Update, October 11: Marvel Rivals Season 10 went live on September 11, and the quiet September 3 patch was indeed the calm before it. That earlier update was a placeholder: a Psylocke scarf animation fix on Hellfire Bay Beach plus cosmetics bundles. The real changes arrived with the season.
- Gorr the God Butcher is the new hero; Nightcrawler was not part of the Season 10 notes.
- Scarlet Witch got a full rework built around a new Chaos Mark system.
- The balance pass trims several Vanguard health pools and raises some ultimate costs.
- Season 10.5 followed on October 9 with another balance pass and an Infinity War event.
Gorr arrived, Nightcrawler did not
Gorr the God Butcher is the season’s new playable character. One outlet, allthings.how, describes him as a Duelist. The September speculation about Nightcrawler as a Strategist turned out to be wrong for launch: Insider Gaming confirms he is not in the Season 10 patch notes. The Gallery Card pattern held for Gorr and did not for the dataminer-sourced name, which is a useful reminder of which kind of leak to trust.
The Scarlet Witch rework
This is the biggest kit change of the season. As summarized by GosuGamers:
- New ability, Scarlet Hex: a 20m by 8m shockwave that deals 40 damage and applies a Chaos Mark.
- New passive: she gains bonus health when she damages Chaos Marked enemies, up to a cap of 50.
- Chaos Control: damage drops from 85 to 75 per second, but it now hits every marked enemy in a 20m, 120 degree cone.
- Dark Seal: the stun applies only on the initial detonation (0.3s); the field deals 20 per second and slows by 30%.
- Reality Erasure: damage scales from 50 to 80 during the wind-up, with a small chance of immunity.
- Mystic Projection: the speed boost falls from 50% to 35%.
The pattern is clear. She wants you to mark a group, then spend your abilities on the marked targets. If you main her, expect to relearn the order of your cooldowns rather than just your aim.
Selected balance changes
Insider Gaming’s summary lists these among the number changes:
- Captain America: base health 300 to 350 (buff).
- Thor: base health 300 to 325 (buff).
- Wolverine: Savage Claw damage per hit 15 to 18 (buff).
- Magneto: base health 650 to 600 (nerf).
- The Hood: base health 600 to 550 and Mantle of Oblivion cooldown 10s to 12s (nerf).
- Black Widow: Assassin’s Focus ultimate cost 2800 to 3100 (nerf).
That is a sample, not the full list. The complete Season 10 sheet is on marvelrivals.gg, split by Vanguard, Duelist and Strategist.
Season 10.5
Insider Gaming reports that Season 10.5 launched on October 9 with another balance pass, no new hero, and an Infinity War event. Marvel Rivals has kept its roadmap dates reliably, which is why the September 11 launch was the one date worth banking on in the first place.
