Make Sure To Turn Off This Feature In Marvel Rivals When Playing As Spider-Man Or Venom

As you play Spider-Man or Venom for the first time in Marvel Rivals, you may notice the web-swinging abilities of either character can feel awkward. This is likely due to a hidden mechanic for both characters being turned on by default in the game's settings. To swing with more accuracy and precision throughout every map, you'll want to turn this feature off when playing as these wall crawlers.

Spider-Man in Marvel Rivals has multiple web-swings he can perform before a cooldown, while Venom only has one. For both characters, this skill is essential for how they move around on a map and surprise enemy teams with good positioning. However, you can't aim for precise spots on the map to web-swing from if you have a hidden feature called "Easy Swing" active in your settings.

Easy Swing Makes It Difficult To Swing Around The Map

Good For Beginners, Bad For Everyone Else

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Whenever you pick Spider-Man or Venom, you will have "Easy Swing" turned on in their character-specific settings. Easy Swing automatically picks a point near you to anchor your web-swing ability, allowing you to just press the button and swing along whatever object was chosen. For beginners, this is an easy way to move around as you get used to the game's overall controls, but this mechanic is wildly inconsistent.

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For starters, the inability to choose an anchor point for a web-swing could mean Venom or Spider-Man swings in a random direction rather than where you want to go. You may want to attach your web-swing to a high part of the map to fly high into the air, but suddenly Easy Swing causes you to move practically sideways from somewhere else.

During some of my early matches, Easy Swing caused me to almost drop off maps entirely, because I did not know which direction I was going!

Without precision, Easy Swing can cause you to accidentally throw yourself into enemy teams rather than escape them, or vice versa. This is especially bad for Venom in Marvel Rivals, who only gets one use of a web-swinging ability before waiting for it to recover on a cooldown. Spider-Man's low health also makes him rely on web-swinging often to get out of danger, so Easy Swing could get him eliminated.

How To Turn Off Easy Swing In Marvel Rivals

Go Into Character Settings

Thankfully, it's not hard to disable Easy Swing for both Spider-Man and Venom from the settings of Marvel Rivals. Every hero in the game has unique settings that you can access by going through the following steps:

Pause Marvel Rivals and select the "Settings" option Go To The "Controller" Tab Among The Setting Menus Toggle "Combat" Among Available Options Select The "All Heroes" Drop Down Menu Pick Spider-Man Or Venom To Access Their Unique Settings

Once you have Spider-Man or Venom's settings selected, scroll down until you see "Easy Swing" or "Automatic Swing." As you'll see, these settings are turned on by default, but you can just press them again to disable this hidden feature. When you've done this, pressing a web-swing ability for either character will not cause you to automatically find an anchor point on a Marvel Rival's map you weren't aiming for.

In a character's unique settings, you can also adjust other properties of the hero or villain, such as if you need to hold an input to keep web-swinging as Spider-Man.

From now on, you have to aim at a solid object to initiate a web-swing, shooting out a tendril or line of webbing to whatever spot you choose. This gives you far more control over your mobility, but it may take some time in the Practice Range to fully adjust to this setting. However, there's no denying that it gives Venom and Spider-Man far more freedom of movement in Marvel Rivals.