Adam Warlock is a powerful Strategist with unique healing and defensive abilities that no other Rivals character has. But that’s not all: Adam Warlock also has some of the most potent offensive moves in the game. Learn how to play him and people may start calling you the perfect teammate.
Adam is an excellent healer, but he needs to be paired with at least one other Strategist that has always-available healing abilities, since his are all on cooldowns. While he has a team-up with Mantis (which is great), I would recommend running the two of them together only in a ‘triple support’ setup, with the final Strategist being Invisible Woman, Luna, Rocket, or Loki (sorry, Jeff).
Playing Adam well means splitting your time between monitoring your teammates health and attacking enemies, and it’s more true of him than perhaps any other Strategist. Because his abilities are on cooldowns, you’ll need to wait until targets are at half health or lower before you use them in the heat of battle.
The rest of the time you’ll be sniping squishy enemies, snagging headshots whenever you can. When played this way, he deals around as much damage as Hela, and the Cosmic Cluster into Quantum Magic combo can straight up delete people before they even realize what’s happening.
Save your Soul Bond for moments when extreme damage is about to hit, like when about to take an enemy Ultimate, and avoid using it until those clutch moments. For his Ultimate, make sure to find a place close to the fight before creating the resurrection zone, and instantly heal resurrected allies up before the invulnerability ends. A great combo is Ultimate into Soul Bond into Avatar Life Stream. Resurrect, life-link, heal, and back in the fight.
Using Adam’s abilities at the right time can easily swing the game in your favor, but poor use will reduce his helpfulness as a support to almost nothing. Keep a cool head and you’ll come out on top.
They say with the accumulation of knowledge comes an increase in sadness, but the wisdom I dropped on you just means you can go out and be Him.