Team Respawn Halo Wars 2 stats report: Week of July 20, 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 27, 2026, 1,576 new players were added to the stats database, Captain Cutter led aggregate leader picks, and Team War was the busiest tracked mode with 4,807 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

• 1,576 new players added to the Team Respawn stats database this week
• 6 campaign missions newly marked complete on the stats site
• Team War led all tracked modes with 4,807 matches
• Captain Cutter — 1,581 leader picks (14.3% pick rate)
• 4,890 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 — 4,807 matches
• 3v3 Ranked — 1,253 matches
• 1v1 Ranked — 909 matches
• 2v2 Ranked — 481 matches
• Terminus Firefight — 39 matches
• Blitz — 36 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

4,807 matches this week

Top leaders

• Captain Cutter — 1,569 picks (50% WR)
• Sergeant Forge — 1,188 picks (47.6% WR)
• Atriox — 895 picks (51.7% WR)
• Yapyap THE DESTROYER — 832 picks (55.8% WR)
• Colony — 806 picks (52.9% WR)

Top maps

• Bedrock — 726 appearances
• Ashes — 630 appearances
• Rift — 627 appearances
• Vault — 600 appearances
• Frontier — 587 appearances

3v3 Ranked

1,253 matches this week

Top leaders

• Captain Cutter — 560 picks (46.6% WR)
• Sergeant Forge — 304 picks (50% WR)
• Colony — 301 picks (51.2% WR)
• Atriox — 281 picks (46.6% WR)
• Yapyap THE DESTROYER — 262 picks (45.8% WR)

Top maps

• Ashes — 226 appearances
• Bedrock — 225 appearances
• Rift — 205 appearances
• Highway — 203 appearances
• Vault — 202 appearances

1v1 Ranked

909 matches this week

Top leaders

• Captain Cutter — 263 picks (54.4% WR)
• Sergeant Forge — 207 picks (50.7% WR)
• Yapyap THE DESTROYER — 157 picks (68.2% WR)
• Decimus — 106 picks (55.7% WR)
• Professor Anders — 81 picks (49.4% WR)

Top maps

• Bedrock — 128 appearances
• Badlands — 112 appearances
• Ashes — 111 appearances
• Mirage — 106 appearances
• Fissures — 105 appearances

2v2 Ranked

481 matches this week

Top leaders

• Sergeant Forge — 137 picks (49.6% WR)
• Captain Cutter — 128 picks (55.5% WR)
• Decimus — 80 picks (66.3% WR)
• Commander Jerome — 79 picks (53.2% WR)
• Shipmaster — 79 picks (50.6% WR)

Top maps

• Badlands — 55 appearances
• Rift — 54 appearances
• Mirage — 54 appearances
• Vault — 53 appearances
• Fissures — 48 appearances

Terminus Firefight

39 matches this week

Top leaders

• Professor Anders — 21 picks (19% WR)
• Isabel — 5 picks (0% WR)
• Serina — 4 picks (100% WR)
• Commander Jerome — 4 picks (0% WR)
• Colony — 3 picks (0% WR)

Top maps

• High Bastion — 39 appearances

Blitz

36 matches this week

Top leaders

• Kinsano — 17 picks (94.1% WR)
• The Arbiter — 12 picks (100% WR)
• Captain Cutter — 8 picks (62.5% WR)
• Decimus — 3 picks (66.7% WR)

Top maps

• Sirocco — 13 appearances
• The Proving Grounds — 13 appearances
• Nocturne — 10 appearances

Blitz Firefight

3 matches this week

Leaders

Captain Cutter led the aggregate sample with 1,581 picks (14.3%) and a 50% win rate across all tracked modes. Sergeant Forge followed at 1,192 picks (10.8%) with 47.5% WR, while Atriox, Yapyap THE DESTROYER, and Colony rounded out the top five at 898, 833, and 811 picks respectively. Yapyap posted a 55.8% aggregate win rate in the sample, and Atriox held 51.6% WR across tracked modes.

Aggregate map rotation favored Bedrock (726 picks, 15%), Ashes (631, 13%), and Rift (629, 13%). Vault and Frontier completed the top five at 600 and 587 appearances respectively.

Leader powers

Sentinel Beacon led casts with 13,500 total uses across the week. Enduring Salvo Inspiration I followed at 12,273 casts, and Grunt Hustle Speed I, Grunt Mech Heal I, and Grunt Hustle Heal I each registered 3,516 casts. Victory Mine I logged 2,989 casts, Lotus Mines I recorded 2,906, and Restoration Drones I reached 2,614. Decimus Y Ability and Cleansing Beam I rounded out the top ten at 2,346 and 2,335 casts respectively.

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.

• 6 campaign missions newly marked complete during this reporting week
• Awakening the Nightmare — 3 completions
• Tutorial — 2 completions
• Main Campaign — 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:

• 118,385 total matches; 15,204 players tracked
• Average game length (all-time sample): 17m 04s
• Median units destroyed / lost (all-time sample): 53 / 30
• Median leader powers used per player (all-time sample): 7
• Most played map in the all-time sample: Bedrock (15,416 matches)

Community activity

1,576 new players joined the stats database this week. Haas DelGato was looked up 58 times — the most searched gamertag in the period. Captain Cutter was the weekly top leader in community-stats with 1,731 picks, aligning with the broader meta-stats sample.