Marvel Rivals ranks and ranked mode explained

You can ascend the Marvel Rivals ranks through victory in competitive mode, letting you climb from Bronze to Celestial and beyond. Climb high enough and you'll get exclusive ranked rewards, but you've got to continually prove yourself against players of a similar skill level to increase and maintain your standing in Marvel Rivals.

Remember that winning as a team takes priority over individual success, particularly as you'll bleed points if you lose matches, potentially leading to rank demotions. However, there are many more rules and restrictions to get into, so I've laid out everything you need to know about Marvel Rivals' competitive mode and all the ranks and rewards.

When does Marvel Rivals Season 1.5 end?

The current Marvel Rivals ranked split, Season 1.5, ends on April 11, 2025, at 8am GMT. That's 1am PDT / 4am EDT / 9am BST. Your Marvel Rivals rank will fall by six divisions (if you ended the season at Diamond II, you would start Season 2 at Gold II, for example) and you will get any rewards listed at the bottom of this guide, if you are eligible. This is also when the Season 1 Marvel Rivals Battle Pass expires, so purchase it before this date if you don't want to miss out.

Marvel Rivals ranks

At level 10, you will unlock Marvel Rivals' Competitive ranked mode, which sees two teams consisting of players of a similar skill level duking it out in intense, multiple-round matches – it's like a more hardcore version of Quickplay with higher stakes and longer matches. The goal is to earn as many points as possible by winning matches, helping you climb the divisions and ranks over the course of the season for personal glory and exclusive rewards.

There are 23 skill divisions spread across nine different ranks in Marvel Rivals Competitive mode, with some having their own special rules, namely rank decay and hero bans. Here are all the ranks and divisions in Marvel Rivals Competitive mode:

• Bronze III
• Bronze II
• Bronze I
• Silver III
• Silver II
• Silver I
• Gold III
• Gold II
• Gold I
• Platinum III
• Platinum II
• Platinum I
• Diamond III: If all players in a match are Diamond III or higher, each team gets to ban two characters from hero selection before the match starts.
• 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 winning streaks and good individual performance (particularly being the team's MVP) helping you maximize your rank point gains. Each rank division is only 100 points, which could be as little as three or four wins, bagging you a promotion to the next division.

Conversely, losing matches causes you to lose rank points which can lead to a demotion. Dropping a division or rank can be prevented if you have a Chrono Shield – essentially a points buffer that prevents you from getting demoted unless you continue to drop points – but these shields need to recharge, which can leave you vulnerable to an immediate demotion. Additionally, at the start of each new season all players, regardless of rank, will drop six divisions, so you must claw your way up the ranks again to get new rewards.

If you want to see how all the heroes are performing and which ones are proving to be the best Marvel Rivals characters, you can check the Hero Hot List on the Marvel Rivals website. This table lets you see the pick rate and win rate for every character, and you can filter it by platform and game mode, including competitive – although this list is only updated at the end of every season, so it doesn’t provide real-time data. Alternatively, other sites, such as RivalsTracker, provide up-to-date data on rank distribution and hero performance per rank but mainly use PC player data only

How to play Marvel Rivals ranked with friends

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.

Marvel Rivals competitive rewards

At the end of each ranked season, you can get some Marvel Rivals competitive rewards based on the highest rank you achieved in that period. These include costumes and Crests of Honor, which can be applied to your player card to show off your skills.

For the current competitive season, Season 1.5, you can get the following rewards:

• Blood Shield Invisible Woman costume: Reach Gold III or higher and play at least 10 competitive matches during Season 1.5
• Blood Blaze Human Torch costume: Reach Gold III or higher and play at least 10 competitive matches during Season 1.5
• Silver Crest of Honor: Reach Grandmaster III or higher in Season 1.5
• Gold Crest of Honor: Be one of the Top 500 players (One Above All rank) at the end of Season 1.5

As mentioned, this Marvel Rivals ranked season ends on April 11, so you have until then to meet the requirements for the above rewards – you'll then get the rewards once the season ends. If you can persuade some friends to join you in Marvel Rivals competitive mode, get them to use your Marvel Rivals Assemble code for some free Units.

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