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Call of Duty Warzone Best Guns: Season 5 Tier List

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The CBRS-3 leads close range, the FG42 leads long range, and the rest of this list is worth learning before it inevitably gets patched.

Call of Duty Warzone best guns rankings shuffle with almost every balance patch, so here is what leads the pack in Season 5, checked mid-August 2026.

Overall top picks

  1. CBRS-3 (SMG)
  2. FG42 (AR)
  3. MXR-17 (AR)
  4. VST (SMG)
  5. MK35 ISR (AR)
  6. REV-46 (SMG)
  7. Strider 300 (Sniper)

By range

Close range: CBRS-3, VST, REV-46 — all built to win the first half-second of a room-clear.

Long range: FG42, MK35 ISR, MXR-17 — the three ARs that hold their damage profile out to distances where SMGs fall off entirely.

Why the list will age

Weapon balance in Warzone moves on a near-weekly cadence between full seasonal patches and smaller reloaded updates. If a gun on this list feels off compared to what you're reading elsewhere, check the patch date — a ranking from even a few weeks earlier can already be out of date.