The Marvel Rivals Winter Celebration event has arrived, bringing the holiday theme to the popular PvP shooter. This limited-time event will offer players exciting new content, including free character skins to unlock. It was officially announced via the game publisher's YouTube channel on, December 16, 2024, and has gained over 600,000 views in a day.
This article will cover all the skins you can get during the Marvel Rivals Winter Celebration.
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Cuddly Fuzzlefin and Marvel Rivals Winter Celebration skins
As of this writing, we do not have the official in-game name of any skins except Jeff The Land Shark. Here are all the heroes getting new skins during the event.
- Jeff The Land Shark: Cuddly Fuzzlefin
- Groot
- Rocket Raccoon
- Venom
- Magik
The Venom skin features a frozen body completely made of ice and features unique ability animations as well. Groot has been turned into Santa, while Rocket Raccoon and Magik simply wear winter-themed jackets.
Jeff The Land Shark's Cuddly Fuzzlefin features an adorable yellow scarf, ear covers, and a brown leather jacket. Players will be able to unlock it for free. The rest of the skins will be purchasable in the item shop using Units (blue-colored currency).
The YouTube trailer's description mentions that the Winter Celebration event will kick off on December 19, 2024, at 11 PM Pacific Standard Time, which converts to December 20, 2024, at 2 AM Eastern Time. Here is the date based on all the time zones:
- Mountain Standard Time (MST): Friday, December 20, 2024, at 12 AM
- Central Standard Time (CST): Friday, December 20, 2024, at 1 AM
- Brazil, Rio de Janeiro (BRT): Friday, December 20, 2024, at 4 AM
- Coordinated Universal Time (UTC): Friday, December 20, 2024, at 7 AM
- London, United Kingdom (GMT): Friday, December 20, 2024, at 7 AM
- Central European Time (CET): Friday, December 20, 2024, at 8 AM
- India Standard Time (IST): Friday, December 20, 2024, at 12:30 PM
- China Standard Time (CST): Friday, December 20, 2024, at 3 PM
- Japan Standard Time (JST): Friday, December 20, 2024, at 4 PM
- Australian Eastern Daylight Time (AEDT): Friday, December 20, 2024, at 5 PM
- New Zealand Daylight Time (NZDT): Friday, December 20, 2024, at 7 PM
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What else is new with the Marvel Rivals Winter Celebration event?
Marvel Rivals Winter Celebration is also bringing a fresh, limited-time game mode named "Jeff’s Winter Splash Festival." It is a fun and casual 4v4 game mode where everyone plays as Jeff The Land Shark. Teams compete to cover the map in their color while battling the opponents. The only ability they can use is the Joyful Splash.
Alongside this game mode and character skins, the trailer hints at surprise gifts, which could be collectibles and emotes.
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