Compare Iron Fist's Kumiho Palm Team-Up with Iron & Stone. Explore community preference by competitive rank and platform, review both anchor partners, and preview every Enhanced effect for Season 9.5.
TOTAL VOTES83
COMMUNITY LEADERIron & Stone57% preference
LEAD MARGIN11votes between options
PLATFORM DATA
Team-Up totals
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ANCHORWhite Fox43%
Kumiho Palm
Hitting an enemy with Yat Jee Chung Kuen provides a burst of healing to nearby allies.
COMMUNITY CHOICE
ANCHORThe Thing57%
Iron & Stone
Unleash a powerful uppercut to Launch Up enemies.
FEATURED TEAM-UP VIDEO
Healing Fists or Stone Uppercut?! Iron Fist's New Team-Ups
Iron Fist gets two Team-Up options in Marvel Rivals Season 9.5: Kumiho Palm with White Fox and Iron & Stone with The Thing. Both offer different advantages, but which Iron Fist 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.
Iron Fist is not simply choosing between two bonuses: Kumiho Palm and Iron & Stone 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
Kumiho Palm
ANCHOR · White Fox
Kumiho Palm, anchored by White Fox, gives Iron Fist a very specific tactical route: Hitting an enemy with Yat Jee Chung Kuen provides a burst of healing to nearby allies. As a Duelist, it should be judged by how consistently it converts an opening into pressure, damage, or a secured elimination. Its sustain component has value in extended fights, but loses impact when allies cannot survive the initial burst. Area pressure makes it especially useful around objectives, doorways, and clustered teams; spread-out fights reduce that advantage. 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 Iron Fist 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 White Fox, the lock-on distance for Yat Jee Chung Kuen is significantly increased. That raises the option's ceiling, but it also means the composition with White Fox has to justify the team slot.
OPTION 2
Iron & Stone
ANCHOR · The Thing
Iron & Stone, anchored by The Thing, gives Iron Fist a very specific tactical route: Unleash a powerful uppercut to Launch Up enemies. As a Duelist, it should be judged by how consistently it converts an opening into pressure, damage, or a secured elimination. Its control utility can create a clean focus-fire opportunity, but coordinated teammates are needed to fully convert that opening. 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 Iron Fist 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 The Thing, unleashing the uppercut can be chained directly into a sweeping leg sweep for a follow-up attack. That raises the option's ceiling, but it also means the composition with The Thing has to justify the team slot.
Detailed rank breakdown
See how preference changes as the competitive tier rises.
ANCHORWhite Fox43%
Duelist
Iron Fist
ANCHORThe Thing57%
Bronze2 votes
Silver3 votes
Gold15 votes
Platinum13 votes
Diamond18 votes
Grandmaster18 votes
Celestial12 votes
Eternity2 votes
One Above All0 votes