Marvel Rivals ranks and ranked mode explained for Season 2

Upping your Marvel Rivals rank by winning matches in ranked mode can get you exclusive rewards, but it might not be an easy journey up through the divisions. This is because you’ll be competing with and against players of a similar skill level, battling to win and gain rank points – it's like a more hardcore version of Quickplay with higher stakes and longer matches. Doing so will see you sail through the divisions, from Bronze all the way up to Eternity, and even One Above All for the top 500 players. Remember that winning as a team takes priority over individual success, so work together to avoid losing matches and potential rank demotions.

Each new season of Marvel Rivals also brings forced rank resets, but also new rewards to chase too. However, that really is just scratching the surface and there are many more rules and restrictions to be aware of in this competitive mode. Below, I've explained everything you need to know about ranked in Marvel Rivals. including all the ranks, rewards, and maps for Season 2.

When do Marvel Rivals Ranks reset and when does Season 2 end?

Season 2 will end on May 30, 2025, at 8am GMT – that's 1am PDT / 4am EDT / 9am BST – which is also when your Marvel Rivals rank will be reset by nine divisions. This will also be the start date for Season 2.5 and the release date for Ultron in Marvel Rivals too. However, your Marvel Rivals Season 2 Battle Pass shouldn’t expire and will last until Season 3.

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 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 nine divisions. For example, if you end Season 1.5 at Diamond II, you will start Season 2 at Silver II.

Marvel Rivals ranked rewards for Season 2

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 2 and must reach a certain rank at any point during the current season. You’ll then get your rewards at the start of the following season.

For the current ranked season, Season 2, you can unlock the following rewards:

• Golden Diamond Emma Frost costume: Reach Gold 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 2

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 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):
  • Empire of Eternal Night: Central Park
  • Intergalactic Empire of Wakanda: Hall of Djalia
  • Klyntar: Symbiotic Surface
• 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):
  • Hellfire Gala: Krakoa
  • Hydra Charteris Base: Hell’s Heaven
  • Intergalactic Empire of Wakanda: Birnin T’Challa

Marvel Rivals rank distribution for Season 1.5

At the end of Season 1.5, NetEase released rank distribution data for Marvel Rivals’ ranked mode, letting you see how you fit in with the rest of the ranked playerbase. As you can see, just over half of players were in Bronze, Silver and Gold, while just over 3% made it to Eternity and One Above All. If you want to see stats for characters, and which ones are proving to be the best Marvel Rivals characters, you can check the Hero Hot List on the Marvel Rivals website (last updated: March 31, 2025).

If you want more current rank distribution data for Season 2, sites such as RivalsTracker provide up-to-date data on rank distribution and hero performance per rank but mainly use PC player data, so it's less useful for console players.

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