Marvel Rivals players are eagerly awaiting the next major update, as Season 7.5 titled “The Hunt Is On” arrives on April 17. This pivotal patch introduces a brand-new hero to the roster, foundational gameplay system changes, extensive hero balance adjustments across all roles, and a new Team-Up ability. It also sets the stage for a series of events planned throughout April, keeping the action-packed superhero battleground fresh and competitive.<\/p>\n
The headline addition for Season 7.5 is Black Cat<\/a>, joining the fight as an agile Duelist. Designed as a master thief, her kit emphasizes high mobility and opportunistic combat. She can climb walls and perform double-jumps to navigate the battlefield, using her grappling hook to steal Fortune from enemies. This stolen resource buffs her own power, allowing her to unleash enhanced claw strikes for significant damage. Her Phantom Pursuit ability lets her close gaps and tear through defenses, while her Ultimate Ability sees her issue a calling card before striking like a phantom, dashing instantly to any target for lethal damage. Furthermore, Black Cat<\/a> can trade her stolen Fortune with the Gilded Saint to pull rare artifacts from the New York Thieves Guild’s vault, such as the Ring of Zona or the Helm of Hades. These items boost her abilities and create unique tactical advantages for her entire team.<\/p>\n Black Cat’s arrival also heralds a new Team-Up ability, Lucky Loan, which involves White Fox and Captain America. Black Cat acts as the Team-Up Anchor, providing a damage output boost of 5%. Her luck enhances her allies’ capabilities: White Fox receives a special boost to her life energy, enabling her to channel it into her Kumiho powers to launch multiple spectral fox tails. These tails seek out targets automatically, healing and speeding up allies while damaging and slowing enemies. Captain America benefits as well, with his Vibranium shield receiving a lucky upgrade. When raised, the shield’s protective radius expands, and its deflection becomes pinpoint accurate, bouncing enemy projectiles exactly where his crosshair is aimed.<\/p>\n A significant systemic change introduced in Season 7.5 is the Chain-CC Protection mechanic. This system aims to prevent excessive crowd control lockdown and ensure combat remains fluid and fair. The rules are clearly defined:<\/p>\n This change is designed to alleviate frustration from being repeatedly stunned or slowed without recourse, giving players a defensive mechanism against coordinated CC spam.<\/p>\n The White Queen receives a direct boost to her ultimate availability. The energy cost of her Psionic Seduction (Ultimate Ability) has been reduced from 3400 to 3100, allowing her to use her powerful suppression tool more frequently on the battlefield.<\/p>\n Vanguard Deadpool’s burst damage and survivability are being moderated. The Bonus Health gained per hammer hit from his Gun Form Ultimate Ability, The Ban Hammer, is reduced from 80 to 60 for the standard version and from 80 to 70 for the upgraded version. The damage per hammer hit is also reduced from 45 to 35. Furthermore, the bonus Attack Speed provided by his Deadpool in Your Area \u2013 Vanguard to Dual Desert Eagles \u2013 Vanguard transition is lowered from 60% to 40%.<\/p>\n Peni Parker’s adjustments aim to reshape her role. Her base health is reduced from 700 to 650, but her strategic utility is enhanced. The maximum number of Cyber-Webs she can have on the field simultaneously increases from 3 to 4, and the Bonus Health cap they provide to Peni rises from 150 to 200. Additionally, the projectile speed of her Cyber-Web Cluster is increased from 120m\/s to 150m\/s, improving their deployment speed and hit reliability. These changes strengthen her in positional warfare, allowing her to cover more ground and support her team against enemy dives more effectively.<\/p>\n The monster hunter’s mobility and threat against Vanguards are tuned down. The cooldown of her Helix Advance ability increases from 8 seconds to 10 seconds (with the cooldown at max passive stacks increasing from 2 seconds to 4 seconds). Her Monster-Piercer percentage damage per pellet is reduced from 1.2% to 0.8%, meaning the total percentage damage when all 5 pellets hit drops from 6% to 4%. This reduces her burst potential against high-health targets.<\/p>\n Human Torch’s mobility mechanics are reworked to boost his burst mobility and improve his gameplay pacing, while making his movements more predictable for opponents. His Plasma Body ability is now adjusted: upon casting, he immediately dashes a short distance (10m) in the direction of movement and enters the Plasma Body state for 4 seconds. This ability now has 2 charges, with a 10-second recharge time per charge, and a 4-second cooldown between consecutive casts.<\/p>\n Bucky Barnes had excessive CC, causing frustration for enemies, especially against dive heroes. The goal is to shift him from a “bodyguard” role to a more lethal operative. The Grounded effect on enemies from his Trooper’s Fist is removed, though its cooldown is reduced from 12 seconds to 10 seconds. His Bionic Hook cooldown increases from 12 seconds to 15 seconds. His damage output is tweaked: Roterstern Projectile Damage increases from 75 to 80, while Spell Field Damage decreases from 55 to 45. The single charge energize time for his Tainted Voltage is reduced from 6 seconds to 5 seconds. His Kraken Impact Culling Threshold increases from 15% to 20%, but its base damage is reduced from 80 to 70.<\/p>\n The cosmic hero gets a boost to his healing capabilities. The cooldown reduction provided to his Avatar Life Stream per hit from his Cosmic Cluster increases from 0.05 seconds to 0.08 seconds.<\/p>\n The duo’s Ultimate Ability, Eternal Bond, sees its duration reduced from 13 seconds to 11 seconds.<\/p>\n Pressure from the beloved land shark on the enemy backline is slightly reduced. His Joyful Splash damage falloff now starts at 15m (instead of 20m) and damage drops to 60% of base at 30m (instead of 65% at 40m). Additionally, the recovery time when his Ultimate Ability, It’s Jeff!, fails to swallow any targets is reduced from 1 second to 0.4 seconds.<\/p>\n Luna Snow receives a small enhancement to her base combat power. The damage and healing from her Light & Dark Ice ability increase from 22 to 24.<\/p>\n Ultron’s Ultimate Ability, Rage of Ultron, receives a significant adjustment to increase its battlefield coverage. The logic is changed so the four Ultron Drones surrounding Ultron no longer shoot directly at the crosshair target. Instead, they bombard the area around the target, matching Ultron’s bombardment area but with slightly lower values. This increases the coverage area from a 3m radius to a 6m radius. Additionally, after activating the ultimate:<\/p>\n Damage and healing effects on targets within the original 3m radius remain roughly the same.<\/p>\n The healing synergy in this aquatic alliance is toned down. The excess healing converted to Bonus Health is reduced from 100 to 50, and the healing efficiency is lowered from 70\/s to 60\/s.<\/p>\n As detailed earlier, this new Team-Up centers on Black Cat as the Anchor, granting her a 5% damage boost. White Fox unlocks the Nine-Tailed Aura ability, and Captain America unlocks the Vibranium Bastion ability through the partnership.<\/p>\n Following the April 17 update, NetEase has outlined further content planned for the month. After the April 23 update, the 2026 Hellfire Gala event will officially begin. This event brings stunning new themed costumes and exclusive cosmetics for Magik, Gambit, Moon Knight, Emma Frost, and Phoenix. Importantly, the winner of the 2025 Hellfire Gala community vote, the Emma Frost \u2013 Gala Star costume, will be given away for free to all players. A new community vote will also commence to decide which hero receives an exclusive costume in next year’s Hellfire Gala, which players can again earn for free.<\/p>\n After the April 30 update, Phase 1 of the Path to Doomsday event begins. This introduces the all-new mode, Path to Doomsday: The Avengers Mode, letting players experience asymmetrical combat playing as or against Loki. Times Square will also feature a series of events during this period.<\/p>\n Season 7.5 represents a substantial evolution for Marvel Rivals, balancing the meta with a new CC protection system, introducing a high-mobility Duelist with unique mechanics, and recalibrating a wide array of heroes to ensure a dynamic and fair competitive environment. With the chain-CC changes alone, the fundamental feel of engagements will shift, rewarding smart play over sheer CC stacking. Combined with the arrival of Black Cat and<\/a> the rebalancing of key characters like Winter Soldier and Peni Parker, players have a lot to explore and master starting April 17, paving the way for the exciting Hellfire Gala and Path to Doomsday events soon to follow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Marvel Rivals players are eagerly awaiting the next major update, as Season 7.5 titled “The Hunt Is On” arrives on April 17. 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Major Gameplay System: Chain-CC Protection<\/h2>\n
Understanding the New CC Rules<\/h3>\n
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Detailed Hero Balance Changes<\/h2>\n
Vanguard Role Adjustments<\/h3>\n
Emma Frost<\/h4>\n
Deadpool (Vanguard)<\/h4>\n
Peni Parker<\/h4>\n
Duelist Role Adjustments<\/h3>\n
Elsa Bloodstone<\/h4>\n
Human Torch<\/h4>\n
Winter Soldier<\/h4>\n
Strategist Role Adjustments<\/h3>\n
Adam Warlock<\/h4>\n
Cloak & Dagger<\/h4>\n
Jeff the Land Shark<\/h4>\n
Luna Snow<\/h4>\n
Ultron<\/h4>\n
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Team-Up Ability Changes<\/h2>\n
Adjusted or Removed Team-Ups<\/h3>\n
Guardian of the Deep (Venom \u2013 Jeff the Land Shark\/Hela)<\/h4>\n
New Team-Ups<\/h3>\n
Lucky Loan (Black Cat \u2013 White Fox\/Captain America)<\/h4>\n
Upcoming Plans for April 2026<\/h2>\n