Jubilee wasn't supposed to be a healer.
In the weeks before Season 9, most of the guessing pointed one way. Jubilation Lee throws pyrotechnic energy from her hands, the "fireworks" that made her a fan favorite since the '90s, so the expectation was a flashy ranged Duelist who deletes people from across the point. Late leaks flipped the script. She arrived on July 10 as a Strategist, and the reveal caught a lot of people off guard.
Now that she is live, we can stop guessing. Counterwatch pulls matchup and performance data straight from real games, so here is what Jubilee actually looks like in her first days, and more usefully, who you should and should not play her into. Every number below is as of July 11, 2026, roughly two days after launch, so treat it as a first read, not a verdict.
Who Jubilee is
For anyone meeting her here first, Jubilee is Jubilation Lee, the orphaned mall rat who became the X-Men's youngest member and Wolverine's surrogate daughter, later a founding member of Generation X. Her power is energy plasmoids, controlled bursts of light that range from a harmless sparkle to a real detonation. Marvel Rivals leans into her darker comics history too. Season 9, The Mystery of Thebes, is built on the Curse of the Mutants arc where Jubilee is turned into a vampire, and in the season story she serves as Apocalypse's Horseman of Famine. That vampire flavor runs through her kit.
In game she is a Strategist who heals by fighting. Her plasmoids heal allies and hurt enemies at the same time, she drops firework detonations that blind and weaken groups, and she has a short speed burst to reposition. The identity is a mid-range battle healer, closer to a support who wants to be in the fight than one who hides behind a shield. If you expected a damage dealer, you were not completely wrong, and the data agrees.
A damage dealer wearing a support badge
Across every rank, Jubilee's average game reads like a hybrid. As of July 11 she puts up around 3,200 healing per ten minutes alongside roughly 1,580 damage and close to 20 assists, with a low death count for a backline hero. Plenty of Strategists heal more and touch damage less. Jubilee sits at the aggressive end of the role, which lines up with a kit that rewards landing detonations and staying on the trigger rather than pocket healing a single teammate.
The popularity spike means less than it looks
Jubilee is everywhere right now. In her launch week she is the fifth most picked Strategist and the seventh most picked hero of 55 overall, and she reached that in about two days while everyone ahead of her had a full week of play.
That is not a compliment to her power level. New heroes always spike, because everyone wants to try the shiny thing, and pick rate on day two tells you about curiosity, not strength. The more important consequence is what it does to her win rate. Right now that number is basically the average of a whole playerbase learning her at once, and a lot of those games are somebody's first three matches on the character.
Solid overall, but it leans on rank
Taken flat, Jubilee's win rate is 50.7%, which puts her fifth of 13 Strategists. For a brand new, mechanically busy hero, landing in the middle of the pack in week one is a healthy result, not a broken one.
The average hides the real story, though. Split by rank, her win rate slides as lobbies get harder. She sits around 53.6% in Bronze, dips under 50% through Silver and Gold, and falls to the mid 40s by Diamond. The same gap shows up between modes. She is about 51% in Quick Match versus 48% in Competitive. Higher ranks are also picking her less, so the players most likely to punish a mispositioned support are the ones least likely to be on her.
Read together, that is the profile of a high skill floor hero. She gives easy value when nobody is coordinating against her, and she asks for a lot more when they are. If you are grinding ranked, expect her to feel worse than her casual reputation until you have the reps.
Who beats Jubilee
Here Counterwatch has something most sites do not have, a counter score built from real duel and teamfight outcomes rather than raw win rate. For Jubilee it splits into two clean groups, and both line up with her weaknesses.
The first is dive. Black Panther, Spider-Man, Storm, Psylocke, and Squirrel Girl all win the fight when they get to her, and our duel numbers are lopsided about it, with those heroes taking the large majority of the kills in the trade. Jubilee's blind buys her something against divers, but it does not save her once she is isolated, and she has little to peel for herself. If the enemy has a strong flanker and you have no one to protect the backline, she is a rough pick.
The second group is quieter and more interesting. Rival Strategists like Adam Warlock, Mantis, Ultron, and Cloak and Dagger score as counters without ever really dueling her. They simply generate more value in a teamfight than she does, so the fight tilts against the team running Jubilee even when nobody is getting solo killed. Against a heal heavy enemy backline, her damage leaning style can lose the attrition war.
Who Jubilee is strong into
The flip side is friendlier. Jubilee has the edge against grounded, immobile targets she can chip, blind, and kite. Wolverine is her single best matchup by our counter score, followed by slow bruisers like Devil Dinosaur, Peni Parker, Thor, and Rogue. She also grades out ahead of several stationary damage dealers, including Star-Lord, The Punisher, and Cyclops, heroes that have to hold an angle and cannot easily close the gap on her.
The pattern is consistent. Threats that come to her win, targets that have to sit still lose. Pick her when the enemy is slow and predictable, and think twice when they have the tools to jump your support.
The map barely matters
If you are hunting for a map to first pick her on, the data says do not bother. Her win rate is remarkably flat across all 16 current maps, from about 49.6% to 51.6%, which is well inside the noise this early. The levers that actually move Jubilee are the enemy composition and the rank you are in, not the map on the loading screen.
On the ally side, she pairs best with a strong second Strategist. Mantis, Ultron, and Adam Warlock each lift her win rate above 54%, which fits a hero who wants a stabilizer behind her while she plays forward. Her weakest pairing so far is Cyclops, down around 44%.
This will change, so keep an eye on it
Everything here is two days old. Win rates for a new hero swing hard, the high rank samples are still thin, and the community has not settled her best combos, her cleanest counters, or the exact way to play with her and against her. The developers' own published numbers do not even refresh until later in the season.
We keep Jubilee's page current as the games pile in, so this picture will sharpen over the next few weeks. If you are learning her, or trying to beat her, watch her live matchups and win rate here: Jubilee on Counterwatch. For now she is easy to summarize and hard to master. She is a real Strategist with a damage dealer's instincts, she is kinder in casual than in ranked, and she wants a fight she can control.