Launching on August 8,Marvel Rivals’ Season 3.5 is right around the corner. It hasn’t been a tremendously long wait for Season 3’s midway point, either, as Season 3 only released earlier this month and players are continuing to work through its BattlePass, “Powers of the Phoenix,” with an overhauled, gradual means of earning Chrono Tokens. It’s incredibly exciting thatMarvel Rivals’ Bladewill soon be joining Jean Grey’s Phoenix, and he was only recently revealed at SDCC before NetEase dived into him a little deeper in yesterday’s Dev Vision Vol. 08 from creative director Guangguang.
Unlike previous Dev Vision video diaries forMarvel Rivalsdebriefing upcoming seasonal content, Vol. 08 is noticeably missing lead combat designer Zhiyong and is half as long as they normally tend to be. Still, what’s touched on beyond Blade teases how influential its brand-new Team-Ups may be. Indeed, the fullest extent of their viability or functionality hasn’t been shared yet, but what’s proposed of Adam Warlock and Luna Snow’s Duality Dance Team-Up and Loki, Groot, and Mantis’ Vibrant Vitality Team-Up seems horrendously overpowered.
Marvel Rivals’ Best New Team-Ups Have Supports at the Forefront
Interestingly, Luna Snow and Mantis—two ofMarvel Rivals’ support/strategist characters—seem to be receiving a lot of attention, and the Team-Ups they belonged to beforehand, Guardian Revival and Atlas Bond, respectively, are being scrapped. However, the Team-Ups each of them is receiving could be equally, if not more enticing, though concrete, fine-toothed details about them haven’t been divulged.
Marvel Rivals Season 3.5 Adds Blade and Spreads the Love for Strategists
At face value,Luna Snow’s Team-Up abilityseems like it’d be a terrific dive-counter option, so long as Adam Warlock is around as the required anchor. Likewise, Loki’s lamps boosting nearby allies’ stats could be a boon with Mantis around, and it seems clear that NetEase wishes to incentivize a greater diversity of support characters in each queue, much less team compositions that favor multiple supports.
The added advantage of Mantis’ new Team-Up, then, is that Groot will also be a favorable composition choice if Mantis has been selected, with Mantis, Loki, and Groot altogether creating a huge network of heals and stat buffs.
How ideal these compositions are in Competitive mode, such as whether or not Mantis’ or Adam’s new abilities are worthy of habitual bans, will be fascinating to see. In the meantime, Blade could ironically be the perfect counter to these support characters’ new powers if he’s able to “reduce their healing.” Only time will tell how all of these changes take shape and how strong each affected character will be inMarvel RivalsSeason 3.5. Thankfully, anyone who is eager to find out for themselves is merely a day away from witnessing Season 3.5’s content creator previews.
