Team Respawn Halo Wars 2 stats report: Week of August 3, 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 August 10, 2026, 1,435 new players were added to the stats database, Captain Cutter led aggregate leader picks, and Team War was the busiest tracked mode with 5,177 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

• 1,435 new players added to the Team Respawn stats database this week
• 10 campaign missions newly marked complete on the stats site
• Team War led all tracked modes with 5,177 matches
• Captain Cutter — 1,886 leader picks (15.2% pick rate)
• 5,307 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 — 5,177 matches
• 3v3 Ranked — 1,245 matches
• 1v1 Ranked — 897 matches
• 2v2 Ranked — 817 matches
• Blitz — 74 matches
• Terminus Firefight — 45 matches
• Blitz Firefight — 5 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

5,177 matches this week

Top leaders

• Captain Cutter — 1,873 picks (53.6% WR)
• Sergeant Forge — 1,493 picks (52% WR)
• Atriox — 1,095 picks (52.6% WR)
• Colony — 866 picks (50.4% WR)
• Commander Jerome — 824 picks (53% WR)

Top maps

• Bedrock — 744 appearances
• Vault — 678 appearances
• Frontier — 668 appearances
• Rift — 657 appearances
• Ashes — 651 appearances

3v3 Ranked

1,245 matches this week

Top leaders

• Captain Cutter — 470 picks (53.8% WR)
• Sergeant Forge — 346 picks (50.4% WR)
• Atriox — 254 picks (47.8% WR)
• Colony — 248 picks (52.6% WR)
• Commander Jerome — 237 picks (47.3% WR)

Top maps

• Frontier — 220 appearances
• Rift — 216 appearances
• Highway — 216 appearances
• Ashes — 204 appearances
• Vault — 200 appearances

1v1 Ranked

897 matches this week

Top leaders

• Sergeant Forge — 311 picks (51.4% WR)
• Captain Cutter — 251 picks (49.4% WR)
• Yapyap THE DESTROYER — 133 picks (72.7% WR)
• The Arbiter — 129 picks (67.4% WR)
• Shipmaster — 73 picks (68.5% WR)

Top maps

• Vault — 112 appearances
• Badlands — 106 appearances
• Sentry — 103 appearances
• Bedrock — 102 appearances
• Ashes — 102 appearances

2v2 Ranked

817 matches this week

Top leaders

• Sergeant Forge — 338 picks (58% WR)
• Captain Cutter — 301 picks (63.8% WR)
• Atriox — 190 picks (51.6% WR)
• Commander Jerome — 154 picks (57.1% WR)
• Colony — 138 picks (60.1% WR)

Top maps

• Vault — 99 appearances
• Sentry — 88 appearances
• Frontier — 86 appearances
• Bedrock — 83 appearances
• Fissures — 83 appearances

Terminus Firefight

45 matches this week

Top leaders

• Professor Anders — 24 picks (0% WR)
• Serina — 11 picks (0% WR)
• Voridus — 7 picks (0% WR)

Top maps

• High Bastion — 45 appearances

Blitz Firefight

5 matches this week

Top maps

• The Proving Grounds — 3 appearances

Blitz

74 matches this week

Top leaders

• The Arbiter — 37 picks (100% WR)
• Kinsano — 18 picks (100% WR)
• Captain Cutter — 11 picks (45.5% WR)
• Decimus — 10 picks (90% WR)
• Commander Jerome — 9 picks (22.2% WR)

Top maps

• The Proving Grounds — 33 appearances
• Sirocco — 21 appearances
• Nocturne — 20 appearances

Leaders

Captain Cutter led the aggregate sample with 1,886 picks (15.2%) and a 53.6% win rate across all tracked modes. Sergeant Forge followed at 1,498 picks (12.1%) with 52% WR, while Atriox, Colony, and Commander Jerome rounded out the top five at 1,098, 872, and 836 picks respectively. Atriox posted a 52.5% aggregate win rate in the sample, and Commander Jerome held 52.6% WR across tracked modes.

Aggregate map rotation favored Bedrock (745 picks, 14.2%), Vault (678, 12.9%), and Frontier (668, 12.7%). Rift and Ashes completed the top five at 661 and 651 appearances respectively.

Leader powers

Sentinel Beacon led casts with 17,637 total uses across the week. Enduring Salvo Inspiration I followed at 14,819 casts, and Lotus Mines I logged 3,719 casts. Restoration Drones I registered 3,020 casts, and Grunt Hustle Speed I, Grunt Mech Heal I, and Grunt Hustle Heal I each reached 3,015 casts. Victory Mine I recorded 2,932 casts, Cleansing Beam I logged 2,327 casts, and Decimus Y Ability rounded out the top ten at 2,154 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.

• 10 campaign missions newly marked complete during this reporting week
• Awakening the Nightmare — 7 completions
• Main Campaign — 2 completions
• Tutorial — 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:

• 160,938 total matches; 18,826 players tracked
• Average game length (all-time sample): 17m 00s
• Median units destroyed / lost (all-time sample): 53 / 30
• Median leader powers used per player (all-time sample): 8
• Most played map in the all-time sample: Bedrock (20,733 matches)

Community activity

1,435 new players joined the stats database this week. HAha 327 was looked up 46 times — the most searched gamertag in the period. Captain Cutter was the weekly top leader in community-stats with 1,844 picks, aligning with the broader meta-stats sample.