Marvel Rivals Season 10 went live on September 11, 2026, adding Gorr the God Butcher as the game’s 54th playable hero, a full Scarlet Witch rework, a six-division competitive rank reset, and a new seasonal event — with a brand-new map still to arrive later this month.
What Changed When Season 10 Went Live
NetEase took Marvel Rivals offline for scheduled maintenance at 09:00 UTC on September 11, 2026, an outage the studio estimated at roughly two hours, according to the official patch notes on marvelrivals.com. The update, labeled the Season 10 “Godbomb” patch, is tracked as version 1.72 on console per reporting from MP1st.
The headline change is the hero roster hitting 54 with Gorr’s addition — a number this site’s own Season 10 preview reported as an unconfirmed leak back on September 2. NetEase has now confirmed it directly. Scarlet Witch also received what the patch notes describe as a complete rework, and balance changes this season touch a large share of the existing roster — Insider Gaming’s patch-notes breakdown puts it at roughly 70% of playable heroes seeing some adjustment, buff or nerf.
Ranked players are not exempt from the reset, either: every competitive player drops six full divisions when the new season opens.
Gorr the God Butcher’s Full Ability Kit
Gorr joins the roster as a melee Duelist — Marvel Rivals’ damage-dealer class — built around summoning and sacrificing a swarm of shadowy thralls called Black Berserkers. Multiple hero-guide breakdowns, including esports.gg’s ability rundown and Mobalytics’ hero guide, describe the same core kit:
| Input | Ability | Effect |
|---|---|---|
| Primary Fire | All-Black | A fast four-strike melee combo with the Necrosword. |
| Secondary Fire | Necro-Power | Fires a projectile that Slows an enemy and teleports nearby Black Berserkers to their position. |
| Shift | Living Abyss | Gorr becomes briefly invincible and gains a large movement speed boost plus a damaging aura, giving him strong chase and escape potential. |
| E | Black Berserker | Summons a Black Berserker thrall to fight for him. Up to three can be active at once, each lasting roughly eight seconds. |
| F | Shadow Harvest | Warps to a chosen Black Berserker, sacrificing it for bonus health equal to half its remaining health and triggering a symbiote explosion. Briefly transforms All-Black into a scythe for a set duration or four slashes. |
| Passive | Symbiote Swarm | Gorr gains bonus health whenever his Black Berserkers hit an enemy, and defeating an enemy spawns a new Berserker at the kill location. |
| Ultimate | Twilight of the Gods | Spawns a Black Berserker beside every enemy within 10 meters, separate from his normal cap of three active thralls (capped at seven Berserkers from the ultimate itself). |
That kit inverts the usual read for a melee brawler. Most Duelists play cautiously once their own health drops, but Gorr’s real health bar is spread across however many Black Berserkers he currently has alive: Shadow Harvest only pays out bonus health if there’s a Berserker on the field to sacrifice. Practically, that means the right moment to disengage isn’t when Gorr’s HP looks low — it’s when he has no thralls left to convert into a shield. Players used to reading their own health bar will misplay him until that switch clicks.
Because Gorr generates most of his sustain and burst through his Berserkers rather than raw damage output, guide sites including Beebom and RivalsMeta note he pairs well with teammates who can peel space for his melee range and punish anyone forced to deal with the Berserker swarm instead of him directly. He is also, unsurprisingly, weak to burst attackers who can kill him before enough Berserkers are on the field to fuel his sustain loop — something to plan around on both sides of a match.
From Comic-Book Villain to Playable Hero
Gorr the God Butcher isn’t a Marvel Rivals original — he first appeared in Jason Aaron and Esad Ribíc’s Thor: God of Thunder #2 in 2013, a villain built specifically to challenge Thor’s faith in his own godhood by hunting and killing gods across every era of the universe. He reached a far wider audience in 2022, when Christian Bale played him in Taika Waititi’s Thor: Love and Thunder. Marvel Rivals’ character model leans on the same design language as both versions — the bone-white skin, the black cloak, the Necrosword — rather than inventing a new look for the hero-shooter roster, which is consistent with how the game has generally adapted its cast.
What’s Still Coming This Season
Season 10 isn’t finished unpacking on day one. A new seasonal story event, The Tetrameron, launched alongside Gorr and tasks players with helping Loki — branded this season as “The Chronicler” — complete a set of challenges for rewards, according to FandomWire’s roadmap breakdown. A new map, God Quarry, is scheduled to arrive on September 25, 2026, roughly two weeks into the season.
The Godbomb Battle Pass adds ten new hero costume sets this season, including named skins for White Fox (Cosmic Kumiho), Captain America (Astral Aegis) and Loki (The Chronicler), per the official patch notes. NetEase is also temporarily bringing back the Season 4 Battle Pass for players who missed it the first time, alongside a new Twitch Drops program tied to the season.
If you’re deciding whether Gorr fits your roster before jumping back in, our breakdown of how Marvel Rivals compares to Marvel Tokon is a good next read, and we’ll have a full build guide for Gorr’s kit and best team pairings live shortly.
Frequently Asked Questions
When did Marvel Rivals Season 10 start?
Season 10 went live on September 11, 2026, after roughly two hours of scheduled maintenance that began at 09:00 UTC, per the official patch notes on marvelrivals.com.
How many heroes are in Marvel Rivals now?
The roster reached 54 playable heroes with Gorr the God Butcher’s addition in the Season 10 update.
What role does Gorr the God Butcher play?
Gorr is a melee Duelist built around summoning Black Berserker thralls, sacrificing them for bonus health, and finishing fights with a scythe-form combo unlocked by his F ability, Shadow Harvest.
Will my competitive rank reset in Season 10?
Yes. NetEase is dropping every ranked player six full divisions as part of the Season 10 rank reset.
When does the new Season 10 map arrive?
The new map, God Quarry, is scheduled to launch on September 25, 2026, about two weeks after the rest of the Season 10 update.
