How to find and talk to Bats the Ghost Dog in Marvel Rivals

An adorable NPC is wandering the halls of the new map in Marvel Rivals, and he has some special messages for anyone who can find him. Find out here where to find and how to speak to Bats the Ghost Dog in Marvel Rivals to unlock a hidden achievement.

Where is Bats the Ghost Dog in Marvel Rivals?

You can find Bats the Ghost Dog in the foyer of the Sanctum Sanctorum map. This map is huge, but luckily this adorable hound always stays in the same room. He’s situated at the entrance of the building, which is the same room that has a large oil painting of Doctor Strange with his faithful hound.

The ghostly dog walks (well, floats) throughout this room and never leaves it, making him easy to find once you know where to look. He does sometimes stop and lay down for a bit, but he spends most of his time flying around.

There’s no interact button when you approach Bats the Ghost Dog. In fact, depending on who you are, you may not be able to speak to him at all. There’s a special trick for conversing with the talking dog, as he is a very discerning hound who won’t speak to just anybody. You have to spawn in as a character he is willing to chat with to finish this task.

How to get the A Hounding Conversation achievement in Marvel Rivals

To complete the A Hounding Conversation achievement, you need to have one conversation with Bats the Ghost Dog as either Squirrel Girl or Spider-Man at the Sanctum Sanctorum map. This location can only be visited while playing the Doom Match game mode.

While you can interact with characters and items around other maps to finish achievements like Shero of Wakanda, here you simply have to wait for Bats the Ghost Dog to strike up a conversation with you of his own accord. As long as you’re one of the valid characters, he should start talking as soon as you approach him. I tested it as both characters many times and he started chatting right away once I got close to him.

Surprisingly, Bats the Ghost Dog won’t talk to you if you’re Doctor Strange even though you’d expect that he would. I tried several matches playing as Doctor Strange on this map, but the adorable hound sadly ignored me in all of them.

There may be additional characters Bats the Ghost Dog is willing to speak to, but we’ve tested lots of them and been unable to find any more that work so far. If we do find additional recruits he’s willing to chat with, we’ll add them here, but for now, choose one of the two that do work for this task. Even if you don’t want to play as them, you can just be them to get the achievement then quickly swap to a different unit.

Who is Bats the Ghost Dog in Marvel Rivals?

If you aren’t familiar with Bats, this is a great opportunity to get to know him. Bats was once the basset hound adopted by Doctor Strange that stayed with him at the Sanctum Sanctorum.

Of course, Doctor Strange couldn’t just have an ordinary dog, so he cast a spell on Bats to allow him to speak. This magical effect lasted even after the hound’s death, and now we have a talking ghost dog floating about.

One of the great things about little Easter eggs like this is that they may encourage players new to the Marvel world to pick up a comic and learn more about their favorite fighters. As one fan pointed out on X (formerly Twitter), Marvel Rivals is “a celebration of the comics in a landscape that seems beholden to the movies.”

If you, like many others, want to jump into the world of Bats the Ghost Dog, you will want to start reading the Doctor Strange comics released in 2017. In them, you will find out what happened to Bats and why he’s so excited to see Spider-Man in the Marvel Rivals Sanctum Sanctorum lobby.