SEASON 09.5 · HERO INTELLIGENCE

Duelist

Squirrel Girl

Compare Squirrel Girl's Squirrel Missile Team-Up with ESU Alumnus. Explore community preference by competitive rank and platform, review both anchor partners, and preview every Enhanced effect for Season 9.5.

TOTAL VOTES57

COMMUNITY LEADERSquirrel Missile67% preference

LEAD MARGIN19votes between options

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COMMUNITY CHOICE

ANCHORIron Man67%

Squirrel Missile

Squirrel Girl gains the Squirrel Missile ability. She directs a squirrel to ride Iron Man’s nanotech glove as a homing missile. Upon hit, the squirrel flees just before a fiery explosion.

ANCHORSpider-Man33%

ESU Alumnus

Spider-Man gives Squirrel Girl a web bomb. She can launch it to unleash an explosion upon contact with the environment or an enemy, briefly Slowing and damaging enemies caught in the blast.

FEATURED TEAM-UP VIDEO

Rocket Squirrels or Sticky Nuts?! Squirrel Girl's New Team-Ups!

Squirrel Girl gets two Team-Up options in Marvel Rivals Season 9.5: Squirrel Missile with Iron Man and ESU Alumnus with Spider-Man. Both offer different advantages, but which Squirrel Girl 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.

Squirrel Girl is not simply choosing between two bonuses: Squirrel Missile and ESU Alumnus 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

Squirrel Missile

ANCHOR · Iron Man

Squirrel Missile, anchored by Iron Man, gives Squirrel Girl a very specific tactical route: Squirrel Girl gains the Squirrel Missile ability. She directs a squirrel to ride Iron Man’s nanotech glove as a homing missile. Upon hit, the squirrel flees just before a fiery explosion. As a Duelist, it should be judged by how consistently it converts an opening into pressure, damage, or a secured elimination. The defensive layer can deny a predictable damage window, although timing and placement matter more than raw output. 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 Squirrel Girl 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 Iron Man, using Squirrel Blockade simultaneously fires a Squirrel Missile. That raises the option's ceiling, but it also means the composition with Iron Man has to justify the team slot.

OPTION 2

ESU Alumnus

ANCHOR · Spider-Man

ESU Alumnus, anchored by Spider-Man, gives Squirrel Girl a very specific tactical route: Spider-Man gives Squirrel Girl a web bomb. She can launch it to unleash an explosion upon contact with the environment or an enemy, briefly Slowing and damaging enemies caught in the blast. 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. 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 Squirrel Girl 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 Spider-Man, Squirrel Girl receives more Web Fluid. After throwing Webbed Acorn, viscous web fluid coats the ground alongside the explosion, leaving behind a sticky Web Area. Enemies within suffer a continuous Slow that scales into a Stun if they linger too long. That raises the option's ceiling, but it also means the composition with Spider-Man has to justify the team slot.

Detailed rank breakdown

See how preference changes as the competitive tier rises.

Bronze1 votes

Squirrel Missile (Iron Man)1 · 100%

ESU Alumnus (Spider-Man)0 · 0%

Silver1 votes

Squirrel Missile (Iron Man)1 · 100%

ESU Alumnus (Spider-Man)0 · 0%

Gold11 votes

Squirrel Missile (Iron Man)5 · 45%

ESU Alumnus (Spider-Man)6 · 55%

Platinum11 votes

Squirrel Missile (Iron Man)10 · 91%

ESU Alumnus (Spider-Man)1 · 9%

Diamond11 votes

Squirrel Missile (Iron Man)8 · 73%

ESU Alumnus (Spider-Man)3 · 27%

Grandmaster13 votes

Squirrel Missile (Iron Man)8 · 62%

ESU Alumnus (Spider-Man)5 · 38%

Celestial8 votes

Squirrel Missile (Iron Man)4 · 50%

ESU Alumnus (Spider-Man)4 · 50%

Eternity1 votes

Squirrel Missile (Iron Man)1 · 100%

ESU Alumnus (Spider-Man)0 · 0%

One Above All0 votes

Squirrel Missile (Iron Man)No votes

ESU Alumnus (Spider-Man)No votes