Marvel Rivals Season 2 is fast approaching and set to introduce two new heroes, a new map, and a slew of changes to both its features list and gameplay. As is the case with any update at the start of a season, the game is getting a balance update to dozens of heroes, applying buffs and nerfs to a majority of the playable characters.
Ahead of the launch of next season on April 11th, here are all the balance updates, buffs, and nerfs to Marvel Rivals heroes coming in Season 2.
All Marvel Rivals Season 2 Balance Changes, Hero Buffs and Nerfs
In their most recent Dev Vision video, the Marvel Rivals team said they are aware of a number of heroes struggling, and the Season 2 updates reflect those concerns. Most heroes receiving a change are getting a buff of some kind, while only a few are getting a kind of nerf.
Here is the full list of Marvel Rivals Season 2 balance changes:
| Hero | Role | S2 Changes |
|---|---|---|
| Captain America | Vanguard | – Reduce base health from 675 to 650. – Reduce the shield value of Living Legend from 400 to 350. |
| Doctor Strange | Vanguard | – Decrease Daggers of Denak damage per projectile from 18 to 16. – Reduce the Maelstrom of Madness conversion ratio of Dark Magic to damage from 1.3 to 1.2. |
| Hulk | Vanguard | – Increase base movement speed from 600 to 650. – Reduce cooldown time for Indestructible Guard from 12 seconds to 10 seconds. – Decrease minimum charge time for Incredible Leap from 0.7 seconds to 0.5 seconds. |
| Magneto | Vanguard | – Increase energy cost for Meteor M (Ultimate Ability) from 3100 to 3400. |
| Peni Parker | Vanguard | – Cyber-Web Cluster now has a chance to crit; reduce movement speed penalty while firing Cyber-Web Cluster from 40% to 20%. – Increase base health from 650 to 750. |
| The Thing | Vanguard | – Decrease Embattled Leap’s damage reduction effect for himself and teammates from 30% to 25%. |
| Thor | Vanguard | – Increase base health from 525 to 600. – Increase base movement speed from 600 to 650. |
| Black Widow | Duelist | – Added a new effect where Black Widow can directly shoot after releasing the second kick of Edge Dancer and after using Electro-Plasma Explosion (Ultimate Ability). |
| Hawkeye | Duelist | – Reduce the slow effect while charging the bow from 30% to 20%. – Increase both instances of damage for Hypersonic Arrow from 50 to 55. – Decrease energy cost for Hunter’s Sight (Ultimate Ability) from 3700 to 3100 and improve the bow draw speed increase from 1.35x to 1.5x. |
| Hela | Duelist | – Increase cooldown time for Astral Flock from 12 seconds to 15 seconds. – Increase Spell Field Damage of Piercing Night from 30 to 35. – Decrease cooldown time for Soul Drainer from 12 seconds to 10 seconds. |
| Human Torch | Duelist | – Reduce attack interval for Fire Cluster from 0.6 seconds to 0.5 seconds; the launch timing of the primary attack projectile has been advanced. – Increase the cooldown for Flaming Meteor from 12 seconds to 15 seconds, but add a new effect: After releasing Flaming Meteor, immediately gain 75 Bonus Health, which will start to falloff 3 seconds later at a rate of 30 per second. |
| Iron Man | Duelist | – Slightly reduce Iron Man’s hitbox size. – New feature: Gain 100 Bonus Health activating Armor Overdrive or Gamma Overdrive that will start to falloff 5 seconds later at a rate of 30 per second. |
| Iron Fist | Duelist | – Reduce the Bonus Max Health gained from Harmony Recovery from 150 to 100, but slow the falloff rate of that health from 25 per/s to 15 per/s. – Lower fixed damage of Yat Jee Chung Kuen from 10 to 9, but increase the percentage damage of the enemy’s Max Health per strike from 1.7% to 2.1%. – Decrease the cooldown for K’un-Lun Kick from 12 seconds to 10 seconds. |
| Mister Fantastic | Duelist | – Increase base health from 350 to 375. – Boost the damage of Stretch Punch from 60 to 65 and from 75 to 80 while in Inflated state. – Flexible Elongation New Effect: Enemies within range now suffer a 35% slow effect; reduce Flexible Elongation cooldown time from 10s to 8s. – Reduce the Elasticity gained from Elastic Strength (passive ability) from 30 to 20, while the Elasticity provided by Stretch Punch is increased from 5 to 8. After entering the inflated state, the Bonus Health provided to self has been reduced from 450 to 400. – New Feature: When Mister Fantastic uses Brainiac Bounce (Ultimate Ability), immediately gain Bonus Health equal to that gained when entering inflated state. |
| Moon Knight | Duelist | – Increase Crescent Dart projectile speed from 120m/s to 150 m/s. – Moon Blade New Effect: Gain 25 Bonus Health with each enemy hit, up to a max of 100. 3 seconds after the Bonus Health stops increasing, it will start to falloff at a rate of 20 per second. – Speed up Moonlight Hook pull startup time after hit from 0.4 seconds to 0.15 seconds. – Extend the duration of the Hand of Khonshu (Ultimate Ability) from 3.5 seconds to 4.5 seconds, and increase the number of talons generated during this period from 14 to 18. Additionally, the fall speed of the talons has been slightly enhanced. A new damage falloff mechanic for the spell field has been added, beginning at 1.5 meters from the center and reaching a maximum reduction of 70% at 5 meters. |
| Scarlet Witch | Duelist | – Remove Chaos Control percentage damage while increasing fixed damage from 60/s to 80/s. – Increase Chthonian Burst projectile damage from 35 to 40 and spell field damage from 35 to 40. – Increase the cooldown of Mystic Projection from 8 seconds to 10 seconds, and reduce Phased state time from 2 seconds to 1.5 seconds. – Rework the slow effect of Reality Erasure to start at 1.5 seconds instead of starting immediately, with a linear increase to a 35% slow over 3.5 seconds. |
| Star-Lord | Duelist | – Reduce Blaster Barrage damage from 80 per second to 75. Introduce a new damage falloff mechanic, starting at 4 meters and maxing out at 80% reduction at 8 meters. |
| Winter Soldier | Duelist | – Increase the cooldown time for Bionic Hook from 8 seconds to 12 seconds. – Reduce base damage of Kraken Impact (Ultimate Ability) from 100 to 80, but lower the culling threshold from 20% of maximum health to 15%. |
| Wolverine | Duelist | – Increase 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. – Reduce the time an enemy is knocked down after impact from Last Stand (Ultimate Ability) from 1 second to 0.75 seconds. |
| Adam Warlock | Strategist | – Increase the cooldown for Soul Bond from 30 seconds to 40 seconds. – Karmic Revival (Ultimate Ability) now restores 30% of a fallen ally’s maximum health instead of a fixed 100 Health. |
| Cloak and Dagger | Strategist | – 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. |
| Invisible Woman | Strategist | – Decrease the shield value of Guardian Shield from 300 to 250. |
| Loki | Strategist | – Increase Regeneration Domain cooldown from 25 seconds to 30 seconds. |
| Mantis | Strategist | – Reduce base health from 275 to 250. – Effects of Healing Flower and Allied Inspiration can be stacked, up to a maximum of 16 seconds. |
| Rocket Raccoon | Strategist | – Decrease 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 4.5 m/s to 7 m/s. – Extend cooldown for Jetpack Dash from 6 seconds to 10 seconds; reduce dash distance from 10 meters to 8 meters. – Reduce C.Y.A. (Ultimate Ability) damage boost from 40% to 25%, but add a new effect: 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. Additionally, increase the energy cost from 3700 to 4000. |
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