Building stronger bonds with your fellow heroes in Marvel’s Midnight Suns isn’t just about battle strategy-it’s about late-night chats, shared hobbies, and saying the right thing at the right moment. Here’s how to raise your friendship levels and gain powerful team advantages along the way.
Friendship Level Benefits
Increasing friendship levels with heroes offers strong combat advantages and story rewards. Higher friendship ranks can grant unique passive bonuses, combo abilities, and hero cards that enhance teamwork on the battlefield. Reaching maximum friendship with a character can also unlock their Midnight Suns suit and a special ability mission, adding both tactical depth and personal connection to your team.
Increasing your friendship levels with the other heroes in Marvel’s Midnight Suns has many benefits that’ll help you when you’re out on mission. These include:
- Hero passive abilities
- Combo abilities
- Increased character stats
- Hero ability cards
As your friendships grow, so too will your Team Friendship Level, whose rewards mainly focus on advancing your relationships as quickly as possible. The Team Friendship Level rewards include:
- Increased number of combo abilities
- The Gift Shop
- Compliments
How to build bonds with Marvel’s Midnight Suns heroes
Spending time with teammates outside of missions strengthens your connection with them. Join heroes for hangouts, take part in conversations, and choose dialogue options that match their personalities to earn approval. Giving them favored gifts and inviting them to enjoy activities like reading or training increases how much they trust you. As your friendship level grows, you’ll gain team bonuses and personal abilities that make both combat and interactions smoother.
You can grow friendships with the other heroes grow in a variety of ways, including having conversations with them, inviting them to a hang out, complimenting them, helping them with tasks, and more.
Hang Outs
After completing a mission, you’ll be able to invite a hero to participate in an activity with you. However, you have to be careful which activity you choose because each hero has their own preference. Some will want to go fishing while others will want to stay inside and play cards. You’ll gain or lose friendship depending on how interested they are in the activity.
At the end of a hang out, you can give the hero a gift you either purchased from the gift shop or found around the Abbey. Remember to consider which gift to give because, like the activities, each hero has a preference.
Dialogue options
Talking to the other heroes is the most common way to improve your friendship levels. You’ll be given three dialogue options to choose from, each of which will result in a different type of reaction. Use what you know as a Marvel fan or from the story itself to strengthen or weaken your bonds.
Opportunities for dialogue are everywhere in Marvel’s Midnight Suns. You’ll talk to the heroes around the Abbey, during hang outs, at club meetings, and even on Superlink, the superhero social networking service. You’ll frequently receive invitations to meet up from the heroes themselves. This could be at club meetings, where a few heroes with similar interests will hang out after a long day out on a mission, or it could be a one-on-one chat with a particular hero. Heroes will occasionally request your assistance with a task or advice, which, depending on your choice, can result in a nice boost to your friendship.
Compliments
After completing a Research Project, a Hero Op, or reaching a new Training Level in the Yard, you’ll be able to compliment a fellow hero. Complimenting a hero is a quick way to boost your friendship, but if you give too many compliments to the same hero in a short period, the benefits will diminish.
Sparring at the Yard
The Yard is where you can upgrade your cards and train against the heroes. An easy way to gain a few friendship points every day is to spar with one of your favorite heroes. If a friendship with a particular hero is on the edge of leveling up, train with them in the Yard.
Havens
Inviting a hero to a Haven, a specific point of interest on the Abbey grounds, is a lot like hanging out with them, but there are a few differences. Havens are limited; each Haven can only be used once, and each hero can only meet at a Haven once. The biggest difference is that any friendship reward from a Haven hang out isdoubled. To maximize your friendship gains, use what you know about the heroes to invite them to a location with an activity and a gift they’d love.
Best gifts for each hero to maximize friendship gains
In Marvel’s Midnight Suns, gifts boost friendship XP during hangouts or havens based on rarity (legendary gives the most) and hero preference-match their personality for “Loved” status and maximum gains (e.g., +10 XP legendary).
Best Gifts by Hero
Use this table for top “Loved” gifts per hero, prioritizing legendary/rares from the Gift Shop (unlocked via team friendship progress) or artifacts.
| Hero | Top Gifts (Max XP) |
|---|---|
| Blade | Madripoor in Pictures; Practical Muay Thai |
| Captain America | A Stoic Companion; USML #177 |
| Captain Marvel | Rock Galaxy T-Shirt; Civil Warrior #1 |
| Caretaker | Deadliest Battle Sites; Oracle Cards |
| Doctor Strange | Multiverse of Madness #1; Self-Care Deck |
| Ghost Rider | All New Ghost Rider #1; Serenity: Calming Your Inner Demon; Candle (Sports Car Interior) |
| Hulk | Get Well Soon #1; Practical Fitness Guide |
| Iron Man | Stark Tower: Bring It Back; Wearable Artillery |
| Magik | A Stoic Companion; Human Anatomy Vol. IV; 19th-Century Russian Poetry |
| Nico Minoru | Candle (Beachy Waves); Dark Beauty Coloring Book; Runaways #1 |
| Peni Parker | Advanced Photography; Tamagotchi Clone |
| Robbie Reyes | All New Ghost Rider #1; Family Style Cookbook |
| Scarlet Witch | Book of Lost Tales; Dark Beauty Coloring Book |
| Spider-Man | Advanced Photography; Amazing Fantasy #15; Snack Box (Fresh and Fruity) |
| Storm | Weather Wizardry; Oracle Cards |
| Wolverine | Madripoor in Pictures; Practical Muay Thai; Snack Box (Root Beers of Canada) |
Tips for Efficiency
Shop left of The Forge; buy legendaries matching interests (e.g., tech for Iron Man, gothic for Magik) as they rarely sell out with gloss income. Combine with havens and preferred hangouts for 1-2 level jumps per session.
Where to buy gifts and farm Gloss efficiently
Gifts in Marvel’s Midnight Suns are bought from the Gift Shop, located to the left of The Forge in the Abbey (unlocked early via story progress). Stock rotates but includes legendaries/rares matching hero personalities-use gloss earned from missions and research to purchase.
Gloss Farming Methods
Prioritize these repeatable sources for steady gloss income (aim for 500-1000+ per run on higher difficulties).
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Story Missions and Collapsing Darkness: Clear on Heroic/Amazing levels for 300-600 gloss each; replay via the War Room.
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Research Projects: Complete Caretaker’s tech tree (e.g., Word of Power upgrades) for 200-400 gloss batches-prioritize early.
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Daily Sparring: The Yard sessions yield 50-100 gloss plus friendship XP; do all available daily.
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Clearance Levels and Challenges: Grind Word of Power gates or Combat Challenges for 100-300 gloss bursts.
Shop Tips
Check nightly as legendary stock refreshes; buy “Loved” gifts first (e.g., Madripoor in Pictures for Blade/Wolverine). Combine gloss farms with evening hangouts for efficiency.
