With the discharge of Apex Legends Season 3, gunplay is the most effective and most attention-grabbing it’s ever been, thanks as all the time to Respawn’s improbable array of various weapons and weapons on provide. With every gun holding totally different distinctive stats, spray patterns and behaviours – to not point out the power to be customised with all method of attachments – there’s an terrible lot to wrap your head round for those who’re becoming a member of Apex with the discharge of the newest Season.
Our Apex Legends weapons & weapons information will stroll you thru all 22 weapons within the game one by one, together with detailed stats and opinions, and even a tier record rating the entire finest weapons inside their respective lessons!
Apex Legends weapons & weapons information (Season 3)
With all of the distinctive stats, behaviours, and attachments related to every of the Apex Legends weapons, there’s a good quantity to cowl – however when has that ever stopped us? Below we’ll stroll you thru each weapon at present within the game, with an up-to-date Apex Legends weapons tier record so precisely what the most effective weapons within the present meta are.
Apex Legends weapons (full stats, TTK, ideas and methods)
If you’re extra involved in entering into the nitty-gritty for a particular weapon such because the R-301 Carbine, or the Peacekeeper (or maybe the newly launched Charge Rifle?) then simply click on on any of the hyperlinks under to move over to our particular person weapon guides. These pages go into way more element about particular person stats for every weapon, from injury per second (DPS) and fireplace fee to the time-to-kill (TTK) in opposition to enemies carrying totally different ranges of armour and helmets.
Assault Rifles | SMGs/LMGs | Shotguns | Snipers | Pistols |
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VK-47 Flatline | Alternator | Mozambique | G7 Scout | P2020 |
Havoc | Prowler | Peacekeeper | Longbow DMR | RE-45 Auto |
Hemlok | R-99 | EVA-8 Auto | Triple Take | Wingman |
R-301 Carbine | M600 Spitfire | Mastiff | Kraber .50-CAL | |
Devotion | Charge Rifle | |||
L-Star EMG |
Apex Legends weapons information – steadily requested questions
Weapons and bullets in Apex Legends work just a little otherwise from different battle royale games akin 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 2.
- 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 steer along with your aiming for longer ranges. The solely exceptions are the Havoc and the brand new Charge Rifle, whose single-shot beams are each hitscan.
- Is there bullet drop? – Yes.
- Fire some bullets into the gap with any gun and also you’ll see that ultimately they are going to drop. The bullet velocity (and subsequently the quantity of drop) is variable between weapons.
- Is there injury drop-off? – …Not within the conventional sense, no. Except with beams.
- Unlike Fortnite or PUBG, there’s no direct discount in injury relying on how far a bullet travels. Even a shotgun pellet will hit for max injury over nice distances; however after all, you’ll by no means hit a distant goal with a couple of pellet at a time. However, there’s a most level (which differs for every gun) after which headshots now not deal bonus headshot injury, and are handled identical to a shot to the physique.
The Havoc’s and Charge Rifle’s single-shot beams are, once more, the one exception to this rule, with the beam dealing much less injury the additional it has to journey.
- Unlike Fortnite or PUBG, there’s no direct discount in injury relying on how far a bullet travels. Even a shotgun pellet will hit for max injury over nice distances; however after all, you’ll by no means hit a distant goal with a couple of pellet at a time. However, there’s a most level (which differs for every gun) after which headshots now not deal bonus headshot injury, and are handled identical to a shot to the physique.
- Does every gun have a predictable spray sample? – Yes.
- Much like CS:GO, a big a part of studying easy methods to play effectively 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 course the gun pulls you in, and carry out the other 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 possibly can learn to counteract it.
- Is there goal drift? – Yes.
- Aim down sights with any gun in Apex Legends, and after a second your goal will begin to sway and shift round robotically, making it more difficult to land your pictures over longer distances. There is a short second of stillness the second you first goal down sights (the period of this “no aim drift window” varies from weapon to weapon) so it’s all to encourage fast aiming and taking pictures, and faster-paced gunplay normally. You can equip Stock attachments to lots of Apex Legends’ weapons, which can decrease the goal drift you expertise. For extra info on this, take a look at our detailed Apex Legends attachments information.
- Do totally different weapons scale back motion in numerous methods? – Yes.
- No matter what gun you’re holding you’ll all the time transfer and run on the identical velocity with out aiming down sights. But whereas aiming down sights, your motion velocity is decreased by a certain quantity relying on the gun you’re utilizing. See the tables under for extra particulars on this.
- Does taking injury sluggish you down? – Yes.
- Taking injury 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 if you take injury 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 vital. However, with the Season 2 patch notes, Gibraltar and Caustic’s “Fortified” Passive permits them to now not undergo from the sluggish results of weapon fireplace.
Apex Legends weapon tier record (Season 3) – finest weapons to worst weapons
Below I’ve created a helpful desk of our rankings of each gun in Apex Legends inside their weapon class for Season 3. I’ve tried to consider 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 decide up at first of a match with none attachments, making an allowance for the potential of augmenting it with attachments in a while.
Weapon class | From worst to finest |
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Assault Rifles | Havoc -> Hemlok -> Flatline -> R-301 Carbine |
SMGs | Alternator -> Prowler -> R-99 |
LMGs | Spitfire -> Devotion -> L-Star EMG |
Shotguns | Mozambique -> EVA-8 -> Peacekeeper -> Mastiff |
Sniper Rifles | Triple Take -> Kraber -> Longbow -> G7 Scout |
Pistols | P2020 -> RE-45 -> Wingman |
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 now have one for each gun; no, I shouldn’t have a life).
Assault Rifles – Apex Legends weapons & stats
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 possibly can 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 pictures (which makes the Havoc the one hitscan gun at present in Apex Legends). Bear in thoughts, nonetheless, that you may’t connect each Hop-Ups without delay, so you must select.
Hint: use the Turbocharger, all the time.
The single-shot mode I discover doesn’t deal sufficient injury per shot to justify spending 4 Energy ammo per shot, even after the buffs to wreck it acquired with the 1.1.1 replace. And whereas the truth that it’s hitscan would possibly trick you into considering it’s simpler to land pictures, it’s truly more difficult as a result of 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 injury as soon as it will get going – so long as you possibly can deal with the very excessive vertical recoil. The huge draw back is the wind-up time earlier than it begins taking pictures, which makes the Turbocharger an actual necessity. With the Turbocharger, it dishes out the best DPS of any Assault Rifle, however with that top recoil that you may’t mitigate with a Barrel Stabiliser attachment.
The VK-47 Flatline was all the time overshadowed by its friends. It had stats throughout the board, however an unpleasantly excessive horizontal recoil meant everybody would alway abandon it for an R-301 each time the chance introduced itself. With Season 2, the Flatline’s injury was fairly considerably elevated from 16 to 19, and now with Season Three the potential of the brand new Anvil Receiver Hop Up truly provides you a compelling cause to make use of a Flatline as a hybrid weapon, the place you possibly can change at will between a good, high-powered Assault Rifle and a surprisingly punchy, long-range Scout-like weapon. It’s nonetheless not sufficient to knock the Carbine off its prime spot, although, particularly for the reason that Carbine has additionally acquired the identical Hop Up.
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 possibly can deal over 100 injury within the area of about 0.2 seconds. Many gamers choose to make use of the single-shot mode of the Hemlok and click on quickly to ship a good greater fee of fireplace over time. Either 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 some other automated weapon in Apex Legends apart from the Spitfire.
Still, gamers will normally quit the Hemlok for a Carbine.
The R-301 Carbine is the most effective AR on provide and all the time has been, buying and selling a bit of injury for a quicker fee of fireplace and a a lot simpler trip normally. Low recoil and a excessive bullet velocity makes the Carbine wonderful at most ranges (it could possibly even be used to nice impact at lengthy vary for those who change to single-shot mode) and with prolonged magazine, barrel, and inventory, it’s like there’s no recoil in any respect on this stunning bastard of a gun. As with the Flatline, the brand new Anvil Receiver Hop Up turns the single-shot on the R-301 into one thing truly price utilizing, making this improbable gun stronger than it’s ever been.
SMGs – Apex Legends weapons & stats
The Alternator was once one of many worst weapons within the game, however Season 2 fully modified all that with the inclusion of the Disruptor Rounds Hop-Up for the Alternator (and RE-45), which buffed the Alternator’s injury in opposition to shields proper up. For a time, with the Disruptor Hop-Up, the Alternator was fairly definitely essentially the most highly effective gun in Apex Legends; however now with Season 3 Disruptor Rounds are gone, and the Alternator’s place within the meta has been knocked method down. It’s nonetheless a lethal weapon, however that’s not saying a lot when all 22 weapons within the game are lethal in their very own proper.
Prior to Season 2, the R-99 was far and away the strongest SMG (and for a lot of the strongest gun) in Apex Legends – and, with the regular nerfs to the once-OP Alternator, this seems to be the case as soon as once more. This is thanks primarily to the R-99’s peerless fireplace fee, which lets you fireplace off a whole spherical in a single second. However, you actually need the accompanying attachments to make this gun sing in your palms, as a result of the R-99’s magazine dimension is now smaller than ever, and the excessive (and now barely random) recoil makes it tough to make use of at something aside from very brief vary.
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 certainly one of Apex Legends’ strongest weapons. Without this, it packs a punch with each 5-shot burst particularly for those who goal for the pinnacle/neck space, however you race by way 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 for those who handle to search out the Hop-Up, then the Prowler will completely shred at shut and even medium vary – significantly for those who get prolonged magazine on it too. Occasionally I discover it’s price taking a Hop-Up-less Prowler even over R-99 or Alternator, just because if I can discover a Selectfire Receiver and Heavy Mag in a while, I’ll have contender for deadliest gun within the game – even regardless of Season 3’s nerf to the Prowler by giving its recoil a pinch of additional RNG.
LMGs (Light Machine Guns) – Apex Legends weapons & stats
The Devotion all the time holds a spot close to the highest of many gamers’ rankings of all of the weapons in Apex Legends, attributable to its stupendous fireplace fee and DPS. However, you actually need 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 just isn’t a gun to depend on if 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 commonplace, you’ll possible already be useless.
Another draw back is that it eats by way of your Energy Ammo, which is commonly briefly provide anyway until you’re 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 potential.
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 & patch notes information), regardless that it was all the time meant to be a really highly effective and uncommon pickup. Its base injury has now been decreased to solely simply exceed the Devotion’s, and whereas its base journal dimension stays untouched its prolonged magazine sizes have been decreased. 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 possibly can grasp the kickback (which by the way is dramatically decreased by Barrel Stabiliser).
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 on par with a Devotion, however with out the annoying warm-up interval earlier than firing. It’s additionally received the next magazine dimension and bigger bullets, permitting you to hit your goal barely extra simply with this powerhouse LMG.
The downsides to the L-Star are its rarity (it’s solely accessible in airdrops), its restricted provide of distinctive ammo, and (most significantly) the inclusion of an overheating mechanic which locks you out of firing for those who shoot too typically in a brief area of time. Feather the set off to fireplace bursts of Eight at a time, and also you’ll have the ability to soften gamers with out having to fret about your gun instantly failing on you.
With Season 3, the L-Star has acquired just a few focused modifications to extend its stability (there’s now little or no horizontal recoil to fret about) but in addition to decrease its injury from 21 to 19. Though contemplating its insane fireplace fee, this doesn’t do a lot to reduce this airdrop-only LMG’s energy.
Snipers (Sniper Rifles) – Apex Legends weapons & stats
Name | Charge Rifle | G7 Scout | Longbow DMR | Triple Take | Kraber .50 CAL |
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Ammo | Energy Ammo | Light Rounds | Heavy Rounds | Energy Ammo | Unique |
Mag Size | 4 | 10 | 6 | 5 | 4 |
Tactical Reload/Full Reload | 3.60s/3.60s | 2.40s/3.00s | 2.66s/3.66s | 2.60s/3.40s | 3.20s/4.30s |
DPS | 31.5 (63 with Charge-Up DMG) |
153 | 71.5 | 86.25 | 145 |
Body/Head/Leg DMG | 45/56/40.5 | 34/68/30.6 | 55/110/44 | 23/46/20.7 (69/138/62.1) |
145/297.25/116 |
Fire Rate (SPS) | 0.7 | 4.5 | 1.3 | 1.25 | 0.47 |
Att. Slots | Mag, Optic, Stock | Barrel, Mag, Optic, Stock | Barrel, Mag, Optic, Stock, Hop-Up | Mag, Optic, Stock, Hop-Up | None |
Modes | Single (Beam) | Single | Single | Single (3-shot unfold) | Single |
Projectile Speed | 31500 | 31500 | 30500 | 32000 | 29500 |
Draw Time | 0.60s | 0.60s | 0.90s | 0.90s | 1.20s |
ADS Movement Speed (% of non-ADS velocity) |
36% | 36% | 36% | 36% | 36% |
The Charge Rifle is the most recent addition to the Apex Legends weapons roster – a World-Drop Energy-using sniper rifle with a beam weapon that’s harking back to the Havoc’s single-shot mode. But this beefy Charge Rifle packs one hell of a punch after the half-second charge-up time, dealing 45 quick hitscan injury over excessive distances.
But that’s not all; throughout this half-second warm-up you get a form of mini-beam which offers Three injury each tick (to a most of 45 whole injury) earlier than the precise blast of the weapon even goes off. If you’re completely correct (with a headshot on the finish), you possibly can deal over 100 injury in simply half a second.
Despite its loopy diagonal recoil and low journal dimension, that is a particularly highly effective high-skill-ceiling weapon that I’m positive we’re going to see a number of throughout World’s Edge this season.
The G7 Scout has all the time been lowkey among the finest and most versatile weapons in Apex Legends, in a position to carry out effectively at lengthy, medium and even shut vary. It offers much less injury than its fellow snipers, however has a excessive fee of fireplace and advantages way more from Extended Mag attachments, so pre-firing with this weapon is a chunk of cake.
With the transfer to a flatter, bigger enviornment in World’s Edge, and the latest nerfs to the Scout’s essential competitors (the Longbow), it seems that is the Season for the Scout to shine. Not solely has Season Three given it a considerable injury enhance, however there may be additionally the brand new Double Tap Hop Up to contemplate, which if connected to the Scout will help you fireplace twice in fast succession with every pull of the set off.
Last season the Longbow was immensely highly effective and prevalent, even within the shut quarters of King’s Canyon. And it’s nonetheless a worthy Sniper Rifle, to make certain; it packs a hell of a punch over lengthy distances. But Season Three has nerfed the Longbow off its long-held prime spot with a discount in leg injury and, extra importantly, a sizeable fee of fireplace nerf that makes this already sluggish gun much more so. Still, for those who can land your pictures (particularly headshots), your enemies gained’t final lengthy in a Longbow’s crosshairs.
It took me 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 improbable mid-range selection for those who slap a 3x scope on it. Its three-shot unfold makes longer-range pictures harder – till you get a Precision Choke Hop-Up attachment for it, after which you’ll cost every shot as much as scale back the unfold dramatically. It’s nonetheless not perfect, 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. And what’s extra, now that the Longbow has acquired such a considerable buff I’d most likely take the Longbow for my long-range sharpshooting each time.
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 pictures, full cease. But it’s a phenomenally highly effective bolt-action sniper which has develop into much more highly effective due to the Season 2 patch notes. With this gun, a legshot will deal 100+ injury, and a headshot will deal 200.
Shotguns – Apex Legends weapons & stats
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 injury per shot can’t compete with that of the Peacekeeper, however the EVA’s flexibility means that you can get in additional pictures than your opponent, typically profitable you the combat. And this has by no means been extra true now that Season Three has given you the brand new Double Tap Trigger to connect to your EVA, permitting you to shoot twice in fast succession with every pull of the set off. We’ll must see if this is sufficient to knock the Peacekeeper off its long-held prime (non-airdrop) Shotgun spot, however the truth stays that the EVA-Eight is now the strongest it’s ever been.
The Peacekeeper has all the time been the most effective Shotgun in Apex Legends, aside from the Supply Drop-only Mastiff. Fantastic injury in a big unfold sample, a Hop Up which dramatically will increase its efficient vary, amazingly ammo-efficient… It’s no marvel the devs nerfed it again in March, growing its general rarity throughout the map, and nerfing the hearth fee enhance offered by its Shotgun Bolt attachment. But even so, that is most likely nonetheless essentially the most highly effective and dependable Shotgun you may get your palms on outdoors of the Gold tier of weapons.
Oh, my. Even after we have been promised the Mozambique would develop into extra viable in Season 2, I don’t suppose anybody anticipated it to develop into so sturdy. It’s nonetheless received all of the ickiness it had earlier than – simply Three pictures earlier than having to reload being the principle drawback – however now you possibly can equip a Hammerpoint Rounds attachment to the Mozambique to double the injury of every of its pellets in opposition to unshielded targets. With this Hop-Up, you possibly can one-shot an unarmoured enemy. I nonetheless wouldn’t put it above a Peacekeeper or an EVA-8, however the Mozambique is definitely now not the joke it as soon as was.
The different legendary weapon in Apex Legends, the Mastiff comes with its personal distinctive shotgun shells, which 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 injury with every of the eight bullets it fires with each pull of the set off. That makes for a possible 288 injury in a single burst.
Pistols – Apex Legends weapons & stats
The Wingman was all the time meant to be a top-tier weapon, however its dominance has been so clear-cut that it has to this point acquired two main nerfs to carry it extra according to the remaining. The 1.1.1 replace dramatically decreased this highly effective hand cannon’s journal dimension to 4/6/8/10 (with prolonged mags), which means you actually need to hit your pictures if you wish to succeed with this weapon.
It’s nonetheless a fully deadly gun, significantly for those who discover an Epic Extended Magazine to go alongside it, however with the brand new buffs to the sniper rifle class, we would effectively begin seeing fewer gamers preserving the Wingman to the tip of the game this season. But then once more, as a pistol it provides wonderful ADS motion velocity that snipers can’t hope to compete with, so it actually relies upon by yourself desire.
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. The P2020 can now be augmented with a Hammerpoint Rounds Hop-Up which dramatically will increase the gun’s injury in opposition to unshielded targets. The P2020’s downfall was all the time low injury, however with Hammerpoint Rounds it could possibly outperform a Wingman with its velocity and accuracy over medium distances.
The RE-45 will be considered a mini R-99. Very fast-firing, however low damage-per-shot and a really low magazine dimension for an automated weapon. As with the Alternator, it loved its Season within the solar due to the enormously highly effective Disruptor Rounds Hop Up, however now that Hop Up is now not current for Season 3, and the RE-45 has been relegated again right down to the decrease rungs of the Apex weapons tier record.
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 of Season 3. But that’s not all we now have to supply! Check out our Apex Legends loadout information for high-level ideas and methods on placing collectively the proper mixture of weapons to deal with your each want.