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The Resurrection of the Horsemen is Season 9's signature mission event: a free reward track running from July 10 to September 11 that pays out exclusive Units, Chrono Tokens, a Nameplate, Sprays, and gallery cosmetics for completing a structured set of ritual missions. It asks nothing exotic, every mission completes through normal play in any mode, which makes it less a challenge and more a second salary for matches you were queueing anyway. This guide covers the full structure, the mission types and unlock cadence, every reward, the Battle Pass synergy that boosts the payout, and where this event sits in Season 9's crowded deadline calendar.
The Event at a Glance
Fact | Detail |
|---|---|
Runs | July 10 to September 11, 2026: the longest reward window of the season |
Premise | Jubilee leads a ritual to resurrect the fallen heroes of the season's murder mystery, and your missions power it |
Structure | Four sections, named for Wolverine, Psylocke, Gambit, and Apocalypse, each split into a Death Seed and a Resurrect subsection of 3 missions apiece: 24 missions across 8 sets |
Unlock cadence | The first four mission sets open immediately; each further set unlocks 24 hours after the last, so the full track has been open since launch week |
Where missions complete | Quick Match, Competitive, Arcade, and Practice vs AI all count |
Cost | Nothing. The entire track is free, with rewards claimed manually from the event screen |
The story hook is a genuine oddity worth a sentence: the heroes being resurrected, including Apocalypse, the season's own antagonist, are the victims of the Death of Apocalypse murder mystery running in parallel, and Jubilee, the season's new Strategist, conducts the ritual. If you want to actually play the character doing the resurrecting, our Jubilee guide covers her kit.
What the Ritual Is Actually About
For the players here from the story side: the event is the back half of Season 9's murder mystery. Apocalypse was mid-ritual in Thebes, absorbing divine energy toward godhood, when someone put a blade in him, and Wolverine, Psylocke, and Gambit fell in quick succession afterward. The whodunnit half lives in the Death of Apocalypse mini-game, whose opening case reveals Bucky Barnes as Wolverine's killer, striking under residual Hydra conditioning with Hive Cells draining both blood and healing factor, after suspicion first fell on Jubilee. This event is the response: Jubilee conducts the resurrection ritual that brings all four victims back, your missions supply its power, and each section's Death Seed and Resurrect split mirrors one victim's return. It is a light frame around a mission tracker, but it is also the rare event where completing the reward track literally advances the season's plot.
How the Missions Work
Each of the eight sets holds three missions cut from the same familiar cloth. The documented examples set the tone for the whole track:
- Win 2 matches, in any mode, Arcade and Practice vs AI included, which makes this the rare event where even bot matches count for something.
- Land 3 final hits, the eliminations-confirmed check that nudges passive players toward finishing targets.
- Deal 10,000 damage, cumulative across matches rather than in one game, so it completes on its own schedule.
Two structural notes matter more than any individual mission. First, the Death Seed subsection gates its section's Resurrect missions: you clear the seed checklist before the resurrection missions open, so working sections in order beats cherry-picking. Second, because every mission is mode-agnostic and cumulative, the track requires zero dedicated grinding for an active player: a normal week of Quick Match or ranked quietly completes most of it, and the event screen's manual claim button is the only real task the event assigns you.
The Eight Sets, Mapped
The track's full shape, for orientation and for checking what your normal play has already cleared:
Section | Subsection | Missions | Opens |
|---|---|---|---|
Wolverine | Death Seed, then Resurrect | 3 + 3 | Both waves of launch-week unlocks are long past; all sets are live |
Psylocke | Death Seed, then Resurrect | 3 + 3 | Live |
Gambit | Death Seed, then Resurrect | 3 + 3 | Live |
Apocalypse | Death Seed, then Resurrect | 3 + 3 | Live |
Within each section the order is fixed, Death Seed before Resurrect, but the four sections themselves are parallel: a session's wins and damage tick every open mission they match simultaneously. That parallelism is why the track melts under normal play, and why the only planning it needs is a glance at what remains.
Every Reward on the Track
The official reward list: exclusive Units, Chrono Tokens, a Nameplate, Sprays, and further cosmetics and gallery items along the sets. Three things elevate what looks like a routine haul:
- The Units are the headline. Free Units are the scarcest routine income in the game's economy, every source is worth taking, and an event that pays them for ordinary matches is effectively a discount on your next skin. Where those Units go furthest is mapped in our currency guide.
- The Chrono Tokens double-dip. Event tokens feed the same Battle Pass wallet as your dailies, so the track accelerates the season pass at the same time it pays its own rewards.
- The Nameplate is the collector bait. Like all event cosmetics, it is available in this window and then gone; seasonal event rewards do not return, and the manual claim means an unopened event screen can silently strand completed rewards. Claim as you go.
The Battle Pass Multiplier
One line in the event's design quietly changes its value math: Luxury Battle Pass owners earn boosted Chrono Tokens per mission. Stacked with the pass's own economics, that produces a clean loop for anyone who bought the 990-Lattice tier: event missions pay boosted tokens, boosted tokens claim pass rewards faster, and the pass's cumulative page-unlock system, covered in our Battle Pass guide, means none of that spending slows your progression. For Luxury owners, this event is not a side activity; it is the season pass's best fuel line.
For free-track players the loop still works, just unboosted, and the event's own Units and cosmetics remain fully claimable either way. Nothing in the track sits behind a purchase.
One Session, Four Farms
The event's mode-agnostic missions make it the connective tissue of a Season 9 session, because the same matches can feed four systems at once:
System | What the same match contributes |
|---|---|
Horsemen missions | Wins, final hits, and damage all tick from any mode |
Daily missions | The routine Chrono Token drip completes in parallel |
Battle Pass | Both token streams above land in the same wallet, boosted for Luxury owners |
Hero Proficiency | Per-hero mastery accumulates automatically in real modes |
The practical routine: check the event screen once, note which mission set is active, queue your normal session, and claim on the way out. The one inefficiency to avoid is idling in Practice vs AI purely to farm the win missions; it works for the event, but the mode pays a fraction of everything else, so real queues finish the same missions while feeding the other three farms.
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Where This Fits in the Season 9 Calendar
Season 9 is running three limited windows at once, and they close in a strict order worth planning around:
Deadline | What closes | Priority logic |
|---|---|---|
July 30, 09:00 UTC | Blood Hunt, the vampire PvE mode, taking the Kingpin Trophy chase and all Nightmare titles with it | The urgent one: weeks of grind, hard deadline, nothing recoverable after. Full triage in our Blood Hunt guide |
August 20 | Death of Apocalypse, the detective mini-game paying Units and Gallery Cards | The middle window: short to complete, so a single dedicated evening any time before the date covers it |
September 11 | The Resurrection of the Horsemen, this event | The patient one: two full months, mode-agnostic missions, completes itself under an active player's normal schedule |
The order of operations writes itself: Blood Hunt first while it exists, the detective game in any spare evening, and the Horsemen track running passively underneath both, since its missions complete from the same matches. The only way to fail this event is to never open its claim screen.
The Free Units Stack of Season 9
Context for why this event's Units matter: Season 9 is the most generous free-Units window the game has run, but every faucet has its own tap and its own clock.
Source | What it pays | Deadline |
|---|---|---|
Resurrection of the Horsemen | Exclusive Units across the mission sets | September 11 |
Death of Apocalypse mini-game | Units and Gallery Cards per solved chapter | August 20 |
Blood Hunt milestones | 100 Units plus 100 Unstable Molecules | July 30 |
Achievements | The permanent pool, headlined by 1,000 Units in the Journey tab | None |
Surveys, Twitch drops, referrals | Rolling small payouts | Rolling |
A player who works the three dated rows before their windows close banks a meaningful fraction of a Legendary skin from Season 9's events alone, before the permanent pool is touched. The dated rows also sort themselves: shortest window first.
The Ways Players Fumble Free Rewards
- Never opening the claim screen. The missions complete themselves under normal play; the rewards do not collect themselves. An untouched event tab in September is the whole failure mode of this event.
- Saving the claiming for the deadline. Manual claims plus a September date plus the mid-season content rush is how completed rewards get stranded. Claim on the way out of every session.
- Grinding vs AI for the win missions. It counts, and it is still the worst room in the house: the same mission time in real queues also pays XP, performance bonuses, Proficiency, and dailies.
- Cherry-picking across sections. Each Death Seed checklist gates its Resurrect missions, so skipping around leaves openable missions closed while you farm ones that were already ticking.
- Dismissing the rewards as small. Free Units are the scarcest routine income in the game. Small, repeated, and free is exactly how the economy's best players fund their skins.
Event Priorities
- First: open the event screen once now. All eight mission sets have been unlocked since launch week; see what is already completed from your normal play and claim it.
- Second: work sections in order. Each Death Seed checklist gates its Resurrect missions, so sequence beats cherry-picking.
- Third: let real queues do the work. Every mission completes from Quick Match or ranked while also feeding dailies, the pass, and Proficiency; dedicated event grinding is strictly worse than just playing.
- Fourth: claim as you go. Rewards are manual, event cosmetics do not return, and the September 11 date will feel further away than it is once the Blood Hunt and mid-season rush land.
- Luxury owners: treat this as pass fuel. The boosted tokens make the event the best Chrono income of the season; route it through the pass before it expires.
FAQ
When does the Resurrection of the Horsemen event end?
September 11, 2026, giving it the longest window of Season 9's three events. Blood Hunt closes first on July 30 and the Death of Apocalypse mini-game on August 20, which is why the Horsemen track is the one to let run passively while the shorter windows get your dedicated time.
How is the event structured?
Four sections named for Wolverine, Psylocke, Gambit, and Apocalypse, each split into a Death Seed subsection and a Resurrect subsection of three missions apiece: 24 missions across 8 sets in total. The first four sets opened at launch and a further set unlocked every 24 hours, so the full track has been available since launch week. Each section's Death Seed missions gate its Resurrect missions.
What rewards does the Horsemen event give?
Exclusive Units, Chrono Tokens, a Nameplate, Sprays, and additional cosmetics and gallery items across the mission sets, all free. The Units are the standout, since free Units are the scarcest routine income in the game, and the Chrono Tokens feed your Battle Pass at the same time. Rewards are claimed manually from the event screen and do not return after September 11.
Which modes count for the event missions?
All of them: Quick Match, Competitive, Arcade, and even Practice vs AI. The missions themselves are simple and cumulative, wins, final hits, and damage totals, so they complete through normal play. Real queues are still the better vehicle, since bot matches pay a fraction of the XP, Proficiency, and performance rewards the same mission time earns elsewhere.
Do I need the Battle Pass for this event?
No, every reward on the track is free and requires no purchase. The pass interaction is a bonus on top: Luxury Battle Pass owners earn boosted Chrono Tokens per event mission, which makes the event the season's best pass fuel for them, but free-track players claim the identical event rewards at the normal token rate.
Is the event connected to the Death of Apocalypse mini-game?
Narratively, yes: the heroes being resurrected in this event, Wolverine, Psylocke, Gambit, and Apocalypse himself, are the victims of the season's detective mini-game, and Jubilee, the new Season 9 Strategist, leads the resurrection ritual. Mechanically the two are separate events with separate reward tracks and separate deadlines: the mini-game closes August 20, this event September 11.
Can I still complete the event if I start late?
Comfortably. All mission sets are already unlocked, the missions are cumulative and mode-agnostic, and an active player's normal schedule completes the track without dedicated grinding. The genuine risk is not the deadline but the claim button: rewards are collected manually, so an unopened event screen strands completed rewards even while the missions finish themselves.
