Another new season of Marvel Rivals is upon us, and this one is straight up prehistoric.
Season eight of Rivals brings about the arrival of one of the game’s most ridiculous characters yet: Devil Dinosaur. Joining the existing roster with Rocket Raccoon and Jeff the Land Shark, this game is getting really wild with the character selection choices. Not to be outdone, X-Men member Cyclops is bringing his optic blasts to the battlefield, too.
“The Gilded Saint may have purged the Time Plague from Lower Manhattan, but the root of the rot remains,” the season’s details reveal. “Alchemax Headquarters stands defiant, shielded by a mysterious crimson Chronovium — fueled by a dimension of pure, kinetic force. The stakes have never been higher. Prepare yourselves – the Alchemax conspiracy goes deeper than we ever feared.”
Read on below for all of the updates coming to Marvel Rivals in Season 8: Sins of Alchemax when it launches on May 15.
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Marvel Rivals season 8 patch notes
New hero: Devil Dinosaur
Devil Dinosaur officially joins the game in season eight at launch as its 50th hero. Full details about the dino are incoming soon, but he is a Vanguard that comes with a team-up ability where The Punisher can ride on his back.
“In combat, he relies on his massive physique and a force field shield to brawl on the front line,” Guangguang revealed. He also has a bite ability that will cause enemies to bleed, and his ultimate transforms him to a bigger form where he can then charge through the battlefield.
New hero: Cyclops
The season eight reveal showed X-Men leader Cyclops defending Lunella, AKA Moon-Girl, from Alchemax attackers before being apprehended. That awoke her best friend and companion, Devil Dinosaur, and now it’s about to get real Jurassic in New York.
Cyclops is the second hero joining the roster in season eight some time in June 2026 for the mid-season update, and is likely a Duelist.
Team-Up Abilities
- New: Primal Punishment
- Devil Dinosaur (anchor) and Punisher
- Punisher rides on Devil Dinosaur’s back, firing from dino-back with his normal weapons. While riding, Punisher receives damage reduction, and healing received is shared with the dino.
- Devil Dinosaur (anchor) and Punisher
Hero nerfs and buffs
- Vanguards
- Nerfed
- Deadpool
- Reduced The Ban Hammer (Gun Form Ultimate Ability) healing provided while active from 50/s to 25/s.
- Reduced Dual Desert Eagles (Vanguard) single-shot damage from 36 to 34 (standard) and from 42 to 39 (upgraded).
- Deadpool
- Buffed
- Emma Frost
- Telepathic Pulse falloff now begins at 3s (was 3s) after not hitting an enemy.
- Increased Damage Reduction gained during Diamond Form and Psionic Seduction (Ultimate) from 20 percent to 25 percent.
- Reduced Mind’s eAgis reposition cooldown from 3s to 1s.
- The Thing
- Increased base health from 700 to 750.
- Emma Frost
- Nerfed
- Duelists
- Nerfed
- N/A
- Buffed
- Iron Fist
- Jeet Kune Do hits now reduce the cooldown of Dragon’s Defense by 1.2s (up from 1s).
- Increased K’un-Lun Kick’s first strike damage from 35 to 40.
- Star-Lord
- Increased the ammo capacity of Element Guns from 40 to 50.
- Wolverine
- Reduced the trigger cooldown of Regenerative Healing Factor from 105s to 90s.
- Moon Knight
- Reduced Moonlight Hook cooldown from 15s to 12s.
- Squirrel Girl
- Reduced the cooldown of Mammal Bond from 15s to 12s.
- Spider-Man
- Increased Spectacular Spin damage per single spherical Spell Field from 13.6 to 15. (Total damage over the 2.4s duration increased from 408 to 450).
- Iron Fist
- Changed
- Mister Fantastic
- Increased Stretch Punch damage from 65 to 70.
- Removed Flexible Elongation’s movement speed reduction effect. However, the charge time for each use has been reduced from 8s to 6s.
- Reduced the energy cost of Brainiac Bounce (Ultimate) from 3,400 to 3,100.
- Phoenix
- Increased Cosmic Flames’ direct hit damage from 50 to 55. Reduced explosion damage when detonating Spark marks from 40 to 35.
- Mister Fantastic
- Nerfed
- Strategists
- Nerfed
- Invisible Woman
- Reduced Force Physics push distance from 12m to 10m and damage from 55 to 50.
- Invisible Woman
- Buffed
- Rocket Raccoon
- Increased Bombard Mode hit damage per projectile from 16 to 17.
- Increased Repair Mode charges from 8 to 10.
- Reduced the energy cost of C.Y.A. (Ultimate) from 4,300 to 4,000.
- White Fox
- Increased healing amount provided by the surrounding aura during Fox Form Awakening from 25/s to 365/s; Reduced the burst healing generated by each successful attack during Fox Form Awakening from 35 to 25.
- Increased Blessed by the Nine healing to allies during Kumiho Unleashed (Ultimate) from 40/s to 60/s.
- Rocket Raccoon
- Changed
- Mantis
- Reduced Allied Inspiration damage boost provided to allies from 12 percent to 8 percent. New effect: now provided a flat 100 movement speed boost to allies.
- Loki
- Increased Illusion’s Mystical Missile healing ratio from 90 percent to 100 percent.
- Reduced Illusion’s Mystical Missile damage ratio from 90 percent to 80 percent.
- Increased the energy cost of God of Mischief (Ultimate) from 4,300 to 4,500.
- Mantis
- Nerfed
New map: Alchemax Headquarters
Coming on May 28, this new Doom Match map will have lore implications of rescuing Cyclops and Moon Girl.
New accessories
Devil Dinosaur, The Thing, Black Widow, Angela, Hela, Namor, and The Punisher will be getting their own accessories on May 15 with the new season update.
