New Marvel Rivals Characters

The Three Most Recent Additions

**Gorr the God Butcher — Season 10 — Duelist — 54th hero.** Season 10, titled "Butcher's Blasphemy", is the current season; the official site gives its start as September 9, 2026, while several outlets reported a September 11 launch. Gorr fights with the All-Black the Necrosword, which changes form rather than staying a single weapon.

A note on sourcing, because this page's whole argument is about not inventing things: Gorr's **role and 54th-hero status are corroborated by the Marvel Rivals Wiki and multiple independent outlets, but the official Season 10 page does not itself state a role.** That is a slightly weaker footing than the two heroes below, and it is worth saying so rather than flattening everything into the same confident voice. Treat the finer details of his kit as provisional until the official hero page is up.

**The Hood — August 7, 2026 — Vanguard — 53rd hero.** Parker Robbins arrived in the Season 9.5 mid-season update. His role was the surprise: a character built around dual pistols and a magical spherical shield landing in the tank role rather than the damage role most people had predicted.

**Jubilee — July 10, 2026 — Strategist.** Added at the Season 9 launch, into the smallest role pool in the game.

Three heroes across roughly two months, one into each of the three roles. That cadence is the reason a roster you learned in July is already two heroes out of date.

What the Last Three Releases Did to the Roster

The roster now holds 54 heroes: 14 Vanguards, 27 Duelists, 12 Strategists, and Deadpool as a multi-role pick.

Before Gorr, the pattern looked deliberate in one direction: Jubilee went into the 12-hero Strategist pool and The Hood into the 14-hero Vanguard pool, the two smallest. Neither was a Duelist, and it was tempting to read that as the developers flattening a roster where damage heroes had run far ahead.

Gorr complicates that reading, and it is worth updating the conclusion rather than defending the old one. He is the 27th Duelist, taking the largest pool larger still. So the honest summary is not "they are only adding tanks and supports" — it is that across three releases they added one hero to each role, which leaves the proportions roughly where they were.

The practical consequence is unchanged: a new Duelist is a marginal addition to a pool of 27, while a new Vanguard or Strategist is a meaningful addition to a pool of 14 or 12. That asymmetry is why The Hood changed drafting more than Gorr is likely to, even though Gorr is the more talked-about release.

What a Mid-Season Arrival Signals

The Hood arrived in a **mid-season** update rather than at a full season launch, and the two are different events.

Full season launches tend to bring maps, modes and a new battle pass alongside any hero. Mid-season updates are narrower and usually carry balance work. Season 9.5 shipped Vanguard adjustments in the same patch that added a Vanguard — meaning The Hood entered a role that was being actively tuned around him.

The practical consequence for anyone learning him: early impressions formed in that window are less durable than usual. When the role around a hero is moving at the same time the hero is new, the first two weeks of opinion are measuring two changes at once.

Learning a New Hero Efficiently

A new release is the one moment when the usual advice to stick to your comfort picks is worth ignoring, because everybody is equally inexperienced.

The efficient approach is narrower than most people attempt. Rather than trying to learn the full kit at once, pick the single thing that makes the hero unusual and build around that. For The Hood, that is ranged output on a tank — a Vanguard who can contribute without being adjacent to the enemy, in a role where almost everything else is built around proximity. Play the first several games specifically testing where that changes your positioning, and let the rest of the kit arrive on its own.

What does not work is treating a new Vanguard as a damage hero because it has a gun. That is the most common failure mode on a hybrid release, and it produces respectable damage numbers on a lot of losses.

It is also the moment to use a randomiser deliberately rather than for novelty. A new release resets everyone's familiarity, so the usual cost of playing something unfamiliar — being worse than the people who have mastered it — is temporarily near zero. Rolling within the new hero's role during that window is the cheapest time all season to widen what you can play. The marvel rivals character randomizer tool locks to a single role if you want to work through one pool.

Where New Heroes Land in the Tier Lists

Slowly, and with more noise than signal at first.

A hero released into a role that is being balanced in the same patch will be ranked confidently by a dozen sites within about a day, and those rankings are largely guesses — they are formed before anyone has enough games to distinguish a strong kit from an unfamiliar one. Early placements tend to be too high for heroes that feel exciting and too low for heroes that need setup.

The tier lists on this site place heroes by community consensus and are updated as that consensus settles rather than on release day. For where the current roster stands: marvel rivals vanguard tier list, marvel rivals duelist tier list and marvel rivals strategist tier list cover the three roles, and marvel rivals tier list is the overall view.

What This Page Will Not Tell You

It will not tell you who is coming next.

There is a large amount of content about upcoming Marvel Rivals heroes built on datamined strings, leaked art of uncertain origin, and straightforward wishlisting. Some of it eventually turns out to be right, which is exactly what makes the rest of it persuasive. None of it is confirmed until the developer confirms it.

The policy here is simple: a hero appears on this page when they are playable, with the date they arrived and the role they were given. If you want speculation there is plenty of it elsewhere, and some of it is even entertaining. It just is not information you can plan around, and this site would rather be current than early.

There is a practical test for any "upcoming hero" claim you come across. Ask what the source would have to have access to in order to know it, and whether they say. A datamined asset name tells you a string exists in a build; it does not tell you the role, the date, or whether the character ships at all. Concept art of uncertain provenance tells you even less. When a piece names its evidence you can weigh it; when it does not, the confidence in the writing is doing the work that evidence should be doing.

Keeping Your Own Roster Knowledge Current

Two habits cover almost everything.

**Check the role counts, not the names.** Remembering that the roster is 14 / 26 / 12 plus Deadpool tells you more about how a match will play than memorising fifty-three names does, and it is a much smaller thing to keep updated.

**Notice mid-season patches.** Full season launches are hard to miss. Mid-season updates are quieter, and The Hood demonstrates that a hero can arrive in one. A roster you last checked at a season launch may already be a hero behind.

The marvel rivals roster page keeps the current breakdown, and the randomiser tools draw from the same list — so if the wheel can roll a hero, that hero is in the game.

A third habit, for anyone who writes about the game rather than just plays it: keep the counts in one place and read them from there. Quoting a hero count inline on several pages means that the day a hero ships, some of those pages are wrong and you have to remember which. Storing the roster once and referencing it makes a new release a one-line change instead of an audit.

And if you want a source that cannot be out of date: the hero select screen itself. Every list, including this one, is a copy of it made at some point in the past. When a count anywhere disagrees with what the game shows you, the game is right and the page needs updating — including this page.

Two Roles People Consistently Get Wrong

Worth stating plainly, because both survive in guides written from memory rather than from the hero select screen.

**Rogue is a Vanguard**, not a Duelist. The comics instinct says damage dealer; the game says front line.

**Gambit is a Strategist**, not a Duelist. Same instinct, same error, opposite direction.

These matter beyond trivia. If you are planning a composition from a mental list rather than from the game, both of these will quietly produce a team that looks balanced on paper and is not.

A Note on Hero Counts That Disagree

If you compare hero totals across sites you will find 53, 54 and occasionally 55, and usually nobody is out of date.

The discrepancy is Deadpool. He is multi-role and does not sit cleanly in one of the three buckets. A site that files him as a Duelist reports 28 Duelists. A site that leaves him out entirely reports 53 heroes. This site counts 14 Vanguards, 27 Duelists, 12 Strategists **and** Deadpool separately, for 54.

So before concluding a source is stale, check how it handled him. It is the single most common reason two accurate pages disagree about the size of the roster — and with Gorr's arrival in Season 10 there is now a second reason, because a page written before September 2026 will legitimately say 53.