How many Keys can you earn per day for free in RIVALS?

Daily Tasks pay 9 Keys a day — 2 for playing 5 duels, 3 for 15 eliminations and 4 for winning 2 duels. Repeatable Bonus Tasks add up to 6 more per cycle, and weapon Contracts pay 1 Key at 5 minutes of playtime and 1 Key at your first kill milestone on every weapon you own. Codes from the lobby board, which refreshes every 50,000 likes, give 3 Keys each.

RIVALS Free Robux Guide (2026) — Best Weapons, Key Costs & Ranked

Q: What is the best free weapon in RIVALS?

The Assault Rifle you start with is genuinely competitive — 12 damage per shot falling to 3 at range, a 0.10s fire cooldown, 20-round magazine, 1.56s reload and only a 10% movement penalty. It also cannot be banned in Ranked unless every player owns more than four primaries. The cheapest meaningful upgrades are the 15-Key Bow and the 20-Key Shotgun, which was buffed to 8x10 damage in Update 21 on June 26, 2026.

Q: How do I unlock Ranked in RIVALS?

You need all five: Level 100, ten completed standard duels (losses count), a Roblox account at least 14 days old, 30 completed Tasks, and account verification via phone number, a Robux purchase or ID. Since Season 3, players under Level 100 earn no EXP in Free For All, Team Deathmatch or Gun Game, so you have to level up through duels. After that you play ten placement matches to reveal your ELO rank.

By Money Lord — Founder & Editor | Updated: September 13, 2026

Last checked: September 13, 2026

Every weapon's real Key cost, the free ways to farm Keys, the exact Ranked entry requirements, and live Robux bundle prices — all pulled from the Roblox API, the game's patch notes and the community wiki on September 13, 2026 — after Update 22 shipped.

1. What Is RIVALS on Roblox?

RIVALS is a first-person shooter by Nosniy Games, the verified group behind Super Golf! and Treasure Quest. Nosniy is founder and creative director; SenseiWarrior is co-owner, lead programmer and author of the custom anti-cheat. It was created May 26, 2024 and publicly released June 28, 2024 — the creation date of its "Welcome!" badge and the date the developers used for the 2nd-birthday party in Update 21. Matches are 1v1 to 5v5 duels, first to 5 round wins, on 40-player servers, across desktop, mobile, Xbox and PS5.

~189K

7-day median players

18.09B

Total visits

Weapons

Maps

As of September 13, 2026 the Roblox API reports 18,085,659,751 visits, 91,487,688 favourites and a 93.7% like ratio (10,552,390 likes / 703,640 dislikes). Concurrent players ranged from 101,937 to 300,610 over the previous seven days, median about 189,000 across 28 readings taken September 6 – September 13, 2026 — so Update 22 has held the game roughly flat rather than spiking it. Rolimon's puts the all-time peak at 967,342. Our RIVALS hub holds the rest of our coverage.

Duels start from a lobby duel pad or the Play menu

2. Your First Hour: Beginner Tasks

There is no buy phase, no round economy and no in-match currency — you bring a fixed loadout in and keep it. Your starting kit is the Assault Rifle, Handgun, Fists and Grenade, free and permanent. Clear the nine one-time Beginner Tasks first; they pay 18 Keys and most are done in the lobby Shooting Range:

Enter the Shooting Range, break 5 targets, slide 3 times (sprint then C) — 1 Key each
Equip the Scythe, dash 3 times with it (M2 / aim on mobile), throw a Grenade — 2 Keys each
Play a Beginner 2v2 duel, eliminate 5 players (range dummies count), win a duel — 3 Keys each

Beginner 2v2 is the queue to learn in: available only below a certain win count, played only on Arena, and it shows enemies through walls at the start of the match.

Try before you buy: since Update 21, watching an ad on the Weapons page grants a free trial of any locked Standard weapon for your next duel.

3. Every Weapon and What It Costs in Keys

RIVALS has 54 weapons as of Update 22, five mode-exclusive, in four categories and three types: Standard (Keys), Prime (Robux bundles) and Contraband (Season Pass exclusives). Only Standard weapons are buyable with Keys — the free-to-play shopping list:

Weapon	Category	Keys	Body / crit damage
Assault Rifle	Primary	Free	12 → 3 / 15 → 4
Handgun	Secondary	Free	12 → 3 / 15 → 4
Fists	Melee	Free	30
Spray	Secondary	5	8 → 2 / 10 → 2
Flare Gun	Secondary	10	—
Smoke Grenade	Utility	10	—
Bow	Primary	15	30 / 60
Chainsaw	Melee	15	60
Flashbang	Utility	15	—
Shotgun	Primary	20	8×10 → 2.5×10 / 12×10
Shorty	Secondary	20	7.5×10 → 2.5×10
Uzi	Secondary	20	8 → 2 / 10 → 2
Knife	Melee	20	40 / 150
Burst Rifle	Primary	25	20 → 5 / 25 → 6
RPG	Primary	25	50 / 100
Revolver	Secondary	25	30 → 8 / 40 → 10
Molotov	Utility	25	—
Daggers	Secondary	30	20 / 40
War Horn	Utility	30	—
Crossbow	Primary	35	37.5 / 75
Satchel	Utility	35	— / 50
Wildcat	Primary	35	9 → 2.2 / 12
Scythe	Melee	40	35
Katana	Melee	45	45
Gunblade	Primary	45	45 / 55
Riot Shield	Melee	45	25 (500 shield HP)
Freeze Ray	Utility	45	0 (freeze)
Battle Axe	Melee	50	55
Sniper	Primary	75	50 / 150

Arrows are damage falloff — the Assault Rifle hits 12 up close, decaying to 3 from 50 studs out. The Sniper is the only Standard primary with no falloff, but costs 75 Keys, slows you 20% and takes 1.15s to equip.

The Wildcat is the new one, and 35 Keys is the whole price. It arrived with Update 22 on September 5, 2026 as a Standard primary SMG, so it is on the free-to-play list from day one: 9 body damage falling to 2.2 between 30 and 90 studs, 12 critical, a 0.06s shot cooldown, 3.0° spread, 24/96 ammo and a 0.45s equip. Two things make it play unlike anything else on this table. It is the first weapon in RIVALS with real recoil — the camera climbs while you hold fire, and the in-game tip reads "pull downwards while shooting to control the recoil". And it uses a jungle-style magazine: two mags taped together, so its reloads alternate 1 second, then 2 seconds, and being caught on the long one is how you lose a round. Past 90 studs its hits barely register, so it is a push-and-hold-angles gun rather than a ranged one. One caveat on sourcing: the community wiki's Weapons page still opens with the pre-Update-22 line "there are 53 weapons total" while listing the Wildcat in its own gallery — count the gallery, not the sentence.

One correction: "AK-47" is not a weapon in RIVALS. It is a Rare skin for the Assault Rifle from Skin Case 1, as are the AUG, FAMAS and Tommy Gun. A guide listing them as guns is describing a different game. For strength rankings, see our RIVALS tier list.

4. How to Farm Keys Without Robux

Keys buy and upgrade weapons, buy Wraps, Charms, Finishers and Emotes, open Wrap Boxes and Charm Capsules, refresh the Daily Shop, and recover a lost win streak. Four sources, three free.

Daily Tasks reset daily for 9 Keys: play 5 duels (2), eliminate 15 players (3), win 2 duels (4). Clearing them unlocks repeatable Bonus Tasks — 12 duels (1), 40 eliminations (2), 12 wins (3) — whose progress carries between days.

Update 22 deleted the streak penalty — the biggest free-Keys change in months. Task Streaks no longer exist. They were converted into a permanent Daily Task rewards ladder that does not reset when you miss a day: whatever your streak stood at is simply the day of the week you resume on. If you gave up on Dailies because one missed day wiped a week of progress, that reason is gone. Two systems replaced the old streak payouts — Prize Wheels, random-reward items that can contain Keys, Goodie Bags, Celestial wraps, Skin Tickets and the Legendary "Light Fifty" Sniper skin (up to 5 a week from Daily Tasks, and that skin drops even for players who do not own the Sniper), and Login Rewards at the bottom of the Daily Shop, one free claim a day with no match required and a grand prize every 7 days that can contain Skin Tickets. Bonus Tasks were made slightly easier but now cap at 3 completions per day, and they count in Arcade Servers again.

Contracts run on every weapon you own. Playtime pays 1 Key at 5 minutes, Charm Capsules at 20 minutes and 6 hours, unique Wraps at 1 and 24 hours, Wrap Boxes at 12 and 48 hours, a Chibi Charm at 72 hours. Kills pay a Key at the first milestone, then a Gold Wrap at 1,000 (2,000 for guns), Diamond at 5,000, Dark Matter at 20,000 melee / 40,000 guns.

Codes redeem through the Reward Button in the in-game Shop, and only work if you follow @Nosniy or @SenseiWarrior at the time. The lobby code board refreshes every 50,000 likes in the FREE[number] format — we track every one on the RIVALS codes page. Update 21 also added lobby TVs paying free Keys for watching an ad, where eligible.

What Keys are worth: the Robux route runs 49 R$ for 10 Keys up to 4,999 R$ for 1,100. The 9 free Keys a day from Dailies is roughly 44 R$ of value.

Ranked runs 1v1, 2v2 and 3v3 on a restricted map pool

5. Ranked: Requirements & ELO Ladder

Ranked is gated on all five of: Level 100; ten completed standard duels (losses count); a Roblox account at least 14 days old; 30 completed Tasks; and verification by phone, Robux purchase or ID.

Levelling is pure EXP from matches, each level costing more than the last, with no known cap. Since Season 3, players below Level 100 earn no EXP in Arcade Server modes (Free For All, Team Deathmatch, Gun Game), so you must level through duels. Ten placements then set your rank on an ELO ladder, not a "Ranked Rating" one:

Rank	Tier III	Tier II	Tier I
Bronze	400+	200+	0+
Silver	1,000+	800+	600+
Gold	1,600+	1,400+	1,200+
Platinum	2,200+	2,000+	1,800+
Diamond	2,800+	2,600+	2,400+
Onyx	3,400+	3,200+	3,000+
Nemesis	3,600+ ELO
Archnemesis	Top 200 worldwide

Ranked-only rules: third person disabled, aim assist cut 50%, auto-shoot locked to Dynamic, loadout swaps capped at two per duel. Each team bans one map and two weapons beforehand; the default loadout cannot be banned unless every player owns more than four weapons in that category. Since Update 21, enemy ranks stay hidden until the duel ends — except in private-server Ranked duels, where Update 22 made them visible.

Update 22 rewrote how Ranked lets you in and how ELO moves. Three changes, all live since September 5, 2026:

Verification got stricter. Ranked now sits behind tighter Roblox-side account verification. Players who had access have lost it — the fix is to verify further on Roblox itself (email, phone number or an age check), not inside RIVALS.
Matchmaking is region-locked. You are now matched inside your own region. Expect longer queues at off-peak hours in smaller regions, and far fewer high-ping duels.
The ELO formula no longer treats everyone above 3,600 as equal. Gain and loss now scale to the actual ranks and ELOs in the duel, so a 10,000-ELO Archnemesis beating a 5,000-ELO Nemesis can come away with almost nothing — and a win in a hopelessly unfair matchup can pay +0 ELO. A +0 win instead pays the new Stomp charm for a random weapon, re-themed every season.

The ladder thresholds in the table above are unchanged; what changed is how fast you travel it.

ELO Shields give one loss-protected match per day — they never stack, are consumed win or lose, and stop at Platinum I (1,800 ELO). ELO decay hits Onyx I and above after 7 idle days: from day 8 you lose 100 ELO daily until you play or hit the 3,000 floor. Leaving a live match costs a 15-minute lockout plus an automatic loss. Season rewards come from the Ranked Contract, topping out at a free skin for 200 ranked wins, plus Glory scaled to wins and ELO; top-200 Archnemesis players get a Mythical "Arch" skin (Arch Katana, Arch Crossbow and Arch Molotov so far, Arch Uzi next).

6. Maps and Game Modes

41 maps: 17 regular, seven "Big" variants for 3v3 and up, eight Legacy versions locked to private servers, one experimental (Factory) and three mode-specific (Boss Arena, Obby, Spleef). Ranked 1v1 draws from just 13. Icon colours mark difficulty — green easy, yellow medium, red hard, white private-server-only.

21 game modes exist. Beyond duels and Ranked, one rotates in daily: Gun Game (race to weapon 27, ending on Glass Cannon then Glast Shard), Juggernaut (one player on 3,000 HP against seven on 100), Swift Standoff (1 HP each, one revolver round), Double Trouble, Mirror Matchup, RIVALS RNG and Hardcore Parkour. Team Deathmatch is first to 250 points over 8 minutes; Free For All is 16 players, top 5 winning.

7. Bundles & Season Pass — Real Prices

RIVALS sells no VIP pass and no radio pass — every store item is a weapon-and-cosmetic bundle. Live prices from the Roblox game-pass API on September 13, 2026 — all eight re-checked, none moved:

Bundle	Price	Headline contents
Starter Bundle	59 R$	Shorty, Weapon Crate, 10 Keys
RPG Bundle	95 R$	RPG, Pencil Launcher skin, 5 Keys
Medkit Bundle	289 R$	Medkit, Briefcase skin, 20 Keys
Exogun Bundle	649 R$	Exogun, Wondergun skin, 20 Keys
Standard Weapons Bundle	849 R$	All current + future Standard weapons
Classic Bundle	865 R$	Paintball Gun, Slingshot, Trowel, Tripmine
Energy Bundle	975 R$	Energy Rifle, Energy Pistols, Apex skins
Heavy Duty Bundle	1,425 R$	Grenade Launcher, Minigun, Flamethrower

Update 22 added a ninth, the Super Starter Bundle at 67 R$ (Wildcat, Plasma Wildcat skin, Spray, Chainsaw, Flashbang and 25 Keys) — but it was a seven-day offer, September 4–11, 2026, and it is gone. It never appeared in the Roblox game-pass API at all, so a site still listing it as buyable has not checked. The Pixel Bundle still appears on the wiki but is off sale, and several wiki shop prices are stale — the API is the authority. The Standard Weapons Bundle is the only purchase that refunds Keys for Standard weapons you already own and covers every future one.

The Season Pass runs 70 tiers — 69 free-track rewards (tier 1 gives nothing) and 70 on Prime. One tier per 25 round wins or 20 minutes played, but gain pauses 7 days after every seven levels, so it cannot be rushed. Levels cost 99 R$ each up to 6,999 R$ for 70; the Contraband Bundle at 999 R$ upgrades to Prime with 20 levels and the season's Contraband weapon. The free pass gives 10 Skin Tickets, and every skin or Skin Case costs exactly 10 tickets regardless of rarity — one guaranteed free skin per season.

8. What Updates 21 and 22 Changed

Update 21 landed June 26, 2026 and headlined the game's Roblox description until Update 22 replaced it on September 5, 2026. It added the first Summer Event with the Pearls currency, the Tropical Chest, a 46-skin Summer Skin Case, and promoted Sandbox to an official map — full breakdown in our Update June 2026 guide. The balance pass is what dates any older weapon advice:

Burst Rifle nerfed — reload 1.2s → 1.6s; dropoff starts at 60 studs, not 75
Shotgun buffed — 7.5×10 → 8×10, crit 11.25×10 → 12×10
Sniper headshot hitbox +17%; Uzi spread halved, 2° → 1°
Riot Shield max health changed from infinite to 500
Grenade Launcher radius 12 → 14 studs; Minigun loses accuracy while moving
Paintball Gun +22% speed, −25% hitbox; Exogun spread widened to 0.628°
Daggers and Shorty equip cooldown to 0.6s; Maul slam altitude 10 → 8 studs
Slingshot, Grenade Launcher and RPG moved to raycast projectiles for cheat-proof hit registration

What Update 22 actually shipped: September 5, 2026

Update 22 went live at 01:00 UTC on September 5, 2026 — the developers date it September 4 in their own patch notes, which is the same moment in a US time zone. Its Roblox event carried the subtitle “New Weapon” and the copy “A new standard weapon arrives for the first time in nearly 2 years… Say goodbye to the Summer Event.” Both promises landed. The game's own Roblox description now reads “UPDATE 22 - A brand new weapon has arrived!”, replacing the Update 21 headline it had carried since June. Here is what changed, and where on this page it changed something:

The Wildcat. A Standard primary SMG at 35 Keys — added to the shopping list in section 3 above, with its stats and its two quirks (real recoil, alternating 1s/2s reloads).
The Summer Event ended. Pearls were converted into Tropical Chests, and the limited-time content and lobby decorations were removed. If you were sitting on Pearls, you did not lose them; check your Chests. The 46-skin Summer Skin Case is gone from the rotation.
Task Streaks were deleted and replaced by permanent Daily Task rewards, Prize Wheels and Login Rewards — covered in section 4.
Ranked got stricter verification, region-locked matchmaking and a rewritten ELO formula — covered in section 5.
A new career statistic shows the date you first played RIVALS, and Archnemesis profile cards now display leaderboard position.
Private servers gained a Queue Pad map-forcing setting, a three-mode Freecam dropdown (Everyone / Server Owner / Nobody), Arcade duels with map-pool restriction off, and visible enemy ranks in Ranked duels.

The Update 22 balance pass is what dates weapon advice written before September 5. Two of the changes reverse advice that was correct a fortnight ago:

Burst Rifle nerfed again — burst cooldown 0.07s → 0.08s, on top of the Update 21 reload and dropoff nerfs. It has now been nerfed in two consecutive updates.
Minigun partly un-nerfed — dynamic spread 0.25°/studs/s → 0.18°/studs/s, the developers calling Update 21's move-and-lose-accuracy change “too harsh on this weapon”.
Crossbow and Sniper switched from automatic to semi-automatic firing.
Distortion max ammo 77 → 45; Permafrost slow duration 0.75s → 1.5s.
Maul reach 6 → 8, and slamming now triggers by holding the Ability input.
Every utility weapon got a faster equip. Flashbang, Grenade, Molotov, Smoke Grenade and Warpstone drop from 0.85s to 0.5s; Freeze Ray, Grappler, Jump Pad and Subspace Tripmine from 0.9s to 0.5s. The developers' stated reason: “Utility weapons shouldn't have a long equip cooldown.” If you skipped utility because it felt slow to pull out, that is the single biggest quality-of-life change in the update.
Freeze Ray also got freeze duration 3s → 4s and slow duration 1s → 2.5s; Subspace Tripmine direct hits now deal 150 critical damage.
Smoke Grenade clouds now blind completely, so low graphics settings no longer see through them.

RIVALS weapon skins and rewards illustration

Cosmetics run on Keys and Skin Tickets

9. How to Earn Free Robux for RIVALS

Bundles, Season Pass levels and Key packs all cost Robux. Earnaldo is a rewards platform where you complete offers — surveys, app installs, short videos — and convert the points into Robux. You cannot earn Robux inside RIVALS itself; no Roblox experience pays Robux directly. Against the prices above, the 59 R$ Starter Bundle is a small target and the 849 R$ Standard Weapons Bundle a realistic one. Our guide to every legit free Robux method covers which other routes pay.

Earn Free Robux for RIVALS

Complete tasks on Earnaldo and withdraw Robux to buy RIVALS bundles, Season Pass levels, and Keys.

Start Earning Robux How It Works

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10. FAQ

What is the best free weapon in RIVALS?

The starting Assault Rifle: 12 damage per shot falling to 3 at range, 0.10s fire cooldown, 20-round magazine, 1.56s reload, a 10% movement penalty — and it cannot be banned in Ranked unless every player owns more than four primaries. The cheapest real upgrades are the 15-Key Bow and the 20-Key Shotgun, buffed to 8×10 damage in Update 21.

How do I unlock Ranked in RIVALS?

All five of: Level 100, ten completed standard duels (losses count), a Roblox account at least 14 days old, 30 completed Tasks, and verification by phone, Robux purchase or ID. Since Season 3, under-Level-100 players earn no EXP in Free For All, Team Deathmatch or Gun Game, so you must level through duels.

How many Keys can you earn per day for free?

Daily Tasks pay 9 Keys — 2 for 5 duels, 3 for 15 eliminations, 4 for 2 wins. Repeatable Bonus Tasks add up to 6 more per cycle, weapon Contracts pay 1 Key at 5 minutes of playtime and 1 Key at the first kill milestone, and lobby codes give 3 Keys each.