Marvel Rivals Version Season 1: Balance Changes

Marvel Rivals’ Season 0 is about to come to a close. However, with the end of Season 0, the players can finally turn their sights on the upcoming Season 1. Season 1 [Eternal Night Falls] will be the first update to Marvel Rivals, and it is set to bring in a ton of new content, from new maps to new characters, and of course some balance changes to already existing characters. Being a PvP game, Marvel Rivals highly depends on having a good balance of its characters so that some do not appear more overpowered than others. Balance is a never-ending process, and we hope that the developers behind Marvel Rivals will do a good job of tackling it and making the game even more fun for players. With that out of the way, below you can find the balance changes that will be coming during the first phase of Season 1 starting on January 10, 2025.

Balance Changes

In the table below you can find a detailed breakdown of the balance adjustments that will go live following the launch of Season 1 on January 10, 2025.

Vanguards

Vanguards
Icon	Name
	Captain America
Reduce the delay time for shield restoration after releasing Living Legend from 3s to 2s. Reduce Liberty Rush cooldown from 12s to 10s. Increase base health from 650 to 675. Reduce the energy cost for releasing Freedom Charge (ultimate ability) from 3400 to 3100; Reduce the additional health provided per second to self after releasing it from 110 to 100.
	Doctor Strange
Add damage falloff to Maelstrom of Madness and Gamma Maelstrom. Starting at 5 meters and reducing to 70% at 8 meters. Slightly decrease the shield value recovery rate after releasing Shield of the Seraphim from 80/s to 70/s.
	Thor
Increase base health from 500 to 525. Added immunity to control effects during God of Thunder (ultimate ability).
	Hulk
Reduce the Indestructible Guard gamma shield value for Hero Hulk from 250 to 200.
	Venom
Increase the Symbiotic Resilience bonus health ratio gained per lost health point from 1 to 1.2. Increase the base damage of Feast of the Abyss (ultimate ability) from 40 to 50.

Duelists

Duelists
Icon	Name
	Black Panther
Reduce the additional health provided to self after refreshing Vibranium Marks with Spirit Rend from 40 to 30, and the upper limit of additional health provided from 120 to 75.
	Black Widow
Increase the range of the first effect of Edge Dancer from a 3-meter radius to a 5-meter radius. Reduce the time required for Fleet Foot to recover from 0 stamina to full from 12s to 4s. Reduce the time required for Electro-Plasma Explosion (ultimate ability) to reach maximum power from 1s to 0.6s.
	Hawkeye
Slightly reduce the spread angle between every two Blast Arrows. Reduce the triggering distance of passive ability Archer's Focus from 60 meters to 40 meters. Reduce the maximum additional damage of the passive from 80 to 70.
	Hela
Reduce base health from 275 to 250.
	Magik
Increase Umbral Incursion damage in Darkchild form from 115 to 135.
	Moon Knight
Increase the number of talons generated by Hand of Khonshu (ultimate ability) from 10 to 14. Increase the explosion radius of each talon from 4 meters to 5 meters.
	Namor
Adjust the throwing feel of Monstro Spawn and Frozen Spawn. Now, Namor can more accurately throw them to the desired location.
	Psylocke
Now Dance of the Butterfly (ultimate ability) will check for barriers (including Magneto's Metal Bulwark, Hulk's Indestructible Guard, etc.).
	The Punisher
Slightly reduce the spread of Deliverance and Adjudication.
	Scarlet Witch
Increase Chaos Control's fixed damage from 50/s to 60/s.  Reduce the percentage damage per second from 5% to 3%. Increase Chthonian Burst's projectile damage from 30 to 35.
	Storm
Increase Wind Blade projectile speed from 100m/s to 150m/s and left-click damage from 50 to 55. Increase Bolt Rush damage from 70 to 80. After releasing Omega Hurricane (ultimate ability), the bonus health provided for herself will be increased from 350 to 450. Moreover, following its conclusion, the extra health will no longer vanish instantly but will instead diminish at a rate of 100 per second.
	Squirrel Girl
Addition of a new effect to the Unbeatable Squirrel Tsunami (ultimate ability): the squirrels will rush towards the nearest enemy after bouncing instead of bouncing randomly. Reduce the squirrel tsunami health from 600 to 300.
	Winter Soldier
Increase the bonus health provided by Bionic Hook and Tainted Voltage from 30 to 40. Increase Roterstern's projectile damage from 70 to 75. Reduce the area damage from 70 to 65 and reduce damage decay from 65% at 40 meters to 60%. Increase base health from 250 to 275.
	Wolverine
Increase base health from 300 to 350. Reduce the damage reduction ratio provided by Undying Animal from 50% to 40%.

Strategists

Strategists
Icon	Name
	Cloak & Dagger
Reduce Dagger Storm cooldown from 15s to 12s. Increase the number of dashes in Eternal Bond (ultimate ability) from 3 to 4.
	Jeff the Land Shark
Adjust It's Jeff! (ultimate ability) range from a 10m sphere to a 10m radius, 5m high cylindrical spell field. Increase the healing of Joyful Splash from 140/s to 150/s.
	Luna Snow
Increase the interval for switching between healing and damage in Fate of Both Worlds from 0.1s to 0.5s.
	Mantis
Reduce Nature's Favor (passive) movement boost from 2.5m/s to 1.5m/s.
	Rocket Raccoon
Increase the healing of Repair Mode from 60 per/s to 70 per/s.

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