Apex Legends characters [inc. Octane] – skills, hitboxes, prime suggestions for every Legend

Season 1 of Apex Legends has introduced with it a brand new character: the High-Speed Daredevil that’s Octane, the ninth Legend in Apex Legends’ formidable roster. So we thought it excessive time to revisit our Apex Legends characters information and refill it with ideas, suggestions and tips on every Legend in flip, evaluating their strengths, weaknesses, hitboxes, and talents with each other to present you an thought of how one can play each to the most effective of their (and your) skills.

If you’re after extra details about the discharge of Season 1 and all of the adjustments which have taken place, your greatest wager could be our Apex Legends Season 1 and Apex Legends update pages. If you’re on the lookout for a extra basic overview of Apex Legends, nevertheless, head over to our predominant Apex Legends tips/guide, which we’ve filled with suggestions and hyperlinks to the 50+ different detailed guides in our Apex Legends collection.

Apex Legends characters information – suggestions, skills, hitboxes

We’ve obtained so much to cowl with every of those Apex Legends characters, and we all know you’re seemingly after data on one character specifically. So to that finish, you possibly can click on on any of the hyperlinks slightly below to be introduced straight to any explicit part on this information.

Apex Legends characters overview

Apex Legends is, at its core, a squad-based battle royale. You enter every match with two teammates, and you should all work collectively if you’d like any probability of succeeding. This means you should decide your Legend primarily based on what would greatest synergise with the remainder of your staff. If you lack a healer, decide Lifeline. If you want some tankiness, decide Gibraltar. Let your staff’s decisions information your personal.

Though every of the eight Legends on provide in Apex Legends share the identical well being, motion pace and harm statistics, all of them work very in a different way from each other due to their distinctive skills. Each Legend has one passive potential which is all the time in impact; one tactical potential which can be utilized at any time when it isn’t on cooldown; and one final potential, which is their strongest energy and which have to be powered up over time.

Apex Legends hitboxes – character sizes

One factor which shortly grew to become clear after the discharge of Apex Legends was that some characters has a bigger hitbox than others, and due to this fact had been simpler to hit. It didn’t take lengthy for this phenomenon to be correctly examined; check out the beneath picture, created from the findings of YouTube creator “SookieSpy”.

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Hitboxe dimension and accuracy performs an unlimited half within the total success of a selected character, as a result of the smaller you might be, the tougher you might be to be hit; and there’s no downside to having a smaller hitbox.

Thankfully, the discharge of Season 1 addressed the big discrepancies in hitbox sizes by bringing Gibraltar’s, Caustic’s, and Pathfinder’s hitboxes extra according to their character fashions. For extra data check out our Apex Legends update information. But the final hierarchy above stays the identical, with Wraith and Lifeline (and now Octane too) being the smallest Legends, and Gibraltar and Caustic the biggest and best to hit.

Apex Legends characters – skills and suggestions

Bearing this data on hitboxes in thoughts, allow us to now flip to every of the characters’ skills and total energy stage, to present you an thought of the place their strengths and weaknesses lie.

Octane (new character!)

• Role: High Speed Daredevil
  
• Passive Ability: Swift Mend
  
  • Automatically restores well being over time.
• Tactical Ability: Stim
  
  • Move 30% quicker for six seconds. Costs well being to make use of.
• Ultimate Ability: Launch Pad
  
  • Deploy a soar pad that catapults teammates by the air.

Octane would possibly simply be my new predominant. By far probably the most cell Legend we’ve but had, this high-risk, high-reward pace demon launched with the Season 1 replace is all about pace and acrobatics. His Ultimate permits him to position down Launch Pads like those exterior Market close to the centre of the map, which persist for the remainder of the game and ship anybody who steps on them careening by the air (even larger and additional in the event that they soar as they do it!).

But Octane’s actual bread-and-butter potential is his Tactical, Stim, which permits him to commerce 10 Health for a 30% motion pace buff for six seconds. This makes him an extremely scary and hard-to-ping-down foe who can slide and dance round at a higher pace than some other character in Apex Legends. It’s additionally on only a 2-second cooldown, which suggests if you wish to, you possibly can spent the vast majority of the match at 130% pace.

Of course, you need to stability the chance of taking Health harm every time you Stim, however that is mitigated by your Passive, which slowly restores your Health over time everytime you’re not beneath assault. All in all, Octane is an extremely enjoyable new character; simple to familiarize yourself with, however with a excessive talent ceiling that takes time to grasp. Octane can simply be performed wrongly by being over-cautious or by activating your skills on the flawed time, and in case you land your self in a sticky state of affairs you seemingly received’t final lengthy towards a staff. But in expert fingers, there’s not a lot deadlier than a Stimmed Up, Peacekeeper-touting Octane speeding in direction of your staff.

If you need assistance attending to grips with this high-speed new Legend, check out our new Octane information, which we’ve filled with sensible suggestions and techniques that will help you survive and rack up kills heading into Season 1.

Bloodhound

• Role: Technological Tracker
• Passive Ability: Tracker
  • Foes go away behind clues so that you can discover.
• Tactical Ability: Eye of the AllFather (35s cooldown)
  • Briefly reveal enemies, traps, and clues by all buildings in entrance of you.
• Ultimate Ability: Beast of the Hunt
  • Transform into the last word hunter. Enhances your senses, permitting you to see chilly tracks and transfer quicker.

Bloodhound is an aggressive Legend who seeks to equip the participant with as a lot tactical data as doable. Their passive and tactical skills each permit the participant to trace down and/or get the drop on enemies, whereas Beast of the Hunt, their final, provides them massively elevated pace for a short while and permits them to simply see enemies and their tracks.

The essential factor with Bloodhound is to make full use of your additional sensory energy by alerting your teammates relating to something you uncover. If you discover tracks resulting in an enemy, allow them to know by pinging the tracks. If you possibly can see an enemy by a wall with Eye of the AllFather, ping them instantly. Bloodhound’s 35-second-long final can also be glorious not only for offensive flank assaults but additionally for evasion and retreat, so it’s generally greatest to avoid wasting your final in case issues go downhill and you want to make a speedy exit.

Bloodhound is a surprisingly versatile character, who may be performed at a really excessive talent stage however who additionally is great for rookies on account of their enemy positional consciousness and the escape offered by their final. Just remember that Eye of the AllFather additionally provides away your place to close by enemies, so use it with warning.

Be positive to take a look at our Bloodhound information for additional particulars and tonnes of suggestions and techniques for this Legend.

Gibraltar

• Role: Shielded Fortress
• Passive Ability: Gun Shield
  • Aiming down sights deploys a gun defend that blocks incoming hearth.
• Tactical Ability: Dome of Protection (20s cooldown)
  • Throw down a dome-shield that blocks assaults for 15 seconds.
• Ultimate Ability: Defensive Bombardment
  • Call in a concentrated mortar strike on a place you mark with smoke.

Gibraltar is Apex Legends’ equal of Overwatch’s Reinhardt – a giant protection-focused Legend whose shields present an additional layer of defence not only for himself however for his teammates as properly. And that’s good, as a result of even after Season 1’s hitbox adjustments, Gibraltar’s hitbox is the biggest of all of the Legends, so if it weren’t for his shielding skills he could be very simple to kill.

Gibraltar’s skills are literally glorious, which is why it’s such a disgrace he’s one of many least-played Legends on account of his hitbox dimension. His Passive, Gun Shield, successfully provides him an additional 50 Health towards attackers in entrance of him whereas ADSing, whereas his Tactical Dome of Protection can fully change the tempo and consequence of an encounter when used correctly (or improperly). In expert fingers, these skills allow him to dramatically lengthen the survivability of his teammates and himself.

Gibraltar’s Defensive Bombardment final potential is slow-acting however simple to make use of and offers harm in a really massive space of impact, which is helpful for flushing enemies out from behind cowl, whereupon you possibly can pop your shields, giving your staff the higher hand within the ensuing firefight. Just keep in mind that Gibraltar’s passive defend takes a second earlier than flickering on, so it’s not responsive sufficient to avoid wasting you from the faster sharpshooters on the market.

Our Gibraltar information is filled with additional particulars and tonnes of suggestions and techniques for this Legend, so make sure to test it out.

Lifeline

• Role: Combat Medic
• Passive Ability: Combat Medic
  • Revive knocked down teammates quicker whereas protected by a defend wall. Healing gadgets are used 25% quicker.
• Tactical Ability: D.O.C. Heal Drone (60s cooldown)
  • The Drone Of Compassion (DOC) mechanically heals these close to it over time.
• Ultimate Ability: Care Package
  • Call in a drop pod full of top of the range defensive gear.

Apex Legends’ quintessential assist class, Lifeline’s skills all revolve round therapeutic and reviving teammates, and equipping everybody with sufficient gear to hopefully survive till the tip of the match. What’s good is that not like many assist lessons in comparable games, Lifeline’s passive additionally helps herself, permitting her to make use of therapeutic gadgets quicker and due to this fact spend longer within the battle.

She can hit as onerous as anybody, however on account of her reviving power she ought to intention to be the final of the staff left standing, so don’t use Lifeline because the tip of the spear. Use Care Package as typically as you possibly can to supply high-quality gear for everybody, and save your D.O.C. for encounters with enemies with the intention to hold your staff standing so long as doable.

Check out our Lifeline information for additional particulars and tonnes of suggestions and techniques for this Legend.

Pathfinder

• Role: Forward Scout
• Passive Ability: Insider Knowledge
  • Scan a survey beacon to disclose the ring’s subsequent location.
• Tactical Ability: Grappling Hook (15s cooldown)
  • Grapple to get to out-0f-reach locations shortly.
• Ultimate Ability: Zipline Gun
  • Creates a zipline for everybody to make use of.

Pathfinder is a flexible Legend with a really excessive talent ceiling that’s nonetheless being found by the playerbase. His passive potential could be very situational and never all that helpful aside from situationally on the very finish of a match; however his low-cooldown Grappling Hook is completely marvellous for initiating, escaping, and getting sudden angles on enemies. For this motive Pathfinders make for nice snipers, but additionally glorious close-range combatants. Not solely that, however the Grappling Hook can pull different gamers in direction of Pathfinder, which opens up a wealth of latest clutch fight alternatives for gamers with fast reflexes.

The Zipline Gun final is a fast and helpful approach of travelling longer distances as a staff, although keep in mind that the zipline stays ceaselessly and anybody can use them. You may soar and switch round with the intention to change instructions will on the zipline, and – very importantly – you possibly can intention and shoot whereas travelling. All this combines into a fancy class with nice potential that may slot into almost any staff with out an excessive amount of hassle.

What’s extra, with the Season 1 patch notes Pathfinder’s hitbox reductions have made him tougher to hit than earlier than, additional growing the viability and power of this cheery and versatile Legend.

Our Pathfinder information goes into way more element about this complicated Legend and how one can make the most of his skills, significantly his versatile Grappling Hook.

Wraith

• Role: Interdimensional Skirmisher
• Passive Ability: Voices from the Void
  • You hear a voice when hazard approaches. As far as you possibly can inform, it’s in your facet.
• Tactical Ability: Into the Void (20s cooldown)
  • Reposition shortly by the protection of the ‘void’ house, avoiding all harm.
• Ultimate Ability: Dimensional Rift
  • Link 2 places with portals for 60 seconds.

Wraith’s “interdimensional skirmisher” tag is correct on the cash. Her skills are very mobility- and evasion-focused, together with her predominant power being the tactical potential which permits her to enter a state the place she turns into (largely) invisible and strikes quicker for a short time – although remember that you simply can’t hearth and likewise can’t see enemies whereas this impact is energetic. But this, mixed together with her passive, which whispers when you find yourself being geared toward, permits her to simply reposition herself to counter incoming threats forward of time.

Her Dimensional Rift final takes some planning to make use of successfully, however it may be used to nice impact, permitting a complete staff to shortly re-position themselves for a devastating shock assault on an enemy staff or to flee a troublesome state of affairs with ease. Overall Wraith is a superb initiator and escaper, and in case you had been to select any class to play as a solo with out a staff, it could be Wraith. She additionally has by fairly a margin the smallest hitbox of any Legend, which makes her much more troublesome to pin down and take care of.

For full particulars on this highly effective top-tier Legend, check out our centered Wraith information, which we’ve filled with in-depth data and superior suggestions and techniques.

Bangalore

• Role: Professional Soldier
• Passive Ability: Double Time
  • Taking hearth whereas sprinting makes you progress quicker for a quick time.
• Tactical Ability: Smoke Launcher (25s cooldown)
  • Fire a excessive velocity smoke canister that explodes right into a smoke wall on influence.
• Ultimate Ability: Rolling Thunder
  • Call in an artillery strike that slowly creeps throughout the panorama.

Bangalore is definitely much less of a damage-dealing tank than you would possibly anticipate, although her skills give her some glorious assist and utility energy, and she will slot into any staff with out an excessive amount of effort. Her Double Time passive is simply very nice to have, permitting you to flee additional harm that a lot faster; and you may synergise this with a well-timed Smoke Launcher shot to shortly flank an enemy or escape from a troublesome place.

Her final is one other slow-use and situational area-of-effect energy which is definitely higher for defensive performs and zone management than outright damage-dealing. But if appropriately positioned it could flip the tide of a battle and permit your staff to come back out on prime with a well-executed flank assault or reposition.

For full particulars on this aggressive and cell Legend, give our in-depth Bangalore information a learn, and also you’ll achieve the whole lot you want to know on one of many strongest characters within the present Apex Legends meta.

Caustic

• Role: Toxic Trapper
• Passive Ability: Nox Vision
  • You achieve risk imaginative and prescient on enemies transferring by your gasoline.
• Tactical Ability: Nox Gas Trap (12s cooldown)
  • Place as much as 6 canisters that launch lethal Nox gasoline when shot or triggered by enemies.
• Ultimate Ability: Nox Gas Grenade
  • Blanket a big space in Nox gasoline.

Caustic is considered one of two Legends which have to be unlocked utilizing in-game assets or foreign money with the intention to play with them – 12,000 Legend Tokens or 750 Apex Coins to be exact. He is in fact proof against the consequences of his Nox gasoline (he’d be fairly ineffective if not), and his skills all revolve round spamming an space with gasoline to sow confusion and drive enemies into or out of particular areas.

For this motive he is a superb flanker and initiator in fights, although his canisters may sow confusion amongst your personal staff members, so it’s essential that you simply talk the whole lot you see along with your Nox Vision passive.

Be positive to take a look at our Caustic information for tonnes of suggestions, tips, stats and techniques on this complicated and distinctive Legend.

Mirage

• Role: Holographic Trickster
• Passive Ability: Encore!
  • Automatically drop a decoy and cloak for five seconds when knocked down.
• Tactical Ability: Psyche Out (14s cooldown)
  • Send out a holographic decoy to confuse the enemy.
• Ultimate Ability: Vanishing Act
  • Mirage deploys a staff of decoys to distract enemies, whereas he cloaks.

Mirage is the opposite Legend locked behind an preliminary in-game paywall, requiring 12,000 Legend Tokens or 750 Apex Coins to buy, however as soon as unlocked he’s unmatched at distracting and complicated enemies. All his skills revolve round stealth and holographic decoys, every of which can be utilized in particular methods. His final may be saved both for escaping from troublesome conditions or for aggressive initiates on enemy groups utilizing the power’s cloaking impact.

It’s a disgrace that Mirage lacks extra range in his powers, as a result of as issues at the moment stand he isn’t a lot of a staff participant. But his decoys, if used appropriately, can distract enemies lengthy sufficient to rack up a substantial amount of kills over the course of a match. And Respawn have mentioned that they’ll be trying to deliver Mirage’s energy stage extra according to the opposite characters when Season 1 begins, so it’s good to get to know him now in preparation.

Our Mirage information will assist you familiarize yourself with this character when you’ve unlocked him, providing a number of helpful suggestions and techniques to make use of for every of his skills.

That ought to be sufficient to get you higher acquainted with all of the Apex Legends characters as we head into Season 1; however as we and the remainder of the neighborhood positive aspects extra expertise with these various roster of characters and talents we’ll make sure to replace this and all the opposite pages with the newest methods and stats. So examine again quickly!