The Marvel Rivals tier list is proof of an inherent truth: not every hero (or villain) is built equally. In the competitive shooter’s season 1 (which added two characters, two maps, a battle pass, and skins ), every character is technically viable, but there are some who are obviously more powerful than the rest.

The Marvel Rivals Season 1 Battle Pass "Dark Hold" features the awesome Blood Berserker Wolverine skin, Emporium Matron Scarlet Witch, and more.

Look, I know half the conversation around Marvel Rivals is taken up with comparing it to its obvious inspiration, Overwatch 2, but sometimes it’s hard to talk about much else when developer NetEase continues to copy Overwatch 2’s homework and makes little effort to hide it.

It’s hard to stop making Overwatch comparisons to Marvel Rivals, given how familiar the latter’s upcoming Chinese New Year event looks. Those of us who’ve been playing Blizzard’s hero shooter for the past eight years have seen this all before.

NetEase Games has revealed the Marvel Rivals Spring Festival event, which adds a handful of new hero skins and a soccer game mode that might look familiar to Overwatch and Rocket League players. The team behind the hero shooter hit announced its latest update with a trailer,