Team Respawn Halo Wars 2 stats report: Week of July 13, 2026

Welcome back to the Team Respawn Halo Wars 2 stats report — a weekly digest built from activity on our HW2 stats dashboard and player profile lookup. For the rolling seven days ending July 20, 2026, 1,389 new players were added to the stats database, Captain Cutter led aggregate leader picks, and Team War was the busiest tracked mode with 4,038 matches in our sample. For the bigger picture, see our 2026 player count analysis. 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

• 1,389 new players added to the Team Respawn stats database this week
• 2 campaign missions newly marked complete on the stats site
• Team War led all tracked modes with 4,038 matches
• Captain Cutter — 1,282 leader picks (14.5% pick rate)
• 4,168 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 — 4,038 matches
• 3v3 Ranked — 1,282 matches
• 1v1 Ranked — 728 matches
• 2v2 Ranked — 704 matches
• Terminus Firefight — 65 matches
• Blitz — 60 matches
• Blitz Firefight — 0 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

4,038 matches this week

Top leaders

• Captain Cutter — 1,239 picks (49.1% WR)
• Sergeant Forge — 873 picks (50.4% WR)
• Atriox — 748 picks (55% WR)
• Commander Jerome — 725 picks (50.9% WR)
• Colony — 719 picks (49.1% WR)

Top maps

• Bedrock — 537 appearances
• Vault — 535 appearances
• Rift — 529 appearances
• Frontier — 528 appearances
• Ashes — 520 appearances

3v3 Ranked

1,282 matches this week

Top leaders

• Captain Cutter — 592 picks (46.6% WR)
• Sergeant Forge — 293 picks (45.1% WR)
• Commander Jerome — 247 picks (46.2% WR)
• Atriox — 229 picks (56.8% WR)
• Sergeant Johnson — 217 picks (49.8% WR)

Top maps

• Frontier — 228 appearances
• Rift — 224 appearances
• Ashes — 215 appearances
• Vault — 214 appearances
• Highway — 205 appearances

1v1 Ranked

728 matches this week

Top leaders

• Captain Cutter — 184 picks (58.7% WR)
• Decimus — 122 picks (59.8% WR)
• Sergeant Forge — 111 picks (53.2% WR)
• Atriox — 100 picks (47% WR)
• Colony — 96 picks (42.7% WR)

Top maps

• Mirage — 91 appearances
• Rift — 89 appearances
• Vault — 85 appearances
• Bedrock — 85 appearances
• Fissures — 80 appearances

2v2 Ranked

704 matches this week

Top leaders

• Sergeant Forge — 175 picks (57.1% WR)
• Captain Cutter — 163 picks (49.1% WR)
• Commander Jerome — 145 picks (57.9% WR)
• Colony — 136 picks (58.1% WR)
• Atriox — 131 picks (58% WR)

Top maps

• Fissures — 82 appearances
• Sentry — 80 appearances
• Highway — 79 appearances
• Badlands — 77 appearances
• Ashes — 73 appearances

Terminus Firefight

65 matches this week

Top leaders

• Shipmaster — 32 picks (3.1% WR)
• Isabel — 18 picks (0% WR)
• Serina — 5 picks (0% WR)
• Yapyap THE DESTROYER — 5 picks (0% WR)
• Colony — 4 picks (0% WR)

Top maps

• High Bastion — 65 appearances

Blitz

60 matches this week

Top leaders

• Captain Cutter — 38 picks (73.7% WR)
• The Arbiter — 23 picks (78.3% WR)
• Decimus — 5 picks (60% WR)
• Sergeant Forge — 4 picks (50% WR)
• Kinsano — 3 picks (66.7% WR)

Top maps

• Sirocco — 23 appearances
• The Proving Grounds — 20 appearances
• Nocturne — 17 appearances

Leaders

Captain Cutter led the aggregate sample with 1,282 picks (14.5%) and a 49.7% win rate across all tracked modes. Sergeant Forge followed at 879 picks (9.9%) with 50.3% WR, while Atriox, Commander Jerome, and Colony rounded out the top five at 751, 729, and 724 picks respectively. Atriox posted a 54.8% aggregate win rate, and Decimus held a 59.8% win rate in 1v1 despite a smaller overall pick share.

Aggregate map rotation favored Bedrock (538 picks, 13.1%), Vault (536, 13.1%), and Frontier (529, 12.9%). Rift and Ashes completed the top five at 529 and 521 appearances respectively.

Leader powers

Enduring Salvo Inspiration I dominated casts with 14,430 total uses across the week. Sentinel Beacon followed at 9,569 casts, and Victory Mine I logged 2,659. Grunt Hustle Heal I and Grunt Hustle Speed I each registered 2,565 casts, while Grunt Mech Heal I hit 2,564. Lotus Mines I recorded 2,455 casts, Restoration Drones I logged 2,332, Bunker Drop I reached 1,933 casts, and Grunt Hustle Heal II rounded out the top ten at 1,926.

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.

• 2 campaign missions newly marked complete during this reporting week
• Operation Spearbreaker — 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:

• 106,598 total matches; 14,046 players tracked
• Average game length (all-time sample): 17m 08s
• 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 (42,253 matches)
• Most played map in the all-time sample: Bedrock (13,747 matches)

Community activity

1,389 new players joined the stats database this week. AnimalDay545980 was looked up 38 times — the most searched gamertag in the period. Captain Cutter was the weekly top leader in community-stats with 1,282 picks, aligning with the broader meta-stats sample.