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Monthly game recap · Apex Legends · October 2026 · Nov 8, 2026

Apex Legends: October's Big Bang

A CR Cup thunderclap gave Apex Legends its loudest hour, then scrims and Las Vegas watch parties carried October to the finish.

#10 of 1011 games on Twitch · 2.1% of Twitch watch time

The month in numbers

Average viewers
10,670−12% vs September 2026
Peak viewers, all channels
234,203+196% vs September 2026

Sun, Oct 4

Channels
27−2 vs September 2026
Hours streamed
1,444−18% vs September 2026
Hours watched
7,938,627−9% vs September 2026
Share of watch time
2.1%−0.5 vs September 2026

#10 of 1011 games on Twitch

Day by day

Average viewersSeptember 2026

Dashed line: September 2026, aligned by day of the month.

CR Cup pulls the pin

Apex Legends spent October behaving like a quiet room with one extremely large confetti cannon hidden under the chair. Sunday, October 4 delivered a combined 234K-viewer peak, up 196% from September, as the CR Cup finale turned practice-week nerves into appointment viewing.

加藤純一うん〇ちゃん supplied the month’s biggest individual stream at 77K viewers, while fps_shaka, stylishnoob4 and たいじ_たいちゃんねる made the same weekend feel like one giant group call with increasingly expensive consequences. The final-circle crash clip was the appropriate souvenir: Apex giveth, Apex disconnecteth.

The grind never left

Away from that opening detonation, the month ran on competitive discipline. Watchers fell 9% to 7.9 million hours and average viewership slipped 12%, but live time dropped an even sharper 18%. Fewer hours, fewer channels, and still #10 among games on Twitch: that is less a disappearance than a crowd refusing to leave the arena after the lights dim.

ImperialHal__ was the workhorse, filling 172 hours with international scrims, ranked sessions and tournament preparation. NiceWigg kept the broadcast desk warm through 152 hours, while the GameSir finals gave the middle of the month a useful reminder that Apex players consider “one more game” a binding legal contract.

Vegas gets the last word

The month’s final stretch belonged to the ALGS Split 2 Playoffs in Las Vegas. NiceWigg surged to 21K viewers on the opening tournament weekend, while 加藤純一うん〇ちゃん returned for a 27K-viewer support mission on Halloween. The international LAN gave the month a second pulse, smaller than CR Cup’s opening blast but much more durable.

That split personality explains October neatly. Japanese streams generated the big community-event fireworks, English streams supplied the relentless scrim and watch-party engine, and the result was a month with a spectacular peak despite softer totals almost everywhere else.

Who carried the month

Channels with at least 3 streams and 5 hours in Apex Legends this month. Arrows compare with the month before.

Most watched

  1. 1Same place as before
    加藤純一うん〇ちゃんLast month: 24,388 · 9 streams
    27,070
  2. 2Same place as before
    fps_shakaLast month: 18,050 · 4 streams
    22,108
  3. 3Same place as before
    stylishnoob4Last month: 13,597 · 6 streams
    16,524
  4. 4Same place as before
    たいじ_たいちゃんねるLast month: 9,702 · 6 streams
    9,781
  5. 5New: New in this chart
    k4sen5 streams
    6,812

Most hours watched

  1. 1Up 1 from #2
    加藤純一うん〇ちゃんLast month: 1,312,992 h · 50 h
    1,521,200 h
  2. 2Up 7 from #9
    fps_shakaLast month: 251,606 h · 45 h
    1,053,546 h
  3. 3Down 2 from #1
    stylishnoob4Last month: 2,169,191 h · 52 h
    909,318 h
  4. 4Same place as before
    NiceWiggLast month: 658,794 h · 152 h
    896,466 h
  5. 5Down 2 from #3
    ImperialHal__Last month: 903,604 h · 172 h
    660,712 h

Most hours live

  1. 1Up 1 from #2
    ImperialHal__Last month: 175 h
    172 h
  2. 2Down 1 from #1
    FaideLast month: 180 h
    156 h
  3. 3Up 3 from #6
    NiceWiggLast month: 121 h
    152 h
  4. 4Down 1 from #3
    ボドカさんLast month: 175 h
    86 h
  5. 5Up 3 from #8
    sweetdreamsLast month: 94 h
    82 h

Most loyal

  1. 1Same place as before
    FaideLast month: 100% · 156 h
    100%
  2. 2Up 2 from #4
    sweetdreamsLast month: 80% · 82 h
    100%
  3. 3Down 1 from #2
    ImperialHal__Last month: 85% · 172 h
    98%
  4. 4Down 1 from #3
    NiceWiggLast month: 80% · 152 h
    79%
  5. 5Up 4 from #9
    Towa Ch. 常闇トワLast month: 48% · 29 h
    73%

Most new followers

  1. 1Up 3 from #4
    stylishnoob4Last month: +6,429
    +10,358
  2. 2Up 1 from #3
    加藤純一うん〇ちゃんLast month: +7,046
    +7,421
  3. 3Down 1 from #2
    fps_shakaLast month: +8,257
    +7,337
  4. 4Up 9 from #13
    NiceWiggLast month: +2,993
    +6,340
  5. 5Up 4 from #9
    Jasper7seLast month: +4,105
    +5,977

New this month

Moved on

2 channels streamed it last month and not this month.

The biggest stream

加藤純一うん〇ちゃん drew 76,853 viewers on Sun, Oct 4.

１７時よりCRカップ優勝会場

Clips of the month

When Apex Legends was watched

Average viewers per hour of the week, UTC. Empty cells: fewer than two observed days.

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Languages of the channels

Share of channels by broadcaster language.

Personal bests

New in the Apex Legends most-followed ranking

Loose loot

Next drop

Apex exits October with a clean handoff: Las Vegas competition still has the spotlight, while the incoming Cipher season gives ranked regulars a fresh reason to queue. The next month has room for both spectacle and the ordinary, glorious misery of solo queue.

If October proved anything, it is that Apex does not need a steady drumbeat to make noise. Give the scene a big community cup, a packed LAN weekend and a few streamers willing to stay live forever, and the lobby fills itself.

No streams announced on Twitch schedules yet. See the schedule →

What else these channels streamed

Numbers cover the Twitch channels Streamer Times follows, not all of Twitch. Peak viewers add up every channel of the franchise in its best hour.