Marvel Rivals Domination Guide (2026): Rules, God Quarry, All Maps

Domination is Marvel Rivals' king-of-the-hill mode, and it is the most honest of the three objective modes: there are no checkpoints to bank and no vehicle to hide behind, only a point and a clock. This guide explains it as it works in Season 10.5 "Butcher's Blasphemy" on 8 November 2026: the capture, the score that climbs 1% every 1.2 seconds, overtime, the best-of-three format, every Domination map, a full breakdown of God Quarry (the newest map in the game) and the habits that win first fights and retakes.

How Domination works

Wikipedia describes the mode in two sentences: teams "attack a zone within an area map; one from a pool of three for each map", and when the zone is captured, the team holding it "will gradually gain points until 100% is reached". Beebom's Season 10 explainer adds the details that matter in play. The map is mirrored, so neither team has a head start. Both teams fight for a central point, and while both teams are in the area the capture stops until one side is eliminated or pushed out. Once a team owns the point, its score rises.

A team doesn't lose its score when it loses the point. If you are on 60% and the enemy takes the point, your 60% stays where it is while their number starts to climb. That is the key to every Domination decision: the question is never "who owns the point now", it is "who will reach 100% first".

Domination is also the mode where both teams have the same information at the start. There is no defender setup and no attacker plan to read. Both teams walk out of spawn toward the same circle, and the one that arrives better organised usually wins the first fight.

The score maths

Beebom gives the rate: once a team captures the point, "its score increases 1% every 1.2 seconds" until it reaches 100%. NetEase's patch notes don't restate it, so treat it as the published community figure. Multiplied out, that is 120 seconds, two minutes of ownership, from 0% to a won round. The table below is our arithmetic on that rate:

Two habits follow from the maths, and they are BoostPirate's coaching advice:

• Count the gap in seconds, not percent. If they are on 80% and you are on 60%, they need 24 seconds and you need 48. Your team has to own the point for 24 seconds more than they do from here on, which usually means two won fights, not one.
• A late steal is never wasted. Taking the point back when you can't hold it still stops their clock. Every second you own it is a second they don't, and it forces them to come to you.

Overtime and contesting

Beebom's explainer describes overtime this way: if the enemy contests while a team is winning, the game goes to overtime, and the overtime bar keeps running until the contesting team leaves. The point is that a team on the edge of winning can't finish the round while an enemy is on the point. It has to clear it.

Best of three: three areas per map

A Domination match is best of 3. Beebom puts it plainly: "you must win 2 out of 3 sets". Wikipedia adds that each round is fought over one zone from a pool of three for that map, so a Domination map is really three small arenas sharing a name. The God Quarry guide says the same: "The team that completely secures two out of three points will take home the win."

The break between rounds is short, but it is the most valuable planning time in the mode. The next area may favour different heroes: an enclosed room rewards brawlers, an open, vertical area rewards fliers and long-range Duelists. If you lost round one to a specific enemy hero or ultimate, say so before round two starts. A one-sentence plan beats a long argument.

Every Domination map

Wikipedia lists six Domination maps; Beebom's Season 10 list (updated 1 October 2026) names five and leaves out Yggsgard: Royal Palace. We couldn't confirm from NetEase whether Royal Palace is in the current Quick Match and Competitive rotation, so check the map list in your client before you count on it.

Hell's Heaven (Hydra Charteris Base) and Birnin T'Challa (the Intergalactic Empire of Wakanda) have been Domination maps since launch. Krakoa came with Season 2's Hellfire Gala and Celestial Husk with Season 3's Klyntar. God Quarry is the newest: NetEase's patch notes of 24 September 2026 say it "arrives as a Domination map", with a limited-time Quick Match mode for that map only from 24 September 2026, 09:00 UTC to 29 September 2026, 08:59 UTC. Beebom notes it is the first new Domination map in seven seasons.

God Quarry, area by area

NetEase's notes set God Quarry in the Cradle of Creation, where the God Butcher crashed Omnipotence City, a roaming citadel that was once the gathering place of the pantheons. Beebom's map guide (25 September 2026) breaks down its three areas, and adds that all three are enclosed by walls, which helps heroes who knock enemies into walls, such as Emma Frost:

1. House of IdeasCorridors, side rooms and staircases with flank routes beside the main route; little cover on the point, so fights are taken from doorways and the underground pathway. Loki, the Chronicler, stands on a flank route.
2. Halls of All-KnowingBig archways and several floors, with a suspended wooden structure above the point that lets you shoot from many directions. Library rooms behind the point catch a retreating team.
3. Confessional EternityThe open, vertical area: wide flanks on both sides, a lava-pool route and a platform behind the giant orb, which is destructible.

Beebom's tips: aerial heroes such as Iron Man, Storm and Ultron should use the high ground and fire from cover; flankers such as Gorr should use the side routes but plan their escape, because healers are hard to reach indoors. Its three sample sixes:

BalancedBeebom, 25 Sep 2026

Emma FrostDoctor StrangeGorr the God ButcherThe PunisherGambitJubilee

AerialBeebom, 25 Sep 2026

The ThingHulkIron ManWinter SoldierInvisible WomanUltron

FlankingBeebom, 25 Sep 2026

Emma FrostCaptain AmericaGorr the God ButcherScarlet WitchRocket RaccoonLuna Snow

Team comps are Beebom's suggestions, not a tier list. The orb in Confessional Eternity is destructible; our destruction guide explains how to play around cover that breaks.

Winning the first fight

The first fight decides who owns the clock, and in Domination nobody can hide from it. Our routine:

1. Walk out togetherspawn

   Both teams travel the same distance. The one that arrives as six wins more first fights than the one with better aim.

2. Take a position, not the circlearrive

   High ground, doorways, a pillar that covers your Strategists. Standing in the middle of an empty point gives them free damage.

3. Read their sixcall

   Dive, brawl or poke? Say it in one sentence, such as "they're diving our healers, stay close".

4. Fight first, capture secondfight

   Capturing stops while both teams are in the area, so a capture with all six enemies alive just restarts the fight.

5. Hold forward+1% / 1.2 s

   Once you own it, fight at their doors. Every second they spend walking back is a second your score climbs.

Don't spend every ultimate in the first fight. Rounds swing between short spikes and long holds, and the team with one ultimate left for the retake or the overtime stall usually wins. Our ultimate economy guide explains how to track both teams' ultimates, and the positioning guide covers where to stand once you own the point.

Losing the point: regroup, then retake

The most common Domination mistake at every rank is the trickle: players die, respawn and run back one at a time into six enemies. Every one of those deaths charges the enemy's ultimates while their score keeps climbing. BoostPirate's rules:

• If two or more teammates are down, the survivors back off and wait.
• Meet outside the enemy's line of sight, not at the spawn door.
• Go back in together, ideally with one ultimate ready.
• Exception: close to their 100%, someone must contest, even alone.
• If they are far ahead, take the point back just to stop their clock.
• Use the walk back to name what killed you: a hero, an ultimate or the high ground.

Hero choices for Domination

NetEase doesn't publish mode-specific hero data, and we won't invent a tier list. The role logic our coaches use for Domination:

• Vanguards anchor the point. In enclosed areas brawlers do well; in open, vertical areas you want a Vanguard who can reach the high ground or protect the team from it. See the Vanguard guide.
• Duelists win the space around the point. Fliers and long-range poke are strongest on open areas such as Confessional Eternity; flankers punish teams that all face the circle. See the Duelist guide.
• Strategists keep the contesting Vanguard alive in overtime. Self-peel matters most indoors, where divers reach the backline quickly. See the Strategist guide.

Domination punishes one-trick hero pools more than the other modes, because the next round can be a completely different space. Our team comps guide covers dive, brawl and poke, and the hero bans guide explains why a second pick per role matters in ranked.

Common Domination mistakes

Domination in ranked and in Season 10.5

Quick Match and Competitive share the same objective types, so everything above applies in ranked. God Quarry is the only Domination change of Season 10; NetEase's Season 10 notes (11 September 2026) touched no Domination map, and the 5 November 2026 patch changed no maps at all. Season 11 opens on 13 November 2026; no new map had been announced on 8 November 2026.

Domination is one of three objective modes: the Convoy guide and the Convergence guide cover the attack-and-defence modes, and the maps guide lists every map. If your rank matters more than the mode, read how rank points are won and lost.