Hello Summoners,

We recently released our 12.0 update. In this update we tried to do a lot, and we didn’t work with you, our community, on how these changes would impact you. We missed the mark by effectively making the game harder in a number of areas – this was not our intention. And while we weren’t shy about the fact that we intended to “nerf” some long entrenched strategies, the changes were too deep, and we didn’t give you enough new strategies in their place. You have told us this loud and clear, and we’ve heard you.

We are currently working on a new update. The dev team has been working through the weekend, around the clock, to get this update ready. It will take us several more days of testing, polishing, QA and approvals before we can have this update live, but we are working to get it ready as soon as possible.

Some of the specific areas we are improving are (but not limited to):

Your ability to survive and your effectiveness while blocking and parrying

The relative difficulty of harder content, like Act 4, Realm of Legends and Labyrinth of Legends

The impact of Challenge Rating

The effectiveness of: Captain America Captain America WWII Doctor Strange Scarlet Witch Storm Thor Ghost Rider Masteries such as Cruelty and Precision



This is not a complete list, but everything you see above will be part of the update to come.

It should not have taken this response for us to create an update you’d enjoy. We should have worked with you sooner to identify these problems, and made these changes before the update was live to the world. In the meantime, we’ve shown some of the new update to a small group of Summoners and will be expanding that program as quickly as we can. Some of you may be contacted to join this small scale “beta program”. Thank you in advance to those that are participating. We are discussing how to introduce a broader Summoner beta program in the future. This can’t be built overnight, but we’re committed to working towards it going forward. We will let you know when we are able to add more Summoners to this program.

Though we can’t guarantee an exact date for this update, we are working as fast as we can to have it available in the coming days. We need to ensure that we allow enough time for:

Analyzing beta results and Summoner feedback

Building solutions to address beta results and Summoner feedback

QA & Bug Fixing

Processing time required by the app stores

We know that it’s frustrating to wait further. We will be giving you daily status updates along the way right here on our blog.

We are doing our best to be ready as soon as possible. When this update arrives, expect to find some exciting things waiting for you in The Contest that we think you’ll really like.

Thank you for working with us, for talking to us, and for pushing us to make Marvel Contest of Champions the best it can be.

-The Marvel Contest of Champions Development Team