Cloak & Dagger Are the Forgiving Two-in-One Healer Carrying New Players in Marvel Rivals

Cloak & Dagger are one of the easiest healers to pick up in Marvel Rivals, and one of the strongest. You play two heroes in one slot, swapping between Dagger's healing light and Cloak's damage and blinds. You do not need sharp aim to keep your team alive.

Marvel Rivals is the free-to-play hero shooter from NetEase Games and Marvel Games. It launched December 6, 2024, on PS5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC. Every hero is unlocked and free, so you can hop on Cloak & Dagger right now without paying or grinding for them. They are a Strategist, which is the support and healing role.

Here is the quick read. Pick Cloak & Dagger if you want a healer that forgives mistakes. Dagger's healing daggers bounce and home in after the first ricochet, so you can heal teammates around corners by aiming at a wall or the floor. That takes a lot of pressure off your aim. The trade-off is mobility. Dagger is slow, so you have to respect your positioning and stay near cover.

The whole hook is the swap. They are Tandy Bowen and Tyrone Johnson, two runaway teens powered by light and darkness. You start as Dagger, the light side, and press the swap to become Cloak, the dark side. They do not share cooldowns, so you can drop a healing field as Dagger, swap to Cloak, and blind the enemy team a beat later. That fluid heal-then-pressure rhythm is what good Cloak & Dagger players live on.

As Dagger you heal. Her basic attack throws bouncing daggers that top off allies while chipping enemies. Dagger Storm tosses a field that pumps out heals over time, which is your big sustain button in a teamfight. As Cloak you flip to damage and control. His basic attack is a steady damage beam. Terror Cape drops a veil that blinds enemies who walk through it and softens them up for a few seconds. His Dark Teleportation sweeps your team into a brief invisible, sped-up state.

That invisibility is the clutch tool. Time it right and you can pull your whole team out of a Storm ultimate or a Jeff the Land Shark swallow. It is not a panic button. Save it for the moment everyone is about to get wiped.

Their ultimate is Eternal Bond. Both heroes go untargetable and dash forward, leaving healing trails on the ground behind each dash. Loop your dashes in a tight area to stack heals on a point, then stand there and out-heal the chip damage. The damage side of the ult is weak, so do not chase kills with it. Use it to hold space.

Are they worth maining? Yes, and they are one of the best picks if you are newer to the role. They reward smart swapping over twitch aim, they fit into almost any team, and they cost nothing to try. The community has kept them near the top of the popularity and win-rate charts for a reason. Their main weakness is dive. Fast flankers like Iron Fist or Spider-Man can jump on you before you react, so play near your tanks and keep a defensive cooldown ready. Learn to rotate between the two halves instead of camping one, and the duo quietly does it all.