News & Announcements

UPDATE TO THE MONTHLY REBALANCE REVIEW PROGRAM
Greetings Summoners, Following our previous balance update with the announcement of changes to Spider-Woman, the team has taken time to meaningfully review your feedback and has since had many discussions regarding where the rebalance program currently lives and how to best approach Champion balance moving forward. After…
Alliance War Season 62
Foreword Hey all, and welcome to another Changelog for Season 62 of Alliance War! As we ramp up into the end of year, we have some exciting developments coming down the pipe for Alliance War. To ensure that those plans line up with other events for the End of Year, this Season will be 5 weeks long. 2 Weeks of Off Season,…
DEV DIARY - FINDING A MIDDLE GROUND
Greetings Summoners, Marvel Contest of Champions has had its doors open for over 3,945 days. Needless to say, the thirty in September of 2025 have not been a highlight of the Contest. Today, we want to address the recent Spider-Woman balance update, recent game changes, and the valid concerns raised by the Community. Our…
THIS WEEK'S AQ REWARDS PAYOUT
Greetings Summoners, after the previous AQ week, some Alliances did not receive their Ranked Rewards from the event. After doing some data pulling, we were able to find impacted Alliances, and we'll be getting these Rewards to you as soon as we can. We apologize for the inconvenience. We'll have more details on the rollout…
BALANCE UPDATE: Spider-Woman + Lumatrix
Hey all, Balance Team here again with an update on the latest round of Champions up for review, Lumatrix and Spider-Woman!Lumatrix The Battlerealm’s 2nd Eidol in Lumatrix had the goal of being a hard-hitting Critical Hit focused Champion, with their Misdirection mechanic designed to supplement a high-tempo playstyle, while…
FANTASTIC FALL FUN FAIR!
Greetings Summoners! The Fantastic Force Saga is almost at its conclusion, and the doors to the Fantastic Fall Fun Fair have opened TODAY through October 1st! Complete Objectives and move through Invisible Woman's House of Horrors Arena to earn Relic & Crystal Shards, Mysterium, Profile Pictures and... The Fantastic Fall…
RELICS, TITAN AND WAR COMPENSATION, AND OTHER QUICK UPDATES!
Greetings Summoners! A few quick updates for you - As of this morning, those shiny new Statcast Relics will now be working on your Defenders in PvP modes. A reminder, Battlecasts will NOT work on Defense. Alongside this push, we're also going to be fixing the interaction where Solvarch spontaneously explodes when fighting…
ALLIANCE WAR SEASON 61
Foreword Hey all, and welcome to another Changelog for Season 61 of Alliance War! We wanted to bring you another new Tactic coming into Alliance War, which is always a good chance for you to see the class focus for the next Saga that we’ll be ending the year on. Do not worry, we are still cooking up new iterations of…
IMPORTANT FOLLOW UP ON ENERGY
Greetings Summoners, Thank you for taking the time to share your passionate feedback on the recent energy announcement; one thing is for certain, you love this game, and we love this game - that's why we're all here. We've been digging into your posts, videos, and forum threads, and most of all, we see you calling out the…
GRANDMASTER'S GRACE - CURRENT TIMER AND FUTURE
Greetings Summoners, The Team has reviewed the Grandmaster’s Grace system after the majority of the Fantastic Force Saga has happened, and we're excited to announce that beyond this Saga Long test, it will REMAIN in place! Additionally, all existing progress WILL CARRY OVER into next month, and will not reset!
SCHEDULED SERVER MAINTENANCE
Greetings Summoners! The Contest will be temporarily brought down for Scheduled Maintenance tomorrow, Tuesday April 15th, at 8 pm PST. The team will be working to get the game back up and running as quickly as possible, though it could take as long as 3 hours to complete this maintenance. Thank you for your patience!
4/4 TWITCH DROP COMP
Greetings Summoners, Daylight Savings strikes again... Unfortunately, the Twitch Drops were an hour behind us and couldn't be claimed by viewing the Live Stream. BUT DON'T FEAR, we've packaged these same items into a Promo Code, redeemable on the Webstore - available to everybody. CODE: twitchdropcomp We'll get this fixed…
Balance Update: Count Nefaria and Shathra
Hey all, The Balance Team is here again with an update on the latest round of Champions up for review, Count Nefaria and Shathra!Count Nefaria Count Nefaria was designed to be a Science Attacker targeting 2 core Mystic threats in Power Gain and Regeneration. We’re thrilled to see Summoners capitalizing on Count Nefaria’s…
INCOMING: MARCH LIVE STREAM
Greetings Summoners! We're less than one week away from the next Marvel Contest of Champions Update... which means it's almost time for a NEW Live Stream! Make sure you tune in, so you don't miss: - Your first look at our March Champions... JEAN GREY, and BASTION! - Upcoming SAGA & ENDGAME Content! - The reveal of our next…
SPECIAL VALENTINES DAY OFFERS AND PROMO CODES!
YO YO YO Summoners! It's Valentines Day and I want to update you on all the.. LOVELY.. things we've got going on! First Up we've got the Love and War Box - This should look familiar to you if you jumped in on the Glorious Guardians Banquet Box back in December. This is the DEBUT FIRST APPEARANCE OF She Hulk and IceMan as 7…
INCOMING: JANUARY LIVE STREAM!
What Is Going On Summoners! We're less than one week away from the next Marvel Contest of Champions Update... which means it's almost time for a NEW Live Stream! Make sure you tune in, so you don't miss: - Your first look at our February Champions... ARNIM ZOLA, and FALCON (JOAQUIN TORRES)! - Upcoming ENDGAME Content! -…
BALANCE UPDATE: BETA RAY BILL AND ENCHANTRESS
Hey all, Balance Team here again with an update on the latest round of Champions up for review, Beta Ray Bill and Enchantress!Beta Ray Bill Beta Ray Bill stormed into the Contest equipped with a trio of new abilities in Pulverize, Steady, and Grit, and a unique playstyle allowing players to channel the power of…
48.1.1 Hotfix Out Now
Greetings Summoners, The 48.1.1 Hotfix has now been released and should be available to you within the next couple hours. As mentioned last week, this Hotfix addresses the following issues:* Juggernaut Special 2 and Special 3 not working as intended * Several display issues, including the screen getting blurry or a…
Alliance Quest Raids – Deathless
As we wrap another grand Saga in The Contest we enter another set of new Raids Content, this time a little more Deathless than the last! Raids Revive Inventory Limit With Raids 1.3 we’re going to be making a change to the current Inventory Limits of the Raids 100% Revives. We’ve noticed that Summoners often have some extra…
SELLING 6 STAR AWAKENING GEMS
Greetings Summoners, Later today, Summoners who have achieved the status of Valiant can now sell their 6 Star Awakening Gems in exchange for 7 Star Signature Stones. Generic Awakening Gems can be exchanged for one +1 Generic Signature Stone, while a Class Gem can be exchanged for a +1 Signature Stone of the same class.