All Marvel Rivals characters: Current roster and upcoming heroes

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July 8, 2025: We have added the Marvel Rivals characters for Season 3, Phoenix and Blade. Several characters' team-up abilities have also been tweaked or retired, and entirely new ones have been added.

While the costumes might be a little pricey and the third-person perspective frustrating at times, one thing you can't criticise is the list of Marvel Rivals characters. Why did no one tell me about the adorable shark previously relegated to the comics? Taking Marvel characters most of us had never heard of before and thrusting them into the limelight has been one of its greatest strengths.

This roster is only getting bigger, too, with each new season bringing a handful of heroes (or villains). With almost 70 years of Marvel comic books to draw from, NetEase isn't running out of material anytime soon. Keep up with our Marvel Rivals tier list to see where these characters rank with each update, and our Marvel Rivals crosshair guide to quickly customise your interface.

Below, you'll find a list of all the characters currently available, the latest news on upcoming characters, and even a list of leaked heroes supposedly coming to Marvel Rivals in the future.

All Marvel Rivals characters

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With Phoenix blasting her way onto the roster at the start of Season 3, there are currently 40 characters in Marvel Rivals across its three roles: Vanguard, Duelist, and Strategist. These range from the well-known Avengers, X-Men (mutants), and Fantastic Four heroes, all the way to an icy K-pop star and an adorable little landshark.

With the pace of updates picking up from Season 3 onwards, we'll now get a new hero every single month too—unless NetEase decides it's a balancing nightmare, which it totally will be.

Character list

Character	Role	Release Date
Adam Warlock	Strategist	Launch (December 6, 2024)
Black Panther	Duelist	Launch (December 6, 2024)
Black Widow	Duelist	Launch (December 6, 2024)
Captain America	Vanguard	Launch (December 6, 2024)
Cloak & Dagger	Strategist	Launch (December 6, 2024)
Doctor Strange	Vanguard	Launch (December 6, 2024)
Emma Frost	Vanguard	Season 2 (April 11, 2025)
Groot	Vanguard	Launch (December 6, 2024)
Hawkeye	Duelist	Launch (December 6, 2024)
Hela	Duelist	Launch (December 6, 2024)
Hulk	Vanguard	Launch (December 6, 2024)
Human Torch	Duelist	Season 1.5 (February 21, 2025)
Invisible Woman	Strategist	Season 1 (January 10, 2025)
Iron Fist	Duelist	Launch (December 6, 2024)
Iron Man	Duelist	Launch (December 6, 2024)
Jeff the Land Shark	Strategist	Launch (December 6, 2024)
Loki	Strategist	Launch (December 6, 2024)
Luna Snow	Strategist	Launch (December 6, 2024)
Magik	Duelist	Launch (December 6, 2024)
Magneto	Vanguard	Launch (December 6, 2024)
Mantis	Strategist	Launch (December 6, 2024)
Mister Fantastic	Duelist	Season 1 (January 10, 2025)
Moon Knight	Duelist	Launch (December 6, 2024)
Namor	Duelist	Launch (December 6, 2024)
Peni Parker	Vanguard	Launch (December 6, 2024)
Phoenix (NEW)	Duelist	Season 3 (July 11, 2025)
Psylocke	Duelist	Launch (December 6, 2024)
Rocket Raccoon	Strategist	Launch (December 6, 2024)
Scarlet Witch	Duelist	Launch (December 6, 2024)
Spider-Man	Duelist	Launch (December 6, 2024)
Squirrel Girl	Duelist	Launch (December 6, 2024)
Star-Lord	Duelist	Launch (December 6, 2024)
Storm	Duelist	Launch (December 6, 2024)
The Punisher	Duelist	Launch (December 6, 2024)
The Thing	Vanguard	Season 1.5 (February 21, 2025)
Thor	Vanguard	Launch (December 6, 2024)
Ultron	Strategist	Season 2.5 (May, 2025)
Venom	Vanguard	Launch (December 6, 2024)
Winter Soldier	Duelist	Launch (December 6, 2024)
Wolverine	Duelist	Launch (December 6, 2024)

New Marvel Rivals characters

The newest character is Phoenix, released in the Marvel Rivals Season 3 update. Blade is also arriving this season as part of the 3.5 mid-season update, which should launch on or around Friday, August 8, 2025, one month after the first half of the update.

Phoenix

• Role: Duelist
• Difficulty: Three stars

Phoenix is a mobile DPS hero that feels like a fusion between Hela and Moon Knight. Thanks to her ability to cause chain reaction explosions, Phoenix is great a punishing heavily-grouped teams, but she greatly incentivises hitting critical hits, both for more direct damage and for faster explosions. If you're not consistently hitting headshots, you're likely not making all that much of an impact and would be better off playing one of her two inspirations instead.

Here are Phoenix's abilities:

Name/Type	Input	Description
Cosmic Flames	Left click	A ranged attack that deals moderate damage. Each hit adds a stack of Spark to the target, which causes them to explode once at three stacks, dealing AoE damage that applies a Spark stack to other enemies in the blast radius and gives Phoenix healing over time. Critical hits apply two Sparks.
Telepathic Illusion	Shift	Instantly teleport in any direction and leave behind an illusion that explodes to apply one Spark stack to any enemy in the blast.
Dark Ascent	E	Jean Grey merges with Phoenix, gaining free flight for a short duration with bonus movement speed and ammo regeneration. This ability has a resource, meaning it can be used so long as the meter has enough charge.
Telekenesis Burst	Right click	Unleashes a volley of fiery blasts. The first attack stuns enemies, while the second two inflict slows on the target. Enemies hit by this attack gain one Spark stack.
Endsong Inferno	Q	Phoenix leaps into the air before crashing down onto a target area, dealing moderate damage to enemies in the blast and applying one Spark stack to each target. This attack also creates a shockwave that destroys enemy summons, shields, and removes bonus health.
Mind's Grace team-up ability	N/A (Wolverine gains the benefits)	Wolverine gains the Phoenix Force. When he activates Feral Leap (renamed to Phoenix Warrior), it will burn nearby enemies over time for a percentage of their health, and add lifesteal to all of his attacks.

Upcoming Marvel Rivals characters

The only confirmed upcoming character is Blade, everyone's favourite vampiric vampire hunter, who's arriving in the Season 3.5 update in August.

In terms of upcoming heroes, the most important thing to keep in mind is that, from Season 3 onwards, a new character will be released every single month as future seasons are shrunk down to just two months each. One hero will release at the start of a season, and the second at the mid-season update, if you can really call it that, given how short they'll be. In other words, there will be 12 new heroes each year. It's hard to imagine it not becoming a balance nightmare, especially with the inevitable slew of new and tweaked team-up abilities, but that's NetEase's problem to solve.

Blade

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• Role: Unknown, but likely a Vanguard or Duelist
• Difficulty: Unknown
• Release: Season 3.5

Blade was teased throughout Season 1 and Season 2, somehow avoiding joining the roster on many, many occasions—but his time has come. While he's been confirmed for the upcoming update, NetEase is remaining tight-lipped on his kit—so it's a good thing it leaked months ago, but keep in mind that things can change:

• Stomp and Slash: Uses his sword to damage enemies.
• Bloodline Liberation: Lets Blade see enemies through walls.
• Fang Deflect: Blade can deflect incoming projectiles.
• The Dark Knight: A quick dash to engage or reposition.
• New Moon: Blade transforms into a vampire, boosting his stats and changing his abilities.

Leaked Marvel Rivals characters

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Here are all the leaked Marvel Rivals characters so far, excluding those that have since arrived in-game:

• Angela
• Beast
• Captain Marvel
• Colossus
• Cyclops
• Daredevil
• Deadpool
• Gambit
• Hit-Monkey
• The Hood
• Jia Jing
• Jubilee
• Locus
• MODOK
• Nightcrawler
• Paste-Pot Pete
• Professor X
• Rogue
• Valkyrie

While some are suspected to be fakeouts, there are plenty that are obvious choices in the future with much more details to back them up, such as Gambit and Rogue, following leaks that Season 5 will be themed around love and romance.

All Marvel Rivals team-up abilities in Season 3

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Not only are each character incredibly unique and fun to play, but they also have team-up abilities that change how they play when used with specific allies. These are superheroes, after all, there are tons of different teams and alliances, and the team-up system is a great way to represent these links in gameplay.

Team-up abilities change each season, with new ones being added and existing ones being tweaked or retired thanks to an ever-expanding roster. Here's the state of team-ups in Season 3:

Team-Up Ability	Characters	Effect
Primal Flame (New in Season 3)	Phoenix + Wolverine	Wolverine gains the Phoenix Force. When he activates Feral Leap, it will burn nearby enemies over time, and adds lifesteal to all of his attacks.
Ever-Burning Bond (New in Season 3)	Human Torch + Spider-Man	Spider-Man unlocks a new ability to shoot a flaming web, which deals area damage and applies a burning tracer. Activating this tracer deals bonus fire damage.
Stark Protocol (Tweaked in Season 3)	Iron Man + Ultron/Squirrel Girl	Squirrel Girl joins this team-up in Season 3. Squirrel Girl can throw a homing bomb that explodes on impact. Ultron uses a piercing unibeam to damage enemies and heal allies.
Symbiote Shenanigans (Tweaked in Season 3)	Venom + Jeff the Landshark/Hela	Hela joins this team-up in Season 3. Symbiotes increase the range of Hela's sphere ability, pulling enemies in, dealing damage, and slowing them down. Jeff gains Venom's symbiote to extend tendrils that link nearby allies for additional healing.
ESU Alumnus (Retired in Season 3)	Spider-Man + Squirrel Girl	Let's Squirrel Girl throw a web bomb to ensnare enemies.
Storming Ignition (Retired in Season 3)	Storm + Human Torch	Both heroes' ultimates can be combined to create a flaming tornado.
Chilling Assault (Added in Season 2.5)	Luna Snow + Hawkeye	Hawkeye uses Luna Snow's ice to fire a special arrow that can penetrate terrain. If enemies are far enough away, this arrow also deals bonus damage and applies a stun effect.
Operation Microchip (Added in Season 2.5)	Black Widow + Punisher	Black Widow gains a new firing mode, allowing her primary fire to pierce through enemies when aiming down sights.
Rocket Network (Added in Season 2.5)	Peni Parker + Rocket Raccoon	Peni uses Rocket's tech to deploy a smaller nest that also generates armour packs. Meanwhile, Rocket's revive beacon turns into a mini nest, gaining mines.
Jeff Nado (Added in Season 2.5)	Jeff the Land Shark + Storm	Jeff and Storm combine their ultimates into a raging twister that deals massive damage.
Mental Projection (Added in Season 2)	Emma Frost + Magneto/Psylocke	Magneto and Psylocke can summon a clone of themselves to deal bonus damage for a short time. It's similar to Loki's clones in that the double will fire basic attacks at your target.
Stars Aligned (Added in Season 2)	Captain America + Winter Soldier	Bucky can leap towards allies to reposition and unleash a shockwave that damages nearby enemies, letting him dive into the action even better. Meanwhile, Captain America can clash with an ally Winter Soldier to unleash a similar shockwave that debuffs nearby enemies.
Arcane Order (Added in Season 2)	Doctor Strange + Scarlet Witch	Scarlet Witch can tap into Doctor Strange's magic to turn Chthonian Burst into a rapid-fire, long-range projectile independent from her chaos energy meter.
Dimensional Shortcut (Tweaked in Season 2)	Magik + Black Panther (As of Season 2, Psylocke is no longer part of this team-up)	Magik grants the specified characters a bonus ability which rewinds them through time by a few seconds, also granting bonus health.
Gamma Charge (Tweaked in Season 2.5)	Hulk + Namor (As of Season 2.5, Iron Man is no longer part of this team-up)	The Hulk charges the specified characters with gamma radiation. Iron Man gains a damage boost during Armour Overdrive.
Ragnarok Rebirth	Hela + Thor/Loki	When Hela kills an enemy with a headshot, she can automatically revive an ally Thor and Loki. If they are alive, they'll instead gain bonus health.
Planet X Pals	Groot + Rocket Raccoon/Jeff the Land Shark	When Rocket Raccoon or Jeff the Land Shark are near Groot, they can hop on Groot's shoulders for extra damage resistance. Only one character can do this at a time.
Guardian Revival	Adam Warlock + Star-Lord/Mantis	Adam Warlock grants Mantis and Star-Lord his Regenerative Cocoon ability, letting them freely move as a soul and revive themselves. This has a long cooldown.
Atlas Bond	Iron Fist + Luna Snow	Iron Fist imbues Luna Snow with Chi, granting her a new ability. When activated, she unleashes a blast around her that pushes back enemies and heals nearby allies.
Lunar Force	Cloak & Dagger + Moon Knight	Moon Knight gets a new ability that creates a shadowy dome, making him invisible while healing himself.
Fastball Special	Wolverine + Hulk/The Thing	When Wolverine and Hulk or The Thing are on the same team, they can throw Logan, activating his empowered state.
Fantastic Force	Invisible Woman + Human Torch/Mister Fantastic/The Thing	Invisible Woman powers up the Fantastic Four members, letting them activate a temporary shield for damage resistance and bonus health.
Allied Agents (Retired in Season 2.5)	Hawkeye + Black Widow	Hawkeye gives Black Widow Hunter's Sight when activating his ultimate, letting her also shoot the afterimages of enemies.
Symbiote Bond (Retired in Season 2.5)	Venom + Spider-Man/Peni Parker	Venom enhances the spider-heroes symbiotic powers, giving them a new ability. When activated, they turn into a ball of spikes that damage nearby enemies.
Chilling Charisma (Retired in Season 2.5)	Luna Snow + Jeff the Land Shark	Luna grants the specified characters ice powers, enhancing their abilities.
Ammo Overload (Retired in Season 2.5)	Rocket Raccoon + Punisher (As of Season 2, Winter Soldier is no longer part of this team-up)	Rocket Raccoon can place a device that temporarily grants unlimited ammo and increased fire rate to the specified heroes.
Metallic Chaos (Retired in Season 2)	Magneto + Scarlet Witch	Magneto gains an extra ability that temporarily powers up his sword with chaos magic, allowing him to slash enemies from a distance.
Voltaic Union (Retired in Season 2)	Thor + Captain America/Storm	Storm and Captain America gain access to Thor’s Thorforce, granting them electrical enhancements. When triggered, Storm can create a storm barrage, and Captain America's shield becomes imbued with thunderpower.