What does SVP mean in Marvel Rivals?

Marvel Rivals not only awards the standard MVP at the end of each match, it also declares someone the SVP — a mysterious title that the game never fully explains. In this Marvel Rivals guide, we’ll walk you through what the SVP award means and how you can earn it on your team. What is the SVP in Marvel Rivals? SVP stands for Second Valuable Player, and is an award given to the best-performing member of the losing team in Marvel Rivals. It mirrors the MVP award (for Most Valuable Player) that the game automatically grants to the best player on the winning team. To earn the SVP title, you’ll need to perform your role better than the rest of your teammates performed theirs. It’s a bit esoteric, but that could mean something along the lines of the following: * If you’re playing as a duelist, that means getting the most kills or dealing the most damage. * A strategist might get SVP because they healed more damage than anyone else on their team. * A vanguard might get SVP for blocking the most damage in a losing match. * If you got a clutch team wipe by throwing yourself off the map with the enemy team in your mouth as Jeff the Land Shark, but your team still couldn’t lock down the win, you’ll probably pick up the SVP award on your way out for the incredible play. Earning the SVP award at the end of a match doesn’t seem to offer any benefit in either quick play or the competitive ranked mode. What’s more, all members of the losing team will lose ranked points, even if you’re the SVP. The only way to lose and not go down in rank is to have a loss prevention shield, which you can only earn from losing multiple matches. However, there are some members of the community that seem to think you gain more ranked points when you win as the MVP, and lose fewer points when you lose as the SVP — something we’ve noticed in our own climb. That said, the exact figures are not easy to verify, as the way the game determines how many ranked points you gain or lose is currently unknown, and the winner of the MVP or SVP could be a factor or could be entirely unrelated. Until players crack how the rank point system works — or the developers at NetEase Games reveal the game’s secrets — it’s best to just think of SVP as a purely honorary title. Correction (Jan. 6, 2025): A previous version of this guide stated that the winner of the SVP award didn’t lose any ranked points in competitive games. The guide has been updated to reflect that you indeed lose ranked points in you’re the SVP. For more Marvel Rivals guides, here’s a list of all known codes, all Team-Up abilities, all maps and modes, and a look at the game’s roadmap.