Apex Legends Tier List (October 2026): Best Legends by Role in Season 30 Marked Split 2

October 2026 update for Season 30 Marked Split 2. The October 1 update nerfed Axle again. Her passive slide lost 50% of its lateral control. Nitro Gate users lose 25% slide control, aim assist switches off inside the Gate, and its push speed drops from 700 to 650. The Kickstart drone now chases for 8s (was 10s), its max knock-up drops from 700 to 650, and a lock-on right after deploy knocks up much less. The same update fixed Alter’s Tactical and Ultimate near large moving structures. A follow-up on October 2 cut the Fast Draw Wild Card bonuses. The S row on the live board is now Loba, Axle and Pathfinder. Seer drops to A.

Split 2 started 15 September 2026 with the official midseason notes of 14 September. Axle: Kickstart drone HP 150, Ult cooldown 120s, stun 0.25s. Seer: turn slow on the Tactical is gone. Conduit, Fuse, Catalyst and Bloodhound received kit buffs. Pubs and Ranked maps this split: World’s Edge, Olympus, Broken Moon. Ranked ladders: 6 windows of 5 days from 22 September to 1 November; Ladder 3 runs 6 to 11 October. Season 30 ends on November 3, 2026.

Primary high-elo read = the Predator top-100 pick rate (October 9, 2026; the board updates daily at midnight GMT). Cross-check = the Split 2 Pred average (822 tracked Predators, 15 September to 7 October), which puts the same 3 Legends on top: Loba 19.6%, Axle 15.7%, Pathfinder 14.5%. History = the September 20 board (Axle 25.9%, Loba 22.5%, Pathfinder 12.9%, Seer 6.3%) and the August 31 snapshot. Where the slices disagree, both numbers stay in the sentence. Currency sibling: Apex Coins guide.

Loba Support · S · #1 · 23.3% Pred (October 9)

Axle Skirmisher · S · #2 · 18.6% Pred (October 9)

Pathfinder Skirmisher · S · #3 · 14.4% Pred (October 9)

The #1 pick changes with your rank. Primary read = the per-rank pick-rate boards (October 9, 2026; 34.7M-player DB, players currently in that rank, any game mode), with the August 31 figures in brackets where the leader held. The Pred row is the live Predator top-100 board (October 9) with the Split 2 Pred average and the wide Master/Pred board beside it.

Rank band	#1	Then	Do not default
Bronze / Silver	Octane · 9.8% Bronze / 9.1% Silver (October 9; 9.1% / 8.4% on August 31). Bloodhound was #1 in Bronze and Silver on August 11	Lifeline 6.7%, Pathfinder 6.6%, Fuse 6.1%, Wraith 6.1%, Bangalore 5.1% (Bronze); Pathfinder 7.9%, Wraith 6.4% (Silver)	Axle as a must-pick · 3.5% Bronze / 4.4% Silver after the October 1 nerf. Separate from the lobby
Gold	Pathfinder · 9.2% (October 9; 8.4% on August 31); August 11 had Loba #1	Octane 8.2%, Fuse 6.3%, Loba 5.8%, Wraith 5.7%, Axle 5.3%, Mad Maggie 5.3%	Bloodhound as a climb ticket · 1.8% at Gold (October 9)
Platinum +	Pathfinder · 12% Platinum / 15.8% Diamond (October 9; 10.9% / 13.7% on August 31)	Mad Maggie 7.4–8.8%, Loba 7.3–11%, Axle 6.8–7.7%, Octane 5.5–6.9%, Fuse 6.1% (Plat)	Bloodhound (1% Plat / 0.5% Diamond, October 9) or a pubs main.
Master / Predator	Loba · 23.3% Pred (October 9, 52.6% WR) / 19.6% Split 2 Pred average / 18.9% Master/Pred wide	Axle 18.6% Pred (25.9% on September 20; 7.5% Master/Pred wide), Pathfinder 14.4% Pred / 16.8% wide, Octane 6%, Revenant 5.9%, Seer 5.5%	Bloodhound 0.2% Pred; Seer as S (5.5% Pred, 3.7% wide)

2-slice law still holds: Pred top-100 pick places the S–C table. All-ranks (last 7 days, October 9: Pathfinder 8.6%, Octane 7.3%, Wraith 7.1%, Loba 6.8%, Axle 6.7%, Bloodhound 2.4%) is novelty and pubs. Separate from a ranked argument · Bloodhound’s rework spike faded from 9.3% all-ranks (Aug 8) to 2.8% (Aug 31) and 2.4% (October 9).

The same season’s ladder · not the legend pick · is the Apex rank distribution this season. How that ladder itself works · every tier’s RP floor, the entry cost per match and what the split reset does to your RP · is in our Apex Legends ranks guide.

All 28 Legends, 1 row each. The tier is the Predator top-100 pick-rate cluster (October 9): S at 10% or more, A from 1.5%, B from 0.5%, C under 0.5%. 8 Legends changed tier since the August 31 edition: Seer S→A, Conduit B→A, Catalyst, Crypto and Mirage C→B, Fuse, Wattson and Rampart B→C. Every percentage in the Why column names its month. Filter chips jump by role or tier.

Tier	Legend	Role	Why
S	Loba	Support	23.3% Pred pick rate (Oct 9, Predator top-100, 52.6% WR / 160,906 games, #1) · 19.6% Split 2 Pred average (#1) · 22.8% Pred (Aug 31) · 18.9% Master/Pred wide (Oct 9, #1) · 6.8% all-ranks last 7 days (October 9). Up to #1. Axle fell under her after the October 1 nerf, and she leads both Pred slices and the wide Master/Pred board. The loot-season pick. Pred share jumped from 1.9% on the Aug 7 page to the low 20s and has held for 2 months. Marked sped Black Market (equip 0.6→0.4s, +15% range, Ult CD 150→120s) and cut gold/purple/MRVN loot.
S	Axle	Skirmisher	18.6% Pred pick rate (Oct 9, Predator top-100, 49.3% WR / 128,282 games, #2) · 15.7% Split 2 Pred average (#2) · 23.3% Pred (Aug 31) and 25.9% (September 20) · 7.5% Master/Pred wide (Oct 9) · 6.7% all-ranks last 7 days (October 9). Down to #2 and still S. The October 1 update was the 3rd nerf wave: passive slide lateral control −50%, Nitro Gate slide control −25% for its users, aim assist off inside the Gate, Gate push 700→650, Kickstart chase 10→8s and max knock-up 700→650. The wide Master/Pred board shows her down about 70% on the week. Earlier waves: Marked cut her slide boost 5s→3s and made Kickstart damage her and displace her squad, and the Aug 21 package cut her Ult (CD 90→120s, HP 200→150, stun 1.5→0.25s). Top-100 Preds still run her in the #1 trio. Official EA listing: Skirmisher, she/her.
S	Pathfinder	Skirmisher	14.4% Pred pick rate (Oct 9, Predator top-100, 52.5% WR / 99,817 games, #3) · 14.5% Split 2 Pred average (#3) · 9.9% Pred (Aug 31) · 16.8% Master/Pred wide (Oct 9, #2) · 8.6% all-ranks last 7 days (October 9, #1). Holds #3 and gained 4.5 points since August 31. Untouched in Marked, the Aug 21 package, Split 2 and the October 1 update. #1 at Gold (9.2%), Platinum (12%) and Diamond (15.8%) on the October 9 per-rank boards, and #1 all-ranks. Double tactical charges and the flat 20s cooldown carry from the Season 29 midseason. The steadiest S-tier if Axle’s slide does not fit your hands.
A	Octane	Skirmisher	6% Pred pick rate (Oct 9, Predator top-100, 50.9% WR / 41,790 games, #4) · 4.8% Split 2 Pred average · 3.8% Pred (Aug 31) · 8.2% Master/Pred wide (Oct 9, #3) · 7.3% all-ranks last 7 days (October 9). Up from #6 to #4 at Pred: the Skirmisher that took Axle’s slots after the October 1 nerf. Still #1 in Bronze (9.8%) and Silver (9.1%). Pad + stim stay the readable climb kit. Held at A, 8 points under the S row.
A	Revenant	Assault	5.9% Pred pick rate (Oct 9, Predator top-100, 50.6% WR / 40,559 games, #5) · 3.7% Split 2 Pred average · 5.5% Pred (Aug 31) · 4.9% Master/Pred wide (Oct 9) · 2.9% all-ranks last 7 days (October 9). Highest Assault on the Pred board and steady since August. Held in A. An 8-point Pred gap sits between him and the S row.
A	Seer	Recon	5.5% Pred pick rate (Oct 9, Predator top-100, 50.8% WR / 38,335 games, #6) · 6.5% Split 2 Pred average · 9.5% Pred (Aug 31) and 6.3% (September 20) · 3.7% Master/Pred wide (Oct 9) · 3.1% all-ranks last 7 days (October 9). Moved S → A. Pred share fell from 9.5% to 5.5% since August 31, and the Split 2 Pred average has Vantage above him. The turn-slow saga: the launch ‘reduction’ shipped increased by mistake (Respawn corrected it Aug 11), the Aug 21 package removed turn-slow entirely, and the 14 September notes kept it gone. Still the top Recon on the top-100 board.
A	Vantage	Recon	4.7% Pred pick rate (Oct 9, Predator top-100, 52.8% WR / 32,460 games, #7) · 8.6% Split 2 Pred average (#4) · 2.1% Pred (Aug 31) · 4.3% Master/Pred wide (Oct 9) · 3.1% all-ranks last 7 days (October 9). Biggest riser in A: 2.1% → 4.7% on the top-100 board and #4 on the Split 2 Pred average. Best win rate in the top 10 (52.8% on 32,460 games). Axle / Loba / Vantage is the 2nd most common Pred trio. Marked fixed her Ult failing to multiply damage on successive shots.
A	Mad Maggie	Assault	3.2% Pred pick rate (Oct 9, Predator top-100, 48.9% WR / 21,953 games, #8) · 6.2% Split 2 Pred average · 3.3% Pred (Aug 31) · 6.6% Master/Pred wide (Oct 9) · 5.5% all-ranks last 7 days (October 9). The page had her S on Aug 7 at 9.7% Master/Pred. Pred top-100 still has her #8. The Split 2 Pred average (6.2%) and the wide Master/Pred board (6.6%) read higher · that is the range, and no number in it is S. #2 at Platinum (7.4%) on the October 9 per-rank boards.
A	Alter	Skirmisher	2.8% Pred pick rate (Oct 9, Predator top-100, 49.6% WR / 19,678 games, #9) · 5.1% Split 2 Pred average · 3.5% Pred (Aug 31) · 3.9% Master/Pred wide (Oct 9) · 4.3% all-ranks last 7 days (October 9). The October 1 update fixed her Tactical and Ultimate failing near large moving structures. Holds A on both Pred slices. Our S row stays pick-rate clustered, so she stays A.
A	Gibraltar	Support	2.6% Pred pick rate (Oct 9, Predator top-100, 47.9% WR / 17,788 games, #10) · 1.1% Split 2 Pred average · 2.4% Pred (Aug 31) · 3% all-ranks last 7 days (October 9). 2nd Support on the top-100 board behind Loba. The Split 2 Pred average reads lower (1.1%), so he sits at the bottom of A. 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 (Oct 9, Predator top-100, 47% WR / 15,321 games, #11) · 3.3% Split 2 Pred average · 2.2% Pred (Aug 31) · 4.5% Master/Pred wide (Oct 9) · 5.5% all-ranks last 7 days (October 9). Soft hold. Top 10 in Bronze (5.1%) and Diamond (5%) on the October 9 per-rank boards. Smoke teaches resets; no patch since Marked has touched her kit.
A	Horizon	Skirmisher	1.8% Pred pick rate (Oct 9, Predator top-100, 48.2% WR / 12,737 games, #12) · 1% Split 2 Pred average · 2.1% Pred (Aug 31) · 3.6% Master/Pred wide (Oct 9) · 2.9% all-ranks last 7 days (October 9). Bottom of A and slipping: 2.1% → 1.8% on the top-100 board. Soft win rate next to Vantage and Sparrow. The lift comes from pick presence. Conversion is flat.
A	Conduit	Support	1.7% Pred pick rate (Oct 9, Predator top-100, 48.1% WR / 11,438 games, #13) · 2.2% Split 2 Pred average · 0.9% Pred (Aug 31) · 3.4% all-ranks last 7 days (October 9). Moved B → A. The Split 2 kit refresh nearly doubled her Pred share (0.9% → 1.7%), and the Split 2 Pred average puts her above Gibraltar and Horizon. Was S on the Aug 7 page. Point-and-click shields still forgive beginners.
B	Catalyst	Controller	1.2% Pred pick rate (Oct 9, Predator top-100, 47.8% WR / 8,081 games, #14) · 0.7% Split 2 Pred average · 0.4% Pred (Aug 31) · 2.6% all-ranks last 7 days (October 9). Moved C → B. The Split 2 buffs tripled her Pred share since August 31, and she is now the top Controller at Pred. The community ranked-rat read has numbers behind it this split.
B	Valkyrie	Recon	0.9% Pred pick rate (Oct 9, Predator top-100, 55.9% WR / 6,057 games, #15) · 0.2% Split 2 Pred average · 1.2% Pred (Aug 31) · 2.1% all-ranks last 7 days (October 9). Holds B. Shares the best Pred win rate on the board (55.9%) on a small sample. The Aug 7/12 pages still had her at 6.5% Master/Pred. Marked cut tac 25→15, Ult height −15%, Eye In The Sky 250→100m.
B	Sparrow	Recon	0.8% Pred pick rate (Oct 9, Predator top-100, 52.9% WR / 5,765 games, #16) · 1.4% Split 2 Pred average · 1.6% Pred (Aug 31) · 2.4% all-ranks last 7 days (October 9). Share halved since August 31. Win rate stays high (52.9%), and his Iconic Ryu skin from the Street Fighter 6 event keeps him visible in pubs. Some Pred trios still run him as a stack pick. Separate from a default.
B	Crypto	Recon	0.7% Pred pick rate (Oct 9, Predator top-100, 55.9% WR / 5,149 games, #17) · 0.8% Split 2 Pred average · 0.6% Pred (Aug 31) · 0.9% all-ranks last 7 days (October 9). Moved C → B. Ties Valkyrie for the best Pred win rate (55.9%), and both Pred slices hold him at 0.7–0.8%. Needs a premade; do not sell him as a solo-q climb.
B	Wraith	Skirmisher	0.7% Pred pick rate (Oct 9, Predator top-100, 46.8% WR / 4,605 games, #18) · 1.2% Split 2 Pred average · 0.8% Pred (Aug 31) · 3.1% Master/Pred wide (Oct 9) · 7.1% all-ranks last 7 days (October 9). Holds B. All-ranks last 7 days has her #3 at 7.1% · pubs. Separate from the ladder. No patch since Marked has touched her.
B	Caustic	Controller	0.6% Pred pick rate (Oct 9, Predator top-100, 53.1% WR / 4,195 games, #19) · 0.3% Split 2 Pred average · 0.8% Pred (Aug 31) · 2% all-ranks last 7 days (October 9). Holds B, now the 2nd Controller behind Catalyst. His Iconic Blanka skin from the Street Fighter 6 event runs to October 13. All-ranks 2% is pubs.
B	Mirage	Support	0.5% Pred pick rate (Oct 9, Predator top-100, 50.9% WR / 3,217 games, #20) · 0.6% Split 2 Pred average · 0.4% Pred (Aug 31) · 2.2% all-ranks last 7 days (October 9). Moved C → B on the 0.5% line, with both Pred slices at 0.5–0.6%. Experienced-lobby read. Separate from a climb pick.
C	Newcastle	Support	0.4% Pred pick rate (Oct 9, Predator top-100, 48.3% WR / 2,498 games, #21) · 0.2% Split 2 Pred average · 0.3% Pred (Aug 31) · 1% all-ranks last 7 days (October 9). Marked removed the Extended Supply Bins his Support class perk existed to open. Do not pick Support for a bin that is gone.
C	Lifeline	Support	0.3% Pred pick rate (Oct 9, Predator top-100, 47.5% WR / 2,177 games, #22) · 0.3% Split 2 Pred average · 0.4% Pred (Aug 31) · 3.8% all-ranks last 7 days (October 9). Loba took the Support slot. Lifeline is #2 in Bronze (6.7%) on the October 9 per-rank board; Pred is 0.3%. Adoption is not a ladder argument.
C	Ash	Skirmisher	0.3% Pred pick rate (Oct 9, Predator top-100, 45.1% WR / 1,923 games, #23) · 0.5% Split 2 Pred average · 0.3% Pred (Aug 31) · 2.7% all-ranks last 7 days (October 9). 2nd-lowest Pred win rate on the board (45.1%); she was lowest on both August snapshots. Official EA listing: Skirmisher.
C	Fuse	Assault	0.3% Pred pick rate (Oct 9, Predator top-100, 47.3% WR / 1,797 games, #24) · 0.5% Split 2 Pred average · 0.8% Pred (Aug 31) · 3.3% all-ranks last 7 days (October 9). Moved B → C. The Split 2 buffs (blast resistance and Knuckle Jumper in the base kit, a faster Motherlode) did not reach Pred: his share fell from 0.8% to 0.3%. Low elo still runs him (6.1% Bronze, 6.3% Gold, 6.1% Platinum on October 9). Marked moved the 30-30 Repeater off floor loot into the care package.
C	Wattson	Controller	0.3% Pred pick rate (Oct 9, Predator top-100, 49.9% WR / 1,733 games, #25) · 0.5% Split 2 Pred average · 0.3% Pred (Aug 31) · 2.5% all-ranks last 7 days (October 9). Moved B → C. This edition tiers on the pick-rate line alone, and she sits under 0.5% on the top-100 board. Her Iconic Cammy skin from the Street Fighter 6 event is a pubs draw.
C	Bloodhound	Recon	0.2% Pred pick rate (Oct 9, Predator top-100, 50.7% WR / 1,324 games, #26) · 0.4% Split 2 Pred average · 0.4% Pred (Aug 31) · 0.3% Master/Pred wide (Oct 9) · 2.4% all-ranks last 7 days (October 9). The 2-slice law in 1 row. August 11 had them #1 in Bronze and Silver; the October 9 Bronze board has them 7th at 4.8%, behind Octane. The rework novelty has faded: all-ranks 9.3% (Aug 8) → 2.8% (Aug 31) → 2.4% (October 9) · even after the official Aug 21 package buffed the cloak (less visible in the dome, ring damage no longer breaks it, +1s tactical scan) and Split 2 buffed the kit again. Cloak is a low-elo IGL tool. Separate from a Diamond ticket. Official they/them.
C	Rampart	Controller	0.1% Pred pick rate (Oct 9, Predator top-100, 48.3% WR / 986 games, #27) · 0.1% Split 2 Pred average · 0.3% Pred (Aug 31) · 1.2% all-ranks last 7 days (October 9). Moved B → C. Marked was a real buff (wall 400/600/800→600/700/800, deploy 0.5s faster, Sheila move 70→104), yet her Pred share fell to 0.1% on both Pred slices. Respawn’s own note said she still struggles outside a good position.
C	Ballistic	Assault	0.1% Pred pick rate (Oct 9, Predator top-100, 42% WR / 690 games, #28) · 0.1% Split 2 Pred average · 0.1% Pred (Aug 31) · 0.6% all-ranks last 7 days (October 9). Last on the Pred board, with the lowest win rate (42%). Marked removed the Weapon Supply Bins his Assault class perk existed to open.

Note: these are pick rates 1st, win rates 2nd. A Master/Pred number and a Pred top-100 number are different slices · Axle 18.6% (Predator top-100) vs 7.5% (wide Master/Pred, October 9) is the cleanest example this month, and both stay in her row. In August the example was Loba: 12.4% on August 11 Master/Pred vs 22.8% on the August 31 top-100 board. Bloodhound sat at #1 on the August 11 Bronze/Silver board while the October 9 Bronze board has Octane #1; they are last-tier at Pred either way · that disagreement is the story. Separate from a reason to put them in S.

What changed in October:

• October 1 update (official): Axle’s passive slide lost 50% of its lateral control. Nitro Gate users lose 25% slide control and aim assist inside the Gate, and the Gate push drops from 700 to 650. Kickstart drones chase for 8s (was 10s), max knock-up drops from 700 to 650, and a lock-on right after deploy knocks up much less. Alter’s Tactical and Ultimate now work near large moving structures. In Apex KO, Fighter Defense went from 55% to 50%, and Ryu, Chun-Li and Dhalsim store 2 Ult charges (was 3).
• October 2 update: a fix for Steam settings that reset on every launch, and Fast Draw Wild Card cuts (reload time bonus 35%→25%, consumable use bonus 50%→25%).
• October 6 update: from October 7, cross-play is the default matchmaking option for all platforms on US-West servers until the season ends on November 3; console players can switch it off. Broken Moon floor geometry fixed.
• October 8 update: console movement fixes for Ash (dash and double jump), Sparrow (double jump), Revenant (climb and mantle) and Lifeline (run animation).
• Apex Legends VS Street Fighter 6 (22 September to 13 October): an Apex KO Wildcard takeover with Ryu, Chun-Li, Akuma and Dhalsim fighting styles on a remixed Olympus, plus 8 Iconic skins: Sparrow as Ryu, Alter as Chun-Li, Bangalore as Elena, Mirage as Luke, Gibraltar as Akuma, Wattson as Cammy, Caustic as Blanka and Pathfinder as Dhalsim.
• Next: the Blood Pact event starts October 13 on Kings Canyon and runs to November 3.
• Ranked matchmaking results (30 September): the Season 29 tests (1-tier premade limit, Diamond+ solo queue) will stay off. The 2-rank premade rule stays. Bigger Ranked changes are planned for Seasons 31 and 32.

What is live: Season 30 Marked, launched August 4, 2026 (patch notes Aug 3). This is a rework season. Separate from 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 4 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 2nd 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 (1 magazine per 18s, paused while firing or reloading). Strong in short fights, weak in long ones.
• Corrupted Attachments: a new high-tier rarity, 1 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 in October: the 2 data slices still disagree, and the October 1 nerf widened the gap on Axle. All-ranks last 7 days (October 9) has Pathfinder at 8.6%, Octane 7.3%, Wraith 7.1%, Loba 6.8%, Axle 6.7%, Bloodhound 2.4%. Predator top-100 (October 9) is Loba 23.3%, Axle 18.6%, Pathfinder 14.4%, Octane 6%, Seer 5.5%, Bloodhound 0.2%. The wide Master/Pred board sits between them on Axle (7.5%) and Maggie (6.6%). On August 31 the same top-100 board read Axle 23.3%, Loba 22.8%, Pathfinder 9.9%, Seer 9.5%. We place the S–C table on the Pred cluster and keep the other numbers in the sentence.

Ranked in Marked Split 2: ladders are 5 days. Official windows: 22–27 September, 29 September–4 October, 6–11 October, 13–18 October, 20–25 October, 27 October–1 November. Ladders 1 and 2 are done; Ladder 3 runs to 11 October. Season 30 ends November 3, 2026. The August mid-season balance pass is official. Separate from a rumour: Respawn announced it on Steam on August 21, aiming for Tuesday August 25 · the 2nd 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 1 Legend per role from the A-band that forgives mechanical mistakes. In Bronze/Silver that also covers Octane and Bloodhound. Ignore Pred 1-tricks until you can win gunfights.

• Assault: Bangalore. Smoke teaches you resets, and no patch since Marked has touched her kit, so nothing you learn this month goes stale. She is top 10 in Bronze (5.1%) on the October 9 board.
• Skirmisher: Octane · #1 in Bronze (9.8%) and Silver (9.1%, October 9). The pad and stim are readable; move to Pathfinder once rotations start deciding your games · he is #1 from Gold through Diamond on the October 9 per-rank boards. Axle is S at Pred, and the October 1 nerf made her slide harder to hold in tight corners · not a beginner default.
• Support: Loba. She is #1 at Predator (23.3% pick rate, October 9) and #4 at Gold (5.8%). Conduit is the easier shield kit and moved up to A after her Split 2 refresh. Use Loba to learn the loot game and Conduit to learn positioning.
• Recon: Bloodhound is a reasonable beginner pick in Bronze/Silver (#1 on August 11; 4.8% Bronze on the October 9 board, behind Octane). The cloak is forgiving and the scan does the map-reading. Do not expect Pred results: 0.2% Pred pick rate (October 9). Seer is the Recon that keeps paying past Gold (5.5% at Pred).
• Controller: skip as a 1st main. If you want a rat kit later, Catalyst is the community ranked-rat read and the top Controller at Pred this split (1.2%, October 9).

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• Primary: Predator top-100 pick rate, October 9, 2026. The board updates daily at midnight GMT and is top-100 Preds on PC, PlayStation and Xbox · not every Master.
• Cutoffs this edition: S at 10% Pred pick or more, A from 1.5%, B from 0.5%, C under 0.5%. The gap between Pathfinder (14.4%) and Octane (6%) is the S line.
• Split 2 cross-check: the Split 2 Pred average across 822 tracked Predators (15 September to 7 October): Loba 19.6%, Axle 15.7%, Pathfinder 14.5%, Vantage 8.6%, Seer 6.5%, Maggie 6.2%. Same top 3, same order.
• History: the September 20 board (Axle 25.9%, Loba 22.5%, Pathfinder 12.9%, Seer 6.3%), the August 31 edition and the August 24 snapshot of the same Pred board (Axle 25.2%, Loba 22.8%, Seer 11%, Pathfinder 9.3%, Maggie 3%, Bloodhound 0.3%).
• Rank bands: per-rank pick-rate boards, October 9 (34.7M-player DB, players currently in that rank, any game mode · quoted with that caveat), plus the August 31 boards and the August 11 Master/Pred and Bronze–Master tables (30M+ players, page published Aug 11). Used for #1-by-band and for the range when they disagree (Bronze #1: Octane on October 9 vs Bloodhound on the August 11 Bronze board; Axle 18.6% Pred top-100 vs 7.5% wide Master/Pred).
• All-ranks novelty: insights, last 7 days, October 9. Quoted only where it diverges from Pred by more than a band.
• Patch truth: official EA Marked notes (August 3, 2026), the official mid-season balance package Respawn announced on Steam on August 21 (2nd Axle nerf, Bloodhound cloak buffs, Seer turn-slow removed entirely), the 14 September Split 2 notes, and the October 1, 2, 6 and 8 updates on Steam (3rd Axle nerf wave, Alter fix, Fast Draw cuts, the US-West cross-play test, console movement fixes).
• Off this page: Season 29 editorials stay off this page. A rework does not rank on all-ranks hype. A percentage without a published board stays off the page.

The honest caveat for this edition: Pred top-100 and Master/Pred-all are different populations. When they disagree the sentence keeps the range. Win rates on the Predator board are quoted because the samples are 6 figures on the S row (Loba 160,906 games; Axle 128,282; Pathfinder 99,817) · they were not quotable on August 7.

Predator top-100 pick rates sit on the live board and refresh at midnight GMT. The written percentages on this page are the October 9 read. The Split 2 Pred average (822 tracked Predators, 15 September to 7 October) is the cross-check, and the September 20 and August 31 boards are the history: Axle 25.9% and 23.3%, Loba 22.5% and 22.8%. Per-rank boards cover 34.7 million players currently in that rank, any game mode. All-ranks last 7 days, October 9, is pubs and novelty.

Kit numbers come from the official Marked notes (August 3), the mid-season balance announcement on Steam (August 21, aimed live August 25), the Marked Midseason Patch Notes (14 September), the October 1 update, the October 6 update and the October 8 update. Ranked test results: Breaking Down Matchmaking Test Results (30 September). Event: Apex Legends VS Street Fighter 6 (22 September to 13 October). Next event: Blood Pact (13 October to 3 November). Axle is a Skirmisher and she/her on the official EA Axle page and the Skirmisher hub. Currency sibling: Apex Coins guide.