Marvel Rivals: How to Play Mister Fantastic

Marvel Rivals: Mastering Mister Fantastic, the Stretchy Strategist

Marvel Rivals delivers a thrilling hero-shooter experience, boasting diverse gameplay and stunning visuals. With new characters continuously joining the roster, Season 1 introduces iconic Fantastic Four heroes, including the formidable Mister Fantastic.

Mister Fantastic is a unique dualist, excelling at both mobility and damage. His signature move involves grappling and pulling himself towards allies or enemies, significantly impacting both offense and defense. His introduction promises to reshape the game's meta, particularly across its diverse maps.

Quick Links

• Mister Fantastic's Primary Attack
• Mister Fantastic's Abilities
  • Reflexive Rubber
  • Flexible Elongation
  • Distended Grip
  • Wedded Harmony
  • Elastic Strength
  • Brainiac Bounce
• Tips for Playing Mister Fantastic
  • Flexible Reflection
  • Rushing Reflexive Rubber

Mister Fantastic's Primary Attack

A successful duelist needs a powerful primary attack, and Mister Fantastic's Stretch Punch delivers. While lacking a secondary attack, the Stretch Punch's versatility is surprising. This three-hit combo, utilizing a single fist initially and then both fists for the final blow, is highly effective.

The stretched arm continues to inflict damage even after the initial punch, affecting all enemies in its path. This allows for potent area-of-effect damage, comparable to Storm's Wind Blade.

Mister Fantastic's Abilities

Mister Fantastic possesses a range of abilities, best explored in the training room. Each ability contributes to his passive, boosting damage output to fearsome levels when fully charged. Beyond his abilities, key stats to monitor include health and Elasticity.

He starts with 350 health but utilizes shields, enhancing survivability beyond typical duelists. Elasticity, displayed near the crosshair, is crucial. Basic attacks generate 5 Elasticity, aiming for 100 as quickly as possible. His 3-star difficulty rating makes him challenging for beginners but accessible to all players.

Reflexive Rubber

• Active Ability
• 12-second duration

Mister Fantastic transforms into a rectangular shape, absorbing all incoming damage. Upon expiration, he unleashes stored damage in the direction of the reticle.

Flexible Elongation

• Active Ability
• 3-second duration
• Generates 30 Elasticity

This ability provides a shield, boosting health from 350 to 425. He pulls himself towards a target, dealing damage to enemies or granting a shield to allies, offering both offensive and defensive options. It has two charges.

Distended Grip

• Active Ability
• 6-second duration
• Generates 30 Elasticity

This versatile ability allows grappling a target, offering three choices: Dash (pulling Mister Fantastic closer), Impact (pulling the enemy closer and dealing damage), or a double grapple, slamming two enemies together.

Wedded Harmony

• Team-Up Ability (requires Invisible Woman)
• 20-second duration

This ability heals Mister Fantastic for any lost health (no shield granted), improving survivability between shield uses.

Elastic Strength

• Passive Ability

Each ability use builds Elasticity, increasing damage output. At maximum Elasticity, Mister Fantastic undergoes a Hulk-like transformation, significantly boosting damage and providing a substantial shield. The shield decays after the transformation ends. No other abilities are usable during this inflated state.

Brainiac Bounce

• Ultimate Ability

Mister Fantastic leaps and crashes down, dealing area-of-effect damage, then bounces to repeat the attack, devastating grouped enemies.

Tips for Playing Mister Fantastic

Mister Fantastic's damage mitigation and shield access make him surprisingly tanky.

Flexible Reflection

Combining Flexible Elongation and Reflexive Rubber provides shields for both Mister Fantastic and an ally, while simultaneously tanking enemy attacks before unleashing stored damage.

Rushing Reflexive Rubber

While Reflexive Rubber contributes to Elastic Strength, using it strategically even without needing the passive allows for more frequent inflated states, maximizing both objective control and damage output. Stacking shields can result in a massive health pool of up to 950.