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When diving into Marvel Rivals, many players tend to develop a preference for a specific character or a select few they frequently choose to play. It’s common for individuals to find one or two characters they feel at ease with across all classes, allowing them to master the distinct abilities and strategies associated with those characters.
Spending time with a specific group of characters significantly boosts your familiarity and skill level with them. However, you can speed up the process of improving this skill level and reaping rewards by adopting certain strategies.
What is Proficiency?
Proficiency measures how much time you’ve dedicated to a character and, to some extent, your effectiveness with them. While proficiency doesn’t serve as a strict ranking system, earning more proficiency depends on how you play.
To check your proficiency for each character, head over to Heroes > Specific Hero > Proficiency.
How to Earn Proficiency Quickly
Proficiency naturally accumulates as you play a character. Each hero has unique ways to gain proficiency, and focusing on these challenges can help you improve faster.
Proficiency Challenges
Every character has a common proficiency challenge, along with three unique ones:
- Playing a hero for an hour earns you proficiency.
- Performing healing, blocking, or dealing damage—the amount varies by the character’s role.
- Achieving KOs, assists, or final hits, which also varies based on the hero’s role.
- A unique challenge tied to a specific ability for each hero.
These proficiency challenges can be repeated infinitely and are automatically updated, so you don’t need to manage them manually.
You can earn significant proficiency by performing well in your role. Healing, inflicting damage, and knocking out enemies contribute quickly toward proficiency for the second and third challenges.
The fourth challenge depends on the hero. For instance, Rocket will need to use his ability to revive teammates effectively. However, this ability has a long cooldown period, making it tricky to accomplish swiftly. In contrast, Moon Knight’s challenge involves bouncing his weapon off enemies, which can be done efficiently with smart placement.
Best Mode for Earning Proficiency
Overall, the Competitive mode is your best bet for earning proficiency. It typically has minimal downtime; matches usually last longer due to better competition, and modes like Escort consist of two rounds.
Less time waiting for matches and more time actively playing translates to completing your playtime hero challenge faster. It also means you’ll gather stats for the other proficiency challenges more quickly.
Every Proficiency Rank and What You Earn
All characters in the game share five proficiency ranks:
- Agent
- Knight
- Captain
- Centurion
- Lord
To progress through the ranks, you need increasingly more proficiency, starting at 500 points to move from Agent to Knight, with 2,400 points required to advance from Centurion to Lord.
Proficiency Rewards Table
| Level | Reward |
|---|---|
| Agent | KO Prompt/Avatar |
| Knight | Spray |
| Captain | KO Prompt |
| Centurion | KO Prompt |
| Lord | Avatar |
Keep in mind that while proficiency challenges refresh automatically, you’ll need to manually claim and equip the rewards to use them.
Proficiency Challenge Increases
Although the tasks for proficiency challenges remain constant, the higher your proficiency level, the more you’ll need to accomplish to complete them. For instance, a healing character might start with a requirement of 10,000 healing at the Agent level, but this could rise to 54,000 at the Centurion level, significantly extending the time needed to fulfill the challenge.
On the upside, while challenges become tougher as you advance, your rewards will also improve substantially. This means you might progress at a slower rate, but that progress will come in larger increments.
