Marvel Rivals: Complete Practice Mode Guide (2025)

Back in the day, you would head to your local arcade, pop in a quarter, and jump into a game, completely winging it. After all, with other gamers behind you waiting for a turn, who had time for practice? Eventually, practice modes became commonplace due to the rise of home console gaming. We can't imagine many of our favorite games without them, including Marvel Rivals.

The practice suite in Marvel Rivals has plenty of features that will elevate your game. You can learn the basics in Tutorial mode, hone your skills at the Practice Range, and test your might in Practice Vs. AI or Doom Match. We recommend checking out these training options yourself. You'll likely find them quite Marvel-ous!

Updated January 20, 2025 by Jack Filsinger: With the full release of Marvel Rivals, and the start of Season One, there have been a number of changes to the Marvel Rivals Practice Range and what practice modes are available to try out! We've updated this guide with additional practice and training modes, as well as tips and tricks on how to use the practice range so you can master the controls and so much more.

What Practice Modes Are In Marvel Rivals?

There are four Practice Modes in Marvel Rivals: Tutorial, Practice Range, Doom Match, and Practice Vs. AI. Each mode serves a unique purpose in teaching you the ins and outs of the game.

Tutorial Mode

Tutorial mode is a playable crash course of Marvel Rivals's basics. There are four tutorials to master that teach you everything from the basic controls to the details of each character role in the game.

• Tutorial: In this stage, you'll play as The Punisher while learning the game's basic controls.
• Hero Tutorial: In this stage, you'll play as various heroes and learn the specifics of each character role, including Duelist, Vanguard ,and Strategist.
• Domination Tutorial: In this mode, you'll learn how to play Domination maps.
• Convoy Tutorial: In this mode, you'll learn how to play Convoy missions.

The Practice Range

The Practice Range is where you can study your hero's abilities in-depth.

You can engage in many different types of training in the practice range by going to different locations. We'll go into each of these in more detail in a bit.

• The Target Practice Area
• The Support Training Area
• The Team-Up Practice Area
• The Range Practice Area
• The Building Destruction Zone
• The Hero Target Practice Area
• The Timed Practice Range

Doom Match

Doom Match mode allows you to square off against rival players in an endlessly respawnable space where your only goal is to get the most kills.

You can play as any hero in this mode, and will respawn without fail after every death.

Practice Vs. AI

Practice Vs. AI is a multiplayer mode in which you and your online teammates face off against AI opponents in a Quick Match. You can choose between three difficulty levels: ⭐(Easy), ⭐⭐(Medium), and ⭐⭐⭐(Hard).

How To Use The Practice Range

Tutorial Mode, Doom Match, and Practice Vs AI Mode are all straightforward to use.

However, The Practice Range has several options and features tailored to your training goals. In this section, we'll walk through how to access them.

The Practice Range includes several areas you can approach to try out different styles of training.

Practice Range Settings

When you pause your game, you can set specific parameters to suit your training needs. Enter Practice Settings from the pause menu. Then, toggle the features you want on or off.

• No Ability Cooldown: Turn this option on to use your abilities concurrently without any cooldown period.
• Friendly Fire Mode: Turn this option on to enable Friendly Fire (you can deal damage to friendly heroes).

Timed Practice Range Settings

If you head to the Timed Practice Range in the basement, you'll find a kiosk that allows you to create a customized timed practice session.

You can change any of the following parameters.

• Hero Spawn Selection
• Target Distance
• Fixed Or Dynamic Distance
• Target Movement And Speed
• Duration
• Music

This is a great area to get to practice all of your hero abilities and team-up abilities in one short burst. Play around with these settings to try different types of attacks.

Power-Up Spaces

Power-Up Spaces boost your hero when you walk on them. Some of these spaces appear in regular Marvel Rivals gameplay. There are several of these in the practice range.

How Can I Learn More About My Hero?

PvP shooters, like Marvel Rivals, are similar to fighting games because each genre includes expansive rosters of characters, each with unique abilities.

Therefore, we can't cover practicing in Marvel Rivals without addressing how to learn character-specific skills and techniques.

You can learn more about a hero by perusing their profile. Each Hero Profile contains the following sections:

• Overview: This section briefly describes your hero, their difficulty rating, and showcases their character model.
• Cosmetics: This section lets you change your hero's equipped costume, MVP animation, Emote, and Spray.
• Abilities: This section contains your hero's move list and helpful techniques.
• Lore: This section covers your hero's background story.
• Proficiency: This section tracks hero-specific achievements you can complete to earn cosmetics.

For this guide, we want to focus on the Abilities section of your hero's profile.

How To Use The Abilities List

Your hero's Abilities List is an excellent resource to learn about their skills and how to use them. What's more, you can see your hero's abilities in action and the controls for each one! Here is how it works:

1. The left side of the screen lists all of your hero's skills. These skills consist of Normal Attacks, Abilities, and Team-Up Abilities.
2. Click on the skill you wish to learn more about to reveal a demonstration video on the right side of the screen.
3. At the bottom of your hero's Abilities List is their Suggested Combo. This section demonstrates a bread-and-butter combo you can do by incorporating your hero's various skills.