Danqing in Marvel Rivals: What It Was, How It Worked, and Every Reward

Danqing in Marvel Rivals was basically red paint you collected during the Fortune & Colors event back in Season 1. You grinded missions, earned danqing, then used it to color a scroll and grab free stuff like the Lion’s Mane Star-Lord skin. The whole thing lasted three weeks, from January 23 to February 14, 2025 (Year of the Snake). We’re on Season 7 now, April 2026, and you can’t get danqing Marvel Rivals currency anymore. It’s gone.

If you Googled danqing Marvel Rivals, you’re probably one of two people: either you skipped Season 1 and saw danqing referenced on Reddit or a wiki page, or you just came back to the game and noticed the danqing currency in some cosmetic description. Either way, I’ll cover what it did, how you got it, every reward it gave, and whether NetEase brought anything similar back.

Danqing Event Quick Reference

Detail	Info
Event Name	Fortune & Colors (Spring Festival)
Season	Season 1: Eternal Night Falls
Start Date	January 23, 2025, 9:00 AM UTC
End Date	February 14, 2025, 8:59 AM UTC
Event Currency	Danqing (red ink/paint)
Total Currency Needed	1,000 Danqing
Number of Rewards	10 (all free)
Main Reward	Lion’s Mane Star-Lord Costume
Game Mode	Clash of Dancing Lions (3v3)
Playable Heroes	Star-Lord, Iron Fist, Black Widow
Unit Exchange Available	From February 6, 2025
Still Available?	No (event ended)

What Was Danqing in Marvel Rivals?

Danqing was a one-off event currency that only existed during Fortune & Colors, the first Lunar New Year event in Marvel Rivals. Fun fact: “danqing” (丹青) actually means red and blue mineral pigments in Chinese art. NetEase picked the name because the whole mechanic was about “painting” a scroll. In your inventory, the danqing Marvel Rivals icon looked like a bowl of red ink.

It wasn’t like Chrono Tokens or Units that stick around forever. You earned danqing, spent it on cosmetics, and on February 14 it just vanished. Gone. No carryover, no exchange, nothing. If you were 200 short of the Star-Lord skin when the clock ran out, tough luck.

NetEase pulled the same move with Golden Frost during the Winter Celebration before this. They keep making throwaway currencies so you actually log in every day during events. And yeah, it works. I played way more Clash of Dancing Lions than I’m proud of just to hit 1,000 before the deadline. The Year of the Snake aesthetic was solid too. Lion dancer outfits, red scroll UI, Chinese patterns everywhere. Gave the whole thing a real identity compared to the generic seasonal events we got later.

How Did You Earn Danqing?

There were three ways to earn danqing in Marvel Rivals during the Fortune & Colors Spring Festival event:

1. Event missions in the Clash of Dancing Lions mode (up to 100 danqing each)
2. Weekly challenges in Quick Match, Competitive, or Practice vs. AI (25 danqing each)
3. Unit exchange available from February 6 onward (spend Units to buy danqing)

Danqing Event Missions (Main Source)

The Clash of Dancing Lions game mode had its own mission tab. These missions rewarded up to 100 danqing each and refreshed over the event’s duration. Tasks included things like intercepting the ball three times in a single match, completing a set number of Clash of Dancing Lions games, or scoring goals as specific heroes.

Two new event missions dropped every day. They stacked, so if you skipped a few days, you could still complete older ones later. That design was actually pretty forgiving compared to some other live-service games that delete expired dailies.

Here are the event missions that rotated during the danqing Marvel Rivals Spring Festival event. Some appeared twice across the three-week period:

Mission	Mode	Danqing Reward
Complete 1 Clash of Dancing Lions match	Event Mode	100
Complete 3 Clash of Dancing Lions matches	Event Mode	100
Score 3 goals in Clash of Dancing Lions	Event Mode	100
Score 5 goals in Clash of Dancing Lions	Event Mode	100
Intercept the ball 3 times in a single match	Event Mode	100
Win 1 Clash of Dancing Lions match	Event Mode	100
Win 3 Clash of Dancing Lions matches	Event Mode	100
Heal 12,000 Health (Jeff, Cloak & Dagger, etc.)	Any Mode	25
Deal 15,000 Damage (Hela, Namor, etc.)	Any Mode	25
Secure 25 Assists (Luna Snow, Mantis, etc.)	Any Mode	25

Event missions paid 100 danqing, regular ones only gave 25. So obviously you wanted to focus on event tasks first and fill gaps with the weekly stuff. If you played about 10 days total across the three weeks, you’d hit 1,000 without burning a single Unit. Not bad for a free Star-Lord skin.

Weekly Challenges

Regular challenges (the ones available in Quick Match, Competitive, Conquest, and Practice vs. AI) also rewarded 25 danqing per completion during the event period. These weren’t event-specific tasks. Standard stuff like dealing 15,000 damage as Hela or healing 12,000 health as Jeff the Land Shark. But during the Spring Festival, they gave danqing alongside their normal rewards.

Not all challenges rewarded danqing though. You had to look for the red ink bowl icon next to the reward listing. If you didn’t like your current challenge pool, you could refresh them (up to three refreshes at a time, with slow regeneration).

Unit Exchange (Late Event Only)

From February 6, 2025, you could just buy danqing with Units. It was NetEase’s way of saying “hey, if you started late, here’s a shortcut.” Most people skipped it. Units are annoying to get and you’d rather save them for shop skins. But if you had 3 days left and needed 400 more danqing, at least the option existed.

Where Did You Spend Danqing?

OK so this was the part that confused half the playerbase. Finding where to actually spend danqing in Marvel Rivals was weirdly hard. There was this tiny rotating banner on the home screen that flipped between different menus. You had to catch it when it showed “Fortune & Colors” and click it. No dedicated button, no menu entry. Just a small rotating widget.

Once you got in, you’d press Paint in the bottom right. 100 danqing per click. Each click colored a chunk of a Chinese scroll illustration, and a reward popped out at each stage. Basically a progress bar dressed up as artwork.

People on Steam and Reddit were furious about this UI. Some players had hundreds of danqing sitting there for days because they couldn’t find the spend button. NetEase fixed this in later seasons with actual menu tabs and bigger event banners. Lesson learned, I guess.

Every Danqing Reward in Marvel Rivals

Every danqing Marvel Rivals reward cost 100 currency. Ten items total, 1,000 danqing to clear the board. You unlocked them in order, no skipping. Here’s the full list:

#	Reward	Type	Danqing Cost
1	Drum and Roar	Nameplate	100
2	Snake’s Luck	Spray	100
3	Chrono Tokens x200	Currency	100
4	Lion’s Mane	Nameplate	100
5	Lucky Red Envelope	Spray	100
6	Chrono Tokens x200	Currency	100
7	Lion’s Mane	Spray	100
8	Lion Dance	MVP Animation	100
9	Lion’s Mane (Star-Lord)	Costume	100
10	Of Festivals and Friends	Gallery Card	100

Star-Lord’s Lion’s Mane costume was the big danqing Marvel Rivals prize. Lion dancer themed, Year of the Snake colors, looked genuinely good in-game. Free if you did the grind. The Gallery Card at reward #10 was basically a trophy, a collectible “I was here during Season 1” badge. Cool, but let’s be honest, everyone wanted the skin.

Quick heads up: Black Widow’s Lion’s Heartbeat and Iron Fist’s Lion’s Gaze skins were not free. Those were shop-only, 1,600 and 2,200 Units respectively. A lot of players got confused and thought danqing would give them all three skins. Nope.

Paid Shop Bundles During the Event

NetEase also dropped two paid bundles alongside the free danqing track. Nothing to do with danqing itself. You bought these with Units (or Lattice, if you had it):

Bundle	Hero	Price	Contents
Lion’s Heartbeat Bundle	Black Widow	1,600 Units (~$16)	Costume, spray, emote, nameplate, MVP animation
Lion’s Gaze Bundle	Iron Fist	2,200 Units (~$22)	Costume, spray, emote, nameplate, MVP animation

You could grab either skin without the bundle for cheaper, but the bundles packaged in the spray, emote, and MVP animation so you saved a bit overall. When the event ended, the bundles pulled from the shop. But all three lion skins showed up again in February 2026 during the next Lunar New Year rotation.

Clash of Dancing Lions: The Main Danqing Farm

This was the mode. Clash of Dancing Lions dropped alongside Fortune & Colors as a 3v3 soccer minigame, and it was your main danqing farm in Marvel Rivals. Event tasks in this mode paid 100 danqing each, while regular challenges only gave 25. So if you wanted to hit 1,000 fast, you lived in this mode.

Rules were simple with one weird twist. First team to 10 points or most points after four minutes. No damage, no kills, just ball control. Abilities only knocked the ball loose or pushed enemies around.

The twist? You couldn’t shoot the ball into the goal. You had to carry it in on your character’s body. And the goal had three zones: center (3 points) and two sides (1 point each). So center defense was huge, and a lot of games turned into chaotic scrums right at the goal line.

Hero Roles in Marvel Rivals’ Clash of Dancing Lions

All three heroes had reworked kits for this mode. No damage, just ball movement tools. Everyone shared Lion’s Launch (quick throw) and Ferocious Throw (charged long pass). Beyond that:

Black Widow was broken fast. Fleet Foot had no meter cap here, so she just sprinted nonstop. Edge Dancer and Lion Dancer were spinning kicks that stripped the ball from people. Celestial Flip gave her an invincible dodge, which was overkill. Nobody could catch her. If Widow had the ball, she was scoring. Period. Every team wanted her on offense.

Star-Lord did everything at a B+ level. Blaster Barrage knocked enemies away from the goal in a big AoE. Rocket Propulsion gave speed. Lion Leap launched everyone around him. He could fly while holding the ball, which was straight up unfair in the right hands. Best flex pick, works as midfielder or emergency goalie.

Iron Fist was the goalkeeper. K’un-Lun Kicks closed distance on ball carriers quick. Lion Kick literally forced a ball drop on contact. Crane Leap gave him triple jumps for snatching passes out of the air. Reddit figured out the meta pretty fast: Iron Fist sits back, Black Widow runs, Star-Lord floats in the middle. Done.

If you played Overwatch’s old Lucio Ball, you already know how this limited-time mode felt. Fast, chaotic, and way more fun than anyone expected from a novelty side mode. First few matches were disorienting because your brain wants to shoot people, but it clicks after a round or two.

The mode also had no matchmaking rating tied to it, so you’d sometimes run into three-stacks who had already figured out passing plays while your teammates were still learning the controls. Frustrating? A little. But the matches were short enough that it never felt like a huge time sink.

This video shows the Fortune & Colors event and Clash of Dancing Lions mode in action.

Why People Still Search for Danqing Marvel Rivals

Season 7 players keep running into the word “danqing” in old Reddit posts and wiki entries. The Fandom wiki has the Fortune and Colors page up, and some cosmetic descriptions still reference the currency. If you didn’t play Season 1, you have zero context for what any of it means. That’s why this keyword still gets traffic over a year later.

Collectors also want to know what they missed. The Lion’s Mane Star-Lord skin was free during the danqing Marvel Rivals event, but now it costs Units in the shop. If you started in Season 3 or 4, that’s a tough pill. NetEase has done the same thing every season since: give away one skin through the event grind, charge for two or three more in the store.

The scroll painting was a one-time thing. No other season has used that mechanic. You actually watched your progress as the artwork filled in, which hit different than staring at a generic XP bar. Will NetEase bring it back? No idea. They haven’t yet. But it was a cool concept that landed better than most people expected.

People also ask about the Of Festivals and Friends gallery card. That’s still exclusive to players who cleared all 1,000 danqing during those three weeks. It hasn’t come back in the shop or any later event.

Can You Still Get Danqing in Marvel Rivals?

Nope. Gone. Danqing in Marvel Rivals was a Season 1 thing only. After February 14, 2025, it got wiped from the game. Can’t earn it, can’t spend it, can’t even see it in your menus anymore.

For the 2026 Lunar New Year (Year of the Horse), NetEase ran a totally different event called Lion Dance Show, February 13 to March 5, 2026. No danqing, no scroll painting, different reward setup. Free emotes, red envelopes, that kind of thing. But they did bring back the original Clashing Lions skins in the shop, so there’s that.

If you missed Star-Lord’s Lion’s Mane costume during the original danqing Marvel Rivals event, you could buy it from the store during the 2026 rerun. Units only, though. No free path anymore.

How Danqing Compared to Other Marvel Rivals Event Currencies

NetEase loves one-off event currencies. They’ve done it almost every season. Here’s how danqing stacks up against the rest:

Event	Season	Currency	Main Free Reward	Mechanic
Winter Celebration	S0/S1	Golden Frost / Silver Frost	Jeff the Land Shark Costume	Fill postcard
Fortune & Colors	S1	Danqing	Lion’s Mane Star-Lord Costume	Paint scroll
Midnight Features	S1	Mission tiers	Various cosmetics	Complete missions
Galacta’s Gift	S2	Costume Coins	Various costumes	Event pass tiers
Doom’s Domain	S3	Mission-based	Doom-themed cosmetics	Event pass
Mystic Mayhem	S5/S6	Codes + missions	Various	Redeem codes
Lion Dance Show	S6.5	None (direct rewards)	Free emote	Red envelopes
Flight Mode! World Tour	S7	Event pass XP	Namor Sea Samba Costume	Event pass tiers

Scroll painting was a danqing Marvel Rivals exclusive. Nobody else got that mechanic. Every season after just went with standard “play games, fill bar, get reward” event passes. The painting was cooler, but the UI was garbage. By Season 6 the event tab was front and center on your home screen with a huge banner. Compare that to the danqing event where you had to squint at a rotating widget in the corner. Night and day.

Frequently Asked Questions

What was Danqing in Marvel Rivals?

Red paint currency from the Fortune & Colors Lunar New Year event in Season 1. You earned it through missions, spent it to color a scroll, and grabbed 10 free rewards along the way. The big prize was the Lion’s Mane Star-Lord skin.

How did players earn Danqing in Marvel Rivals?

Three ways. Clash of Dancing Lions event missions gave up to 100 per task. Weekly challenges in any mode gave 25 each. And from February 6 onward, you could trade Units for danqing if you were behind.

How much Danqing was needed to unlock all rewards?

1,000 total. Ten rewards at 100 danqing each, claimed in order. No skipping ahead.

Can you still earn Danqing in Marvel Rivals?

No. Gone since February 14, 2025. The 2026 Lunar New Year ran a totally different event (Lion Dance Show) with no danqing mechanic.

What was the Clash of Dancing Lions in Marvel Rivals?

3v3 soccer mode from the Season 1 Spring Festival. You picked Star-Lord, Iron Fist, or Black Widow and scored goals with abilities. First to 10 points wins, center goals worth 3, sides worth 1. Had to carry the ball in, not shoot it.

Did the Danqing event return in 2026?

Different event, same theme. The 2026 Lunar New Year (Year of the Horse) had Lion Dance Show from February 13 to March 5. No danqing, no scroll painting. But the original lion-themed skins came back to the shop.

What does the word Danqing mean?

Danqing (丹青) literally means “red and blue” in Chinese. It refers to cinnabar and azurite pigments used in traditional painting. The word doubles as a general term for art or painting in Chinese culture. NetEase picked it because the whole event mechanic was about painting a scroll.

For more Marvel Rivals coverage, check out the Marvel Rivals ranks and competitive guide, the full hero tier list, or the latest Marvel Rivals codes. If you’re having connection issues, our Error Code 211 fix guide might help. You can also browse our best crosshair codes to sharpen your aim, or see system requirements before downloading.

For the official Fortune & Colors event details straight from NetEase, see the Marvel Rivals Version 20250122 Patch Notes.

Last updated: April 2026