Compare Black Widow's Allied Agents Team-Up with Burning Bullets. Explore community preference by competitive rank and platform, review both anchor partners, and preview every Enhanced effect for Season 9.5.
TOTAL VOTES103
COMMUNITY LEADERBurning Bullets74% preference
LEAD MARGIN49votes between options
PLATFORM DATA
Team-Up totals
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ANCHORHawkeye26%
Allied Agents
Landing hits with Red Room Rifle builds Focus. At three stacks, enter a Focused state where the next bullet gains the Hunter’s Sight effect, granting Damage Boost and pierce effects.
COMMUNITY CHOICE
ANCHORPhoenix74%
Burning Bullets
Activation grants the Red Room Rifle a Fire Rate Boost. Additionally, the Plasma Cannon projectile becomes a hitscan laser that no longer requires charging.
FEATURED TEAM-UP VIDEO
Stronger Headshots or Faster Firing?! Widow's New Teamups
Black Widow gets two Team-Up options in Marvel Rivals Season 9.5: Allied Agents with Hawkeye and Burning Bullets with Phoenix. Both offer different advantages, but which Black Widow Team-Up is better? This featured video compares their strengths, weaknesses, and best use cases.
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Team-Up analysis
Strengths, tradeoffs, and ideal situations for each option.
Black Widow is not simply choosing between two bonuses: Allied Agents and Burning Bullets push the kit toward different priorities. The better choice depends on map geometry, team composition, fight tempo, and whether the anchor partner already provides value on their own. The analysis below weighs both the base effect and Enhanced ceiling without treating a situational advantage as a universal answer.
OPTION 1
Allied Agents
ANCHOR · Hawkeye
Allied Agents, anchored by Hawkeye, gives Black Widow a very specific tactical route: Landing hits with Red Room Rifle builds Focus. At three stacks, enter a Focused state where the next bullet gains the Hunter’s Sight effect, granting Damage Boost and pierce effects. As a Duelist, it should be judged by how consistently it converts an opening into pressure, damage, or a secured elimination. The direct offensive payoff is easy to understand, but it is only decisive when the team can safely maintain pressure. In practice, this option is best when the composition can play around that condition and reproduce it reliably. Its weakness appears when the fight forces Black Widow to react outside that plan, because part of the value is tied to a particular window, position, or interaction. With the Enhanced effect active, when teaming up with Hawkeye, landing a critical hit prevents the Focused state from expiring, allowing continuous enhanced fire until missing a crit. That raises the option's ceiling, but it also means the composition with Hawkeye has to justify the team slot.
OPTION 2
Burning Bullets
ANCHOR · Phoenix
Burning Bullets, anchored by Phoenix, gives Black Widow a very specific tactical route: Activation grants the Red Room Rifle a Fire Rate Boost. Additionally, the Plasma Cannon projectile becomes a hitscan laser that no longer requires charging. As a Duelist, it should be judged by how consistently it converts an opening into pressure, damage, or a secured elimination. The ranged-output benefit rewards clear sightlines and steady uptime, while cover-heavy engagements can limit how often it matters. In practice, this option is best when the composition can play around that condition and reproduce it reliably. Its weakness appears when the fight forces Black Widow to react outside that plan, because part of the value is tied to a particular window, position, or interaction. With the Enhanced effect active, when teaming up with Phoenix, her Plasma Cannon gains a second ability charge. That raises the option's ceiling, but it also means the composition with Phoenix has to justify the team slot.
Detailed rank breakdown
See how preference changes as the competitive tier rises.
ANCHORHawkeye26%
Duelist
Black Widow
ANCHORPhoenix74%
Bronze2 votes
Silver3 votes
Gold15 votes
Platinum17 votes
Diamond17 votes
Grandmaster27 votes
Celestial14 votes
Eternity3 votes
One Above All5 votes