Marvel Rivals is on the eve of its Season 3 launch, and with it a plethora of symbiote skins belonging to the Klyntar Warriors theme will arrive via the “Powers of the Phoenix” BattlePass. Part of what makes Marvel Rivals fascinating, let alone any Marvel ensemble game with an actual enormous roster boasted, is the tantalizing idea that many characters will either have iconic comic book costumes adapted and represented, as well as multiple characters sharing a themed style in their skin catalogs. Marvel Rivals achieves this wonderfully, and the number of symbiote-themed skins thus far demonstrates how great of a grasp it has on this premise.
Of course, Klyntar, Knull, and Venom have already been playing significant roles in Marvel Rivals throughout its lore and maps. But, with the announcement of a season that would be at least partly dedicated to symbiote skins, there likely would’ve been hell to pay and pitchforks raised if Marvel Rivals didn’t debut a symbiote skin for Spider-Man—specifically Spider-Man’s iconic black symbiote suit. It wasn’t long before Marvel Rivals’ Season 3 content was unveiled in content creator previews, including Spider-Man’s so-called ‘Black Suit,’ and it thankfully hasn’t skimped at all on its sacred Easter egg potential.
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Like many other Marvel characters who have either been tossed into the roster already or may be at some point, Spider-Man has the advantage of countless seminal costumes hanging in his wardrobe that Marvel Rivals could draw from in the foreseeable future. As of Season 2.5, ahead of Season 3, Marvel Rivals’ Spider-Man skins include:
Spider-Man costumes all have varying degrees of significance, and yet it’s quite difficult to overstate how popular the symbiote suit is. That’s not to say Marvel Rivals’ current catalog of Spider-Man costumes doesn’t feature any profoundly influential ones, but the Black Suit has always been held with a particularly fervent reverence, and with it Marvel Rivals has taken a rare opportunity to triple down on some fantastic Easter eggs within the wall-crawler’s BattlePass cosmetics in Season 3.
Spider-Man’s black suit—whether it’s an alien organism or a simple cloth garment—has so many iterations now across several different media, though two alone have debatably been the cream of the crop.
It’d be fairly challenging to ever eclipse the black suit’s origins from the comics, for instance, with the only interpretation to do so arguably being from Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man 3. It would make sense, then, that Marvel Rivals’ Black Suit Spider-Man features the following references to both:
Making an effort to perfume the Black Suit with so many popular and ubiquitous Spider-Man Easter eggs is precisely why such skins will always be special in Marvel Rivals, especially with NetEase’s live-service hero shooter having demonstrated such passion and faithfulness when it comes not only to adapting larger-than-life characters but also producing its own original lore. As such, Marvel Rivals Season 3 is a Spider-Man celebration that will also be reveled by every character who receives a symbiote-themed skin.
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December 6, 2024
T For Teen // Violence
NetEase Games
NetEase Games
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