Spider-Man is not a frontline fighter and never will be — he has the damage output of a pick, the health pool of a candle, and the mobility of a jet. His entire game is the backline: tag a support with Spider-Tracer, pull them in with Get Over Here, uppercut them with Amazing Combo, and swing out before their team turns around. The wiki is blunt that he is the hardest character in the game to bring value with, and the reason is swing-charge discipline.
Role and difficulty
Duelist. Spider-Man has 150 health plus a 100-point regenerative shield — 250 effective health. Difficulty Extreme (5/5). He never fights the frontline. He approaches from walls and ceilings, deletes isolated supports, and leaves on the same swing charges he arrived on.
Abilities and what they actually do
- Spider-Power (Normal Attack): Key numbers: DAMAGE — 1st & 2nd Strike: 25, 3rd Strike: 40; RANGE — 1st & 2nd Strike: 3m, 3rd Strike: 4m.
- Web Cluster (Normal Attack): Key numbers: DAMAGE — 30; PROJECTILE SPEED — 120m/s.
- Spectacular Spin (Abilities): Launch Web-Clusters all around to damage and enemies. Key numbers: DAMAGE — 15 per hit (187.5/s total); DURATION — 2.4s.
- Web-Swing (Abilities): Shoot a strand of webbing to swing. Key numbers: RANGE — 30m.
- Get Over Here! (Abilities): Key numbers: DAMAGE — 25; COOLDOWN — 8s; RANGE — 20m; PROJECTILE SPEED — 80m/s.
- Amazing Combo (Abilities): Key numbers: DAMAGE — 70; COOLDOWN — 1s; RANGE — 4m spherical radius.
- Thwip and Flip (Abilities).
- Wall Crawl (Abilities).
- Spider-Sense (Abilities): Give a warning of enemies that have been around.
Spider-Tracer and the swing economy
Web Cluster fires five web shots that tag enemies with Spider-Tracer, and any Spider-Power or Amazing Combo hit on a tagged target consumes the debuff for bonus damage — weaving web shots between every attack is the whole damage kit. Get Over Here pulls an enemy to you, or, if the target is tagged, pulls you to them as a web strike; it counts as a stun and interrupts channels, and it is how you reach flying heroes like Storm and Iron Man. Amazing Combo is a 70-damage launching uppercut on a 6-second cooldown with two charges. Web-Swing stores three charges on a 6-second cooldown and is your engage, escape, and rotation — count charges before every commit. Spider-Sense warns you when an enemy is within 8 meters out of your line of sight, which is your only early warning against the dive that kills you. Spectacular Spin webs nearby enemies, slows them, and eventually immobilizes them while granting bonus health — it deletes clustered teams but is interruptible.
How to play Spider-Man
- Turn off Automatic Swing in settings for full control over where you swing from.
- Tag the target with Web Cluster first, then spend Spider-Power and Amazing Combo on the tracer bonus.
- Hunt isolated supports — Black Widow, Hawkeye, Storm, Moon Knight, Iron Man — never the frontline.
- Count Web-Swing charges before engaging; three charges is the only reason you can leave.
- Use Get Over Here on tagged fliers to pull yourself into range for the delete.
- Cast Spectacular Spin onto clustered enemies and hold the immobilize with your team’s follow-up.
Matchups
Spider-Man deletes any backline that stands still and is the only Duelist who can reach air on demand. Focused teams with hitscan presence delete him on arrival, and his damage without the tracer bonus is among the lowest in the game. His 150 base health plus a 100 shield means one caught swing is a death.
Strengths (per the wiki):
- An incredibly agile and complex hit-and-run fighter capable of assaulting and eliminating enemies from the air with his combos, and then swiftly leaves the scene.
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- His exceptional mobility allows him to reach advantageous positions for both offensive and defensive maneuvers, making it very hard for enemies to pin him down.
- Capable of webslinging, and, unlike Venom’s Venom Swing, Spider-Man has three charges of Web-Swing.
- Capable of wallcrawling and sprinting while on walls.
- Capable of double jumping.
- The core gameplay of Spider-Man is attaching enemies with his Spider-Tracers, which enables his kit and even changes the properties of certain abilities.
- His passive, Spider-Sense, alerts players of nearby enemies in the form of an icon above Spider-Man’s head.
- His primary fire, Spider Power, is a three-hit melee combo, being two punches and a kick.
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- This deals extra damage if an enemy has a Spider-Tracer attached to them.
- His secondary fire, Web-Cluster, launches a web that deals damage and attaches a Spider-Tracer on his target for a few seconds. This ability has five charges.
- Get Over Here! shoots a web-string that pulls enemies towards Spider-Man’s location; if the target is attached with a Spider-Tracer, Spider-Man will launch himself towards the enemy instead and perform a flying kick.
- Amazing Combo is a rising uppercut that launches enemies upwards. It deals extra damage if the target is attached with a Spider-Tracer. This ability has two charges.
- His Ultimate, Spectacular Spin, is a multi-hit barrage of web clusters that deals consistent damage in a radius around him.
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- Each hit adds a stacking effect to the enemy of -3% slow; once it reaches a certain number of stacks, enemies become stuck in webs and stunned briefly.
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- Spider-Man gains bonus health equal to his max health during the execution of this ability.
- Can be interrupted during Spectacular Spin.
- Spider-Man has an incredibly high skill ceiling & skill floor.
- Spider-Man requires intense precision, timing, and accuracy for kills.
- Spider-Man is a mechanically intensive hero.
- Spider-Man is widely known as the hardest character to learn and to bring value in team fights.
- Despite having multiple abilities and combos, Spider-Man has a very low damage output unless the abilities are followed by a web tracer.
- Despite being very mobile and hard to pin down, with his mobility and small hitbox, he has a small health pool and no defensive or self-sustain tools making him a very fragile glass cannon.
Weaknesses (per the wiki):
- Can be interrupted during Spectacular Spin.
- Spider-Man has an incredibly high skill ceiling & skill floor.
- Spider-Man requires intense precision, timing, and accuracy for kills.
- Spider-Man is a mechanically intensive hero.
- Spider-Man is widely known as the hardest character to learn and to bring value in team fights.
- Despite having multiple abilities and combos, Spider-Man has a very low damage output unless the abilities are followed by a web tracer.
- Despite being very mobile and hard to pin down, with his mobility and small hitbox, he has a small health pool and no defensive or self-sustain tools making him a very fragile glass cannon.
Team-ups
- Symbiote Bond (with Venom, Season 9.0: The Mystery of Thebes): Venom shares a part of his symbiote with Spider-Man, activating their symbiote abilities. Spider-Man can convert the symbiotes into explosive spikes that inflict harm on nearby enemies and relentessly drive them back. Enhanced: When teaming up with Venom, this triggers additional Touch of Klyntar tendrils that continuously tether and damage enemies on top of the base effect.
- Parker Power-Up (with Peni Parker, Season 9.0: The Mystery of Thebes): Peni Parker whips up a Sticky Spider-Bomb for Spider-Man! Prime it, then toss it before the timer’s up for a blast that damages nearby enemies and attaches a Spider-Tracer to them. If not thrown in time, it explodes on Spider-Man, recharging all Web-Cluster shots. Enhanced: When teaming up with Peni Parker, Spider-Tracers applied by Web-Cluster are upgraded. Detonating these upgraded marks generates Bonus Health for Spider-Man.
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Common mistakes
- Fighting on the frontline, where his low damage and health pool lose every trade
- Attacking without tagging first and losing the Spider-Tracer bonus damage
- Committing with zero swing charges left — that is the death spiral
- Using the double-jump overhead slam on cooldown instead of inside burst combos
- Ignoring Spider-Sense warnings and getting jumped from off-angle routes