Marvel Rivals New Heroes Tracker

Blade already came out in Marvel Rivals. He launched with Season 3.5 back in August 2025, over a year before this tracker's current update, so if you are searching for his release date you are not too early, he has been playable for a while. This page exists for a different reason: to track the heroes that have been added since, the ones confirmed for the near future, and how often NetEase actually ships new characters, since that cadence is what determines when the next Blade-style addition shows up. This is a living tracker, not a one-time news post, and every date below is accurate as of August 10, 2026. Check the Marvel Rivals official patch notes for anything more recent than that.

Current Hero Roster Snapshot (as of August 2026)

As of this update, Marvel Rivals is running Season 9, The Mystery of Thebes, which opened on July 10, 2026 and runs through September 11, 2026, split into a 9.0 phase and a 9.5 phase partway through. The roster now spans well over 40 heroes across the Vanguard, Duelist, and Strategist role categories, with the newest additions detailed below. Because NetEase adds heroes roughly every few weeks rather than all at once at a season's start, treat any roster count as a snapshot rather than a fixed number, it grows within a season, not just between them.

Season 9 New Heroes: Jubilee and The Hood

Jubilee joined the roster as a Strategist at the start of Season 9 on July 10, 2026. Her kit centers on manipulating firework-style energy bursts that heal teammates, damage enemies, and disorient targets caught in the blast, giving her a more chaotic, area-based healing style compared to most of the game's other support heroes.

The Hood arrived as a Vanguard on August 7, 2026 with the start of the Season 9.5 update, giving the tank role an unusual ranged profile built around twin pistols for poke damage rather than the melee-heavy kit most Vanguards run. Pairing a frontline role with a ranged weapon set is a departure from how NetEase has typically designed tanks in this game, and it is worth watching how the pro scene adapts to him over the following weeks.

Confirmed Upcoming Heroes

As of this update, NetEase has not announced a specific hero beyond The Hood's Season 9.5 arrival. Marvel Rivals' developers typically reveal a season's second half hero partway through the first half via a Dev Vision broadcast, so expect any Season 10 hero reveals to surface through official channels roughly a few weeks before that season begins. This section will be updated the moment a new hero is officially confirmed rather than rumored, since Marvel Rivals leak culture is active enough that unconfirmed names circulate constantly and are not reliable until NetEase confirms them directly.

Release Cadence: How Often Marvel Rivals Adds Heroes

NetEase has kept a consistent rhythm since launch: roughly one new hero at the start of each full season, and a second new hero roughly midway through that same season when it splits into an X.5 update. With seasons running around nine to ten weeks, that works out to a new playable hero landing approximately every four to five weeks on average, making Marvel Rivals one of the faster moving hero shooters in terms of roster growth. That pace has held steady since Season 1, though NetEase has never publicly committed to it as a guaranteed schedule, so treat it as an observed pattern rather than an official promise.

How to Verify You Have the Latest Roster

Because this is a living page and Marvel Rivals updates on its own schedule, the most current source for a roster change is always the official patch notes at marvelrivals.com, published alongside every major and mid-season update. If a hero mentioned here has since been reworked, added a new ability, or if a new name has launched since August 10, 2026, the in-client patch notes and hero select screen will reflect it before this page is updated to match. If you are new to the game entirely, our beginner's guide to Marvel Rivals covers the roles, objectives, and basic mechanics before you start learning individual heroes, and our breakdown of whether Marvel Rivals supports crossplay is worth reading if you are deciding which platform to play on.

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This tracker will be revisited as new heroes are confirmed. Until then, the roster above reflects Marvel Rivals as of August 10, 2026, Season 9's Mystery of Thebes update. Check back for updates, and follow the competitive scene at Flush's esports sportsbook.