Mobile Legends Rank Reset: When Season 41 Ends and Season 42 Starts
Quick answer: Season 41 "Scarlet Embers" ends and Season 42 "Starward Decade" begins on 16 September 2026 — the game's 10th Anniversary season. The moment it flips, every account above Elite is knocked down a fixed number of tiers, and your ranked points, Mythic stars and season rewards all reset. You do not drop to Warrior — most players land somewhere in Epic or Legend depending on where they finished. The catch: claim your Season 41 rewards before the rollover, because they clear when the new season starts.
This guide covers exactly what the reset does, why two players who both hit Mythic can end up in different tiers, and the two things to do in the next 48 hours. It applies to Original Server Patch 2.1.95a (late August 2026) and the Season 42 transition dated 16 September 2026.
When does Season 41 end and Season 42 start?
Season 42 launches on 16 September 2026. That date is first-party: Moonton's official account, @MobileLegendsOL, posted that "the S42 'Starward Decade' 10th Anniversary Special Season will officially launch on 09/16," with a Patch Preview Livestream that ran on 6 September.
The exact hour is not first-party. In-client countdowns and trackers point to 08:00 UTC — 16:00 PHT, 15:00 WIB for the transition, and that lines up with previous seasons, but Moonton has not published the minute in a news post. Treat the day as fixed and the hour as approximate. There is also a short ranked-lobby maintenance window at the changeover — ranked is briefly unavailable while the season flips, typically an hour or two.
One thing you cannot do is plan around the next patch date. Moonton does not pre-announce Original Server patch dates, and Season 42's Original Server version number had not been published as of mid-September. Anyone posting a "next patch drops on X" date for MLBB is guessing.
What actually happens when the rank resets?
At the season rollover, three things happen at once:
- Your medal drops a fixed number of steps. This is the "rank reset" everyone talks about. It is a partial reset — you keep a rank, you just start the new season lower than you finished the old one.
- Ranked points and Mythic stars reset. If you were sitting on a Mythic star count, it is wiped to the floor of your new tier.
- Season rewards are issued and the reward track resets. Anything tied to Season 41 — the ranked emote, skin fragments, the season skin if you qualified — is settled at the changeover, then the counter starts again for Season 42.
Warrior and Elite players are the exception: reporting from BitTopup's reset breakdown says accounts at those bottom tiers keep the medal and only lose their stars, because there is nowhere lower to drop them.
The important mental model, per the community rank explainers, is that the higher of your two rank readings governs the drop and the reset is fixed, not proportional — Moonton applies the same step-down to every account above Elite, so where you finish is the only thing that decides where you start.
The rank reset chart — and why nobody agrees on it
Here is the honest part most guides skip: there is no official Moonton rank-reset table, and the community charts do not agree with each other. They agree on the shape and disagree on the exact landing spot, especially at the top.
Compare four current sources for where a top-tier account lands after the reset:
| Finishing rank | Where guides say you land |
|---|---|
| Mythical Glory / Mythical Immortal | Legend V (mlbbhub, BitTopup) — but some players report Epic 1 |
| Mythic (0–24 stars) | Epic 1 or Epic 2, depending on stars (LootBar); Epic 2 (GamingOnPhone) |
| Legend V | Epic III or Epic IV (mlbbhub); Epic 4 (GamingOnPhone) |
| Legend I | roughly Epic 3 |
| Warrior / Elite | keep the medal, lose stars |
The disagreement is real, and it shows up among players too. On an r/MobileLegendsGame reset thread, one player wrote "even mythical immortal goes down to epic 1. I have a friend who was from mythic immortal and fell back to epic 1 on the season reset," while another in the same thread said "I fall back to legend 5." A third summed up the confusion: "doesn't everyone fall back to epic?"
Both can be describing the truth of different seasons or different servers — Moonton has adjusted the exact drop between seasons before. So the only safe rule is: the reset chart circulating online is community-compiled, and the authoritative answer is the in-game season notice. Open Ranked when Season 42 goes live and read the pop-up before you trust any table, including this one. What is reliable is the direction of travel: high finishers land higher, everyone above Elite drops, and nobody goes all the way back to Warrior.
Understand the tiers that are actually resetting
The reset only makes sense if you know the ladder it moves you down. MLBB has 29 nodes across ten tiers, and two of them trip up almost every guide:
| Tier | Divisions |
|---|---|
| Warrior | III → II → I |
| Elite | III → II → I |
| Master | IV → III → II → I |
| Grandmaster | V → IV → III → II → I |
| Epic | V → IV → III → II → I |
| Legend | V → IV → III → II → I |
| Mythic | star economy |
| Mythical Honor | star economy |
| Mythical Glory | star economy |
| Mythical Immortal | star economy |
Two things to get right. First, the divisions are not uniform: Master has four (IV–I) and Grandmaster has five (V–I), while Warrior and Elite have three. Anyone who tells you "every rank has five divisions" is wrong. Second, the four Mythic tiers have no roman-numeral divisions at all. There is no "Mythic V" or "Mythical Glory III." Once you hit Mythic you are on a single continuous star counter — commonly documented as Mythic 0–24, Mythical Honor at 25, Mythical Glory at 50 and Mythical Immortal at 100+, though those thresholds are community-documented rather than published by Moonton. That is why the reset "wipes your stars": above Legend, stars are your rank.
Mythical Immortal is the leaderboard tier and by far the hardest node — it is the reason the reset stings most for top players, who fall from a leaderboard position all the way back into the division grind.
What are the Season 41 rewards, and how do you claim them?
Your end-of-season rewards are based on your highest achieved rank during Season 41, not where you happen to sit on the final day. According to reward breakdowns from mlbbhub and esports.gg, the season track typically pays out Battle Points, skin/premium fragments, M Tickets, and a 30-day ranked emote for players who reached the qualifying tiers, plus the season skin for those who earned it.
Because the exact reward list changes every season, verify yours on the in-game Ranked → Rewards screen rather than trusting a table — but the action is the same regardless of the contents: claim before 16 September. Rewards that are earned but unclaimed can be forfeited at the reset, and the reward track zeroes out for Season 42. If you have a nearly-finished reward node, the last two days of Season 41 are the time to close it.
This is also why a last-week rank push pays off twice. Your reset landing spot is set by your final rank, and your reward tier is set by your highest rank. Climbing one more tier in the final days can mean both a better Season 42 starting point and a better reward payout — the classic Legend I → Mythic 1 push nudges you from an Epic-2-ish reset to an Epic-3-ish one and can lift your reward bracket at the same time.
Season 42 "Starward Decade": what's landing with the reset
Season 42 is not just a rank reset — it ships a client update themed on the 10th Anniversary, and it is the biggest content drop of the year. Based on Moonton's official channels and GamingOnPhone's Season 42 preview, the headline changes are:
- Eight revamped heroes. Masha gets a full ability rework (AoE damage plus a new blink), and Bruno, Brody, Kadita, Badang, Clint, Paquito and Luo Yi get visual reworks and skill optimisations.
- Sanctum Island map changes. New Revealing Wisps that expose enemy positions, turrets with increased gold rewards, and a healing turtle.
- 10th Anniversary events. The "A Decade of Legends" campaign is already live with a free Dynamic Avatar, an Anniversary border and title, and the anniversary Battle Pass running 4 September to 1 November.
Two cautions. Every one of those hero details came from a pre-release preview, so treat individual revamp numbers as subject to change until you see them in the live client on 16 September. And the free-skin lists circulating with specific date windows are third-party aggregated — confirm each skin's window in an official post or in-game before you count on it.
The practical takeaway: the meta resets the same day your rank does. Any tier list written before 16 September is describing a game that no longer exists once eight heroes are reworked, so hold off on committing to a Season 42 "best heroes" plan until the patch is actually live.
The two things to do before 16 September
Everything above condenses to a short checklist for the next 48 hours:
- Claim every Season 41 reward now — Ranked → Rewards. They settle at the reset and the track zeroes for Season 42.
- Make one last rank push if you are close to a tier line. It improves both your reset landing spot and your reward bracket.
After the reset, the first week of Season 42 is the most volatile — reset compression puts Mythic, Legend and returning players closer together than usual, which means easier lobbies for a strong player and a genuine opportunity to reclaim ground fast before the ladder settles.
Season 42 is the cleanest restart point of the year. The reset compresses the ladder and the first week is the softest climbing window Mobile Legends gets — whether you want a ranked-ready account to open the season at the top or a push back to the tier you actually play at, this is the moment to move.
- Mobile Legends Accounts — ranked-ready accounts with hero and skin collections and instant handover, if you would rather start Season 42 fresh at the top
- Mobile Legends Rank Boost — from Warrior all the way to Mythical Immortal, pick your target and let the reset compression work for you
- All Mobile Legends services — the full catalogue in one place
FAQ
When does Mobile Legends Season 42 start? Season 42 "Starward Decade" starts on 16 September 2026, confirmed by Moonton's official @MobileLegendsOL account. The exact hour is not first-party, but in-client countdowns point to around 08:00 UTC (16:00 PHT, 15:00 WIB), with a short ranked maintenance window at the changeover.
How far do you drop in the MLBB rank reset? It is a fixed partial reset, not a return to Warrior. Community charts put Mythical Glory and Mythical Immortal around Legend V, Mythic players around Epic 1–2, and Legend players around Epic III–IV — but the charts disagree at the top and Moonton adjusts it between seasons, so the authoritative answer is the in-game season notice when Season 42 goes live.
Do Mythical Immortal players really fall to Epic? Players report different outcomes across seasons — some say Legend V, others report Epic 1. The reset is fixed for a given season but has changed before, which is why the in-game pop-up is the only reliable source. What is certain is that even the top of the ladder loses its stars and its leaderboard slot.
Do I lose my Season 41 rewards if I don't claim them? Yes — claim them before 16 September. Rewards are based on your highest rank of the season and are issued at the changeover; earned-but-unclaimed rewards can be forfeited and the reward track resets for the new season. Check Ranked → Rewards in-game for your exact list.
Should I push rank in the last week of the season? Yes, if you are near a tier line. Your reset landing spot is set by your final rank and your reward bracket by your highest rank, so one more tier can improve both at once.
Does the rank reset also change the meta? Season 42 ships eight hero revamps (Masha, Bruno, Brody, Kadita, Badang, Clint, Paquito, Luo Yi) and Sanctum Island map changes on the same day. Any tier list written before 16 September is out of date the moment the patch goes live, so wait for the live build before locking in a hero plan.
Accurate as of 14 September 2026, covering Original Server Patch 2.1.95a and the Season 41 → Season 42 transition dated 16 September 2026. Season 42 hero and map details are from Moonton's pre-release preview and are subject to change until the patch is live. The rank-reset chart and Mythic star thresholds are community-compiled — confirm against the in-game season notice.
