Apex Legends weapons & weapon stats (Season 4): high suggestions and tier lists!

Ah, Apex Legends weapons information, how I’ve missed you. Each new Apex season drop inevitably brings with it a tide of weapon changes, at the least one new weapon, and complete load extra causes to spend hours updating this explicit repository of information and stats each few months. And Season Four is actually no exception, increasing the roster with the brand new Sentinel Sniper Rifle and altering over half of the opposite weapons in numerous attention-grabbing methods.

Our Apex Legends weapons & weapons information will stroll you thru all 23 weapons within the game one by one, together with detailed stats and opinions, and even a tier record rating the entire greatest weapons inside their respective courses!

Apex Legends weapons & weapons information (Season 4)

Below we’ll stroll you thru each weapon presently within the game, with an up-to-date Apex Legends weapons tier record so you understand precisely what one of the best weapons within the present meta are. Further down we additionally reply some regularly requested questions on how gunplay works in Apex.

• Apex Legends weapon tier list – best guns in Season 4
• Assault Rifles – stats & opinions
• SMGs – stats & opinions
• LMGs – stats & opinions
• Snipers – stats & opinions
• Shotguns – stats & opinions
• Pistols – stats & opinions
• Apex Legends weapons – frequently asked questions
• Apex Legends guns – individual weapon pages

Apex Legends weapon tier record – greatest weapons in Season 4

Below I’ve created a useful desk of our rankings of each gun in Apex Legends inside their weapon class for Season 4. I’ve tried to have in mind the facility ranges of every weapon in addition to their dependency upon attachments. If you want, consider it as a measure of which gun I’d choose up firstly of a match with none attachments, allowing for the potential of augmenting it with attachments afterward.

And earlier than you all go hatin’, keep in mind that simply because I’ve ranked a sure gun because the worst in its class, doesn’t imply it’s a nasty gun. Good? Good. Now, let’s get caught into how we happened these rankings, by taking an in-depth have a look at each weapon’s stats and behaviours in flip.

Assault Rifles – Apex Legends weapons & stats

R-301 Carbine

The R-301 Carbine is one of the best AR on supply and all the time has been, buying and selling a bit of harm for a quicker fee of fireplace and a a lot simpler trip usually. Low recoil and a excessive bullet velocity makes the Carbine wonderful at most ranges (it could actually even be used to nice impact at lengthy vary when you change to single-shot mode) and with an excellent prolonged magazine, barrel, and inventory, it’s like there’s no recoil in any respect on this lovely bastard of a gun. As with the Flatline, the Anvil Receiver Hop Up turns the single-shot on the R-301 into one thing very a lot value utilizing, making this unbelievable gun stronger than ever.

VK-47 Flatline

The VK-47 Flatline’s constantly respectable stats has all the time been marred considerably by an unpleasantly excessive horizontal recoil, which has all the time prevented it from actually taking the highest spot from the ever-reliable Carbine. Thankfully Season Three was very sort to the venerable previous Flatline by giving it the brand new Anvil Receiver Hop Up, which lets you change at will between a good, high-powered Assault Rifle and a magnificently punchy long-range single-shot Sniper Rifle. If it weren’t for the truth that the Carbine acquired the identical Hop Up, it’d even have been sufficient to rank the Flatline as one of the best total Assault Rifle.

G7 Scout

Wait, what? The Scout is an Assault Rifle now? One of the stranger adjustments made at the beginning of Season 4 – however then the Scout has all the time been a wierd weapon, occupying the nebulous house between AR and Sniper Rifle. On its personal it’s a dependable and versatile weapon, however lacks the harm of both of the above Assault Rifles with Anvil Receiver attachments. The saving grace of the Scout is the power to connect a Double Tap Trigger, which lets you hearth twice with every pull of the set off. That makes for a large harm increase, and when you can hit your pictures your enemy goes to be in a world of harm.

Hemlok

The Hemlok Burst AR is – you guessed it – a burst weapon, firing Three bullets in extraordinarily fast succession, which implies when you’re correct with them you possibly can deal over 100 harm within the house of about 0.2 seconds. Many gamers favor to make use of the single-shot mode of the Hemlok and click on quickly, however both method this punchy rifle has the power to tear aside your enemies with the its very excessive damage-per-shot, which equals the Havoc and exceeds that of most different computerized weapons in Apex Legends. The draw back – and it’s an enormous one – is, fairly merely, that it’s not computerized.

Havoc

With the elimination of the Turbocharger for Season 4, the Havoc is indubitably essentially the most finnicky and least helpful Assault Rifle within the game. Now, there’s no getting across the crippling wind-up time between urgent the set off and the gun truly firing. When it lastly will get firing it’s fairly highly effective, as you possibly can see from the stats above. But it’s a extremely robust gun to grasp, and there’s loads of higher choices in my ebook. Or you possibly can connect a Selectfire Receiver and use it as a tenth fee Charge Rifle with its charge-up beam shot, however truthfully you’re higher off selecting up an excellent sturdy computerized weapon after which discovering a correct sniper for long-range encounters.

SMGs – Apex Legends weapons & stats

Prowler

This punchy burst SMG is… alright… till you handle to get your palms on an accompanying Selectfire Receiver Hop-Up attachment, after which it turns into one in all Apex Legends’ strongest weapons. Without this, it packs a punch with each 5-shot burst particularly when you intention for the pinnacle/neck space, however you race by means of your ammo all of the quicker for it, and the general reliability of the gun falls brief in comparison with an R-99. But with the Selectfire, and an excellent Extended Mag, it’s most likely favorite weapon to take into the ultimate circles. And with Season 4, the Prowler offers extra harm than ever earlier than.

R-99

Many gamers favor the R-99 to the Prowler, and I utterly perceive the place they’re coming from. It’s a unbelievable weapon. Hard to regulate, however with such blisteringly excessive hearth fee you could finish most fights earlier than they even start. Unfortunately its excessive recoil and restricted journal dimension heightens its issue curve and inhibits its versatility, and a slight harm nerf within the Season Four patch notes means I’d nonetheless choose a Prowler over an R-99. But evidently, each SMGs are tremendously highly effective close-range weapons.

Alternator

The Alternator has had increased ups and decrease downs than most weapons within the Apex arsenal. It began off unable to carry a candle to both of its sibling SMGs, after which for a quick time turned one of the best weapon within the game with the introduction of the completely OP Disruptor Rounds. But they’re lengthy gone, and the Alternator is again to being a substandard submachine gun that you just’re unlikely to need to take very far past the early game.

LMGs – Apex Legends weapons & stats

Devotion

The Devotion’s stupendous hearth fee and DPS has all the time made it one of many strongest weapons in Apex Legends – and with Season 4 Respawn have acknowledged this by selling the Devotion to a crate-only weapon. With the elimination of the Turbocharger from the game, the Devotion has been altered in order that by default it behaves because it used to do with a Turbocharger. Its huge drawbacks are nonetheless a powerful recoil and a wind-up time earlier than the Devotion’s hearth fee reaches its most. But when you’re fortunate sufficient to search out one and expert sufficient to land your pictures, there’s not a lot that may match this shredder of an LMG.

L-Star EMG

The L-Star was launched with Season 2: Battle Charge, and it’s a hell of a gun. A quick fee of fireplace and really excessive damage-per-shot places its DPS practically on par with a Devotion, however with out the annoying warm-up interval earlier than firing. It’s additionally bought a better magazine dimension and bigger bullets, permitting you to hit your goal barely extra simply with this powerhouse LMG. The draw back to the L-Star is the inclusion of an overheating mechanic which locks you out of firing when you shoot too typically in a brief house of time. Feather the set off to fireplace bursts of Eight or so at a time, and also you’ll be capable of soften gamers with out having to fret about your gun immediately failing on you. Season Four has seen match to nerf the L-Star (in addition to transferring it out of the crate, successfully swapping locations with the Devotion) with decreased harm and fee of fireplace, lessening the gun’s chew considerably. But it’s nonetheless an LMG value fearing within the palms of the enemy.

M600 Spitfire

The Spitfire, regardless of rating lowest (by a tiny margin, I’d add) in our tier record of LMGs, is a hell of a weapon. High base harm and the potential to have the most important journal of any gun in Apex makes it an actual drive to be reckoned with. It bucks like a mule whenever you’re firing, so it is best to prioritize getting an excellent Barrel Stabilizer attachment as shortly as attainable.

Snipers (Sniper Rifles) – Apex Legends weapons & stats

Charge Rifle

The Charge Rifle was launched with Season Three and the arrival of the brand new map – and it’s sickeningly sturdy. A world-drop energy-using sniper rifle with a hitscan beam shot that offers Three harm each tick (to a most of 45 whole harm) over half a second earlier than dealing 45 extra harm with its last burst of energy. It’s hilariously environment friendly, dealing (probably) over 100 harm per shot of Energy ammo. It’s fast, straightforward to make use of, terrifying to come back up towards. And truthfully, I’m fairly shocked Season Four hasn’t seen a nerf to this overpowered beam-sniper.

Longbow DMR

The Longbow is a big-boy Scout. A slower fee of fireplace however considerably increased harm lets you demolish targets from a really protected distance so long as you’re correct sufficient. There’s actually not rather more to say about this punchy rifle apart from that it’s simply as viable in Season Four because it was in Season 3. This factor hurts.

Sentinel

The latest weapon to be added to the Apex weapons arsenal (Respawn actually like their snipers, don’t they?), the Sentinel is a bolt-action weapon that offers the best harm with a single projectile of any weapon besides the almighty Kraber. That’s the excellent news. And it’s good, as a result of when you handle to hit, your enemies are going to really feel it much more than a Longbow shot. The dangerous information is that its immensely gradual fee of fireplace makes the Longbow a much better possibility in nearly each scenario – and the Sentinel’s distinctive skill to eat a Shield Battery to enter a brief charged state the place you deal bonus harm to shields… it’s simply not value it. The Sentinel already offers sufficient harm, that’s not the issue. The downside is its hearth fee. And I’d moderately use a Shield Battery on myself, thanks very a lot.

Kraber .50-CAL

One of three crate-only weapons in Apex Legends, the Kraber takes no attachments, and sports activities its personal distinctive ammo – that means you solely get Eight pictures, full cease. But it’s a phenomenally highly effective bolt-action sniper with the power to deal over 100 harm with a legshot, and 200 with a headshot. In essence, it’s a big-boy Sentinel. Unfortunately, its rarity and crippling hearth fee brings down its total energy, and I might nearly all the time preserve my present sniper rifle moderately than change over to a Kraber.

Triple Take

Again, don’t let the tier record idiot you – I actually just like the Triple Take. Unique and versatile, it may be used to nice impact at shut vary as a makeshift shotgun, and it’s a unbelievable mid-range selection when you slap a 3x scope on it. Its three-shot unfold makes longer-range pictures tougher – till you get a Precision Choke Hop-Up attachment for it, after which you’ll cost every shot as much as cut back the unfold dramatically. It’s nonetheless not supreme, as a result of it slows down the speed of fireplace (regardless that the Choke tightening velocity was elevated with Season 2), and a Precision Choke ought to all the time go to a Peacekeeper first earlier than a Triple Take. It’s simply the unlucky method of issues {that a} gun may be pretty much as good as a Triple Take, and nonetheless be outshined by each different weapon in its class.

Shotguns – Apex Legends weapons & stats

Mastiff

The last crate-only weapon in Apex Legends, the Mastiff comes with its personal distinctive shotgun shells, that means you’ll solely ever get 20 pictures with this colossal weapon. But it’s by far essentially the most highly effective of all of the shotguns at close-range, dealing a whopping 36 harm with every of the eight bullets it fires with each pull of the set off. That makes for a possible 288 harm in a single burst.

Peacekeeper

The Peacekeeper has all the time been one of the best world-drop shotgun in Apex. Fantastic harm in a big unfold sample, a Hop Up which dramatically will increase its efficient vary, amazingly ammo-efficient… Even with its historical past of gradual nerfs, that is most likely nonetheless essentially the most highly effective and dependable Shotgun you may get your palms on outdoors of crate drops.

EVA-8 Auto

Probably essentially the most forgiving shotgun in Apex Legends, a startlingly quick fee of fireplace is what units the EVA-8 Auto aside from the remaining. Its harm per shot can’t compete with that of the Peacekeeper, however the EVA’s flexibility lets you get in additional pictures than your opponent, typically successful you the struggle. And when you’re lucky sufficient to equip it with a Double Tap Trigger, the EVA-Eight can completely shred opponents. In sure circumstances, it’d even outperform a Peacekeeper.

Mozambique

The same story to the Alternator right here – the lowly previous Mozambique has had some critical ups and downs over the previous 12 months. Starting off because the clear-cut worst weapon in Apex, its viability was lastly elevated into constructive figures with the introduction of the Hammerpoint Rounds Hop Up, which supplies the shotgun-pistol important bonus harm towards unarmoured enemies. But nonetheless, when you assume a Mozambique is ever going to be as sturdy as the opposite three on this class, you’re a really particular form of loopy.

Pistols – Apex Legends weapons & stats

Wingman

The Wingman was the clear-cut strongest weapon in Apex Legends, alongside the Peacekeeper. Now each have been nerfed sufficient to deliver them kind of again according to the remainder of the arsenal – however the Wingman nonetheless packs a hell of a punch. This formidable Hand Cannon offers sniper rifle harm with every shot; its solely actual disadvantage (and it’s an enormous one, by necessity) is its very restricted journal dimension, making an Extended Mag completely important for Wingman customers.

P2020

The P2020 used to occupy the very lowest portion of the Apex Legends weapons energy curve alongside the Mozambique, however now each weapons have risen from the ashes because of the Hammerpoint Rounds Hop-Up, which dramatically will increase the gun’s harm towards unshielded targets. The P2020’s downfall was all the time pitifully low harm, however with Hammerpoint Rounds it’s nothing like as ineffective because it as soon as was. It’s nonetheless no Wingman, however it could actually actually maintain its personal within the early-game (and even perhaps the mid-game).

RE-45 Auto

The RE-45 may be regarded as a mini R-99. Very fast-firing, however low damage-per-shot and a really low magazine dimension for an computerized weapon. As with the Alternator, it loved its Season within the solar because of the enormously highly effective Disruptor Rounds Hop Up, however now that Hop Up is not current, and the RE-45 has been relegated again right down to the decrease rungs of the Apex weapons tier record.

Apex Legends weapons – regularly requested questions

Weapons and bullets in Apex Legends work somewhat otherwise from different battle royale games equivalent to PUBG and Fortnite. I do know a number of individuals are going to be asking the under questions, so I’ll simply undergo them shortly now:

• Are any of the weapons hitscan? – Just the Havoc and Charge Rifle beams. All different projectiles have journey time.
• Is there bullet drop? – Yes. The quantity of drop is predicated on the bullet velocity of every weapon.
• Is there harm drop-off? – Just the Havoc and Charge Rifle beams. However, there’s a completely different max headshot vary for every weapon, past which a headshot will not deal bonus headshot harm.
• Does every gun have a predictable spray sample? – Yes. Spend time studying the spray patterns of every gun within the Firing Range, it’ll severely aid you in fights.
• Is there intention drift? – Yes. There’s a quick second of stillness when first ADSing, after which you’ll begin to drift. Equipping Stock attachments minimizes intention drift. For extra data, take a look at our Apex Legends attachments information.
• Do completely different weapons cut back motion in numerous methods? – Yes, however solely whereas ADSing. Without ADSing your gun has no bearing in your run velocity. But when ADSing, your motion can be decreased based mostly on the category of gun you’re holding.
• Does taking harm gradual you down? – Yes. Taking harm from any weapon (not only a Heavy Rounds weapon, which many gamers appear to consider is the case) will trigger a quick slowdown. But Legends with the “Fortified” Passive (Gibraltar and Caustic) are resistant to this slowdown.

Apex Legends weapons – particular person guides

If you’re extra desirous about stepping into the nitty-gritty for a selected weapon such because the R-301 Carbine, or the Peacekeeper (or maybe the newly launched Sentinel?) then simply click on on any of the hyperlinks under to move over to our particular person weapon guides. These pages go into rather more element about particular person stats for every weapon, from harm per second (DPS) and hearth fee to the time-to-kill (TTK) towards enemies sporting completely different ranges of armour and helmets.

Hopefully this has given you an concept of what to anticipate it doesn’t matter what weapon you choose up in your subsequent Apex Legends match of Season 4. But that’s not all we have now to supply! Check out our Apex Legends loadout information for high-level suggestions and techniques on placing collectively the right mixture of weapons to deal with your each want.