Apex Legends weapons & weapons (1.2): finest weapons, weapon stats, Apex Legends weapons tier listing

With 20 weapons at present on provide in Apex Legends (quickly to be 21 as soon as Season 2 arrives), every with their very own quirks, stats, and spray patterns, there’s lots to be taught in regards to the Apex Legends weapons roster and its rising curve of rarity and energy. Especially after the 1.1.1 replace, which modified a lot about how varied weapons behave and the way viable they are often. But concern not! Our Apex Legends weapons & weapons information will stroll you thru every weapon in flip, with detailed stats and opinions on each single one.

If you’re searching for extra basic suggestions and methods on how you can enhance your Apex Legends abilities heading into Season 2, our Apex Legends tips/guide is one of the best place to start out. We’ve bought high suggestions for each stage of play, together with hyperlinks to different areas of our ever-expanding guides sequence, from recommendations on taking part in as every of the Apex Legends characters to all the pieces that’s altering with the Apex Legends Season 2 replace.

Apex Legends weapons – Apex Legends weapons information [v1.2]

Each of the Apex Legends weapons and different weapons are, predictably, very completely different from each other, with distinctive stats, behaviours, and attachments that may fitted onto them. Below we’ll stroll you thru each gun at present within the game (in addition to one of many upcoming weapons that may quickly be added to the game!). Click any of the hyperlinks under to skip to the part of your alternative.

Apex Legends weapons listing (full stats, TTK, suggestions and techniques)

If you’re extra concerned about entering into the nitty-gritty for a particular weapon such because the Wingman, or the Peacekeeper (or maybe the soon-to-be-released L-Star EMG?) then simply click on on any of the hyperlinks under to go over to our particular person weapon guides. These pages go into far more element about particular person stats for every weapon, from harm per second (DPS) and hearth fee to the time-to-kill (TTK) in opposition to enemies carrying completely different ranges of armour and helmets.

Apex Legends weapons information – incessantly requested questions

Weapons and bullets in Apex Legends work just a little otherwise from different battle royale games corresponding to PUBG and Fortnite. I do know plenty 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 one.
  • Unlike Fortnite, there may be typically no hitscan in Apex Legends. All bullets have a journey time, it doesn’t matter what gun they’re fired from. So you do want to guide along with your aiming for longer ranges. The solely exception is the brand new Havoc Assault Rifle, whose single-shot beam is hitscan.
• Is there bullet drop? – Yes.
  • Fire some bullets into the gap with any gun and also you’ll see that finally they are going to drop. The bullet pace (and subsequently the quantity of drop) is variable between weapons.
• Is there harm drop-off? – …Not within the conventional sense, no. Except in a single case.
  
  • An fascinating discover. Unlike Fortnite or PUBG, there’s no direct discount in harm relying on how far a bullet travels. Even a shotgun pellet will hit for max harm over nice distances; however in fact, you’ll by no means hit a distant goal with multiple pellet at a time. However, there’s a most level (which differs for every gun) after which headshots now not deal bonus headshot harm, and are handled identical to a shot to the physique.
    The Havoc’s single-shot beam is, once more, the one exception to this rule, with the beam dealing much less harm the additional it has to journey.
• Does every gun have a predictable spray sample? – Yes.
  • Much like CS:GO, a big a part of studying how you can play properly with every weapon in Apex Legends is studying the spray sample of every gun. A great way to do that is to fireplace at a wall and see from the bullet holes the route the gun pulls you in, and carry out the alternative motion along with your mouse to counteract the sample whereas firing. In the tables under you’ll see I’ve added hyperlinks to screenshots of the spray patterns of every gun, so you’ll be able to discover ways to counteract it.
• Is there intention drift? – Yes.
  • Aim down sights with any gun in Apex Legends, and after a second your intention will begin to sway and shift round mechanically, making it tougher to land your photographs over longer distances. There is a quick second of stillness the second you first intention down sights (the length of this “no aim drift window” varies from weapon to weapon) so it’s all to encourage fast aiming and capturing, and faster-paced gunplay on the whole. Fortunately for a lot of, you’ll be able to equip Stock attachments to lots of Apex Legends’ weapons, which is able to reduce the intention drift you expertise. For extra data on this, try our detailed Apex Legends attachments information.
• Do completely different weapons cut back motion in numerous methods? – Yes.
  • No matter what gun you’re holding you’ll at all times transfer and run on the similar pace with out aiming down sights. But whereas aiming down sights, your motion pace is lowered by a certain amount relying on the gun you’re utilizing. See the tables under for extra particulars on this.
• Does taking harm sluggish 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 really transient slowdown, which is compounded whenever you take harm from many bullets in a brief area of time. This is why studying to successfully “A/D strafe” or “dance” round throughout a combat is so necessary. Of course, sure sorts of harm, corresponding to from Arc Stars, will trigger a a lot higher slowdown for an extended time frame.

Apex Legends weapon tier listing chart (1.2) – finest weapons to worst weapons

Below I’ve created a helpful chart of our rankings of each gun in Apex Legends inside their weapon class. If you’re struggling to become familiar with which weapons to take over which others, I’d advocate retaining this chart on a second monitor or printing it out, and refer again to it everytime you want.

Bear in thoughts that that is based mostly on un-upgraded weapons bereft of attachments, and Hop-Up weapons specifically, such because the Prowler and the Havoc, can get fairly stonking wonderful with a pleasant array of attachments – so take this chart for what it’s (a information) and make your individual choices from there.

Now, let’s get caught into how we took place these rankings, by taking an in-depth take a look at each weapon’s stats and behaviours in flip. Click on any of the weapons’ names to be directed to our devoted information for that weapon (sure, we have now one for each gun; no, I don’t have a life).

Assault Rifles (together with Havoc)

Name	Havoc	VK-47 Flatline	Hemlok Burst AR	R-301 Carbine
Spray Pattern
Ammo	Energy Ammo	Heavy Rounds	Heavy Rounds	Light Rounds
Mag Size	32	20	18	18
Tactical Reload/Full Reload	3.20s/3.20s	2.40s/3.10s	2.40s/2.80s	2.40s/3.20s
DPS	201.6	160	108	189
Body/Head/Leg DMG	18/36/13.5	16/32/12	18/36/13.5 (Per Burst: 54/108/40.5)	14/28/10.5
Fire Rate (SPS)	11.2 (1.7 in single-shot mode)	10	15 (6 together with downtime between bursts)	13.5
Att. Slots	Optic, Stock, Hop-Up	Mag, Optic, Stock	Barrel, Mag, Optic, Stock	Barrel, Mag, Optic, Stock
Modes	Auto, Single (with Hop-Up)	Single, Auto	Single, Burst (3-shot)	Single, Auto
Projectile Speed	30500	26000	27500	29000
Draw Time	0.60s	0.60s	0.60s	0.60s
ADS Movement Speed (% of non-ADS pace)	50%	50%	50%	50%

Havoc

The first gun to be added to Apex Legends after its launch, the Havoc is a tough gun to make up your thoughts about. Like the Prowler SMG, it’s made or damaged by whether or not it has a Hop-Up; however within the Havoc’s case you’ll be able to select both the Turbocharger, which eliminates the wind-up time earlier than it begins firing in full-auto, or the Selectfire Receiver, which lets you cost up single-shot hitscan laser photographs (which makes the Havoc the one hitscan gun at present in Apex Legends). Bear in thoughts, nevertheless, which you can’t connect each Hop-Ups directly, so you need to select.

Hint: use the Turbocharger, at all times.

The single-shot mode I discover doesn’t deal sufficient harm per shot to justify spending 4 Energy ammo per shot, even after the buffs to wreck it obtained with the 1.1.1 replace. And whereas the truth that it’s hitscan may trick you into pondering it’s simpler to land photographs, it’s truly tougher because of the charge-up time between pulling the set off and the gun truly firing.

But in full-auto, it’s a fast-firing AR that offers whopping harm as soon as it will get going – so long as you’ll be able to deal with the very excessive vertical recoil. The large draw back is the wind-up time earlier than it begins capturing, which makes the Turbocharger an actual necessity. With the Turbocharger, it dishes out the very best DPS of any Assault Rifle, however with that top recoil which you can’t mitigate with a Barrel Stabiliser attachment.

VK-47 Flatline

The VK-47 Flatline is what you may name the baseline Assault Rifle when it comes to stats. With respectable flat harm stats, a excessive clip dimension, and a mediocre spray sample, you’ll be able to’t go too far fallacious with the Flatline at any vary, notably when you’ve kitted it out with respectable attachments. Unfortunately within the eyes of many it’s left within the mud by most different full-auto weapons, nevertheless it’s nonetheless a weapon worthy of warning, notably within the early-game.

Hemlok

The Hemlok Burst AR is – you guessed it – a burst weapon, firing Three bullets in extraordinarily fast succession, which implies for those who’re correct with them you’ll be able to deal over 100 harm within the area of about 0.2 seconds. Many gamers desire to make use of the single-shot mode of the Hemlok and click on quickly to ship an excellent larger fee of fireplace over time. Either means 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 some other automated weapon in Apex Legends in addition to the Spitfire.

Still, gamers will often surrender the Hemlok for an excellent ol’ Carbine.

R-301 Carbine

The R-301 Carbine is one of the best AR on provide in the meanwhile (or at the least on par with a Turbocharged Havoc), buying and selling a bit of injury for a quicker fee of fireplace and a better trip on the whole. Low recoil and a excessive bullet pace makes the Carbine glorious at most ranges (it may even be used to nice impact at lengthy vary for those who 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.

SMGs

Name	Alternator SMG	R-99	Prowler Burst PDW
Spray Pattern
Ammo	Light Rounds	Light Rounds	Heavy Rounds
Mag Size	16	18	20
Tactical Reload/Full Reload	1.90s/2.23s	1.80s/2.45s	2.00s/2.60s
DPS	130	216	122.78
Body/Head/Leg DMG	13/19/10.4	12/18/9.6	14/21/11.2
Fire Rate (SPS)	10	18	20 (8.77 together with downtime between bursts)
Att. Slots	Barrel, Mag, Optic, Stock	Barrel, Mag, Optic, Stock	Mag, Optic, Stock, Hop-Up
Modes	Auto	Auto	Burst (5-shot)
Projectile Speed	19500	21000	18000
Draw Time	0.35s	0.35s	0.35s
ADS Movement Speed (% of non-ADS pace)	86%	86%	86%

Alternator

Slow-firing however packing respectable harm for an SMG, the Alternator has excessive vertical however little or no horizontal recoil, which, mixed with its exceptionally fast reload time, makes it a straightforward and versatile weapon for newer gamers. Put an prolonged magazine and a holo on it and also you’re good to go, however don’t count on it to out-DPS an excellent Assault Rifle or LMG.

R-99

The R-99 will outperform the Alternator at close-range as a result of its a lot larger hearth fee, which ups the gun’s DPS by a substantial diploma. And this trait alone is what makes it the at present most sought-after baseline SMG in Apex Legends. However, you really want the accompanying attachments to make this gun sing in your arms. It has excessive recoil, making an excellent Barrel Stabiliser a must have merchandise; and, probably much more necessary, you’ll race via all of your ammo in precisely one second, which implies you want an Extended Mag on the R-99 as quickly as attainable to make full use of it. With these two attachments, the R-99 turns into one of many strongest weapons on provide in Apex Legends.

Prowler

This punchy burst SMG is… alright… till you handle to get your arms on an accompanying Selectfire Receiver Hop-Up attachment, after which it turns into certainly one of Apex Legends’ strongest weapons. Without this, it packs a punch with each 5-shot burst particularly for those who intention for the pinnacle/neck space, however you race via your ammo all of the quicker for it, and the general reliability of the gun falls quick in comparison with an R-99.

But for those who handle to search out the Hop-Up, then the Prowler will completely shred at shut and even medium vary, and is by far one of the best SMG you’ll be able to hope to put your arms on – notably for those who get an excellent prolonged magazine on it too. Occasionally I discover it’s price taking a Hop-Up-less Prowler even over an excellent R-99, just because if I can discover a Selectfire Receiver and Heavy Mag afterward, I’ll have an excellent contender for deadliest gun within the game.

Light Machine Guns

Name	Devotion	M600 Spitfire
Spray Pattern
Ammo	Energy Ammo	Heavy Rounds
Mag Size	44	35
Tactical Reload/Full Reload	2.80s/3.63s	2.80s/3.33s
DPS	255	162
Body/Head/Leg DMG	17/34/12.75	18/36/16.2
Fire Rate (SPS)	15 (at max)	9
Att. Slots	Barrel, Optic, Stock, Hop-Up	Barrel, Mag, Optic, Stock
Modes	Auto (Wind-Up)	Auto
Projectile Speed	33500	27500
Draw Time	0.70s	0.70s
ADS Movement Speed (% of non-ADS pace)	41%	41%

Devotion

The Devotion at all times holds a spot close to the highest of many gamers’ rankings of all of the weapons in Apex Legends, as a result of its stupendous hearth fee and DPS. However, you really want the Turbocharger Hop-Up attachment to make it shine, which reduces the gun’s sizeable warm-up interval after you begin firing. Without it, the Devotion shouldn’t be a gun to depend on whenever you’re defending in opposition to close-range attackers, as a result of by the point you turn and get the hearth fee as much as a good normal, you’ll seemingly already be useless.

Another draw back is that it eats via your Energy Ammo, which is commonly briefly provide anyway except you’re very fortunate along with your looting and killing. So for those who take it, ensure you talk along with your teammates to provide you as a lot Energy Ammo as attainable.

M600 Spitfire

The Spitfire is likely one of the weapons that Respawn noticed match to nerf barely within the 1.1.1 patch notes (learn extra about all of the modifications with our Apex Legends update information), despite the fact that it was at all times meant to be a really highly effective and uncommon pickup. Its base harm has now been lowered to solely simply exceed the Devotion’s, and whereas its base journal dimension stays untouched its prolonged magazine sizes have been lowered. But regardless of that, it nonetheless has the potential to have the biggest journal of any gun in Apex Legends, and it’s a dependable and punchy automated weapon so long as you’ll be able to grasp the kickback (which by the way is dramatically decreased by an excellent Barrel Stabiliser).

L-Star EMG

Wait, what’s this? A 3rd LMG?!

Yes, the L-Star has not but been launched into Apex Legends. I’m together with it right here as a result of we do have some leaked data on this weapon that may undoubtedly be coming quickly to Apex – maybe even throughout the subsequent week or so, contemplating Respawn’s roadmap for Apex Legends talked about new weapons coming in March… Click on the L-Star subheader above to view the total stats for this upcoming beast of a gun.

Judging from the stats, the L-Star EMG seems to be like an especially formidable weapon, with a DPS akin to the Devotion, a better base harm and hearth fee than the Spitfire, and the biggest magazine dimension of any weapon to this point. There’s sure to be some form of colossal draw back to this gun, like an overheating mechanic or one thing. But till the L-Star is launched or additional particulars are leaked, we’ll simply need to content material ourselves with stats and hypothesis.

Sniper Rifles

G7 Scout

The G7 Scout is an underutilised and surprisingly versatile sniper rifle, in a position to carry out properly at lengthy, medium and even shut vary (although clearly not in addition to one thing constructed for the job, like a Peacekeeper or an R-99). It offers much less harm than its fellow snipers, however has a really excessive fee of fireplace and advantages far more from prolonged magazine attachments, so pre-firing with this weapon is a bit of cake.

The 1.1.1 replace blessed the sniper rifles class (minus the Kraber) with elevated leg shot harm (in order to not penalise long-range capturing) and lowered weapon sway, which means a Stock is even much less obligatory than it was earlier than for these weapons. Check out all the newest patch notes over on our Apex Legends update web page.

Longbow DMR

Oh me, oh my, the Longbow is powerful now. In addition to the above modifications, the Longbow obtained a large improve to its fee of fireplace (its essential disadvantage earlier than) and an elevated journal dimension. It was already a weapon able to knocking your enamel out from 250 metres away, and now the Longbow is extra viable than ever. Before it was significantly outmatched by the faster and far more versatile Wingman, however now we’re more likely to see a fantastic many extra Longbow gamers taking this in direction of the endgame.

Triple Take

It took me an excellent lengthy whereas, however I’m actually beginning to 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 incredible mid-range alternative for those who slap a 3x scope on it. Its three-shot unfold makes longer-range photographs harder – 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 superb, as a result of it slows down the speed of fireplace, and a Precision Choke ought to at all times go to a Peacekeeper first earlier than a Triple Take. And what’s extra, now that the Longbow has obtained such a considerable buff I’d in all probability take the Longbow for my long-range sharpshooting each time.

Kraber .50-CAL

One of two legendary weapons in Apex Legends, the Kraber takes no attachments, and sports activities its personal distinctive ammo – which means you solely get Eight photographs, full cease. But it’s a phenomenally highly effective bolt-action sniper, able to dealing 250 headshot harm in a single shot, and it sports activities a built-in 6x-10x scope for good accuracy over immense distances.

Shotguns

Name	EVA-8 Auto	Peacekeeper	Mozambique Shotgun	Mastiff Shotgun
Spread Pattern
Ammo	Shotgun Shells	Shotgun Shells	Shotgun Shells	Unique
Mag Size	8	6	3	4
Tactical Reload/Full Reload	2.75s/3.00s	2.50s/3.50s	2.10s/2.60s	1.03s/1.70s
DPS	126	106.7	99	187.2
Body/Head/Leg DMG	7/10/5.6 (63/90/50.4)	10/15/8 (110/165/88)	15/22/13.5 (45/66/40.5)	18/36/18 (144/288/144)
Fire Rate (SPS)	2	0.97	2.2	1.3
Att. Slots	Optic, Bolt	Optic, Bolt, Hop-Up	Optic, Bolt	None
Modes	Auto	Single	Auto	Single
Projectile Speed	16000	16000	10000	12000
Draw Time	0.45s	0.45s	0.45s	0.45s
ADS Movement Speed (% of non-ADS pace)	91%	91%	100%	91%

EVA-8 Auto

Probably probably the most forgiving shotgun in Apex Legends, a startlingly quick fee of fireplace is what units the EVA-8 Auto aside from the remainder. Its harm per shot can’t compete with that of the Peacekeeper, however the EVA’s flexibility permits you to get in additional photographs than your opponent, usually profitable you the combat.

Peacekeeper

The Peacekeeper has at all times been one of the best Shotgun in Apex Legends, except the Supply Drop-only Mastiff. Fantastic harm in a big unfold sample, a Hop Up which dramatically will increase its efficient vary, amazingly ammo-efficient… It’s no surprise the devs nerfed it with the 07 March patch notes (learn all in regards to the stability modifications on our Apex Legends update web page), rising its general rarity throughout the map, and nerfing the hearth fee improve supplied by its Shotgun Bolt attachment. But even so, that is for positive probably the most highly effective Shotgun you will get your arms on exterior of the Gold tier of weapons.

Mozambique

The laughing inventory of the Apex Legends weapons roster, this shotgun pistol has even been acknowledged by the devs at Respawn as being underpowered. Still, within the early game it’s able to killing you, so don’t be too fast to snort. The compact triangle formation of its 3-shot burst offers it a barely longer efficient vary than the others, and its fee of fireplace exceeds even that of the EVA-8. But nonetheless. It’s fairly terrible.

Mastiff

The different legendary weapon in Apex Legends, the Mastiff comes with its personal distinctive shotgun shells, which means you’ll solely ever get 20 photographs with this colossal weapon. But it’s by far probably 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.

Pistols

Name	P2020	RE 45 Auto	Wingman
Spray Pattern
Ammo	Light Rounds	Light Rounds	Heavy Rounds
Mag Size	10	15	4
Tactical Reload/Full Reload	1.25s/1.25s	1.74s/2.12s	2.10s/2.10s
DPS	102	143	117
Body/Head/Leg DMG	12/18/10.8	11/16/9.9	45/90/40.5
Fire Rate (SPS)	8.5	13	2.6
Att. Slots	Mag, Optic	Barrel, Mag, Optic	Mag, Optic, Hop-Up
Modes	Single	Auto	Single
Projectile Speed	18500	19500	18000
Draw Time	0.25s	0.25s	0.25s
ADS Movement Speed (% of non-ADS pace)	100%	95%	100%

Wingman

The Wingman was at all times meant to be a top-tier weapon, however its dominance has been so clear-cut that it has to this point obtained two main nerfs to convey it extra in keeping with the remainder. The 1.1.1 replace dramatically lowered this highly effective hand cannon’s journal dimension to 4/6/8/10 (with prolonged mags), which means you really want to hit your photographs if you wish to succeed with this weapon.

It’s nonetheless a fully deadly Apex Legends weapon, notably for those who discover an Epic Extended Magazine to go alongside it (the Hop-Up is sweet however not a necessity in my e book), however with the brand new buffs to the sniper rifle class, we’d truly begin seeing fewer gamers retaining the Wingman to the tip of the game. But then once more, as a pistol it gives glorious ADS motion pace that snipers can’t hope to compete with, so it actually relies upon by yourself desire.

P2020

The lavatory normal pistol and doubtless the all-round weakest gun at present in Apex Legends (except the Mozambique), the P2020 is a satisfactory early-game weapon however nothing extra. It’s very fast although, and if – IF – you hit your photographs, then you’ll be able to nonetheless deal numerous harm to an enemy at shut or medium vary.

RE-45 Auto

The RE-45 trades just a little harm and just a little little bit of reload time on the P2020 as a way to be totally automated, which implies all you have to fear about is aiming the gun in the fitting route. A bigger clip dimension is at all times good as properly. But be warned – the RE-45 options as a lot horizontal recoil because it does vertical. Take a take a look at the spray sample above and be taught to counter it as a way to use this gun successfully.

Hopefully this has given you an thought of what to anticipate it doesn’t matter what weapon you decide up in your subsequent Apex Legends match. 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 proper mixture of weapons to deal with your each want.