Marvel Rivals Season 11 start time and Nightcrawler release
Marvel Rivals Season 11: Doomsday starts November 13 at 4am ET / 1am PT (9am UK), adding Nightcrawler, a new Battle Pass and a story event.
12th Nov 2026 13:45
Image via NetEase Games / Marvel
Marvel Rivals Season 11 start time and Nightcrawler release
Marvel Rivals Season 11: Doomsday starts November 13 at 4am ET / 1am PT (9am UK), adding Nightcrawler, a new Battle Pass and a story event.
12th Nov 2026 13:45
Image via NetEase Games / Marvel
Marvel Rivals Season 11: Doomsday kicks off tomorrow, November 13, bringing Nightcrawler into the roster along with a new Battle Pass and story event, and NetEase has confirmed exactly when the update goes live.
According to the official Version 20261113 patch notes, the Season 11 update begins at 09:00 UTC on November 13, which works out at 4am ET and 1am PT (9am UK), with maintenance expected to last around two hours. That means most players in the US should be able to jump in from roughly 6am ET or 3am PT (11am UK), assuming the servers come back on schedule.
| Time zone | Season 11 update starts | Maintenance expected to end |
| US Eastern (ET) | 4am, November 13 | Around 6am |
| US Pacific (PT) | 1am, November 13 | Around 3am |
| UK (GMT) | 9am, November 13 | Around 11am |
BAMF, here comes Nightcrawler
The big addition is Kurt Wagner himself, with the patch notes promising that "the fuzzy elf teleports into Marvel Rivals", alongside a new serial called Doomsday and a Nightcrawler lore entry called Leap of Faith. He also gets his own seasonal story event, The Acts of Kurt Wagner, where you team up with him to decipher Destiny's prophecy and take on disaster relief missions for a pile of rewards.
The new Battle Pass is called The Incursion and has 10 new costume sets, including Emma Frost's Seat of Winter, Mantis's Chronal Harmony and Daredevil's The Man Without Fear, while this season's Gold-tier rank reward is Nightcrawler's Hope Soared costume (our Marvel Rivals ranked guide explains how the ranks work). There's also a fresh round of Twitch Drops featuring a Devil Dinosaur costume, running from 7am ET (noon UK) on November 13 until December 11.
Elsewhere, controller players get an optional "Aim Assist Target Prediction" setting for switching between targets more smoothly, PC players can try an experimental client that NetEase says should boost CPU performance by around 10%, and the IGNITE 2026 Grand Finals take place in Stockholm from November 23 to 29. NetEase says the start of Season 11 is also a celebration of the game's second anniversary, so it's a bit of a birthday season too.
If you're new to the game or coming back after a break, our Marvel Rivals game modes guide is a good place to start. Well, Nightcrawler has never needed long to get anywhere, so a two-hour maintenance window must feel like an eternity to him.
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