Marvel Rivals Season 10.5 Guide: Events, Balance and Season 11

Marvel Rivals runs in seasons of about two months, each split into two halves. As of 8 November 2026 the game is in Season 10.5, the second half of Season 10, "Butcher's Blasphemy", and the newest patch is Version 20261105 (5 November 2026). This guide is the whole season on one page: what Season 10 added, what the two balance posts changed, the Season 10.5 modes and events with their end dates, and what to wrap up before Season 11 starts on 13 November 2026. If you only care about rank, the Season 11 rank reset guide covers placements in detail.

Where the game is right now

A Marvel Rivals season has two halves. The first half (Season 10) opened on 11 September 2026 at 09:00 UTC after about two hours of maintenance; the second half (Season 10.5) went live on 9 October at the same time. Since NetEase's Dev Talk Vol. 11 (February 2025) the half-season switch keeps your rank and points, so the 9 October update changed modes, events and balance but not your Competitive standing. Smaller weekly patches follow every Wednesday or Thursday: Version 20261015, 20261022, 20261029 and the latest, Version 20261105, all went live without downtime and added store bundles, event content and fixes rather than balance changes.

NetEase names each season in its Dev Vision videos: Season 8 was "Sins of Alchemax", Season 9 "The Mystery of Thebes" and Season 10 "Butcher's Blasphemy". The Season 10.5 video called it "the spookiest season yet", and the event list agrees: most of the half is Halloween costumes and a haunted-house puzzle event, wrapped around two modes based on the last two Avengers films.

Season 10: Butcher's Blasphemy

The Season 10 patch notes open on the villain: "Gorr the God Butcher brings his unholy crusade to Marvel Rivals!" He arrived as a playable melee Duelist, and Beebom's summary of the Dev Vision video notes that Season 10 was "the first in Marvel Rivals' history to add only one hero". The season's serial, Butcher's Blasphemy, and the lore entries "All Gods Will Die" (Gorr) and "Journey into Mystery" (Loki) carry the story, and the season event, The Tetrameron, has you run errands for Loki in his Chronicler role.

The rest of Season 10's first half was events. Jeff's Dream Eater (17 September to 15 October) gave away Venom's "President Ozzy" costume; Jeff's Superstar Search ran in Times Square and Hellfire Bay Beach; Galacta's Gift Vol. 3 brought back the Costume Coin and a batch of costumes for the Exchange Store from 24 September to 13 November. The Season 4 Battle Pass, Fruit of Immortality, returned from 11 to 24 September, and PC players with a compatible Intel card got XeSS 3 Frame Generation, which inserts up to three generated frames between rendered ones.

The Season 10 balance post

NetEase's balance post of 8 September 2026 was one of the largest of the year. The change that touched every match was global: all Strategists now convert healing into ultimate energy at 65% (was 70%) and damage at 50% (was 55%), so healer ultimates arrive a little later in every fight. Scarlet Witch got the biggest rework: a new ability, Scarlet Hex, that marks enemies with a Chaos Mark, a passive that turns 25% of the damage she deals to marked enemies into bonus health, and a faster Chthonian Burst (160 to 200 damage per second). A follow-up patch on 17 September "significantly reduced" her chance to be immune to damage while winding up Reality Erasure.

Selected rows from NetEase's two balance posts; each post changes more heroes than shown. Numbers are the posts' own, old → new.

Vanguards moved in both directions. Captain America (300 to 350 health), Emma Frost (650 to 675) and Devil Dinosaur, whose Impact Beam bleed lasts twice as long, came out stronger; Magneto (650 to 600 health, a smaller Bulwark shield), The Thing and The Hood (600 to 550 health, a slower barrier) came out weaker. Black Cat's Phantom Pursuit lost its invincibility and now grants 50% damage reduction and Unstoppable instead. Deadpool was adjusted separately in each of his three roles.

Season 10.5: two Avengers modes and a Halloween

Season 10.5 went live on 9 October 2026 with no new hero — Beebom's roadmap article calls it a half "built around final Avengers movies and Halloween-themed skins". Its headline is a new mode, Path to Doomsday - Avengers: Infinity War: twelve players form six duo squads, each round puts two squads head to head, and the first squad to collect all six Infinity Stones wins. It runs until 11 December. On 22 October NetEase added Path to Doomsday - Avengers: Endgame, a co-op mode in which "Thanos from the past has breached the timeline"; it opened on 24 October for four weeks of timed sessions and gives away Captain America's "Captain America: The Winter Soldier" costume. Both modes, and the earlier Path to Doomsday chapters, are explained in the Arcade and event modes guide.

The same update added Alchemax Headquarters to the 18 VS. 18 mode, named Jeff the Land Shark's "Razor-Tooth" as the Season 10.5 Gold-rank costume, and gave Gorr a Custom Targeting Sensitivity setting for Shadow Harvest. Two short story pieces went into the in-game archive: "Spirit of Thunder" for Thor and "The Worthy Spider-Man".

The Season 10.5 balance post

The 6 October balance post opened with "Iron Man is locking onto targets with a brand-new missile mechanic". His Micro-Missile Barrage and the missiles of Armor Overdrive now track targets automatically, up to five locks per target, and fly far faster (15 to 60 metres per second), but each missile hits for half as much (20 to 10). Phoenix got the most damage: Cosmic Flames 60 to 65, harder-hitting Sparks and two Sparks per hit during her ultimate. Cyclops' Optic Blast went from 22 to 23 and Ruby Rage now needs 3,400 energy instead of 3,700. On the Strategist side, Jubilee's Firework Finale heals 180 per second instead of 150 and Sparking Sprint now heals her for 25 per second, while Dazzling Detonation's Blind dropped from 1.5 to 0.8 seconds.

The nerfs went to the season's strongest new faces. Gorr's Shadow Scythe now deals 50 plus 2% of the target's maximum health (was 55), his Shockwave 55 (was 60) and his ultimate lasts 10 seconds instead of 12, although Living Abyss comes back three seconds sooner. Devil Dinosaur lost 25 health (850 to 825), and Scarlet Witch's reworked Chthonian Burst field went from 40 to 35. The post also retuned eleven team-ups, all listed in the team-ups guide.

Every event and when it ends

The event list is where Season 10.5 is busiest. Most events give one costume away for free when you finish their missions and sell premium costumes alongside. Here is every event and mode on the calendar, with the date it ends; the countdowns update when you open the page.

Two smaller things sit outside that table. The Pop & Win draw (16 October to 13 November) sells Invisible Woman's "Unseen Weaver", Deadpool's "Nurse-Pool" and Mister Fantastic's "Mr. Malignance" with a Cross-Pool Promo that halves the price of the same balloon in the other two pools. And the Times Square social hub ran two film-themed activities — a two-minute highlights screening for a Gallery Card and a photo wall that pays 100 Units — first for Infinity War (9 to 22 October), then for Endgame (22 October to 26 November).

What to finish before Season 11

The season switch on 13 November 2026 ends three events and resets Competitive. BoostPirate's checklist for the last days of Season 10.5:

• Play your ten Competitive matches. NetEase gives no season rewards — including Jeff's Razor-Tooth Gold costume — to players who haven't completed ten matches.by 13 Nov
• Finish All Hallows' Glow for Rocket Raccoon's free "Trash King" costume.ends 13 Nov
• Spend your Galacta's Gift coins in the Exchange Store while the Vol. 3 costumes are there.ends 13 Nov
• Clear the Endgame sessions for the free Captain America costume; the mode only opens in set windows.ends 26 Nov
• Finish Infinity Finale for Thor's "The Avengers" costume.ends 10 Dec
• Decide where you want to start Season 11. Placements begin three divisions below your final rank, so a last push now raises the floor.before 13 Nov

The last point matters most for climbers. Since Season 5 a new season starts with ten placement matches from a predicted rank three divisions below your final rank (Celestial II and above start from Grandmaster II), and you can't place above Celestial I. The placement guide explains the maths, and the free placement calculator shows your starting rank.

What we know about Season 11

Season 11 also closes the esports year: the Season 10 patch notes say the final 2026 Championship Points are earned in Season 11, and the top Factions from it and the 2026 points leaderboard qualify for the Ignite Series 2026 Annual Qualifier. We don't repeat leaked hero names; this page will be updated when NetEase's Season 11 notes are out.

How to read a Marvel Rivals season

The pattern has held all year, and it tells you what to expect from Season 11. Each full season brings a new Battle Pass with ten costumes, a serial and lore entries, at least one hero, a balance post published a few days before launch and a rank reset through placements. Each half-season brings a second balance post, a Gold-rank costume for that half, a new limited mode or event and, in most halves of 2026, a new hero (Season 10.5 was the exception). Weekly patches in between rarely touch balance.