't translated into a better meta position. Hela and Hawkeye are both extremely strong right now, and staying airborne is genuinely dangerous when either one is in the game. Ultron is the only flying Strategist, which puts him more at risk than grounded supports when those heroes are active. The DPS fliers are dealing with the same issue, and Ultron is caught in that same spot.

It's a meta problem, not a kit problem. In a season where Hela and Hawkeye were less dominant or more reliably banned, Ultron could comfortably sit at A Tier. His aerial positioning, poke damage, and AoE ultimate are all legitimate tools. Season 6.5 just doesn't give him a safe enough environment to use them consistently.

Deadpool has bounced around the rankings since launch, and Season 6.5 has him landing in the upper range of B Tier. He's genuinely effective when you use his upgrades well and play his moveset to its strengths. The issue isn't that he doesn't work; it's that the top Strategists dominate the healer slot so completely that running an off meta pick is a hard sell, and finding a composition where Deadpool clearly fits over another healer option has been difficult. His role may become clearer as the meta develops, but right now his upside requires specific conditions to show up.

Luna Snow landing in C Tier is a statistical story more than a kit failure. Her win rate has trended negative across the board this season, and neither Season 6.0 nor Season 6.5 introduced changes to improve her position. She's not a bad hero in absolute terms. A teammate picking Luna isn't cause for concern, but at Diamond+ there are enough stronger Strategist options that the choice is hard to justify over them.

The meta has moved in directions that haven't worked in her favor. Other Strategists have been buffed directly or picked up indirect boosts from how team compositions have shifted, while Luna has stayed in place. Until she gets some changes, she sits at the bottom of the Strategist rankings on performance data alone.