Marvel Rivals ranks and ranked mode explained for Season 2

Your Marvel Rivals rank is determined by your success in Competitive mode and can get you exclusive rewards, but it might not be an easy journey up through the divisions. Ranked sees you competing with and against players of a similar skill level, battling for victory and precious rank points – it's a more hardcore version of Quickplay with higher stakes and longer matches. If you're a skilled player, you'll hopefully sail through the divisions, from Bronze all the way up to Eternity or even One Above All, but Marvel Rivals is a team game after all.

All that along with a map pool, new rewards, and rank resets, and many other complicated restrictions and ranked is far from simple. To help you make sense of it all, I've explained everything you need to know about ranked in Marvel Rivals. including all the ranks, rewards, and maps for Season 3.

When do Marvel Rivals Ranks reset and when does Season 4 start?

Season 3 will end on August 8, 2025, at 8AM GMT, immediately followed by the start of Season 3.5, but there will be no rank reset. All players' ranks reset at the start of a completely new season, and Season 4 is set to begin on September 12, 2025, so that's when you can expect the next reset.

Marvel Rivals ranks

At level 15, you will unlock Marvel Rivals' Competitive mode, which sees two teams consisting of players of a similar skill level duking it out in intense, multiple-round matches. The rank system means winning matches over the course of the season will help you climb the divisions, getting you exclusive rewards and bragging rights. However, be aware that there is no PC and console crossplay in ranked, so Xbox and PlayStation players can match together but PC players cannot join them and vice versa.

There are 23 skill divisions spread across nine different ranks in Marvel Rivals Competitive mode, with some having their own special rules, namely hero bans and rank decay – there are lots of other restrictions when it comes to teaming up which I’ve covered further below. Here’s how the Marvel Rivals rank system works:

• Bronze III
• Bronze II
• Bronze I
• Silver III
• Silver II
• Silver I
• Gold III: If all players in a match are Gold III or higher, each team gets to ban two characters from hero selection before the match starts.
• Gold II
• Gold I
• Platinum III
• Platinum II
• Platinum I
• Diamond III
• Diamond II
• Diamond I
• Grandmaster III
• Grandmaster II
• Grandmaster I
• Celestial III
• Celestial II
• Celestial I
• Eternity: Not competing for a while at this rank causes you to gradually bleed rank points and risk demotion.
• One Above All: Only for the top 500 players. Not competing for a while at this rank causes you to gradually bleed rank points and risk demotion.

Every match win awards you rank points, with good individual performance helping you maximize your rank point gains or mitigate your losses. Each rank division is only 100 points, which could be as little as three or four wins to get to the next division. Conversely, losing matches causes you to lose rank points which can lead to demotions.

Dropping a division or rank can be prevented if you have a Chrono Shield – this is essentially a points buffer that prevents you from getting demoted unless you continue to drop points and exceed that buffer – but these shields need to recharge once used, which can leave you vulnerable to an immediate demotion.

Importantly, at the start of each new season of Marvel Rivals, all players will have their rank reset by seven divisions. For example, if you end Season 3.5 at Diamond I, you will start Season 4 at Gold II. There’s no way to avoid this rank reset, so you’ll have to claw your way back up the ranks again, particularly if you want the new exclusive rewards.

Which ranks can play together in Marvel Rivals?

If you want to do any Marvel Rival Team Ups with friends, obviously you all need to be level 10, but there are some complicated queueing restrictions to be aware of, particularly at the higher ranks:

• There is no PC and console crossplay in competitive, so Xbox PlayStation players can match together but PC players cannot join them and vice versa.
• Bronze, Silver, and Gold players can queue together freely.
• Players in Gold I to Celestial I can only queue together if they fit within a three-division range. For example, a Platinum II and Diamond III player could queue together as the range is two divisions, but a Gold I player could not join as this would make the range four divisions.
• Players in Eternity and One Above All can join with players in Celestial II and I provided the difference in their total ranks points is less than 200.

If you can persuade some friends to join you in Marvel Rivals ranked mode, get them to use your Marvel Rivals Assemble code for some free Units too.

Marvel Rivals ranked rewards for Season 3

There are unique rewards on offer in Marvel Rivals ranked, including costumes and Crests of Honor, which can be applied to your player card to show off your skills. To be eligible for these rewards, you must play at least 10 ranked matches in Season 3 and must reach the specified rank per reward – you don’t necessarily have to be at that rank at the end of the season, you just need to have reached it at one point. You’ll then get your rewards at the start of the following season.

For the current ranked season, Season 3, you can unlock the following rewards:

• Emerald Flames Phoenix costume: Reach Gold III or higher
• Phoenix Feathers nameplate frame: Reach Platinum III or higher
• Phoenix Force nameplate frame: Reach Diamond III or higher
• Grandmaster Crest of Honor: Reach Grandmaster III or higher
• Celestial Crest of Honor: Reach Celestial III or higher
• Eternity & One Above All Crest of Honor: Reach Eternity or One Above All
• Top 500 Crest of Honor: Be one of the Top 500 players at the end of Season 3

Marvel Rivals ranked map rotation for Season 2

Ranked mode now has a smaller map rotation compared to the full selection of maps available in Quickplay, with Yggsgard: Royal Palace (Domination) and Tokyo 2099: Shin-Shibuya (Convergence) getting removed. That means the following maps make up the full Marvel Rivals ranked map rotation for Season 2:

• Convergence (attackers must capture a point then escort a convoy):
  • Hellfire Gala: Arakko
  • Empire of Eternal Night: Midtown
  • Tokyo 2099: Spider Islands
  • Yggsgard: Yggdrasil Path
• Convoy (attackers must escort a convoy across the entire map):
  • Empire of Eternal Night: Midtown
  • Tokyo 2099: Spider Islands
  • Yggsgard: Yggdrasil Path
• Domination (both teams fight to control and hold a single objective over multiple rounds):
  • Klyntar: Celestial Husk
  • Hellfire Gala: Krakoa
  • Hydra Charteris Base: Hell’s Heaven
  • Intergalactic Empire of Wakanda: Birnin T’Challa

To help you achieve ultimate victory in ranked, make sure you know how the meta is looking and check out our Marvel Rivals tier list. Some team abilities can also be game-changers, so get clued up on all Marvel Rivals Team-Ups here too.

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