Climbing up the Marvel Rivals ranks in competitive mode gets you exclusive rewards, but only if you can prove yourself against players of similar skill levels. You'll start at Bronze III, but each win awards points to help you ascend the ranks. But remember that winning as a team takes priority over individual success in Marvel Rivals, particularly as you'll lose points if you lose matches, potentially leading to rank demotions. Those are just the basics of ranked mode in Marvel Rivals, so I've laid out everything you need to know, including all the ranks, rules, restrictions, and rewards.
Marvel Rivals ranked split date
The current Marvel Rivals ranked split, the second half of Season 1, should end 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.
Marvel Rivals competitive ranks
At level 10, you will unlock Marvel Rivals' Competitive ranked mode, which features intense, multiple-round matches where victorious players can gain points to climb the ranks to prove their skill. 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, II, I
- Silver III, II, I
- Gold III, II, I
- Platinum III, II, I
- Diamond III, II, I: 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.
- Grandmaster III, II, I
- Celestial II, II, I
- Eternity: Not competing for a while at this rank causes you to gradually lose 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 lose 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. Conversely, losing matches causes you to lose rank points.
Every 100 points you earn bags you a promotion to the next division but losing too many points can lead to a rank demotion. These can be prevented if you have a Chrono Shield – essentially a points buffer that automatically activates to prevent you from getting demoted – but after you get out of the shield, it needs to recharge, so you might not get protection against every 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 half of a 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 this half.
- Blood Blaze Human Torch costume: Reach Gold III or higher and play at least 10 competitive matches during this half.
- Silver Crest of Honor: Reach Grandmaster III or higher
- Gold Crest of Honor: Be one of the Top 500 players (One Above All rank) at the end of the season
As mentioned, this Marvel Rivals ranked season should end on April 11, so you have until then to be eligible to unlock these rewards. If you can persuade some friends to get the game and join you in competitive mode, get them to use your Marvel Rivals Assemble code for some free Units.
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