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How to Play Cloak & Dagger in Marvel Rivals

Updated 25 Oct 2026 Source Marvel Rivals Wiki (Fandom) — Cloak & Dagger hero page (overview, abilities, strategy sections) and Team-Ups page, retrieved 25 October 2026 By Antewise Editorial
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Cloak and Dagger is two heroes in one slot, and the switch is free. Dagger throws homing lightforce daggers that heal allies and damage enemies, while Cloak fires a short-range damage stream and blinds with Terror Cape. The real weapon is Dark Teleportation: a veil that makes your whole team invisible and immune to all damage until someone attacks. No other support can erase an enemy ultimate the way a well-timed veil can.

Role and difficulty

Strategist. Cloak & Dagger has 275 health. Difficulty Hard (3/5). Dagger wants to stand with the team and heal through walls of light; Cloak wants to pressure the same space from the front.

Abilities and what they actually do

  • Lightforce Dagger (Normal Attack, Dagger form): Unleash a bouncing Lightforce Dagger to damage enemies and heal nearby allies. Key numbers: DAMAGE — 18 per round; HEALING — Primary Target: 15, Spell Field: 20; AMMO — 12; FIRE RATE — 2.27 rounds/s.
  • Eternal Bond (Abilities, Dagger form): Perform four rapid dashes, healing allies and damaging enemies along the path. Key numbers: DAMAGE — 30/s; HEALING — 250/s.
  • Dagger Storm (Abilities, Dagger form): Key numbers: COOLDOWN — 12s; DURATION — 6s.
  • Shadow’s Embrace (Abilities, Dagger form): The player can switch from Dagger to Cloak at any time by activating this ability. Cooldown - 0 seconds.
  • Light Explosion (Abilities, Dagger form): Key numbers: HEALING — 50; COOLDOWN — 2s.
  • Darkforce Cloak (Normal Attack, Cloak form): Key numbers: DAMAGE — 80/s; AMMO — ∞; RANGE — 20m.
  • Eternal Bond (Abilities, Cloak form): Perform four rapid dashes, healing allies and damaging enemies along the path. Key numbers: DAMAGE — 30/s; HEALING — 250/s.
  • Dark Teleportation (Abilities, Cloak form): Key numbers: COOLDOWN — 12s; DURATION — 2s.
  • Light’s Embrace (Abilities, Cloak form): The player can switch from Cloak to Dagger at any time by activating this ability. Cooldown - 0 seconds.
  • Terror Cape (Abilities, Cloak form): Key numbers: DAMAGE — 55; COOLDOWN — 2s.

Two forms, one free swap

Lightforce Dagger locks onto the nearest target, damaging enemies and healing allies, and a dagger that hits an ally also heals everyone near them — so throw through clustered teammates for spread healing. Veil of Lightforce is a moving wall that heals 45 health per ally it passes through and boosts their healing received. Dagger Storm drops a sphere that heals 55 per second for 6 seconds on a 12-second cooldown. On the Cloak side, Darkforce Cloak streams 75 damage per second up to 20 meters, and Terror Cape damages, blinds, and makes enemies take increased damage from all sources. Dark Teleportation cloaks nearby allies from damage entirely, but the buff drops the moment anyone attacks. Eternal Bond dashes four times, leaving a trail that heals 250 per second and damages 30 per second for 8 seconds.

How to play Cloak & Dagger

  1. Stay in Dagger form during poke phases and throw daggers through clustered allies to spread healing.
  2. Send Veil of Lightforce down a corridor before a push to pre-heal the team and boost incoming healing.
  3. Swap to Cloak when your team is healthy — blind with Terror Cape before the enemy commits their damage.
  4. Save Dark Teleportation for enemy ultimates and dives, and call it out so your team knows not to attack while veiled.
  5. Drop Dagger Storm on the objective before a fight so the 55-per-second sphere is already ticking.
  6. Use Eternal Bond across the payload or a chokepoint to heal your team and damage whoever steps into the trail.

Matchups

Cloak and Dagger sustain through long objective fights and erase burst with the veil. They lose to comps that pressure both forms at once — a diver on Dagger while a ranged hero duels Cloak leaves no safe swap. Terror Cape’s blind is strongest into hitscan teams like Black Widow and Iron Man.

Team-ups

  • Oblivion Shroud (with The Hood, Season 9.0: The Mystery of Thebes): Veil of Lightforce and Terror Cape are warped by void magic, changing into Twilight Veil and Void Veil while retaining their original effects, after traveling a set distance, the veils halt in place. Enemy damage passing through the Twilight Veil is weakened, while enemy healing passing through the Void Veil suffers Healing Reduction. Enhanced: When teaming up with The Hood, the width of both the Twilight Veil and Void Veil expands. Additionally, allies passing through the veils are empowered by hellfire energy, gaining Damage Boost for a duration.
  • Frozen Haven (with Luna Snow, Season 9.0: The Mystery of Thebes): Channel frost energy outward to encase yourself in an absolute block of ice. This offers great protection, but Freezes you in place. While frozen, you can be healed and emit a weak healing aura to nearby allies. Enhanced: When teaming up with Luna Snow, the healing aura provided to allies while Frozen becomes significantly stronger.

Common mistakes

  • Attacking during Dark Teleportation and dropping the team’s immunity early
  • Staying in Cloak form while the team takes damage and needs Dagger’s healing
  • Throwing daggers at enemies when a clustered ally would spread more healing
  • Using Eternal Bond for damage instead of the 250-per-second healing trail
  • Standing in the open during the swap — the switch is instant, but the positioning still matters

Frequently asked questions

What role is Cloak and Dagger in Marvel Rivals?

Strategist, with 275 health and a 3/5 difficulty. They swap freely between Dagger's healing daggers and Cloak's damage and blind tools.

How do you play Cloak and Dagger?

Heal with Dagger's daggers, walls, and storm, then swap to Cloak to damage and blind when the team is healthy. Save Dark Teleportation for enemy ultimates and tell your team not to attack while veiled.

Who do Cloak and Dagger counter?

Poke and burst comps that rely on ultimates, because the veil erases damage entirely. Sustained dive pressure on both forms is their weakness.

What team-ups do Cloak and Dagger have?

Oblivion Shroud with The Hood warps their veils into void versions that keep the original effects, and Frozen Haven with Luna Snow encases them in protective ice that freezes them in place.

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