Black Cat Costume in Marvel Rivals: Casing the Whole Vault
Felicia Hardy has been in this game for five months and she already has a wardrobe problem. Not a small one either – of her five costumes, two can’t be bought at all right now, and one of the two you can still get disappears on September 24. That’s a tight window, and most of the price lists floating around don’t mention it.
So let’s do this properly, in the spirit of the character. Case the vault first, work out what’s actually in it, figure out what the fence is charging, and identify which scores are still open. Because a Black Cat costume in Marvel Rivals isn’t priced the way you’d expect – route matters more than rarity, and the difference between two Legendaries can be 200 Units purely because of where they came from.
Quick context if you’re new to her: Black Cat arrived as the game’s 49th hero in Season 7.5: The Hunt Is On, on April 17, 2026. She’s a Duelist built around Fortune – a resource she steals from enemies, capped at 1,200, which she trades to an extradimensional deity called the Gilded Saint for combat relics. Wall climbing, double jump, grappling hook, and Erica Lindbeck reprising her voice work from the Insomniac Spider-Man games.
Now, the goods.
| Costume | Rarity | How to Get It | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coastal Cat | Legendary | Krakoan Reels Vol. 2 premium track | Until September 24 |
| Wild Card | Legendary | Store, 2,000 Units | Left store June 26 |
| Urban Predator | Epic | Store, 1,400 Units | Available |
| Gilded Shadow | Rare | Store, 600 Units | Available |
| Beguiling Blue | Rare | Gold rank, Season 7.5 | Window closed |
Five costumes. Two purchasable. Neither of the two you can buy outright is Legendary, which matters more than it sounds – we’ll get to why.
Every Black Cat Costume in Marvel Rivals You Can Still Get Today
Three are technically obtainable right now, but only two involve a store page:
- Urban Predator – 1,400 Units solo, 1,600 for the bundle. This is her launch skin from April 17, and it’s the pick of the buyable pair. It’s modeled on an outfit from Black Cat (2019) #1: a black two-piece with “meow” emblazoned across the top. Genuinely a comic homage rather than a generic recolour, which is rarer than it should be in this game’s store. The 1,600 bundle adds the Prowling the Pavement MVP animation, the Here Kitty Kitty emote, plus a nameplate and spray. If you only want the outfit, the solo price saves you two hundred.
- Gilded Shadow – 600 Units, also from April 17. It’s a Rare, which in this game means a palette swap and nothing else. Buy it if you specifically like the colours. Don’t buy it expecting anything to feel different, because it won’t.
- Coastal Cat – and this is the one with a clock on it. Released August 13 as part of the Marvel Rivals Swimsuit Special, it sits on the paid premium track of the Krakoan Reels Vol. 2 event. There’s no Units price. There’s no store listing. You get it by buying the event pass and grinding the track, and the whole thing closes on September 24.
Its in-game flavour text is one of the better lines NetEase has written: sun, sand, and absolutely nothing to steal – lounging like a real cat feels pretty good.
The bundle carries the Kindred Spirits MVP animation, the Freestyle Float emote, a nameplate and a spray. Worth knowing that only around 24 of the game’s 53 heroes got a swimsuit skin at all, so this isn’t a line that’s coming back every summer for everyone.
If Black Cat is your main and you want this one, the decision is now, not later. Event-track cosmetics don’t reliably rotate into the store.
The One That Got Away
Wild Card is, by consensus, the best Black Cat costume in the game, and you almost certainly can’t have it.
It launched May 29 as part of the Formula R set at 2,000 Units solo, 2,200 bundled – and left the store on June 26. Roughly a four-week window.
Here’s why it stings. It’s the only one of her costumes with reworked effects rather than a straight model swap. The Legendary tier in Marvel Rivals is where animations and ability visuals actually change, and Wild Card is the sole entry in her lineup that spent that budget properly. The 1,600-Unit Urban Predator is a model swap by comparison, and everything below it is a recolour.
The bundle was loaded too: the Solo Run MVP animation at Legendary tier, the What Felines Fancy emote, a Wild Card nameplate and spray.
Is it gone forever? Probably not. Limited-time costumes in this game have returned in past seasons, and Season 0’s battle pass came back by popular demand earlier this year – albeit at a higher price than its original run. But there’s no announced plan, and building your Unit budget around a hypothetical rotation is how people end up with 4,000 Units and nothing they wanted.
The One You Had to Earn
Beguiling Blue arrived on May 15 and wasn’t sold at all. It was a competitive reward for reaching Gold rank during Season 7.5.
Rare tier, so mechanically it’s another recolour – but it carries something the store skins don’t, which is proof you were there. That’s the entire appeal of ranked cosmetics and it’s why they’re worth more socially than they are functionally.
If you missed that season, there’s no path to it currently. No purchase decision to agonize over, which is at least restful.
What a Black Cat Costume in Marvel Rivals Actually Changes
This is the part that decides whether any of the above is worth your money, and it’s poorly explained in-game.
| Rarity | What You Get | Worth Paying For? |
|---|---|---|
| Legendary | New model, reworked visual effects, often altered ability visuals | Yes, this is the tier that feels different |
| Epic | New model and textures, no effect changes | Sometimes, if the design is a genuine homage |
| Rare | Colour swap on an existing model | Only if you love the palette |
Apply that to her lineup and the picture gets blunt. Both Legendaries – Wild Card and Coastal Cat – are currently off the store. Everything you can walk in and buy today is an Epic or a Rare, meaning a model swap or a recolour.
That’s not a scandal, it’s just worth knowing before you spend 600 Units expecting your claws to look different. They won’t.
The Fence’s Cut: How Bundles Actually Price
Every single Black Cat bundle carries the same premium over the costume alone: roughly 200 Units.
That consistency is useful, because it turns a fuzzy decision into a simple one.
- 200 Units buys you an MVP animation, an emote, a nameplate and a spray.
- It does not buy a better version of the costume – the outfit is identical either way.
- The MVP animation is the only piece most people will ever see, since it plays for the whole lobby.
- Nameplates and sprays are effectively invisible in the flow of a match.
- If you don’t care about MVP screens, buy solo and save the difference every time.
My honest read: on a Legendary, the bundle is defensible because the MVP animation is usually at Legendary tier too and looks genuinely good. On a Rare, skip it without a second thought.
There’s also a quirk in the pricing logic worth naming. Two Legendary costumes can end up 200 Units apart purely because of which event or set they came from. Route matters more than rarity for what you actually pay, which is the opposite of how most cosmetic economies work.
What the Community Databases Are Showing
If you’ve been browsing skin trackers, you’ve probably seen names that don’t appear anywhere above – entries like Purple Prowl, Pink Purr, Golden Claws and Pearl Paws.
Some caution is warranted here.
- Community skin databases aggregate datamined files alongside released content, and don’t always label the difference clearly.
- Unreleased entries frequently get renamed before they ship, or never ship at all.
- Recolour variants sometimes appear in files as separate costume entries even when they’re tied to an existing skin.
- The verified, in-game count is five, cross-checked against patch notes.
- Treat anything beyond those five as a maybe, not a roadmap.
I’m not saying those names are fabricated. I’m saying don’t hold Units in reserve for a skin that exists only in a file dump.
Season 10 Changed How She Plays, Which Changes the Question
Worth folding into your thinking: Season 10: Butcher’s Blasphemy went live on September 11, bringing Gorr the God Butcher as the 54th hero, the Godbomb battle pass at 990 Lattice, and a balance patch touching 38 heroes.
Black Cat received some of the most extensive individual changes in that patch, alongside Scarlet Witch.
That matters for a cosmetics decision in a way people don’t usually consider. If a hero’s kit gets substantially reworked, some players bounce off her entirely and some pick her up for the first time. Spending 2,000-plus Units on a costume for a hero you’re about to stop playing is a bad trade, and it happens constantly after big balance updates.
My suggestion: play twenty games as post-patch Black Cat before spending anything meaningful. If she still feels like your main afterwards, then open the wallet.
How to Pay Less Than You’re About To
A few routes that don’t involve buying Lattice at full price:
- Galacta’s Gift Vol. 3 awards a Costume Coin on September 24 – free, and coins convert directly into costume acquisition.
- Season 10.5 lands October 9, which historically brings a new wave of store rotations and event tracks worth waiting for.
- Event passes bundle multiple cosmetics, so if you want two or three items from the same event, the pass beats individual purchases.
- Units accumulate from battle pass progression, so a pass you were buying anyway partly funds store skins.
- Check whether a costume is genuinely leaving before panic-buying – most store items rotate rather than vanish, but event track items generally don’t.
That first bullet is the free money. Costume Coins are one of the few no-cost routes to a skin in this game, and Galacta’s Gift drops one on the 24th.
FAQ
How many Black Cat costumes are there?
Five verified in-game: Coastal Cat, Wild Card, Urban Predator, Gilded Shadow and Beguiling Blue.
Which ones can I buy right now?
Urban Predator at 1,400 Units and Gilded Shadow at 600 Units. Both have been in the store since her April 17 launch.
What’s the deadline on Coastal Cat?
September 24, 2026. It’s on the Krakoan Reels Vol. 2 premium track and isn’t sold for Units.
Can I still get Wild Card?
Not currently. It left the store on June 26 after roughly four weeks. Limited items have returned in past seasons, but nothing is announced.
Do any of her skins change her abilities?
Only the Legendaries meaningfully alter visual effects. Epic skins swap the model; Rare skins are recolours.
Is the bundle worth the extra 200 Units?
It adds an MVP animation, emote, nameplate and spray. Reasonable on a Legendary, hard to justify on a Rare.
When did Black Cat join the game?
April 17, 2026, in Season 7.5: The Hunt Is On, as the 49th hero on the roster.
The Vault Is Mostly Locked, and That’s the Point
Here’s the thing about Felicia Hardy’s wardrobe that I find quietly funny. A character whose entire identity is taking things that aren’t available to her has a cosmetic lineup where the two best items are behind a closed door and a ticking clock.
Practically, it leaves you with a narrow decision. Urban Predator is the sensible buy – a real comic homage at a fair Epic price, and it isn’t going anywhere. Coastal Cat is the urgent one, and if you want it you’ve got until the 24th. Gilded Shadow is 600 Units for a colour. Wild Card is a lesson in why you buy Legendaries during their window rather than after.
And if Season 10’s rework didn’t agree with you, the correct answer is to buy none of them and thank the patch notes for saving you 2,000 Units.
P.S. Bookmark this post, because Season 10.5 lands on October 9 and we update these price tables rather than burying them under a fresh post. And if creative or commercial collaboration is what brought you here, write to the YaninaGames team directly – no Fortune required, no Gilded Saint involved.
