diff --git a/flink-table/flink-table-planner/src/main/scala/org/apache/flink/table/planner/plan/metadata/FlinkRelMdModifiedMonotonicity.scala b/flink-table/flink-table-planner/src/main/scala/org/apache/flink/table/planner/plan/metadata/FlinkRelMdModifiedMonotonicity.scala
index 0f8b5e83ad8fe..8b638bef45c5b 100644
--- a/flink-table/flink-table-planner/src/main/scala/org/apache/flink/table/planner/plan/metadata/FlinkRelMdModifiedMonotonicity.scala
+++ b/flink-table/flink-table-planner/src/main/scala/org/apache/flink/table/planner/plan/metadata/FlinkRelMdModifiedMonotonicity.scala
@@ -188,7 +188,19 @@ class FlinkRelMdModifiedMonotonicity private extends MetadataHandler[ModifiedMon
 
   def getRelModifiedMonotonicity(rel: Rank, mq: RelMetadataQuery): RelModifiedMonotonicity = {
     rel match {
-      case physicalRank: StreamPhysicalRank if RankUtil.isDeduplication(rel) =>
+      // Only ranks that can be converted to a Deduplicate operator are handled here, mirroring the
+      // pre-FLINK-34702 behavior when a dedicated StreamPhysicalDeduplicate node carried these
+      // invariants. This is the same condition as RankUtil.canConvertToDeduplicate(FlinkLogicalRank):
+      // a Top-1 ROW_NUMBER without rank number output, sorted on a single time attribute. We inline
+      // it rather than calling canConvertToDeduplicate(StreamPhysicalRank) because the latter reads
+      // the ModifyKindSetTrait, which is still undefined at the time this metadata is computed.
+      // Any other rank (multi-column or non-time-attribute ORDER BY, i.e. a real Top-1 Rank that
+      // retracts and re-emits the kept row) falls through to the generic logic below.
+      case physicalRank: StreamPhysicalRank
+          if RankUtil.isDeduplication(rel) &&
+            RankUtil.sortOnTimeAttributeOnly(
+              physicalRank.orderKey,
+              physicalRank.getInput.getRowType) =>
         getPhysicalRankModifiedMonotonicity(physicalRank, mq)
 
       case _ =>
@@ -249,8 +261,9 @@ class FlinkRelMdModifiedMonotonicity private extends MetadataHandler[ModifiedMon
   private def getPhysicalRankModifiedMonotonicity(
       rank: StreamPhysicalRank,
       mq: RelMetadataQuery): RelModifiedMonotonicity = {
-    // Can't use RankUtil.canConvertToDeduplicate directly because modifyKindSetTrait is undefined.
     if (allAppend(mq, rank.getInput)) {
+      // A LastRow (ORDER BY time DESC) or rowtime deduplication retracts and re-emits the kept row
+      // when a new winner arrives, hence generates updates; only FirstRow on proctime is append-only.
       if (RankUtil.keepLastDeduplicateRow(rank.orderKey) || rank.sortOnRowTime) {
         val mono = new RelModifiedMonotonicity(
           Array.fill(rank.getRowType.getFieldCount)(NOT_MONOTONIC))
diff --git a/flink-table/flink-table-planner/src/main/scala/org/apache/flink/table/planner/plan/utils/RankUtil.scala b/flink-table/flink-table-planner/src/main/scala/org/apache/flink/table/planner/plan/utils/RankUtil.scala
index 2314eb5a88fe9..adac0e1d18872 100644
--- a/flink-table/flink-table-planner/src/main/scala/org/apache/flink/table/planner/plan/utils/RankUtil.scala
+++ b/flink-table/flink-table-planner/src/main/scala/org/apache/flink/table/planner/plan/utils/RankUtil.scala
@@ -357,9 +357,7 @@ object RankUtil {
     !rank.outputRankNumber && isLimit1 && isSortOnTimeAttribute && isRowNumberType
   }
 
-  private def sortOnTimeAttributeOnly(
-      sortCollation: RelCollation,
-      inputRowType: RelDataType): Boolean = {
+  def sortOnTimeAttributeOnly(sortCollation: RelCollation, inputRowType: RelDataType): Boolean = {
     if (sortCollation.getFieldCollations.size() != 1) {
       return false
     }
diff --git a/flink-table/flink-table-planner/src/test/resources/org/apache/flink/table/planner/plan/stream/sql/RankTest.xml b/flink-table/flink-table-planner/src/test/resources/org/apache/flink/table/planner/plan/stream/sql/RankTest.xml
index ef7fa02162e0b..f27964e04e95d 100644
--- a/flink-table/flink-table-planner/src/test/resources/org/apache/flink/table/planner/plan/stream/sql/RankTest.xml
+++ b/flink-table/flink-table-planner/src/test/resources/org/apache/flink/table/planner/plan/stream/sql/RankTest.xml
@@ -115,6 +115,111 @@ Sink(table=[default_catalog.default_database.sink], fields=[name, eat, cnt])
       +- GroupAggregate(groupBy=[name, eat], select=[name, eat, SUM(age) AS cnt])
          +- Exchange(distribution=[hash[name, eat]])
             +- TableSourceScan(table=[[default_catalog, default_database, test_source]], fields=[name, eat, age])
+]]>
+    </Resource>
+  </TestCase>
+  <TestCase name="testDeduplicateOnMultipleColumnsGeneratesUpdates">
+    <Resource name="sql">
+      <![CDATA[
+SELECT b, MIN(c) AS min_c
+FROM (
+  SELECT a, b, c,
+    ROW_NUMBER() OVER (PARTITION BY a ORDER BY b DESC, c DESC) AS rn
+  FROM MyTable
+) WHERE rn = 1
+GROUP BY b
+      ]]>
+    </Resource>
+    <Resource name="ast">
+      <![CDATA[
+LogicalAggregate(group=[{0}], min_c=[MIN($1)])
++- LogicalProject(b=[$1], c=[$2])
+   +- LogicalFilter(condition=[=($3, 1)])
+      +- LogicalProject(a=[$0], b=[$1], c=[$2], rn=[ROW_NUMBER() OVER (PARTITION BY $0 ORDER BY $1 DESC NULLS LAST, $2 DESC NULLS LAST)])
+         +- LogicalTableScan(table=[[default_catalog, default_database, MyTable]])
+]]>
+    </Resource>
+    <Resource name="optimized exec plan">
+      <![CDATA[
+GlobalGroupAggregate(groupBy=[b], select=[b, MIN_RETRACT(min$0) AS min_c])
++- Exchange(distribution=[hash[b]])
+   +- LocalGroupAggregate(groupBy=[b], select=[b, MIN_RETRACT(c) AS min$0, COUNT_RETRACT(*) AS count1$1])
+      +- Calc(select=[b, c])
+         +- Rank(strategy=[AppendFastStrategy], rankType=[ROW_NUMBER], rankRange=[rankStart=1, rankEnd=1], partitionBy=[a], orderBy=[b DESC, c DESC], select=[a, b, c])
+            +- Exchange(distribution=[hash[a]])
+               +- Calc(select=[a, b, c])
+                  +- MiniBatchAssigner(interval=[1000ms], mode=[ProcTime])
+                     +- DataStreamScan(table=[[default_catalog, default_database, MyTable]], fields=[a, b, c, proctime, rowtime])
+]]>
+    </Resource>
+  </TestCase>
+  <TestCase name="testDeduplicateOnNonTimeAttributeGeneratesUpdates">
+    <Resource name="sql">
+      <![CDATA[
+SELECT b, MIN(c) AS min_c
+FROM (
+  SELECT a, b, c,
+    ROW_NUMBER() OVER (PARTITION BY a ORDER BY b) AS rn
+  FROM MyTable
+) WHERE rn = 1
+GROUP BY b
+      ]]>
+    </Resource>
+    <Resource name="ast">
+      <![CDATA[
+LogicalAggregate(group=[{0}], min_c=[MIN($1)])
++- LogicalProject(b=[$1], c=[$2])
+   +- LogicalFilter(condition=[=($3, 1)])
+      +- LogicalProject(a=[$0], b=[$1], c=[$2], rn=[ROW_NUMBER() OVER (PARTITION BY $0 ORDER BY $1 NULLS FIRST)])
+         +- LogicalTableScan(table=[[default_catalog, default_database, MyTable]])
+]]>
+    </Resource>
+    <Resource name="optimized exec plan">
+      <![CDATA[
+GlobalGroupAggregate(groupBy=[b], select=[b, MIN_RETRACT(min$0) AS min_c])
++- Exchange(distribution=[hash[b]])
+   +- LocalGroupAggregate(groupBy=[b], select=[b, MIN_RETRACT(c) AS min$0, COUNT_RETRACT(*) AS count1$1])
+      +- Calc(select=[b, c])
+         +- Rank(strategy=[AppendFastStrategy], rankType=[ROW_NUMBER], rankRange=[rankStart=1, rankEnd=1], partitionBy=[a], orderBy=[b ASC], select=[a, b, c])
+            +- Exchange(distribution=[hash[a]])
+               +- Calc(select=[a, b, c])
+                  +- MiniBatchAssigner(interval=[1000ms], mode=[ProcTime])
+                     +- DataStreamScan(table=[[default_catalog, default_database, MyTable]], fields=[a, b, c, proctime, rowtime])
+]]>
+    </Resource>
+  </TestCase>
+  <TestCase name="testDeduplicateOnTimeAttributeIsInsertOnly">
+    <Resource name="sql">
+      <![CDATA[
+SELECT b, MIN(c) AS min_c
+FROM (
+  SELECT a, b, c,
+    ROW_NUMBER() OVER (PARTITION BY a ORDER BY proctime) AS rn
+  FROM MyTable
+) WHERE rn = 1
+GROUP BY b
+      ]]>
+    </Resource>
+    <Resource name="ast">
+      <![CDATA[
+LogicalAggregate(group=[{0}], min_c=[MIN($1)])
++- LogicalProject(b=[$1], c=[$2])
+   +- LogicalFilter(condition=[=($3, 1)])
+      +- LogicalProject(a=[$0], b=[$1], c=[$2], rn=[ROW_NUMBER() OVER (PARTITION BY $0 ORDER BY $3 NULLS FIRST)])
+         +- LogicalTableScan(table=[[default_catalog, default_database, MyTable]])
+]]>
+    </Resource>
+    <Resource name="optimized exec plan">
+      <![CDATA[
+GlobalGroupAggregate(groupBy=[b], select=[b, MIN(min$0) AS min_c])
++- Exchange(distribution=[hash[b]])
+   +- LocalGroupAggregate(groupBy=[b], select=[b, MIN(c) AS min$0, COUNT_RETRACT(*) AS count1$1])
+      +- Calc(select=[b, c])
+         +- Deduplicate(keep=[FirstRow], key=[a], order=[PROCTIME], outputInsertOnly=[false])
+            +- Exchange(distribution=[hash[a]])
+               +- Calc(select=[a, b, c, proctime])
+                  +- MiniBatchAssigner(interval=[1000ms], mode=[ProcTime])
+                     +- DataStreamScan(table=[[default_catalog, default_database, MyTable]], fields=[a, b, c, proctime, rowtime])
 ]]>
     </Resource>
   </TestCase>
diff --git a/flink-table/flink-table-planner/src/test/scala/org/apache/flink/table/planner/plan/metadata/FlinkRelMdHandlerTestBase.scala b/flink-table/flink-table-planner/src/test/scala/org/apache/flink/table/planner/plan/metadata/FlinkRelMdHandlerTestBase.scala
index 2662d3c3139ad..d210e06b43ff2 100644
--- a/flink-table/flink-table-planner/src/test/scala/org/apache/flink/table/planner/plan/metadata/FlinkRelMdHandlerTestBase.scala
+++ b/flink-table/flink-table-planner/src/test/scala/org/apache/flink/table/planner/plan/metadata/FlinkRelMdHandlerTestBase.scala
@@ -934,6 +934,78 @@ class FlinkRelMdHandlerTestBase {
     (calcOfFirstRow, calcOfLastRow)
   }
 
+  // A Top-1 ROW_NUMBER whose ORDER BY is NOT a single time attribute. It is logically a
+  // deduplication (RankUtil.isDeduplication), but it cannot be converted to a Deduplicate operator
+  // (RankUtil.canConvertToDeduplicate is false), so it stays a regular Top-1 Rank that retracts and
+  // re-emits the kept row. These guard the dispatch boundary in FlinkRelMdModifiedMonotonicity that
+  // FLINK-34702 introduced.
+  //
+  // equivalent SQL is
+  // select a, b, c from (
+  //  select a, b, c, ...,
+  //  ROW_NUMBER() over (partition by b order by a) rn from TemporalTable3
+  // ) t where rn <= 1
+  protected lazy val streamTop1RankOnNonTimeAttribute: RelNode = {
+    buildTop1RankNotConvertibleToDeduplicate(RelCollations.of(0))
+  }
+
+  // equivalent SQL is
+  // select a, b, c from (
+  //  select a, b, c, ...,
+  //  ROW_NUMBER() over (partition by b order by a desc, c desc) rn from TemporalTable3
+  // ) t where rn <= 1
+  protected lazy val streamTop1RankOnMultipleColumns: RelNode = {
+    buildTop1RankNotConvertibleToDeduplicate(
+      RelCollations.of(
+        new RelFieldCollation(
+          0,
+          RelFieldCollation.Direction.DESCENDING,
+          RelFieldCollation.NullDirection.LAST),
+        new RelFieldCollation(
+          2,
+          RelFieldCollation.Direction.DESCENDING,
+          RelFieldCollation.NullDirection.LAST)
+      ))
+  }
+
+  def buildTop1RankNotConvertibleToDeduplicate(orderKey: RelCollation): RelNode = {
+    val scan: StreamPhysicalDataStreamScan =
+      createDataStreamScan(ImmutableList.of("TemporalTable3"), streamPhysicalTraits)
+    val hash1 = FlinkRelDistribution.hash(Array(1), requireStrict = true)
+    val streamExchange =
+      new StreamPhysicalExchange(cluster, scan.getTraitSet.replace(hash1), scan, hash1)
+    val rank = new StreamPhysicalRank(
+      cluster,
+      streamPhysicalTraits,
+      streamExchange,
+      ImmutableBitSet.of(1),
+      orderKey,
+      RankType.ROW_NUMBER,
+      new ConstantRankRange(1, 1),
+      new RelDataTypeFieldImpl("rn", 7, longType),
+      outputRankNumber = false,
+      RankProcessStrategy.UNDEFINED_STRATEGY,
+      sortOnRowTime = false
+    )
+
+    val builder = typeFactory.builder()
+    rank.getRowType.getFieldList.asScala.dropRight(2).foreach(builder.add)
+    val projectProgram = RexProgram.create(
+      rank.getRowType,
+      Array(0, 1, 2).map(i => RexInputRef.of(i, rank.getRowType)).toList.asJava,
+      null,
+      builder.build(),
+      rexBuilder
+    )
+    new StreamPhysicalCalc(
+      cluster,
+      streamPhysicalTraits,
+      rank,
+      projectProgram,
+      projectProgram.getOutputRowType
+    )
+  }
+
   protected lazy val streamChangelogNormalize = {
     val key = Array(1, 0)
     val hash1 = FlinkRelDistribution.hash(key, requireStrict = true)
diff --git a/flink-table/flink-table-planner/src/test/scala/org/apache/flink/table/planner/plan/metadata/FlinkRelMdModifiedMonotonicityTest.scala b/flink-table/flink-table-planner/src/test/scala/org/apache/flink/table/planner/plan/metadata/FlinkRelMdModifiedMonotonicityTest.scala
index 3cc1813bc32e4..4d826e62b5206 100644
--- a/flink-table/flink-table-planner/src/test/scala/org/apache/flink/table/planner/plan/metadata/FlinkRelMdModifiedMonotonicityTest.scala
+++ b/flink-table/flink-table-planner/src/test/scala/org/apache/flink/table/planner/plan/metadata/FlinkRelMdModifiedMonotonicityTest.scala
@@ -487,6 +487,24 @@ class FlinkRelMdModifiedMonotonicityTest extends FlinkRelMdHandlerTestBase {
       mq.getRelModifiedMonotonicity(streamRowTimeDeduplicateLastRow))
   }
 
+  @Test
+  def testGetRelMonotonicityOnRankNotConvertibleToDeduplicate(): Unit = {
+    // A Top-1 ROW_NUMBER whose ORDER BY is not a single time attribute is logically a
+    // deduplication but cannot be converted to a Deduplicate operator (see
+    // RankUtil.canConvertToDeduplicate). It is a regular Top-1 Rank that retracts and re-emits the
+    // kept row when a new winner arrives, so it must NOT be reported as all-CONSTANT (insert-only).
+    // Instead it falls through to the generic Rank monotonicity logic, which derives the order-by
+    // field from the input monotonicity and the sort direction (CONSTANT input + ASC => DECREASING,
+    // CONSTANT input + DESC => INCREASING). Guards against the FLINK-34702 dispatch regression.
+    assertEquals(
+      new RelModifiedMonotonicity(Array(DECREASING, CONSTANT, NOT_MONOTONIC)),
+      mq.getRelModifiedMonotonicity(streamTop1RankOnNonTimeAttribute))
+
+    assertEquals(
+      new RelModifiedMonotonicity(Array(INCREASING, CONSTANT, NOT_MONOTONIC)),
+      mq.getRelModifiedMonotonicity(streamTop1RankOnMultipleColumns))
+  }
+
   @Test
   def testGetRelMonotonicityOnChangelogNormalize(): Unit = {
     assertEquals(
diff --git a/flink-table/flink-table-planner/src/test/scala/org/apache/flink/table/planner/plan/stream/sql/RankTest.scala b/flink-table/flink-table-planner/src/test/scala/org/apache/flink/table/planner/plan/stream/sql/RankTest.scala
index a63fbec3ae02c..14db205c4a5c1 100644
--- a/flink-table/flink-table-planner/src/test/scala/org/apache/flink/table/planner/plan/stream/sql/RankTest.scala
+++ b/flink-table/flink-table-planner/src/test/scala/org/apache/flink/table/planner/plan/stream/sql/RankTest.scala
@@ -18,12 +18,14 @@
 package org.apache.flink.table.planner.plan.stream.sql
 
 import org.apache.flink.table.api._
-import org.apache.flink.table.api.config.OptimizerConfigOptions
+import org.apache.flink.table.api.config.{ExecutionConfigOptions, OptimizerConfigOptions}
 import org.apache.flink.table.planner.utils.TableTestBase
 
 import org.assertj.core.api.Assertions.{assertThatExceptionOfType, assertThatThrownBy}
 import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test
 
+import java.time.Duration
+
 class RankTest extends TableTestBase {
 
   private val util = streamTestUtil()
@@ -1014,5 +1016,104 @@ class RankTest extends TableTestBase {
     util.verifyExplainInsert(sql, ExplainDetail.CHANGELOG_MODE)
   }
 
+  // A minibatch-enabled util with MyTable registered. Minibatch is required for these cases to
+  // exercise the FLINK-34702 fix end-to-end: a deduplication-style Top-1 Rank only forwards its
+  // updates downstream when minibatch is enabled (see RankUtil.outputInsertOnlyInDeduplicate); with
+  // minibatch disabled a FirstRow rank is forced insert-only and the modified-monotonicity guard is
+  // never reached. A fresh util is used (rather than mutating the shared one) to keep minibatch from
+  // leaking into the other test cases.
+  private def miniBatchUtil() = {
+    val mbUtil = streamTestUtil()
+    mbUtil.addDataStream[(Int, String, Long)](
+      "MyTable",
+      'a,
+      'b,
+      'c,
+      'proctime.proctime,
+      'rowtime.rowtime)
+    mbUtil.tableEnv.getConfig
+      .set(ExecutionConfigOptions.TABLE_EXEC_MINIBATCH_ENABLED, Boolean.box(true))
+      .set(ExecutionConfigOptions.TABLE_EXEC_MINIBATCH_ALLOW_LATENCY, Duration.ofSeconds(1))
+      .set(ExecutionConfigOptions.TABLE_EXEC_MINIBATCH_SIZE, Long.box(1000L))
+    mbUtil
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * A Top-1 ROW_NUMBER (i.e. RankUtil.isDeduplication) whose ORDER BY is a single time attribute in
+   * ascending order can be converted to a FirstRow Deduplicate, which is insert-only. Its modified
+   * monotonicity is CONSTANT, so the downstream MIN aggregate uses the non-retract Min. This is the
+   * insert-only control for the two cases below.
+   */
+  @Test
+  def testDeduplicateOnTimeAttributeIsInsertOnly(): Unit = {
+    val util = miniBatchUtil()
+    val sql =
+      """
+        |SELECT b, MIN(c) AS min_c
+        |FROM (
+        |  SELECT a, b, c,
+        |    ROW_NUMBER() OVER (PARTITION BY a ORDER BY proctime) AS rn
+        |  FROM MyTable
+        |) WHERE rn = 1
+        |GROUP BY b
+      """.stripMargin
+
+    util.verifyExecPlan(sql)
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * A Top-1 ROW_NUMBER whose ORDER BY is a single NON-time attribute is a deduplication
+   * (RankUtil.isDeduplication) but can NOT be converted to a Deduplicate operator
+   * (RankUtil.canConvertToDeduplicate is false because it is not sorted on a time attribute). It
+   * stays a Top-1 Rank operator that retracts and re-emits the kept row when a new winner arrives,
+   * hence generates updates. Its modified monotonicity must NOT be CONSTANT, so the downstream MIN
+   * aggregate must use Min_Retract.
+   *
+   * Before the fix, FlinkRelMdModifiedMonotonicity wrongly treated this ascending single-column
+   * case as an insert-only FirstRow and marked it CONSTANT, planning a non-retract Min.
+   */
+  @Test
+  def testDeduplicateOnNonTimeAttributeGeneratesUpdates(): Unit = {
+    val util = miniBatchUtil()
+    val sql =
+      """
+        |SELECT b, MIN(c) AS min_c
+        |FROM (
+        |  SELECT a, b, c,
+        |    ROW_NUMBER() OVER (PARTITION BY a ORDER BY b) AS rn
+        |  FROM MyTable
+        |) WHERE rn = 1
+        |GROUP BY b
+      """.stripMargin
+
+    util.verifyExecPlan(sql)
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Same as above but with a multi-column ORDER BY. A multi-column order key can never be a single
+   * time attribute, so the rank stays a Top-1 Rank operator and generates updates; the downstream
+   * MIN aggregate must use Min_Retract.
+   *
+   * This is the shape that originally exposed the bug: RankUtil.keepLastDeduplicateRow returns
+   * false for a multi-column order key (size != 1), so before the fix it fell through to the
+   * insert-only CONSTANT branch.
+   */
+  @Test
+  def testDeduplicateOnMultipleColumnsGeneratesUpdates(): Unit = {
+    val util = miniBatchUtil()
+    val sql =
+      """
+        |SELECT b, MIN(c) AS min_c
+        |FROM (
+        |  SELECT a, b, c,
+        |    ROW_NUMBER() OVER (PARTITION BY a ORDER BY b DESC, c DESC) AS rn
+        |  FROM MyTable
+        |) WHERE rn = 1
+        |GROUP BY b
+      """.stripMargin
+
+    util.verifyExecPlan(sql)
+  }
+
   // TODO add tests about multi-sinks and udf
 }