Venom

OVERVIEW

Meet Venom.

Mobile frontline disruptor who swings in and sustains under pressure.

Eddie Brock & the Venom symbiote · Symbiotes. Explore the kit, practice notes and story below.

Official kit sourcesDebut: Season 0Observed 2026-10-13

Strengths & limitations

WHAT TO BUILD AROUND

A useful advantage

Mobile frontline disruption can draw attention and displace an enemy's focus.

WHAT TO WATCH

The trade-off

Going deeper does not guarantee that your team can capitalise.

Editorial practice guidance. These observations are not win-rate measurements or a tier ranking.

Kit & attributes

Values observed on 2026-10-13. Each form remains separate; a dated observation is not a guarantee that every value remains unchanged.

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Health	500+250 Regenerative Shield
Movement Speed	6 m/s

Gallery & reference media

Character imagery has not been added yet. The official profile is linked below.

Source reference

Sources & scope

Kit tables are factual observations of the official profile. The biography and practice notes are original editorial summaries. Historical gaps remain explicit, and source disagreements are not silently resolved.

Source reference Official patch index ↗

Ability viewer

INTERACTIVE ABILITY VIEWER

Learn the kit

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Dark Predation

No verified clip dedicated to this ability is currently available.

Hero-level video, not a confirmed demonstration of this individual ability.Official ability reference

VIDEO AVAILABLE

Primary · VENOM

Dark Predation

Left Click

Primary action in the VENOM kit, assigned to Left Click. Recorded effects and conditions appear below; a complete editorial description is not yet available.

KeyLeft Click

Range15m

Attack Interval0.9s, with a 0.1s interval between each tendril

Damage20

Kit source

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CHARACTER SYNERGIES

Team-up abilities

Abilities from the selected observation. Active pairings can vary by season.

TEAM-UP / 01

BLOOD LEECH

KeyRight ClickDamage Over Time2/hit, 10 times per secondDamage over Time to Healing Conversion Rate100%Tentacle Explosion Damage to Healing Conversion Rate50%

TEAM-UP / 02

BLOOD LEECH

KeyPassiveOne-time Healing Amount40

TEAM-UP / 03

ABYSSAL FLAMES

KeyCCooldown12sDuration8sAttack Range10m

TEAM-UP / 04

ABYSSAL FLAMES

KeyCExplosion Range3m spherical radiusExplosion Damage20

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THE WARDROBE / VERIFIED ANNOUNCEMENTS

Cosmetics & releases

Named costumes from our sourced release archive. Dedicated costume artwork appears when an approved image is available.

No independently verified cosmetic entry is indexed for this hero yet.

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FIELD NOTES

Make your next session count.

Engage to displace the enemy, then retreat before sustain expires.

One focused exercise

Choose a landing that forces a response without cutting off your route back to allied healing.

Read the current form and its resource conditions before entering a match.
Try the exercise with one target or one route so you can recognise what changes.
Review the engagement: could your allies see you, and did you preserve an exit?

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THE PERSON BEHIND THE KIT

Story & connections

The symbiote once bonded to Spider-Man later joins Eddie Brock, forming Venom. In Rivals, a glimpse of a disastrous future drives their confrontation with Knull, either to destroy him or to seize the power that could prevent it.

The biography above describes the game’s interpretation. Comic continuities and film portrayals can differ, and gameplay statistics do not measure a character’s fictional power.

Source reference

Keep exploring

Related reading follows shared stories and themes; these links do not assert an active gameplay team-up.

Documented changes

28 indexed announcements mention this hero. Mentions may concern fixes, cosmetics or story as well as balance.

2026-09-17Version 20260917 Patch NotesPatch

This release documents balance, fixes, events, cosmetics.

Read update on Volpedia ↗Source reference

2026-08-07Version 20260807 Balance PostBalance

Hero and team-up tuning for this version.

the Bonus Health provided by Symbiotic Resilience: 120% of lost health → 110%

Venom Swing cooldown: 8s → 10s

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2026-07-10Version 20260710 Balance PostBalance

Hero and team-up tuning for this version.

base Health: 675 → 500

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2026-05-07Version 20260507 Patch NotesPatch

This release documents maps, heroes, fixes, cosmetics.

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2026-04-17Version 20260417 Balance PostBalance

Hero and team-up tuning for this version.

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2026-03-20Version 20260320 Patch Notes - Season 7 Begins!Season

This release documents maps, heroes, fixes, events, modes.

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2026-02-13Version 20260213 Balance PostBalance

Hero and team-up tuning for this version.

base health: 650 → 675

Feast of the Abyss (Ultimate Ability) Damage-to-Bonus-Health conversion: 1 → 1.3

Read update on Volpedia ↗Source reference

2026-01-29Version 20260129 Patch NotesPatch

This release documents maps, heroes, fixes, events, cosmetics, modes. Featured: New Map: Museum of Contemplation; New Mode: The Clobberin' Club.

Read update on Volpedia ↗Source reference

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