Marvel Rivals Season 7 drops on March 20, 2026 at 9 AM UTC, and it's one of the bigger shakeups the game has seen. A new Strategist, a global Ultimate nerf that hits every hero simultaneously, two new Team-Ups, a fresh Convergence map, and a long list of buffs and nerfs — here's everything confirmed so far.
New Hero: White Fox
White Fox (real name Ami Han) joins the roster as a Strategist, splitting her kit between healing and burst damage. Her core mechanic revolves around Kumiho energy that builds passively throughout a match and can be spent to buff teammates and charm enemies.
Her kit at a glance:
Yeowoo Guseul (Fox Marbles) — her primary tool, healing allies and damaging enemies at the same time.
Partial Transformation — shifts her into fox form for quick repositioning around the battlefield.
Kumiho Energy — builds constantly in combat; releases powerful team buffs and enemy charm effects when unleashed.
Ultimate: Nine-Tailed Form — full fox transformation where she tears through enemies with claw attacks, heals nearby allies, and grants them Lifesteal bonuses.
White Fox also anchors one of the two new Team-Ups this season — more on that below.
Global Ultimate Nerf
For the first time in Marvel Rivals history, every hero is receiving the same adjustment: a ~20% reduction to Ultimate Ability energy charge rates. The goal is to reduce constant Ultimate spam and push matches toward more neutral, ability-free exchanges.
The implementation differs slightly by role:
Vanguards & Duelists — damage-to-energy conversion drops from 90% to 70%; passive energy regen reduced from 12/s to 11/s.
Strategists — damage/healing-to-energy conversion drops from 90% to 75%; passive energy regen takes a harder hit, dropping from 12/s to 8/s.
This change also targets triple-Strategist compositions, which have leaned heavily on constant Ultimate cycling.
New Map: Lower Manhattan
Lower Manhattan is a new Convergence map coming in Season 7, set in the aftermath of an assault by 2099's Alchemax Corporation. The area has been locked down to stop further corruption, giving it a distinctly different feel from the existing New York locations.
The map arrives with the April 2 update, not at season launch.
Additionally, Shin-Shibuya returns to the Competitive map pool in Season 7.
New Team-Up Abilities
Two Team-Ups are being added, and two are being retired.
Blessing of the Kumiho (White Fox + Luna Snow) — White Fox acts as anchor, gaining a 10% healing boost. Luna unlocks Spirit Fox Accord: she launches a spirit fox in a straight line that heals allies, damages enemies, and briefly charms them into walking toward her. Luna also gets a movement speed boost after using it.
Cosmic Cyclone (Storm + Adam Warlock) — Adam Warlock gains Heavenly Harmony through his Team-Up with Storm. After activating Soaring Surge, he leaves a trail of charged energy that heals and speeds up allies who pass through it. His own movement speed while flying also increases.
Retired: Jeff-Nado (Storm + Jeff the Land Shark) and Duality Dance (Adam Warlock + Luna Snow) are both being removed this season.
Hero Balance Changes
Buffs
Hulk — Indestructible Guard now converts absorbed damage to Ultimate charge at 130% (up from 100%). Gamma Burst gains two charges with a 6s cooldown each; single-hit damage drops slightly from 75 to 65 but cooldown after use falls from 6s to 2s.
Blade — Hunter's Shotgun projectile speed up to 180m/s from 150m/s. Ancestral Sword range extended to 5m. Bloodline Awakening now converts excess lifesteal into Bonus Health. Thousand-Fold Slash lifesteal now works without switching modes and healing reduction to enemies jumps from 20% to 40%.
Black Panther — second jump of Subtle Step no longer has a cooldown.
Iron Man — Armor Overdrive now extends its own duration by 2s per KO while active; startup reduced from 1.8s to 1.3s.
Scarlet Witch — Chaos Control base damage up from 80/s to 85/s; increased Chthonian Burst charge rate from hits.
Luna Snow — Idol Aura now reduces Ice Arts cooldown by 2s whenever a hero with the aura participates in a KO.
Deadpool (Duelist) — base health up from 250 to 275.
Psylocke — small damage increases across Psionic Crossbow and Wing Shurikens.
Human Torch — instantly recovers all Fire Cluster ammo after 1s of not using Blaze Cluster.
Magneto — Meteor M projectile speed up from 30m/s to 45m/s.
Nerfs
Winter Soldier — Roterstern Spell Field damage on hit down from 65 to 55.
Elsa Bloodstone — loses 2 Instinct stacks on defeat instead of 1; Bonus Health on Ruthless Pursuit and Helix Advance reduced from 40 to 30.
Doctor Strange — Shield of the Seraphim shield value cut from 800 to 700.
Deadpool (Vanguard) — damage reduction on upgraded Vanguard mode down from 40% to 30%; Ultimate cooldown up from 45s to 60s.
Gambit — Ultimate charge acceleration to allies reduced from 30% to 20%; movement boost cut from 50% to 40%. Slight damage increase partially compensates.
Hawkeye — base health drops from 275 to 250.
Daredevil — Devil's Chain damage and bonus health trimmed; Sonic Pursuit damage reduction halved from 20% to 10%.
Tuning (not purely buff or nerf)
Angela — spear throw damage in Ultimate up sharply from 10 to 40, but spear health reduced; Assassin's Charge cooldown doubled.
Emma Frost — Diamond Form damage reduction reduced; Psionic Seduction gets adjusted damage falloff but gains 20% damage reduction while active.
Magik — larger hitbox on Umbral Incursion, slightly reduced max charged damage, faster Darkchild startup.
Invisible Woman — Guardian Shield in-combat healing nerfed (25/s to 15/s) but out-of-combat recovery boosted (20/s to 30/s).
Ranked Mode Changes
Bans per team increase from 2 to 3, with shorter ban phases requiring faster decisions. Placement Matches now incorporate personal performance metrics — strong play can accelerate your starting rank by up to one division, weak play will lower it.
New Cosmetics
New accessories are coming for White Fox, Iron Fist, Hawkeye, Mister Fantastic, Ultron, Adam Warlock, Peni Parker, Venom, Hulk, and Elsa Bloodstone. Three new costumes are confirmed:
- "Odinforce" Ultron
- "Marauder Marksman" The Punisher
- "Yoon Ji-Woo" White Fox — includes customizable accessories and alternate appearances for her Kumiho Form
Times Square: April Pool's Day
Log in between April 1–3 to claim the Jeff's Rodeo emote for free. Times Square also gets a photo Albums system this season — you can permanently store screenshots and share them with other players.
Full patch notes will be published closer to the March 20 launch. We'll update this page when they go live.
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