Compare The Hood's Chaos Collision Team-Up with New Moon's Shadow. Explore community preference by competitive rank and platform, review both anchor partners, and preview every Enhanced effect for Season 10.
TOTAL VOTES83
COMMUNITY LEADERNew Moon's Shadow57% preference
LEAD MARGIN11votes between options
PLATFORM DATA
Team-Up totals
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ANCHORScarlet Witch43%
IN-GAME ABILITY INFORMATION
Chaos Collision
Gain a New Ability. Create an arcane zone that continuously damages enemies and applies stacking Damage and Healing Reduction. Reactivate to teleport to the zone's center.
COMMUNITY CHOICE
ANCHORMoon Knight57%
IN-GAME ABILITY INFORMATION
New Moon's Shadow
Enhances Abyssal Veil into a Lunar Barrier that blocks projectiles. Upon breaking, it detonates, damaging enemies and applying Damage and Healing Reduction. Enemies passing through take damage and are briefly Blinded.
PARTNER CREATOR VIDEO
Chaos Field or Moonlight Barrier?! The Hood's Teamups
The Hood gets two Team-Up options in Marvel Rivals Season 10: Chaos Collision with Scarlet Witch and New Moon's Shadow with Moon Knight. Both offer different advantages, but which The Hood 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.
The Hood is not simply choosing between two bonuses: Chaos Collision and New Moon's Shadow 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
Chaos Collision
ANCHOR · Scarlet Witch
Chaos Collision, anchored by Scarlet Witch, gives The Hood a very specific tactical route: Gain a New Ability. Create an arcane zone that continuously damages enemies and applies stacking Damage and Healing Reduction. Reactivate to teleport to the zone's center. As a Vanguard, it should be judged by how well it helps initiate, hold space, or survive while the team advances. Its sustain component has value in extended fights, but loses impact when allies cannot survive the initial burst. Extra mobility changes positioning and escape routes, making the option strongest when used proactively rather than as a late panic button. 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 The Hood 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 Scarlet Witch, after teleporting, unleash a magical shockwave, dealing one-time damage to nearby enemies while launching them towards The Hood. That raises the option's ceiling, but it also means the composition with Scarlet Witch has to justify the team slot.
OPTION 2
New Moon's Shadow
ANCHOR · Moon Knight
New Moon's Shadow, anchored by Moon Knight, gives The Hood a very specific tactical route: Enhances Abyssal Veil into a Lunar Barrier that blocks projectiles. Upon breaking, it detonates, damaging enemies and applying Damage and Healing Reduction. Enemies passing through take damage and are briefly Blinded. As a Vanguard, it should be judged by how well it helps initiate, hold space, or survive while the team advances. Its sustain component has value in extended fights, but loses impact when allies cannot survive the initial burst. The defensive layer can deny a predictable damage window, although timing and placement matter more than raw output. 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 The Hood 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 Moon Knight, the Lunar Barrier has greater shield value, and The Hood's attacks that pass through it gain a bounce effect. That raises the option's ceiling, but it also means the composition with Moon Knight has to justify the team slot.
Detailed rank breakdown
See how preference changes as the competitive tier rises.
ANCHORScarlet Witch43%
Vanguard
The Hood
ANCHORMoon Knight57%
Bronze1 votes
Silver1 votes
Gold9 votes
Platinum13 votes
Diamond22 votes
Grandmaster20 votes
Celestial12 votes
Eternity0 votes
One Above All5 votes