Black Cat Joins the Battle for Marvel Rivals for Season 7.5: The Hunt is On, Launching April 17
Latest Dev Vision Details, New Blood Hunt PvE Mode, the Return of Hellfire Gala and the Path to Doomsday Begins
Guangzhou, China and Los Angeles, California, United States, April 14, 2026 – Today, Marvel Games and NetEase Games have unveiled full details for Season 7.5: The Hunt is On, launching April 17 for Marvel Rivals, the award-winning and critically-acclaimed Super Hero Team-Based PVP Shooter that lets players assemble an ever-evolving all-star squad of Super Heroes and Super Villains battling with unique powers across a dynamic lineup of destructible maps from across the Marvel Multiverse. Black Cat will join the ever-expanding roster for Season 7.5 as a duelist. Additionally, a new PvE mode entitled Blood Hunt featuring an all-new storyline, four epic new Boss battles, a fresh hero progression and trait system, and a brand-new loot system will launch with an April 23 update. Season 7.5 will also introduce new features, team ups, plenty of quality-of-life updates and events such as the return of the Hellfire Gala.
Full details and features for Season 7.5 in Marvel Rivals are below and in the latest episode of Dev Vision.
Black Cat (Duelist) – Black Cat is an agile Duelist and an elusive master thief. With her exquisite martial arts and incredible mobility, she can infiltrate any location and weave through the battlefield with ease. In combat, she uses wall-climbing and double-jumps to navigate between friend and foe, waiting for the perfect moment to steal her enemies’ Fortune with her grappling hook. She then uses this stolen Fortune to buff her own combat power, unleashing enhanced claw strikes to deal heavy damage. Whether the enemy team is holding a tight defensive line or scattered across the map, Black Cat can use her Phantom Pursuit to close the gap, tear through their defenses with razor-sharp claws, and then safely disengage. When she activates her Ultimate Ability, she issues a calling card to all enemies before striking like a phantom, instantly dashing to any target to deliver lethal damage. What’s more, she can trade her stolen Fortune with the Gilded Saint, pulling rare treasures from the New York Thieves Guild’s vault, like the Ring of Zona, the Helm of Hades, and even the Mento-Fish once possessed by Namor. These artifacts not only boost her own abilities but also create unexpected tactical advantages for the whole team.
The Season 7.5 update also brings a brand-new Team-Up Ability as Black Cat, White Fox, and Captain America form the new Lucky Loan Team-Up. Black Cat is the Team-Up Anchor, providing White Fox and Cap with some of her luck to boost their combat capabilities. White Fox receives a special boost to her life energy and upon activation, can channel this vitality into her Kumiho powers, launching multiple spectral fox tails in all directions. These tails automatically seek out nearby targets: granting healing and a movement speed boost to allies, while dealing damage and applying a slow effect to enemies. Meanwhile, Captain America’s Vibranium shield also gets a lucky upgrade. When raised, the shield’s protective radius is expanded, and its deflection becomes pinpoint accurate, bouncing enemy projectiles exactly where his crosshair is aiming.
Following the April 23 update, the 2026 Hellfire Gala event will officially begin! The Marvel Rivals team has prepared stunning new themed costumes and exclusive cosmetics for Magik, Gambit, Moon Knight, Emma Frost, and Phoenix. Plus, the winner of the 2025 Hellfire Gala community vote, the Emma Frost – Gala Star costume, will be given away for free to all players! At the same time, the community vote for the next Hellfire Gala costume will begin. The hero with the most votes will receive an exclusive costume in next year’s Hellfire Gala, which players will again be able to earn for free.
After the April 30 update, Phase 1 of the Path to Doomsday event will begin. The all-new mode, Path to Doomsday: The Avengers Mode, will let players experience the thrill of asymmetrical combat playing as or against Loki. Meanwhile, Times Square will feature a series of events.
Finally, with this latest update, the Marvel Rivals team has optimized the PC client by separating the High-Resolution Texture Pack into its own standalone DLC. It will still download by default when players install the game, but if they are running low on disk space, they can now choose to uninstall this HD pack separately and free up around 35GB of storage.
In addition to the above, players can continue to get all the latest information from the Game Update featuring full Patch Notes and Hero Balance adjustments.
About Marvel Rivals
In Marvel Rivals, players can look forward to choosing heroes split into three distinct roles based on their unique power inclinations: Vanguard, Duelist, and Strategist. They’ll be free to pick their preferred role and hero, teaming up with allies to create a versatile and dynamic lineup for battle. But that’s not all, as they’ll be able to reach a whole new level of team play collaboration with Team-Up Abilities, unleashing joint superpowers with their allies, tearing down the battlefield to win in exciting fights! Marvel Rivals is in development by a NetEase team composed of global talent that share a profound love for the Marvel universe and characters who previously worked on hit shooter franchises played by millions of players worldwide.
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