You’re in Marvel Rivals, soaring through the battlefield, dishing out damage, setting up plays, and then suddenly, boom! A Venom slams into you like a freight train, suffocating your escape routes and making sure your character’s lifespan is measured in milliseconds. You blink, and you’re back in the spawn room, rethinking all your life choices.

Venom, right now, is the king of dive tanks. He’s the only true, full-fledged, high-mobility meat shield who thrives on jumping into fights and making everyone’s life miserable. But let’s be real, this symbiote menace needs some competition. The game needs another dive tank to mix things up, and who better than the tentacled terror himself, Doctor Otto Octavius?

Alfred Molina as Doc Ock in Spider-Man: No Way Home | Credits: Marvel Studios

But before we talk about Otto’s reign of terror, let’s not forget another Spider-Man nemesis...