Every Marvel Rivals Season 5.5 Hero Buffs and Nerfs

Marvel Rivals Season 5.5 brings significant balancing changes to its roster of Heroes, alongside a new Vanguard in Rogue. The latest X-Man to join Rivals has abilities that can turn the tide of matches, including a powerful AOE dash and an Ultimate that lets her steal a chosen enemy’s superpowers. Accompanying the new Hero are buffs to a wide range of characters, as well as a few nerfs handed out here and there.

If you’re looking for a peek at the upcoming meta, here’s a rundown of all the buffs and nerfs in the Marvel Rivals Season 5.5 update.

All Marvel Rivals Season 5.5 Hero Buffs

Vanguard Buffs

Emma Frost

Diamond-hard and ready for more! With her Team-Up Anchor gone, Emma gets a slight durability upgrade to compensate.

• Increase Base Health from 550 to 600.
  Remove the Team-Up Anchor 100 Bonus Health.

The Thing

Ben Grimm’s punches hit harder, and his crowd control lasts longer. It’s clobberin’ time!

• Increase Stone Haymaker Bonus Damage equal to enemies’ max Health per hit from 8% to 10%.
• Increase the duration of the lingering anti-mobility field after Yancy Street Charge from 3s to 5s.

Thor

Thor takes some lessons from his battles against the Zombies to heart. The God of Thunder is ready to take control of his lightning with increased flexibility!

• During Storm Surge, instead of being unable to change the direction of movement, Thor can now freely adjust it while dashing and move in any direction.

Duelist Buffs

Blade

The Daywalker slightly sharpens his edge and his resilience!

• Increase Ancestral Sword single-hit Damage from 24 to 26 and Whirlwind Slash single-hit Damage from 15 to 16.
• Reduce Bloodline Awakening Reduced Healing from 35% to 25%.

Human Torch

Johnny Storm slightly turns up the heat!

• Fire Cluster:
  • Slightly reduce projectile spread.
    Increase single-cast projectile Damage from 5 to 5.5.
    Adjust maximum falloff from 60% at 30m to 60% at 20m.
• Blazing Blast:
  • Reduce single charge speed from 3s to 2.5s.
    Increase hit Damage from 40 to 45.

Phoenix

Jean Grey’s fiery spirit gets a slight summon boost!

• During Endsong Inferno (Ultimate Ability), increase Phoenix summon Health from 400 to 500.

Scarlet Witch

Wanda’s chaos magic is more explosive!

• Increase the charge to Chthonian Burst by Chaos Control hits from 0.08 to 0.1.
• Increase Dark Seal Projectile Speed from 40m/s to 60m/s and remove Spell Field generation delay.
• Increase Reality Erasure (Ultimate Ability) enemy pull speed during cast from 2.4m/s to 3m/s.

The Punisher

Frank Castle’s got a little more firepower; watch your six!

• Increase Adjudication damage per hit from 19 to 20.

Wolverine

Logan’s Ultimate just got a whole lot more freedom to leap, slash, and surprise his foes from every angle!

• Last Stand (Ultimate Ability) can now target walls for its landing point.

Strategist Buffs

Loki

The Trickster God’s illusions are even more potent!

• Increase Damage and Healing Ratio of Loki’s Doppelgängers from 80% to 90%.

Luna Snow

Luna cools down her foes even faster and gets a brand-new ability! (She’s never beating the allegations, is she?)

• Reduce Absolute Zero start-up time and increase Projectile Speed from 60m/s to 80m/s.
• New Ability: Luna can apply Number One Idol to herself (separate from Share the Stage). When Number One Idol is active, 10% of Healing to allies is converted into healing for Luna herself, and she gains a 10% Healing Boost and a 10% Damage Boost.

Ultron

Ultron’s battlefield coverage and utility are evolving!

• Imperative: Patch can now deploy up to 2 drones, allowing support for two allies at once.
• Imperative: Firewall now requires a target with Imperative: Patch to use. After use, Ultron gains 65 Bonus Health, the target and nearby allies get 50 Bonus Health, plus the selected ally gains a 20% Movement Speed and 10% Damage boost.
• Increase the energy cost of Rage of Ultron (Ultimate Ability) from 3700 to 4000.

All Marvel Rivals Season 5.5 Hero Nerfs

Vanguard Nerfs

Peni Parker

SP//dr’s pilot faces a slight durability downgrade; better stay nimble, Peni!

• Reduce Base Health from 750 to 700.

Duelist Nerfs

Daredevil

The Man Without Fear loses a bit of his grit

• Remove the Team-Up Anchor 25 Bonus health.

Psylocke

Psylocke’s Ultimate is a little harder to unleash; time to earn those butterfly blades!

• Increase the energy cost of Dance of the Butterfly (Ultimate Ability) from 2800 to 3400.

Strategist Nerfs

Gambit

The Ace of Spades can’t tell you about how much he ‘never folds’ as often!

•  Increase the energy cost of Ragin’ Royal Flush (Ultimate Ability) from 4300 to 4500.

Invisible Woman

Susan Storm’s invisibility trick is now a little more precious.

•  Increase the energy cost of Invisible Boundary (Ultimate Ability) from 4300 to 4500.

Rocket Raccoon

Rocket’s Ultimate takes a little more juice to fire off!

• Increase the energy cost of C.Y.A. (Ultimate Ability) from 4000 to 4300.

Team-Up Abilities in Season 5.5

Adjusted or Removed

Chilling Assault (Luna Snow- Iron Fist/Emma Frost)

The iced-out Emma Frost is joining the icy fray!

• Emma Frost unlocks the new Iced Out Diamond ability through her Team-Up with Luna Snow.

Explosive Entanglement (Gambit – Magneto/Rogue)

Rogue’s got a new trick up her sleeve!

• Rogue receives the Hearts As One ability through her team-up with Gambit.

Mental Projection (Emma Frost – Psylocke)

The psychic link is broken!

• Mental Projection Team-Up is now just a memory.
• Emma Frost loses the 100 Health Bonus previously gained as the Team-Up Anchor.

Sword of Duality (Cloak & Dagger – Hawkeye/Psylocke)

Psylocke’s arsenal gets a new edge!

• Psylocke unlocks the new Light & Dark Darts ability through her Team-Up with Cloak & Dagger.

Balance Changes

Bestial Hunt (Daredevil – The Punisher)

Daredevil’s toughness gets trimmed!
We’re slightly reducing Daredevil’s survivability gained from being the Team-Up Anchor.

•  Daredevil loses the Team-Up Anchor 25 Health Bonus.

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