WARDOGS Weapon Tier List

28 weapons ranked, built from 5 attributed published tier lists rather than one opinion. Hover any weapon to see what each source called it.

Every source here ranked the closed test builds, before Early Access. All of them say they will re-rank from the live vendor, so expect this list to move.

Pre-launch, Closed Beta 1 to Closed Beta 25 sourcesbuilt 2026-09-05how this is built

M12G (1), MK22 (1), AMR 50 (1), RPG-7 (2), MAAWS (2), MGL-40 (2), 9K333 Verba (1) are not ranked here. A weapon needs placements from at least 3 of the 5 sources for a consensus tier, and these have the number in brackets: one voice is not a consensus, and we will not invent one. Their pages show who did place them.

S tier

Top of the consensus across every source we read.

How this is built

5 sources, combined rather than picked between. We measure none of this ourselves. Each published its own ranking under its own name, and this page is an average of those, not a claim of our own. Each card says which build that source read and what kind of site it is.

The sources do not share a scale, so each list is combined in a way that stops any one scale from dominating the result. A source that did not place a weapon counts as no opinion rather than a bad one, and bands that are not ranks (an unranked or specialist group) are never scored.

The combination and the S to F split are ours. The rankings are not, and none of the underlying opinions were measured by us. Statistical data is based on external APIs and publicly available information. It may differ from official data.

FAQ

Where does this ranking come from?

It combines 5 published WARDOGS weapon tier lists, each attributed to the site or the named writer who published it, for Pre-launch, Closed Beta 1 to Closed Beta 2. We measure none of it ourselves: the game has no telemetry source and Bulkhead publishes no weapon figures, so instead of inventing numbers we aggregate rankings that carry a name, and credit each one. Hovering a weapon shows what each source called it. Statistical data is based on external APIs and publicly available information. It may differ from official data.

Why are the tier letters yours and not theirs?

Because the sources do not share a scale. One uses five bands, the others four, one ranks only ten weapons and leaves the rest unplaced, and one puts launchers and sniper rifles in a separate specialist group. Comparing their letters directly would reward whoever is most generous with an S, so each list is combined in a way that stops any one scale from dominating, and the S to F letters here are our own split of the result.

Why is a weapon placed by only some sources, or not ranked at all?

A source that did not place a weapon is treated as having no opinion on it, never as ranking it last. Wardogs HQ, for example, places 7 of the 28 weapons ranked here; the others are averaged over the sources that did place them. A weapon does need placements from at least 3 of the 5 sources to get a tier: with fewer, one generous placement would be a perfect score, and one voice outranking near-unanimity is the average failing. Weapons under that floor are named above with their count.

Two of the sources sell in-game cash or services. Does that matter?

It is why they are labelled. Playhub (Slitherman) and Overgear (Nurseos) publish a bylined guide on a site that sells WARDOGS currency or boosting, which is a commercial interest no fan database has. They are 2 voices of 5 and their rows say who wrote them; weigh them as you would any other.