How to Get Free Units in Marvel Rivals: Every Method Explained

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Premium currency in free-to-play games tends to feel just out of reach by design, but Marvel Rivals has been more generous with free Units than most games in its lane. There are more ways to earn them than the average player may realize.

Here is a full breakdown of every method available to you right now, ordered from the most immediately accessible to the ones that take a little more time or effort.

1 Community Tab Rewards

Before you even load into your first match, Marvel Rivals is already willing to hand you some free Units. Press the gear icon on the main menu, select “Community,” to open the “Our Community” tab, and find a handful of quick one-time pickups waiting for you:

• Get 100 Units for linking your Discord account to your Marvel Rivals account.
• Get 100 Units for becoming a NetEase Gamer Premium (NGP) Member.
• Get 300 Units per friend you refer through your personal “Assembly Code” in the Hero Gathering Event, once they reach level 10.

The account linking part takes all of two minutes and is the easiest 200 Units you’ll earn in the game. On the other hand, that referral reward scales with how many friends you bring along, so it’s worth sharing your code.

2 Chronoverse Saga Achievements

The Chronoverse Saga is the map-specific branch of Marvel Rivals’ achievement system, and it currently holds 600 Units in total across its various challenges. Most of these you’ll complete as you play the game normally, since they involve interacting with environmental details in spawn or completing basic in-match objectives.

That said, it’s worth opening your Profile and checking the Achievements tab at least once to see which ones you’re still missing. Some slip through the cracks simply because you weren’t paying attention to them. The list also keeps growing as NetEase adds new maps, so there’s always something new to chase here.

3 Heroic Journey Achievements

Where the Chronoverse Saga is about maps, the Heroic Journey is about heroes, and it’s the more lucrative of the two tracks at 1,700 Units total as of writing. Rewards are distributed at milestone intervals as you accumulate Achievement Points, so the Units do trickle in steadily.

The challenges themselves vary quite a bit in difficulty. Some are straightforward solo tasks, while others, like forging soul bonds with specific teammates as Adam Warlock, might require a little friendly gaslighting in team chat. The effort scales with the reward, though, and 1,700 free Units is hard to dismiss. Like the Chronoverse Saga, this list also expands with every new hero added to the roster.

4 Seasonal and Limited-Time Events

The Events tab is arguably the most consistent source of free Units in the game on an ongoing basis. Every season (and each half of a season is roughly a month long), NetEase rolls out fresh sets of event missions covering a wide range of in-game tasks.

The rewards on offer typically include cosmetics alongside a respectable pile of Units, and since the missions are spread across the full season window, you don’t need to grind everything in one sitting. Checking the Events tab after each session and chipping away at whatever is active keeps the Units flowing at a pace that adds up fast by season’s end.

5 Free Tiers of the Battle Pass

Each season’s Battle Pass contains several free rewards accessible to every player regardless of whether they’ve purchased the premium version. Across all the pages of the free tier, there are up to 400 Units to collect, with an additional 200 available if you opt to buy the Battlepass.

The free Units are spread out across the pages, so you’ll need to progress through the pass consistently to collect them all. For anyone playing regularly through a season, this one is essentially passive income.

6 Chrono Token Conversion

This method is exclusive to players who both purchase the Battle Pass and complete all its pages. Once you’ve unlocked every reward across the pass using Chrono Tokens, a final conversion page unlocks that lets you trade surplus Chrono Tokens for Units at a rate of 1,000 Chrono Tokens for 100 Units.

It’s not a flashy ratio, but if you’re a regular player who has the Battle Pass and is earning Chrono Tokens through daily play anyway, this becomes a quiet but steady drip of extra Units toward the end of each season. Every 100 Units counts when you’re saving toward a specific legendary skin in Marvel Rivals, after all.

7  Esports Predictions

Marvel Rivals runs its own version of “Pick’Ems” inside the Events tab under Esports Events, and it actually rewards you with Units for being right. The ongoing Ignite 2026 Preseason prediction event at the time of writing, for example, offers 100 Units each at 60%, 80%, and 100% accuracy thresholds, totaling 300 Units for a perfect prediction sheet.

Not every prediction window will have a tournament running, so you’ll need to check in when events are live. The upside is that it costs nothing to participate, and if you follow the competitive scene even casually, putting in a reasonably informed set of picks takes very little time for a decent Units return.

8 Official Discord Server Events

The official Marvel Rivals Discord is consistently running community events of one kind or another, and Units are regularly up for grabs as prizes. These can range from screenshot contests and photo mode showcases to map-specific Easter egg hunts, and some don’t even require you to open the game at all.

The format changes regularly, which keeps things from feeling repetitive, and the barrier to entry for most of these events is low enough that casual participation can pay off. It’s worth joining the server and keeping an eye on the different text channels if you aren’t already, since even the chance to get free Units for posting a screenshot is about as low-effort as it gets.

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Here’s a quick summary of every method to earn free Units in Marvel Rivals:

MethodTypeApprox. Free Units

Discord Account Linking	One-time	100
NGP Membership	One-time	100
Hero Gathering Event	Ongoing	300 per successful referral
Chronoverse Saga Achievements	Ongoing	600 and counting
Heroic Journey Achievements	Ongoing	1,700 and counting
Seasonal and Limited-Time Events	Per season	Varies
Free Battle Pass Tiers	Per season	400
Chrono Token Conversion	Per season	Varies
Esports Predictions	Per event	Varies
Official Discord Events	Ongoing	Varies

And finally, some quick answers to questions that come up around free Units:

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Which of these methods are you already working through, and are there any free Unit sources we might have missed? Let us know in the comments below!