Team Respawn Halo Wars 2 stats report: Week of July 6, 2026

Welcome back to the Team Respawn Halo Wars 2 stats report — a weekly digest built from activity on our HW2 stats tool. For the rolling seven days ending July 13, 2026, 1,630 new players were added to the stats database, Captain Cutter led aggregate leader picks, and Team War was the busiest tracked mode with 3,317 matches in our sample. Ranked playlists, Blitz, and both Firefight modes are all represented below; Firefight leader callouts are PvE-oriented and should be read with that context. Blitz and Firefight volumes depend on profile lookups, so those samples remain small.

Statistics reflect matches analyzed through Team Respawn HW2 Stats lookups only — not the global Halo Wars 2 population. Figures below use a rolling past 7 days (UTC) window unless labeled all-time. New players counts reflect gamertags stored in our database for the first time; campaign completions are newly detected when campaign progress refreshes on the site.

At a glance

• 1,630 new players added to the Team Respawn stats database this week
• 4 campaign missions newly marked complete on the stats site
• Team War led all tracked modes with 3,317 matches
• Captain Cutter — 1,072 leader picks (14.4% pick rate)
• 3,390 matches analyzed in the past 7 days (aggregate sample)

Playlists

Weekly mode ranking covers seven playlists and modes: 1v1, 2v2, and 3v3 Ranked plus Team War, Blitz, Blitz Firefight, and Terminus Firefight. Counts reflect distinct matches in our rolling 7-day UTC window from Team Respawn profile lookups.

• Team War — 3,317 matches
• 3v3 Ranked — 786 matches
• 1v1 Ranked — 699 matches
• 2v2 Ranked — 546 matches
• Terminus Firefight — 51 matches
• Blitz — 14 matches
• Blitz Firefight — 3 matches

Charts

Visual breakdown of the past 7 days.

Playlists

Leaders

Maps

By mode

Per-mode leader and map callouts for playlists and modes with activity this week.

Team War

3,317 matches this week

Top leaders

• Captain Cutter — 1,057 picks (51.5% WR)
• Sergeant Forge — 774 picks (49.8% WR)
• Colony — 718 picks (52.2% WR)
• Commander Jerome — 644 picks (47.5% WR)
• Decimus — 598 picks (55.1% WR)

Top maps

• Bedrock — 472 appearances
• Rift — 448 appearances
• Vault — 428 appearances
• Ashes — 410 appearances
• Frontier — 398 appearances

3v3 Ranked

786 matches this week

Top leaders

• Captain Cutter — 299 picks (46.5% WR)
• Sergeant Forge — 245 picks (47.3% WR)
• Commander Jerome — 239 picks (41% WR)
• Colony — 218 picks (48.2% WR)
• Atriox — 218 picks (46.5% WR)

Top maps

• Highway — 150 appearances
• Rift — 137 appearances
• Vault — 136 appearances
• Bedrock — 124 appearances
• Frontier — 120 appearances

1v1 Ranked

699 matches this week

Top leaders

• Captain Cutter — 212 picks (55.7% WR)
• Colony — 119 picks (56.3% WR)
• Decimus — 114 picks (52.6% WR)
• Sergeant Forge — 105 picks (51.4% WR)
• Commander Jerome — 104 picks (44.2% WR)

Top maps

• Fissures — 93 appearances
• Rift — 81 appearances
• Mirage — 80 appearances
• Frontier — 77 appearances
• Badlands — 76 appearances

2v2 Ranked

546 matches this week

Top leaders

• Captain Cutter — 139 picks (56.8% WR)
• Sergeant Forge — 128 picks (57.8% WR)
• Atriox — 111 picks (56.8% WR)
• Colony — 104 picks (63.5% WR)
• Decimus — 103 picks (52.4% WR)

Top maps

• Rift — 61 appearances
• Vault — 59 appearances
• Ashes — 57 appearances
• Mirage — 56 appearances
• Fissures — 56 appearances

Terminus Firefight

51 matches this week

Top leaders

• Shipmaster — 25 picks (16% WR)
• Isabel — 16 picks (12.5% WR)
• The Arbiter — 7 picks (14.3% WR)
• Yapyap THE DESTROYER — 6 picks (0% WR)
• Colony — 5 picks (0% WR)

Top maps

• High Bastion — 51 appearances

Blitz

14 matches this week

Top leaders

• Captain Cutter — 12 picks (83.3% WR)
• The Arbiter — 5 picks (60% WR)
• Sergeant Forge — 3 picks (66.7% WR)
• Isabel — 3 picks (33.3% WR)

Top maps

• The Proving Grounds — 7 appearances
• Nocturne — 5 appearances

Blitz Firefight

3 matches this week

Sample too small for leader or map breakdowns this week.

Leaders

Captain Cutter led the aggregate sample with 1,072 picks (14.4%) and a 51.7% win rate across all tracked modes. Sergeant Forge followed at 779 picks (10.5%) with 49.9% WR, while Colony, Commander Jerome, and Decimus rounded out the top five at 724, 645, and 600 picks respectively. Colony posted a 63.5% win rate in 2v2 this week, and Decimus held a 55.1% aggregate win rate despite a smaller pick share.

Aggregate map rotation favored Bedrock (473 picks, 14.2%), Rift (450, 13.5%), and Vault (428, 12.8%). Ashes and Frontier completed the top five at 410 and 398 appearances respectively.

Leader powers

Enduring Salvo Inspiration I dominated casts with 10,522 total uses across the week. Sentinel Beacon followed at 9,671 casts, and Grunt Hustle Heal I logged 2,452. Grunt Mech Heal I and Grunt Hustle Speed I each registered 2,452 casts, while Victory Mine I hit 2,339. Lotus Mines I recorded 2,117 casts, Restoration Drones I logged 1,911, and Grunt Hustle Heal II and Grunt Mech Heal II each reached 1,863 casts.

Campaign

When a player's campaign progress is refreshed on HW2 stats and a mission newly transitions to complete, we log it for weekly reporting. Only new completions are counted — already-finished missions on a first-time profile load are not backfilled.

• 4 campaign missions newly marked complete during this reporting week
• Tutorial — 2 completions
• Main Campaign — 1 completion
• Awakening the Nightmare — 1 completion

Campaign completions are counted when a mission is newly detected complete during a campaign progress refresh on Team Respawn — not backfilled from existing saves. These figures reflect campaign activity surfaced through Team Respawn lookups, not global Halo Wars 2 completion rates.

Combat snapshot (all-time sample)

All-time figures from all matches analyzed on Team Respawn, not just this week:

• 90,922 total matches; 12,657 players tracked
• Average game length (all-time sample): 17m 19s
• Median units destroyed / lost (all-time sample): 54 / 30
• Median leader powers used per player (all-time sample): 7
• Most played playlist in the all-time sample: Team War (39,118 matches)
• Most played map in the all-time sample: Bedrock (12,214 matches)

Community activity

1,630 new players joined the stats database this week. AnimalDay545980 was looked up 78 times — the most searched gamertag in the period. Captain Cutter was the weekly top leader in community-stats with 1,072 picks, aligning with the broader meta-stats sample.