Compare Jeff the Land Shark's Guardian of the Deep Team-Up with Mr. Pool’s Interdimensional Toy Box. Explore community preference by competitive rank and platform, review both anchor partners, and preview every Enhanced effect for Season 9.5.
TOTAL VOTES90
COMMUNITY LEADERGuardian of the Deep77% preference
LEAD MARGIN48votes between options
PLATFORM DATA
Team-Up totals
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COMMUNITY CHOICE
ANCHORVenom77%
Guardian of the Deep
Shoot out healing tendrils; linked allies receive Continuous Healing, and excess healing is converted into Bonus Health.
ANCHORDeadpool23%
Mr. Pool’s Interdimensional Toy Box
Gain a new ability to spit out a Deadpool Plushie. The plushie continuously Taunts nearby enemies while spraying a healing mist onto surrounding allies.
FEATURED TEAM-UP VIDEO
Venom Tendrils or Unicorn Plushie!? Jeff's New Teamups
Jeff the Land Shark gets two Team-Up options in Marvel Rivals Season 9.5: Guardian of the Deep with Venom and Mr. Pool’s Interdimensional Toy Box with Deadpool. Both offer different advantages, but which Jeff the Land Shark 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.
Jeff the Land Shark is not simply choosing between two bonuses: Guardian of the Deep and Mr. Pool’s Interdimensional Toy Box 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
Guardian of the Deep
ANCHOR · Venom
Guardian of the Deep, anchored by Venom, gives Jeff the Land Shark a very specific tactical route: Shoot out healing tendrils; linked allies receive Continuous Healing, and excess healing is converted into Bonus Health. As a Strategist, its real value depends as much on team utility and survival as on any extra damage. 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 Jeff the Land Shark 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 Venom, symbiote tendrils can also lash out at nearby enemies within range, inflicting continuous damage. That raises the option's ceiling, but it also means the composition with Venom has to justify the team slot.
OPTION 2
Mr. Pool’s Interdimensional Toy Box
ANCHOR · Deadpool
Mr. Pool’s Interdimensional Toy Box, anchored by Deadpool, gives Jeff the Land Shark a very specific tactical route: Gain a new ability to spit out a Deadpool Plushie. The plushie continuously Taunts nearby enemies while spraying a healing mist onto surrounding allies. As a Strategist, its real value depends as much on team utility and survival as on any extra damage. 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 Jeff the Land Shark 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 Deadpool, the Deadpool Plushie asserts a much stronger Taunt while concurrently damaging enemies caught in its radius. That raises the option's ceiling, but it also means the composition with Deadpool has to justify the team slot.
Detailed rank breakdown
See how preference changes as the competitive tier rises.
Bronze1 votes
Guardian of the Deep (Venom)1 · 100%
Mr. Pool’s Interdimensional Toy Box (Deadpool)0 · 0%
Silver3 votes
Guardian of the Deep (Venom)2 · 67%
Mr. Pool’s Interdimensional Toy Box (Deadpool)1 · 33%
Gold21 votes
Guardian of the Deep (Venom)17 · 81%
Mr. Pool’s Interdimensional Toy Box (Deadpool)4 · 19%
Platinum14 votes
Guardian of the Deep (Venom)10 · 71%
Mr. Pool’s Interdimensional Toy Box (Deadpool)4 · 29%
Diamond15 votes
Guardian of the Deep (Venom)10 · 67%
Mr. Pool’s Interdimensional Toy Box (Deadpool)5 · 33%
Grandmaster20 votes
Guardian of the Deep (Venom)17 · 85%
Mr. Pool’s Interdimensional Toy Box (Deadpool)3 · 15%
Celestial13 votes
Guardian of the Deep (Venom)10 · 77%
Mr. Pool’s Interdimensional Toy Box (Deadpool)3 · 23%
Eternity2 votes
Guardian of the Deep (Venom)1 · 50%
Mr. Pool’s Interdimensional Toy Box (Deadpool)1 · 50%
One Above All1 votes
Guardian of the Deep (Venom)1 · 100%
Mr. Pool’s Interdimensional Toy Box (Deadpool)0 · 0%
ANCHORVenom77%
Strategist
Jeff the Land Shark
ANCHORDeadpool23%
Bronze1 votes
Silver3 votes
Gold21 votes
Platinum14 votes
Diamond15 votes
Grandmaster20 votes
Celestial13 votes
Eternity2 votes
One Above All1 votes