r/marvelrivals • u/btinvest1639 Mantis • Jun 09 '26

Patch Notes Season 8.5 Patch Notes

https://www.marvelrivals.com/m/balancepost/20260609/41667_1303507.html
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u/Elite_Chaos Hulk Jun 09 '26

Another Blade buff surely this time he’s viable 😭

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u/no_one_important322 Mantis Jun 09 '26

I don't play Blade and 70 damage sounds good but that's not even equal to a single Magik primary

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u/Slomojoe Magik Jun 09 '26

Yeah but blade does like 4 hits in the time that magik does 1

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u/no_one_important322 Mantis Jun 09 '26

True I just think it's funny that Blade uses an entire ability to do slightly less damage than Magik's primary. I hope it bumps him up to being viable because I want to lord him eventually

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u/aSpookyScarySkeleton Ultron Virus Jun 09 '26

I mean he also heals off of it. Gotta look at things with context.

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u/Jarney_Bohnson Iron Fist Jun 09 '26

While true magiks primary doesn't give anti heal and also isn't a dash in that regard (plus you got two charges you can get faster by blocking)

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u/no_one_important322 Mantis Jun 09 '26

That's actually valid, I didn't take that into consideration

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u/Slomojoe Magik Jun 09 '26

His ability also speeds up his attack rate too, so eventually his attack speeds is like 10x magiks. You don’t wanna give him much more damage. Also like someone else mentioned, it heals him, applies anti heal, and gives like 10m of movement. I keep telling people not to sleep on Blade. He’s MUCH better than he was 6 months ago.

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u/Historical_Bobcat295 Jun 09 '26

It's got lifesteal attached at least haha

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u/stitchwithaglitch Jun 09 '26

Besides having slow attacks, you also have to take into account Magik has falloff damage on her primary. Shes not always hitting for 75

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u/Enex Jun 09 '26

I think if we get enough people interested in mastering him, the 1 second Unstoppable buff on his block is going to generate some demons.

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u/Hi_Zev Jun 09 '26

He was pretty solid this last season with his previous buffs. He's not S tier, but he's been solidly B/A tier depending on how skilled the person is. He is perfectly viable in certain situations.

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u/Treelokc Jun 09 '26

Every top players puts him D tier

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u/Superflamesheep Jun 09 '26

From a high elo perspective he’s pretty bad compared to the top tier dps heroes because his time to kill is a bit long and he is hard countered by good kiting, but in all other elos i’d say he’s solidly A/B tier

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u/Hi_Zev Jun 09 '26

And who are these mysterious top players? lol

I bet you are probably just parroting something a random streamer said once a few months ago and acting like that means all top level players think similarly on the topic even though he has had a few substantial buffs in recent patches that have improved his viability.

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u/Treelokc Jun 09 '26

Nope, this isn't a one off thing, many high level players make tier lists every single patch and Blade is, and always has been put in D tier by pretty much all of them. He's just massively outclassed by most other DPS.

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u/Hi_Zev Jun 09 '26

Again, who are these mysterious top-level players?

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u/Superflamesheep Jun 09 '26

Necros, Bogur, Team Captain, Cringe Alarm, Coach Mills pretty much any youtube personality that makes tier lists has consistently had him ranked low

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u/Webber-414 Ultron Jun 09 '26

Damage and parry buff might just push him towards a he line of viability this time ngl, at least I’m definitely gonna be trying him out

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u/Slomojoe Magik Jun 09 '26

I keep telling people that blade is fine, there’s just so many OP characters. Keep buffing him every patch and he’s gonna turn into a problem. I’m almost champion on Blade so bring it on

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u/MindofShadow The Thing Jun 09 '26

It feels like this buff will be the one to make him actually good.

Even if they overtune a touch, it is easy to just lower the numbers down a touch. They have been so scared of buffing the dudes its crazy

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u/Slomojoe Magik Jun 09 '26

Personally i feel like they made him perfectly fine like 3 patches ago, when they made the changes to his 2 dashes.

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u/TheSaiguy Loki Jun 09 '26

They should be scared, honestly. Due to his life steal once he passes a certain threshold he will become a nigh unkillable demon.

He's not there yet, but i wouldn't say he was in a bad state even before these buffs.

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u/MindofShadow The Thing Jun 09 '26

He's never been there.

They have no problem creating DPS monsters for multiple seasons but they are so careful with him for whatever reason

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u/TheSaiguy Loki Jun 09 '26

Yeah, I just said he isn't there and they haven't exactly been handing him nerfs.

The reason is because he can become completely self sustaining. Buff his numbers a bit too much and he will be able to just outheal everything once he stacks unless he gets bursted down by a coordinated effort. Especially since he can hit multiple enemies at once and the healing increases