How to counter Squirrel Girl in Marvel Rivals

While she might be one of the most fun heroes in the game, it's essential for you to know how you can counter Squirrel Girl in Marvel Rivals. This duelist-class hero can shake up the field with her explosive kit, making it extremely hard for your team to survive and thrive. Kitted with some of the most powerful abilities in the game, Squirrel Girl is one of the most chaotic heroes you can use, and if you can thrive in the chaos you cause, you'll definitely emerge on top.

She is a projectile-based hero who uses her catapult to shoot explosive pellets. These ricochet against surfaces, and explode on impact. She's perfect for holding crucial chokepoints, making it close to impossible for enemy players to penetrate through these areas.

Naturally, it's important to find ways to counter Squirrel Girl in Marvel Rivals, and with this article, you'll find a detailed brief on the five best heroes who can absolutely shut her down. To know more, read below.

Disclaimer: The contents of this article solely reflect the views and opinions of the writer. The entries in this list have been made with respect to the ongoing meta in the game, and it is inclusive of all the hero balance changes that have been incorporated with the latest March 13 patch notes for the title.

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5 best heroes to counter Squirrel Girl in Marvel Rivals

1) Black Widow

Black Widow in Marvel Rivals (Image via NetEase Games)

Squirrel Girl's primary weapon for dealing damage is using explosive acorns that can ricochet off walls to hit you with an area of damage. This means that while she can hit you without locating her crosshairs on your body, her range is severely limited. Thus, one of the best characters to counter Squirrel Girl is Black Widow.

Natasha Romanoff is also a duelist in Marvel Rivals and is the best long-range character in the hero shooter. Her Red Room rifle has great accuracy and a long range, allowing you to snipe enemies from afar. She also has great forward mobility, allowing her some positional advantage.

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2) Hawkeye

Hawkeye in Marvel Rivals (Image via NetEase Games)

Hawkeye is a long-to-medium-range hero in Rivals. Being an archer, his charged arrows can pierce enemies from afar. His larger ADS field of view allows him much more freedom and precision to shoot, making him deadly against Squirrel Girl, especially if you can deal a few well-placed headshots.

Hawkeye also has a double jump. This provides players with much more control over his movement and positioning, proving to be an advantage against an area-of-offense hero like Squirrel Girl. He can also share his ultimate with Black Widow to create a deadly duo against a majority of characters.

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3) The Punisher

The Punisher in Marvel Rivals (Image via NetEase Games)

As Squirrel Girl is a duelist, her health points are low when compared to the Vanguard class, and she isn't capable of healing herself like strategists. As such, a hero who is capable of dealing high damage in a short amount of time can easily counter Squirrel Girl.

The Punisher is one such hero with insane damage-dealing capabilities. He has two primary guns that can be used to deal damage. The Assault Rifle can be used to deal damage while staying at mid-range, while you can use his turret ability to abolish Squirrel Girl with some well-placed shots.

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4) Hela

Hela in Marvel Rivals (Image via NetEase Games)

Hela is another long-to-medium-range character in Rivals. She can use her Nightsword thorns to attack enemies. She can also use her alternate fire to deploy multiple thorns that detonate after a delay. This makes her a great damage dealer, provided that you're accurate enough.

One great ability that provides Hela an edge over Squirrel Girl is her Astral Flock, which allows her to freely move anywhere for a short amount of time while being hard to hit. This is a great ability for when you want to escape from Squirrel Girl's area of damage.

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5) Iron Man

Iron Man in Marvel Rivals (Image via NetEase Games)

Squirrel Girl isn't a hitscan character, meaning that her acorns are treated like projectiles, with each having its own weight and falloff. This is what makes her a short-range duelist and is a counterbalance to her incredible damage. Hence, while Squirrel Girl is a great hero for dealing damage in the immediate vicinity, she will have an incredibly hard time hitting airborne enemies.

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Banking on this drawback of Squirrel Girl, Iron Man can be used to counter her. He can fly around in the game, thanks to his suit thrusters. As such, Squirrel Girl will have to use her upward jump to even have a fair chance of hitting the philanthropist millionaire.

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That's all there is to know about the five best heroes to counter Squirrel Girl in Marvel Rivals. One of the most important things you must note is that, no matter which hero you pick, without adept communication, it's going to be hard to isolate and eliminate Luna Snow.

Being a projectile-based hero, Squirrel Girl will not be sharpshooting you from the tiniest of angles. Rather, you will find her mostly perched up on top of surfaces, dishing out bombs like there's no tomorrow. Use our list of heroes to force her to reposition. And if you can, like we said, isolate her away from her team. You can combine your abilities to easily get rid of her.

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