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[ WZ ] Live intel

The Warzone meta, tracked live.

Every weapon in the pool, ranked from meta to skip. Tier movement lands here within the hour, so the board you are reading is the patch you are playing.

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[ 01 ] The board

The Warzone weapon tier list.

Search and filter the meta, expand a weapon for its best build, copy it straight into your next drop.

Season 5 · Updated Aug 24, 2026Top riser · AN-94 ▲12Top faller · MXR-17 ▼13Data: wzstats.gg, with permission
11 of 11 meta
01Meta pick
AN-94 weapon render

AN-94

SMG#1 Close Range
TTK 10m571msTTK 50m694ms7d trend▲ 12
02
RYDEN 45K weapon render

RYDEN 45K

Assault Rifle#2 Long Range
TTK 10m539msTTK 50m939ms7d trend▲ 10
03
MK35 ISR weapon render

MK35 ISR

SMG#2 Close Range
TTK 10m571msTTK 50m695ms7d trend—

TTK: body shots vs 300 HP at the stated distance, including bullet travel, calculated from each weapon's raw damage profile and fire rate. Sniper figures are body shots; a headshot kills in one.

[ 02 ] The read

The current Warzone meta, explained.

What the board says, in plain words. Rewritten from live data on every refresh.

As of Aug 24, 2026 in Season 5, the Warzone meta right now is led by AN-94, the number 1 close range pick, with RYDEN 45K and MK35 ISR rounding out the podium. The full meta tier holds 11 weapons, and the gap between them is smaller than the tier badge suggests: the numbers below are why each one earns its slot.

The best guns in Warzone, by class.

  • SMG: AN-94 holds #1 close range, 571ms to kill at 10 m, 694ms at 50 m.
  • Assault Rifle: RYDEN 45K holds #2 long range, 539ms to kill at 10 m, 939ms at 50 m.
  • Sniper: REV-46 holds #1 sniper, 588ms to kill at 10 m, 913ms at 50 m.
  • : HAWKER HX, 2 body shots to down a full-plate target.

The best sniper in Warzone is whichever of the board's two-shot rifles you can cycle fastest, which is why the sniper rows above rank on handling as much as damage.

The fastest TTK in Warzone right now.

Measured as body shots against a 300 HP full-plate target, including bullet travel time, from each weapon's raw damage profile and fire rate. This is the Warzone TTK chart for the current meta tier:

  1. RYDEN 45K539ms at 10 m · 939ms at 50 m
  2. VST569ms at 10 m · 811ms at 50 m
  3. AN-94571ms at 10 m · 694ms at 50 m
  4. MK35 ISR571ms at 10 m · 695ms at 50 m
  5. REV-46588ms at 10 m · 913ms at 50 m

Warzone meta loadouts.

Every weapon in the meta tier carries its current best build on the board above: expand a weapon to see the loadout slot by slot, and copy it straight to your clipboard. These Warzone meta loadouts refresh hourly with the tiers, so the build you copy is the one that is live this patch.

The read, Season 5.

Long range still runs through the AK-27. It is not the fastest gun in the pool on paper, but its time-to-kill barely degrades with distance, and that forgiving profile is why it holds the number one long-range slot while faster-handling rifles rotate beneath it. The quiet story is the MK35 ISR: the quickest assault-rifle kill times on the board at both test distances, held back only by how much sharper you have to be to land the full string.

Close range is a coin flip right now. The Carbon 57, Dravec 45 and VST are separated by single milliseconds at 10 metres, so pick whichever movement feel suits you rather than chasing the tier order. Snipers remain two body shots to down a full-plate target, which is why every serious sniper pairing runs a sniper-support rifle for the follow-up. Trend tracking went live this week, so risers and fallers will start showing on the board as the season settles.

Analysis revised Jul 09, 2026.

[ 03 ] The other half

The meta is public. Your lobby doesn't have to be.

Every player in a sweat lobby is holding the same top-tier guns, so the meta cancels out. Pair these loadouts with the Warzone VPN and you bring meta weapons into lobbies that aren't built to punish you.

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[ 04 ] Questions

Warzone meta, good to know.

The top of the Warzone meta in Season 5 as of Aug 24, 2026: AN-94, RYDEN 45K, MK35 ISR, VST, FG42. The full board above ranks every weapon in the pool from meta tier down to D tier, with the number-one pick per role marked.

By class, the best guns in Warzone right now: AN-94 (smg), RYDEN 45K (assault rifle), REV-46 (sniper), HAWKER HX (). The board above carries the full ranking and each weapon's current meta loadout.

The page refreshes its data every hour, and the tiers themselves move whenever a balance patch or new season lands. The stamp at the top shows exactly when the current board was last revised, and the trend column tracks how each weapon has moved over the last week.

Weapon tiers, loadouts and weapon art come from wzstats.gg, used with their permission. The time-to-kill figures are our own calculation from each weapon's raw damage profile and fire rate: body shots against 300 HP, measured at 10 m and 50 m, including bullet travel time.

Expand any meta weapon on the board to see its current best Warzone build, slot by slot, and copy it straight to your clipboard. Run the build as listed, then tune the optic and stock to taste.

Less than you'd hope. In a stacked lobby everyone is holding the same meta guns, so the edge cancels out. The bigger lever is the lobby itself: the Warzone VPN reroutes your matchmaking region so you run these loadouts against a softer pool.

A ranking of every usable weapon in the current patch, from meta (best in class right now) down to D tier (avoid). It compresses thousands of buffs and nerfs into one answer: what should I be levelling and running tonight?

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