It's Episode 28 and Josiah and Nick talk through their first week of playing Season 3.5, as well as take a look through the balance updates for the 3.5 season. In addition, Armed & Dangerous turns into a face off as "There can only be one Blade." And there's the Reddit Take of the Week and mailbag.

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Referenced Links:

Chat:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gartner_hype_cycle

News:

El Capitan Announcement: https://x.com/MarvelRivals/status/1955320030742319511

Rivals Assembled Interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-_8Qj3spOM

Cloak & Dagger and Winter Soldier Skins: https://twitter.com/MarvelRivals/status/1955328431203172619

Main Topic:

Hero Hotlist 3.0: https://www.marvelrivals.com/heroes_data/

Balance Post: https://www.marvelrivals.com/balancepost/20250731/41667_1251097.html

Mailbag/Reddit Take of the Week:

https://youtu.be/nmD8grQ7fQA?si=C13YQRFHDP_ukZkk

https://www.reddit.com/r/marvelrivals/comments/1mit1ea/a_memento_from_one_of_my_comp_games_doing_the_big/

https://www.reddit.com/r/rivals/comments/1mj8xok/a_healing_received_stat_is_only_gonna_make_the/

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