Marvel Rivals Season 3 Balance Patch Notes Previewed by NetEase
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- Marvel Rivals Season 3 is beginning on July 11, 2025.
- The hero balance preview was revealed by NetEase on July 2, 2025.
- The game will have a maintenance from July 11 at 2 am PT, lasting an estimated two hours.
Marvel Rivals season 3 officially begins on July 11, after a short two hour maintenance beginning at 2 am PT. During this maintenance, Marvel Rivals will be unavailable to play. Within the balance patch, which was previewed on July 2, Emma Frost is receiving a substantial nerf, while Namor is being buffed.
Here are the full Marvel Rivals season 3 Hero Balance update, according to NetEase’s official update blog:
VANGUARD
Emma Frost
- Reduce Telepathic Pulse Damage at 99 energy from 120/s to 110/s and from 150/s to 140/s at 100 energy.
- Reduce Diamond Form Damage Reduction from 30% to 25%.
- Reduce the energy cost of Psionic Seduction (Ultimate Ability) from 3700 to 3400.
The Thing
- New Ability Battle Blitz: The Thing leaps toward enemies, gaining 25% Damage Reduction. Leap targeting distance to enemies is 20m.
- Stone Haymaker New Effect: Knocks down hit flying enemies.
Venom
- Increase Cellular Corrosion enemy slow effect from 15% to 25%.
DUELIST
Human Torch
- Reduce Fire Cluster Damage per projectile from 6 to 5.5.
- Reduce Supernova (Ultimate Ability) activation shockwave Damage from 80 to 75 and Fire Tornadoes DoT from 120/s to 110/s.
- Add Team-Up Anchor bonus 5% Damage boost.
Iron Man
- Reduce the first two Repulsor Blast hits from 40 to 35 and from 50 to 45 while in Armor Overdrive.
- Increase energy cost of Invincible Pulse Cannon (Ultimate Ability) from 2800 to 3400.
Mister Fantastic
- Reduce Inflated state Bonus Health from 400 to 350.
Namor
- Increase Trident of Neptune Projectile Damage from 70 to 75 and Projectile Speed from 120m/s to 150m/s.
- Increase Wrath of the Seven Seas Projectile Speed from 120m/s to 150m/s.
Scarlet Witch
- Reduce max slow rate during Reality Erasure (Ultimate Ability) charge period from 35% to 25% and increase Damage from 750 to 850.
Spider-Man
- Increase ‘Get Over Here!’ kick Damage when pulled to enemies from 50 to 55.
- Increase Spider-Power midair Damage from 50 to 55.
- Increase Amazing Combo Damage from 55 to 60.
The Punisher
- Reduce Culling Turret Projectile Damage from 12 to 10, and decrease the Spell Field Damage from 12 to 10.
- Increase the energy cost of Final Judgement (Ultimate Ability) from 3400 to 3700.
Winter Soldier
- Adjust Roterstern Damage Falloff maximum at 40m from 60% to 70%.
Wolverine
- Increase Feral Leap strike duration from 4s to 5s and increase its cooldown from 12s to 15s.
STRATEGIST
Invisible Woman
- Increase Orb Projection healing on launch from 40 to 45 and damage from 20 to 25. Reduce healing on return from 40 to 35 and damage from 20 to 15
Loki
- Increase the energy cost of God of Mischief (Ultimate Ability) from 4000 to 4300.
Mantis
- Healing Flower New Effect: Heals allies by 2.5%/s. Reduce base healing from 20/s to 12.5/s.
- Increase energy cost of Soul Resurgence (Ultimate Ability) from 3700 to 4300. Increase Bonus Max Health from 100 to 150.
Ultron
- Reduced Dynamic Flight acceleration effect time from 8s to 6s.
- Reduce Imperative: Firewall Bonus Health to self from 75 to 65 and to allies from 55 to 50.
TEAM-UP ABILITIES
NEW Ever-Burning Bond (Human Torch – Spider-Man)
- With great friendship comes great firepower!
- As the Team-Up Anchor, Human Torch gains a 5% boost in damage output.
- Spider-Man unlocks the new Inferno Blast ability through his team-up with Human Torch.
Primal Flame (Phoenix – Wolverine)
- Snikt! Now with a side of cosmic fire.
- As the Team-Up Anchor, Phoenix gains a 10% boost in damage output.
- Wolverine gains the new Phoenix Warrior ability through his Team-Up with Phoenix.
ADJUSTED OR REMOVED ESU Alumnus (Spider-Man – Squirrel Girl)
- Time for these two to graduate on to bigger and better things.
- The Team-Up Anchor effect for Spider-Man has been removed, along with the ESU Alumnus Team-Up Ability.
- Squirrel Girl loses the Webbed Acorn ability previously gained from her Team-Up with Spider-Man.
Stark Protocol (Iron Man – Ultron/Squirrel Girl)
- Squirrel Girl joins this tech Team-Up!
- Squirrel Girl gains the new Squirrel Missile ability from her Team-Up with Iron Man.
Storming Ignition (Storm – Human Torch)
- The fire is out and the storm has passed on this Team-Up.
- Storm loses the Burning Hurricane ability gained from her Team-Up with Human Torch.
- Human Torch loses the Omega Fire ability gained from his Team-Up with Storm.
Symbiote Shenanigans (Venom – Jeff the Land Shark/Hela)
- The Goddess of Death joins in on the shenanigans.
- Hela gains the Hel Tendrils ability through her Team-Up with Venom.
BALANCE CHANGES
Guardian Revival (Adam Warlock – Star-Lord/Mantis) We’re slightly reducing the usage coverage of this Team-Up as even the Guardians need to pace themselves.
- Increase Leader’s Soul and Nature’s Soul ability cooldown from 120s to 135s.
Symbiote Shenanigans (Venom – Jeff the Land Shark) We’re slightly increasing the power on Jeff’s end of his Team-Up Ability. Maximum mayhem, now with extra bite!
- Increase Guardian of the Deep maximum Bonus Health from 50 to 100 and max tendril link period from 3s to 5s.
In addition to the hero balancing, Jean Grey’s Phoenix is joining the game as a duelist; her kit was previewed separately in a YouTube video.
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.
