Marvel Rivals Season 5 Channels X-Men Animated Series as Gambit and Rogue Join as Playable Characters

NetEase Games has published an X-Men animated series-inspired trailer for Marvel Rivals Season 5: Love is simply a Battlefield, revealing Rogue and Gambit arsenic its newest playable characters.

The trailer for the latest play of NetEase’s fashionable leader shooter features a romance taxable that puts everyone’s favourite X-Men mates halfway stage. In emblematic Marvel Rivals fashion, there’s nary gameplay for the mutant heroes present yet, but it does diagnostic a blink-and-you'll-miss-it tease featuring nary different than Scott Summers a.k.a. Cyclops. It besides sounds similar archetypal X-Men ‘97 dependable actors A.J. LoCascio (Gambit) and Lenore Zann (Rogue) volition beryllium heard voicing the 2 lovebirds erstwhile Season 5 launches November 14, 2025.

“This play centers connected Mr. and Mrs. X, Gambit and Rogue, aft the Timestream Entanglement interrupted their imagination wedding,” Marvel Rivals originative manager Guangyun Chen a.k.a. Guangguang said successful its Season 5 Dev Stream. “To marque up for the disruption, Gambit has planned a honeymoon afloat of surprises for Rogue. But erstwhile their travel leads to a satellite built by the Elders of the Universe, tin their emotion past the eventual cosmic test?”

Gambit leads Marvel Rivals Season 5 arsenic its archetypal playable leader and its adjacent Strategist. The card-throwing, staff-wielding X-Men is said to blend his kinetic abilities and combat skills to connection a unsocial playstyle for players. Expect to spot his powers healing allies, cleansing antagonistic effects, and adjacent applying anti-heal to enemies. Gambit kicks things disconnected aboriginal this week, but we’ll person to hold to larn much astir Rogue. Expect to spot her and her power-absorbing abilities debut astatine the Marvel Rivals Season 5 mid-season update successful astir 1 month.

Alongside its caller X-Men heroes, Marvel Rivals Season 5 is acceptable to present a caller 18 vs. 18 Conquest (Annihilation) mode successful the caller Grand Garden representation travel November 27. A caller non-combat map, Times Square, is besides connected the mode for Season 5, allowing up to 100 players to gather, dance, and mingle successful betwixt tense matches.

NetEase volition besides soon observe 1 twelvemonth of Marvel Rivals with a peculiar day update. Those who articulation the festivities erstwhile they statesman November 27 volition beryllium talented 2500 Units, arsenic good arsenic a free, school-themed Legendary Jeff the Land Shark costume. More gameplay adjustments, accessories, day costumes, and different updates volition get arsenic Marvel Rivals Season 5 rolls on.

Marvel Rivals Season 4 antecedently introduced Daredevil arsenic a Duelist and Angela arsenic a Vanguard. For much connected the NetEase leader shooter, you tin work astir the Marvel Zombies-inspired PvE mode introduced past month. You tin besides cheque retired our archetypal 8/10 Marvel Rivals review.

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