Apex Legends Season 31: Dates, Rank Reset & What Happens Next

Season 31 started on 3 November 2026 (EA's Cipher patch notes), taking over from Season 30 (Marked). Respawn has not announced an end date. EA's Ranked Roadmap places Season 32 in early 2027 and announces a new tier structure for it (Iron replaces Rookie, a new Emerald tier, Masters with four divisions, and Grandmaster), so Cipher keeps the current ladder from Rookie to Apex Predator. We update this page the moment a date is official.

EA Help publishes what the mid-season split (split two) does to your rank: Bronze resets to Bronze IV at 1,000 RP, Silver to Silver IV at 3,250 RP (+250 RP protection), Gold to Gold IV at 5,750 RP, Platinum to Platinum IV at 8,750 RP, Diamond IV and III to Platinum III at 9,250 RP, Diamond II and I to Platinum II at 10,000 RP, and Master and above to Platinum I at 11,000 RP. EA publishes no formula for the season-start reset. EA also confirms that the season runs in splits (the Cipher notes schedule this split's Ranked Ladders from 10 November) and that RP entry costs rise tier by tier — the Roadmap names the steep jump into Diamond and moves the increase to every division from Season 32.

New in Season 31 (EA's Cipher patch notes and Ranked Roadmap): matches with Diamond+ players use Legend Banning — each player requests one Legend and the system bans two. A squad two or more tiers below the lobby tier plays a Challenger match at 30% lower entry cost, two or more above it a Goliath match at 50% higher, and when a single match could demote you, three Demotion Shields protect your tier.

Ranked rewards — badges, weapon cosmetics and dive trails at the top — key off the highest rank you reach during the season, and they lock the moment the season ends. That makes the closing weeks the highest-value ranked games you can play: one more tier banked is a permanent reward. If you are short on time, that final push is also the single most popular moment for a rank boost, and season-locked badges are exactly what our badge boosting service exists for — both are hard-deadline items.

However far the rollover sets you back, the climb runs through the same entry-cost curve: each tier costs more RP per game to enter, so mistakes get more expensive the higher you go. Use the calculator above for your exact from→to range, and if you would rather skip the re-climb entirely, the boost option shows a real price and ETA for the same journey — popular routes like Platinum IV to Diamond IV spike hardest in the first post-reset month.

Season 31 (Cipher) follows Season 30 (Marked, 4 August – 3 November 2026). The ranked calendar still runs in splits — EA's Marked Split 2 notes opened "the second half of the season" — and EA Help publishes how far split two moves your RP (see the reset section above), though it had not announced Cipher's split date at the time of writing. Cipher's ranked changes: Legend Banning in Diamond+ matches, Challenger and Goliath entry costs, and the end of the Road to Ranked challenges — Ranked access is back to Account Level 20. Its ranked map rotation is Storm Point, E-District Night and Broken Moon. Big rule changes make the first weeks of a season the most volatile ranked window. We log each season's dates here as they close, so this page doubles as the ladder's historical record.