Jeff the Land Shark Rework: Now Updated to be Nerfed Less – Is it Enough?

The latest Balance Patch Notes for Season 2.5 of Marvel Rivals has been announced, coming on May 30, 2025. A big rework to Jeff the Land Shark has been the most hotly discussed topic among the Marvel Rivals community, with most predicting the changes will render the character much less useful.

Less than a day into the patch notes being published, NetEase has corrected the Jeff section, lessening the blow just a little bit. Up to now, we also know that NetEase is quite receptive to community feedback, and they have also made an official clarification regarding the changes to Thor and Jeff.

As for Jeff, the initial balance update mistakenly showed a non-final version of his changes—we’ve now corrected the announcement. We’ve also improved the feel of Joyful Splash, increasing its water flow speed for smoother control. In the updated version, Joyful Splash now pierces both allies and enemies, healing teammates while damaging opponents. With this change, Jeff now charges his ultimate faster, making combos like the Sharknado with Storm or solo initiations more effective than ever!

In summary, the healing nerfs have been reverted slightly, and also allowing Jeff to heal through both allies and enemies. However, the ultimate cost has been increased by 500 as well (but charges faster), which was not in the previous patch notes.

Furthermore, Jeff also gains two new Team-Up abilities with Storm and Venom, but will no longer have the one with Luna Snow. These bonuses at first glance, seem minor at best.

Check out the full list of changes to Jeff!

Jeff the Land Shark Rework

Here are the new changes for Jeff the Land Shark, with the adjustments highlighted in yellow:

• Add a new effect to Joyful Splash: Now also deals damage to enemies at 70/s and can heal allies through other allies and enemies. Damage falloff starts at 20m to a maximum of 65% at 40m; Reduce healing per second from 150 to 130.
• Change Aqua Burst to a charge ability (max 3 charges, 3s per charge); New effect: direct hits now launch enemies up; Increase spell field damage from 40 to 45.
• Change the effect of Healing Bubble from One-Time Healing to Healing Over Time. Increase Healing Amount from the previous instant 85 to 120 over 4s. Reduce max charges from 6 to 3 and remove the enemy launch-up effect.
• Add a new effect to Hide and Seek: It now has an energy cap (max 120) that drains by 20/s while submerged and restores 15/s when not. Reduce healing while submerged from 35/s to 15/s.
• It's Jeff!'s (Ultimate Ability) overflow healing on swallowed allies now grants 45 Health per second as Bonus Health, up to 150.
• Increase the damage reduction received when taking a critical hit from 50% to 70%.
• Increase the energy cost of It’s Jeff (Ultimate Ability) from 4000 to 4500.

For reference, here are the initial rework for Jeff when the patch note was first published:

• Add a new effect to Joyful Splash: Now also deals damage to enemies at 70/s and can heal allies through other allies, but not through enemies. Damage falloff starts at 20m to a maximum of 65% at 40m; Reduce healing per second from 150 to 100.
• Change Aqua Burst to a charge ability (max 3 charges, 3s per charge); New effect: direct hits now launch enemies up; Increase spell field damage from 40 to 45.
• Change the effect of Healing Bubble from One-Time Healing to Healing Over Time. Increase Healing Amount from the previous instant 85 to 120 over 4s. Reduce max charges from 6 to 3 and remove the enemy launch-up effect.
• Add a new effect to Hide and Seek: It now has an energy cap (max 120) that drains by 20/s while submerged and restores 15/s when not. Reduce healing while submerged from 35/s to 15/s.
• It's Jeff!'s (Ultimate Ability) overflow healing on swallowed allies now grants 45 Health per second as Bonus Health, up to 150.
• Increase the damage reduction received when taking a critical hit from 50% to 70%.

Jeff the Land Shark Team-Up Changes

Jeff gains two new Team-Up abilities: Jeff-nado with Storm and Symbiote Shenanigans with Venom, but loses Chilling Charisma with Luna Snow.

Jeff-nado

• Storm gains the Shark Surge ability through her Team-Up with Jeff the Land Shark.
• Jeff gains the It's Jeff-nado! ability through his Team-Up with Storm.

Symbiote Shenanigans

• As the Team-Up Anchor, Venom gains a maximum health increase of 150.
• Jeff gains the Healing Tendrils ability through his Team-Up with Venom.

Chilling Charisma

• The Team-Up Anchor effect for Luna Snow has been removed, along with the Chilling Charisma Team-Up Ability.
• Jeff the Land Shark loses the Frozen Spitball ability from his Team-Up with Luna Snow.

Conclusion

What do you think of the upcoming changes to Jeff? Of course, the developers would have tested these changes and we do not fully know how this will play out when the Season 2.5 update goes live. Let us know in the comments below - is it as bad as it seems?

For a more in-depth analysis of all the balance changes coming to Marvel Rivals Season 2.5, check out our article: