Rank (Halo Wars 2)

Game rank in Halo Wars 2 is the rank given to a player in-game. Halo Wars 2 offers two kinds of ranking scheme; a Competitive Skill Rank (CSR) similar to Halo 5: Guardians Arena and an XP-based Spartan Rank more related to systems seen in Halo: The Master Chief Collections updated rank scheme or that seen in Halo: Reach.

CSR
CSR takes the form of a seasonal league structure, with a very similar organisation to the system employed in Halo 5: Guardians.

Spartan Rank
Spartan Rank is an XP-based rank scheme that levels a player up based on XP accumulated and gametime played. There are 99 levels to achieve, with each level-up earning the player a Blitz pack. XP can be gained by playing all gamemodes (such as campaign, Terminus Firefight, non-competitive playlists and others), and is not indicative of a player's skill level.

Each rank is accompaned by a military rank from the UNSC rank structure, though the titles themselves change once every other level (IE a player is ranked as an Army Private at Rank 7, and is changed to a Corporal when they hit Rank 9). At launch, there were only 50 ranks available to achieve, with "6th Star" being the final attainable unlock. In the November 10, 2017 balance patch, an additional 49 ranks were added into the game to unlock; ranks 51-98 simply retain the title of "6th Star", with rank 99 being the title of Reclaimer.

Cut ranks
Within the Halo Wars 2 game files, there exists an unused alternate ranking system. Unlike the UNSC military ranks shown in the table above, these take the form of Banished ranks, and are listed as follows; Due to the ranks being cut from the game, they only cover the original levels 1-50 available in the launch of Halo Wars 2, and were not updated to include ranks 51-99.


 * Rank 1: Fresh Unggoy
 * Rank 3: Unggoy Minor
 * Rank 5: Unggoy Major
 * Rank 7: Unggoy Ultra
 * Rank 9: Unggoy Leader
 * Rank 11: Unggoy General
 * Rank 13: Hunter Minor
 * Rank 15: Hunter Major
 * Rank 17: Hunter Ancient
 * Rank 19: Sangheili Minor
 * Rank 21: Sangheili Major
 * Rank 23: Sangheili Ultra
 * Rank 25: Commander
 * Rank 27: Sangheili General
 * Rank 29: Sangheili Marshal
 * Rank 31: Jiralhanae Minor
 * Rank 33: Jiralhanae Major
 * Rank 35: Jiralhanae Ultra
 * Rank 37: Jiralhanae Captain
 * Rank 39: Jiralhanae Cpt. Major
 * Rank 41: Jiralhanae Cpt. Ultra
 * Rank 44: Chieftain
 * Rank 47: War Chieftain
 * Rank 50: Chieftain of the Jiralhanae