Marvel Rivals 2025 roadmap – leaks and when new seasons are expected to start

Marvel Rivals has just come out at the tail end of 2024, and already it has quickly become one of the biggest and most popular hero shooters available to play. It is a fantastic experience, and it is set to get much better as right now we are only competing in the pre-season. In lack of an official outline of the next 12-months from NetEase, we have compiled a roadmap for Marvel Rivals in 2025 that shares when new seasons are expected to start while also discussing leaks for the game.

Before Season 1 begins, you should know that Chrono Tokens will not carry over, and they will continue to not carry over from season-to-season. In addition, for Season 1, NetEase have assured fans that a permanent solution to mouse acceleration issues will be added to significantly improve aiming.

Season 1 will kickstart the Marvel Rivals 2025 roadmap in the new year, and the next 12-months should be very exciting judging by leaks.

Marvel Rivals 2025 roadmap

The Marvel Rivals 2025 roadmap starts with Season 1 in January. No specific date has been provided yet, but the game’s creative director, Guangguang, said it will start “early January 2025”.

Season 1 is very important as it will be the “framework” for all other seasons. Each new season is expected to add new heroes, maps, team-up abilities, and possibly new game modes.

The creative director said “each season will last about three months,” which means the 2025 roadmap should look as follows:

• Season 1 – early January
• Season 2 – April
• Season 3 – July
• Season 4 – October
• Season 5 – January 2026

Even though each chapter is expected to last three months, nothing is set-in-stone right now other than Season 1 for January. Delays can occur and plans can change, so the above roadmap is simply what’s expected based off the creative director’s words in the Dev Vision Vol.1 preview.

Leaks

There are a lot of leaks for Marvel Rivals. NetEase has admitted datamining is pretty much impossible to stop, so leaks will continue to surface online.

RivalsLeaks on X has revealed that Ultron is set to come out in Season 1, and he is reportedly a Strategist with a two-star difficulty and the following abilities:

• Q – Rage of Ultron:
  • Summon Ultron drones to fire Encephalo-Rays, damaging enemies or healing allies
• LSHIFT – Dynamic Flight:
  • Fly quickly in the direction of movement and then enter a free-flight mode
• E – Imperative: Patch:
  • Command a giant drone to follow an ally, constantly healing allies in its radius, with additional healing for the designated ally
• Right-mouse click – Imperative: Firewall:
  • Summon drones to grant bonus health to allies within range, centered on himself and the ally marked with Imperative: Patch
• Passive – Algorithm Protection:
  • Hold SPACE to fall slowly

In addition to Ultron, RivalsLeaks has revealed the abilities for the Human Torch from the Fantastic 4:

• Q – Supernova:
  • Unleash shockwaves to deal damage to enemies within range. During skill activation, the flame field will transform into a flame tornado
• LSHIFT – Plasma Body:
  • Hold LSHIFT to enter a state of accelerated ascent
• E – Pyro-Prison:
  • Connect flame fields to form a fire wall that deals burning damage to enemies
• F – Flaming Meteor:
  • Dive towards the ground and stun nearby enemies
• Right-mouse click – Blazing Blast:
  • Launch a flame ball to create a flame field at the targeted area

Alongside Ultron and the Human Torch, below is a list of other characters leaked to be joining Marvel Rivals in the future:

• The Thing
• Mr Fantastic
• Invisible Woman
• Emma Frost
• Blade
• Jean Grey/Phoenix
• Deadpool
• Angela
• Hit-Monkey
• Modok

And below are some leaked maps via X0X_LEAK:

• Krakoa
• Arakko
• New York

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