TL;DR
Marvel Rivals’ Version 20260612 balance post adjusts a wide spread of heroes across Vanguard, Duelist, Strategist, and Team-Up abilities. The biggest supported themes are nerfs to long-range pressure from Star-Lord and Phoenix, reductions to Devil Dinosaur’s crowd control and durability, and buffs to close-range or support-oriented tools for heroes like Blade, Rogue, and several Strategists.
What Changed
- Vanguard
- Angela: shorter Assassin’s Charge cooldown, stronger Shielded Stance shield, faster shield recovery, and shorter time between shield uses.
- Devil Dinosaur: Impact Beam no longer knocks down, Buddy Barrier cooldown increased, and Bleed percentage damage per second reduced.
- Magneto: Meteor M’s maximum duration increased and its fully charged damage increased.
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Rogue: Fatal Attraction cooldown reduced, Defensive Stance energy consumption reduced, and absorbed damage energy conversion ratio increased.
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Duelist
- Black Cat: Cat’s Cradle damage reduced, one charge removed in favor of a cooldown, Phantom Pursuit damage reduced, relic Fortune costs increased, Faltine Flame Orb can no longer reveal enemies behind objects, and Calling Card’s targeting distance, refresh behavior, damage profile, and Fortune gain were adjusted.
- Blade: Scarlet Shroud grants longer Unstoppable duration, and Daywalker Dash deals more damage in sword stance.
- Daredevil: Radar Sense detection range reduced, Sonic Pursuit dash targeting distance reduced, and “Objection!” duration reduced.
- Elsa Bloodstone: the damage required to upgrade Inherited Instinct was reduced.
- Human Torch: Flaming Meteor cooldown reduced and Plasma Body single-charge energize time reduced.
- Moon Knight: Crescent Dart and Moon Blade damage reduced, and bounce damage attenuation was lowered.
- Namor: Aquatic Dominion cooldown reduction from Trident of Neptune hits increased.
- Phoenix: healing over time after detonating Sparks reduced, and Cosmic Flames damage falloff was adjusted to reduce long-range effectiveness.
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Star-Lord: Element Guns damage falloff was adjusted to reduce mid-to-long-range damage.
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Strategist
- Adam Warlock: Cosmic Cluster now reduces Avatar Life Stream charge time more when it hits enemies.
- Cloak & Dagger: Lightforce Dagger’s healing profile was shifted toward spell field healing, and Veil of Lightforce’s healing boost ratio increased.
- Deadpool (Strategist): Bouncing Bobblehead’s continuous healing from the spell field increased in gun form.
- Gambit: Ragin’ Royal Flush’s bonus damage multiplier and movement speed bonus were reduced.
- Ultron: Imperative: Patch’s maximum drone attach distance was reduced, Imperative: Firewall’s cooldown increased, and Rage of Ultron’s energy cost increased.
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White Fox: Spectral Surge’s Charm and Invincibility spell field radius was reduced.
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Team-Up Ability
- Explosive Entanglement: Hearts As One’s percentage damage per attack and spell field healing per attack were reduced.
Player Impact
These changes point to a clear rebalancing pass rather than a single-system overhaul. Supported effects include:
– Less long-range pressure from Star-Lord and Phoenix, which should matter most in fights where they were previously applying damage from farther out.
– Reduced crowd control and sustain on Devil Dinosaur, which may make him easier to contest in Vanguard matchups.
– More close-range threat for Blade and improved mobility/survivability tools for Angela and Rogue.
– Lower burst or poke output for several Duelists, including Black Cat, Moon Knight, Daredevil, and Star-Lord.
– More healing support from some Strategists, especially Cloak & Dagger and Deadpool (Strategist), while Ultron and White Fox lose some range or area coverage.
– Team-Up support from Explosive Entanglement is toned down, which may reduce its combined damage and healing value in the affected pairing.