Marvel Rivals Convergence Guide (2026): Capture, Convoy, 6 Maps

Convergence is the most complete of Marvel Rivals' three objective modes: it asks an attacking team to win a point fight and then a moving escort, and it asks the defence to switch from holding a circle to stopping a vehicle in the same match. This guide covers Convergence as it works in Season 10.5 "Butcher's Blasphemy" on 8 November 2026: both phases and how the capture steps work, all six Convergence maps, a stop-by-stop look at Lower Manhattan and its drone scan, and a plan for each side.

What Convergence is

Wikipedia describes Convergence as a mode where teams are "randomly assigned offense or defense", and where the offence "must attack and secure a starting checkpoint" while the defence must "prevent the checkpoint from capture until the timer ends". If the capture succeeds, the match switches to Convoy rules. Beebom's Season 10 explainer calls it "similar to Convoy" with a play area of three regions.

The result is a mode with two very different halves. The first plays like a fight over a point: both teams know exactly where the fight will be, and the defence has time to set up around it. The second plays like a Convoy push: the fight moves with the vehicle, and the attackers choose when to engage. A team that is good at only one of those loses Convergence regularly, because the mode always asks for both.

Quick Match and Competitive use the same three objective types, by Beebom's explainer, so what you learn in Quick Match transfers to ranked. NetEase doesn't publish the capture timers or the vehicle speed in its patch notes, so this guide quotes none.

Phase 1: the capture and its 33% steps

The most useful rule in Convergence is the one fewest players know. Beebom's explainer says attackers secure the area in steps, at 33%, 66% and 100% progress. In practice that means progress isn't all-or-nothing: if the attackers are pushed off at 50%, they keep the 33% step, and the next attack starts from there. Anything above the last step is lost.

For attackers, this turns the capture into a series of small goals. If a fight is going badly but you are close to the next step, staying on the point a few more seconds can be worth a death. For defenders it is the reverse: pushing the attackers off just before a step is a bigger win than pushing them off just after one, because they lose everything since the last step.

The steps are the rule as Beebom describes it; NetEase hasn't printed them in its notes. Check the capture bar in your client: the segments are on screen during the capture.

Phase 2: the escort

Once the area is captured, the vehicle starts its route and Convergence plays like Convoy. Beebom notes that after securing a point the attackers can leave it, and that the vehicle won't roll back past what has been secured. Everything in our Convoy guide applies from here: the vehicle moves while attackers are next to it, faster with more of them, and stops while a defender is near.

The switch is where many matches turn. The attackers usually win the capture with a big fight and arrive at the vehicle with their ultimates spent; the defence, which just lost that fight, respawns with fresh ultimates and the walk to the next choke. A good attack saves one ultimate for the first escort fight. A good defence doesn't re-contest the vehicle one by one, it sets up at the first choke on the route.

The six Convergence maps

Wikipedia and Beebom's Season 10 list agree on six Convergence maps in Season 10.5:

Shin-Shibuya (Tokyo 2099), Hall of Djalia (Wakanda) and Symbiotic Surface (Klyntar) are launch maps. Central Park joined in Season 1 with the Empire of Eternal Night, and Heart of Heaven in Season 4 with K'un-Lun; NetEase's Season 10 notes "optimized certain collisions on the K'un-Lun: Heart of Heaven map to better match the actual models", so if you got stuck on its scenery before 11 September 2026, that should be fixed. Lower Manhattan is the newest, released on 3 April 2026 according to Beebom's Season 7 roadmap.

Lower Manhattan, stop by stop

Lower Manhattan is the newest Convergence map and the one with the most unusual mechanic. In Beebom's map guide (6 April 2026), Alchemax's 2099 headquarters has crashed into modern Manhattan, and the route runs through three areas:

1. The CourtyardOutside the Empire State School: narrow lanes, two ways into the building, the Smile Deli as the attackers' flank. The capture happens here.
2. Charging Jeff StatueA golden statue on a mostly straight road where the vehicle takes its first bend; Van Dyne's store is the flank into the backline.
3. The Vault BridgeA narrow bridge from the guard posts to the Vault, with windows on both sides: the final stand.

The scan changes how the map is played. Beebom notes that it makes dive heroes such as Spider-Man and Hulk much easier to track and ambush, and that a checkmark shows when an enemy's ultimate is ready, so a team that is waiting to use a big ultimate may find the other side prepared for it. Its advice is to poke from range, push from several directions so crowd control can't hit everyone at once, and pick mobile healers who can protect themselves. It also notes that some balconies and Courtyard walls break, though "not game-changing". Its sample six for the map:

VanguardsBeebom, 6 Apr 2026

GrootMagneto

DuelistsBeebom, 6 Apr 2026

Iron ManThe Punisher

StrategistsBeebom, 6 Apr 2026

Luna SnowRocket Raccoon

How to attack Convergence

1. Pick your anglesetup

   The point is fixed, so the defence knows where you are going. Choose the side it covers least, or split into two angles that meet at the point.

2. Fight in front, then step onphase 1

   Win the fight around the point before you commit bodies to it; a capture with every defender alive rarely survives.

3. Play for the next step33 · 66 · 100

   Near a step, a few more seconds on the point are worth a risk; just past one, back off and reset.

4. Keep an ultimate for the vehicleswitch

   The escort starts right away, and the defence respawns with its ultimates ready.

5. Escort like Convoyphase 2

   Clear the space, then push; spend your resources where the route has its chokes.

How to defend Convergence

The defence's job in phase one is simple to say and hard to do: don't let the capture reach the next step. Our rules for it:

• Hold the ground in front of the point; make attackers cross it under fire.
• Watch the step: a push-off just before 33% or 66% erases the most progress.
• Keep one durable hero ready to contest when the fight goes wrong.
• When the point falls, fall back to the first choke on the route as a team.
• On Lower Manhattan, expect to be scanned; don't rely on hiding for a flank.
• Count ultimates: if they spent theirs on the capture, fight the vehicle early.

Convergence, Convoy and Domination compared

Sources for each row: Wikipedia and Beebom's Season 10 explainer. The Domination guide explains the point maths in full.

Common Convergence mistakes

Convergence in ranked and in Season 10.5

The same rules apply in Quick Match and Competitive. No Convergence map changed in Season 10 beyond the Heart of Heaven collision fix, and the 5 November 2026 patch changed no maps. Season 11 starts on 13 November 2026; Beebom's preview of 6 November 2026 mentions no new map. Ranked also has hero bans, so read the hero bans guide and keep a second hero for each role you play; our team comps guide helps you build around a ban. The maps guide lists every map in the game, and the destruction guide covers the breakable cover and other map mechanics.