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

Primary high-elo read = Apex Legends Status Predator top-100 pick rate (scraped August 31, 2026; the board updates daily at midnight GMT). Cross-check = the August 24 esports.gg snapshot of that same ALS board, plus Esports Tales August 2026 Master/Pred (wider ladder, published Aug 11). Patch truth = official Marked notes (Aug 3) plus the official mid-season balance package announced on Steam Aug 21 (aimed live Aug 25). Where Pred top-100 and Tales Master/Pred disagree we print both. Currency sibling: Apex Coins guide.

Axle Skirmisher · S · #1 · 23.3% Pred (Aug 31, ALS)

Loba Support · S · #2 · 22.8% Pred (Aug 31, ALS)

Pathfinder Skirmisher · S · #3 · 9.9% Pred (Aug 31, ALS)

Seer Recon · S · #4 · 9.5% Pred (Aug 31, ALS)

The #1 pick changes with your rank. Primary read = Apex Legends Status per-rank pick-rate boards (scraped Aug 31, 2026; 34.3M-player DB, players currently in that rank, any game mode), with Esports Tales’ August table (published Aug 11) quoted where it still disagrees. The Pred row is the live ALS top-100 board (Aug 31) with the Aug 24 esports.gg snapshot in parentheses.

Two-slice law still holds: Master/Pred pick places the S–C table. All-ranks (Tracker.gg last 7 days, Aug 31: Octane 7.4%, Wraith 7.1%, Pathfinder 6.9%, Axle 6.9%, Bloodhound 3.2%) is novelty and pubs, not a ranked argument — Bloodhound’s rework spike has already faded from 9.3% all-ranks (Aug 8) to 2.8% (Aug 31).

The same season’s ladder — not the legend pick — is the Apex rank distribution this season.

All 28 Legends, one row each. The tier is the Predator top-100 pick-rate cluster (Apex Legends Status, Aug 31). Every percentage in the Why column is dated and named. Filter chips jump by role or tier.

Tier	Legend	Role	Why
S	Axle	Skirmisher	23.3% Pred pick rate (Aug 31, Apex Legends Status top-100, 50.4% WR / 156,099 games, #1) · 25.2% Pred (Aug 24, esports.gg snapshot of the same ALS board, 49% WR) · 25.4% Master/Pred (August 2026, Esports Tales) · 6.9% all-ranks last 7 days (Aug 31, Tracker.gg). Still #1 on every high-elo board we pulled — through two nerf waves now: Marked cut her slide boost 5s→3s and made Kickstart damage her and displace her squad, and the official Aug 21 mid-season package cut her Ult again (CD 90→120s, HP 200→150, stun 1.5→0.25s). Pred pick slid 25.2→23.3 between Aug 24 and Aug 31; she still sets the pace. Official EA listing: Skirmisher, she/her.
S	Loba	Support	22.8% Pred pick rate (Aug 31, Apex Legends Status top-100, 52.2% WR / 152,507 games, #2) · 22.8% Pred (Aug 24, esports.gg snapshot of the same ALS board, 50.3% WR) · 12.4% Master/Pred (August 2026, Esports Tales) · 6.4% all-ranks last 7 days (Aug 31, Tracker.gg). The loot-season pick, not a leftover slide-meta. Pred share jumped from 1.9% on the Aug 7 page to the low-20s and has held. Esports Tales Master/Pred (the wider ladder, not top-100) still has her #2 at 12.4% — same place, smaller slice. Marked sped Black Market (equip 0.6→0.4s, +15% range, Ult CD 150→120s) and cut gold/purple/MRVN loot.
S	Pathfinder	Skirmisher	9.9% Pred pick rate (Aug 31, Apex Legends Status top-100, 52.4% WR / 66,593 games, #3) · 9.3% Pred (Aug 24, esports.gg snapshot of the same ALS board, 50% WR) · 10.5% Master/Pred (August 2026, Esports Tales) · 6.9% all-ranks last 7 days (Aug 31, Tracker.gg). Untouched in Marked and in the Aug 21 mid-season package — and he passed Seer for Pred #3 between Aug 24 and Aug 31, with the highest win rate in the S-row (52.4%). #1 at Gold (8.4%), Platinum (10.9%) and Diamond (13.7%) on the Aug 31 ALS band boards. Double tactical charges and the flat 20s cooldown carry from the Season 29 midseason. The safest S-tier if Axle’s slide does not fit your hands.
S	Seer	Recon	9.5% Pred pick rate (Aug 31, Apex Legends Status top-100, 50.6% WR / 63,892 games, #4) · 11% Pred (Aug 24, esports.gg snapshot of the same ALS board, 49.5% WR) · 7.8% Master/Pred (August 2026, Esports Tales) · 2.8% all-ranks last 7 days (Aug 31, Tracker.gg). The only Recon with a real Pred share — but slipping: 11% → 9.5% between Aug 24 and Aug 31, and Pathfinder took #3 back. The turn-slow saga: the launch ‘reduction’ actually shipped increased by mistake (Respawn admitted and corrected it Aug 11), and the official Aug 21 package then removed turn-slow entirely. Still S at Pred; watch the next board.
A	Revenant	Assault	5.5% Pred pick rate (Aug 31, Apex Legends Status top-100, 48.8% WR / 36,749 games, #5) · 5.1% Pred (Aug 24, esports.gg snapshot of the same ALS board, 47.1% WR) · 3.4% Master/Pred (August 2026, Esports Tales) · 2.4% all-ranks last 7 days (Aug 31, Tracker.gg). Highest Assault on the Pred board and the only Assault still rising into the top 6. Held in A, not S — a four-point Pred gap under the S-row.
A	Mad Maggie	Assault	3.3% Pred pick rate (Aug 31, Apex Legends Status top-100, 46.4% WR / 21,889 games, #8) · 3% Pred (Aug 24, esports.gg snapshot of the same ALS board, 44.7% WR) · 6.8% Master/Pred (August 2026, Esports Tales) · 5.1% all-ranks last 7 days (Aug 31, Tracker.gg). The page had her S on Aug 7 at 9.7% Master/Pred. Pred top-100 now has her #8. Esports Tales Master/Pred still reads 6.8% (#5) — that is the range, and neither number is S. Softest win rate of the A-band on both dated Pred snapshots.
A	Octane	Skirmisher	3.8% Pred pick rate (Aug 31, Apex Legends Status top-100, 49.3% WR / 25,769 games, #6) · 3.4% Pred (Aug 24, esports.gg snapshot of the same ALS board, 47.2% WR) · 3.5% Master/Pred (August 2026, Esports Tales) · 7.4% all-ranks last 7 days (Aug 31, Tracker.gg). Stable A at Pred — and #1 in Bronze (9.1%, Aug 31, ALS band board) plus #1 all-ranks on Tracker (7.4%): pubs and low elo, not the ladder. Pad + stim stay the readable climb kit.
A	Alter	Skirmisher	3.5% Pred pick rate (Aug 31, Apex Legends Status top-100, 49.5% WR / 23,588 games, #7) · 3.1% Pred (Aug 24, esports.gg snapshot of the same ALS board, 47.8% WR) · 3.5% Master/Pred (August 2026, Esports Tales) · 3.8% all-ranks last 7 days (Aug 31, Tracker.gg). Holds A on both Pred snapshots and on Tales Master/Pred (3.5%). Esports.gg’s Aug 24 ranked list also parked her in S; our S-row stays pick-rate clustered, so she stays A.
A	Gibraltar	Support	2.4% Pred pick rate (Aug 31, Apex Legends Status top-100, 47.9% WR / 16,181 games, #9) · 2.3% Pred (Aug 24, esports.gg snapshot of the same ALS board, 46.3% WR) · 1.7% Master/Pred (August 2026, Esports Tales) · 3.3% all-ranks last 7 days (Aug 31, Tracker.gg). Second Support at Pred behind Loba. The bubble still pays as Marked cut close-range damage (R-99 13→12, Alternator 19→18, RE-45 17→16).
A	Bangalore	Assault	2.2% Pred pick rate (Aug 31, Apex Legends Status top-100, 45.9% WR / 14,588 games, #10) · 2.2% Pred (Aug 24, esports.gg snapshot of the same ALS board, 43.7% WR) · 3.4% Master/Pred (August 2026, Esports Tales) · 5% all-ranks last 7 days (Aug 31, Tracker.gg). Soft hold. Esports Tales has her top-10 from Bronze through Diamond and the community S30 list still names her best solo-q. Smoke teaches resets; Marked did not touch her kit.
A	Vantage	Recon	2.1% Pred pick rate (Aug 31, Apex Legends Status top-100, 52.3% WR / 14,323 games, #11) · 1.9% Pred (Aug 24, esports.gg snapshot of the same ALS board, 49.6% WR) · 1.8% Master/Pred (August 2026, Esports Tales) · 2.3% all-ranks last 7 days (Aug 31, Tracker.gg). Quiet overperformer — 52.3% Pred win rate on a 14,323-game sample at 2.1% pick. Marked fixed her Ult failing to multiply damage on successive shots. Share is A, not S.
A	Horizon	Skirmisher	2.1% Pred pick rate (Aug 31, Apex Legends Status top-100, 46.2% WR / 13,922 games, #12) · 1.9% Pred (Aug 24, esports.gg snapshot of the same ALS board, 44.1% WR) · 2.4% Master/Pred (August 2026, Esports Tales) · 2.4% all-ranks last 7 days (Aug 31, Tracker.gg). Holds A on Pred and on Tales Master/Pred (2.4%). Soft win rate next to Vantage/Sparrow; the lift is presence, not conversion.
B	Sparrow	Recon	1.6% Pred pick rate (Aug 31, Apex Legends Status top-100, 55.1% WR / 10,569 games, #13) · 1.5% Pred (Aug 24, esports.gg snapshot of the same ALS board, 55% WR) · 1.4% Master/Pred (August 2026, Esports Tales) · 2.7% all-ranks last 7 days (Aug 31, Tracker.gg). Best Pred win rate of all 28 (55.1% on 10,569 games, Aug 31; stable across both dated snapshots, tied by Crypto on a quarter of the sample) — and not enough share to price S or A. Some Pred trios run Axle/Loba/Sparrow instead of Seer; that is a stack pick, not a default.
B	Valkyrie	Recon	1.2% Pred pick rate (Aug 31, Apex Legends Status top-100, 54.7% WR / 8,176 games, #14) · 1.3% Pred (Aug 24, esports.gg snapshot of the same ALS board, 53.5% WR) · 3.8% Master/Pred (August 2026, Esports Tales) · 3% all-ranks last 7 days (Aug 31, Tracker.gg). The Aug 7/12 pages still had her at 6.5% Master/Pred. Pred top-100 has now settled at 1.2–1.3% across the Aug 24 snapshot and the Aug 31 scrape. Esports Tales Master/Pred still shows 3.8% (#6) — quote the range. Marked cut tac 25→15, Ult height −15%, Eye In The Sky 250→100m.
B	Wraith	Skirmisher	0.8% Pred pick rate (Aug 31, Apex Legends Status top-100, 47% WR / 5,201 games, #18) · 0.7% Pred (Aug 24, esports.gg snapshot of the same ALS board, 45.4% WR) · 2.1% Master/Pred (August 2026, Esports Tales) · 7.1% all-ranks last 7 days (Aug 31, Tracker.gg). Demoted from A. Pred share is 0.8% (Aug 31) / 0.7% (Aug 24) against 2.1% on Tales Master/Pred. Tracker.gg all-ranks still has her #2 at 7.1% — pubs, not the ladder. Untouched in Marked.
B	Fuse	Assault	0.8% Pred pick rate (Aug 31, Apex Legends Status top-100, 49.6% WR / 5,631 games, #16) · 0.6% Pred (Aug 24, esports.gg snapshot of the same ALS board, 49.4% WR) · 1.8% Master/Pred (August 2026, Esports Tales) · 4.4% all-ranks last 7 days (Aug 31, Tracker.gg). Pubs and low elo kept him (Tracker.gg 4.4% last 7 days; 5.8–7.3% from Bronze through Diamond on the Aug 31 ALS band boards) and Pred dropped him. Marked moved the 30-30 Repeater off floor loot into the care package.
B	Conduit	Support	0.9% Pred pick rate (Aug 31, Apex Legends Status top-100, 48% WR / 5,788 games, #15) · 0.9% Pred (Aug 24, esports.gg snapshot of the same ALS board, 46.9% WR) · 1.6% Master/Pred (August 2026, Esports Tales) · 2.7% all-ranks last 7 days (Aug 31, Tracker.gg). Was S on the Aug 7 page. Pred share is 0.9% on both the Aug 24 snapshot and the Aug 31 scrape — third Support, behind Loba and Gibraltar. Point-and-click shields still forgive beginners; they do not win Pred.
B	Caustic	Controller	0.8% Pred pick rate (Aug 31, Apex Legends Status top-100, 47.6% WR / 5,610 games, #17) · 0.8% Pred (Aug 24, esports.gg snapshot of the same ALS board, 46.9% WR) · 0.6% Master/Pred (August 2026, Esports Tales) · 3.5% all-ranks last 7 days (Aug 31, Tracker.gg). Best Controller on the Pred board. The only Marked note that touches him is a skydive-animation bug fix. Tracker.gg all-ranks 3.5% is pubs.
B	Wattson	Controller	0.3% Pred pick rate (Aug 31, Apex Legends Status top-100, 50.4% WR / 2,093 games, #25) · 0.3% Pred (Aug 24, esports.gg snapshot of the same ALS board, 51.6% WR) · 0.8% Master/Pred (August 2026, Esports Tales) · 3.1% all-ranks last 7 days (Aug 31, Tracker.gg). Thin Pred share, high win rate on a small sample. Held at B with Rampart and Caustic — Controllers do not have an S or A this season.
B	Rampart	Controller	0.3% Pred pick rate (Aug 31, Apex Legends Status top-100, 47.1% WR / 1,754 games, #26) · 0.3% Pred (Aug 24, esports.gg snapshot of the same ALS board, 48.7% WR) · 0.6% Master/Pred (August 2026, Esports Tales) · 1.7% all-ranks last 7 days (Aug 31, Tracker.gg). Marked was a real buff (wall 400/600/800→600/700/800, deploy 0.5s faster, Sheila move 70→104). Pred share is still 0.3%. Respawn’s own note said she still struggles outside a good position.
C	Crypto	Recon	0.6% Pred pick rate (Aug 31, Apex Legends Status top-100, 55.1% WR / 3,915 games, #19) · 0.5% Pred (Aug 24, esports.gg snapshot of the same ALS board, 53.2% WR) · 0.6% Master/Pred (August 2026, Esports Tales) · 1% all-ranks last 7 days (Aug 31, Tracker.gg). 55.1% Pred win rate (Aug 31) / 53.2% (Aug 24) on a ~4,000-game sample — tied with Sparrow for best on the board; the conversion is real and the share is not. Needs a premade; do not sell him as a solo-q climb.
C	Catalyst	Controller	0.4% Pred pick rate (Aug 31, Apex Legends Status top-100, 47.2% WR / 2,826 games, #20) · 0.4% Pred (Aug 24, esports.gg snapshot of the same ALS board, 45.3% WR) · 0.5% Master/Pred (August 2026, Esports Tales) · 1.2% all-ranks last 7 days (Aug 31, Tracker.gg). Community ranked-rat pick, not a Pred pick. 0.4% Pred on both dated ALS snapshots. Do not promote her off a pubs or rat anecdote.
C	Lifeline	Support	0.4% Pred pick rate (Aug 31, Apex Legends Status top-100, 47.6% WR / 2,460 games, #23) · 0.4% Pred (Aug 24, esports.gg snapshot of the same ALS board, 45.2% WR) · 0.8% Master/Pred (August 2026, Esports Tales) · 4.3% all-ranks last 7 days (Aug 31, Tracker.gg). Loba took the Support slot. Tracker.gg all-ranks still has her at 4.3%; Pred is 0.4%. Adoption is not a ladder argument.
C	Mirage	Support	0.4% Pred pick rate (Aug 31, Apex Legends Status top-100, 50% WR / 2,629 games, #21) · 0.4% Pred (Aug 24, esports.gg snapshot of the same ALS board, 47% WR) · 0.6% Master/Pred (August 2026, Esports Tales) · 2.6% all-ranks last 7 days (Aug 31, Tracker.gg). Same Pred share as Lifeline. Experienced-lobby read, not a climb pick.
C	Bloodhound	Recon	0.4% Pred pick rate (Aug 31, Apex Legends Status top-100, 48.3% WR / 2,592 games, #22) · 0.3% Pred (Aug 24, esports.gg snapshot of the same ALS board, 43.8% WR) · 0.5% Master/Pred (August 2026, Esports Tales) · 3.2% all-ranks last 7 days (Aug 31, Tracker.gg). The two-slice law in one row. Esports Tales (Aug 11) had them #1 in Bronze and Silver; the fresher ALS Bronze board (Aug 31) has Octane #1 with Bloodhound #2 at 6.2%. Pred 0.4% (Aug 31) / 0.3% (Aug 24) / 0.5% Tales Master/Pred. The rework novelty has faded: all-ranks 9.3% (Aug 8) → 2.8–3.2% (Aug 31) — even after the official Aug 21 package buffed the cloak (less visible in the dome, ring damage no longer breaks it, +1s tactical scan). Cloak is a low-elo IGL tool, not a Diamond ticket. Official they/them.
C	Newcastle	Support	0.3% Pred pick rate (Aug 31, Apex Legends Status top-100, 47% WR / 2,126 games, #24) · 0.3% Pred (Aug 24, esports.gg snapshot of the same ALS board, 45.8% WR) · 0.6% Master/Pred (August 2026, Esports Tales) · 1.1% all-ranks last 7 days (Aug 31, Tracker.gg). Marked removed the Extended Supply Bins his Support class perk existed to open. 0.3% Pred. Do not pick Support for a bin that is gone.
C	Ash	Skirmisher	0.3% Pred pick rate (Aug 31, Apex Legends Status top-100, 44.3% WR / 1,700 games, #27) · 0.2% Pred (Aug 24, esports.gg snapshot of the same ALS board, 37.7% WR) · 0.9% Master/Pred (August 2026, Esports Tales) · 3% all-ranks last 7 days (Aug 31, Tracker.gg). Lowest Pred win rate on both dated snapshots (44.3% Aug 31 / 37.7% Aug 24). Official EA listing: Skirmisher.
C	Ballistic	Assault	0.1% Pred pick rate (Aug 31, Apex Legends Status top-100, 54.4% WR / 870 games, #28) · 0.1% Pred (Aug 24, esports.gg snapshot of the same ALS board, 51.1% WR) · 0.3% Master/Pred (August 2026, Esports Tales) · 0.8% all-ranks last 7 days (Aug 31, Tracker.gg). Last on the Pred board. Marked removed the Weapon Supply Bins his Assault class perk existed to open. High win rate on 870 games is not a pick-rate argument.

Note: these are pick rates first, win rates second. A Master/Pred number and a Pred top-100 number are not the same slice — Loba 12.4% (Tales Master/Pred) vs 22.8% (ALS Pred top-100) is the cleanest example, and both stay in her row. Bloodhound tops Tales’ Bronze/Silver table while the fresher ALS Bronze board (Aug 31) has Octane #1; they are last-tier at Pred either way — that disagreement is the story, not a reason to put them in S.

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).
• Mid-season package (official): announced on Steam August 21, aiming for Tuesday August 25 — Axle nerfed a second time (Nitro Gate speed 750→700, Ult HP 200→150, base Ult cooldown 90→120s, Ult stun 1.5→0.25s), Bloodhound’s cloak buffed (less visible inside the dome, ring damage no longer breaks it, +1s tactical scan), and Seer’s tactical turn-slow — which had shipped increased by mistake at launch and was corrected August 11 — removed entirely.
• 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, three weeks in: the two data slices still disagree, and that disagreement is now stable rather than a launch spike. Tracker.gg last-7-days all-ranks (Aug 31) has Octane at 7.4%, Wraith at 7.1%, Pathfinder and Axle at 6.9%, Bloodhound at 3.2%. Apex Legends Status Pred top-100 (Aug 31) is Axle 23.3%, Loba 22.8%, Pathfinder 9.9%, Seer 9.5%, Bloodhound 0.4%. Esports Tales August Master/Pred sits between them on Loba (12.4%) and Maggie (6.8%). We place the S–C table on the Pred cluster and keep the other numbers in the sentence.

Ranked in Marked: ladders are 5 days. Ladder 1 ran Aug 11–16; the Aug 25–30 ladder has just closed, with Sep 1–6 and Sep 8–13 next. The mid-season balance pass is official, not a rumour: Respawn announced it on Steam on August 21, aiming for Tuesday August 25 — the second Axle nerf, the Bloodhound cloak buffs and the full removal of Seer’s turn-slow listed above. No separate ‘now live’ post followed (the Aug 25 Steam post is an AMD crash advisory), but the Aug 24→31 Pred board drift — Axle −1.9pp, Seer −1.5pp, Pathfinder +0.6pp — is consistent with it landing on schedule.

Verdict: take one Legend per role from the A-band that forgives mechanical mistakes. In Bronze/Silver that also covers Octane and Bloodhound. Ignore Pred one-tricks 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 — #1 in Bronze (9.1%, Aug 31, ALS). The pad and stim are readable; move to Pathfinder once rotations start deciding your games — he is #1 from Gold through Diamond on the Aug 31 ALS boards. Axle is S at Pred — not a beginner default.
• Support: Loba. She is #2 at Gold on the fresh ALS board (7.7%, Aug 31; Esports Tales’ August table had her #1) and 22.8% Pred pick rate (Aug 31, ALS). Conduit is the easier shield kit and is B, not S — use her to learn, not as the season default.
• Recon: Bloodhound is a reasonable beginner pick in Bronze/Silver (Esports Tales’ August table #1; 6.2% Bronze on the Aug 31 ALS board, behind Octane). The cloak is forgiving and the scan does the map-reading. Do not expect Pred results: 0.4% Pred pick rate (Aug 31).
• Controller: skip as a first main. If you want a rat kit later, Catalyst is the community ranked-rat read, not a Pred pick (0.4% Pred, Aug 31, ALS).

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

• Primary: Apex Legends Status Predator top-100 pick rate, scraped August 31, 2026. The board updates daily at midnight GMT and is top-100 Preds on PC, PlayStation and Xbox — not every Master.
• Dated cross-check: esports.gg’s August 24 snapshot of that same ALS Pred board (Axle 25.2%, Loba 22.8%, Seer 11%, Pathfinder 9.3%, Maggie 3%, Bloodhound 0.3%).
• Rank bands: Apex Legends Status per-rank pick-rate boards, scraped August 31 (34.3M-player DB, players currently in that rank, any game mode — quoted with that caveat), plus Esports Tales August 2026 Master/Pred and Bronze–Master tables (ALS-backed, 30M+ players, page published Aug 11). Used for #1-by-band and for the range when they disagree (Bronze #1: Octane on ALS Aug 31 vs Bloodhound on Tales Aug 11; Loba 12.4% Tales vs 22.8% Pred top-100; Maggie 6.8% vs 3.3%).
• All-ranks novelty: Tracker.gg insights, last 7 days, scraped August 31. Quoted only where it diverges from Pred by more than a band.
• Patch truth: official EA Marked notes (August 3, 2026) plus the official mid-season balance package Respawn announced on Steam on August 21, aiming for August 25 (second Axle nerf, Bloodhound cloak buffs, Seer turn-slow removed entirely). No separate ‘now live’ post exists; the Aug 24→31 Pred board drift corroborates the landing.
• What we do not do: we do not carry Season 29 editorials, we do not rank a rework on all-ranks hype, and we do not invent a percentage.

The honest caveat for this edition: Pred top-100 and Master/Pred-all are different populations. When they disagree we print the range instead of averaging them. Win rates on the ALS Pred board are quoted because the samples are now five-to-six figures on the S-row (Axle 156,099 games; Loba 152,507) — they were not quotable on August 7.

Pick rates: Apex Legends Status /meta (Predator top-100, scraped August 31, 2026; updates daily midnight GMT) and the esports.gg Aug 24 snapshot of that same board. Per-rank bands: ALS per-rank pick-rate boards (scraped Aug 31; any game mode, 34.3M-player DB) and Esports Tales August 2026 (published Aug 11; ALS-backed, 30M+). All-ranks last 7 days: Tracker.gg Apex insights (scraped Aug 31). Patch: official EA Marked notes (Aug 3) and the official mid-season balance announcement (Steam, Aug 21, aimed live Aug 25). Axle class and pronouns: EA Axle page (“pushing past her limits”) and EA Skirmisher hub, cross-checked on apexlegends.wiki.gg/Axle. Currency sibling: Apex Coins guide.