A new update to Marvel Rivals on April 17, 2025, introduces a new feature that allows you to get custom colors for existing skins for certain characters. Normally, skins you buy have only had one look seen through their MVP animations, emotes, and other actions. Through the ability to customize colors for skins, you're able to slightly change the cosmetics you've already bought.

As of this time of writing, there are only four skins that feature custom colors in the game. While there is a strong limit on skin recolors in Marvel Rivals right now, the developers have announced that more skins will receive recolors in the future for Seasons 2.5, 3, and beyond. In addition, the process surrounding custom colors may change as players provide as time goes on.

How Does Costume Customization Work In Marvel Rivals?

Change How Characters Look From Non-Default Outfits

The costume customization in Marvel Rivals can be accessed when you buy a skin for an existing character. Custom colors are for specific outfits selected by the developers, meaning that not every skin for one character is customizable. It is unclear whether Default costumes will gain the most custom colors, but for now, only a few alternate looks have available colors for you to unlock.

Here are the only custom colors available as of April 2025, including which skins in Marvel Rivals they are tied to:

• Magik (Punkchild) - Rosy Resilience
• Luna Snow (Mirae 2099) - Plasma Pulse
• Psylocke (Vengeance) - Phantom Purple
• Winter Soldier (Blood Soldier) - Winter's Wraith

When you want to customize any of the costumes with available recolors, you have to buy the skins that have custom options first. You can't unlock one of the custom colors unless you already own the skin tied to it. Depending on the number of Units or Lattice you have, buying these skins ahead of time may cost some real-world money.

One of the easiest ways to get a skin tied to custom colors is through the Costume Coin you get in Marvel Rivals' Pick-Up Bundle event. By progressing through the Bundle, you can spend the Coin to get the Psylocke Vengeance skin for free, albeit without the new custom color.

Once you obtain the right skins, you should be able to see their custom colors in the "Heroes" menu for the right characters. When you unlock custom colors, you can swap colors from a skin's default look to change their animations. From then on, anywhere you see that particular skin, it will have the custom color applied in menus, MVP animations, emotes, etc.

How To Unlock Custom Colors

Purchase New Currency By Exchanging Lattice

Once you have the right skin purchased, you have to spend a new type of in-game currency called Unstable Molecules to unlock a custom color for a character. Unstable Molecules cannot be earned from in-game activities, so don't bother trying to earn any through playing matches. You can only get this new currency by exchanging gold Lattice in Marvel Rivals for it at a 1:1 rate.

Customized Color Costumes cost 600 Unstable Molecules, making them around 2/3 of the cost of the Luxury Battle by comparison. Since you aren't allowed to use Units or Chrono Tokens to buy custom colors, you almost have to spend real-world money to unlock them.

According to the developers of Marvel Rivals, there will be more ways to earn Unstable Molecules in Season 3 in-game so you can unlock more custom colors in the future.

When you want to buy a custom color, go to the "Heroes" menu of the game and select which hero has a skin with unique palette options. After you select a character with at least one custom color, go to the "Customize" menu of a Hero Profile to observe their skins. Select a skin to reveal the "Customize" option above the "Equip" prompt, where you can swap between purchased colors.

You also have the option to swap colors when you select a character before or during a match. When you choose to play as a character with a custom skin, you'll see a second drop-down menu next to the bar that allows you to change that character's costume. By simply opening that menu, you're easily able to go back and forth between the custom colors you own for that specific skin.

Whenever you have enough Unstable Molecules, you have the option to purchase available custom colors from the in-game Store or a character's Hero Profile. Once you buy a custom color in Marvel Rivals, you have it unlocked forever, similar to other cosmetics you can get.