Black Widow is an D-Tier, Duelist class Hero in Marvel Rivals. Read on to learn how to play Black Widow, as well as a list of abilities, skins, and voice actors!
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Hero Tier List (Season 1)Black Widow Hero Overview
| Tier | |
|---|---|
| Role | Duelist |
| Difficulty | ★★★★・ |
| Real Name | Natasha Romanova |
| VA | EN: Laura Bailey |
Worst Hero in Marvel Rivals
Black Widow is currently the worst hero to play in Marvel Rivals. She has the worst ability kit out of all the 35 heroes currently in the game and there isn’t any one aspect that she can possibly excel at.
Hero Tier List (Season 1)Black Widow Pros and Cons
| Pros | - Can be fun to play in non-competitive modes |
|---|---|
| Cons | - Worst hero in the game |
Bad Weapons
Natasha Romanoff’s charge-up, secondary sniper rifle can’t eliminate any enemy in 2 shots. Granted that while a 2-3 shot sniper rifle may not be a dealbreaker to some, the other problem lies with the fact that whenever you use the sniper rifle, you switch to a first-person POV. This means that you will be unable to see your own surroundings whenever you are using your sniper rifle and your position is telegraphed to enemies each time you fire the weapon.
She’s also in a very weird spot since her primary is a melee weapon that is very underpowered and cannot be used to as a weapon to protect against flankers or melee heroes.
Bad Mobility Kit
Black Widow’s mobility kit is a dash and a higher-than-normal jump and that’s about it. She will not escape dives and she will be outdueled every time in 1v1.
Best Hero Companions
Winter Soldier
On the miserable chance that you’re playing with a Black Widow, the best thing you can do is switch to Winter Soldier, since his ultimate, Kraken Impact can mark enemies for culling and she can pick them off using her sniper rifle.
How to Play Black Widow
Only One Way to Play
There’s really only one way to play Black Widow and that’s to adopt a sniper role in the team. You won’t be one-shotting enemies, so the very least you can do is look for targets with low HP that you can eliminate.
Black Widow Hero Lore
Natasha Romanova
Trained from childhood in the infamous Red Room, Natasha Romanova became one of the most feared spies and saboteurs in the world. For years, she put her unrivaled combat skills to use as a member of the Avengers, keeping pace with some of the most powerful beings who ever lived.
Imbued with supersoldier-like treatments that vastly extended her lifespan, Black Widow outlived most of her enemies and allies. But her fight still rages on decades into the future, where she leads the Red Room in its ongoing effort to overthrow the tyrannical Doom 2099.
Hero Story
Mercury Unsealed| Taking Natasha Romanoff by surprise was no easy task. One of the world’s most elite spies, better known as the Black Widow, she had been trained from a young age by her handlers in the Red Room to anticipate every eventuality. Of all her many skills, it was the one she took the most pride in. Even when the world itself was on the brink of disaster, nothing ever caught her off guard. At least until today. When she first came to Tokyo, it was on a special mission for the Resistance. She was gathering intel that could help her fellow freedom fighters in their ongoing battle against Victor von Doom, the tyrannical ruler of Latveria who had been spreading his iron grip across the world, one country at a time. But after that initial operation, she found herself feeling at home in this strange city. More at home than she had felt in decades. Natasha may not have looked a day over thirty on the surface, but she had actually been in the spy game for more than a hundred years now. Her prolonged youth and vitality were the side effects of an experimental life-extending serum given to her by the late, great Nick Fury. Not quite the Infinity Formula, but still as effective. She had never imagined that she’d live to see the year 2099, let alone still be in the field. But here she was, standing on the rooftop of the Tokyo headquarters of Alchemax, ready to expose the company’s greatest secret. Whatever it was… Despite having a wide web of reliable contacts feeding her top-secret intel, Natasha had no idea what she was about to discover. Alchemax, a major multinational pharmaceutical corporation with far too much power, had more secrets than she could count. Most of them fell under various levels of clearance, labelled from “LEAD” all the way up to “GOLD.” But until today, she had never even heard of an asset with a “MERCURY” classification. But here, somewhere within this building, there was something flagged with that rare and mysterious clearance level. And whatever it was, Natasha knew it couldn’t be good. Fortunately, getting inside would be easy. Maybe not for the average citizen -- or even one of the many Web-Warriors that always seemed to be swinging through the city these days -- but for someone as seasoned as the Black Widow, a few Alchemax security officers would be no threat at all. As she entered the building, she instantly encountered a pair of guards. With two quick bursts of her Widow’s Bite, they were out for the count and Natasha had access to the building’s freight elevator. According to her intel, the “MERCURY” level asset was being stored in a vault in the building’s sub-basements. And since this was one of the tallest buildings in Tokyo, Natasha knew she had a long way down. She couldn’t risk simply hopping into the elevator car and pressing a button, however. The building’s security systems would instantly identify her and shut down the lift, making her a prisoner. Instead, Natasha pried open the elevator doors with her hands, peering into the empty shaft. She knew she was going to have to do this the hard way. No. The fun way. Securing her zip line to a steel beam above her, Natasha began to lower herself down the shaft, dangling precariously over what seemed to be a bottomless pit. Cautiously, she accelerated her descent, dropping several floors a second until something suddenly caught her eye: a tiny red dot glowing on the wall. She clutched her hand tightly on the brake to bring her fall to a sudden stop. Reaching into a pouch on her belt, Natasha pulled out a small bag of white powder. She opened the bag and dipped her fingers into the chalky substance, raising some towards her lips. With a gentle puff, as if blowing a kiss, Natasha sent a white cloud of powder gently billowing into the elevator shaft, revealing a latticework of crisscrossed laser beams just below her that would have otherwise been invisible to the eye. “Guess this is my stop,” Natasha said, pulling herself over to a closed elevator door and prying it open from the inside. She was only halfway down the tower, but she would have to go the rest of the way on foot. Luckily, it was the middle of the night and all of Alchemax’s employees had already gone home for the day, so there were no regular civilians in danger. Entering a stairwell, she continued her descent towards the building’s lowest levels as stealthily as possible. Occasionally, she crossed paths with a security guard on patrol, but managed to take them out with ease. Natasha was skilled in countless non-lethal ways of neutralizing targets, but she had one in particular that she put to good use that night -- a Krakoan neurotoxin given to her by Wolverine that easily incapacitated any foe whom she scratched with one of her razor-sharp fingernails. Natasha didn’t take any pleasure in dispatching the guards, but she also didn’t hesitate. They had signed up for this job knowing exactly who they were working for. Finally, after what seemed like hours, Natasha found herself at a thick metal door five levels below the building’s lobby. The door had a high-tech keypad next to it, limiting access to only those with the proper code, which was changed daily. Natasha prayed her intel was up to date as she pulled a wire from the gauntlet on her wrist and attached it to a port on the keypad. After a few seconds, the keypad turned green and the words “ACCESS GRANTED” appeared in Japanese, followed by the sound of a large metal lock releasing. Natasha cautiously pushed the heavy metal door open and entered the chamber on the other side. As she exhaled, she could see her breath hanging in the air in front of her. The temperature in the chamber was far lower than it had been in the rest of the building. Natasha immediately went to a computer terminal and tried to access the files stored on it. As she tried to hack into a heavily-encrypted folder labelled “PROJECT: RISING EAGLE,” she realized something. These systems weren’t using Alchemax security codes. These were the type of encryption protocols used by the Public Eye, the police force that kept all of Tokyo under its thumb. “What’s going on here?” Natasha asked herself as she scanned through the secret files. There were notes about some sort of Super-Soldier Serum from over a hundred years ago. More recent studies on the long-term medicinal benefits of Krakoan flowers. Some scans of ancient chemical equations and nonsensical phrases like “Greater Science,” “Secret Alchemy,” and “Quiet Math.” And most jarring, even some surveillance photos of Nick Fury… and Natasha herself… Before Natasha could dig deeper, a strange noise caught her attention. A beeping. Slow and steady. Like a heartbeat. The sound led Natasha to the center of the room, where she saw a large tube with an enormous crystal shard inside. No… not crystal… It was ice. And inside of the ice was a strange shadow, in what looked like the shape of a human figure. Instantly, Natasha realized that this must be the “MERCURY” level asset she had been searching for. But what -- or who -- was inside? And why were they so important? She needed to find out. And this might be her only chance. Accessing the terminal, she initiated the thawing sequence. The ice began to melt rapidly, creating a pool of water that drained through the bottom of the tube, as well as a cloud of mist that fogged up the glass and obscured Natasha’s view. As the sequence completed, there was a moment of eerie silence, Natasha cautiously reached towards the glass window of the chamber, but pulled back suddenly as another hand -- clad in a red glove -- pressed up against the surface from inside. It stayed there for a second, pushing against the glass, before the figure it belonged to slumped to the floor inside of the tube. Natasha wasn’t sure what she was about unleash, but there was no turning back now. She hit the button to release the tube’s glass door and waited for the billowing steam to clear. Once it finally did, what Natasha saw inside left her in a total state of disbelief. There in front of her was a man, down on one knee, clad in an antiquated red, white, and blue jumpsuit. She knew his image well. She had seen it over and over again during her days in the Red Room as a symbol of everything that Mother Russia stood against during the Cold War. Captain America. But he had died during World War II… hadn’t he…? Suddenly, the brightly colored man began to rise to his feet. “The Red Skull…” he said, a mixture of panic and determination in his voice, “…where is he?” “Dead,” Natasha replied. “For about fifty years now, soldier.” “What?” Cap said, trying to gain his bearings. “How?” “This isn’t the war anymore,” Natasha said. “Not the one you remember, at least.” Captain America gazed around at the high-tech machinery in awe and confusion. Last he remembered, he was on board a doomed plane over the Arctic Ocean. “Where are we?” he asked, not sure he wanted to know the answer. “You might also want to ask, ‘when are we?’” Natasha replied. “The answer is Tokyo. 2099.” “Tokyo?” Cap said, suddenly even more on guard. “We’re behind enemy lines?” “It’s not like that anymore,” Natasha said. “These days it’s not about borders. It’s about freedoms.” “It always has been,” Cap said. “Fair enough,” Natasha agreed. “And now you have yours.” “Thanks to you,” Cap replied, knowing that without his new friend’s aid he would still be suspended in a deep freeze. “That won’t last long if we don’t get out of here,” Natasha said, leading Cap towards the door of the chamber. “Alchemax was keeping you on ice for a reason. We don’t want to be here when they realize you’ve been thawed out.” “Too late,” Cap said as a battalion of heavily armed guards burst their way through the chamber doors. “Public Eye,” Natasha said, recognizing the guards’ uniforms. “Never heard of them,” Cap responded as he blocked a guard’s electrified nightstick with his forearm. “But I can’t say they don’t remind me of someone…” “They’re no Hydra,” Natasha said, kicking away one of the Public Eye officers, “but they’re just as good at making sure the citizens under their protection are living in constant fear.” “Let me guess,” Cap said, his fists flying. “They think they’re the good guys?” “They always do,” Natasha laughed. “Some things never change,” Cap mused, wishing that he had his trusty shield with him as he knocked back another guard. “We need to get out of here,” Natasha said, fighting her way toward the chamber door. “We don’t stand a chance against this many of them in such a tight space.” “Lead the way,” said Cap, covering Natasha’s back as they made their escape into the stairwell. Captain America and the Black Widow worked their way up the five flights of stairs, back to the lobby of the Alchemax building, taking out a constant flow of Public Eye soldiers along the way. The two fought in perfect unison, almost as if they had been partners for years. Though she usually preferred to work alone on missions, for once Natasha was glad to have a new ally on her side. As they reached the lobby, leaving a trail of unconscious guards in their wake, they were met by one of the Public Eye’s giant mechs, a heavily-armed robotic drone used to police the streets of Tokyo and keep dissidents in line. “Go…” Cap said, to Natasha. “I’ve got this.” “No,” Natasha replied. “We can’t risk you falling back into their hands.” Cap leapt toward the drone, narrowly dodging a blow from its over-sized mechanical fist. He reached up and grabbed hold of a circular plate of metallic armor on the robot’s shoulder, ripping it off with ease. “I’ll be fine,” Cap said with a smile, holding the disc of armor like a shield. “I used to be able to do this all day. Time to find out if that’s still true…” As Natasha reluctantly raced toward the lobby’s main exit, Cap hurled the armored plate at the drone’s torso, slicing right through its core circuitry. The mech began to spark wildly. Suddenly, its single eye turned a bright red. “Self-destruct protocol initiated,” the drone said in a synthesized voice. “Well, that’s new,” Cap said under his breath, realizing the critical mistake he had just made. Natasha turned back and rushed to help Cap, but it was too late. The drone erupted in an enormous burst of flame that filled the lobby. Cap leapt on top of Natasha, protecting her from the burst, but the shockwave from the explosion still hit them both hard. Natasha’s vision went blurry as she hit the ground. Moments passed and she regained her senses. She looked around for the man who had just rescued her from a fiery fate, but he was nowhere to be found. Where had he gone? The answer would have to wait. Sirens were blaring nearby. The Public Eye was about to bring in backup, and Natasha needed to get as far away as possible. The Black Widow managed to disappear into the night, as she had done so many times before. Her mission had been partially successful, but she wouldn’t be able to rest until she knew what had happened to Captain America. For the first time in ages Natasha had been caught by surprise. Not only by the legendary hero in the block of ice, but by the unusual feeling he had inspired within her. Something she hadn’t felt in decades. Hope. |
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