research on lithium-ion battery cathodes has been largely dominated by layered rock salt materials in the Li x (Ni-Mn-Co-Al) 2−x O 2 (NMCA) compositional space, [3,4] in which redox activity is limited to Co and Ni. Cobalt in particular is expensive and relatively scarce compared to other 3d transition metals, such as Fe or Mn. [1,3,5] The fact that the cathode structure has to be layered and remain layered upon cycling greatly restricts the changes which can be made to NMCA-type rock salt chemistries.Recent progress in the development of Li percolation theory for rock salt compounds, in which Li transport still takes place even when the cations are disordered, has greatly enlarged the design space for cathode materials. [6,7] Lifting the requirement that cations form an ordered (layered) structure enables the use of various transition metal (TM) redox centers, including Mn 3+ /Mn 4+ , [8,9] Mn 2+ /Mn 4+ , [5,10] Cr 3+ /Cr 5+ , [6,11] Mo 3+ /Mo 6+ , [12] and V 3+ /V 5+ . [11,13] Because these compounds need Li excess to achieve Li percolation, [6,7] they typically also contain high valent charge compensators, such as Nb 5+ , [8,9] Sb 5+ , [14] Mo 6+ , [15,16] and Ti 4+ . [16][17][18] In addition, fluorine substitution is facile inThe recent discovery of Li-excess cation-disordered rock salt cathodes has greatly enlarged the design space of Li-ion cathode materials. Evidence of facile lattice fluorine substitution for oxygen has further provided an important strategy to enhance the cycling performance of this class of materials. Here, a group of Mn 3+ -Nb 5+ -based cation-disordered oxyfluorides, Li 1.2 Mn 3+ 0.6+0.5x Nb 5+ 0.2−0.5x O 2−x F x (x = 0, 0.05, 0.1, 0.15, 0.2) is investigated and it is found that fluorination improves capacity retention in a very significant way. Combining spectroscopic methods and ab initio calculations, it is demonstrated that the increased transition-metal redox (Mn 3+ /Mn 4+ ) capacity that can be accommodated upon fluorination reduces reliance on oxygen redox and leads to less oxygen loss, as evidenced by differential electrochemical mass spectroscopy measurements. Furthermore, it is found that fluorine substitution also decreases the Mn 3+ -induced Jahn-Teller distortion, leading to an orbital rearrangement that further increases the contribution of Mn-redox capacity to the overall capacity.