Marvel Rivals Season 3 to Debut Phoenix and Various Updates on July 11

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- Marvel Rivals Season 3 is beginning on July 11, 2025.
- Phoenix debuts as a ranged duelist during Marvel Rivals Season 3.
- Four new Team-Ups were added, and two were removed.
NetEase teased Marvel Rivals Season 3 changes, which debut Phoenix as a new playable ranged duelist. Wielding the power of the Phoenix Force, Jean Grey excels at attacking grouped enemies. The Marvel Rivals Season 3 release date is July 11, 2025. In addition, four new Team-Up abilities are to be added, with two being removed. More details can be found in a developer vlog that was released on July 1, 2025.
College students can earn 10 free costume trials, which allow them to sample a hero costume for a limited period. To do so, players must register their educational email and verify their student status, which will instantly activate perks for the season.

Marvel Rivals Season 3 adds Discord integration, a new feature of the Discord SDK. This feature was revealed by Discord in May and allows game developers to directly incorporate Discord’s various call features into their game. NetEase’s iteration of the feature will allow players to stay connected with their Marvel Rivals friends even when offline from the game.
Creative director Guangguang mentioned various crashes in-game for PC users and urged players to update their Nvidia graphics cards to help prevent this issue. Season 3.5 will add a brand new competitive mode alongside Blade, a hero that has been teased since Season 2.
The full Marvel Rivals Season 3 patch notes will be uploaded on Gaming.News once they become readily available. At the time of writing, only the Dev Vision Vlog is available — no exact balance patches were officially revealed.