Overview
- Season 9, which launches on Friday, July 10, introduces Jubilee as the season’s launch hero and schedules The Hood for a mid‑season release in August.
- Jubilee is a Strategist who uses pyrotechnic plasma to heal allies and harm enemies, has vampiric life‑steal lore tying her to Apocalypse, and fields abilities that grant movement, healing bubbles, and a crowd‑control ultimate.
- NetEase has overhauled the Team‑Up system so every hero gets two selectable Team‑Up loadouts, each with a base effect that always applies and an enhanced effect that activates when the paired hero is on your team.
- Black Widow receives a major kit rework that lowers one‑shot damage in favor of higher fire rate, moves her old ultimate into a standard slot, adds a new timed sniper ultimate with pierce shots, and removes stamina costs for sprinting and super jumps.
- The season roadmap adds a new convoy map, Thebes, on July 23 and a PvE mode Path to Doomsday: Avengers — Age of Ultron on July 30, while developers say they will actively monitor interactions and issue rapid balance patches if needed.