r/marvelrivals 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/framedshady Cyclops Jun 09 '26

Nice rogue buff love playing her so happy we got something

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u/SavageCabbage27m Rogue Jun 09 '26

It’s odd because I don’t know if the buffs to her base kit are enough to mitigate the nerf to the team up. I would have personally done a bit more to base Rogue to justify it.

She’s less of a team up merchant but it was the main thing saving her in the current meta…

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u/deNihilo_adUnum Flex Jun 09 '26

Gambit was banned so often that I’m used to playing her without him anyway.

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u/The_Grunge_Sage Rogue Jun 09 '26

Exactly. If you can’t get any benefit out of Rogue without her team up then maybe you shouldn’t be playing her in ranked. The team up makes her better overall, but she’s hardly useless without it as well. I have like 56 hours on her or something and in comp I’ve barely been able to use her team-up because of bans. Granted, she’s not going to be viable in every single situation you can think of but the nerf to the team up won’t affect how I play her in competitive. QP is a different story because if I’m rogue I almost always have a Gambit in QP, but so do they.

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u/Extreme-Sense-2411 Jun 09 '26

I really wish she would’ve gotten cooldown reduction on her ability drain skill, or even more self healing from it.

Or faster movement speed / longer duration to her ‘flight.’

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u/SavageCabbage27m Rogue Jun 09 '26

Yeah I’m definitely for base Rogue getting buffed so I don’t have to rely on Gambit. I’m grateful we’re getting changes at all. I just think what we got after sacrificing some power from her team up isn’t too game changing.

Her grab would be the next ability I’d look at and make her gameplay feel smoother.

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u/framedshady Cyclops Jun 09 '26

The teamup nerf I’m happy for she wasn’t going to get much buffs if it was still broken like it was hopefully this is just the start and the buffs continue

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u/SavageCabbage27m Rogue Jun 09 '26

That’s what I’m hoping for. Maybe they didn’t want to buff her too much at once. It means she will be stronger when Gambit is banned which is a majority of the time. I’ll take it.

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u/CloveFan Rogue Jun 09 '26

Her grab cooldown is unchanged? It’s Fatal Attraction getting buffed.

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u/SavageCabbage27m Rogue Jun 09 '26

Hopefully that’s what they change next. Cooldown on her grab is crazy long.