Marvel Rivals had a fairly huge first yr between 2024-2025. There was the addition of many new heroes, new sport modes, limited-time occasions, and new options to get pleasure from alongside the best way. Nonetheless, because the free-to-play shooter heads into its second yr from 2025 to the top of 2026, there are a whole bunch of concepts that followers would like to see the builders add. Whereas not each idea could make it into the sport, some concepts being mentioned are fairly fashionable among the many neighborhood. Listed here are 10 issues Marvel Rivals may add in 2026 to proceed constructing on the success of the sport.
Extra Villains
Marvel Rivals already has fairly an intensive roster. Nonetheless, solely a tiny % of this roster consists of villains. With an entire new yr of character additions to come back, a pivot to incorporate a handful of villains all year long would fulfill loads of followers. Plus, it might additionally add some actually enjoyable and fascinating hero interactions, in addition to the potential for some distinctive Workforce-Ups to come back from the extra antagonistic people throughout the franchise. A number of the hottest picks from the neighborhood for villains that they wish to see within the sport embody Thanos, Physician Doom, Mystique, and Doc Ock, amongst others. As for if any of them will truly seem on the roster anytime quickly…nicely, gamers will merely have to attend and see!
Extra Major Gameplay Mode Maps
Maps are a extremely essential side of the sport. In spite of everything, issues begin to really feel repetitive and boring if each match tends to happen in the identical location. Nonetheless, most up-to-date new maps added to the sport have been tied to new sport modes, that are normally restricted to arcade. Most lately, the one Useful resource Rumble map was eliminated solely as of Season 6, as a consequence of being overwhelmingly unpopular with the neighborhood.
With seasonal map pool rotations, it will probably develop tiresome to have your match restricted to only a handful of various areas each different season. There are only a few maps for every important Fast Play/Aggressive gameplay mode, so it might be good to see new maps roll out for these modes on a extra common foundation, versus being tied to arcade.
Extra Interactive Emotes & Common Emotes
Emotes are a enjoyable means for gamers to specific themselves and get amusing in-game, whether or not it’s after making a play in your matches, or whereas hanging out in Occasions Sq.. A number of the hottest emotes up to now have been the common emotes and the interactive emotes. Common emotes are dynamic poses or animations that may be added to any (or no less than a big choice) of characters on the roster. Interactive emotes are emotes that two or extra gamers can use in a mixed motion – such because the Emma Frost and Jeff the Land Shark cuddles emote, or the volleyball emote that got here paired with the summer time skins occasion just a few seasons in the past.
It will be nice to see extra emotes reminiscent of these, encouraging optimistic participant interactions. There’s additionally fairly actually limitless potential for the stuff they might give you – a Deadpool and Wolverine interactive emote, romantic gestures between a number of the {couples} on the roster, foolish common dance emotes that can be utilized to craft the right Occasions Sq. dance mob…It’s usually little issues like this that carry a stunning quantity of pleasure to gamers.
Non-obligatory Position Queue
One of many largest divides between the Marvel Rivals neighborhood is whether or not the sport ought to implement a Position Queue or not. Personally, I’m on the aspect the place I don’t suppose this could enhance the sport, as it might alter queue occasions (as seen with Overwatch 2) and drastically have an effect on many crew comps and Workforce-Up skills. The truth that you’ll be able to flex your crew as wanted to work with Workforce-Ups is without doubt one of the distinctive points of Rivals, and Position Queue would restrict what number of Workforce-Ups might be put into play as a result of 2-2-2 commonplace.
Nonetheless, I do suppose in between can be to implement an optionally available position queue, the place gamers can queue for a particular position, and if the matchmaking occasions take too lengthy, it should mechanically reassign them to the ‘flex’/common queue, the place they may have the ability to choose any position as per ordinary. This could let gamers who actually wish to play Position Queue dive into some video games, but in addition have much less of a hindrance on the sport as an entire, as issues would finally want some critical modifications and rebalancing if Position Queue was to reach.
Extra Narrators/Announcers (Different Than Galacta)
Galacta is the Marvel Rivals match announcer all the time yapping on concerning the gamers getting on the payload or contesting the target. Most Marvel Rivals gamers have develop into fed up with the basic “One other epic victory, biiiiiig win!” or in some unlucky conditions, repetitive situations “Properly, you’ll be able to’t win all of them…”
Should you’ve discovered your self wishing there have been different choices to cycle via aside from Galacta, you’re not alone. This might maybe be on a per-map foundation, and even extra unlockables that gamers may buy with Accent Factors or yet one more earnable foreign money. We’ve already seen that that is potential with the addition of Khonshu because the announcer for the Marvel Rivals zombies mode, so it actually can be nice to see some extra choices. In style characters that followers have mentioned desirous to see as in-game announcers embody Galactus, Physician Door, Khonshu (for non-zombies modes), Spider-Ham, and extra.
Extra Interactive Workforce-Ups
When Marvel Rivals launched, the idea of Workforce-Ups was one of many largest promoting factors of the sport, letting gamers mix their hero picks to unlock new skills or interactions that can be utilized in fight. Nonetheless, because the seasons have progressed, Workforce-Ups have develop into extra ‘anchor hero unlocks a brand new capacity for the accomplice hero’, fairly than introducing her interactive mechanics.
A number of the greatest Workforce-Ups within the sport are ones during which characters work together with each other to carry out an motion or particular transfer. Somewhat than persevering with the sample of ability-based Workforce-Ups reminiscent of Hela and Namor, or Cloak & Dagger and Hawkeye, it might be phenomenal to see extra interactive Workforce-Ups making their means into the sport, very similar to Hulk and Wolverine, Captain America and Winter Soldier, or Groot, Jeff, and Rocket’s Workforce-Ups contain each gamers truly interacting with each other and dealing collectively.
Extra Alternate Variation Skins (Girl Loki)
Lastly, Marvel Rivals gamers love pores and skin. The sheer variety of completely different skins which can be obtainable and launched all through every season really does hold the neighborhood coming again for extra. If there’s one pores and skin of 2025 that actually shone, it might be the Girl Loki pores and skin, the primary of its variety to utterly change a hero’s 3D mannequin and voice appearing.
Nonetheless, with the discharge of this pores and skin, many followers have instantly began discussing whether or not this might open up the doorways for different comparable ideas to make their means into the sport. For instance, some potential additions might be She-Hulk for Hulk, Gwen/Ghost Spider for Spider-Man, Captain Carter for Captain America, and Kate Bishop for Hawkeye, amongst quite a few different prospects.
