Marvel Puzzle Quest: Character Rebalances - Batch #2 (Nov 13, 2025)

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Batch #1 of our rebalances landed last month and we've seen some great and constructive feedback over how they've impacted character usage.

As mentioned previously, we're trying to make some much needed adjustments to MPQs meta without impacting your overall gameplay experience too significantly and it seems as though the first batch has landed as well as we could've hoped for.

To make sure you're fully aware of our future plans without unnecessarily causing a negative impact to your rosters here's a list of our next round of rebalances, along with some info on our upcoming rebalance #3.

Nerf

5 Star: Thor (Mighty Thor)

Unlike with Polaris, Mighty Thor’s kit isn’t what caused her to go off the rails often. It’s more that her abilities were just a touch too chaotic and when the chaos resulted in cascades, they tended to be self propagating. So to bring her back in line, she more needs tome softer touches than full ability reworks.

Red - Feel the Thunder
Minor changes to this ability, reducing the main damage component by 10-15% and very light touches on the cumulative damage component. It didn’t need much, it just wasn’t calculated correctly for how much cascading Jane does in real world matches.

Blue - Doctor Thor
The biggie, we decided not to change overall cascades by adding a cap or anything that would mess with the frequency of newly dropped tiles. Instead we brought down the number of tiles affected by a little so that this ability doesn’t go out of control quite so much. The active had its Charged tiles created reduced by 1, while the passive has had its initial Charged tiles created reduced by 1 AND the number of tiles destroyed per Charged tile match reduced by 1 as well. This brings down the overall chaos that she creates from turn 1 and also reduces the chance of cascades causing massive amounts of damage. In testing, we’ve found that she’s still extremely effective when she has another Charged tile type character supporting, but she’s no longer a one stop shop of Charged tile creation/destruction.

Yellow - Share the Love
This ability vastly underestimated the number of Charged tiles that would exist when it was used on average. Even taking into account Thor’s creation and destruction through her Blue, the number of Charged tiles in existence when this ability was used was higher than expected. With this update, the ability is still powerful, especially when she has help with Charged tile creation, but it’s no longer an ability that is used as soon as you can get the AP every time due to the Charged tiles that inevitably exist on the board

Buffs

5-Stars:
N/A

4-Stars:
Abomination (Emil Blonsky)
The Hydra Stomper (Steve Rogers)
Nebula (Infinity War)
Sam Wilson (Captain America)
SpiderHam (Peter Porker)

3-Stars:
Goose (Flerken Feline)
The Hood (Classic)
Mystique (Raven Darkholme)
Squirrel Girl (Unbeatable)

2-Stars:
Captain Marvel (Ms. Marvel)

1-Star:
Black Widow (Modern)

Upcoming Nerfs & Buffs

Nerfs

We know the changes to Polaris and Mighty Thor are a big adjustment and can have a real impact on the teams and plans you’ve been building toward. Our goal is to handle these kinds of shifts as thoughtfully and transparently as possible so you can plan ahead with confidence. With that in mind, we want to share that the next two characters scheduled for nerfs.

5-Stars:
Shang-Chi (Origin)

4-Stars:
Rocket & Groot (Awesome Mix Volume 2)

Buffs

These characters weren’t quite ready for the Batch 2 buffs, but they’re planned to be included in Batch 3 alongside additional characters from all rarities once that update goes live.

5-Stars:
Wolverine (Samurai Daken)
Spider-Gwen (Gwenom)
Ultron (Age of Ultron)
Yelena Belova (Black Widow)