In case you’ve been out of the loop on Apex Legends information not too long ago, Season 2: Battle Charge has simply dropped, and introduced with it a variety of very vital modifications to the Apex Legends weapons roster as we all know it. We’ve now received 21 weapons at the moment on supply, every with their very own quirks, stats, spray patterns, and attachments – and everybody’s clamouring to determine how all of the weapons rank in opposition to each other now. But concern not! Our Apex Legends weapons & weapons information seeks to reply precisely that; and we’ll additionally stroll you thru every weapon in flip, with detailed stats and opinions on each single one.
If you’re on the lookout for extra common ideas and methods on enhance your Apex Legends abilities heading into Season 2, our Apex Legends tips/guide is the very best place to begin. We’ve received prime ideas for each degree of play, together with hyperlinks to different areas of our ever-expanding guides collection, from tips about enjoying as every of the Apex Legends characters to the whole lot that’s altering with the Apex Legends Season 2 replace.
Apex Legends weapons – Apex Legends weapons information (Season 2)
All the Apex Legends weapons and weapons are, predictably, very totally different from each other, with distinctive stats, behaviours, and attachments that may fitted onto them. Below we’ll stroll you thru each gun at the moment within the game as of Season 2; click on any of the hyperlinks beneath to skip to the part of your alternative.
Apex Legends weapons record (full stats, TTK, ideas and techniques)
If you’re extra fascinated about moving into the nitty-gritty for a selected weapon such because the Wingman, or the Peacekeeper (or maybe the newly launched 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 rather 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 | ||||
L-Star EMG |
Apex Legends weapons information – incessantly requested questions
Weapons and bullets in Apex Legends work a bit in another way from different battle royale games equivalent to PUBG and Fortnite. I do know a lot 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 may be 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 Havoc, 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 ultimately they’ll 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 in a single case.
- 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 not deal bonus headshot injury, 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 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 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 play nicely 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 path the gun pulls you in, and carry out the other motion together with your mouse to counteract the sample whereas firing. In the tables beneath 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 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 mechanically, making it tougher to land your photographs over longer distances. There is a quick second of stillness the second you first purpose 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 generally. You can equip Stock attachments to a lot of Apex Legends’ weapons, which can reduce the purpose drift you expertise. For extra data on this, take a look at our detailed Apex Legends attachments information.
- Do totally different weapons scale back motion in several methods? – Yes.
- No matter what gun you’re holding you’ll at all times transfer and run on the similar 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 beneath 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 imagine is the case) will trigger a really transient slowdown, which is compounded whenever 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 struggle is so vital. However, with the Season 2 patch notes, Gibraltar and Caustic’s “Fortified” Passive permits them to not undergo from the sluggish results of weapon fireplace.
Apex Legends weapon tier record chart (Season 2) – finest weapons to worst weapons
Below I’ve created a useful chart of our rankings of each gun in Apex Legends inside their weapon class for Season 2. If you’re struggling to familiarize yourself with which weapons to take over which others, I’d suggest maintaining this chart on a second monitor or printing it out, and refer again to it everytime you want.
I’ve tried to take note of 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 in the beginning of a match with none attachments, taking into consideration the potential of augmenting it with attachments afterward.
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’ve got one for each gun; no, I don’t have a life).
Apex Legends Assault Rifles
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 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 photographs (which makes the Havoc the one hitscan gun at the moment in Apex Legends). Bear in thoughts, nevertheless, that you would be able to’t connect each Hop-Ups without delay, so you need to select.
Hint: use the Turbocharger, at all times.
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 break it acquired 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 really tougher as a result of charge-up time between pulling the set off and the gun really 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 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 best DPS of any Assault Rifle, however with that top recoil that you would be able to’t mitigate with a Barrel Stabiliser attachment.
The VK-47 Flatline was at all times 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 every time the chance introduced itself. Now, with Season 2, the Flatline’s injury has been fairly considerably elevated from 16 to 19, providing you with extra motive to choose it up than ever earlier than. Even so, I’d nonetheless favor a superb outdated R-301 for its reliability and velocity.
The Hemlok Burst AR is – you guessed it – a burst weapon, firing Three bullets in extraordinarily fast succession, which implies in case you’re correct with them you possibly can deal over 100 injury within the area of about 0.2 seconds. Many gamers favor to make use of the single-shot mode of the Hemlok and click on quickly to ship an excellent increased fee of fireside 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 moreover the Spitfire.
Still, gamers will normally surrender the Hemlok for a Carbine.
The R-301 Carbine is the very best AR on supply in the intervening time (or at the very least on par with a Turbocharged Havoc), buying and selling a bit of injury for a quicker fee of fireside and a better experience generally. Low recoil and a excessive bullet velocity makes the Carbine wonderful at most ranges (it may well even be used to nice impact at lengthy vary in case you swap to single-shot mode) and with a superb prolonged magazine, barrel, and inventory, it’s like there’s no recoil in any respect on this lovely bastard of a gun.
Apex Legends SMGs
The Alternator was once one of many worst weapons within the game, however Season 2 has fully modified all that. Its excessive recoil is now mitigated extra by Barrel attachments, and it offers a pair extra factors of injury than earlier than – however the large change is the brand new Disruptor Rounds Hop-Up for the Alternator (and RE-45), which buffs the Alternator’s injury agaisnt shields to ludicrous values. With that Hop-Up, the Alternator turns into a powerful contender for many highly effective gun within the game. Quite frankly, I’m anticipating it to be nerfed quickly, as a result of it’s fairly overpowered.
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. This is thanks primarily to its peerless fireplace fee, which lets you fireplace off a complete spherical in a single second. However, you actually need the accompanying attachments to make this gun sing in your fingers, as a result of the default magazine dimension is so small, and the excessive recoil makes it tough to make use of at something apart from super-short vary.
This punchy burst SMG is… alright… till you handle to get your fingers on an accompanying Selectfire Receiver Hop-Up attachment, after which it turns into one among Apex Legends’ strongest weapons. Without this, it packs a punch with each 5-shot burst particularly in case you purpose for the pinnacle/neck space, however you race by your ammo all of the quicker for it, and the general reliability of the gun falls brief in comparison with an R-99.
But in case you handle to seek out the Hop-Up, then the Prowler will completely shred at shut and even medium vary – significantly in case you get a superb prolonged magazine on it too. Occasionally I discover it’s price taking a Hop-Up-less Prowler even over a superb R-99 or Alternator, just because if I can discover a Selectfire Receiver and Heavy Mag afterward, I’ll have a superb contender for deadliest gun within the game.
Apex Legends LMGs (Light Machine Guns)
The Devotion at all times holds a spot close to the highest of many gamers’ rankings of all of the weapons in Apex Legends, resulting from 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 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 customary, you’ll doubtless already be useless.
Another draw back is that it eats by your Energy Ammo, which is usually in brief provide anyway except you’re fortunate together with your looting and killing. So in case you take it, be sure you talk together with your teammates to offer 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 patch notes information), regardless that it was at all times 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 a superb Barrel Stabiliser).
The L-Star has lastly been launched with Season 2: Battle Charge, and it’s a hell of a gun. A quick fee of fireside 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 a better 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 in case you shoot too usually in a brief area of time. Feather the set off to fireplace bursts of Eight at a time, and also you’ll be capable to soften gamers with out having to fret about your gun abruptly failing on you.
Apex Legends Snipers (Sniper Rifles)
Name | G7 Scout | Longbow DMR | Triple Take | Kraber .50 CAL |
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Ammo | Light Rounds | Heavy Rounds | Energy Ammo | Unique |
Mag Size | 10 | 6 | 5 | 4 |
Tactical Reload/Full Reload | 2.40s/3.00s | 2.66s/3.66s | 2.60s/3.40s | 3.20s/4.30s |
DPS | 135 | 88 | 86.25 | 145 |
Body/Head/Leg DMG | 30/60/27 | 55/110/49.5 | 23/46/20.7 (69/138/62.1) |
145/297.25/116 |
Fire Rate (SPS) | 4.5 | 1.6 | 1.25 | 0.47 |
Att. Slots | Barrel, Mag, Optic, Stock | Barrel, Mag, Optic, Stock, Hop-Up | Mag, Optic, Stock, Hop-Up | None |
Modes | Single | Single | Single (3-shot unfold) | Single |
Projectile Speed | 31500 | 30500 | 32000 | 29500 |
Draw Time | 0.60s | 0.90s | 0.90s | 1.20s |
ADS Movement Speed (% of non-ADS velocity) |
36% | 36% | 36% | 36% |
The G7 Scout is an underutilised and surprisingly versatile sniper rifle, in a position to carry out nicely 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 injury than its fellow snipers, however has a really excessive fee of fireside and advantages rather 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 injury (in order to not penalise long-range capturing) and decreased weapon sway, which means a Stock is even much less mandatory than it was earlier than for these weapons. Check out all the newest patch notes over on our Apex Legends patch notes web page.
Oh me, oh my, the Longbow is powerful now. In addition to the above modifications, the Longbow acquired a large improve to its fee of fireside (its important 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 rather more versatile Wingman, however now we’re more likely to see an ideal many extra Longbow gamers taking this in the direction of the endgame.
It took me a superb 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 in case you 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 scale back the unfold dramatically. It’s nonetheless not excellent, as a result of it slows down the speed of fireside (regardless that the Choke tightening velocity has been elevated with Season 2), 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 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 photographs, 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.
Apex Legends Shotguns
Probably probably the most forgiving shotgun in Apex Legends, a startlingly quick fee of fireside 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 photographs than your opponent, usually successful you the struggle.
The Peacekeeper has at all times been the very best Shotgun in Apex Legends, except for 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 with the 07 March patch notes (learn all concerning the steadiness modifications on our Apex Legends patch notes web page), rising its total rarity throughout the map, and nerfing the hearth fee improve supplied by its Shotgun Bolt attachment. But even so, that is for certain probably the most highly effective Shotgun you may get your fingers 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 robust. It’s nonetheless received all of the ickiness it had earlier than – simply Three photographs 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, however the Mozambique is actually 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 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 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.
Apex Legends Pistols
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 date acquired two main nerfs to carry it extra consistent with 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 photographs if you wish to succeed with this weapon.
It’s nonetheless a fully deadly gun, significantly in case you discover an Epic Extended Magazine to go alongside it (the Hop-Up is sweet however not a necessity in my ebook), however with the brand new buffs to the sniper rifle class, we’d really begin seeing fewer gamers maintaining the Wingman to the tip of the game. But then once more, as a pistol it affords wonderful ADS motion velocity that snipers can’t hope to compete with, so it actually relies upon by yourself choice.
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 at all times low injury, however with Hammerpoint Rounds it may well outperform a Wingman with its velocity and accuracy over medium distances.
The RE-45 will be regarded as a mini R-99. Very fast-firing, however low damage-per-shot and a really low magazine dimension for an automated weapon. The RE-45 was at all times one of many weaker weapons since Apex Legends’ launch, however Respawn have taken steps to buff the RE-45, identical to the P2020, the Mozambique, and the Alternator) by giving it the Disruptor Rounds Hop-Up. Now, there are few weapons that may shred shields like an RE-45 can, and it’s become a really viable close-range weapon to take all the way in which to the tip of a match.
Hopefully this has given you an thought of what to anticipate it doesn’t matter what weapon you choose up in your subsequent Apex Legends match of Season 2. But that’s not all we’ve got to supply! Check out our Apex Legends loadout information for high-level ideas and techniques on placing collectively the right mixture of weapons to deal with your each want.