After widespread fan requests, Marvel Rivals finally added skin customisation in Season 2, but it came with a catch. You can't just pick any old colour you want and slap it onto your skin. Season 3's ultimate ability VFX is similarly restrictive. Instead, you need to get unstable molecules to buy colour palettes and ultimate effects. Alongside chrono tokens, costume coins, and various premium currencies, this item is yet another thing to keep track of.
On the bright side, the new Marvel Rivals ultimate customisation and further additions to the costume customisation options do look great. These features haven't been rolled out to every character or skin quite yet—just a handful of the most popular faces that you can likely guess right away—but more are coming in the future. As such, you'll want as many unstable molecules as possible.
July 11, 2025: We've updated this guide as unstable molecules are also required to purchase new ultimate ability VFX added in Marvel Rivals Season 3, not just additional costume recolours.
How to get unstable molecules in Marvel Rivals
Right now, you can only get unstable molecules by exchanging lattice in a one-to-one conversion. Each recolour and ultimate VFX costs 600 unstable molecules each, so that's 600 lattice you'll have to put down on top of the base skin. You'll be prompted to convert your currencies when you go to buy a costume recolour or ultimate VFX, whether in the store or the hero gallery for applicable characters.
Frustratingly, you can't buy lattice in a single 600-pack. Instead, you'll either have to get 1,000 lattice, which costs $9.99/£7.99, or a 100-pack and a 500-pack, which will cost you $5.98/£4.78.
NetEase did comment during Season 2 that Season 3 would add new ways to get unstable molecules, but it seems that winner55 all it's done is add another way to spend them. However, a change could still be coming, but whether that's purchasing them directly (without the need to exchange), using units, earned through events, or even the battle pass, is yet to be seen. Whatever it ends up being, it can't be more limited than it is now.
