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Enabling the teammate taking space while holding one control answer for the enemy dive.
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StrategistA tier
Mantis
Mantis uses her impressive mental abilities and her penchant for plant control to anchor any team she fights alongside. Her powers tap into a limitless flow of life energy, gently nourishing everything she touches.
- 01 StartSource profile first
- 02 CheckStrategist job check
- 03 LeaveOne ranked habit
Queue briefing
Decide how Mantis fits before hero select gets loud
2Swap when
The pressure pattern repeats
Swap or play closer to cover if every fight forces your control before the real engage arrives.
3Practice first
Queue with one habit
Before each fight, choose the teammate you are enabling and the enemy commit you are saving control for.
Pocket Rivals ranked read
How Mantis should create ranked value
Enable the teammate taking space and save control for the dive that actually threatens you.
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
Prefer Vanguards who fight where you can actually see them.
Practice next
- 1Use defensive cooldowns for enemy engages, not random poke.
- 2Heal the teammate currently contesting space.
- 3Add damage when your team is stable and your escape is ready.
Avoid
Do not use your panic button for harmless chip damage. Save it for the engage.
Strategist role hubKeep rescue routes, defensive cooldowns, and peel calls ready before pressure arrives.Hero pool guideDecide whether Mantis is your comfort pick, safe swap, or role backup.
Hero-specific editorial
Ranked module for Mantis
Best for
Enabling the teammate taking space while holding one control answer for the enemy dive.
Struggles into
Fast burst pressure that baits sleep early, then returns before your team can peel.
First swap trigger
Swap or play closer to cover if every fight forces your control before the real engage arrives.
everyday ranked mistake
Using sleep or speed for harmless poke, then having no answer when a diver reaches the backline.
Practice drill
Before each fight, choose the teammate you are enabling and the enemy commit you are saving control for.
Review basis
Based on Pocket Rivals build notes for enabling space and counter notes that punish Mantis with coordinated dive pressure.
Official details
Base stats and hero story
Official article date: 2024/11/23
- Health
- 250
- Movement Speed
- 6m/s
- Life Orb Cooldown
- 4 charges, with each charge taking 3s to recharge
Mantis always knows exactly how you're feeling, thanks to her strong empathic powers. Her alien ability to alter the emotions of others comes in handy on the battlefield, but Mantis only finds true happiness for herself when she is with her fellow Guardians of the Galaxy.
After being captured by the Collector and put on display at his theme park, Mantis managed to escape with the help of her fellow captives, Sai and Jeff. Now, Mantis travels the spaceways in hopes of reuniting with her team, while welcoming other displaced souls into the Guardians' found family.
Skills
Abilities and details
Normal Attack
Life Energy Blast
- Casting
- Single-cast projectile with delayed impact
- Damage
- 55 damage per round
- Projectile Speed
- 150m/s
- Damage Falloff
- No falloff
- Fire Rate
- 2.5 rounds per second
- Ammo
- 15
- Critical Hit
- Yes
- Special Effect
- Critical hit generates 1 Life Orb
Fire an energy thorn and regain one Life Orb after a critical hit.
Ability
Soul Resurgence
- Casting
- Persistent spell field that surrounds the caster
- Healing Amount
- 150
- Caster & Ally One-time Healing Amount
- 200
- Movement Boost
- 3m/s
- Excess Healing/Bonus Health Conversion
- 100%
- Excess Healing/Max Health Conversion
- 150
- Range
- 15m spherical radius
- Duration
- 8s
- Energy Cost
- 4300
Release energy around her while moving, providing Healing Over Time and Movement Boosts for surrounding allies. Excess healing converts to Bonus Health
Ability
Spore Slumber
- Casting
- Single-cast projectile with delayed impact that also generates a spell field
- Damage
- 10
- Range
- 3m spherical radius
- Sedation Duration
- 3.5s
- Special Effect
- A Mantis illusions will manifest beside the sedated heroes. Allies can attack this illusion to awaken the affected hero
- Illusion Health
- 100
- Cooldown
- 15s
Throw a spore to Sedate the nearest enemy
Ability
Allied Inspiration
- Casting
- Targeted
- Damage Boost
- 8%
- Movement Boost
- 1m/s
- Duration
- 8s (16s maximum duration)
- Cooldown
- Consume 1 Life Orb
Consume Life Orbs to grant allies a Damage Boost
Ability
Natural Anger
- Casting
- Instant Cast
- Damage Boost
- 12%
- Duration
- 8s (the duration cannot stack; repeatedly casting will only refresh the duration)
- Cooldown
- Consume 1 Life Orb
Consume Life Orbs to grant herself a Damage Boost
Ability
Healing Flower
- Casting
- Targeted
- Special Effect
- Healing Flower provides two types of healing effects: One-time Healing and Healing Over Time
- One-time Healing Amount
- 55
- Healing Over Time Amount
- 10 + 2.5% of the target's maximum Health per second
- Duration
- 8s (16s maximum duration)
- Cooldown
- Consume 1 Life Orb
Consume Life Orbs to grant allies Healing Over Time
Passive
Nature's Favor
- Time Required to Leave Combat
- 3s
- Out-of-Combat Movement Speed
- 7.5m/s
- Special Effect
- Consume Life Orbs to receive Healing Over Time
- Healing Amount
- 12.5 per second
- Duration
- 8s
Receive a Movement Boost when not injured and Healing Over Time when consuming Life Orbs
Passive
Heavenly Guardian
- Team-Up Bonus
- 10% Healing Boost
Mantis enhances Groot's wooden walls and Loki's Rune Stones with life energy. Groot can additionally unleash a Flower Wall, which, when in Flora Colossus state, restores health to random nearby allies and grants them Damage Reduction. Loki's Rune Stones grant allies within Regeneration Domain a Damage Boost
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