Team Respawn Halo Wars 2 stats report: Week of August 17, 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 24, 2026, 1,179 new players were added to the stats database, Captain Cutter led aggregate leader picks, and Team War was the busiest tracked mode with 1,260 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

• 1,179 new players added to the Team Respawn stats database this week
• 10 campaign missions newly marked complete on the stats site
• 2 new suspected cheaters flagged in the integrity database (first detection this week)
• 21 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 1,260 matches
• Captain Cutter — 1,109 leader picks (15.1% pick rate)
• 3,014 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 — 1,260 matches
• 3v3 Ranked — 689 matches
• 2v2 Ranked — 511 matches
• 1v1 Ranked — 311 matches
• Terminus Firefight — 71 matches
• Blitz Firefight — 20 matches
• Blitz — 1 match

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

1,260 matches this week

Top leaders

• Captain Cutter — 430 picks (48.8% WR)
• Sergeant Forge — 335 picks (52.5% WR)
• Commander Jerome — 265 picks (51.7% WR)
• Shipmaster — 243 picks (55.6% WR)
• Colony — 226 picks (43.4% WR)

Top maps

• Bedrock — 189 appearances
• Vault — 160 appearances
• Frontier — 159 appearances
• Highway — 148 appearances
• Fissures — 146 appearances

3v3 Ranked

689 matches this week

Top leaders

• Captain Cutter — 394 picks (47.5% WR)
• Sergeant Forge — 243 picks (45.7% WR)
• Sergeant Johnson — 183 picks (54.6% WR)
• Atriox — 182 picks (42.3% WR)
• Commander Jerome — 155 picks (36.8% WR)

Top maps

• Bedrock — 144 appearances
• Rift — 122 appearances
• Vault — 115 appearances
• Frontier — 109 appearances
• Ashes — 106 appearances

2v2 Ranked

511 matches this week

Top leaders

• Commander Jerome — 170 picks (51.8% WR)
• Captain Cutter — 134 picks (51.5% WR)
• Yapyap THE DESTROYER — 129 picks (48.8% WR)
• Sergeant Forge — 121 picks (53.7% WR)
• Pavium — 99 picks (62.6% WR)

Top maps

• Vault — 61 appearances
• Fissures — 59 appearances
• Badlands — 58 appearances
• Mirage — 56 appearances
• Bedrock — 53 appearances

1v1 Ranked

311 matches this week

Top leaders

• Captain Cutter — 92 picks (46.7% WR)
• Yapyap THE DESTROYER — 90 picks (61.1% WR)
• Sergeant Forge — 41 picks (46.3% WR)
• Pavium — 38 picks (55.3% WR)
• Kinsano — 24 picks (50% WR)

Top maps

• Mirage — 46 appearances
• Fissures — 44 appearances
• Bedrock — 43 appearances
• Ashes — 34 appearances
• Frontier — 33 appearances

Terminus Firefight

71 matches this week

Top leaders

• Professor Anders — 61 picks (0% WR)
• Voridus — 5 picks (0% WR)

Top maps

• High Bastion — 71 appearances

Blitz Firefight

20 matches this week

Top leaders

• Professor Anders — 5 picks (0% WR)
• Voridus — 3 picks (0% WR)

Top maps

• The Proving Grounds — 13 appearances
• Sirocco — 5 appearances

Blitz

1 match this week

Leaders

Captain Cutter led the aggregate sample with 1,109 picks (15.1%) and a 47.6% win rate across all tracked modes. Sergeant Forge followed at 754 picks (10.3%) with 50.4% WR, while Commander Jerome, Atriox, and Yapyap THE DESTROYER rounded out the top five at 612, 561, and 485 picks respectively. Yapyap posted a 53.3% aggregate win rate in the sample, and Commander Jerome held 48.5% WR across tracked modes.

Aggregate map rotation favored Bedrock (453 picks, 15.4%), Vault (385, 13.1%), and Frontier (367, 12.5%). Rift and Ashes completed the top five at 360 and 342 appearances respectively.

Leader powers

Sentinel Beacon led casts with 11,961 total uses across the week. Enduring Salvo Inspiration I followed at 9,458 casts, and Victory Mine I logged 1,938 casts. Lotus Mines I registered 1,926 casts, Restoration Drones I logged 1,913 casts, and Grunt Hustle Speed I, Grunt Mech Heal I, and Grunt Hustle Heal I each recorded 1,843 casts. Bunker Drop I reached 1,558 casts, and Grunt Hustle Speed II logged 1,413 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
• Main Campaign — 5 completions
• Tutorial — 2 completions
• Awakening the Nightmare — 2 completions
• Operation Spearbreaker — 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:

• 186,158 total matches; 21,032 players tracked
• Average game length (all-time sample): 17m 03s
• 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 (22,313 matches)

Community activity

1,179 new players joined the stats database this week. AnimalDay545980 was looked up 20 times — the most searched gamertag in the period. Captain Cutter was the weekly top leader in community-stats with 1,114 picks, aligning with the broader meta-stats sample.