Marvel Rivals Moon Knight Blood Hunt Build Guide

The honest answer is that Moon Knight has multiple viable build paths, exceptional mobility, and an Ankh-based playstyle that handles both dense vampire swarms and tough single-target bosses without requiring a specific team composition. He jumps. He flies. He throws golden bird-shaped projectiles at the undead. He is, in every measurable way, the correct choice for players who enjoy winning.

His Lunar Tide Trait functions as a crowd control engine, and his Moon Knight Ankh build Blood Hunt becomes genuinely terrifying at max investment. The Ankhs attach to bosses, tick persistent damage, and the Pendant of Ostr exclusive allows six to be active simultaneously while granting 50% damage reduction. That is not a misprint. Fifty percent. While you are doing the killing.

Do not spread your upgrades across multiple heroes. Progress is character-specific. A fully upgraded Moon Knight beats a neglected anyone-else. Focus here first, thank yourself later, resist the temptation of trying Jeff.

Moon Knight Traits (Add-Clear / Ankh Build)

The Two Builds: What You Actually Need

Moon Knight runs two distinct setups in Blood Hunt, and confusing them will cost you runs at higher difficulties. The best Moon Knight build Marvel Rivals for late-game content is unambiguously the ranged Ankh-focused Phases of the Moon build. The melee knuckles build is for ad clearing, and it is excellent at exactly that — just do not drag it into a boss fight and expect mercy.

This is your main build. If you are running solo, this is your only build. Bosses do not die to enthusiasm alone, and the knuckles setup will leave you standing in front of Dracula feeling deeply embarrassed. Run the Ankh build from the start when playing alone.

The Pendant of Ostr is not optional. It is the cornerstone of this entire playstyle. Without it you can field fewer Ankhs and you surrender that 50% damage reduction, which means bosses will remove your health bar with the casual indifference of someone deleting a spam email.

When you have teammates handling boss damage, this build transforms Moon Knight into a wave-clearing engine. The knuckles combined with the Gauntlets exclusive trigger the Fist of Eclipse interaction — hitting an Ankh with a punch causes eleven-plus chain explosions that evaporate entire vampire swarms faster than they can spawn.

The Moon Knight ad clear build Blood Hunt core loop is straightforward to a fault: spam the new kick ability whenever it is off cooldown, use primary attack to charge it, and deploy Ankhs as trigger points for the explosion chain. Your alt exists for emergencies only. Treat it like a fire extinguisher — present in the room, never your first instinct.

Traits, Arcana, and the Gear Rating System

Blood Hunt's Marvel Rivals PvE progression system operates on three compounding layers. Gear is the foundation: weapons, armor, accessories, and an exclusive slot, each with a maximum rating of 7,500 achieved by landing five extended effects at S-rank. The probability of rolling five S-ranks on your first attempt is low enough that you should make peace with that reality immediately and save yourself the frustration.

Traits are the hero-specific skill tree. Moon Knight's tree branches between the Ankh-focused ranged path and the melee kick path. The Lunar Tide Trait is your crowd control backbone for the Ankh build. Read the tree before you spend points. The game does not refund bad decisions with the same enthusiasm it charges for them.

Arcana is the power bonus layer that scales as you push deeper into Nightmare content. For prioritization: max Total Output Boost first, then Health, then the remaining two bonuses in whatever order strikes your philosophical fancy. The damage matters. The other two are nice. Total output is what separates players who reach Nightmare 160 from players who write angry posts about it online.

Farming Normal difficulty for gear is a strategic error that will haunt you. Push to Hard immediately after your first clear. Nightmare-tier rewards require Nightmare-tier willingness to experience consequences.

Gear Crafting: The Forge System

The Forge menu allows you to scrap collected gear into Uru Shards, which can then be used to craft items for specific heroes and slots. The quality of crafted gear scales with your character's level — a higher-level Moon Knight has better odds of receiving Epic or Legendary output from the same Uru Shard investment. The system is RNG-based. The information icon in-game shows exact odds, which you should check precisely once and then never look at again for your own peace of mind.

You can smelt gear from other characters to craft Moon Knight pieces. If a teammate's surplus Blade sword can become a better Scepter for your Moon Knight Phases of the Moon build, the decision makes itself. Be efficient. The vampires certainly are.

Gameplay Loop: What You Actually Do

The Ankh boss build loop is this: throw all Ankhs at the target, shred with Scepter primary fire, repeat until the target stops moving. That is the entire strategy. The Moon Knight Ankh strategy Marvel Rivals sounds deceptively simple because it is deceptively simple. The execution is what separates players who clear Nightmare 160 in under five minutes from players who do not clear it at all.

The ad-clear knuckles loop is: use kick ability on cooldown, charge it with primary attack, place Ankhs for explosion triggers, do not use your alt unless something has genuinely gone wrong. Something will genuinely go wrong. Use your alt.

• Never ignore your Ankh charges. Holding unused charges while vampires eat your health bar is a choice. A bad one.
• Use flight aggressively. Moon Knight's mobility is one of his defining advantages. Staying on the ground against Capwolf's charge attacks is not boldness. It is geometry failing you.
• Save the Pendant of Ostr slot exclusively for the boss build. The Gauntlets go in the knuckles build. Do not mix them. The game allows you to make this mistake. The game is not your friend.
• Alt ability use should be emergency-only in both builds. It pushes enemies away, which is useful when surrounded, and worthless when you burn it on a wave of four vampires who were already walking into your Ankh field.