SEASON 09.5 · HERO INTELLIGENCE

Duelist

Star-Lord

Compare Star-Lord's Flora Munitions Team-Up with Star-Soul. Explore community preference by competitive rank and platform, review both anchor partners, and preview every Enhanced effect for Season 9.5.

TOTAL VOTES80

COMMUNITY LEADERStar-Soul53% preference

LEAD MARGIN4votes between options

PLATFORM DATA

Team-Up totals

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ANCHORGroot48%

Flora Munitions

Gain a new ability to toss Twisted Thorn Seeds forward. Upon landing, they rapidly Sprout and take root, generating Thorn Snares around the area. Enemies stepping on a snare take damage and suffer a Root effect.

COMMUNITY CHOICE

ANCHORAdam Warlock53%

Star-Soul

Gain a new ability to place a Telekinetic Beacon. You can teleport back to the location where the beacon is deployed from anywhere on the map. Upon defeat, Star-Lord will cocoon and respawn at the Telekinetic Beacon’s coordinates.

FEATURED TEAM-UP VIDEO

Plant Traps or Free Revives?! Starlord's New Team-Ups

Star-Lord gets two Team-Up options in Marvel Rivals Season 9.5: Flora Munitions with Groot and Star-Soul with Adam Warlock. Both offer different advantages, but which Star-Lord 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.

Star-Lord is not simply choosing between two bonuses: Flora Munitions and Star-Soul 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

Flora Munitions

ANCHOR · Groot

Flora Munitions, anchored by Groot, gives Star-Lord a very specific tactical route: Gain a new ability to toss Twisted Thorn Seeds forward. Upon landing, they rapidly Sprout and take root, generating Thorn Snares around the area. Enemies stepping on a snare take damage and suffer a Root effect. As a Duelist, it should be judged by how consistently it converts an opening into pressure, damage, or a secured elimination. Area pressure makes it especially useful around objectives, doorways, and clustered teams; spread-out fights reduce that advantage. 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 Star-Lord 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 Groot, the number of Thorn Snares deployed increases, and the damage dealt when an enemy steps on them is boosted. That raises the option's ceiling, but it also means the composition with Groot has to justify the team slot.

OPTION 2

Star-Soul

ANCHOR · Adam Warlock

Star-Soul, anchored by Adam Warlock, gives Star-Lord a very specific tactical route: Gain a new ability to place a Telekinetic Beacon. You can teleport back to the location where the beacon is deployed from anywhere on the map. Upon defeat, Star-Lord will cocoon and respawn at the Telekinetic Beacon’s coordinates. As a Duelist, it should be judged by how consistently it converts an opening into pressure, damage, or a secured elimination. Extra mobility changes positioning and escape routes, making the option strongest when used proactively rather than as a late panic button. Because the effect is tied to a defined timing window, disciplined activation is more important than simply using it on cooldown. 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 Star-Lord 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 Adam Warlock, every time Star-Lord participates in a KO, Telekinetic Beacon cooldown is reduced. That raises the option's ceiling, but it also means the composition with Adam Warlock has to justify the team slot.

Detailed rank breakdown

See how preference changes as the competitive tier rises.

Bronze1 votes

Flora Munitions (Groot)0 · 0%

Star-Soul (Adam Warlock)1 · 100%

Silver4 votes

Flora Munitions (Groot)3 · 75%

Star-Soul (Adam Warlock)1 · 25%

Gold15 votes

Flora Munitions (Groot)4 · 27%

Star-Soul (Adam Warlock)11 · 73%

Platinum14 votes

Flora Munitions (Groot)5 · 36%

Star-Soul (Adam Warlock)9 · 64%

Diamond10 votes

Flora Munitions (Groot)3 · 30%

Star-Soul (Adam Warlock)7 · 70%

Grandmaster22 votes

Flora Munitions (Groot)13 · 59%

Star-Soul (Adam Warlock)9 · 41%

Celestial12 votes

Flora Munitions (Groot)9 · 75%

Star-Soul (Adam Warlock)3 · 25%

Eternity2 votes

Flora Munitions (Groot)1 · 50%

Star-Soul (Adam Warlock)1 · 50%

One Above All0 votes

Flora Munitions (Groot)No votes

Star-Soul (Adam Warlock)No votes