Team Respawn Halo Wars 2 stats report: Week of August 24, 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 31, 2026, 194 new players were added to the stats database, Captain Cutter led aggregate leader picks, and Team War was the busiest tracked mode with 188 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

• 194 new players added to the Team Respawn stats database this week
• 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 188 matches
• Captain Cutter — 156 leader picks (19.6% pick rate)
• 414 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 — 188 matches
• 2v2 Ranked — 73 matches
• 1v1 Ranked — 67 matches
• 3v3 Ranked — 67 matches
• Terminus Firefight — 3 matches
• Blitz — 0 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

188 matches this week

Top leaders

• Captain Cutter — 76 picks (51.3% WR)
• Atriox — 32 picks (46.9% WR)
• Commander Jerome — 28 picks (64.3% WR)
• Colony — 24 picks (41.7% WR)
• Decimus — 23 picks (82.6% WR)

Top maps

• Vault — 31 appearances
• Frontier — 30 appearances
• Fissures — 26 appearances
• Bedrock — 21 appearances
• Highway — 21 appearances

2v2 Ranked

73 matches this week

Top leaders

• Captain Cutter — 34 picks (52.9% WR)
• Sergeant Forge — 17 picks (47.1% WR)
• The Arbiter — 14 picks (21.4% WR)
• Decimus — 13 picks (46.2% WR)
• Atriox — 13 picks (53.8% WR)

Top maps

• Badlands — 11 appearances
• Highway — 10 appearances
• Frontier — 10 appearances
• Fissures — 9 appearances
• Ashes — 9 appearances

1v1 Ranked

67 matches this week

Top leaders

• Commander Jerome — 32 picks (34.4% WR)
• Captain Cutter — 17 picks (58.8% WR)
• Voridus — 11 picks (54.5% WR)
• Sergeant Forge — 7 picks (57.1% WR)
• Yapyap THE DESTROYER — 6 picks (66.7% WR)

Top maps

• Fissures — 11 appearances
• Bedrock — 10 appearances
• Frontier — 9 appearances
• Vault — 8 appearances
• Badlands — 8 appearances

3v3 Ranked

67 matches this week

Top leaders

• Shipmaster — 33 picks (33.3% WR)
• Captain Cutter — 29 picks (41.4% WR)
• Sergeant Johnson — 27 picks (66.7% WR)
• Atriox — 26 picks (61.5% WR)
• Commander Jerome — 18 picks (38.9% WR)

Top maps

• Bedrock — 15 appearances
• Frontier — 13 appearances
• Vault — 11 appearances
• Ashes — 10 appearances
• Highway — 10 appearances

Terminus Firefight

3 matches this week

Top maps

• High Bastion — 3 appearances

Leaders

Captain Cutter led the aggregate sample with 156 picks (19.6%) and a 50.6% win rate across all tracked modes. Commander Jerome followed at 98 picks (12.3%) with 49% WR, while Atriox, Shipmaster, and Decimus rounded out the top five at 74, 61, and 53 picks respectively. Decimus posted a 60.4% aggregate win rate in the sample, and Atriox held 52.7% WR across tracked modes.

Aggregate map rotation favored Frontier (65 picks, 15%), Vault (59, 13.7%), and Bedrock (57, 13.2%). Fissures and Ashes completed the top five at 50 and 46 appearances respectively.

Leader powers

Sentinel Beacon led casts with 1,044 total uses across the week. Enduring Salvo Inspiration I followed at 776 casts, and Lotus Mines I logged 213 casts. Victory Mine I registered 175 casts, Restoration Drones I logged 155 casts, and Cleansing Beam I recorded 110 casts. Bunker Drop I reached 92 casts, Decimus Y Ability logged 88 casts, Grunt Mine I recorded 85 casts, and Grunt Hustle Speed I logged 74 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.

No campaign missions were newly detected complete this week. Campaign tracking is still relatively new on Team Respawn, so a zero week may reflect lookup volume rather than a lack of campaign play.

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:

• 187,857 total matches; 21,221 players tracked
• Average game length (all-time sample): 17m 05s
• 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 (22,260 matches)

Community activity

194 new players joined the stats database this week. xandy92 was looked up 76 times — the most searched gamertag in the period. Captain Cutter was the weekly top leader in community-stats with 169 picks, aligning with the broader meta-stats sample.