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Wildcard Ranked & Season System Overview Wildcard is moving to a season-based ranked system that rewards consistent play, champion mastery, and weekly performance instead of one-off tournaments.

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changedWildcard Ranked & Season System Overview
changedWildcard is moving to a season-based ranked system that rewards consistent play, champion mastery, and weekly performance instead of one-off tournaments.
changedSeasonsEach Season lasts 12 weeks
changedSeasonsEvery season includes: 12 Weekly Ranked Events (one per week) 1 Full-Season Ranked Leaderboard
changedHow You Get ItPlayers receive the Season Pass if they:
changedHow You Get ItAlready owned the Summon Bundle

Wildcard Ranked & Season System Overview

Wildcard is moving to a season-based ranked system that rewards consistent play, champion mastery, and weekly performance instead of one-off tournaments.

Seasons

  • Each Season lasts 12 weeks

  • Every season includes:

    • 12 Weekly Ranked Events (one per week)

    • 1 Full-Season Ranked Leaderboard

Season Pass

How You Get It

Players receive the Season Pass if they:

  • Already owned the Summon Bundle

Otherwise:

  • Season Pass costs $24.99 per season

What the Season Pass Includes

Owning the Season Pass grants:

  • Access to the Ranked Queue

  • Access to the Battle Pass

  • Eligibility for all Ranked prizing and leaderboards

Earn Next Season for Free

If a player completes the Battle Pass during the season:

  • They earn the next Season Pass for free

This means:

  • Active players can keep playing competitively without repurchasing

  • Inactive players must rebuy to re-enter Ranked

Queues

Ranked Queue (Season Pass Required)

  • Main competitive mode

  • Affects:

    • Weekly leaderboards

    • Season leaderboard

    • Champion leaderboards

    • All prizing

Sandbox Queue (Free)

  • No ranking

  • No prizing

  • Used for:

    • Practice

    • Learning champions

Season Pass

Each Season’s Pass is themed around:

  • A featured Champion

  • That champion’s summons and cosmetics

Season Pass Progression

  • Earn BP points by:

    • Playing matches (Ranked)

Ranked Structure

Players compete across multiple parallel rankings:

Season Rankings

  • Overall rank for the full 12-week season

  • Used for:

    • Main season prizing

    • Top player recognition

Weekly Rankings

  • Resets each week

  • Used for:

    • Weekly prizing

    • Short-term competition

Champion Rankings

For both Season and Weekly:

Players also have rankings for each champion they play:

  • Best Ragna players this week

  • Best Locke players this season

  • etc.

Prizing

Weekly Prizing

Based on Weekly Overall Rankings:

PlacementPayout
1–8Up to $200 each
9–16Up to $100 each
17–32Up to $50 each
33–64Up to $25 each

Weekly Top Champion Bonuses

For Champion Leaderboards (Weekly):

  • Top 3 players per featured champions

  • Up to $50 each

Season Prizing

Based on Season Overall Rankings:

PlacementPayout
1–8Up to $500 each

Season Top Champion Bonuses

For Champion Leaderboards (Season):

  • Top 3 players per champion

  • Up to $150 each

Reconnect Feature

  • Reconnect works, if you disconnect from a match you will ONLY have the reconnect option

  • If you reconnect everything works but the UI is has some display issues. When you reach the next level just remember you can level up a card with F1-F4 or V if you have the card selected via Scroll Wheel.

  • Unleveled cards may appear invisible. Leveling them up by pressing the keys and then using them once will unhide them

  • If a match has ended and you press Reconnect, your game will freeze for about 30 seconds while it refreshes back to the play button. Just wait a moment while it does this.

Source

Steam News / 12 February 2026

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