Marvel Rivals Best Strategist Heroes Guide (Season 9.5): Top 4 Support Picks

🎯 The core idea

Season 9.5 barely touched the Strategist meta, so the best support Marvel Rivals has to offer right now is almost the same lineup as last patch: Invisible Woman, Luna Snow, Mantis, and Rocket Raccoon form the top four, with Gambit still strong enough to earn an honorable mention. This marvel rivals strategist tier list breaks down why each hero climbs games, straight from PsychoSingh's season 9.5 rankings.

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Why the strategist meta barely changed in Season 9.5

Season 9.5 landed with only a slight nerf to Gambit's Magneto team-up and a modest buff to White Fox's ultimate cost, so the best strategist Marvel Rivals players were already leaning on going into the back half of the season carries over almost untouched. That is the whole premise of this marvel rivals strategist tier list: nothing shook up the top of the roster, so the heroes that were dominant stay dominant.

1. Treat Gambit as a strong honorable mention, not a must-ban freeHis primary fire heals, he counters dive with the (now slightly weaker) Magneto team-up, and his dash keeps him safe, but his ultimate has fallen behind the other supports' ults this patch. 0:47
2. Don't sleep on Jubilee as a backup pick cheapPsychoSingh calls her the other honorable mention thanks to strong damage output, even if her kit is a little less consistent than Gambit's. 0:47

Invisible Woman: the best traditional healer pick

If you want the most traditional best healer Marvel Rivals has, Invisible Woman opens this strategist meta guide for a reason: her primary-fire healing is strong and easy to land, and her shield wall blocks damage outright. Wiki-confirmed passive Covert Advance also grants her a heal-over-time while invisible, reinforcing why she plays like a tanky, hard-to-kill support.

1. Pair her with the Human Torch team-up for a stronger shield setupThe team-up buffs her shield wall, letting her block more damage and push out more damage of her own at the same time. 2:15
2. Run the Mr. Fantastic team-up to hide your whole dive squad grindIt grants a second invisibility charge and can turn teammates invisible too, letting you sneak a dive comp around the enemy back line — a play style PsychoSingh says most Invisible Woman players still aren't using. 2:38
3. Save her ultimate to heal, slow, and hide ability casts at once freeIt's one of the strongest support ults in the game against this season's mobility-heavy meta, and it conceals whatever ability you pop inside it. 3:01

Luna Snow: the best support Marvel Rivals has right now

PsychoSingh calls Luna Snow the number one pick in this marvel rivals strategist tier list, and it isn't close: she hasn't been nerfed all of Season 9, she's hit-scan, and her damage output rivals a duelist's. That combination is exactly why so many best support Marvel Rivals debates start and end with her name.

1. Practice your aim before you commit to her grindBoth her healing beam and her damage require landing shots consistently — this is a high-skill-ceiling pick, not a plug-and-play healer. 4:11
2. Take the White Fox team-up whenever it's available setupIt grants a Spirit Fox ability that can shake off crowd control after being hit and adds more damage on top, which is why PsychoSingh says it makes Luna Snow play like a better version of White Fox herself. 4:35
3. Use her ultimate for damage boost value, not just healing freeIt lasts longer than a Gambit ultimate and can amplify a teammate's strong ability or ult at the same time it heals your team. 5:20

The "removes any CC after being hit" framing is PsychoSingh's in-game read of the [White Fox](/guides/white-fox-guide-advanced-abilities-combos-and-ultimate-marvel-rivals) team-up's Spirit Fox effect; treat the exact mechanic as approximate until you test it against the current tooltip in your client, since patch text can be more specific than a spoken description.

Mantis: the strongest all-round healer for climbing

Mantis carries a 67% win rate into Season 9.5 without ever being adjusted in a patch, which is a big part of why she's a fixture on any marvel rivals strategist tier list right now. Her Life Orb-driven kit — confirmed on the wiki as fueling both her heals and her buffs — lets her flex between healer and secondary damage dealer depending on what your team needs.

1. Run her in double support with the Star-Lord team-up setupThis team-up is what makes Mantis viable alongside a second support this season; without it, lean on a healing-focused partner since her own output isn't the very highest in the game. 6:29
2. Land crits with her leaves for Bucky-level damage grindHer damage output rivals Bucky's gun on good hits, which is why triple-support comps with Mantis in them can still punch back offensively. 6:53
3. Use her sleep on divers before they reach your backline cheapIt removes an attacker from the fight for a couple of seconds, buying time for your team to reposition or burst something down. 7:15

Rocket Raccoon: the easiest hero to justify in every comp

Rocket closes out this best strategist Marvel Rivals list as, in PsychoSingh's words, a better version of Gambit in almost every way. He generates ultimate charge faster, his ult lasts longer even if it's stationary, and his wiki-confirmed Battle Rebirth Beacon revives fallen allies passively, which most other strategists simply can't offer.

1. Lean on his healing spheres for flyers, divers, and tanks alike freeHis bouncing healing spheres make him one of the most versatile healers in the game, since he doesn't need line of sight the way beam-based supports do. 10:39
2. Pick the Groot team-up when you have a Groot on your team setupIt grants overshields to teammates and deals anti-dive damage to enemies, making it stronger the more your comp leans on sustained fights. 9:08
3. Use the Squirrel Get-Out team-up to speed up teammates' cooldowns grindDrop it near a Doctor Strange or another cooldown-hungry hero, or throw it into the enemy backline so your dive picks it up as they engage. 9:31
4. Stop assuming Rocket is a free-win easy pick this patch skipNew team-up options raised his skill expression — knowing which team-up to use and when now matters as much as his aim ever did. 8:00

 Rocket's respawn beacon is easy to forget about mid-fight, but PsychoSingh flags it as one of his most valuable tools: drop it in a safe spot and it will passively bring back any teammate who dies nearby, which is a huge tempo swing that no other Strategist in this tier list offers for free.

How this guide was fact-checked

Wiki-verified against marvelrivals.fandom.com and marvelrivals.wiki.fextralife.com: all five heroes discussed here — Invisible Woman, Luna Snow, Mantis, Rocket Raccoon, and Gambit — are correctly classified as Strategist heroes, and their core kit descriptions (Invisible Woman's Covert Advance invisibility passive, Luna Snow's Cryo Heart, Mantis's Life Orb mechanic, Rocket's Battle Rebirth Beacon and Cosmic Yarn Amplifier) match current wiki entries. The Season 9.5 balance notes referenced (Gambit's Magneto team-up control-frequency nerf, White Fox's ultimate cost reduction) also match third-party patch note coverage. Frame-verified: every screenshot above was pulled directly from PsychoSingh's video and shows the matching hero on screen. Unconfirmed/opinion: the actual tier placements — who counts as the single best strategist, whether Luna Snow is "the best hero in the game," and win-rate figures like Mantis's 67% — reflect PsychoSingh's personal read of the season 9.5 meta rather than an objective wiki fact, and win rates shift as the broader playerbase adapts, so treat the ranking order as a snapshot of one strong creator's opinion, not a fixed ruling.