Team Respawn Halo Wars 2 stats report: Week of August 10, 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 17, 2026, 1,018 new players were added to the stats database, Captain Cutter led aggregate leader picks, and Team War was the busiest tracked mode with 1,510 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

• 1,018 new players added to the Team Respawn stats database this week
• 9 campaign missions newly marked complete on the stats site
• 5 new suspected cheaters flagged in the integrity database (first detection this week)
• 20 integrity detections logged this week — circumstantial flags such as fast ultimate or early leader power use, not confirmed bans
• Team War led all tracked modes with 1,510 matches
• Captain Cutter — 1,262 leader picks (14.5% pick rate)
• 3,904 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 — 1,510 matches
• 3v3 Ranked — 1,132 matches
• 1v1 Ranked — 597 matches
• 2v2 Ranked — 402 matches
• Terminus Firefight — 113 matches
• Blitz — 4 matches
• Blitz Firefight — 2 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

1,510 matches this week

Top leaders

• Captain Cutter — 436 picks (50.5% WR)
• Sergeant Forge — 350 picks (48.6% WR)
• Atriox — 315 picks (49.2% WR)
• Shipmaster — 303 picks (46.5% WR)
• Colony — 285 picks (49.6% WR)

Top maps

• Bedrock — 246 appearances
• Vault — 202 appearances
• Frontier — 195 appearances
• Rift — 189 appearances
• Ashes — 163 appearances

3v3 Ranked

1,132 matches this week

Top leaders

• Captain Cutter — 384 picks (49.7% WR)
• Sergeant Forge — 337 picks (46.3% WR)
• Sergeant Johnson — 277 picks (46.2% WR)
• Atriox — 267 picks (50.2% WR)
• Pavium — 251 picks (45.8% WR)

Top maps

• Frontier — 227 appearances
• Rift — 203 appearances
• Bedrock — 187 appearances
• Highway — 184 appearances
• Vault — 170 appearances

1v1 Ranked

597 matches this week

Top leaders

• Captain Cutter — 312 picks (54.8% WR)
• Sergeant Forge — 84 picks (40.5% WR)
• The Arbiter — 68 picks (66.2% WR)
• Pavium — 63 picks (73% WR)
• Yapyap THE DESTROYER — 46 picks (52.2% WR)

Top maps

• Vault — 84 appearances
• Bedrock — 75 appearances
• Mirage — 69 appearances
• Frontier — 67 appearances
• Rift — 65 appearances

2v2 Ranked

402 matches this week

Top leaders

• Sergeant Forge — 118 picks (50% WR)
• Decimus — 112 picks (60.7% WR)
• Atriox — 108 picks (48.1% WR)
• Captain Cutter — 87 picks (62.1% WR)
• Yapyap THE DESTROYER — 82 picks (54.9% WR)

Top maps

• Rift — 50 appearances
• Frontier — 48 appearances
• Ashes — 47 appearances
• Mirage — 47 appearances
• Badlands — 46 appearances

Terminus Firefight

113 matches this week

Top leaders

• Professor Anders — 71 picks (1.4% WR)
• Voridus — 19 picks (10.5% WR)
• Serina — 4 picks (0% WR)
• Shipmaster — 4 picks (0% WR)

Top maps

• High Bastion — 113 appearances

Blitz

4 matches this week

Top maps

• Sirocco — 3 appearances

Blitz Firefight

2 matches this week

Leaders

Captain Cutter led the aggregate sample with 1,262 picks (14.5%) and a 53.3% win rate across all tracked modes. Sergeant Forge followed at 905 picks (10.4%) with 47.9% WR, while Atriox, Colony, and Sergeant Johnson rounded out the top five at 743, 605, and 576 picks respectively. Colony posted a 51.8% aggregate win rate in the sample, and Sergeant Johnson held 49.3% WR across tracked modes.

Aggregate map rotation favored Bedrock (557 picks, 14.7%), Frontier (548, 14.5%), and Rift (534, 14.1%). Vault and Ashes completed the top five at 515 and 440 appearances respectively.

Leader powers

Sentinel Beacon led casts with 10,397 total uses across the week. Enduring Salvo Inspiration I followed at 9,422 casts, and Grunt Hustle Speed I, Grunt Mech Heal I, and Grunt Hustle Heal I each logged 2,533 casts. Lotus Mines I registered 2,397 casts, Restoration Drones I logged 1,940 casts, and Victory Mine I recorded 1,910 casts. Grunt Hustle Speed II and Grunt Mech Heal II each reached 1,708 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.

• 9 campaign missions newly marked complete during this reporting week
• Awakening the Nightmare — 7 completions
• Operation Spearbreaker — 2 completions

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:

• 173,597 total matches; 19,844 players tracked
• Average game length (all-time sample): 17m 01s
• 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 (20,959 matches)

Community activity

1,018 new players joined the stats database this week. endercrafter05 was looked up 23 times — the most searched gamertag in the period. Captain Cutter was the weekly top leader in community-stats with 1,349 picks, aligning with the broader meta-stats sample.