Apex Legends weapons/weapons [Season 1] – finest weapons, weapon stats, weapon tier listing

Each new match in Apex Legends fills up its map with a large number of weapons and attachments to select from. With 20 weapons at the moment on supply (quickly to be extra!), every with their very own distinctive stats, spray patterns, quirks, and attachments, there’s rather a lot to study – therefore our Apex Legends weapons/weapons information, which can educate you about every weapon in flip, with stats, opinions, comparisons, and techniques so you’ll be able to annihilate your enemies it doesn’t matter what gun the game arms you. From the Prowler to the Mozambique, we’ve acquired one thing for you.

If you’re on the lookout for extra basic suggestions and tips on the right way to enhance your Apex Legends abilities heading into Season 1, our Apex Legends tips/guide is the very best place to begin. We’ve acquired high suggestions for each stage of play, together with hyperlinks to different areas of our ever-expanding guides collection, from recommendations on taking part in as every of the Apex Legends characters to our Apex Legends reviving and respawning information.

Apex Legends weapons and weapons information [Season 1]

All the weapons in Apex Legends are (predictably) very completely different from each other, however they are often simply categorised into acquainted weapon lessons, akin to Assault Rifles, Snipers, Shotguns, and extra. Click any of the hyperlinks beneath to skip to the weapon sort of your selection.

Guide Contents

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

If you’re extra inquisitive about entering into the nitty-gritty for a selected weapon such because the Wingman, or the Peacekeeper (or maybe the not-yet-released L-Star EMG?) then simply click on on any of the hyperlinks beneath 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 fireplace fee to the time-to-kill (TTK) in opposition to enemies carrying completely different ranges of armour and helmets.

Apex Legends weapons information – often requested questions

Weapons and bullets in Apex Legends work a bit of in another way from different battle royale games akin to PUBG and Fortnite. I do know a number of persons are going to be asking the beneath questions, so I’ll simply undergo them shortly now:

• Are any of the weapons hitscan? – Just the one.
  • Unlike Fortnite, there’s usually 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 together 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 space with any gun and also you’ll see that finally they’ll drop. The bullet pace (and due to this fact 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 optimum harm over nice distances; however after all, 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 similar 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 the right way to play nicely with every weapon in Apex Legends is studying the spray sample of every gun. A great way to do that is to fireside at a wall and see from the bullet holes the route the gun pulls you in, and carry out the alternative motion together with your mouse to counteract the sample whereas firing.
• Is there purpose drift? – Yes.
  • Aim down sights with any gun in Apex Legends, and after a second your purpose will begin to sway and shift round robotically, making it tougher to land your pictures over longer distances. There is a quick second of stillness the second you first purpose 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 usually. Fortunately for a lot of, you’ll be able to equip Stock attachments to a lot of Apex Legends’ weapons, which can decrease the purpose drift you expertise. For extra data on this, take a look at our detailed Apex Legends attachments information.
• Do completely different weapons scale back motion in several methods? – Yes.
  • No matter what gun you’re holding you’ll all the time 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 beneath for extra particulars on this.

In the tables beneath you’ll see I’ve added hyperlinks to screenshots of the spray patterns of every gun. Take a glance!

Apex Legends weapon tier listing chart – finest weapons to worst weapons

Below I’ve created a useful chart of our rankings of each gun in Apex Legends, sorted by weapon class. If you’re struggling to familiarize yourself 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 primarily based on un-upgraded weapons bereft of attachments, and Hop-Up weapons specifically, such because the Prowler and the Havoc, can get fairly stonking superb with a pleasant array of attachments – so take this chart for what it’s (a information) and make your personal selections from there.

Click on the above picture to view it at highest decision.

Now, let’s get caught into how we took place these rankings, by taking an in-depth have 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’ve 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	25	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 difficult 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 pictures (which makes the Havoc the one hitscan gun at the moment 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, all the time.

The single-shot mode I discover doesn’t deal sufficient harm per shot to justify spending 5 Energy ammo per shot. And whereas the truth that it’s hitscan would possibly trick you into considering it’s simpler to land pictures, it’s truly tougher 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 harm as soon as it will get going, and the recoil sample is very like the Spitfire’s, starting with excessive vertical recoil however with the final 10 or so pictures having kind of none in any respect. 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 very best DPS of any Assault Rifle, however with excessive preliminary recoil which you can’t mitigate with a Barrel Stabiliser attachment.

VK-47 Flatline

The VK-47 Flatline is what you would possibly name the baseline Assault Rifle by way of stats. With first rate flat harm stats, a excessive clip dimension, and a pretty straightforward to regulate spray sample, you’ll be able to’t go too far incorrect with the Flatline at any vary, notably when you’ve kitted it out with first rate attachments. Unfortunately within the eyes of many it’s left within the mud by the R-301 Carbine, but it surely’s nonetheless a weapon worthy of warning.

Hemlok

The Hemlok Burst AR is – you guessed it – a burst weapon, firing Three bullets in extraordinarily fast succession, which implies if you happen to’re correct with them you’ll be able to deal over 100 harm within the house 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 increased fee of fireplace over time. Either approach this punchy rifle has the flexibility to tear aside your enemies with the its very excessive damage-per-shot, which equals the Havoc and exceeds that of some other computerized weapon in Apex Legends moreover the Spitfire.

Still, gamers will normally surrender the Hemlok for ol’ Carbine.

R-301 Carbine

The R-301 Carbine is the very best AR on supply in the meanwhile (or at the very least on par with a Turbocharged Havoc), buying and selling a bit of harm for a quicker fee of fireplace and a neater experience usually. Low recoil and a excessive bullet pace makes the Carbine wonderful at most ranges (it will possibly even be used to nice impact at lengthy vary if you happen to 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.

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 first rate 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 simple 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 anticipate it to out-DPS Assault Rifle or LMG.

R-99

The R-99 will outperform the Alternator at close-range because of its a lot increased fireplace fee, which ups the gun’s DPS by a substantial diploma. And this trait alone is what makes it the at the moment most sought-after baseline SMG in Apex Legends. However, you actually need the accompanying attachments to make this gun sing in your arms. It has excessive recoil, making Barrel Stabiliser a must have merchandise; and, probably much more necessary, you’ll race by way of all of your ammo in precisely one second, which implies you want an Extended Mag on the R-99 as quickly as doable to make full use of it. With these two attachments, the R-99 turns into one of many strongest weapons on supply 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 if you happen to purpose for the top/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 if you happen to handle to search out the Hop-Up, then the Prowler will completely shred at shut and even medium vary, and is by far the very best SMG you’ll be able to hope to put your arms on – notably if you happen to get prolonged magazine on it too. Occasionally I discover it’s price taking a Hop-Up-less Prowler even over R-99, 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.

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	180
Body/Head/Leg DMG	17/34/12.75	20/40/16
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 all the time holds a spot close to the highest of many gamers’ rankings of all of the weapons in Apex Legends, because of 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 will not be a gun to depend on once 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 an honest normal, you’ll possible already be lifeless.

Another draw back is that it eats by way of your Energy Ammo, which is usually briefly provide anyway until you’re very fortunate together with your looting and killing. So if you happen to take it, be sure you talk together with your teammates to provide you as a lot Energy Ammo as doable.

M600 Spitfire

I’m an enormous fan of the Spitfire, and would take it each time over even a Turbocharged Devotion. Surprisingly correct for an LMG, with a improbable 20 harm per shot and an enormous magazine dimension that may be upgraded all the best way as much as a stupendous 60 pictures. This means you solely want a sixth of your pictures to hit (bodyshot) to kill a 200-health participant.

What’s extra, you’ll be able to equip a Barrel Stabiliser to scale back the recoil of the gun and switch it right into a veritable Carbine by way of reliability. This LMG is true up there with the Wingman, the Peacekeeper, the R-99 and the R-301 Carbine as my private favorite weapons in Apex Legends.

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 can undoubtedly be coming quickly to Apex – maybe even inside 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 complete stats for this upcoming beast of a gun.

Judging from the stats, the L-Star EMG seems to be like a particularly formidable weapon, with a DPS akin to the Devotion, a better base harm and fireplace fee than the Spitfire, and the most important magazine dimension of any weapon thus far. There’s sure to be some kind 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 must content material ourselves with stats and hypothesis.

Sniper Rifles

G7 Scout

The G7 Scout is a wonderful and surprisingly versatile sniper rifle, in a position to carry out nicely at lengthy, medium and even shut ranges. It offers much less harm than its fellow snipers, however has a a lot increased fee of fireplace and advantages far more from prolonged magazine attachments, so pre-firing with this weapon could be very straightforward. The trick, after all, is that you need to land a number of pictures with it as a way to deal the identical harm {that a} Longbow, Triple Take, and Kraber can all take care of one shot.

Longbow DMR

The Longbow DMR is a wonderful long-range selection reverse an SMG or Assault Rifle. Nearly twice the harm per shot of the Scout, and a reasonably first rate fee of fireplace (although nothing like as quick because the Scout) combines into a simple to make use of death-dealer. The icing on the cake? Adding a Hop-Up attachment provides the Longbow further headshot harm. It’s in all probability the very best long-range gun within the game, minus the Kraber.

Triple Take

The Triple Take is a wierd one, for positive. As a sniper rifle alone, there are higher decisions. Though it offers good sturdy harm with its three-shot unfold, the pictures do unfold out considerably over longer distances, making it more durable to deal important harm than if you happen to had, for instance, a Longbow, and even the fast-firing Scout. Curiously, the place the Triple Take shines is in its versatility in efficient vary. Like the Scout, it may be used successfully at shut vary whereas hip-firing, making for a two-in-one shotgun/sniper gun.

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 pictures, 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	Mag, Barrel	Mag, Optic, Hop-Up	Mag, Barrel	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 remaining. Its harm per shot can’t compete with that of the Peacekeeper, however the EVA’s flexibility permits you to get in additional pictures than your opponent, usually successful you the battle.

Peacekeeper

The Peacekeeper has all the time been the very best Shotgun in Apex Legends, apart from 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), growing its total rarity throughout the map, and nerfing the hearth fee improve offered by its Shotgun Bolt attachment. But even so, that is for positive probably the most highly effective Shotgun you will get your arms on outdoors 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 chuckle. The compact triangle formation of its 3-shot burst provides 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 pictures 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	6
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, most gamers can agree, is at the moment the very best all-round gun you’ll be able to hope to search out in Apex Legends – offered you’ll be able to hit your pictures. It’s a really excessive ability ceiling weapon, with the heft and harm of a sniper rifle and an honest fee of fireplace. What makes this pistol actually supreme is the truth that it may be used successfully at any vary (lengthy, medium, or close-quarters) and it doesn’t require attachments to be highly effective (although after all attachments do assist). The Wingman was the opposite gun to be nerfed with the 07 March patch notes (examine it with our Apex Legends update information), with nerfs to its total drop probability, its fireplace fee, its hip fireplace accuracy, and the headshot harm improve offered by its Skullpiercer Hop Up attachment. But even so, it’s one of the crucial deadly and sought-after weapons in Apex Legends.

P2020

The bathroom normal pistol and doubtless the all-round weakest gun at the moment in Apex Legends (with the doable exception of the Mozambique), the P2020 is a satisfactory early-game weapon however nothing extra. It’s very fast although, and if – IF – you hit your pictures, 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 a bit of harm and a bit of little bit of reload time on the P2020 as a way to be totally computerized, which implies all you could fear about is aiming the gun in the precise route. A bigger clip dimension is all the time good as nicely. But be warned – the RE-45 options as a lot horizontal recoil because it does vertical. Take a have a look at the spray sample above and study to counter it as a way to use this gun successfully.

That’s all the things we at the moment have to supply on the myriad weapons accessible in Apex Legends. The smartest thing to do as a way to familiarize yourself with every weapon is apply within the game’s Training Mode, and study to counter the spray patterns of every weapon in flip. I hope you gleaned some helpful data from this information, and test again quickly for all probably the most up-to-date suggestions and stats!