Apex Legends has innovated and rethought a number of facets of the battle royale style, however one factor they determined to maintain just about as-is, and that’s what Respawn have referred to as the Ring. This Ring operates in a lot the identical method because the Storm in Fortnite and the Playzone in PUBG, forcing gamers nearer collectively over the course of every match, and damaging these caught exterior the border.
But there’s so much happening underneath the floor of this method, and we haven’t discovered wherever that explains all of the stats and breaks down the totally different rounds of a match correctly. So we thought we’d do it ourselves!
Our Apex Legends Ring information will stroll you thru the rounds of a match, and the behaviour and stats you’ll be able to count on from the Ring at every second. We additionally reply questions equivalent to: how lengthy can an Apex Legends match go on for? And how small can the Ring get? Find out all this and extra beneath.
While you’re right here, you might discover it helpful or fascinating to take a look at our fundamental Apex Legends guide, which we’ve full of tonnes of information on just about each side of this glorious new battle royale, from play the totally different Apex Legends characters to utilizing the in-depth Apex Legends Ping/Communication system, and rather more.
Apex Legends Ring information and stats
There’s a stunning quantity to be taught in regards to the motion and behavior of the Ring over the course of an Apex Legends match. Fortunately you’re in precisely the correct place to search out out every thing you’ll want to know. Click on any of the hyperlinks within the contents part beneath to be introduced immediately to the data you so want.
Guide Contents
| Apex Legends Rounds per match |
| Apex Legends Ring stats and stages (Circle sizes, damage stats) |
| How long can an Apex Legends Match go on for? |
Apex Legends Rounds per match
A match in Apex Legends is damaged into smaller sections referred to as Rounds. You can simply hold observe of which spherical of a match you’re at the moment in, both by listening out for the announcer who tells you when a brand new spherical begins, or by checking slightly below your minimap within the top-left of your display screen for the circled quantity, which all the time signifies your present spherical.
There are a most of Eight rounds in complete in a match, and every of those Rounds will be damaged up additional right into a Wait interval, and a Closing interval. During a Wait interval, you’ll be able to see on the map the place the Ring will shrink to subsequent, providing you with an opportunity to make your approach there earlier than it will possibly attain you. Once the Wait interval is over, thee Closing interval begins, throughout which the Ring will contract till it reaches its projected vacation spot.
If you’re caught exterior the Ring at any time, you’ll start to undergo Health injury each 1.5 seconds. This injury ignores no matter Shields you might have, and offers solely Health injury to you, which makes it essential that you simply both keep inside the Ring or carry sufficient Apex Legends healing items to maintain your self alive throughout your forays by this injury zone.
The above is a composite I created of the dimensions and positions of each Ring in an Apex Legends match. Click the picture to view it at highest decision.
Apex Legends Ring stats and levels (Circle sizes, injury stats)
At the start of a match, there’s a 10-second countdown earlier than gamers could start to drop from the Transport Ship; after which there’s a interval of round 75 seconds earlier than the primary spherical begins and the presence of the Ring makes itself recognized upon King’s Canyon.
In the beneath desk we’ve catalogued every thing we all know in regards to the Ring at every Round of a match, damaged as beforehand talked about into Wait intervals and Closing intervals. Bear in thoughts that there’s a interval of about Four seconds between every Wait interval and Closing interval which we’ve ignored for the needs of the beneath stats.
Note: all of the Circle sizes relate to the diameter of the Ring at totally different intervals, and has been labored out based mostly on our calculations of the size and width of the King’s Canyon map, which we’ve labored out to be round 1,925m x 1,925m.
| Round | Wait Period | Closing Period | Damage Per Tick | Ring Diameter | % Area of Previous Ring |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 4m | 2m 30s | 1 | 1115m | 26% (of map space) |
| 2 | 3m 30s | 1m 3s | 2 | 680m | 37% |
| 3 | 3m | 35s | 5 | 410m | 36% |
| 4 | 2m 15s | 28s | 5 | 105m | 6.6% |
| 5 | 2m | 18s | 10 | 80m | 58% |
| 6 | 1m 30s | 5s | 10 | 40m | 25% |
| 7 | 2m | 6.5s | 10 | 4m | 1% |
| 8 | 20s | 1s | 10 | 0m | 0% |
As you’ll be able to see there are some stunning jumps in behaviour at sure factors. For instance, the distinction in Ring measurement between Rounds Three and Four is far bigger than every other transition, which suggests at this level there’s a important improve within the pace of the Ring’s motion. Another oddity is that the Wait interval truly will increase between Round 6 and Round 7, giving gamers extra time to get into the ultimate and tiniest of circles for when Round Eight arrives.
It’s additionally value noting that the Ring caps out at its most 10 injury per tick (6.67 DPS) in the beginning of Round 5 – although in fact, it’s pretty uncommon {that a} match will see a fifth Round, not to mention an eighth. Most matches that we’ve performed and seen are inclined to go on till Round Four or 3 (and even 2), at which level one workforce usually manages to seek out the others and win the match.
How lengthy can an Apex Legends Match go on for?
Taking all this into consideration, we are able to truly work out with a good quantity of accuracy how lengthy an Apex Legends match can go on for. Adding up all of the Wait and Closing interval durations offers us a determine of 23m 41.5s; add to this the 10 seconds earlier than dropping from the Transport Ship in the beginning of the match, after which the 75 seconds earlier than Round 1 begins… AND the 4-second delays between every Wait and Closing interval…
All in all, the time between the very starting of a match and the purpose the place the Ring shrinks to nothing is 26 minutes and 6.5 seconds.
Of course, gamers can proceed to heal themselves after this level… however I’ll go away another person to determine precisely how lengthy they may survive. I presume it entails some mixture of Lifeline’s passive and tactical skills, an enemy that for some purpose has no real interest in killing you, and a Gold Backpack stuffed with Med Kits or Syringes. You might most likely lengthen your life by a superb 10 minutes when you actually needed to; however that’s not likely enjoying the game anymore, is it?
Anyway, that’s every thing we’ve bought on the Ring and the way it behaves and offers injury over the course of an Apex Legends match. Hopefully you’ve emerged from this stat-heavy information slightly extra enlightened as to the unusual quirks and simple energy of the ever-shrinking Ring.
