It’s felt like the wait has taken forever, but Marvel Rivals’ season two is finally set to arrive with a big expansion of content for the hero shooter.
Season two will add two new heroes, new maps, and a whole bunch of balancing to existing heroes and their Team-ups. And, of course, a whole slate of new, beautiful skins themed around the epic Hellfire Gala for players to wear on the battlefield.
Read on below for all of the upcoming changes to Marvel Rivals when season two drops on April 11.
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Marvel Rivals season 2 patch notes
Here’s what NetEase has revealed thus far about hero changes, additions, and more coming in season two.
New hero: Emma Frost (Vanguard)
Emma Frost joins the fight as a telepathic Vanguard who can change her body composition to organic diamond, hardening herself to nullify incoming damage. Here’s her full kit and ability information.
| Ability | Description | Button input |
|---|---|---|
| Telepathic Pulse | Fire a psionic beam to deal damage; the longer the beam hits, the higher the damage. | LMB |
| Mind’s Aegis | Create a levitating barrier at the designated location. | RMB |
| Psychic Spear | Seize control of an enemy’s sentience — damage dealt to the sentience cascades to the physical form and can be pierced by Telepathic Pulse. When the sentience shatters, it unleashes extra damage on its owner. | E |
| Diamond Form | Activate Diamond Form to transform your attack style while gaining Damage Reduction and becoming Unstoppable. | Shift |
| Faceted Fury (Diamond Form) | In Diamond Form, deliver a crushing double-fisted strike to enemies. | LMB |
| Carbon Crush (Diamond Form) | In Diamond Form, lunge forward to grab an enemy, then execute a back slam to inflict damage. | E |
| Crystal Kick (Diamond Form) | In Diamond Form, unleash a flying kick forward and knock back enemies; extra damage is dealt if they’re propelled into a wall. | RMB |
| Mind Link (Team-Up Ability) | Emma Frost can form a mental link with Magneto and Psylocke, calling on her to create illusory projections. When together, Emma Frost will create a Mental Projection of Magneto and Psylocke, forming a Duplicate Illusion in the enemy’s perspective that confuses foes by moving and casting ability on its own. | Passive |
| Psionic Seduction (Ultimate) | Project a forward psychic assault that stuns foes and prevents them from unleashing their Ultimate Abilities; if the effect lingers, it gradually commandeers their mind, forcing them to move toward Emma Frost. | Q |
Hero balancing changes
Here are the announced changes that we know of so far for existing heroes in season two.
Buffs
- Black Widow
- Can now directly shoot after releasing the second kick of Edge Dancer and after using Electro-Plasma Explosion.
- Bruce Banner/Hulk
- Base movement speed increased from 600 to 650.
- Indestructible Guard cooldown time reduced from 12 seconds to 10 seconds.
- Minimum charge time for Incredible Leap reduced from 0.7 seconds to 0.5 seconds.
- Hawkeye
- Slow effect while charging his bow reduced from 30 percent to 20 percent.
- Hypersonic Arrow damage increased from 50 to 55.
- Decreased energy cost for Hunter’s Sight ultimate from 3,700 to 3,100.
- Improved Hunter’s Sight draw speed from 1.35x to 1.5x.
- Iron Man
- Hitbox size reduced.
- Gains 100 bonus health when activating Armor Overdrive or Gamma Overdrive (falls off over the course of five seconds).
- Mister Fantastic
- Increased base health from 350 to 375.
- Stretch Punch damage boosted from 60 to 65, and 75 to 80, while in Inflated state.
- Enemies within range of Flexible Elongation now suffer 35 percent slow effect.
- Elasticity gained from Elastic Strength reduced from 30 to 20. Bonus health from Inflated state reduced from 450 to 400.
- Moon Knight
- Crescent Dart projectile speed increased from 120m/s to 150m/s.
- Gain 25 bonus health with each enemy hit by Moon Blade, 100 max (falls off after three seconds)
- Moonlight Hook pull startup time sped up from 0.4 seconds to 0.15 seconds.
- Hand of Khonshu ultimate duration increased from 3.5 seconds to 4.5 seconds. Number of talons generated increased from 14 to 18. Fall speed of talons enhanced. Damage falloff added beginning at 1.5 meters from the center and reaching max 70 percent at five meters.
- Peni Parker
- Cyber-Web Cluster now has a chance to crit.
- Movement speed penalty while firing Cyber-Web Cluster reduced from 40 percent to 20 percent.
- Base health increased from 650 to 750.
- Scarlet Witch
- Chaos Control percentage damage removed, fixed damage increased from 60/s to 80/s.
- Chthonian Burst projectile damaged increased from 35 to 40.
- Mystic Projection cooldown increased from eight seconds to 10 seconds, Phased state time reduced from two seconds to 1.5 seconds.
Nerfs
- Adam Warlock
- Soul Bond cooldown increased from 30 seconds to 40 seconds.
- Karmic Revival ultimate now restores 30 percent health instead of a fixed 100.
- Captain America
- Base health reduced from 675 to 650.
- Living Legend shield value reduced from 400 to 350.
- Doctor Strange
- Daggers of Denak projectile damaged reduced from 18 to 16.
- Maelstrom of Madness conversion ratio of Dark Magic to damager reduced from 1.3 to 1.2.
- Invisible Woman
- Shield value Guardian Shield reduced from 300 to 250.
- Loki
- Regeneration Domain nerf.
- Magneto
- Energy cost for Meteor M ultimate increased from 3,100 to 3,400.
- Rocket Raccoon
- Jetpack Dash cooldown increased from six to 10 seconds, dash distance reduced from 10 meters to eight meters.
- Decreased the healing area of Repair Mode spheres from 70 health/s to 50 health/s, but add a new effect of one-time healing of 55 health to allies hit. Projectile speed reduction increased from 4.5m/s to 7m/s.
- Reduce C.Y.A. (Ultimate Ability) damage boost from 40 percent to 25 percent. During the ability’s duration, linked allies will receive an additional 100 Bonus Health points per second, capping at 150. After breaking the link, this bonus starts to falloff after 1 second at a rate of 75 per/s. Increased the energy cost from 3,700 to 4,000.
- Star-Lord
- Blaster Barrage damage decreased from 80 per second to 75 per second, damage falloff added (starts at four meters, maxes out at 80 percent reduction at eight meters).
- The Thing
- Embattled Leap’s damage reduction for self and teammates reduced from 30 percent to 25 percent.
- Winter Soldier
- Bionic Hook cooldown increased from eight seconds to 12 seconds.
- Base damage of Kraken Impact ultimate reduced from 100 to 80, but culling threshold reduced from 20 percent to 15 percent.
- Wolverine
- Increased Rage gained from Savage Claw hits from 7 to 10, while Rage gained from Berserk Claw Strike has been decreased from 7 to 5. Reduce Rage gained from Feral Leap from 20 to 10, and from Vicious Rampage from 20 to 15. However, Rage gained from taking damage has been increased from 3 to 5.
- Enemy stun duration after Last Stand ultimate reduced from one second to 0.75 seconds.
Changes
- Cloak & Dagger
- After activating Eternal Bond (Ultimate Ability), the duration of the first three healing zones will no longer be calculated separately; instead, they will remain active until the duration of the final healing zone ends, at which point all will be removed together.
- Hela
- Astral Flock cooldown timer increased from 12 seconds to 15 seconds.
- Increased Piercing Night AoE damage from 30 to 35.
- Decreased Soul Drainer cooldown from 12 seconds to 10 seconds.
- Human Torch
- Reduced Fire Cluster attack interval from 0.6 seconds to 0.5 seconds.
- Flaming Meteor cooldown increased from 12 seconds to 14 seconds, but now gains 75 bonus health when using it (falls off over the course of three seconds).
- Iron Fist
- Bonus max health gained from Harmony Recovery reduced from 150 to 100.
- Fixed damage of Yat Jee Chung Kuen reduced from 10 to 9.
- Decreased K’un-Lun Kick cooldown from 12 seconds to 10 seconds.
- Mantis
- Base health reduced from 275 to 250.
- Effects of Healing Flower and Allied Inspiration can be stacked, up to a maximum of 16 seconds.
- Scarlet Witch
- Chaos Control percentage damage removed, fixed damage increased from 60/s to 80/s.
- Chthonian Burst projectile damaged increased from 35 to 40.
- Mystic Projection cooldown increased from eight seconds to 10 seconds, Phased state time reduced from two seconds to 1.5 seconds.
New and updated team-ups
Several team-ups have been tweaked, while others are being removed, along with the addition of new ones to take their place.
- New
- Mental Projection
- Emma Frost (anchor), Magneto, Psylocke
- Psylocke and Magneto summon clones of themselves with Emma’s help.
- Emma Frost (anchor), Magneto, Psylocke
- Stars Aligned
- Captain America (anchor) and Winter Soldier
- Winter Soldier can pounce towards enemies, or clash with Captain America’s shield to damage and debuff nearby enemies.
- Captain America (anchor) and Winter Soldier
- Arcane Order
- Doctor Strange (anchor) and Scarlet Witch
- Scarlet Witch’s attack becomes long range and rapid-fire.
- Doctor Strange (anchor) and Scarlet Witch
- Mental Projection
- Changed
- Dimensional Shortcut (Psylocke removed)
- Ammo Overload (Winter Soldier removed)
- Chilling Charisma (Namor removed)
- Gamma Charge (Namor added, Doctor Strange removed)
- Removed
- Metallic Chaos (Magneto, Scarlet Witch)
- Voltaic Union (Thor, Storm, Captain America)
New maps: Krakoa
The mutant island haven of Krakoa will play host to the season’s new maps, which will be revealed soon.
New battle pass: Hellfire Gala
A new battle pass themed around the Hellfire Gala and its glitz and glam will take center stage, with several formal attire skins teased in the trailer, including Captain America, Wolverine, Cloak & Dagger, Star-Lord, Luna Snow, Black Panther, Black Widow, Bruce Banner, Magik, Psylocke, and more.
It’s currently unclear which costumes will be in the battle pass and which will be store offerings.
New skins, colors, and gifting
Popular costumes will get re-colors available to purchase, further advancing the game’s customization options. Costumes will also be giftable to friends via a new feature in the store.
New event: Cerebro Database
The first limited time event with pages of missions and unlocks is called Cerebro Database. Finishing the whole event will reward the free Flora Maiden costume for Mantis.
Competitive play updates
Picks and bans will now begin in Gold III as opposed to Diamond III in the game’s ranked mode, the minimum level to play ranked is now 15, and more, such as skill points earned and lost being more reflective of individual performance.
The Competitive map pool is changing, as Yggsgard – Royal Palace and Tokyo 2099 – Shin-Shabuya have been removed, while Krakoa’s Hellfire Gala map is being added.
Graphics and settings on PC
A new graphical option on PC called Switch Shader Compilation Mode may help with memory usage, “especially on systems with 16 GB of RAM or less,” as it will only compile shaders the frist time you launch the game after an update or graphics driver update.
More in season 2.5
In season 2.5, which should launch in the middle of May, Ultron will join the game as a new Strategist hero, along with other buffs and balance changes in the midseason update next month.
To see the full patch notes, visit the Marvel Rivals website.
Published: Apr 8, 2025 12:55 pm