The wait is over for X-Men fans who have been begging for Jubilation Lee since launch. NetEase confirmed Jubilee as Marvel Rivals’ 52nd hero in an official reveal trailer published July 7, and she is bringing her signature fireworks to the fight sooner than most people expected. Here is everything we actually know about her role, her kit, and when you can lock her in.
Who Is Jubilee in Marvel Rivals?
Jubilee lands as a Strategist, which is the game’s healer-adjacent support class. If you were expecting a pure damage dealer because her comic powers literally blow holes through metal, you are not alone, but NetEase went a different direction and built a whole story around it.
A “Timestream Entanglement” traps Jubilee’s son, Shogo, in dragon form, and she strikes a deal with Apocalypse in Thebes to save him. In exchange, she becomes his Horseman of Famine.
Powers-wise, she generates bursts of pyrotechnic plasma as she shapes radiant energy into vibrant projectiles, and she pairs those fireworks with vampiric powers. So yes, she is a firework-slinging vampire support. Only in Marvel Rivals.
Jubilee Abilities: Full Kit Breakdown
She is not your stand-still-and-heal Strategist. Her whole kit revolves around Sparkle Marks and attack speed, which rewards aggressive players who want to weave damage into their healing. Here is how it shakes out:
- Primary Fire (Energy Plasmoid): An auto-fire attack that heals allies on friendly hits and damages enemies on hostile ones. Simple, flexible, and always useful.
- Blooming Ball: Throw a Blooming Ball that deals AoE damage and heals allies. Shooting the ball increases its radius, letting you cover a bigger chunk of the fight.
- Dazzling Detonation: Detonate the Blooming Ball to apply a Sparkle Mark to either an ally or an enemy.
- Sparkle Mark payoff: Hitting a target affected by the Sparkle Mark with your normal attack detonates it and greatly increases your attack speed. This is the engine of her whole kit.
- Sparking Sprint: A quick dash that also feeds into her attack speed buff, giving her mobility most supports would kill for.
- Vampiric ability (life steal): Her vampiric side lets her sustain herself while dishing out fireworks, leaning into that Horseman of Famine fantasy.
- Air jump and hover: She can jump into the air and briefly hover to dodge damage, which is a clutch survival tool for a squishy support.
Jubilee’s Ultimate: Firework Finale
Her Ultimate is exactly the grand finale the name promises. Firework Finale deploys an AoE around Jubilee that you can expand or retract by toggling the button. Expanding the AoE knocks enemies up and back while healing and boosting allies inside it. The best window is when your team is heavily contesting a point, since it doubles as a disruption and a team-wide sustain burst.
One heads-up worth flagging. Because expanding the ult physically shoves enemies, you can accidentally knock foes out of a teammate’s ult zone, like blowing enemies out of Invisible Woman’s shield combo. Timing and coordination matter here more than most.
Jubilee Team-Up Abilities
Season 9 reworks the entire Team-Up system, and Jubilee slots into two of them:
- With Blade: Her vampire connection lets her deploy a Vampiric Field that grants life steal to allies in range. If Blade is on the team, the enhanced version also adds continuous healing.
- With The Hood: This one transforms Jubilee’s normal attacks into hitscan while her attack speed buff is active, and the enhanced effect should let her hold that hitscan form longer once The Hood arrives.
Marvel Rivals Jubilee Release Date
Mark your calendar, because this one is close. Marvel Rivals Season 9 launches on July 10, 2026, at 9 AM UTC, which works out to 2 AM PDT and 5 AM EDT. Jubilee is available right at the start of the season, so there is no mid-season wait for her.
