Marvel Rivals Ranks: Every Tier, Placements and Bans

Marvel Rivals ranks go Bronze, Silver, Gold, Platinum, Diamond, Grandmaster, Celestial, Eternity and One Above All, the Top 500 in each region. Bronze through Celestial each have three divisions (III, II, I); Eternity and One Above All are points-based. Since Season 7, each team bans 3 heroes and new players get 10 placement matches judged on personal performance.

All Marvel Rivals ranks in order

There are nine tiers, and the first seven split into divisions. You climb from division III to division I inside a tier, then promote to the next tier’s division III. The last two tiers drop divisions and run on points, with One Above All reserved for the 500 best players in a region.

The reward column comes from NetEase’s own patch notes, which list a Gold costume, Platinum and Diamond nameplate frames and Crests of Honor from Grandmaster up every season. The exact cosmetics change each season; the structure has stayed the same.

How do Marvel Rivals ranked placements work?

Since Season 7 (patch notes of March 2026), placement matches judge you, not your team. Every one of your ten placement games tracks your individual performance, and after the tenth NetEase adjusts your rank by anywhere from -100 to +100 competitive points based on how you played relative to your tier. A great game on a losing team isn’t wasted anymore. Carried wins count for less.

Honestly, that’s the change that matters most for new accounts. Before it, ten lucky or unlucky games could set you a tier off your real level; now the swing is capped and tied to your own stats.

How do points and divisions work?

Each division is a bar of points. Win and it fills; lose and it drains. Fill it past the top and you move up a division (or a tier, from division I); drain it at the bottom of a tier and you can drop. From Eternity up there are no divisions at all, only a points total, and One Above All is simply where the top 500 point totals in your region sit at any moment. That makes the top of the ladder a live leaderboard rather than a badge you keep once earned.

Want to protect a fresh promotion? Marvel Rivals has had demotion-protection mechanics over its seasons, and the in-game rank screen shows what applies to you right now. We’d rather point you there than quote a rule that may have changed in the last patch.

Hero bans in Marvel Rivals Competitive

Bans are part of every Competitive match at the ranks where they’re enabled. As of the Season 7 update, both teams ban 3 heroes each, up from 2, and each ban round lasts 15 seconds instead of 20. The same ban rules carried over to some Arcade modes; NetEase’s Season 4 notes describe an Arcade mode that used “same ban rules as Competitive,” back when that meant 2 per team.

Three bans per team means six heroes out of every match, which is a lot in a roster built around team-ups. In practice, it pays to have two or three heroes per role ready, because your main may simply not be available. Our Marvel Rivals tier list helps when you pick those backups.

Does your rank reset every season?

Yes, at least partly. The best documented example is Season 4: NetEase’s patch notes said ranks would be “demoted by 7 divisions” from the final Season 3.5 rank, so a player who finished at Diamond I started Season 4 at Gold II. Seven divisions is a little over two full tiers.

The size of the reset can change from season to season, and recent seasons (9 and 10 arrived in July and September 2026) have mostly listed only the new rank rewards in their notes. So check the first patch notes of each new season for the exact reset. One thing has been constant: every season brings a fresh Gold costume reward.

Marvel Rivals rank rewards by season

The Gold costume is the most reachable of these rewards. Recent ones, from the official patch notes:

Higher ranks add cosmetics that show off rather than dress up: nameplate frames at Platinum and Diamond, Crests of Honor at Grandmaster, Celestial and Eternity, and a Top 500 crest for One Above All.

Marvel Rivals ranks and the Championship

Ranked is also the entry ticket to NetEase’s competitive circuit. The Marvel Rivals Championship (MRC) runs alongside each season, and its sign-up floor has been Platinum III, with 2,500 team slots per region in the seasons where NetEase published the number. So Platinum is the line between “ranked player” and “can enter a tournament.”

The circuit matters beyond the badge. According to the Season 9 and Season 10 notes, MRC results in 2026 add up to Champion Points for each team, Season 11 is the last stop for 2026 points, and the top teams move on to the Ignite Series 2026, where they compete with pro teams for spots in the 2027 Pro Circuit. Is that realistic for most players? No.

What is the Marvel Rivals rank distribution?

NetEase doesn’t publish an official distribution. The percentages you see on stats sites come from the matches those sites track, so they lean toward players who use them, and they shift a lot after each reset. Thing is, the shape is predictable even without exact numbers: most players sit in the lower and middle tiers, Celestial and above is a small slice, and One Above All is capped at 500 per region by definition.

For a sense of scale, NetEase said the game reached 20 million players within weeks of launch in December 2024, in its “Catching Up with Our 20 Million Rivals” post. Put simply, five hundred spots at the top of a ladder that size is a very thin sliver.

How to climb faster in Marvel Rivals ranked

Climbing is mostly about consistency. Not hero picks. Play two or three heroes per role well enough that a triple ban doesn’t throw you, play team-ups on purpose, and stop queueing after two losses in a row. Placement games now reward personal performance, so a solid support game on a losing side still helps.

Our guides on how to get better at Marvel Rivals and the best Marvel Rivals healers go deeper on both. Aim feels off? The best Marvel Rivals crosshair settings are a quick fix worth trying before your next ranked session. Real talk, a clean crosshair won’t win games for you, but it does remove one excuse when you review the losses later.

FAQ

What are the ranks in Marvel Rivals in order?

Bronze, Silver, Gold, Platinum, Diamond, Grandmaster, Celestial, Eternity and One Above All. Bronze to Celestial have three divisions each; Eternity and One Above All are points-based.

What is One Above All in Marvel Rivals?

One Above All is the highest rank, held by the top 500 players by points in each region. It changes constantly as point totals move.

How many placement matches are there?

Ten. Since Season 7, each placement match tracks individual performance, and after ten games your rank is adjusted by -100 to +100 competitive points.

How many heroes can each team ban?

Three per team since the Season 7 update in March 2026, with 15 seconds per ban round. Before that it was two per team.

Do ranks reset each season?

Yes, ranks are lowered at the start of a season. In Season 4 the reset was 7 divisions, so Diamond I became Gold II; check each season’s patch notes for the exact amount.

What rank do you need for the Gold costume?

Gold or higher. Each season has its own Gold-rank costume, for example Gorr the God Butcher’s Gods’ Graveyard costume in Season 10.