Team Respawn Halo Wars 2 stats report: Week of August 31, 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 September 7, 2026, 1,461 new players were added to the stats database, Captain Cutter led aggregate leader picks, and Team War was the busiest tracked mode with 2,522 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

• 1,461 new players added to the Team Respawn stats database this week
• 3 campaign missions newly marked complete this week
• 9 new suspected cheaters flagged in the integrity database (first detection this week)
• 67 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 2,522 matches
• Captain Cutter — 1,731 leader picks (14.0% pick rate)
• 5,415 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 — 2,522 matches
• 3v3 Ranked — 1,570 matches
• 2v2 Ranked — 530 matches
• 1v1 Ranked — 434 matches
• Terminus Firefight — 117 matches
• Blitz — 20 matches
• Blitz Firefight — 6 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

2,522 matches this week

Top leaders

• Captain Cutter — 915 picks (47.4% WR)
• Colony — 592 picks (34.3% WR)
• Sergeant Forge — 560 picks (51.5% WR)
• Shipmaster — 433 picks (47.3% WR)
• Atriox — 425 picks (52.1% WR)

Top maps

• Bedrock — 438 appearances
• Rift — 312 appearances
• Frontier — 283 appearances
• Ashes — 282 appearances
• Fissures — 277 appearances

3v3 Ranked

1,570 matches this week

Top leaders

• Captain Cutter — 558 picks (46.9% WR)
• Sergeant Forge — 406 picks (48.4% WR)
• Atriox — 356 picks (53.1% WR)
• Colony — 322 picks (50.9% WR)
• Commander Jerome — 310 picks (43.2% WR)

Top maps

• Frontier — 292 appearances
• Ashes — 284 appearances
• Rift — 268 appearances
• Vault — 255 appearances
• Bedrock — 236 appearances

2v2 Ranked

530 matches this week

Top leaders

• Captain Cutter — 137 picks (53.3% WR)
• Atriox — 122 picks (52.1% WR)
• Sergeant Forge — 119 picks (47.1% WR)
• Pavium — 82 picks (58.0% WR)
• Colony — 81 picks (50.6% WR)

Top maps

• Vault — 71 appearances
• Sentry — 62 appearances
• Frontier — 55 appearances
• Highway — 53 appearances
• Mirage — 52 appearances

1v1 Ranked

434 matches this week

Top leaders

• Sergeant Forge — 98 picks (55.1% WR)
• The Arbiter — 97 picks (53.6% WR)
• Captain Cutter — 72 picks (52.8% WR)
• Shipmaster — 56 picks (64.3% WR)
• Atriox — 52 picks (51.9% WR)

Top maps

• Rift — 61 appearances
• Frontier — 59 appearances
• Sentry — 55 appearances
• Badlands — 52 appearances
• Ashes — 48 appearances

Terminus Firefight

117 matches this week

Top leaders

• Professor Anders — 88 picks (1.1% WR)
• Shipmaster — 9 picks (0.0% WR)
• Sergeant Johnson — 4 picks (0.0% WR)
• The Arbiter — 4 picks (0.0% WR)
• Serina — 3 picks (0.0% WR)

Top maps

• High Bastion — 117 appearances

Blitz

20 matches this week

Top leaders

• Atriox — 11 picks (54.5% WR)
• Colony — 5 picks (60.0% WR)

Top maps

• The Proving Grounds — 8 appearances
• Sirocco — 6 appearances
• Nocturne — 6 appearances

Blitz Firefight

6 matches this week

Top maps

• The Proving Grounds — 3 appearances

Leaders

Captain Cutter led the aggregate sample with 1,731 picks (14.0%) and a 48.3% win rate across all tracked modes. Sergeant Forge followed at 1,234 picks (10.0%) with 51.3% WR, while Colony, Atriox, and Commander Jerome rounded out the top five at 1,063, 1,008, and 815 picks respectively. Atriox posted a 53.5% aggregate win rate in the sample, and Sergeant Forge held 51.3% WR across tracked modes.

Aggregate map rotation favored Bedrock (801 picks, 15.1%), Rift (722, 13.6%), Frontier (721, 13.6%). Ashes and Vault completed the top five at 699 and 670 appearances respectively.

Leader powers

Sentinel Beacon led casts with 22,200 total uses across the week. Enduring Salvo Inspiration I followed at 15,791 casts, and Victory Mine I logged 3,499 casts. Lotus Mines I registered 3,088 casts, Restoration Drones I logged 3,085 casts, and Grunt Hustle Speed I recorded 2,821 casts. Grunt Mech Heal I reached 2,821 casts, Grunt Hustle Heal I logged 2,821 casts, Decimus Y Ability recorded 2,571 casts, and Grunt Hustle Speed II logged 2,566 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.

3 campaign missions were newly detected complete this week.

• Tutorial — 3 missions

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:

• 216,487 total matches; 22,677 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 (25,705 matches)

Community activity

1,461 new players joined the stats database this week. BentAirplane748 was looked up 54 times — the most searched gamertag in the period. Captain Cutter was the weekly top leader in community-stats with 1,888 picks, aligning with the broader meta-stats sample.