Apex Legends Tier List (August 2026): Best Legends by Role — Season 30 Marked

Primary high-elo read = Apex Legends Status Master/Predator pick rate (34M-player database, scraped August 7, 2026 — three days into the season). Patch truth = the official Marked notes (Aug 3). Where the all-ranks slice disagrees sharply with high elo we say so in the row. Currency sibling: Apex Coins guide.

Axle Assault · S · 25.2% Pred

Pathfinder Skirmisher · S · #2 Pred

Mad Maggie Assault · S · #3, rising

Conduit Support · S · shield eng

Every legend, with the high-elo pick rate behind its tier. Filter chips jump by role or tier.

Tier	Legend	Role	Why
S	Axle	Assault	#1 at Master/Predator by 2.2× (25.2%, ▼7.6% w/w) even after Marked cut his slide boost from 5s to 3s and made the Ult damage him and displace his own squad — Nitro Gate still sets the pace
S	Pathfinder	Skirmisher	Untouched in Marked and inherits the top slot: 11.4% Master/Pred (#2, ▲1.9%). Double tactical charges and the flat 20s cooldown carry straight over from the Season 29 midseason
S	Mad Maggie	Assault	Promoted from A — now #3 at Master/Pred (9.7%, ▲3.2%), above Valkyrie. The Hemlok and SMG damage cuts reward her drill-and-push pattern over poking
S	Conduit	Support	The default support and the only one rising at the top (3.1% Master/Pred, ▲9.1%). Pick share understates her — comps still open with her shields
A	Valkyrie	Skirmisher	Demoted from S. Marked cut tactical base damage 25→15, reverted the missile dive angle, took 15% off Ult height and trimmed both upgrades. Still 6.5% at Master/Pred (▼1.1%) because the rotation is unmatched — but all-ranks pick fell 56% in a week
A	Seer	Recon	The only Recon with real share: 5.3% Master/Pred and ▲16.5% w/w — rising despite the turn-slow trim and Home Base moving to level 3
A	Bangalore · Fuse	Assault	Smoke and Knuckle Cluster pressure, both flat through the patch — Bangalore 5.0% Master/Pred, Fuse 2.2%
A	Alter · Octane · Revenant · Wraith · Horizon	Skirmisher	Octane drops out of S — 3.8% Master/Pred and ▼8.5%, falling on both slices. Alter 4.2%, Revenant 3.6%, Wraith 2.9% (▲1.9%), Horizon 2.1%
A	Loba · Lifeline	Support	Loba is the buff story outside Bloodhound: tactical equips in 0.4s (was 0.6), +15% range, Ult cooldown 150→120s. ▲96% at Master/Pred and #2 all-ranks at 9.2%. Lifeline ▲15.9%
A	Gibraltar · Caustic	Controller	Gibraltar ▲11.4% to 2.1% — the bubble gains value as close-range damage drops across the board. Caustic 0.9%, playable when the lobby slows down
B	Bloodhound	Recon	The rework. New Ult Allfather’s Cloak (8s dome, cloak lasts 12s after you leave, +20% move speed and threat vision), white ravens out to 400m, a 3s full-body scan plus four snapshots. Bloodhound is now the most-picked Legend in the game all-ranks at 9.9% (▲556% w/w) — and still 0.5% at Master/Pred, 24th of 28. The kit is far stronger; high elo has not validated it in three days. On watch for A
B	Sparrow · Vantage	Recon	Recon is a one-Legend role right now — Sparrow 1.7% (▲9.4%) and Vantage 1.9% (▲8.8%) sit a full band under Seer
B	Ash · Ballistic	Assault	Ash ▲18.2% off a small base (1.1%); Ballistic 0.3% — both need a comp built around them
B	Wattson · Rampart	Controller	Rampart got the season’s second-biggest buff — wall health 400/600/800→600/700/800, deploy 0.5s faster, Sheila move speed 70→104 baseline — and her all-ranks pick doubled (▲99%). Master/Pred did not move: 0.2%, ▼3.1%. Wattson 1.0%
B	Mirage · Newcastle	Support	Newcastle ▼23.9% to 0.5%; Mirage flat at 1.0% — revive utility that experienced lobbies read
C	Crypto	Recon	0.6% Master/Pred and needs coordination the ranked ladder rarely gives you
C	Catalyst	Controller	0.3% Master/Pred, the lowest share on the board — a specific-comp pick, not a climb default

Note: these are pick rates, not win rates. Three days into a season, what top players choose is the best available signal — but it lags a rework by design, which is exactly why Bloodhound sits at B here and #1 everywhere else. Where the two slices diverge (Bloodhound, Loba, Rampart) the gap is the story, so both numbers are in the row.

What is live: Season 30 Marked, launched August 4, 2026 (patch notes Aug 3). This is a rework season, not a new-Legend season — the roster is unchanged at 28.

What Marked changed for this table:

• Bloodhound reworked. Brand-new Ult, Allfather’s Cloak: throw a dome that cloaks anyone inside it for 8s, cloak persists 12s after leaving, and cloaked players get +20% move speed and threat vision. It breaks on damage, firing or most abilities — but not on Bloodhound’s own abilities, and the level-3 upgrade downgrades shooting from ‘breaks’ to ‘interrupts’. Passive and tactical were rebuilt around it: white ravens now fly 400m (was 190m base), you can trigger them remotely, and the tactical is a 3s full-body scan followed by four snapshot scans.
• Buffed: Loba (tactical equip 0.6→0.4s, +15% range, −30% travel time, Ult cooldown 150→120s) and Rampart (wall health 400/600/800→600/700/800, deploy 0.5s faster, Sheila base move speed 70→104, passive earns locked hop-up progress 50% faster).
• Nerfed: Valkyrie (tactical base damage 25→15, missile dive angle reverted, Ult height −15%, Eye In The Sky through-wall scan 250→100m, Supersonic 50%→40%), Axle (slide boost 5s→3s, Ult now damages Axle and stuns/displaces allies), Seer (less turn slow; Home Base moved to level 3).
• Weapons: close-range damage came down across the board — R-99 13→12, Alternator 19→18 with mag cuts, RE-45 17→16, Hemlok 22→21 with Breach Charge cooldown 25→30s. G7 Scout returns to floor loot nerfed (37→33, no Double Tap, no sniper optics) and the 30-30 Repeater moves into the care package at 51 damage with Shattercaps.
• Energy ammo rework: energy ammo is gone as a lootable item. Havoc, Nemesis, Devotion, L-STAR, Volt, Triple Take and RE-45 now carry a regenerating stockpile (one magazine per 18s, paused while firing or reloading). Strong in short fights, weak in long ones.
• Corrupted Attachments: a new high-tier rarity, one per weapon, each with a real downside — Overflowing Magazine, Headseeker Barrel, Tactical Laser, Agile Standard Stock, Rapid Sniper Stock.
• World’s Edge reworked: Sorting Factory and the Fragment construction stacks are back, Tree Settlement replaces The Tree, War Camp replaces Survey Camp, Big Maude merged into Landslide.

The pattern to read: the two data slices disagree, and that disagreement is the season so far. All-ranks, Bloodhound (9.9%) and Loba (9.2%) are the two most-picked Legends in the game and both are up more than 550% week over week. At Master/Predator they are 0.5% and 1.9%. That is novelty, not a solved meta — the top of the ladder is still running Axle, Pathfinder and Mad Maggie while it works the rework out. Expect this table to move once the first ranked ladder closes.

Ranked in Marked: ladders are now 5 days long. Ladder 1 runs Aug 11–16, then Aug 18–23, Aug 25–30, Sep 1–6 and Sep 8–13.

Verdict: take one Legend per role from the S/A band that forgives mechanical mistakes, and ignore the Bloodhound hype until you can win gunfights.

• Assault: Bangalore. Smoke teaches you resets, and she is unchanged in Marked so nothing you learn this week goes stale.
• Skirmisher: Octane. The pad and stim are readable; move to Pathfinder once rotations start deciding your games.
• Support: Conduit — point-and-click shields, still the S-tier default. Loba is genuinely easier to use after the Marked buffs if you prefer looting your team into shape.
• Recon: Bloodhound is now a reasonable beginner pick, which was not true last season. The cloak is forgiving and the scan does the map-reading for you. Just do not expect the ladder-winning results the all-ranks pick rate implies.
• Controller: Gibraltar only after you can hold an angle — walls do not carry a missed clip.

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This page is a consensus ranked list, not a vibes chart.

• Primary: Apex Legends Status pick rate, Master/Predator slice, scraped August 7, 2026 against a 34M-player database. Week-over-week deltas straddle the Aug 4 patch, so they measure the patch.
• Adoption cross-check: the all-ranks slice from the same source, used only where it diverges from high elo by more than a band.
• Patch truth: the official EA Marked patch notes, August 3, 2026. Every buff and nerf quoted in the table is from that document, not from a summary of it.
• What we do not do: we do not carry Season 29 editorial tier lists into Season 30, and we do not rank a reworked Legend on how many people are trying it.

The honest caveat for this edition: the season is three days old. Pick rate at the top of the ladder is a lagging measure of a rework, and win-rate samples this early are not worth quoting. Where we place a Legend against the direction of the patch — Bloodhound at B, Rampart at B — the row says exactly which number drove it, so you can disagree with the call and still use the data.

Consolidated from the official EA Apex Legends: Marked patch notes (August 3, 2026) and Apex Legends Status pick-rate data (Master/Predator and all-ranks slices, scraped August 7, 2026). Currency sibling: Apex Coins guide.