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Marvel Rivals Best Duelists to Climb in Season 9 — DPS Tier List & Rank-Up Guide (July 2026)
Sam Okonkwo

Sam Okonkwo

Senior Games Writer

Marvel Rivals Best Duelists to Climb in Season 9 — DPS Tier List & Rank-Up Guide (July 2026)

If your aim is fine but your rank is stuck, the problem is usually your Duelist pick, not your mechanics. Season 9 "The Mystery of Thebes" rebalanced ...

Marvel Rivals Season 9 Rank Reset: How Many Divisions You'll Drop & How to Climb Back Fast (July 10 Update)
Sam Okonkwo

Sam Okonkwo

Senior Games Writer

Marvel Rivals Season 9 Rank Reset: How Many Divisions You'll Drop & How to Climb Back Fast (July 10 Update)

Season 9 — The Mystery of Thebes — goes live on July 10, 2026 at 9 AM UTC, and like every new season it comes with a competitive rank reset: your hard-won rank ...

Marvel Rivals Best Vanguards to Climb in Season 9 — Tank Tier List & Rank-Up Guide (July 2026)
Sam Okonkwo

Sam Okonkwo

Senior Games Writer

Marvel Rivals Best Vanguards to Climb in Season 9 — Tank Tier List & Rank-Up Guide (July 2026)

If you queue tank to climb and keep melting in team fights, it's probably not you — Season 9 quietly rewrote what a Vanguard is. The "Regenerative Shie...

Marvel Rivals Best Team Comps to Climb in Season 9 (2026 Meta)
Sam Okonkwo

Sam Okonkwo

Senior Games Writer

Marvel Rivals Best Team Comps to Climb in Season 9 (2026 Meta)

Quick answer: The best team comp in Marvel Rivals Season 9 is a 2-2-2 anti-dive brawl built around Peni Parker + Magneto (Vanguards), Storm + Phoenix (Duelists)...

Marvel Rivals Black Cat Counters: Best Heroes to Shut Her Down in Season 9 (2026)
Sam Okonkwo

Sam Okonkwo

Senior Games Writer

Marvel Rivals Black Cat Counters: Best Heroes to Shut Her Down in Season 9 (2026)

Black Cat is the name filling your kill feed in Marvel Rivals ranked right now. She slips behind your team, deletes a support, and vanishes before you can turn ...

Marvel Rivals Season 9.5 Update: The Hood Release Date, Thebes Map, Age of Ultron Mode & Best Heroes to Climb Now (July 2026)
Sam Okonkwo

Sam Okonkwo

Senior Games Writer

Marvel Rivals Season 9.5 Update: The Hood Release Date, Thebes Map, Age of Ultron Mode & Best Heroes to Climb Now (July 2026)

Season 9 launched on July 10, 2026 — but the biggest content wave is landing right now, across the back half of July. Over the next two weeks Marvel Rivals gets...

Marvel Rivals Best Team-Up Abilities in Season 9: Top Loadouts to Climb (July 2026)
Sam Okonkwo

Sam Okonkwo

Senior Games Writer

Marvel Rivals Best Team-Up Abilities in Season 9: Top Loadouts to Climb (July 2026)

Season 9 didn't just add a hero — it rebuilt the single mechanic that decides team fights. The July 10, 2026 update ("The Mystery of Thebes," Vers...

Marvel Rivals Season 9 Tier List: Best Heroes to Climb Ranked (July 2026 Meta)
Sam Okonkwo

Sam Okonkwo

Senior Games Writer

Marvel Rivals Season 9 Tier List: Best Heroes to Climb Ranked (July 2026 Meta)

Season 9 "The Mystery of Thebes" is the biggest Marvel Rivals update since launch — and it reset the whole meta. Roughly 80% of the roster was retuned...

Marvel Rivals Season 9: Release Date (July 10), New Heroes Jubilee & The Hood, and How to Climb Before the Rank Reset
Sam Okonkwo

Sam Okonkwo

Senior Games Writer

Marvel Rivals Season 9: Release Date (July 10), New Heroes Jubilee & The Hood, and How to Climb Before the Rank Reset

This guide covers everything confirmed about Season 9 — the exact start time, the new heroes and what we actually know versus what's leaked, and the season ...

Marvel Rivals Best Tanks to Climb in Season 8.5 — Vanguard Tier List & Rank-Up Guide (June 2026)
Sam Okonkwo

Sam Okonkwo

Senior Games Writer

Marvel Rivals Best Tanks to Climb in Season 8.5 — Vanguard Tier List & Rank-Up Guide (June 2026)

In Marvel Rivals, the fastest way to lose a ranked game below Diamond isn't bad aim — it's a team with one tank, or no tank at all. Vanguards create the...

Marvel Rivals Best Team Comps to Climb in Season 8.5 — Meta Compositions & Rank-Up Guide (June 2026)
Sam Okonkwo

Sam Okonkwo

Senior Games Writer

Marvel Rivals Best Team Comps to Climb in Season 8.5 — Meta Compositions & Rank-Up Guide (June 2026)

The single biggest mistake stuck players make in Marvel Rivals ranked is treating it like a solo game. It isn't. The matches you win below Grandmaster are d...

Cyclops in Marvel Rivals: Is He Worth It in Ranked? Counters & How to Climb in Season 8.5 (June 2026)
Sam Okonkwo

Sam Okonkwo

Senior Games Writer

Cyclops in Marvel Rivals: Is He Worth It in Ranked? Counters & How to Climb in Season 8.5 (June 2026)

Cyclops dropped into Marvel Rivals with the Season 8.5 "Return of the Summers" update on June 12, 2026 — and within days he was the most argued-about ...

Marvel Rivals Best Heroes to Climb in Season 8.5 — Tier List & Rank-Up Guide (June 12 Patch)
Sam Okonkwo

Sam Okonkwo

Senior Games Writer

Marvel Rivals Best Heroes to Climb in Season 8.5 — Tier List & Rank-Up Guide (June 12 Patch)

The fastest way to climb in Marvel Rivals is not to grind harder on a hero the patch just nerfed — it's to play the right characters for this patch. Season ...