Marvel Rivals Season 9.5 Nerfs and Buffs: All Hero Adjustments Explained

Marvel Rivals has unveiled its next season, and as always, each seasonal update brings a new hero and some adjustments to the meta. Marvel Rivals Season 9.5 adds The Hood as one of the most powerful Vanguards we’ve seen yet, so, understandably, NetEase has to readjust other heroes to counter the new character. That said, here are all the hero nerfs and buffs coming to Marvel Rivals Season 9.5.

All Marvel Rivals Season 9.5 Hero Buffs

Vanguard Buffs

Devil Dinosaur

Devil Dinosaur’s base damage and team-up damage have been buffed in Marvel Rivals Season 9.5. Of course, you’ll need some big teeth to chew through The Hood’s demon barriers. Here are the Devil Dinosaur adjustments coming to Marvel Rivals:

• Increase Maximum Health Percentage Damage dealt by the first four attacks of Frenzied Feast from 5% to 8%, and the fifth attack from 10% to 12%
• When selecting the Team-Up with Jeff the Land Shark, increase Surf & Turf maximum duration from 4s to 5s, and the healing effect on allies from 40 to 60.

Doctor Strange

Doctor Strange has had enough buffs made to his teleportation abilities in Marvel Rivals. The Season 9.5 update will buff damage to his daggers and team-ups. Here are all the adjustments made to Doctor Strange in the new season:

• Increase Daggers of Denak single-hit damage from 16 to 18 and projectile charges from 10 to 12.
• When selecting Team-Up with Hulk, reduce Gamma Maelstrom cooldown from 8s to 6s.

Magneto

Magneto sees a buff to his team-up ability in synergy with Scarlet Witch in Marvel Rivals.

• When selecting Team-Up with Scarlet Witch. Enhanced Effect: The Metallic Chaos projectile hit now adds a minor Launch Up effect to enemies.

Rogue

Rogue gets her defensive abilities buffed in Marvel Rivals Season 9.5, which can come in quite handy against attacks from heroes like The Hood and Jubilee.

• Increase the damage reduction multiplier while in Defensive Stance from 55% to 60%.
• Increase Regenerative Shield capacity from 250 to 275.

Duelist Buffs

Cyclops

Cyclops’ ricochet lasers get a massive speed buff, and his team-up ability with Gambit becomes more powerful than ever.

• Increase cooldown reduction provided to Ricochet Force per Optic Blast hit from 0.15s to 0.25s.
• When selecting Team-Up with Gambit, increase the Concussive Beam Attack Frequency boost from 10% to 15%.

Moon Knight

Moon Knight’s crescent darts get a huge buff in Marvel Rivals, with their bounce damage and further enhance his healing abilities.

• Adjust Crescent Dart and Moon Blade bounce damage decay from 30% to 20% per bounce.
• When selecting the Team-Up with Cloak & Dagger, reduce Luminous Moon cooldown from 15s to 12s.
  • Base Effect: Increase dash duration from 0.3s to 0.35s and dash distance from 12m to 15m.
  • Enhanced Effect: Moon Knight gains a 3s healing effect of 20 Health/s after leaving the Phased state.

Phoenix

Jean Grey’s cosmic detonations are more dangerous than ever, and her team-up with Rogue gets a massive buff in Marvel Rivals Season 9.5.

• Increase the damage dealt when detonating Sparks from 35 to 40, and increase the area damage from 12 to 15.
• When selecting the Team-Up with Rogue, increase Telekinetic Beatdown damage dealt from 45 to 55.

Scarlet Witch

Since Doctor Strange got his own buff, Scarlet Witch also gets a huge buff when she’s teamed up with Strange in a Marvel Rivals match.

• When selecting the Team-Up with Doctor Strange:
  • Base Effect: The ability has an 8s cooldown and 8s duration. When activated, Chthonian Burst is replaced with Mystic Burst, allowing magic missiles to be fired freely with no energy cost.
  • Enhanced Effect: Becomes a toggle-type ability. When toggled on, Mystic Burst replaces Chthonian Burst, allowing magic missiles to be fired freely with no energy cost.

Wolverine

Wolverine’s Berserker Rage gets wilder than ever before with the Marvel Rivals latest buff; right in time to practice some skills ahead of Insomniac’s Wolverine’s release, am I right?

• Berserker Rage Adjustment: Increase Rage gained per hit taken from 5 to 8. Adjust Rage decay timer from starting after 4s of no Rage gained to after 5s. At maximum Rage, reduce the decay rate from 15/s to 10/s.

Strategist Buffs

Gambit

Gambit is getting a buff and is playing a steadier hand when shifting the battlefield with his magnetic rival in Marvel Rivals Season 9.5.

• When selecting the Team-Up with Magneto, adjust the Launch Up Frequency of the spell field from 0.5s to 1s.

Jubilee

In just under a month, Jubilee in Marvel Rivals has dominated lobbies. Given her abilities, the character now gets her first buff in Season 9.5.

• Increase Energy Plasmoids single-hit damage from 10 to 11 and single-hit healing from 14 to 15.

Loki

Loki’s mystical projectile speed gets a buff in Marvel Rivals Season 9.5, making shots much faster to fire.

• Increase Mystical Missile Projectile Speed from 100m/s to 120m/s.

White Fox

White Fox’s Ult is now easier to summon as it sees a massive reduction in its energy cost in Marvel Rivals Season 9.5.

• Reduce the energy cost of Kumiho Unleashed (Ultimate Ability) from 4800 to 4300. After casting, automatically apply the Blessed by the Nine effect to all allies within a 10m radius for 3s.

All Marvel Rivals Season 9.5 Hero Nerfs

Vanguard Nerfs

Peni Parker

The time for Peni Parker to dominate the Marvel Rivals tier list has come to an end. The devs have weakened her control and survivability. In particular, the Immobilize effect applied by her Cyber-Web Snare was quite frequent and oppressive, leading to a poor counter-experience for her enemies.

So the recent nerfs combat this issue in Marvel Rivals Season 9.5.

• Remove the direct Immobilize effect upon hitting enemies with Cyber-Web Snare. New Effect: Now applies a stack of Web-Tracer and a 30% Slow effect for 1s. The Web-Tracer lasts for 5s. If an enemy with a Web-Tracer is hit by the snare again, they will be Immobilized for 0.7s.
• Adjust Cyber-Web Snare to be a charge-based ability, with a maximum of 2 charges.
• Reduce Bonus Health cap provided to Peni by Cyber-Webs from 200 to 150.

Venom

Venom is now more vulnerable to Spider-Man’s attacks in Marvel Rivals, thanks to the Season 9.5 nerfs.

• Reduce the Bonus Health provided by Symbiotic Resilience from 120% of lost health to 110%.
• Increase Venom Swing cooldown from 8s to 10s.

Duelist Nerfs

Black Panther

Black Panther gets a nerf in Marvel Rivals Season 9.5, and his effectiveness with his team-up ability with Storm gets weakened.

• When selecting the Team-Up with Storm, reduce the area damage to enemies from 40 to 30, and increase the cooldown from 12s to 15s.

Elsa Bloodstone

Similarly, Elsa Bloodstone’s team-up ability in Marvel Rivals with Devil Dinosaur sees a significant nerf in Season 9.5.

• When selecting the Team-Up with Devil Dinosaur, reduce the health of an activated Smoky Snare trap from 100 to 50, and its Control duration from 1.5s to 1.2s.

Hela

Finally, Hela’s team-up with Namor also sees a nerf in its effectiveness in Marvel Rivals Season 9.5.

• When selecting the Team-Up with Namor, reduce Undead Monstro single-hit damage from 15 to 10.

Marvel Rivals Season 9.5 releases on August 7, 2026 across eligible platforms.

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