Marvel Rivals trailer finally shows off Human Torch and The Thing ahead of season 1’s big patch

Marvel Rivals is finally reuniting Marvel’s first family, with its new Season 1.5 update. The new patch will bring Human Torch and The Thing into the game, completing the game’s addition of the Fantastic Four team. Both of the game’s new heroes got their own unique trailers on Tuesday, along with another video in which the Marvel Rivals dev team outlined the many other balance changes that are coming in this mid-season patch.

To the surprise of absolutely no one, the Human Torch is a high-flying duelist that at first glance has a lot in common with Storm. He hurls fireballs at enemy players, creates a flaming area that damages enemies within it, and can even create fiery tornado. However, it won’t take long before you notice that Johnny also has the ability to slam himself into the ground throwing up a huge fiery area, something Storm definitely doesn’t do.

The Thing, similarly, pulls in a few elements of other characters already in the game, but combines them into something nice and unique. As you might have guessed, The Thing is a tanky Vanguard character, and is mostly focused on charging into the battle — sometimes literally. He also has a punch that does area of effect damage, and he seems to be able to launch himself forward to tackle enemies, kind of like Wolverine with the tackle at the end instead of the beginning. His ultimate pounds the ground in front of him and knocks up enemies.

As for the rest of the balance changes, nothing the Marvel Rivals team announced in the video will be too surprising. The team is nerfing a few of the Strategist Ultimates, like Loki and Cloak and Dagger, because they recharged so much faster than every other Ult in the game. They hope that this will curb the dominance of the triple Strategist meta, without totally destroying it. Otherwise there are few much needed buffs to characters like Hawkeye, and a few nerfs to some of the game’s other top characters like Doctor Strange and Magneto as well.

For a look at all the changes coming in Marvel Rivals season 1.5 patch, you can watch the video below.