Marvel Rivals Cross-Progression: How to Link and Carry Progress

What Cross-Progression Actually Shares

The official Q&A starts with two definitions, and every other rule follows from them.

An account is what you log in with: your Steam, Epic, PlayStation, Xbox or Loading Bay login. A character is what you play once you are logged in, and the Q&A is specific about what lives on it: "All rank, progress, collections, and paid content are stored on your character." Before linking, each account has exactly one character, a one-to-one relationship.

Cross-progression changes the relationship between accounts, not the contents of characters. Once accounts are linked to each other, logging in through any of them loads your primary character. So the things that follow you are simply everything stored on that character: your progress, your collection of costumes and other cosmetics, and content you paid for, subject to the platform rules covered further down.

Two things do not follow you, or do not follow you in the way the name suggests.

Rank and leaderboard position. The Q&A explains that because Marvel Rivals matches players by device, battle data, rank and leaderboard on PC, PlayStation and Xbox are saved separately under your Career for each device. In its own words: "Even though you have just one character, your rank and leaderboard are independent on each platform." Its example is blunt: your PlayStation rank and standing will not carry over to your PC rank and standing. Linking does not change any existing rank either; each device keeps the rank it had.

Data from a second character. If you had progress on two platforms before linking, the Q&A states that "data between characters is not merged." The character you do not choose is stored, not added to the one you keep.

Primary Characters, Stored Characters and the Two Cooldowns

This is the part of Marvel Rivals cross-progression that needs a decision from you, so it helps to see the whole mechanism before you start.

When you link accounts that each already have a character, you are asked to select a primary character. From then on, every linked account logs you into that one. The others "will not disappear," in the Q&A's words. They come back in two ways: you can switch your primary character later, or you can unlink the account a stored character came from, in which case that character is restored to its original account.

Switching is not instant, because both actions carry a cooldown:

- Character cooldown: after you select a primary character, the other characters enter a 30-minute cooldown and cannot be chosen as primary during that time. - Platform cooldown: after you unbind an account, that account and its platform enter a 180-day cooldown, during which you cannot re-bind the same platform.

During either cooldown you cannot operate on the affected account or character. The Q&A's practical warning is about tournaments: if you need to use a particular character soon, read the confirmation pop-up carefully before you switch or unbind.

A simple way to decide which character should be primary: open each platform's Career and collection before you link, and pick the character that holds the costumes and paid content you care about most.

PlayStation adds one more constraint worth knowing before you choose. Because of PlayStation's virtual asset transfer policy, once you bind a PSN account you cannot bind a different PSN account, although you can relink the original. The Q&A also warns that your PlayStation website account must be either the account being linked or logged out, or the system will link whichever PlayStation account is currently logged in.

Rank After Linking: Per-Device Ladders, Shared Rewards

Because the ranked split is the rule that catches the most people out, it is worth reading the Q&A's full answer rather than a summary.

The rank system is designed separately for each platform: PC, PlayStation and Xbox. After linking, your character's rank and leaderboard standing on one device stay exactly where they were on that device, but they are not shared across devices. If your character is Diamond on PC and has never played ranked on Xbox, it is not Diamond on Xbox.

Rewards work differently from the ladders. When a season's ranks are settled, the Q&A says rank rewards are based on "the highest valid rank you achieved on any device during the previous season." So linking can only help your end-of-season rewards: the best rank among your linked devices is the one that pays out. Your per-device standings stay preserved separately in your Career profile.

The Q&A adds two edge cases:

1. If you unlink a device platform, for example PlayStation, during a season, that platform's rank is not settled in the new season; it shows as unsettled in your Career until you link that platform again. If that device held your highest valid rank, rewards are still issued based on it. 2. Settlement results only display when you log into the corresponding device, but as long as you log in at all during the new season, settlement for all linked devices is processed then.

For how the ladder itself is structured, see marvel rivals ranks. For which players you can meet across platforms in ranked and unranked queues, see is marvel rivals crossplay.

Purchases, Exclusives and Third-Party Rewards

Paid content is stored on your character, but three platform-level rules still apply after linking, and each one has a documented source.

Platform-exclusive costumes stay on their platform. The Q&A says they can only be used on their designated platforms, and if you log in from another platform while one is equipped, your character displays the default costume. The wiki's exclusive-costumes page lists Spider-Man's Scarlet Spider under PlayStation Store Exclusive with the note that a PC or Xbox account linked to a PlayStation account cannot use it on those platforms.

Console stores block repurchases. If you already bought a bundle on your PlayStation or Xbox account, platform restrictions prevent buying it again there. The Q&A's suggestion is to try another linked platform if you want to purchase again.

The Discord shop redeems on PC only. The wiki records that a Marvel Rivals Shop was added to Discord on December 2, 2025, as an experimental feature available to a limited number of users in select regions, and that items bought there can only be redeemed in Marvel Rivals on PC. Redeeming asks you to link your Marvel Rivals account with your Discord account if they are not already connected.

Third-party connections are the other trap. The Q&A states that, due to technical limitations, character data from linking does not update other web functions such as Discord or Twitch drops, and it asks you to check after linking and manually re-bind if necessary. The wiki's Twitch Drops page describes where that binding lives: log in at marvelrivals.com with the platform account you play on, open My Account, then Connections, and connect Twitch there. Earned drops are claimed through Twitch and then collected from the in-game mail, where the wiki notes they expire after 30 days. If you change which account or character you play after linking, that Connections page is the place to re-check.

Codes and partner rewards follow the same logic as other content on your character. The marvel rivals codes page covers what the official channels have actually issued.

Timeline and Supported Platforms

Cross-progression arrived in a game whose platform list has itself grown, so the dates are worth having in one place.

- December 6, 2024: Marvel Rivals launched on PC (Steam and the Epic Games Store), PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S, per the wiki's game page; the Xbox store listing shows the same release date. - September 12, 2025: the PlayStation 4 version became available at 09:00 UTC with the Season 4 patch, per that patch's notes on the wiki; the PlayStation Store lists the PS4 edition with that release date. - November 14, 2025: the Season 5 patch notes listed "Cross-progression account linking is now fully available," alongside Discord linking and cross-platform chat for Xbox and an option on Xbox and PC to hide unlinked Discord friends. The official Q&A carries the same date.

The Q&A's list of supported platforms is Epic, Steam, Loading Bay, PlayStation and Xbox. It does not separate PS4 from PS5; it treats PlayStation as one platform for linking and one device for rank. The is marvel rivals on ps4 page covers what the PS4 edition does and does not include.

One honest limit on this page: the Q&A describes rules, not every screen. It does not say what happens to a character that was never used on a platform, or how long a binding takes to complete, and neither does the wiki, so this guide does not guess. If something on your account does not match what is described here, the Q&A's own advice is to read the in-game confirmation pop-ups carefully, and support is the route for anything that looks like lost data.