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Moving the team through dangerous space, stabilizing rotations, and forcing enemies to solve shield angles.
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Doctor Strange
As the Sorcerer Supreme, Doctor Stephen Strange gracefully wields ancient spells to turn the tide of even the most impossible battle. However, magic always comes at a cost, and each use of his arcane abilities gradually awakens the darkness within him.
- 01 StartSource profile first
- 02 CheckVanguard job check
- 03 LeaveOne ranked habit
Queue briefing
Decide how Doctor Strange fits before hero select gets loud
2Swap when
The pressure pattern repeats
Swap or rotate differently if enemies consistently pressure around the shield before your team crosses.
3Practice first
Queue with one habit
Before shielding, choose where the team is moving next; after shielding, check both side angles.
Pocket Rivals ranked read
How Doctor Strange should create ranked value
Use shield and portal timing to move the team through dangerous space, then stabilize the fight.
Editorial note: this section is Pocket Rivals advice for everyday ranked lobbies. Use the official source panel for canonical ability text, then use this ranked read to decide what to practice next.
First job
Pair with a second Vanguard or a durable Duelist who can hold space when you reset.
Practice next
- 1Use shield, mitigation, or control to claim space before chasing eliminations.
- 2Save one defensive cooldown for leaving the fight.
- 3Commit only after your damage players are looking at the same target.
Avoid
Do not spend every cooldown crossing empty space. Arrive with at least one tool left.
Vanguard role hubUse space in steps, check support sightlines, and reset before the fight collapses.Hero pool guideDecide whether Doctor Strange is your comfort pick, safe swap, or role backup.
Hero-specific editorial
Ranked module for Doctor Strange
Best for
Moving the team through dangerous space, stabilizing rotations, and forcing enemies to solve shield angles.
Struggles into
Side-angle pressure and backline dives that ignore the shield instead of fighting it forever.
First swap trigger
Swap or rotate differently if enemies consistently pressure around the shield before your team crosses.
everyday ranked mistake
Standing still with shield up while the rest of the fight moves behind or beside you.
Practice drill
Before shielding, choose where the team is moving next; after shielding, check both side angles.
Review basis
Based on Pocket Rivals build notes for shield and portal timing plus counter notes that attack slow rotations and shield-facing mistakes.
Official details
Base stats and hero story
Official article date: 2024/11/23
- Health
- 575
- Movement Speed
- 6 m/s
Respected surgeon Stephen Strange was forced to seek a different path when his hands were injured in a terrible accident. Devoting himself to the mystic arts, Strange became this dimension's first line of defense against supernatural threats - the Sorcerer Supreme.
Sensing a massive temporal disturbance, Doctor Strange performed an arcane ritual to protect his reality. The spell failed, and Strange and his Sanctum Sanctorum became trapped within the Mirror Dimension. Lost in the timestream, Strange uses his mystic mastery to free himself for short spans of time in order to join the fight.
Skills
Abilities and details
Normal Attack
Daggers of Denak
- Casting
- Five-round delayed hit projectiles
- Projectile Speed
- 60 m/s
- Damage
- 16
- Damage Falloff
- Falloff begins at 10m, decreasing to 80% at 20m
- Fire Rate
- 5.56 rounds per second, with a 0.03-second interval between every two rounds
- Ammo
- 10 (1 dagger per release)
- Critical Hit
- No
Cast Daggers of Denak forward
Ability
Eye of Agamotto
- Casting
- Single-cast spell field that surrounds the caster
- Range
- 10m spherical radius
- Damage
- 60
- Soul Separation Duration
- 3s
- Energy Cost
- 3100
Separate nearby enemies' Souls from their bodies. Damage dealt to these Souls is transferred to their physical bodies
Ability
Cloak of Levitation
- Casting
- Instant Cast
- Dash Distance
- 8m
- Free-Flight Duration
- 6s
- Cooldown
- 12s
Ascend and then enter a brief state of sustained flight
Ability
Maelstrom of Madness
- Casting
- Single-cast spell field that surrounds the caster
- Range
- 8m spherical radius
- Damage
- Each point of Dark Magic deals 1.3 damage
- Cooldown
- 6s
Release Dark Magic to deal damage to nearby enemies
Ability
Pentagram of Farallah
- Casting
- Multi-segment release
- Duration
- 20s
- Cooldown
- 180s
Open portals between two locations, enabling all units to travel through them
Ability
Shield of the Seraphim
- Casting
- Channeled
- Maximum Shield Value
- 700
- Recovery Speed
- 60/s
- Delayed Recovery After Release
- 1s
- Cooldown After Destroyed
- 3s
Create a protective barrier against damage
Passive
Price of Magic
- Anti-Heal Activation Delay at Peak Dark Magic
- 3s
- Anti-Heal Duration
- 2s
- Generate Dark Magic
- Daggers of Denak: Each hit generates 3.5 Dark Magic. When using the V key, every enemy hit generates 10 Dark Magic
Dark Magic accumulates with every hit on an enemy. If Dark Magic peaks for too long, Doctor Strange will be cursed with Anti-Heal
Passive
Enchanted Enhancement
- Team-Up Bonus
- Doctor Strange gain 100 Max Health
Doctor Strange shares his arcane mastery, replacing Scarlet Witch's Chthonian Burst with Mystic Burst upon activation. Hold down the attack button to unleash a rapid, relentless salvo of magical missiles in the target direction
Ability
PSIONIC VORTEX
- Cooldown
- 6s
- Damage
- Each point of energy deals 1.3 damage.
- Range
- 8m spherical radius spell field
- Self Bonus Health Conversion
- 0.3
- Ally Bonus Health Conversion
- 0.2
- Bonus Max Health
- 75
- Special Effect
- The spell field pulls enemies in range toward Doctor Strange
Invisible Woman enhances Doctor Strange's Maelstrom of Madness with a psionic explosion. The explosion damages and pulls enemies toward Doctor Strange. Based on the explosion's damage, Doctor Strange and nearby allies gain Bonus Health
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