Overview[]

Season 2: Hellfire Gala is the second Season of Marvel Rivals, taking place from April 11, 2025 to TBA. Season 2 will run for three months, divided into two halves of six to seven weeks each. This season coincides with the Flower Of Krakoa BattlePass.
Emma Frost has prepared a lavish celebration, inviting everyone to don their best attire and venture to the Mutant haven of the Living Island Krakoa for the annual Hellfire Gala. [...] The uninvited Ultron has crashed the party, and the attending heroes must spring into action to protect Krakoa's greatest treasure from his grasp.
Creative Director Guangguang, Marvel Rivals: Dev Vision Vol. 05
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Contents
New Heroes[]
New Maps[]
New Costumes[]
See also: Costumes/List by Release Date and Costumes/Customization
Season 2.0
Along with new costumes, Season 2.0 introduced Costume Customization (on 4/17/25), which gives the ability to apply different costume colors called Chromas to existing costumes. To use the Chromas, you must first own the base Costume, then the Chromas will be available for 600 Unstable Molecules, a new currency which can by exchanged from Lattice at a 1:1 rate. In Season 3, more options for obtaining Unstable Molecules will be made available.
Additionally, as of Patch 20250508, the portraits in the Heroes tab now show with their currently equipped Costume.
BattlePass[]
The Flower Of Krakoa BattlePass coincides with Season 2, being 11 pages long. The Luxury Upgrade costs 990 Lattice , which is required to obtain any cosmetics with a
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- Spider-Man - Spider-Oni ✪
- Psylocke - Retro X-Uniform ✪
- Squirrel Girl - Nut Rocker ✪
- Magik - Retro X-Uniform ✪
- Black Widow - Red Runway Veil ✪
- Luna Snow - Nolaehaneun Manyeo ✪
- Hulk - Joe Fixit ✪
- Captain America - Star Spangled Style ✪
- Iron Fist - Immortal Weapon Of Agamotto ✪
- Cloak & Dagger - Dance Partner ✪
- Spider-Man - Ninjutsu Veil of the Snow Spider ✪
- Squirrel Girl - Crack Boom Punk ✪
- Black Widow - Elegance In Motion ✪
- Hulk - Sin City Showcase ✪
- Captain America - Dashing Duel ✪
- Iron Fist - Shadow Of Agamotto ✪
- Cloak & Dagger - Duality Duel ✪
- Emma Frost - Emma Frost ✪
- Spider-Man - Spider-Oni ✪
- Squirrel Girl - Nut Rocker ✪
- Ultron - Ultron ✪
- Black Widow - Red Runway Veil ✪
- Luna Snow - Nolaehaneun Manyeo ✪
- Hulk - Joe Fixit ✪
- Captain America - Star Spangled Style ✪
- Iron Fist - Immortal Weapon of Agamotto ✪
- Cloak & Dagger - Dance Partner ✪
- Spider-Man - Dance Petals ✪
- Squirrel Girl - Bubble Popper ✪
- Black Widow - Arachnid Allure ✪
- Hulk - Coin Trick ✪
- Captain America - Star Spangled Style ✪
- Iron Fist - His Will ✪
- Cloak & Dagger - Whimsical Waltz ✪
- Spider-Man - Spider-Oni ✪
- Squirrel Girl - Squirrel Girl Emblem ✪
- Squirrel Girl - Nut Rocker ✪
- Spider-Man - Spider-Man Emblem ✪
- Magik - Magik Emblem ✪
- Black Widow - Black Widow Emblem ✪
- Cloak & Dagger - Cloak & Dagger Emblem ✪
- Black Widow - Red Runway Veil ✪
- Captain America - Captain America Emblem ✪
- Luna Snow - Luna Snow Emblem ✪
- Hulk - Hulk Emblem ✪
- Hulk - Joe Fixit ✪
- Captain America - Star Spangled Style ✪
- Iron Fist - Immortal Weapon of Agamotto ✪
- Cloak & Dagger - Dance Partner ✪
- Krakoa Seedlings
- Flowers Of Krakoa
Other
- 400 Units
- 200 Units
- 200 Lattice
- 400 Lattice
- Hellfire Gala
- Ages Of Ultron
Additionally, the Chronovium BattlePass was made available to purchase again from 5/15/25 to 5/29/25 for 590 Lattice to celebrate the 1 year anniversary of the launch of the Closed Alpha Test.
Events[]
- Twitch Drops
- Twitch Drops Season 2 (04/11/25 - 04/30/25)
- Seasonal Bonus Rewards (4/11/25 - TBA)
- Complete 9 matches to recieve the free costume Scarlet Witch - Chaos Gown ★
- Cerebro Database Season Event (4/11/25 - TBA)
- Gallery card and decorations (unlocked via completing missions and milestone rewards)
- Mantis - Flora Maiden ★ (unlocked upon completion of all event missions)
- Giant-Size Events
- Giant-Size Brain Blast (4/25/25 - 5/5/25)
- Event gamemode Giant-Size Brain Blast
- Brain Blast Emote and Titles as rewards for playing
- Giant-Size Hive Mind (5/9/25 - 5/19/25)
- Event gamemode Giant-Size Hive Mind
- Giant-Size Brain Blast (4/25/25 - 5/5/25)
- Hellfire Gala Moments (5/2/25 - 5/23/25)
- Explore Krakoa and unlock rewards
- Complete Challenge Missions for X-Coins to unlock gifts
- Complete Missions for Voting Tokens to vote for a hero to get a new costume
- Gallery card unlocked once 10 Voting Tokens have been used
- Wolverine - Patch ★ (unlocked upon completion of all event missions)
- Galacta's Gift
Balance Updates[]
Season 2.0Season 2.0 featured a mid-season balance update. Any updates from this patch will be noted with (Patch 20250430) at the end.
Vanguard
- Captain America
- Reduce base health from 675 to 650.
- Reduce the shield value of Living Legend from 400 to 350.
- Reduce base health from 650 to 600. (Patch 20250430)
- Doctor Strange
- Decrease Daggers of Denak damage per projectile from 18 to 16.
- Reduce the Maelstrom of Madness conversion ratio of Dark Magic to damage from 1.3 to 1.2.
- Decrease the energy cost to unleash the Eye of Agamotto (Ultimate Ability) from 3400 to 3100. (Patch 20250430)
- Groot
- Reduce the health of Ironwood Wall from 700 to 600. (Patch 20250430)
- Hulk
- Increase base movement speed from 600 to 650.
- Reduce cooldown time for Indestructible Guard from 12 seconds to 10 seconds.
- Decrease minimum charge time for Incredible Leap from 0.7 seconds to 0.5 seconds.
- Magneto
- Increase energy cost for Meteor M (Ultimate Ability) from 3100 to 3400.
- Peni Parker
- Cyber-Web Cluster now has a chance to crit; reduce movement speed penalty while firing Cyber-Web Cluster from 40% to 20%.
- Increase base health from 650 to 750.
- The Thing
- Decrease Embattled Leap's damage reduction effect for himself and teammates from 30% to 25%.
- Thor
- Increase base health from 525 to 600.
- Increase base movement speed from 600 to 650.
Duelist
- Black Widow
- Added a new effect where Black Widow can directly shoot after releasing the second kick of Edge Dancer and after using Electro-Plasma Explosion (Ultimate Ability).
- Hawkeye
- Reduce the slow effect while charging the bow from 30% to 20%.
- Increase both instances of damage for Hypersonic Arrow from 50 to 55.
- Decrease energy cost for Hunter's Sight (Ultimate Ability) from 3700 to 3100 and improve the bow draw speed increase from 1.35x to 1.5x.
- Hela
- Increase cooldown time for Astral Flock from 12 seconds to 15 seconds.
- Increase Spell Field Damage of Piercing Night from 30 to 35.
- Decrease cooldown time for Soul Drainer from 12 seconds to 10 seconds.
- Human Torch
- Reduce attack interval for Fire Cluster from 0.6 seconds to 0.5 seconds; the launch timing of the primary attack projectile has been advanced.
- Increase the cooldown for Flaming Meteor from 12 seconds to 15 seconds, but add a new effect: After releasing Flaming Meteor, immediately gain 75 Bonus Health, which will start to falloff 3 seconds later at a rate of 30 per second.
- Iron Man
- Slightly reduce Iron Man's hitbox size.
- New feature: Gain 100 Bonus Health activating Armor Overdrive or Gamma Overdrive that will start to falloff 5 seconds later at a rate of 30 per second.
- Iron Fist
- Reduce the Bonus Max Health gained from Harmony Recovery from 150 to 100, but slow the falloff rate of that health from 25 per/s to 15 per/s.
- Lower fixed damage of Yat Jee Chung Kuen from 10 to 9, but increase the percentage damage of the enemy's Max Health per strike from 1.7% to 2.1%.
- Decrease the cooldown for K'un-Lun Kick from 12 seconds to 10 seconds.
- Mister Fantastic
- Increase base health from 350 to 375.
- Boost the damage of Stretch Punch from 60 to 65 and from 75 to 80 while in Inflated state.
- Flexible Elongation New Effect: Enemies within range now suffer a 35% slow effect; reduce Flexible Elongation cooldown time from 10s to 8s.
- Reduce the Elasticity gained from Elastic Strength (passive ability) from 30 to 20, while the Elasticity provided by Stretch Punch is increased from 5 to 8. After entering the inflated state, the Bonus Health provided to self has been reduced from 450 to 400.
- New Feature: When Mister Fantastic uses Brainiac Bounce (Ultimate Ability), immediately gain Bonus Health equal to that gained when entering inflated state.
- Moon Knight
- Increase Crescent Dart projectile speed from 120m/s to 150 m/s.
- Moon Blade New Effect: Gain 25 Bonus Health with each enemy hit, up to a max of 100. 3 seconds after the Bonus Health stops increasing, it will start to falloff at a rate of 20 per second.
- Speed up Moonlight Hook pull startup time after hit from 0.4 seconds to 0.15 seconds.
- Extend the duration of the Hand of Khonshu (Ultimate Ability) from 3.5 seconds to 4.5 seconds, and increase the number of talons generated during this period from 14 to 18. Additionally, the fall speed of the talons has been slightly enhanced. A new damage falloff mechanic for the spell field has been added, beginning at 1.5 meters from the center and reaching a maximum reduction of 70% at 5 meters.
- Scarlet Witch
- Remove Chaos Control percentage damage while increasing fixed damage from 60/s to 80/s.
- Increase Chthonian Burst projectile damage from 35 to 40 and spell field damage from 35 to 40.
- Increase the cooldown of Mystic Projection from 8 seconds to 10 seconds, and reduce Phased state time from 2 seconds to 1.5 seconds.
- Rework the slow effect of Reality Erasure to start at 1.5 seconds instead of starting immediately, with a linear increase to a 35% slow over 3.5 seconds.
- Spider-Man
- Decrease the damage range of Amazing Combo from a 5m radius to a 4m radius. (Patch 20250430)
- Star-Lord
- Reduce Blaster Barrage damage from 80 per second to 75. Introduce a new damage falloff mechanic, starting at 4 meters and maxing out at 80% reduction at 8 meters.
- Winter Soldier
- Increase the cooldown time for Bionic Hook from 8 seconds to 12 seconds.
- Reduce base damage of Kraken Impact (Ultimate Ability) from 100 to 80, but lower the culling threshold from 20% of maximum health to 15%.
- Adjust the Tainted Voltage ability to have 2 charge levels, while keeping the cooldown time unchanged. (Patch 20250430)
- Wolverine
- Increase Rage gained from Savage Claw hits from 7 to 10, while Rage gained from Berserk Claw Strike has been decreased from 7 to 5. Reduce Rage gained from Feral Leap from 20 to 10, and from Vicious Rampage from 20 to 15. However, Rage gained from taking damage has been increased from 3 to 5.
- Reduce the time an enemy is knocked down after impact from Last Stand (Ultimate Ability) from 1 second to 0.75 seconds.
Strategist
- Adam Warlock
- Increase the cooldown for Soul Bond from 30s to 40s.
- Karmic Revival (Ultimate Ability) now restores 30% of a fallen ally's maximum health instead of a fixed 100 Health.
- Add a new effect to Quantum Magic: When a critical hit lands on an enemy, reduce the cooldown time of Avatar Life Stream by 1s. (Patch 20250430)
- Cloak & Dagger
- After activating Eternal Bond (Ultimate Ability), the duration of the first three healing zones will no longer be calculated separately; instead, they will remain active until the duration of the final healing zone ends, at which point all will be removed together.
- As Cloak, increase the damage of the Darkforce Cloak from 75/s to 80/s; As Dagger, increase the damage of the Lightforce Dagger on hit from 15 to 18. (Patch 20250430)
- Invisible Woman
- Decrease the shield value of Guardian Shield from 300 to 250.
- Loki
- Increase Regeneration Domain cooldown from 25 seconds to 30 seconds.
- Luna Snow
- Adjust the Damage Falloff of Light & Dark Ice from 60% at 40m to 75%. (Patch 20250430)
- Mantis
- Reduce base health from 275 to 250.
- Effects of Healing Flower and Allied Inspiration can be stacked, up to a maximum of 16 seconds.
- ncrease the hit damage of Life Energy Blast from 50 to 55. (Patch 20250430)
- Rocket Raccoon
- Decrease the healing area of Repair Mode spheres from 70 health/s to 50 health/s, but add a new effect of one-time healing of 55 health to allies hit. Projectile speed reduction increased from 4.5 m/s to 7 m/s.
- Extend cooldown for Jetpack Dash from 6 seconds to 10 seconds; reduce dash distance from 10 meters to 8 meters.
- Reduce C.Y.A. (Ultimate Ability) damage boost from 40% to 25%, but add a new effect: during the ability's duration, linked allies will receive an additional 100 Bonus Health points per second, capping at 150. After breaking the link, this bonus starts to falloff after 1 second at a rate of 75 per/s. Additionally, increase the energy cost from 3700 to 4000.
New
- Arcane Order (Doctor Strange - Scarlet Witch)
- As the Team-Up Anchor, Doctor Strange gains a maximum health increase of 100.
- Scarlet Witch unlocks a new magical Mystic Burst ability through her team-up with Doctor Strange.
- Stars Aligned (Captain America - Winter Soldier)
- As the Team-Up Anchor, Captain America gains a maximum health increase of 100 and a 5% boost in damage output.
- Winter Soldier unlocks the devastating Stellar Impact ability through his team-up with Captain America.
- Upon leaping to a teammate, Stellar Impact will provide 50 Bonus Health to allies within range. (Patch 20250430)
- Mental Projection (Emma Frost - Psylocke/Magneto)
- As the Team-Up Anchor, Emma Frost gains a maximum health increase of 100.
- Magneto receives the Magnetic Resonance ability through his team-up with Emma Frost.
- Psylocke receives the Soul Resurgence ability through her team-up with Emma Frost.
Adjusted or Removed
- Ammo Overload (Rocket Racoon - Punisher/
Winter Soldier)- Winter Soldier loses the Infinite Grit ability he once had through his team-up with Rocket Raccoon.
- Chilling Charisma (Luna Snow - Jeff the Land Shark/
Namor)- Namor has lost the Frozen Spawn ability from his team-up with Luna Snow.
- Dimensional Shortcut (Magik - Black Panther/
Psylocke)- Psylocke has lost the Psionic Disc ability previously attained from her team-up with Magik.
- Gamma Charge (Hulk - Iron-Man/Namor/
Doctor Strange)- Doctor Strange loses the Gamma Maelstrom ability previously gained from his team-up with Hulk.
- Namor now gains the Gamma Monstro ability through his team-up with Hulk.
- Metallic Chaos (
Scarlet Witch-Magneto)- The Team-Up Anchor enhancement effect for Scarlet Witch has been removed, along with the Metallic Chaos Team-Up Ability.
- Magneto loses the Metallic Fusion ability he had through his team-up with Scarlet Witch.
- Voltaic Union (
Thor-Captain America/Storm)- The Team-Up Anchor effect for Thor has been removed, along with the Voltaic Union Team-Up Ability.
- Captain America loses the Charged Aegis ability from his team-up with Thor.
- Storm loses the Charged Gale ability gained from her team-up with Thor.
Other New Content[]
Season 2.0- Modes
- Optimized the settlement logic for substitute players in Quick Match battles: victories will count normally, while losses will not affect combat history or scoreboard.
- BattlePass and Season Events
- The mission system has been revamped: new weekly missions and rewards have been added, and the balance of daily and challenge missions has been adjusted while maintaining the overall Chrono Token distribution. The proportion of hero-specific missions has also been reduced.
- Ranked
- Rank Reset: based on your final Season 1.5 rank, ranks will be demoted by 9 divisions. For example, if you ended Season 1.5 at Diamond I, your Season 2 journey begins at Silver I.
- Reward for reaching Gold: Emma Frost - Golden Diamond ★
- Map Rotation: Hellfire Gala: Krakoa added; Yggsgard: Royal Palace and Tokyo 2099: Shin-Shibuya removed
- The minimum level required for new players to participate in Competitive has been adjusted to 15. (If you have previously completed at least one valid competitive match, you can still join Competitive in Season 2.0 even if you are below level 15.)
- Pick/ban will now come into play starting from Gold III rather than Diamond tier.
- When a team includes players from Eternity or One Above All, only solo or duo queuing will be allowed.
- Increased weight of individual performance on match score
- Tournament
- The champion, runner-up, and third-place nameplates have been upgraded to dynamic designs, showcasing your hard-earned glory! This season features adjusted rank requirements and a revised sign-up phase. For all the details, please refer to the Marvel Rivals Championship rules.
- North America (NA), Europe (EU), and Asia (AS) have now transformed into the Americas (AMERICAS), Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (EMEA), and the Pacific (PACIFIC). This upgrade allows for a more compatible and organized classification of server nodes across various regions.
- A new faction search function has been added for the Knockout Stage.
- The Tournament Overview page has been revamped! Players can now quickly access core tournament information in a visually engaging manner, with detailed explanations of each process and the specific rules for advancement and elimination in various tournament formats.
- Introducing a new custom feature for the Marvel Rivals Championship nameplate emblem! Players with a Championship Emblem can now customize its display in Career - Customize.
- A new Tournament Room option has been introduced in Custom Game, featuring additional tournament-related functionalities.
- In the Custom Game - Tournament Room, we've added a pause function. The room host and authorized players can now initiate a game pause.
- In the Custom Game - Tournament Room, an "Away" feature has been added. Non-host players can set their status to away, making it visible to others in the room.
- Faction
- Introducing the all-new Faction Recruit and Seeking Factions system! Factions and players can now use this system to form their dream squads and prepare for various in-game tournaments.
- A fresh batch of faction emblems has been added! Players can freely switch emblems in the faction details interface.
- New reporting functionality for factions has been implemented. Players can report inappropriate custom content for factions, including names, abbreviations, and announcements.
- Proficiency
- (Patch 20250425) Proficiency missions are now split into Quick Match/Competitive and Conquest/Doom Match. Quick Match/Competitive missions have no cap on repetition, while Conquest/Doom Match missions feature a daily repeat limit.
- General
- Store: A new gift feature for friends has arrived! Now you can gift cosmetics to your friends.
- Replays: Upgrades to network protocols to enhance performance (replays from before Season 2 will no longer be viewable).
- The Career Overview page now supports the selection of specific hero forms.
- Rank leaderboard display has been added to Career.
- Real-time voice chat has been optimized! An interface prompt now appears when you activate voice chat using push to talk.
- In Custom Games, spectators can now temporarily exit during matches, enabling them to rejoin the action anytime.
- A new room host transfer function has been introduced. The current host can right-click on other players to transfer host privileges.
- (Patch 20250508) Emote and spray wheel has been reimagined!
- They are now split into two separate wheels with dedicated hotkeys for lightning-fast switching.
- In the Cosmetics - Sprays menu, you can now set your current spray wheel to be shared across all heroes.
- A new quick-equip feature has been added: Emotes can be automatically slot into the corresponding hero's emote wheel upon acquisition; and when the spray wheel is set to "Apply to All", newly earned sprays can also be equipped instantly.
- (Patch 20250508) Portraits in "Heroes" have been updated to reflect their currently equipped costumes.
For bug fixes and full Patch Notes, see: