Marvel Rivals Battle Pass & Credits Explained (2026)

The Marvel Rivals battle pass is the cheapest way to collect skins, and the currencies around it confuse almost everyone at first. Here is the short version: the Luxury Battle Pass costs 990 Lattice for a full season, contains roughly ten costumes plus enough Units and extras to total around 8,000 Units of value, and — unlike most live-service passes — never expires if you do not finish it. This guide explains the pass, the three currencies, and whether it is actually worth buying. Checked 9 September 2026.

The three currencies, untangled

There are three currencies and only one costs money. Lattice is the premium currency you buy with cash, from $0.99 for 100 up to $99.99 for 11,680. Units are the blue currency the shop charges in; you get them by converting Lattice one-to-one, and you also earn them free through the pass, achievements and events. Chrono Tokens are the battle-pass currency — you earn them by playing and completing missions, and spend them only inside the pass to unlock its pages. Keep those straight and the whole economy makes sense: Lattice is money in, Units buy skins, Chrono Tokens unlock the pass.

What the Luxury pass costs — and a price to flag

The full-season Luxury Battle Pass costs 990 Lattice, and the nearest Lattice pack is 1,000 for about $9.99. It is worth flagging a discrepancy you will see in older guides: at the game's launch, when Season 0 ran as a shorter half-season, the developer quoted the Luxury pass at 490 Lattice. That was the launch, half-length figure — for the standard full seasons that followed, 990 Lattice is the number, and that is what we publish. There is also an upgraded Luxury pass at roughly 2,100 Lattice that grants about 2,800 Chrono Tokens up front plus a season-long 20% boost to Chrono Token earnings, aimed at players who want to skip ahead.

What's inside a season pass

A full pass spreads its rewards across roughly eleven pages, headlined by about ten costumes on the game's themed roster for that season, plus sprays, nameplates, emotes, MVP animations and a chunk of Units. Added up, the contents come to around 8,000 Units of value against a 990-Lattice (~$10) price — the reason it is the standout spend. The free track is not empty either: it includes at least one Epic costume, so even non-paying players pull a skin from every season.

The rule that makes it fair: passes don't expire

The single best feature is that an unfinished Battle Pass does not expire. Progress and unclaimed rewards carry over into later seasons, so if life gets in the way you have not wasted your 990 Lattice — you simply finish the pass later. That removes the fear-of-missing-out grind most live-service passes rely on, and it is the main reason the pass earns a high mark here. You still need to play to earn the Chrono Tokens that unlock the pages; the pass buys access, not instant completion.

Is the battle pass worth it?

For anyone playing regularly, yes — roughly 8,000 Units of content for about $10, with the returned Units softening the cost of the next pass, is the best value in the game. The upgraded pass is harder to justify unless you are short on time and long on cash. If you would rather not spend at all, the free track plus events still hands out costumes; see our guide to free Marvel Rivals skins. For how the pass fits alongside the shop and event skins, the full Marvel Rivals skins catalog lays out every route.

If you do buy the pass, you fund the Lattice through your platform store; a platform gift card from a reseller like Eneba is one route, and that is a disclosed affiliate link on which we earn only on the card, never on the pass. Match the card's region to your account.

Free versus Luxury: which should you pick?

The free track and the Luxury pass are not an either-or trap — the free track exists for everyone by default, and the Luxury pass simply unlocks the premium rewards on top. If you play a season casually and do not care about collecting, the free track's Epic costume is enough and costs nothing. If you play regularly and want the ten-ish costumes plus the roughly 8,000 Units of value, the 990-Lattice Luxury pass is the clear pick, and the Units it returns take the sting out of the next one. The upgraded pass at around 2,100 Lattice is the only version we would steer most players away from, since paying roughly double to skip grinding rarely makes sense when the pass never expires anyway.

Chrono Token pacing, without the grind panic

Chrono Tokens are earned by playing and by clearing seasonal and daily missions, and they are what actually unlock the pass pages once you own the pass. The reason you can ignore the usual battle-pass anxiety is the no-expiry rule: if a season ends before you finish, your progress and unclaimed rewards carry into the next season, so there is no deadline forcing you to binge. Practically, that means you can play at your own pace, focus your missions on the modes you enjoy, and still complete a pass eventually. The upgraded pass front-loads about 2,800 Chrono Tokens and adds a 20% earning boost, but that only matters if you specifically want a costume unlocked early — for everyone else, time does the job for free.