WARDOGS Weapon Tier List: The TTK Model

The model

How the tier list is built

WARDOGS never publishes weapon stats, so this ranking starts from figures recorded first-hand in the August Closed Beta: per-weapon rate of fire and per-calibre base damage. Twenty of the twenty-five weapons in that recording carry both numbers. The remaining five are missing a figure and stay unranked rather than being guessed into a letter.

Shots to kill is 100 health divided by damage, rounded up; time to kill is the firing intervals between those shots, printed in milliseconds. The 100-health baseline is hypothetical — no player health value has been published — so every TTK figure is really a ratio wearing the units of a millisecond. It compares weapons honestly, and it will not match a stopwatch.

Tier S

S — fastest across the bands

Three weapons lead the model in every range band. The FAL pairs battle-rifle damage with an unusually high rate of fire; the SVD and BMR-308 trade a little speed for reach. All three are expensive, and all three feed the Recon or Assault tracks.

S tier — fastest modelled time to kill across close, medium and long bands

	#	Weapon	Price	Role	Dmg	RPM	Shots	TTK	Close	Med	Long
	1	FAL	$6,500	Battle rifle	60	650	2	92 ms	206 ms	347 ms	677 ms
	2	SVD	$4,800	DMR	55	480	2	125 ms	306 ms	356 ms	533 ms
	3	BMR-308	$6,000	DMR	60	450	2	133 ms	326 ms	380 ms	568 ms

Tier A

A — competitive, range-dependent

Six weapons hold their own at close and medium range and fall away at long range. This is where the assault-rifle core sits, including the free Bushmaster M17S — identical model figures to the A-91 and KH-2002 at zero cost.

A tier — competitive modelled TTK, more range-dependent

	#	Weapon	Price	Role	Dmg	RPM	Shots	TTK	Close	Med	Long
	4	SUPER-45	$2,600	SMG	30	1200	4	150 ms	194 ms	538 ms	1,617 ms
	5	M4	$2,800	Assault rifle	28	800	4	225 ms	325 ms	592 ms	1,289 ms
	6	T-21	$600	Assault rifle	28	750	4	240 ms	347 ms	631 ms	1,375 ms
	7	A-91	—	Assault rifle	28	700	4	257 ms	371 ms	676 ms	1,473 ms
	8	BUSHMASTER M17S	$0	Assault rifle	28	700	4	257 ms	371 ms	676 ms	1,473 ms
	9	KH-2002	—	Assault rifle	28	700	4	257 ms	371 ms	676 ms	1,473 ms

Tier B

B — viable, less forgiving

Viable picks whose modelled performance drops with range or requires a longer burst. The M249 SAW is the interesting row: strongest close-range LMG figure in the set at mid price.

B tier — viable modelled TTK, less forgiving of missed shots

	#	Weapon	Price	Role	Dmg	RPM	Shots	TTK	Close	Med	Long
	10	AK74	$1,600	Assault rifle	26	650	4	277 ms	400 ms	728 ms	1,586 ms
	11	GALIL	$2,200	Assault rifle	28	650	4	277 ms	400 ms	728 ms	1,586 ms
	12	M249 SAW	$3,200	LMG	28	850	4	212 ms	364 ms	812 ms	1,946 ms
	13	AMP-9	$900	SMG	22	900	5	267 ms	340 ms	914 ms	2,711 ms
	14	MP5	$1,500	SMG	22	800	5	300 ms	382 ms	1,028 ms	3,050 ms
	15	GGX 18	$800	Machine pistol	22	1200	5	200 ms	353 ms	1,339 ms	4,950 ms

Tier C

C — niche on this model

Slow on shots-to-kill arithmetic — which is precisely the wrong yardstick for a bolt-action rifle bought for the one shot it does not have to repeat, and for sidearms carried in a second slot. Read the tier letter as a statement about the model, not the weapon.

C tier — niche on a shots-to-kill model

	#	Weapon	Price	Role	Dmg	RPM	Shots	TTK	Close	Med	Long
	16	M1911	$300	Pistol	30	430	4	419 ms	636 ms	1,854 ms	5,442 ms
	17	DEAGLE	$900	Pistol	49	267	3	449 ms	712 ms	2,183 ms	6,517 ms
	18	MOSIN NAGANT	$4,500	Sniper rifle	55	46	2	1,304 ms	4,493 ms	3,044 ms	3,712 ms
	19	SV98	$5,200	Sniper rifle	55	46	2	1,304 ms	4,493 ms	3,044 ms	3,712 ms
	20	SCOUT RIFLE TD	$1,100	Sniper rifle	28	46	4	3,913 ms	10,290 ms	7,391 ms	8,729 ms

No letter yet

Unranked — missing a core figure

Five recorded weapons lack a damage or rate-of-fire figure. They stay out of the letters rather than being guessed in.

Unranked recorded weapons — missing a core stat

	Weapon	Price	Role	Dmg	RPM	Shots
	GGX 17	$200	Pistol	22	—	5
	M500	$1,200	Shotgun	—	120	—
	MP43	$400	Shotgun	—	900	—
	PKM	$4,500	LMG	55	—	2
	SKS	$2,400	DMR	42	—	3

Model assumptions

What the range bands assume

A weapon does not land every shot at 200 metres, so each band re-runs the same arithmetic at an assumed hit rate, held constant within an archetype so the comparison stays like-for-like. The hit rates are the largest assumption on this page; replacing them with measured play-test figures is the single biggest improvement available.

Cost meets the model

What a rank actually costs

In WARDOGS every purchase competes for the same wallet, so a ranking that cannot see price is not finished. Put the tier rank beside the price tag and ask one question: could you have paid less and done better? A weapon is on the frontier when nothing cheaper in the table outranks it — five of the twelve priced and ranked weapons survive that test.

The line that does the most work is the free one. The Bushmaster M17S is the faction recruit rifle, it costs nothing, and on this model it outranks five weapons you would pay up to $3,200 for. One caveat the table cannot hold: its vendor tile in the test build said it cannot equip attachments, and attachments are on the model's own list of things it does not know about. A paid rifle you can build on is not competing with a free one on rank alone.

Priced and ranked weapons, cheapest first — frontier rows marked in the verdict

	Weapon	Price	Budget	TTK rank	Verdict
	BUSHMASTER M17S	$0	0%	8	Frontier — nothing cheaper ranks higher
	T-21	$600	6%	6	Frontier — nothing cheaper ranks higher
	AMP-9	$900	9%	13	Bushmaster ranks higher for $900 less
	MP5	$1,500	15%	14	Bushmaster ranks higher for $1,500 less
	AK74	$1,600	16%	10	Bushmaster ranks higher for $1,600 less
	GALIL	$2,200	22%	11	Bushmaster ranks higher for $2,200 less
	SUPER-45	$2,600	26%	4	Frontier — nothing cheaper ranks higher
	M4	$2,800	28%	5	SUPER-45 ranks higher for $200 less
	M249 SAW	$3,200	32%	12	Bushmaster ranks higher for $3,200 less
	SVD	$4,800	48%	2	Frontier — nothing cheaper ranks higher
	BMR-308	$6,000	60%	3	SVD ranks higher for $1,200 less
	FAL	$6,500	65%	1	Frontier — nothing cheaper ranks higher

The economy

Why cost can overrule the ranking

You open your account with $10,000 and buy your kit out of that balance, and the balance does not refill when you die — cash persists from match to match, so a loss is a real loss. Spend it all on the best rifle and you have no armour, no utility, and no way to reach the Control Zone.

So the real question is best weapon per dollar, and beneath that, what the whole build costs. A rifle that is 90% as good for half the price is not the second-best choice — it is usually the correct one, because the money it frees buys the rest of your kit and survives a bad streak. The best-weapons guide covers the full cash loop, and the vehicles page extends the same wallet to the vendor's other counter.

Honest limits

What the model does not know

• Armour, helmets and durability — every figure is against an unarmoured target
• Hit-location multipliers, which is why bolt-actions and sidearms read so poorly here
• Penetration and ammunition types
• Range falloff, drag and bullet travel
• Recoil, spread and handling
• Attachments and build parts — including the free rifle's attachment restriction
• Magazine capacity and reload
• Real player pick rate and actual cost efficiency at scale