If you want to dominate with Iron Fist in Marvel Rivals, this guide has got you covered. Known for his incredible power and versatility, Iron Fist is a brawler who thrives in one-on-one combat, but there’s much more to him than just throwing punches. From unleashing devastating combos to using his abilities to heal, evade, or outmaneuver enemies, we’ll walk you through everything you need to know to learn how to play Iron Fist in Marvel Rivals!
Iron Fist Abilities Breakdown
Iron Fist combines power and versatility with abilities like Jeet Kune Do’s six-hit combo, Yat Jee Chung Kuen’s flurry of punches, and the high-damage, mobile K’un Lun Kick. Harmony Recovery offers healing and bonus health, while his ultimate, Living Chi, boosts damage, speed, and range, turning him into an unstoppable force.
Normal Attacks
The first of his abilities is Jeet Kune Do. This is his primary attack, which consists of 6 hits total. The first 5 do 33 damage, and the 6th one does 55. This ability synergizes well with his other Dragon Defense, making you immune to all incoming attacks for one second.
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- Dragon Defense
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- Yat Jee
After using Dragon Defense, you unlock Yat Jee Chung Kuen. This is his new primary attack that you unlock for 5 seconds. This attack makes you unleash a flurry of punches at your opponents, dealing enormous damage. Do note that since this ability has a long 15-second cooldown, during this period, hitting opponents causes it to deplete by one second with each hit.
K’un Lun Kick
The best part about this ability is that not only does it boast incredible damage, but it also allows you to escape perilous situations. Similarly, this move’s huge leap forward allows you to chase fleeting opponents enabling you to confirm your kill. This kick deals 70 damage if the opponent is below half their health, or it does 35. This is more than enough for slaying weakened enemies.
Harmony Recovery
This ability is essentially free health. For three seconds, the player floats and heals himself. As a bonus, you are also given 50 extra health, which is huge and may be the determining factor between winning or losing your next fight.
Harmony Recovery
Living Chi
As his ultimate ability, this one boosts his damage by 30%, and his speed by 20%, reducing his block cooldown by 80% (roughly 3.5 seconds). While this lasts for 12 seconds, during this time you would be a total god as your range for punches is increased by 100%, so you would dare not miss.
Living Chi Ultimate
Passives
His two movement-based passives include the triple jump and wall running. They are pretty straightforward and are vital for encountering flying enemies. You can also combine them with K’un Lun kick and flee out of any perilous situation. The triple jump has three charges, and they only charge back when you are on a floor. However, you can synergize it with wall running which would charge this passive up, basically giving you Titanfall-like movement and parkour.
Iron Fist Passives
His other passive, Chi absorption, is pretty straightforward as well. Kills and assists grant you bonus health, which is 50 for each.
What Can Dragon Defense Block?
Dragon Defense is one of the most unique character abilities in the whole of Marvel Rivals as it makes Iron Fist completely invincible. Fundamentally, it’s a parry attack where if timed right, you can cancel out your opponent’s attack. The below-listed characters are the ones that are known to have notoriously hard-to-avoid attacks, take a read to learn to how deal with each one of them. To learn how to play Iron Fist in Marvel Rivals, you must first master this ability.
Jeff the Land Shark
Dragon defense can prevent you from getting eaten by Jeff. To time this move correctly, you need to listen for the bells that the shark rings. As soon as you do, press block and you will be completely invincible.
Jeff the Shark
Scarlet Witch
Like Jeff, Scarlet Witch also has a sound queue that indicates when to perform the block. Right after she says pure chaos, you shall notice 3 blinks. This is the perfect time window to block her ultimate.
Scarlet Witch
Bucky
Although you can block almost everything in the game, one thing you just won’t be able to is the mark from Bucky’s Ult. No matter how you time it, the ult will still hit you. It is best to avoid this attack using your kick.
Bucky Ult
Doctor Strange
Block Strange’s ult is a little trickier since the time window is much smaller. The key thing to note is when Strange pushes his knees down, that is immediately when you must perform the block to prevent him sucking your soul out.
Doctor Strange Ult
How to Play Iron Fist
The cornerstone of Iron Fist’s kit is his ability Harmony Recovery. Therefore, before or after any fight, you must be hitting E. It wouldn’t matter if you are full health or not, as this ability can overheal you. You need to be doing this if you want to stay in fights much longer.
Using Kick to escape
Keeping his abilities aside, the gameplay of Iron Fist revolves around being an opportunist and a brawler. His weakness is that a lot of his damage is centered around dealing it to one target, so if any team is playing even slightly strategically and jump you, you will be taken down easily. To counter this, you need to isolate 1v1’s. A good example of this would be enemy support behind the lines.
Furthermore, how you use your abilities entirely depends on whether your teammates are present with you. If you get a kill and you have your teammates present, you don’t need to escape and should save your kick. Instead, you should head to the next enemy and chase them down. If you get a kill and are alone, or if the enemy flees to their team, in that scenario it is never worth it to chase them down since this character is not at all good at crowd control.
Ultimate Usage
While his ultimate is pretty strong in itself, you can still get killed often using it. Instead of going full barbarian mode and hurling yourself at enemies and finding yourself at the spawn the next few seconds, what you should do is wait for the right opportunity to pop this ult during a fight.
Iron Fist Ultimate
A great example of the perfect ult usage would be during the fight, use your wall ride to assess the arena spot for any support, and drop on them with your ultimate popped. This would be a great starter and would also confirm a kill.
To sum everything up, this guide covers everything you need to master Iron Fist in Marvel Rivals. Learn about his abilities, including Jeet Kune Do’s combo attacks, K’un Lun Kick’s mobility and damage, Harmony Recovery’s healing, and Living Chi’s powerful buffs.
