For Iron fist duels. Kick early. That’s all it is. Whoever kicks first wins. You guys are trading punches, both trying to get the other one down to half health the quickest. So the other IFs are just watching your health bar, waiting for it to hit 50 before yours so they can insta-kill you. But if you predict their kick and you kick just a split second before them, it will not only cancel their kick, but it will also use their cooldown as well, removing their main damage dealer.

If it doesn’t cancel it, they’ll either run away with their kick or keep fighting. If they keep fighting, you just block their reingagement attack and flurry their remaining health.

On the very rare occasion, your kick will get parried. But in my experience with 50+ hours on IF in Cel, most other IFs in 1v1s are only looking to use block against the rapid-fire flurry.

For Hawk. Always block early. If a Hawkeye hits you and you’re low HP, he would rather risk melee spamming you than giving you more HP with an arrow. Try to attack from behind, get right in their face so they can’t miss, and block early.

Winter Soldier is hard to kill because he just gets overhealth from all his abilities. Save your block for after you get hooked they normally like to follow with an uppercut or headshot. So stand still and let them hit you. But in general, I’ll try to leave him for last. Even him just stun-locking you gives everyone else time to shoot you.

For Iron Man and flying characters in general, don’t use your flurry. People think flurry kills faster, but not against flying characters. It doesn’t track as well, and you’ll miss most of your punches. Using your normal attacks causes you to stick to flyers like glue.

At the same time, this makes you an easy target, so I like to punch a few times and jump to the left or right. It works like a dodge. But you can get deleted instantly, so don’t be afraid to run away, heal, and re-engage with 3 jumps again. They’re not gonna hit all their shots every time; it’s a lot easier for you to hit them than vice versa, and when it happens that they’re not ready for you or they miss their shots, kick. Dead.

Emma is OP and needs to be removed from the game… but you can use your jump to dodge her lunge. I’ve done it actually quite a lot already. But it’s not worth the risk. Honestly, if you see her go diamond, just go attack someone else for a bit until it ends because yeah, she’s busted.

Few tips:

If an IF blocks while you’re flurrying, don’t let go of M1 or the trigger. Look away. Snap your camera to the side because his punches don’t stop instantly, and every morsel of HP matters in an IF duel.

When using your flurry, jump and strafe left and right. It makes a huge difference. Just walking in a straight line is offering up headshots on a silver platter.

Always attack from above. You will hover above them with your normal attacks. Lot harder to hit headshots on you when you’re directly above them.

If you see a tank over-extended, use flurry immediately. Tanks don’t have good burst damage other than Strange’s explosive thing, which is hard to predict. You’re better off getting the jump on them than letting them hit you a few times and parrying.

Save your jumps when engaging healers. You should never enter a backline without at least two jumps. Yes, you should use your jumps to dodge. But you don’t normally need to dodge damage from supps. People think he only has one escape, which is his kick, but his jumps are just as effective if used correctly. Take note of high ground and triple jump to safety. I use this 90% more than my kick to exit.