esports are growing every year it's pretty awesome thing to experience players are
always looking to make the game more skill based and one way that has been pushed forward in cod
is gun bans if a certain weapon is too powerful tournament organizers may consider banning it
from plane if that doesn't happen well sometimes the players will take matters into their own hands
what is up everybody chaos here today we're going to be looking at the top 10 guns that have been
banned from competitive call of duty throughout the years for one reason or another so be sure
to let me know which of these used the most drop a like and let's start off with the ak-47
in cold war now compared to modern warfare black ops cold war was a much more interesting
game from a competitive standpoint the faster gameplay the more movement-oriented map design
it made things a lot more fun to watch and the players certainly felt more engaged
now most cod games will ban lmgs and shotguns from competitive play out of the gate
and there was an assault rifle that caused a lot of problems in cold war that eventually
found itself hit with that ban hammer the ak was largely seen by the community to have too much
power behind every shot and a far too generous fire rate for suck strength it was the target of
a few gentlemen's bands before being officially booted out of competitive play in june of 2021
it was near the end of the official season but i guess they eventually got it there next up is the
jarenko anti-tank sniper rifle in vanguard now if you're a fan of the barrett 50 cal or
the ptrs back in the day you probably you loved using this thing ridiculous sniper was added to
the game a little ways after launch so a lot of people missed it but the power behind every shot
was insane let's call it a tank buster i mean it's expected it was an anti-tank weapon
and it was super satisfying and apparently the pros thought too much of it in march of 2022
it was announced that the granco had been banned from competitive play likely because it's
extremely generous one-shot kill range now in a competitive setting weapon this insanely powerful
in one life modes like search and destroy i mean come on in a game like vanguard with so many
straight sidelines the amount of sniper camping this gun would have encouraged was just too much
the 1911 in vanguard it's always interesting when a pistol gets banned from competitive
play now it's unprecedented some pistols have been removed from competition in the most recent
case was the vanguard 1911. in november of 2021 it was announced that the 1911 sniper like qualities
had gotten hit with the band hammer after a number of pros voiced concerns about the potential
now the original version of it was pretty insane at long range and in a competitive setting
that may have been a little too much impact on how a team function i mean if a pistol is the best gun
in the game then every single player is going to primarily run it right i mean why why wouldn't
they it even had a two shot kill class that seemed to work at every range on every part of the
enemy's body which was too good for a competitive scene the 1911 truly has been one of the most up
and down guns in cod history in some games it's awful in other games it's so good it gets banned
the xm4 in cold war now the ak was the main talk of competitive players for the season wasn't
theo's only assault rifle that caused problems the only difference was this one actually got banned
way earlier the xm4 was one of the most popular guns in the game because it was just versatile
the prototype m4a1 had a great fire rate generous damage low recoil and same number of attachments
to keep your damage as high as possible it was popular in almost every casual and competitive
match of black ops cold war from day one but in march of 2021 it was officially pulled out of the
competitive league organization heads were fed up with how well the xm4 performed just about every
scenario and they decided to make a move to get some more variety in the tournaments so while the
ak may have had a louder well had louder critics the xm4 was banned much earlier in the season
at number six the bar in vanguard now when vanguard came out it was a it was a big
point of conversation fire rate was drastically toned down from its cod world war ii iteration
but the vanguard bar it was very powerful capable of killing enemies with just two bullets from
pretty far away the bar and the stg were arguably the best mid-range guns in the game and ever after
a few patches it was still deemed too powerful the bar had officially been restricted from play
in the cdl due to its versatility and the insane damage per shot now in the hands of a pro player
the gun was too much i think the cdl made the right call at number five the rampart 17 in black
ops 4. it was basically the black ops 4 version of the iconic scar h fired relatively slow hit like a
mack truck in a game like black ops 4 that was a really good personality trait the ram park could
kill in three to four shots which was insane for black ops foreign in a competitive setting
it's too good now it was never officially removed from competitive play but it was taken
care of via gentleman's agreements at nearly every event because of the great time to kill
it just changed the flow of the game too much and the competitive community felt the need to take
matters into their own hands and ban it themselves at number four today all tactical rifles in cold
war now we've talked about a couple cold war bans already but outside of the assault rifle category
a lot of guns found themselves at the mercy of the new cdl rule set so when the cold war
season started tactical rifles like the dmr and the m16 were legal in tournament play but
after the game had been out for some time the community tinkered around in the gunsmith
this category of weapons started causing a lot of problems so after a series of gentlemen's
agreements treyarch finally updated the competitive rule set in february of 2021
they banned all tactical rifles it was actually a controversial update in the cod community because
with this change over a third of the guns in black ops cold war have been banned from competitive
play i'm all for narrowing down the sandbox in order to make the game more competitive but never
before had we seen such a massive percentage of the game been restricted from competition
it was a big deal the m1 grand in cod world war ii now with how hard the fg-42 and the
bar were spammed back in that game you might be shocked to learn that neither of those guns
was banned from competition despite not being the most popular pick in pubs the m1 garand
got a lot of attention from the competitive community due to its two shot kill potential in
the high fire rate cap now compared to most other guns in cod world war ii the grand had a very
fast theoretical time to kill when it was in the hands of somebody with great aim like a pro player
it could be arguably game breaking it was banned via gentlemen's agreements in many
competitive matches due to how much it changed the flow of the game when every single player in
the game had really good aim and speaking of semi-auto rifles that broke competitive play
we segued into number two the foul osw and black ops 2 maybe the most popular band i don't know
now the foul was introduced in modern warfare 2 but it was brought back in black ops 2 and that
version was legendary it was one of the best assault rifles in franchise history mobility
no recoil insane two cut or two shot kill range it could delete people from anywhere i mean faster
than the target possibly react and since the average pro player had good aim it was a problem
people were getting deleted as soon as they came out of the spawn and there was other great guns
being completely left behind because of how much the foul outperformed all of them eventually
treyarch themselves stepped in they banned the weapon from competitive play because even a nerf
wouldn't be enough to tone it down this was one of the first times in cod history that a developer
stepped in to remove a gun from competitive play instead of just patching it and it wouldn't be the
last in fact it wasn't even the last band in black ops 2. and now we arrive at number one the cat 40
in black ops 2 arguably the best machine pistol in cod history full auto beast introduced in b02
found itself victim to treyarch's bandhammer after the first few events of the season now because of
its insane fire rate and low recoil was actually a better close range weapon than most of the smgs
in the game and since every player could have it in their pocket it was an issue when everybody has
a pocket smg they're not going to use actual smgs as much and it would completely change the dynamic
of the game the cat 40 was officially banned from competitive player just a little while after the
season began and it's still remembered as one of the best secondaries in the entire series and you
know what i agree i was there for those days that was the team caliber days when we first started
and i remember the day it actually got banned it was pretty crazy let me know what you guys think
let me know which of these you think wasn't deserving of a band and i'll see you soon
you