Mild-mannered Bruce Banner and his alter-ego, the Hulk, are one of the Vanguard characters you can use in Marvel Rivals, with abilities designed to create an unstoppable force for any team. This original Avenger uses gamma radiation and incredible strength to dismantle enemies. With some of the largest health in the game, Hulk is perfect for those looking for a tank whose incredible bulk makes them hard to defeat.

Vanguards are one of the three character classes in Marvel Rivals, along with Duelists and Specialists. The Vanguard archetype refers to characters with higher health, whose abilities are designed to keep them alive as well as deal damage. Unlike Duelists, such as Moon Knight in Marvel Rivals, Vanguards are intended to be tanks more than DPS characters, surviving for longer to disrupt enemy teams.

All Hulk Abilities

Let Your Anger Get The Better Of You

Even among Vanguards, Hulk is unique as the character has abilities shared across three different forms. You start the game as Bruce Banner, a frail scientist with a simple pistol empowered by gamma radiation. You have to transform into the Hulk to utilize his ridiculously high health, but you can do this right away, as you begin matches with a full Ultimate charge to "Hulk Out" into the Hero Hulk form.

Gaining an Ultimate in Hero Hulk form allows you to transform again into Monster Hulk, another form with extra abilities. Knowing all the skills at your disposal in each form is key to playing the Hulk well, especially since getting defeated as Hero Hulk reverts you into Bruce Banner. Below are all the abilities Hulk has in every form:

How To Use Hulk's Ultimate

Transform And Break Worlds

Unlike most characters in Marvel Rivals, Hulk has three different Ultimates he can use at different times. When you start a match, you immediately get access to Bruce Banner's Ultimate, allowing you to transform into Hero Hulk right away. However, the two other Ultimates must be gradually built up over time by taking damage and dishing it out to your opponents.

Hulk's Ultimates ramp up in strength, with World Breaker being the strongest attack he has at his disposal. Your goal should be to unleash Hero Hulk's Ultimate when you are getting overwhelmed, as Monster Hulk gains 600 Health when you transform. This gives you a way to stay alive for much longer, giving you the energy to make a much-needed push on objectives with your team ing you.

The World Breaker Monster Hulk Ultimate and Puny Banner Bruce Ultimate both charge much faster than Hulk Smash when you're in Hero Hulk form.

The best way to use the Monster Hulk Ultimate is to use your abilities often since they all have reduced cooldowns. Some skills, like Gamma Burst, are incredibly powerful by taking only a single second to recover. Furthermore, these abilities charge World Breaker extremely fast, giving you a grab that can easily eliminate characters with low health, such as Black Panther in Marvel Rivals.

Best Team Composition For Hulk

Pair Up With Specific Characters For New Abilities

One of the stand-out features of Marvel Rivals is how different characters gain new ive abilities or active skills when teamed up together. Hulk is one of the rare characters with multiple Team-Up synergies, making a variety of other characters great to pair with him. Some of the best superheroes you can bring along with the Hulk on your team are:

• Iron Man
• Doctor Strange
• Wolverine

Whenever you have either Doctor Strange or Iron Man in Marvel Rivals on your team, or both, you gain access to the Gamma Charge Team-Up ive ability. This skill gives Hulk a little bit of extra health, but nothing more for him. On the other hand, both Iron Man and Doctor Strange can now charge specific abilities with gamma radiation, making them much stronger than their base versions.

Iron Man's Armor Overdrive and Doctor Strange's Maelstrom of Madness skills get much better when imbued with Hulk's Gamma Charge. They end up dealing far more damage and charging either character's Ultimate moves much faster.

Another Team-Up ability Hulk has is the Fastball Special when paired up with Wolverine. This skill allows the Hulk to throw Wolverine farther than the X-Man's own leaping ability, giving the character a way to leap toward enemies or retreat to safety. This straightforward Team-Up is simple to use and gives Wolverine a much easier way to close in against characters that are trying to keep their distance.

Best Tips, Tricks Strategies For Winning

Knock Down Enemies And Absorb Damage

As a Vanguard, Hulk's main strategy is to act as a frontline character for his team, disrupting enemy groups and being the bulwark of a group's offense. Hulk specializes in survivability, using multiple transformations and the highest health potential in the game to always stay in the fight. You can extend this durability to allies as well, using abilities like Indestructible Guard to grant bubble shields to anyone near you.

Your goal should be to stick with your team and help take down characters with smaller health, such as Specialists healing your opponents. With a well-timed Incredible Leap, you can jump towards weaker characters to eliminate them fast or knock down flying characters like Iron Man or Storm. By using Radioactive Lockdown, you can even stun enemy characters to set up allies to take them out quickly.

Hulk tends to struggle against other Vanguards, so you should try to focus on Duelists and Specialists when you can. Your large health pool makes you hard to kill, but not invincible. Try to use Monster Hulk at the right time to score some fast eliminations while you're powered up in that form.

Whenever you get knocked into Bruce Banner form, you need to retreat and try to regain your Ultimate as soon as possible. This will let you get back into Hero Hulk mode fast, giving enemies a headache as they try to take you out. The abilities and Ultimates of Hulk in Marvel Rivals are great for keeping yourself and your teammates alive to stay in the fight for as long as possible.