Marvel Rivals’ Doomsday-themed season 11 brings Nightcrawler into the fold, and Dracula soon

Doom is here. But first, a blue, religious mutant who can teleport all over the battlefield.

Nightcrawler has been confirmed as the newest Marvel Rivals hero, launching alongside season 11 this Friday. The X-Men member looks to be a Strategist who can use his teleportation ability to get teammates out of harm’s way.

“Two timelines, the present and the future, are on a course for an Incursion,” the update teases. “New York and Nueva York are about to collide head-on! Will they find a solution in separation, or will each look out for its own interests? How will the heroes’ actions affect the ambitions of the two Doctor Dooms? How will a pious saint with the visage of a demon and the exiled king trapped in a foreign land shoulder the burden of saving two worlds?”

Here’s everything we know so far about the season 11 update hitting Marvel Rivals on Nov. 13.

Marvel Rivals season 11 patch notes – Doomsday

New Strategist: Nightcrawler

BAMF! Kurt Wagner, otherwise known as the X-Men team member Nightcrawler, is the 55th hero to join Marvel Rivals, and the game’s 13th Strategist (healer). He looks to be a very agile hero, teleporting in and out of battle, healing allies and dealing damage with swords and his tail.

Mid-season hero: Dracula

The end of the trailer teases that Dracula, waking from his slumber, will be the new hero in the 11.5 update in December, refuting leaks that it would be Doctor Doom.

It’s all about Doom these days, and rightfully so, as the iconic villain gets his shine in Avengers: Doomsday next month. Considering the season is called Doomsday and teases conflict between Doctor Doom and Doom 2099, it’s a head-scratcher that he’s not included in this season, but it’s likely he will be coming soon. Maybe next year!

Hero nerfs and buffs

Vanguard

• Angela
  • Increase Axes of Ichors damage for the first three strikes from 30 to 35.
  • After casting Divine Judgement, Angela no longer needs to remain within the domain to receive the Movement Speed and Bonus Health buffs. Instead, she now gains both buffs for 6s. Using Wingblade Ascent during this time will remove the buffs.
  • In dual-axe form, increase Bonus Health gained per Axes of Ichors hit from 50 to 55. Increase continuous damage dealt to enemies within Divine Judgement from 12.5/s to 15/s.
• Deadpool
  • Remove the 50 Bonus Health granted to nearby allies when casting The Big Test. Increase the Bonus Health granted to self from 300 to 400. For The Big Test – Upgraded, remove the effect that grants Bonus Health to nearby allies on each strike. Increase the damage-to-Bonus Health conversion ratio for self from 1 to 1.5.
• Devil Dinosaur
  • After Savage Predation hits an enemy, reduce the control duration from 0.8s to 0.6s. After the control ends, reduce the duration of the launch effect from 1.5s to 1.2s.
  • Remove the 15% Slow effect applied to enemies within Buddy Barrier. Reduce the barrier duration from 6s to 4s, and reduce its shield value from 450 to 400.
  • Reduce the Bonus Health granted by Apex Advantage from 150% of Bleed damage to 125%.
  • When selecting the Team-Up with The Punisher, increase Primal Punishment cooldown from 12s to 18s.
• Doctor Strange
  • Reduce the shield value of Shield of the Seraphim from 850 to 800, and reduce its recovery speed from 60/s to 50/s.
  • When selecting the Team-Up with Invisible Woman, reduce the bonus shield value granted to Shield of the Seraphim from 150 to 100. Enhanced Effect: Remove the Bonus Health granted to allies when casting Psionic Vortex. Increase the damage-to-Bonus Health conversion ratio for self from 0.5 to 0.7.
  • When selecting the Team-Up with the Hulk – Enhanced Effect: Reduce the minimum Gamma Maelstrom energy retained from 50 to 25.
• Emma Frost
  • Reduce the shield value of Mind’s Aegis from 400 to 350, and reduce its recovery speed from 80/s to 65/s.
  • After Psychic Spear extracts a sentience, adjust the damage dealt from 25% Maximum Health to 60 +10% Maximum Health.
  • When selecting the Team-Up with Luna Snow, reduce Iced Out Diamond shield value from 350 to 300.
• Groot
  • When Thornlash Wall triggers the Flora Colossus effect, increase damage dealt from 60 to 65.
  • Reduce the health of Ironwood Wall from 600 to 550.
  • When selecting the Team-Up with Mantis, Wild Wall gains a new effect: It will also be affected by the Flora Colossus passive, identical to Thornlash Wall.
• Peni Parker
  • Reduce Cyber-Web Cluster explosion damage from 15 to 12.
  • Increase the detonation delay of Arachno-Mine after triggering from 0.6s to 0.7s.
• Rogue
  • Increase the damage of the first two hits of Power Surge Punch from 35 to 40.
  • When selecting the Team-Up with Gambit, reduce the cooldown of Mr. & Mrs. X from 30s to 15s. Adjust the single-hit damage of the kinetic explosion from 5+1% Maximum Health to 3+1% Maximum Health. Reduce the healing granted to allies within range from 15 to 10.
  • When using Defensive Stance, reduce the damage absorption radius from 2m to 1.2m. While in Defensive Stance, increase the damage-to-Energy conversion ratio from 0.55 to 0.6.
• Venom
  • Slightly increase the detection radius of Dark Predation.
  • Adjust the Damage Falloff of Frenzied Arrival: Changed from starting at 2m and reaching a max falloff of 40% at 6m, to starting at 3m and reaching a max falloff of 60% at 6m.
  • Reduce the base Bonus Health granted by Symbiotic Resilience from 100 to 75, and reduce the Bonus Health gained based on lost Health from 110% to 100% (When cast at 300 Health remaining, the Bonus Health gained by Venom is reduced from 595 to 525)

Duelist

• Black Cat
  • Increase the maximum Fortune gained per single cast of Feline Fury from 50 to 75.
  • When selecting the Team-Up with Black Panther, increase the Bonus Health gained after casting Feline Alliance from 25 to 50. Increase the Fortune gained per enemy hit from 50 to 100, and increase the cap from 100 to 200.
• Black Widow
  • Increase Electro-Plasma Blast damage from 50-70 to 55-75.
  • When selecting the Team-Up with Phoenix, increase Electro-Plasma Blast damage from 70 to 75.
  • When selecting the Team-Up with Hawkeye, Allied Agents gains a new effect: Black Widow now gets Bonus Health based on the damage dealt during Focused state at a 50% ratio, up to a cap of 75. Reduce the Focus stacks required to activate Focused state from 3 to 2.
• Elsa Bloodstone
  • Adjust the Damage Falloff distance of Double-Barrel Blaster from starting at 20m to starting at 10m.
  • When selecting the Team-Up with Devil Dinosaur – Enhanced Effect: Remove one ability charge. The ability effect is adjusted to reduce the cooldown of Smoky Snare from 15s to 12s.
• Human Torch
  • Adjust the projectile spread of Fire Cluster from random spread to fixed spread.
• Phoenix
  • Upon detonating a Spark, reduce the direct damage dealt from 45 to 40, and reduce the area damage from 20 to 15.
  • When the shockwave from Endsong Inferno (Ultimate Ability) hits enemies, reduce the number of Spark stacks applied from 2 to 1.
• Squirrel Girl
  • Reduce Burst Acorn damage from 110 to 95. Adjust maximum Damage Falloff at 3m from 70% to 60%.
  • Increase Squirrel Blockade projectile speed from 20m/s-60m/s to 60m/s-90m/s. Upon hitting an enemy, reduce the Imprison Duration from 1.3s to 0.8s, and reduce the damage dealt from 50 to 25. New Mechanic: Upon hitting an enemy, Squirrel Blockade will generate an Acorn Rain with a 5m radius centered around the target’s current location. Acorn Rain deals 30/s damage to enemies within range for 2s and inflicts a 20% Slow effect.
  • Mammal Bond New Mechanic: Upon casting Mammal Bond, Squirrel Girl gains an additional 100% Attack Speed bonus for 5s. During this state, her projectile speed increases from 80m/s to 150m/s, the damage of a single Burst Acorn is reduced to 65% of its normal value, and gravity is removed. (Note: This effect will persist even if the refreshed ability from Mammal Bond is used, until the duration ends).
  • Gain 25 Bonus Health upon casting Tail Bounce.
• Star-Lord
  • During Galactic Legend (Ultimate Ability), increase Element Guns ammo capacity from 40 to 50.
  • When selecting the Team-Up with Human Torch, reduce Cosmic Soul cooldown from 30s to 25s, and reduce the resurrection cooldown from 120s to 105s.
• Winter Soldier
  • Roterstern Damage Falloff: Adjust maximum Damage Falloff from 70% at 40m to 65% at 30m.
  • Reduce Roterstern spell field damage from 45 to 40.
• Wolverine
  • Increase Feral Leap cooldown from 12s to 15s.
  • Reduce the Rage-based bonus damage dealt to enemies upon impact during Last Stand (Ultimate Ability) from 0.3% of Max Health per point of Rage to 0.2%. (Against a 250-Health enemy, total impact damage at max Rage reduced from 150 to 125; against a 700-Health enemy, total impact damage at max Rage reduced from 330 to 260.)

Strategist

• Adam Warlock
  • Reduce the initial healing of Avatar Life Stream from 95 to 55, and increase the umber of bounces from 2 to 4 (Total healing per cast reduced from 285 to 275).
  • When selecting the Team-Up with Storm, increase the speed boost of Soaring Surge from 67% to 100%. Enhanced Effect: Reduce the Damage Boost granted to allies when casting Soul Bond from 12% to 8%.
• Cloak & Dagger
  • Increase Dagger Storm cooldown from 12s to 15s. Reduce the self-healing granted by Dagger Storm from 50/s to 35/s.
  • Increase Darkforce Cloak damage from 80/s to 85/s.
  • Reduce the Blind duration after Terror Cape hits an enemy from 1.5s to 1s.
  • Increase movement speed of Veil of Lightforce and Terror Cape from 20m/s to 35m/s. New Effect: Each ally or enemy hit will reduce the cooldown of Dagger Storm by 0.6s.
  • When selecting the Team-Up with The Hood, Twilight Veil and Void Veil gain a new effect: Launches back enemies hit along the path.
• Gambit
  • Increase the spread angle of the outer cards in Kinetic Cards from 2° to 3°. (Developer’s Note: Compared to before, Gambit now needs to be approximately 3-5m closer to an ally or enemy to land all of his Kinetic Cards.)
  • After activating Healing Hearts, reduce self-healing from 30/s to 20/s.
• Invisible Woman
  • Increase Veiled Step cooldown from 6s to 8s.
  • Reduce the Slow ratio at the center of Psionic Vortex from 50% to 40%. 
  • Increase the Slow ratio at the edge from 0% to 20%.
• Jubilee
  • Upon detonating a Sparkle Mark, remove the 20% Healing Boost applied to allies.
  • After casting Firework Finale (Ultimate Ability), increase the healing provided within the spell field from 180/s to 190/s, and increase the rotation speed of the outer plasmoids from 20m/s to 25m/s.
  • When selecting the Team-Up with Blade, increase the Lifesteal ratio granted to self and nearby allies when Vampiric Kin is active from 30% to 40%.
• Loki
  • Increase Deception cooldown from 15s to 18s.
  • When selecting the Team-Up with Hela, whenever an illusion is destroyed, gain 1s of cooldown for both Doppelganger and Devious Exchange.
  • When selecting the Team-Up with Mantis, remove the Damage Boost granted to allies within Regeneration Domain.
• Luna Snow
  • Reduce the freeze duration applied to enemies hit by Absolute Zero from 2.7s to 1.5s.
  • When selecting the Team-Up with White Fox, remove the Charm effect applied to enemies by the Spirit Fox. When the Spirit Fox hits allies, increase the healing provided from 70 to 80; when it hits enemies, increase the damage dealt from 35 to 45.
  • When selecting the Team-Up with Adam Warlock, increase the ratio of healing converted to self when healing allies linked by Duality Dance from 25% to 35%.
• Mantis
  • Life Energy Blast New Mechanic: Non-critical hits now also grant 0.3 Life Orbs.
  • Reduce the sleep duration applied to enemies hit by Spore Slumber from 3.5s to 1.5s.
  • Increase the Life Orb cost to cast Allied Inspiration from 1 to 2.
  • When Nature’s Favor is active, reduce the self-healing provided from 12.5/s to 8/s.
• Rocket Raccoon
  • After passing through allies, reduce the healing provided by Repair Mode from 55 to 50. Reduce continuous self-healing from 30/s to 20/s.
  • Adjust the damage falloff from starting at 10m and reducing to 40% at 20m to starting at 15m and reducing to 55% at 30m.
  • Jetpack Dash New Effect: Each cast now grants 25 Bonus Health to self.
• Ultron
  • Reduce the Bonus Health granted to allies by Imperative: Firewall from 40 to 25. Reduce the Movement Speed boost granted to selected allies by Imperative: Firewall from 20% to 10%.
• White Fox
  • Reduce Spirit Sanctuary shield value from 200 to 100.
  • Remove the Invincibility effect granted to allies by Spectral Surge, and reduce the Charm effect radius applied to enemies from 0.6m to 0.4m.
  • Increase the base duration of Fox Form Awakening from 7s to 8s. Increase the bonus duration granted per Spirit Tail from 1s to 2s (Maximum duration increased from 9s to 12s).
  • During Fox Form Awakening, increase the damage of a single Claw Strike from 35 to 40. Reduce the cooldown of Predatory Pounce from 6s to 4s.
  • After casting Kumiho Unleashed (Ultimate Ability), White Fox can now receive healing from allies. Reduce her Health in this state from 1200 to 1000.

New map: Incursion Point

Another 18-vs-18 map is coming on Nov. 26th for the new Chrono-Annihilation mode, themed around Doomsday’s Incursion taking place between New York and Nueva York 2099.

Anniversary event

This is the second birthday of Marvel Rivals, coming up in December, including an area in Times Square to play mini-games, exclusive anniversary-themed costumes, and more.

New efforts to combat hate speech

“Severe offenders” will face a year-long ban and account suspensions when it comes to hate speech in-game, according to NetEase. The team is cracking down on the community.