Marvel Puzzle Quest: Character Rebalances - Batch #1

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If you’ve been playing Marvel Puzzle Quest lately, you’ve probably noticed the same handful of characters dominating nearly every match. While strong characters are fun, when the meta feels predictable, creativity and strategy take a hit. To keep the game exciting and strategic, we’re planning a shake up with batched rebalances. Rather than making sweeping changes all at once, each batch will feature a variety of buffs for underused characters and carefully considered adjustments to one dominant character.

These tweaks aren’t about punishing players who’ve invested time building top-tier teams, they’re about creating more opportunities for strategy and variety across the roster. By carefully nerfing some of these top characters, we can reduce overreliance on a single character while keeping them strong and viable. At the same time, buffs for underused heroes and villains will encourage experimentation and make the game feel fresh.

Set to roll out with the start of the next PvP season on October 16th, here’s the first batch of characters we’ll be adjusting in this initial wave of rebalances.

Rebalance Batch #1

Nerf

4-Stars: Polaris (Lorna Dane)
Easily the character that comes to mind for the first nerf is Polaris as she consistently dominates across nearly every aspect of the game. We want to make sure players got a deep dive into Polaris’ nerfs since there’s a ton to digest so IceIX has put together an in-depth overview of all the rebalances that went into Polaris with numbers and a few notes into how we landed on these changes.

Head on over to our Character Rebalance - Polaris (Lorna Dane) 4-Star forum post for full details.

Buffs

These buffs will primarily be delivered through direct numerical adjustments. In certain cases, additional changes may be made, but to efficiently strengthen multiple characters at once, adjusting the numbers proved to be the most effective way for our development team to implement large-scale buffs.

5-Stars: Iron Man (Mark XLVI), Jeffrey (Symbiote), Peggy Carter (Worthy), Rescue (Pepper Potts)
4-Stars: Devil Dinosaur (Gigantic Reptile), Doctor Bong (Lester Verde), Drax (The Destroyer), Peni Parker (Spider-Bot BFF)
3-Stars: Miles Morales (Spider-Fit), Peggy Carter (Iron Carter), Ragnarok (Dark Avengers), Sentry (Dark Avengers)
2-Stars: Captain America (Steve Rogers), Moonstone (Dark Avengers)
1-Star: Hawkeye (Classic)

We’ll have more news on Batch #2 after we see how the current set of changes play out in the post-rebalance meta. Our goal is to ensure these meta reshuffles are fair, thoughtful, and ultimately lead to a better Marvel Puzzle Quest experience for everyone so please let us know your thoughts about other characters or team compositions you think need a tune-up!