Apex Legends Lifeline information [Season 1] – skills, hitbox, Lifeline ideas and methods

Lifeline stands out as the healer of the Apex Legends characters roster, however she has completely no hassle meting out as a lot injury to her foes as anybody. There are some wonderful causes to play as Lifeline past providing a serving to hand to your teammates, and our Apex Legends Lifeline information is the proper place to start out your journey together with her. We’ll stroll you thru every of her skills in flip, together with ideas and data on use every to the most effective of your skills.

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Apex Legends Lifeline information [Season 1] – ideas, stats, skills

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Lifeline information overview – character strengths and weaknesses

Lifeline’s skills all centre round therapeutic and gear, and all of them can be utilized to profit not solely your teammates however your self as properly. Her Passive might not look like a lot at first, but it surely’s an extremely helpful dual-benefit capacity which allows you to rapidly and safely revive knocked teammates, and heal your self at an elevated fee. Combine this together with her Tactical capacity, which supplies additional therapeutic to your squad over time, and also you rapidly start to grasp why Lifeline is such a worthwhile a part of the Apex Legends character roster.

Her Ultimate is probably essentially the most helpful within the game, offering wonderful loot on your staff at numerous moments all through a match – however it’s a double-edged sword, as we will focus on under. All of Lifeline’s skills are very timing-sensitive – if you happen to use them beneath the fallacious circumstances you then and your staff might rapidly wind up useless. But if used appropriately, you’ll discover that not solely is she a vital asset to her staff but additionally a pressure to be reckoned with in her personal proper.

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Lifeline hitbox vs different Legends

The above is a composite of assorted hitbox images created by YouTuber “SookieSpy”, which carry to gentle the unbelievable discrepancies in character hitboxes in Apex Legends. Season 1 introduced with it some modifications to the hitboxes of Gibraltar, Caustic, and Pathfinder to raised match their character fashions, however the truth stays that Gibraltar is about twice the dimensions of Wraith, and thus, twice as straightforward to hit.

As you possibly can see, Lifeline’s comparatively petite body provides her with a a lot smaller hitbox than most, which implies that she is the second hardest to hit Legend of all, overwhelmed solely by Wraith. Combined together with her therapeutic abilities and the high-tier gear offered by her Care Packages, and Lifeline can grow to be very troublesome to kill certainly.

Lifeline skills information

As beforehand talked about, Lifeline’s skills, from her underrated Passive to her extraordinarily worthwhile Ultimate, revolve round offering therapeutic, gear and security for your self and your staff. However, not like a personality akin to Wraith, Lifeline’s skills are all very distinct and there may be not an excessive amount of alternative for synergising these skills with each other. All it is advisable get a deal with on is when to make use of every capacity for optimum profit.

Passive capacity: Combat Medic

Lifeline’s Passive capacity has three completely different results, every of which might be helpful sufficient to be a Passive capacity in their very own proper; but it surely all combines into one of the vital underrated and wonderful Passives on the Apex Legends market.

Firstly, you possibly can revive teammates sooner, and defend them with an impenetrable defend wall as you achieve this – simply bear in mind to level your self within the course you need to defend your self from earlier than you do it. And additionally keep in mind that utilizing it’s like lighting a flare and blaring out the phrases “WE’RE OVER HERE” on loudspeakers throughout the entire canyon, as a result of its glowing brightness makes you very straightforward to identify.

In addition you’ve got a base discount within the time it takes to make use of therapeutic objects, which allows you to get well all of the faster from the injury you maintain and stay within the battle for longer.

Passive Ability Tips

• The therapeutic time discount of Lifeline’s Passive stacks with the Gold Backpack impact. For extra data on this and the opposite Legendary objects within the game, take a look at our Apex Legends Armor and Gear information.
• You and your teammates ought to keep in mind that Lifeline ought to at all times be the reviver, as a result of even with out the defend wall the revival takes a shorter time whether it is Lifeline doing the reviving.
• Lifeline’s Shield Wall may be very straightforward to identify from afar, so by no means use it when enemies are close by, or when they’re approaching from a number of instructions.
• You can not rotate the Shield Wall whereas reviving, so be sure to’re trying within the appropriate course while you start the revive.
• You heal rapidly in Apex Legends anyway, however with Lifeline you heal very rapidly. So together with her greater than anybody, be sure to heal. You solely want a handful of seconds behind cowl.

Tactical capacity: D.O.C. Heal Drone

Lifeline’s Drone is a situationally very helpful capacity, however there are some widespread misunderstandings in relation to utilizing it correctly and beneath the right circumstances. On the floor it’s easy: you pop the power, and your little drone friend-o comes out and connects to all close by teammates (together with Lifeline). While linked, you obtain a heal over time till the Drone disappears otherwise you transfer out of its vary.

But there’s somewhat extra happening beneath the floor. The quantity of therapeutic offered is cut up between nonetheless many gamers the Drone is linked to, which suggests a single participant linked to the Drone will heal extra Health than if three gamers have been hooked up to it and therapeutic concurrently.

Newer gamers have a tendency to make use of the Drone to “top up” teammates during times of downtime, and save precise therapeutic objects for the battle; however really, you need to use the Drone in fight wherever doable, and content material your self with Syringes throughout downtime moments.

Tactical Ability Tips

• Lifeline’s Drone can soak up pictures (and subsequently act as cowl) within the warmth of battle. Bear in thoughts nonetheless that it may be destroyed pretty simply.
• You can push the Drone round if want be – and you’ll even place Gibraltar’s Dome of Protection atop it, permitting you to maneuver the Dome round.
• You can use the Drone to battle exterior the border very successfully, because the heal-per-second will outweigh the DPS of early Rings (for additional data on Ring phases and injury, take a look at our Apex Legends Ring information).
• Your Drone will heal enemies too if they’re shut sufficient, so it’s greatest used at medium or lengthy vary if in fight.

Ultimate capacity: Care Package

Lifeline’s Care Package might be essentially the most worthwhile Ultimate in Apex Legends – therefore its very lengthy cost time. When activated, you possibly can select the place to put your Care Package, which is able to drop from the sky over the course of the subsequent 15 seconds. When it lands, it behaves in precisely the identical method as a Supply Drop (with three high-tier items of loot contained inside), although the loot is mostly barely much less worthwhile than in Supply Drops, and you can’t get gold weapons – the Kraber and Mastiff – from Lifeline’s Care Packages.

Nevertheless, it’s an especially helpful talent for use as many occasions as doable over the course of a match to assist package your staff out with the most effective gear out there; and which means Lifeline needs to be given each single Ultimate Accelerant that your staff comes throughout.

Ultimate Ability Tips

• Be cautious the place and while you resolve to name down a Care Package, as a result of though it doesn’t present up on the minimap like regular Supply Drops it’s nonetheless very seen and acts as a beacon marking your location for close by enemies.
• Of the three objects in a Care Package, one will likely be a therapeutic merchandise, one will likely be a weapon attachment, and one will likely be a bit of substances.
• The excessive probability to comprise an Epic (Purple) Helmet or Body Shield is the first purpose why Lifeline’s Ultimate is so worthwhile.
• You might be crushed (not knocked however killed) beneath a descending Care Package, so watch out.
• You can climb atop a Care Package, so intelligent placement of it would allow you to achieve laborious to entry areas.
• Care Packages can be utilized as cowl if want be, as they can’t be shot by.
• Calling down a Care Package needs to be a staff transfer, not a solo transfer. Share the loot amongst your staff, and stick collectively whereas close to a Care Package.
• You can inform a Lifeline Care Package from a traditional Supply Drop from the accent color. Care Packages are blue, Supply Drops are pink.

How to play Lifeline – high Lifeline ideas and techniques

Finally, let’s end up with some extra normal ideas and methods on profitable Apex Legends matches as Lifeline.

• Ultimate Accelerants belong to you. If  there’s a Lifeline in your staff, then all Ultimate Accelerants ought to go to her. Her ult is essentially the most highly effective on your squad as a complete, and likewise essentially the most prolonged to cost.
• Look for each alternative to utilize your skills. While you possibly can play independently as Lifeline, you’re the main healer of your group and it’s essential to verify in your teammates throughout fights to see if anybody wants your help.
• Take benefit of your fast therapeutic. You your self profit from elevated therapeutic velocity, which suggests you’ve got even much less excuse to not duck behind cowl for the few seconds it’ll take to pop that Phoenix Kit. For extra data on the completely different therapeutic objects and their durations, take a look at our Apex Legends healing items information.
• Don’t be grasping with Care Package loot. A rising tide raises all boats. Don’t hoard all of your Care Package loot for your self. Just since you name it down doesn’t imply it belongs to you. Share together with your teammates.

Congratulations! You are actually an skilled at taking part in Lifeline. Can you’re feeling all that newfound data and expertise pulsing by your synapses? Now go win some matches because the Combat Medic Champion of King’s Canyon.