Deadpool

Marvel Rivals Hybrid · Season 10.5

Updated October 15, 2026

Deadpool is a Hybrid hero in Marvel Rivals with 275 to 500 health and a 4/5 difficulty rating. Deadpool joined the game in Season 6 on January 16, 2026. In Season 10.5 ranked, Deadpool has a 46.7% win rate (C tier, #46 of 54) and is picked by 20.5% of teams. Deadpool's team-ups are Gumbo Chimichangas (with Gambit) and "Hel-Yeah, Honey" (with Hela). The ultimate is The Ban Hammer.

Difficulty: 4/5
Role: Hybrid
Attack Type: Hitscan
Health: 500
Movement Speed: 6 m/s
Ultimate: The Ban Hammer
Ranked (S10.5): C tier · 46.7% win rate
Released: Season 6 (Jan 16, 2026)
Last Balance Change: Season 10 (Sep 11, 2026)

How to Play Deadpool

Use Teleport Aggressively: Don't save teleport as an escape tool. Use it to dive their backline and harass supports. Get in, deal damage, then use your second charge to reposition or chase kills. Trust your healing to keep you alive.
Prioritize Consistent Body Shots: Deadpool's pistols have heavy recoil. Focus on landing reliable body shots instead of going for headshots. His damage comes from volume of fire, not precision.
Abuse Your Self-Heal: After taking damage, duck behind cover for a few seconds and let your healing factor do its work. Play hit-and-run. You're a pest who keeps coming back at full health while enemies are still hurt.
Switch to Katanas Up Close: When you're in melee range, swap to your katanas for serious burst damage. The combo is simple: teleport in, unload pistols, finish with katanas. Most players underestimate how much damage you can do up close.
Disrupt, Don't Just Frag: Your job is to make the enemy backline miserable. Target their supports first. Even if you don't get the kill, forcing them to run or blow cooldowns means your team isn't getting healed. Disruption wins games.

Deadpool Combos

Vanguard taunt brawl: Deadpool In Your Area (E) on a group, swap to katanas with Slice And Dice!, then slash with Kick@$$ Katana (Left Click). Enemies stay taunted for 5 seconds while his katanas swing 60% faster.
Pistol ultimate (taunt): in pistol mode, The Ban Hammer (Q) on a hero who relies on skill shots, then keep firing Dual Desert Eagles (Left Click). He gets 300 bonus health and 60 more per missed ability; the Duelist's Skill Issue and Strategist's Pwnage Pound instead deal 60 damage per miss.
Katana ultimate (challenge): The Big Test (Q) refreshes Hazardous Hijinks, so open with Hazardous Hijinks (Right Click) dashes and Bunny Bounce (Space) off enemies. Five hits earn the 6-second jackpot; Pop Quiz! needs seven and Final Exam eight.
Strategist heal dive: Healing Hijinks (Right Click) to reach a hurt ally, Healing Hop (Space) onto them for 35 healing, then Kick@$$ Katana (Left Click) on the enemy beside them. Each slash heals allies within 5 m for 32.

Strengths

Three roles in one hero: 500 health and a 300-health Magical Unicorn Shield as a Vanguard, 42-damage pistol shots as a Duelist, or 45 healing per shot as a Strategist.
Healing Factor heals him 25 per second out of combat, and taking over 200 damage within 2 seconds makes him briefly immune while he heals 50 per second.
Upgrade! improves one ability each time his XP bar fills, and snapping a photo of an enemy he finished off grants bonus XP while he is immune to damage, so his kit keeps growing through the match.
Hazardous Hijinks chains up to 3 dashes of 12 m and 40 damage as long as each one connects, which gives the katanas real reach for a melee weapon.

Weaknesses

As a Duelist or Strategist he has only 275 health, and the katanas reach just 4 m, so half of his kit needs him to stand right next to the enemy.
His ultimate is locked behind Maximum Flair: he needs an S rating to use it and dying drops him back to E, so a careless death also costs him his ultimate.
The taunt from Deadpool In Your Area breaks once an enemy deals 100 damage to him, and heroes who control space, like Peni Parker with her webs and mines, keep him from reaching the close range his katanas need.

Deadpool Abilities

Dual Desert Eagles - Vanguard

Vanguard Deadpool's pistols: hitscan shots for 36 damage each at 2.5 per second, with 30 rounds and falloff past 15 m. They can crit, so aim high when a target is out of katana reach.

Casting: Hitscan
Damage: 36 per round
Damage Falloff: Begins at 15m, decreasing to 75% at 30m
Fire Rate: 2.5 rounds/s
Ammo: 30
Critical Hit: Yes

The Ban Hammer

The Vanguard ultimate with the pistols: it taunts one enemy for 8 seconds while Deadpool takes 300 bonus health and heals 35 per second. Every ability the target misses costs them 35 damage and gives him 60 more bonus health, so pick someone who relies on skill shots.

Damage: 35 (on missed ability)
Bonus Health Gained: 60 (on missed ability) 300 (on activation)
Healing Over Time: 35/s
Cooldown: 60s
Duration: 8s

Slice And Dice!

Swaps Deadpool from his Desert Eagles to his katanas, turning his primary fire into 4 m melee slashes. Switch as you dive in and swap back once the target gets out of reach.

Deadpool In Your Area - Vanguard

Taunts enemies within 6 m for 5 seconds, dealing 10 damage per second and cluttering their screens. Meanwhile his pistols fire 40% faster and katanas 60% faster; a taunted enemy breaks free after dealing 100 damage to him. 12-second cooldown.

Damage: 10/s
Cooldown: 12s
Duration: 5s
Attack Speed Boost: Dual Desert Eagles: 40%, Kick@$$ Katanas: 60%
Damage Needed To Remove Taunt: 100

Upgrade!

Deadpool earns XP over time and from damage; once the bar fills, pressing it opens a scrapbook where he picks one ability to upgrade. He can also snap photos of enemies he finished off for bonus XP, immune to damage while posing.

Bunny Bounce

A 16 m double jump on a 6-second cooldown that hurts enemies he lands on. During The Big Test, bouncing off walls, enemies or allies drops the cooldown to 0.5 s, so he can chain jumps toward the jackpot.

Jump Distance: 16m
Cooldown: 6s

Magical Unicorn Shield!

Throws a plush unicorn that turns into a round 300-health barrier for 4 seconds when it lands, on a 12-second cooldown. Toss it in front of your team to absorb a burst or cover a teammate in trouble.

Cooldown: 12s
Barrier Health: 300
Barrier Duration: 4s

Healing Factor

Deadpool heals 25 per second after 5 seconds out of combat. Taking over 200 damage within 2 seconds makes him briefly immune and heals him 50 per second; that trigger recharges in 45 seconds as Vanguard or Duelist and 30 as Strategist.

Healing Over Time: Passive: 25/s, Trigger: 50/s
Trigger Cooldown: 45s

Maximum Flair

His Style Rating climbs from E to S as attacks land, faster when abilities hit close together. Reaching S unlocks his ultimate and dying drops it back to E, so chaining abilities matters more than safe poking.

Kick@$$ Katana - Vanguard

Vanguard katana combo: three 4 m slashes for 30 damage each, with a slightly quicker second strike. Use them once you're brawling, ideally while Deadpool In Your Area speeds them up by 60%.

Casting: Melee
Damage: 30
Range: 4m
Attack Interval: 1st & 3rd Strike: 0.6s, 2nd Strike: 0.53s

The Big Test

The Vanguard ultimate with the katanas starts a 12-second challenge: 300 bonus health for Deadpool, 50 for allies within 6 m, 50 healing per second and refreshed Hazardous Hijinks. Five Bunny Bounce or Hazardous Hijinks hits earn a 6-second jackpot.

Duration: Challenge: 12s, Jackpot: 6s
Boost Range: 6m spherical radius
Bonus Health Gained: Self: 300, Ally: 50
Healing Over Time: Challenge: 50/s, Jackpot: 100/s
Movement Boost: Challenge: 15%, Jackpot: 30%
Cooldown: 60s

Lock And Load!

Swaps Deadpool from his katanas back to the dual Desert Eagles. Switch when enemies back off beyond the blades' 4 m reach or when you need to finish someone running away.