Marvel Rivals has a leveling system in place which also serves to impede player access to Competitive Play and its ongoing season. New players will have to grind their way to rank 10 before they can even access ranked play and its ladder. And that is just player account XP – the Battle Pass has its own distinct progression system.
This guide is everything there is to know about earning both account and Battle Pass progression in order to rank up quickly and efficiently in Marvel Rivals.
Quick Play For Rank XP
The simplest of modes to hop right into, Quick Play will match you up with players of all skill levels. Aside from a team victory, your personal performance will earn you XP towards your account rank. Everything from kills to assists to being MVP can increase your XP per match.
Kills are clearly the largest contributor towards account rank XP gains.
Chrono Tokens And The Battle Pass
Marvel Rivals’ Battle Pass progression is unusual in that it does not level up through merely playing and winning matches, but specifically through the completion of daily missions, as well as challenges and events that are released at regular intervals.
These tasks tend to be of the hero-specific variety, that incentivize the use of certain skills and abilities. Some of these can be tedious as they require pre-conditions to exist in the arena, such as the use of a Team-Up ability where another random player would have to be a specific hero in order to perform. Successful completion of the dailies, challenges, and events rewards you with purple Chrono Tokens.
- Dailies confer 30 of these tokens each, with four becoming available everyday for 48 hours, for a total of 120 Chrono Tokens each day.
- Challenges drop less regularly, are more involved, and only reward you with 80 Chrono Tokens each.
- Season Events can earn you 100 Chrono Tokens each, while rotating over the course of entire seasons.
- Both Dailies and Challenges offer up to three refreshes each, if the options on offer are unsatisfactory, and each of those refresh attempts are reset 24 hours after initial use.
Fortunately, many of these tasks can be completed in practice matches versus AI. All three of these mission types can be tracked from the ‘Missions’ tab in the ‘Season’ section, but only outside of matches.
The Achievements tab (not to be confused with Steam or Xbox Achievements) is buried deep elsewhere, in the Career section or player profile page. Here you will find multiple tracks, two of which (‘Galacta’s Guide’ and ‘Rivalry Rising’) have non-rotating tasks that can unlock 200 Chrono Tokens each, and can only be completed in true PvP modes for the most part, unless specified.
These Chrono Tokens can then be spent on unlocking pages in the Battle Pass.
Additionally, any gold Lattice either purchased or unlocked through the Battle Pass can be converted into Chrono Tokens at a 1:1 conversion rate. With 300 in the ongoing season, and 600 in future passes, Lattice currency conversions can go a long way towards gaining the Chrono Tokens needed for Battle Pass completion. Since Lattice does not expire, the most optimal practice is to make use of promotional schemes that convert Lattice to Chrono Tokens at a more advantageous ratio, as high as 1:2.5, with a percentage-based ‘acquisition bonus’ on top. This is possible through purchase of the accelerated Luxury Battle Pass.
That is everything there is to know about grinding XP to level both account rank and the Battle Pass in Marvel Rivals.
