Rival
Player Title
Rival <Name> Achievement
Rival is awarded by any of 29 achievements, starting with Rival: Season 14.
Details
In game this title prints before your character's name. The client stores it as the format string Rival %s, where %s is the character wearing it.
How to Obtain
Earned from any of these 29 achievements:
Rival: Season 14
Rival: Season 15
Rival: Warlords Season 1
Rival: Warlords Season 2
Rival: Warlords Season 3
Rival: Legion Season 1
Rival: Legion Season 2
Rival: Legion Season 3
Rival: Legion Season 4
Rival: Legion Season 5
Rival: Legion Season 6
Rival: Legion Season 7
Rival: Battle for Azeroth Season 1
Rival: Battle for Azeroth Season 2
Rival: Battle for Azeroth Season 3
Rival: Battle for Azeroth Season 4
Rival: Shadowlands Season 1
Rival I: Shadowlands Season 2
Rival I: Shadowlands Season 3
Rival I: Shadowlands Season 4
Rival I: Dragonflight Season 1
Rival I: Dragonflight Season 2
Rival I: Dragonflight Season 3
Rival I: Dragonflight Season 4
Rival I: The War Within Season 1
Rival I: The War Within Season 2
Rival I: The War Within Season 3
Rival I: Midnight Season 1
Rival I: Midnight Season 2
What the Achievement Asks
The client’s own line for Rival: Season 14 is “End a PvP season in the top 10% of the arena ladder (requires 50 games won in Season 14).”
The game carries 29 achievements with this reward, and completing any one of them awards the title.
Who Is Wearing It
994 of the 257,834 ranked PvP characters in our own leaderboard snapshot are wearing “Rival” right now, which is 0.39% of them. The snapshot was last refreshed on 4 November 2026.
- 994 displaying it
- rank 25 of 581 worn titles
- 559 Alliance
- 435 Horde
- 407 in EU
- 587 in US
581 different titles are being displayed across that snapshot, and this one sits at number 25 by wearers.
The specialisation those characters play most is Frost (81 of them), ahead of Beast Mastery (58), Holy (57).
Counted from the characters on the current PvP ladders we refresh, not from every player in the game: Blizzard publishes no ownership figure for a title. Browse the leaderboards those characters come from.
This Season's Rating Thresholds
Rival is a rating tier, so the bar moves with the season. These are the thresholds we are tracking for the current season, read on 4 November 2026:
Fixed thresholds are set by Blizzard for the season; the rank-one cutoffs move every day and are tracked on the PvP leaderboards.