Marvel Avengers Alliance: PvP Season 6 Patch Notes

PvP Season 6 starts today in Marvel Avengers Alliance. The hero up for grabs is Fantomex (whose most notable ability is that he basically gives "Reality Warping" i.e. 20% chance to dodge to your whole party).

There are some significant PvP balancing changes on some chars that should support a bit more diversity among the top tier.

Here are the full patch notes:



New Hero - Fantomex [PvP Season 6 Reward]

• Class: Tactician
• Passive: Team Misdirection
  • Attacks against Fantomex and his allies have a 20% chance of being negated by illusions
• Level 1 : Diabolique
  • Single Target
  • Target Focus
    • Increases damage taken by the next single-target attack
  • Grants Focused to all allies
    • Accuracy increased by 25%
• Level 2 : Allons-y
  • All Enemies
  • Lock-On
    • Taking additional damage from ranged attacks
  • E.V.A.
    • Chance for E.V.A. to counter when an ally attacks or is attacked
• Level 6 : Fantôme
  • Single target
  • Stealthy
    • Does not trigger counter-attacks or protect abilities
  • Disoriented
    • Has a chance of attacking allies
• E.V.A
  • Single Target
  • Hyperfocus
    • Deals extra damage while Focused
  • Some Assembly Required
    • Not usable without E.V.A.

Nightcrawler Refactor

• Passive: Whiff of Brimstone
  • Chance to BAMF away from single target or AOE attacks
  • Applies Combo Setup when he BAMFs away
• Passive: Noble Sacrifice
  • Chance to protect 30%
  • Single Target, or AOE
• 1. Ambush
  • Stealthy
  • Combo Setup
  • Exploits Combos
  • 60% chance of doublestrike
• 2. Night Kick
  • Stealthy
  • Cooldown 2
  • Stun 60%
  • Weakened
• 3. Triple Threat
  • Stealthy
  • Cooldown 2
  • 60% Ambush against any target with Dizzy, Weakened, Exposed, or Slowed
  • Dizzy
• 4. Shadow Dance
  • Stealthy
  • AOE
  • Slowed, Exposed

Nightcrawler Swashbuckler Costume

• Swashbuckling
  • All attacks now cause Bleeding and Hemorrhaging

Character Tuning
A number of our heroes have been tuned to be more fair and competitive in pvp. Below you will find the list of changes.

• Tigra
  • Tigra now receives Sharpened Claws on attack when countering
  • Sharpened Claws is no longer triggered on Quick Actions
  • Reduced the bonus of Tiger’s Fury
• Wolverine
  • Wording of passives has been clarified
  • Wolverine is now less likely to protect against his counter-class
  • “Come At Me, Bub” now does a protect animation properly
  • “The Best There Is” should only have a chance to activate when Wolverine protects with “Come At Me, Bub” or counter-attacks with “Berserker Rage”
  • Wolverine will no longer counter-attack at very high health or protect at very low health
  • Wolverine can only trigger “The Best There Is” once per turn
  • Healing Factor can only prevent KOs once a round
  • Berserker Rage should no longer trigger while stunned
• X-23
  • Fixed a bug where Made For Walking was not exploiting bleeds
• Captain Britain
  • Captain Britain will no longer trigger Merlyn’s Gift (extra turn) if his target does not have Weakened, Exposed, Dizzy, or Slowed
  • Captain Britain’s chance to gain an extra turn increases for each of those debuffs on the target
  • The chance for Smashing to cause Stun reduced to 40%
  • A typo in Britannic has been corrected
  • Britannic’s damage has been corrected
• Hercules
  • The chance for Column Down to cause Stun has increased to 40%
• Magneto
  • Magnetism and Master of Magnets no longer announces every time someone attacks
  • Magneto’s first attack now does more damage when someone is already magnetized
  • Magneto is now immune to Magnetized in his passive
  • Stun chance of Heavy Metal adjusted to 50%/75%. Tooltip updated
  • Magneto’s PVP AI has been improved
• Psylocke
  • Mental Coordination can now be removed
  • Psionic Shadow no longer avoids Catastrophic attacks
• Havok
  • Havok will correctly take reduced damage from energy attacks
  • Cosmic Absorption will no longer pop-up every time Havoc absorbs
• Wasp
  • Fist Bump is now Catastrophic
• Hank Pym
  • Army of Ants is now correctly tagged as a ranged attack
  • Default counter-attack has been changed to Goliath Punch
• Phoenix
  • Phoenix Fire’s damage has been adjusted
• Changes to the Future Foundation
  • Tingling (Future Foundation Spider-Man), Tough Guy (FF Thing), Flexible Thinking (FF Mr. Fantastic), and Reactive Shields (FF Invisible Woman) no longer expire and continue providing their effects throughout the fight
  • Reactive Shields (FF Invisible Woman) are only created 70% of the time (down from 100%)
  • Toughness (FF Thing) and Awareness (FF Spider-Man) now only stack to 10
  • Amount of Defense per stack of Toughness and amount of Evasion per stack of Awareness reduced from 7% to 5%
  • Toughness and Awareness only stack 10 times
  • Fourth Field (FF Invisible Woman), Toughness, and Awareness are now tagged as buffs and can be removed by effects that remove them
  • Now each application of Toughness and Awareness expires after 3 rounds
• Dr. Strange
  • Now starts the fight with one stack of Mystic Energy, rather than one stack of Power of the Principalities
  • Reduced the amount absorbed by Light of the Seraphim by 20%
  • Initial damage of Vapors of Valtorr is no longer considered an energy attack
• Hulk
  • Increased the base damage of Rage Punch by 42%
  • Increased the base damage of Thunder Clap by 14%
  • Increased the base damage of Hulk Smash by 7%
• Thor
  • Increased the base damage of Empowering Strike by 49%
  • Increased the base damage of Hammer Throw by 17%
  • Increased the base damage of Summon Thunder by 20%
  • Reduced the damage increase of Might of Mjolnir by 12%
• Storm
  • An attack animation should no longer play for Storm’s Wind Wall ability
  • A new shield animation has been implemented for Storm’s Wind Wall ability
  • Wind Wall now has a duration of 5 rounds
  • Wind Wall’s damage absorption has been increased
  • Wind Wall is now considered a buff for removal purposes
  • Wind Wall will appropriately apply Off-Balance to attackers
• Kitty Pryde
  • Strike from the Shadows counter now stacks with Combat Reflexes
• Valkyrie
  • Increased the damage of Gierr by 9%
  • Fixed an issue with Desperation attack triggering on Geirr
• Human Torch
  • Fixed an issue with Desperation attack triggering on Nova Blast
• Desperation Attack
  • Desperation attack will not trigger above 72% health
  • Desperation attacks now deal more damage at low health
  • Text has been revised
• Party buffs brought by a character or a costume no longer continue to apply when that character is knocked out
  • Dr. Strange Light of the Seraphim
  • Captain America Morale
  • Phoenix 5
    • Colossus
    • Phoenix
    • Emma Frost
    • Cyclops
    • Magik
  • Future Foundation
    • Invisible Woman
    • Mr. Fantastic
    • Thing
    • Spider-Man
• Pyrophorric now correctly procs extra damage in the presence of a fire or explosive attack
  • The following moves have been tagged as explosive attacks
    • Missile Barrage
    • Phoenix Fire
    • Nova Blast
    • Rocket pistol
    • Phosphorous Pang
    • Golden Phosphorous Pang
    • Handheld Hohlraum
    • Sgt’s Fury
    • Single-Shot Thumper
    • Single-Shot Hobbler
    • Custom Thumper
    • Grenade Revolver
    • “Rolling Thunder” Launcher
    • Army of One

Item changes

• Handheld Hohlraum now behaves like Nova Blast
• Radian Cannon no longer performs a counter-attack or follow-up attack while stunned
• Blaster Power Armor should no longer reflexive flash on counter-attacks
• Blaster Power Armor will no longer trigger on Ground attacks
• Chakra Strike damage has been adjusted
• Chakra Strike now tagged as unarmed
• Servoguard Programming Interface now marked as Stealthy, instead of Subtle
• Face Punch has had its damage lowered
• Decade has had its damage lowered
• Mahayuga has had its damage lowered

Scroll of Angolob

• Performs an animation when removing debuffs on the party
• Should no longer display a damage number on the enemy team

Kuzuri

• Chance to protect and counter has been modified to match that of Wolverine.
• Red in Tooth will now fire after each attack with Kuzuri
• Red in Tooth will not fire after counter-attacks

Bleeding

• Bleeding will no longer cause damage when passive or triggered abilities such as the Blaster Power Armor or Laufey’s Needle fire

Soulfire

• Soulfire now replaces Burning on targets instead of both being applied. Burning will not replace Soulfire if applied.

Deathfrost

• Deathfrost now replaces Chilled on targets instead of both being applied. Chilled will not replace Deathfrost if applied.

Blind

• Miss chance caused by Blind has been reduced
• It is now removed after the next attack, whether that attack hits or misses
• It is now removed after any attack (such as counter-attacks)

Bruisers

• Reduced the amount of stats gained from Enraged slightly. In particular, Bruisers will gain less Evasion than other stats.

Defensive Experiment

• Text has been revised

Exploit Flying

• Displays Bonus Damage pop-up when attacking a target with Flying

Bug Fixes

• Hero bonus calculations for the Generalist class bonuses have been fixed
• We fixed an issue that was causing the news page to not show up correctly for all users, subsequently this also affected the Daily roulette as well
• Some users may have experienced an issue whereas the Spec Op jet went missing from the Flight Deck. This has been resolved
• Facebook Only: Hero recruitment announcements that are posted on your timeline will now appear as large square images, rather than small rectangular ones.

Known Issues

• Wolverine may sometimes not trigger “The Best There Is” at the right time. We are investigating this
• The “PVP Tournament is now live” pop-up will pop up every time you visit the flight deck until you join the tournament.
• The “Advanced Idea” has a chance to cause a combat validation error.
• Stacks of Timestream Displacement being removed are not properly damaging the host.