Clint Barton has been the brunt of a lot of jokes in the Marvel universe. He may be, “just a guy with a bow and arrow,” but he’s also incredibly powerful Duelist in Rivals. If you have great aim, he can carry you and your team to victory time and time again.
You can play Hawkeye in one of two ways, depending on your desires and comfort level. First, you can run with your team, standing behind the tanks and laying consistent pressure on enemies, taking shots at enemy Strategists and Duelists whenever possible.
When playing this style, you can peel for your backline using his Crescent Slash, which can interrupt the enemy diver’s ability rotation. At this point, many will flee. If they don’t, you and the team can mop them up. You can also target nearby enemies with explosive arrows at point-blank range to deal enhanced damage, due to the cluster fire.
The second way you can play Hawkeye is as a flanker. This is riskier, but potentially more rewarding. Take off-angles and get to high ledges and snipe the enemy backline to take them out instantly. You’ll need to pick up health packs to keep yourself topped off if your healers don’t have a line on you, and if the enemy force decides to engage you, Hawkeye isn’t incredible against divers when he’s alone, but this can still be a great way to get a kill or two before rejoining your party.
Hawkeye’s Ultimate is extremely powerful and can easily get you multiple kills per activation. After activating it, fire a Hypersonic Arrow through the densest cluster of enemies and after-images to deal massive damage; then blast arrows at leftover groups of after-images, or simply spam Piercing Arrow on single targets to take them out, since Archer’s Focus will stay at 100 during the super, boosting the damage of Piercing Arrow to maximum.
Now that you are equipped with Hawkeye’s (and Ronin’s) weapons and strategies, hit the practice room and get your aim warmed up until, like Clint, you never miss.