Marvel Rivals Season 4.5 Release Countdown: Launch Times, Patch Notes, Hero Balancing, And More

Here is a countdown to Marvel Rivals Season 4.5, along with the exact launch times for all regions, patch notes, and hero balancing changes.

Marvel Rivals Season 4.5 releases on October 10, 2025, at around 11:00 UTC. The servers for the game will go down at 9:00 UTC, and will remain inactive for around two hours. As such, the release time for Marvel Rivals Season 4.5 is going to be around 11:00 UTC on October 10.

The latest season brings in everyone’s favorite lawyer from Hell’s Kitchen, Daredevil, into the fray. Matt Murdock, or Daredevil, joins as a duelist and has a rather unique kit. This hero can actively deflect abilities, including ultimates, which should see some interesting plays. The developer has also released the patch notes for Marvel Rivals Season 4.5, which brings in rank resets and also fixes some minor bugs.

This article provides a countdown to Marvel Rivals Season 4.5 launch. We will also list the Marvel Rivals Season 4.5 patch notes as revealed by NetEase Games.

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Marvel Rivals Season 4.5 Countdown

Marvel Rivals Season 4.5

The servers for Marvel Rivals will go offline on October 10, 2025, at 9:00 UTC. According to the patch notes, it will take around two hours for the update. As such, servers are expected to be back by 11:00 UTC, or the equivalent in your time zone. Note that the update time might reduce or even exceed in some cases. Keep an eye out on the official social media channels of Marvel Rivals to know about any such change instantly.

Marvel Rivals Season 4.5 Release Times For All Regions

Here is the exact release times for Marvel Rivals Season 4.5 for all the major regions:

Region / Time Zone	Date	Servers go down at	Servers should be back by
Pacific Daylight Time (PDT)	October 10, 2025	2:00 AM	4:00 AM
Central Standard Time (CST)	October 10, 2025	4:00 AM	6:00 AM
Eastern Daylight Time (EDT)	October 10, 2025	5:00 AM	7:00 AM
Brasilia Time (BRT)	October 10, 2025	6:00 AM	8:00 AM
Greenwich Mean Time (GMT)	October 10, 2025	9:00 AM	11:00 AM
British Summer Time (BST)	October 10, 2025	10:00 AM	12:00 PM
Central European Standard Time (CEST)	October 10, 2025	11:00 AM	1:00 PM
Indian Standard Time (IST)	October 10, 2025	2:30 PM	4:30 PM
China Standard Time (CT)	October 10, 2025	5:00 PM	7:00 PM
Korea Standard Time (KST)	October 10, 2025	6:00 PM	8:00 PM
Japan Standard Time (JST)	October 10, 2025	6:00 PM	8:00 PM
Australian Eastern Standard Time (AEST)	October 10, 2025	7:00 PM	9:00 PM
New Zealand Standard Time (NZST)	October 10, 2025	9:00 PM	11:00 PM

Marvel Rivals Season 4.5 Patch Notes

Here are the Marvel Rivals Season 4.5 patch notes (version 20251010):

All-New Content

New Hero

Justice will be served! Daredevil joins Marvel Rivals!

New Stories

New Daredevil Lore – The Long Road Back

New Event – Jade Scrolls of K’un-Lun

Complete Jade Scrolls missions to get the Storm – Judicator XieZhi costume for FREE, and earn Spider-Man – Black & Gold, Psylocke – Fleeting Butterfly and more.

Psylocke's new Fleeting Butterfly costume in Marvel Rivals Season 4.5.

New Systems & New Content

Home Background Switch: Change the background to your liking!
Volleyball Bash Emote: Now supports interaction between three heroes.

New In Store

Daredevil – Devil 2099 Bundle
Hulk – Maestro Bundle
Daredevil – Devil 2099 Emoji Bundle
Daredevil – Fearless Origin

Available from: October 10^th, 2025, at 09:00:00 (UTC)

Twitch Drops

As Season 4.5 kicks off, get ready for a new round of Twitch Drops. Simply accumulate the required viewing time to claim your rewards.
This round’s drops include the Mister Fantastic – Will of Galacta costume along with related bundle content.

Drops Period: October 10^th, 2025, at 12:00:00 (UTC) to November 7^th, 2025, at 09:00:00 (UTC)

As the Ignite battles heat up, we will launch tournament-specific drops on select live-streaming platforms! Simply accumulate the required viewing time to claim your rewards.
This round’s drops include the tournament commemorative spray and emoji.

Drops Period: October 10^th, 2025, at 12:00:00 (UTC) to November 7^th, 2025, at 09:00:00 (UTC)

Factions

Inactive factions will be cleared automatically. Factions where all members haven’t played in matchmaking for two consecutive seasons will be disbanded due to inactivity. However, factions with a historical honor of MRC256 or higher will remain intact. If a faction is disbanded, any member can log into the game during that season and use the “Revive Faction” feature to bring the faction back as the Captain.

Rank Adjustments

Rank Rewards

New Rank Settlement Rewards: Reach Gold for the cool Daredevil – Shenloong’s Creed costume. Earn all-new Nameplate Frames at Diamond and Platinum, plus rock fresh Crests of Honor for Grandmaster, Celestial, Eternity, and the illustrious Top 500.

Fixes and Optimizations

All Platforms

The team invitation interface now shows if the invited player is a friend.
Resolved an issue where players could still receive messages from those they’ve blocked upon logging into the game.
Fixed a bug where logging in from another device might accidentally turn on the microphone that was previously turned off.

Maps and Modes

Improved the fog effects in the map K’un-Lun – Heart of Heaven.
Enhanced the AFK detection in Doom Match Practice. Now you can chat and enjoy group emotes to your heart’s content without any worries!

Heroes

Jeff the Land Shark’s Stall Shutdown: We’ve optimized Jeff’s Ultimate Ability to ensure he interacts smoothly with the terrain. If he gets temporarily stuck in a fall and uses his ultimate, he’ll seamlessly transition into the dive phase after some time, complete with an extra audio cue for his ultimate when landing. Now everyone will be aware when Jeff is about to make a big splash!
Doctor Strange’s Cloak Conundrum: Resolved a bug where Cloak of Levitation would sometimes lead to erratic movement patterns in poor network conditions. Now, with the mystic arts fully aligned, Strange glides through the chaos like a true master of the multiverse!

Marvel Rivals Season 4.5 Hero Balancing Changes

Here are all the changes to hero balancing in Marvel Rivals Season 4.5

Adjustments

Vanguard

Angela

The Hand of Heven receives a slight boost to her sustained fighting power.
After activating Divine Judgement, increase Axes of Ichors Angela’s Bonus Health from 30 per enemy hit to 40 and allies from 15 to 20.

Venom

Venom’s Ultimate Ability becomes even more menacing for his foes.
Feast of the Abyss (Ultimate Ability) now applies a 30% Healing Reduction to enemies hit, lasting 4 seconds.

Duelist

Blade

The Daywalker gets a slight boost to his offensive prowess。
Increase Daywalker Dash secondary attack range from 4.5m to 6.5m.
Increase the duration of each slash speed attack gained during Bloodline Awakening from 0.7s to 1.
New Effect: Landing all four hits of Whirlwind Slash grants 1 slash speed stack.

Hela

The Goddess of Death gets a slight survivability buff.
Reduce Astral Flock start-up cast time; after casting, Hela gains 25 Bonus Health.

Human Torch

Johnny sees a slight reduction in damage and mobility.
Reduce Fire Cluster hit Damage per projectile from 5.5 to 5.
New: Fire Cluster now has a 0.5s delay before ammo begins to replenish.
During Plasma Body, reduce movement speed from 900 to 850.

Iron Fist

Lin Lie’s threat against high-health enemies slightly increases.
Lower fixed damage of Yat Jee Chung Kuen from 9 to 8, but increase the percentage damage of the enemy’s Max Health per strike from 2.7% to 3.1%.

Mister Fantastic

Reed Richards gains a bit more crowd-control over mobile heroes.
After successfully pulling an enemy with Distended Grip, the target is now afflicted with a 1-second immobilize effect.

Phoenix

Jean Grey’s burst potential has been toned down.
Melee attacks no longer stack Sparks.
Primary Weapon ammo no longer replenishes during Dark Ascent.
New: Added 1s of cooldown to Dark Ascent.

Psylocke

Sai’s Ultimate Ability now has slightly more float and more sting.
Reduce self-slow rate during Dance of the Butterfly (Ultimate Ability) from 30% to 15%. Increase each strike’s damage from 150 to 170.

Strategist

Cloak & Dagger

Ty and Tandy’s Ultimate Ability now takes a bit more energy to unleash their Eternal Bond!
Increase the energy cost of Eternal Bond (Ultimate Ability) from 4300 to 4500.

Jeff the Land Shark

Our beloved Jeff’s survivability takes a slight hit.
Reduce the crit damage reduction from the Oblivious Cuteness passive 70% to 50%.

Rocket Raccoon

Rocket’s Ultimate Ability utility gets a boost:
Increase Damage Boost granted by C.Y.A. (Ultimate Ability) from 25% to 40%.

Ultron

The dials on Ultron’s healing and Ultimate Ability uptime are being slightly turned back.
Reduce Imperative: Patch healing amount from 35 to 30 and healing bonus to the followed ally from 10 to 5.
Increase the energy cost of Rage of Ultron (Ultimate Ability) from 3400 to 3700.

Team-Up Abilities

New

Bestial Hunt (Daredevil – The Punisher)

As the Team-Up Anchor, Daredevil gains a maximum health increase of 25 and a 5% boost in damage output.
The Punisher unlocks a new Justice Sense ability through his Team-Up with Daredevil.

Deep Wrath (Hela – Namor)

Namor now gains the Tidal Dirge ability through his team-up with Hela.

Adjusted or Removed

Arcane Order (Doctor Strange – Scarlet Witch/Magik)

We’re slightly reducing Magik’s threat level on her side of this Team-Up.
Increase the cooldown of Chain of Cyttorak from 15s to 20s and slow effect at maximum range from 60% to 40%.

Gamma Charge (Hulk – Namor/Black Panther)

Namor loses the Gamma Monstro ability previously gained from his Team-Up with Hulk.

Ragnarok Rebirth (Hela – Thor)

The Ragnarok Rebirth Team-Up is being banished to Hel.

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