Marvel Rivals Season 11 starts November 13 with Nightcrawler as new hero

Marvel Rivals starts Season 11 on November 13, 2026, at 09:00 UTC. NetEase Games announced the update, version 20261113, in patch notes posted on Steam on November 12, with an estimated two hours of maintenance. The headline addition is Nightcrawler as a new hero.

What Season 11 brings

According to the official post, the season ships with a new serial called Doomsday, Nightcrawler lore titled Leap of Faith and a seasonal story event, The Acts of Kurt Wagner, in which players team up with Nightcrawler to decipher a prophecy and lead "daring disaster relief ops". The new battle pass, The Incursion, contains 10 sets of costumes, among them Emma Frost - Seat of Winter and Daredevil - The Man Without Fear. The Gold-tier rank reward for Season 11.0 is the Nightcrawler costume Hope Soared, and a new round of Twitch Drops with the Devil Dinosaur - Will of Galacta costume runs from November 13 to December 11.

Destructoid lists Nightcrawler as a new Strategist. Video Games Chronicle reports that his projectiles both damage enemies and heal allies, and that unlike other strategists he "can hold his own in close quarters". Destructoid also reports a new 18-vs-18 map, Incursion Point, arriving on November 26 for the new Chrono-Annihilation mode.

A separate balance post from the same day reworks several heroes. NetEase calls Devil Dinosaur "a dominant force among Vanguards" since his Season 10 buffs and cuts his survivability and crowd control. Angela gets a buff to her ground form, and Vanguard Deadpool's The Big Test ultimate is adjusted to make it competitive again.

Dracula next, no Doctor Doom yet

The season is short. Destructoid expects it to last about one month, with another big update and the switch to Season 11.5 halfway through. VGC reports that Dracula will be added in that half-season update, expected in December. According to VGC, many fans had anticipated Doctor Doom, and Destructoid had earlier reported that data miners found him alongside Nightcrawler for Season 11. VGC writes that players still expect him to end up in the game at some point.

NetEase's Dev Vision Vol. 23, also posted on November 12, frames the start of Season 11 as a celebration of the game's second anniversary, which Destructoid says comes up in December. The patch notes add that the Marvel Rivals IGNITE 2026 Grand Finals, with 12 teams, run from November 23 to 29 in Stockholm.

On Steam, the game ranked 25th in the most played chart on November 11 with a peak of 54,180 concurrent players, up from 33rd a week earlier. On November 12 it peaked at 54,901 players. Its 425,389 user reviews are 74 percent positive, rated Mostly Positive.

Toxicity remains a topic. GamesRadar+ reported a few weeks ago that NetEase addressed toxic speech in the game, saying it will not accept such behavior just because it is "unfortunately common in competitive gaming". According to GamesRadar+, many in the Marvel Rivals subreddit agreed that toxic speech had seeped too deep into the game. NetEase's official moderation guidelines allow chat and voice bans of up to 365 days and long-term suspensions for severe or repeated offenses.

Marvel Rivals is free to play on Steam, so coming back only takes the update after maintenance on November 13. Players who want the Incursion Point map have to wait until November 26, and Dracula is due with the mid-season update in December.