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Venom Venom is a tank class hero in Marvel Rivals.

Barely even a snack.
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Easy to play 650 Dive tank Steve Blum
Portrait of Venom.

Venom Venom is a tank class hero in Marvel Rivals. Dive tank

Easy to play
650 Health +150 Bonus This Season
Voice Talent:
Steve Blum
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Venom is a dive-heavy vanguard in Marvel Rivals, excelling at disrupting enemy formations, absorbing damage, and creating chaos in the frontline. His kit revolves around his symbiote abilities, which allow him to generate bonus health, control space, and punish isolated targets. Venom's passive ability, Symbiotic Resilience, grants him increasing bonus health as his HP gets lower, making him exceptionally hard to eliminate.

Venom thrives in aggressive team compositions that include healers like Luna Snow or Mantis who can keep him sustained during extended fights.

How to play Venom in Marvel Rivals

Mobility is key to Venom's success. Use Venom Swing to traverse the map quickly and engage or disengage from fights. His passive Alien Biology allows him to sprint along walls, giving him unique positioning options.

For crowd control, use Cellular Corrosion to grab enemies with tentacles, slowing them and dealing increasing damage if they don't break free. Your ultimate ability, Feast of the Abyss, allows you to burrow underground and emerge to deal massive damage based on the target's current health while converting damage dealt into bonus health. Use this ability during critical moments to turn fights or secure objectives.

Given that your ultimate deals damage based on current health, it's important to use it as early as possible in teamfights; don't fall into the trap of thinking it's best used as an execute to finish off wounded enemies.

Venom Counters and Synergies

Venom Abilities

Feast of the Abyss

Burrow underground for free movement. After a duration or by attacking, devour enemies above Venom to deal damage based on the enemy's current health. 100% of damage dealt is converted into bonus health for Venom.

50% of target's health + 50 damage
4 second max duration

Dark Predation

Unleash tendrils forward to attack enemies.

20 damage
15m (short)

Venom Swing

Launch webbing forward, allowing for a singular swing in the desired direction.

8 seconds
30m max length (medium)

Symbiotic Resilience

Generate bonus health. The lower Venom's current health, the more bonus health is generated.

100 + 120% of missing health as bonus health
15 seconds

Cellular Corrosion

Unleash tentacles to slow enemies within reach. Enemies unable to break free in time will suffer damage.

5 damage, plus 80 damage if enemy fails to escape
8 seconds
8m (small)

Venom Team-Ups

Symbiote Bond

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.

Venom Costumes

Venom Lore in Marvel Rivals

"How in all the Splinter Realms did you get out of your cage?" the young blonde girl asked as she effortlessly cleaved another foe in half with her enormous sword. "Nothing can hold us for long, child," the hulking creature answered. "For we, are Venom." "What about the legion of Limbo Demons I left to guard you?" replied the Mutant known as Magik as she lifted her Soulsword to deliver another fatal blow. Venom smiled as his enormous tongue licked away the strings of spittle dripping from his black lips. "Never mind. Don't tell me," Magik continued. "I'm well aware of what your kind can do. Symbiotes nearly devoured my entire home dimension. It's why I put you on lockdown to begin with." Venom was used to being blamed for the voracious appetites of his symbiotic brethren. But what this child didn't seem to realize was that Venom was more than just a rippling mass of xenomorphic protoplasm — a fearsome sight with claws and tongue and teeth, all ready to deal deadly damage to any who dared oppose him. Underneath his alien exterior was a regular human named Eddie Brock. The symbiotic bond shared by the pair had granted Eddie extraordinary ...Read Venom's full Marvel Rivals lore