Rankings for this game’s own statistical ruleset.
Warzone meta
Warzone rankings and damage context only.
These are editorial judgements, not usage data. Killstreaks has no telemetry: no pick rates, no win rates, no sampled match data. Every ranking is arithmetic on published statistics plus an opinion about what those statistics mean.
Warzone — Battle Royale
Reviewed against Warzone Season 05, published 22 July 2026. Historical ranking: newer balance changes have not been verified.
- 1
Still the highest verified damage profile in the assault rifle class after its Season 05 trim: 48 at up to 36m and 40 beyond 52m. The 10ms aim-down-sight penalty and the drop to 900m/s cost it in close-quarters trades, but nothing else in the verified set matches its damage retention at range.
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- 2
The clearest winner of Season 05 in the verified data: maximum damage up from 45 to 47, medium from 41 to 42, and aim-down-sight time cut from 170ms to 160ms — all with no range reduction. A buff on every published axis at once is rare.
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- 3
Untouched at close and mid range while gaining two points of minimum damage, a 1.3× headshot multiplier, 5ms off its aim-down-sight time and roughly 8% less base recoil. Note this ranking is for Warzone only — the same weapon was substantially nerfed in Black Ops 7 multiplayer at the same patch.
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- 4
Still the hardest-hitting verified SMG up close at 46 damage, and it keeps the 652rpm fire rate and 1.15× headshot multiplier gained in Season 04. The range trim to 12.8m narrows the window where that damage applies.
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- 5
Two consecutive seasons of improvement have taken its aim-down-sight time from 175ms to 160ms and its headshot multiplier to 1.3×. Its 26 maximum damage is the lowest of the verified SMGs, so it trades raw damage for the fastest published handling in the class.
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