Marvel Rivals Season 3.5 patch notes – All hero buffs and nerfs

Season 3.5 has yet to go live in Marvel Rivals, but the Dev Vision Vol. 8 has given us early glimpses of what will arrive in the mid-season refresh.

The latest video, over seven minutes long, was chaired by Creative Director Guangguang, who shared information about new heroes, Team-Ups, and more. Let's quickly look at what we can expect after the patch for Season 3.5 goes live on Aug. 8.

Table of contents

• Marvel Rivals Season 3.5 patch notes
  • New Hero
  • Hero buffs and nerfs
  • New and changing Team-Ups
  • New game mode and map
  • Quality-of-life changes and improvements

Marvel Rivals Season 3.5 patch notes

In short, once Season 3.5 goes live on Aug. 8, we will get new heroes, maps, and more.

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New Hero

• Blade has been officially confirmed to join the roster of existing characters during the mid-season. Daywalker will join as a Duelist, yielding his Ancestral Sword and signature gun. His ultimate will is to use the legendary Sword of Dracula to dash through foes and leave a trail of defeated enemies.

Hero buffs and nerfs

Buffs

• Vanguard
  • Doctor Strange
    • Increase Daggers of Denak projectile charges from 8 to 10.
    • Reduce Cloak of Levitation cooldown from 15s to 12s.
  • Groot
    • Increase Vine Strike range from 20m to 22m.
    • Increase Flora Colossus effect range radius from 20m to 24m.
  • Thor
    • Gain a fixed 1 Thorforce upon exiting the Awakening Rune awakened state.
    • Lightning Realm New Effect: Enemies leaving its boundary are Grounded for 2s, restricting aerial abilities.
• Duelist
  • Iron Fist
    • Increase Jeet Kune Do's fifth strike damage from 50 to 55.
    • Increase Yat Jee Chung Kuen percentage damage of the enemy's Max Health per strike from 2.1 percent to 2.7 percent.
    • Adjust Harmony Recovery Bonus Health decay start time from 1s to 2s.
    • Increase K'un-Lun Kick's first strike damage from 30 to 35.
  • Star-Lord
    • Gain 25 Bonus Health when using Stellar Shift (max 25), which lasts for 3s before decaying to 0 over 1s.
  • Spider-Man
    • Increase Damage per second of Spectacular Spin (Ultimate Ability) from 150 to 170.
• Strategist
  • Adam Warlock
    • Reduce the energy cost of Karmic Revival (Ultimate Ability) from 5000 to 4700.
    • Karmic Revival New Effect: Revived allies gain Bonus Health equal to 70 percent of Maximum Heath, which lasts for 5s before decaying to 0 over 2s.
    • Cosmic Cluster New Effect: Each hit now reduces Avatar Life Stream charge times by 0.3s.

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Nerfs

• Vanguard
  • Magneto
    • Reduce Metal Bulwark and Iron Bulwark Shield Value from 300 to 250.
• Duelist
  • Black Panther
    • Increase Spirit Rend cooldown from 8s to 10s.
  • Wolverine
    • Increase the energy cost of Last Stand (Ultimate Ability) from 2800 to 3400.
    • Lifesteal gained from the Primal Flame - Phoenix Warrior Team-Up Ability no longer contributes to Wolverine's Ultimate Ability energy.
• Strategist
  • Cloak & Dagger
    • Increase the energy cost of Eternal Bond (Ultimate Ability) from 4000 to 4300. 
  • Mantis
    • Increase healing by 10 percent with the new Team-Up Anchor effect.
    • Reduce Healing Flower's Healing Over Time effect from 12.5/s to 10/s.
    • Reduce Life Energy Blast projectile charges from 20 to 15
    • Increase Soul Resurgence (Ultimate Ability) excess healing to Bonus Health conversion rate from 0.7 to 1.

New and changing Team-Ups

There are some significant changes to Team-Ups. Four existing teams will undergo changes, and there are a couple of new additions and deductions.

• Guardian Revival (Adam Warlock with Star-Lord/Mantis) and Atlas Bond (Iron Fist- Luna Snow) will be removed.
• Loki will leave the Ragnarok Rebirth (Hela - Thor/Loki) team-up.
• Duality Dance (Adam Warlock - Luna Snow) and Vibrant Vitality (Mantis - Groot/Loki) will be two new additions.
• Iron Fist will be joining Chilling Assault (Luna Snow - Hawkeye).
• Star-Lord connects to the Rocket Network (Rocket Raccoon - Peni Parker).
• Blade will drop into Lunar Force (Cloak & Dagger - Moon Knight).

New game mode and map

The August 22 update will introduce a new game mode called Resource Rumble, which will have its own new map, Throne of Knull. It will be available in Quick Match first and further fine-tuned before being added to competitive play.

Quality-of-life changes and improvements

A lot of strong moves are being made to improve the player experience and prevent cases of cyber-bullying.

• A manual system will be introduced to track and check voice chat to ensure wrongdoers get severely penalized.
• The list of muted words will be regularly updated to filter and catch more profanities.
• Better penalty systems for players leaving their team in Ranked mode, and manual review for applicable penalties to ensure fair treatment.

Finally, there will be no more waiting for the shaders to compile, as that process will happen automatically in the background. This will save players much time moving forward to the mid-season update.

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For the full list of patch notes in the update set to go live on Aug. 8, check out the Marvel Rivals website.

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