Starter Guide Legend Understandings
by E9ine_ACOriginal Post
This Guide is not finished yet it is a base copy I made. I will soon be adding more in-depth gameplay tactics to each legend. This still needs lots of work and trimming,
Apex Legends Starter Guide
Introduction: Apex Legends in my view is a very aggressive very fast-paced first-person shooter. There is always action around any corner then the fun begins. Sometimes for seconds sometimes for minutes sometimes the entire map in one section fighting rolls up ready to rumble.
The key to Apex Legends is coms and placement. If these 2 can not be done then the games will be very hard for you. It is very good practice to use your pings properly or voice coms to give your team live time information. A lot of time pings can be useless as when the player non-stop spams his ping this makes things much worse for those in the way. I suggest only 1-3 pings to give your team an indication that someone is pushing.
The next key to Apex Legends is loot. Do not spend a lot of time looting a box or the map. If you have a shield, helmet, 2 guns, and ammo with shields and heals then your ready to fight. When you spend a long time looting a crate it actually cripples your team. This makes it so if they get pushed you are not even there to help protect and assist. When that fight is done you loot shields heals ammo and swaps then move on. No need to loot 6 boxes if 1 contains everything needed to progress forward.
Next comes to me the most important thing about Apex Legends when in an intense fight. This is movement. Movement can save your life more than you could imagine. this allows you to outsmart the enemies because they can not keep up or know where you are or when you will return. Some will argue that aim is most important while it is very important to aim does not win fights most of the time. It's being outplayed with movement mixed with the aim that wins fights. Anyone can shoot a sitting duck but can someone shoot someone outmaneuvering them?
Next of course comes Aim. This also is very important to master. Recoil can sometimes be rough to learn the patterns but once you do you will fry. Once you get movement and aim down then you will see the huge difference from how you would play without being taught or told.
Supporting your team is a very high priority. Either is being helped with other players pushing or even handing over 2 cells of the 4 you had. Even having 120 light and dropping a teammate 40. Better the 3 of you be somewhat set up than you alone. 3 is better than 1. You must always be strong together to win fights. So supporting your team even though your low is common practice do not be scared to do so the favor will be returned if needed.
Do not be scared to push fights with your team. What this means is if you see your team and 2 are pushing to an enemy then you should follow and focus on who they are shooting at. Sitting back and sniping is cool and all but this goes back to the support section. If they push you to push don't sit back sniping where your team is killed and you are completely alone.
Legends
Bangalore
Bangalore is quite an aggressive legend as well as an escape artist with her smoke. She can be played both passively and aggressively with high outcome of success. Seeing she can smoke the enemies and surroundings it is very good practice to carry Thermal Optics.
Passive Ability: Double Time - This bad boy is what makes her one of the strongest legends in the game. When shot at she gains movement speeds that are quite fast. She is able to out most other legends. This ability can be used passively or aggressively.
Tactical Ability: Smoke Launcher - This ability allows you to toss cannons of smoke to the area of your choice. This can be used for escape by disorienting the other team. This also can be used aggressively with Thermal Optics to full outrush the team with full view.
Ultimate Ability: Rolling Thunder - This ability sends an artillery stroke across a quite wide area. This can be used to engage enemy teams to push them away from you to escape. This ultimate is very useful for multiple situations. This ultimate does have a minor delay of going off once landed on the ground. So it is not instant damage.
BloodHound
Bloodhound is quite a legend. He is a recon legend who can display and track enemies nearby. He is very vital to a team comp. He also can scan for the next ring which is a great tool to use to see how far you will need to run or where a circle will just close in general to better position yourself.
Passive Ability: Tracker - This ability allows Bloodhound to fully track enemies near by with their footsteps still showing for him. These last only so long but can get to the 1-minute range of enemies passing through this area. This will allow you to fully follow those footsteps to where the enemy team is.
Tactical Ability: Eye of the Allfather - This ability allows you to send out a massive scan that will display enemies near you in the direction you point it. It is very vital that when scanning inside buildings that you do not point it straight forward. You must point this scan to the floor you believe they are. So if above look at the roof and scan if below look at floor and scan.
Ultimate Ability: Beast of the Hunt - This ability is very very strong. It will give you a black and white screen but the best part of it that it highlights your enemies for only yourself. This would mean for the time you see it up you pretty much have night vision goggles that highlight enemies. Another big thing is it reduces your Scan time making it so you can scan a lot more and faster.
Caustic
Caustic is a trapper. He is able to choke you to do or trap a room for his and his team's safety. He is a better champion is closed areas but can also win some fights outside in the open with strategy.
Passive Ability: Nox Vision - This allows the caustic to see through his smoke to see the enemies clearer.
Tactical Ability: Nox Gas Trap - This ability throws out a trap that will slow the movement of enemy players and cause them to take damage over time if inside the infected area. This trap can be used passively or as offensive. This trap can be thrown on doors to stop enemy teams from opening them or can lay them beside doors to effect enemy running inside.
Ultimate Ability: Nox Gas Grenade - This bad boy releases a massive gas death trap that does the same as your traps but with greater damage and much wider area of effect.
Crypto
This legend is another recon legend. He is great at scouting scanning for rings with other perks.
Passive ability: - Neurolink - When inside your surveillance drone if your enemies are within 30 meters and in view of your drone they will light and show you their location.
Tactical Ability: - Surveillance Drone - This drone allows you to locate enemies, open crates, recover downed teammates crates, lastly the strongest one yet you can instantly res your team if has no counter when at a res station once you click.
Ultimate Ability: - Drone Emp - This when inside your drone or outside of it allows you to send a massive emp that will damage player's shields as well as slowing them. This ability does not hurt player's hitpoints. It also disables traps once it is hit. Be warned though this emp, if you are inside the ring, will also affect you and slow you as it does the enemies.
Gibraltar
This legend is very strong and vital to a competitive ranked match or regular matches. He can be aggressive or he can be passive or he can be support or all 3 to the right player. He has the most hit points in the game due to his passive.
Passive Ability: - Gun Shield - This when aiming down sight of your weapon it pulls up a shield that will allow you to absorb damage up to 100 hitpoints before going away and going on cool down. You will be able to lose shields and hitpoints once this shield has absorbed its damage.
Tactical Ability: - Dome of Protection - This puts up a half-moon dome over the location you send it to. This allows you and the team to sit inside this dome and recoup and or block incoming ultimates grenades or bullets. This ability also allows this legend to res much faster when inside the dome. It does have a bit of a cooldown so use it wisely.
Ultimate Ability: - Defensive Bombardment - This ability is very very strong and should be used wisely. This allows him to call in air support to drop mortar strike to the location he throws his smoke grenade to. Unlike Bangalores ultimate, this does instant damage once it lands.
Horizon
This legend is very strong and tactical. She can escape she can lure she can trap.
Passive Ability: - This allows the legend to strafe in the air with more control and greatly reduces fall impact.
Tactical Ability: - Gravity Lift - This allows the legend to throw down a gravity lift to lift straight in the air. There are many tactics that can be used here with this. From getting up high shooting people to escaping to even throwing it on the team inside buildings.
Ultimate Ability: Black Holy - This throws down a NEWT which has a gravity pull and wants to pull things inside it. From bullets to grenades to players. This combined with Gravit lift inside a build is a very deadly combo.
Lifeline
This Legend is very strong and vital to any type of gameplay. She offers the most support in the game to her teammates than any other legend.
Passive Ability: - Combat Medic - This ability allows you to run up to a downed teammate and instant click res the player with a shield around them and you. Do note though when this is going off for one teammate and you go to res another you will res like other legends. This res shield offers you to shield up behind it block grenades bullets and more.
Tactical Ability: - D.O.C Heal Drone - This ability allows you to pull out a healing drone that lasts for a brief period. It can heal you and your teammates as well as the enemies. It is common practice for a lifeline to pop their heal drone before tapping someone for a res to help them get that boost to recoup.
Ultimate Ability: - Care Package - This ability is strong in terms of support. It drops a package that will have many items with it. From attachments to armor to heals/res beacon. It is good common practice to drop your care package while in a fight in the hopes it will have purple armor for quick swaps when needed.
Loba
This is a unique legend. She is capable of many things from escaping to hard pushing to robbery.
Passive Ability: - Eye for Quality - This allows Loba to see nearby epic or legendary items through crates and buildings.
Tactical Ability: - Burglars Best Friend - This allows her to teleport herself by throwing her bracelet in the direction of your choosing. Do note this does have a hand animation. You may also throw your bracelet and retap q to instant port to its location instantly once it's thrown.
Ultimate Ability: - Black Market Boutique - This is a very strong ability. This allows Loba and her team to remove 2 items from that area as well as unlimited ammo. This also allows her to go to a vault with epic and legendary items are and steal 1 item from it without having the key. Only Loba can steal from the vault. Do note a alarm will go off and ring once you have taken a item from the vault.
Mirage
This legend is very good at tricking other players and have the ability for stealth. He also kind of loves himself a lot.
Passive Ability: - Encore - This ability when downed deploys a decoy of himself and makes Mirage invisible for a short period. He also can res players while doing so he and the player become invisible for the duration of the res.
Tactical Ability: - Psyche out - This ability allows you to launch a decoy of yourself in any direction you point to. You also can control this decoy. The default hotkey for it will allow you to control your decoys to mimic what you are doing to trick the enemies into thinking it is you.
Ultimate Ability: - This ability launches a team of decoys these decoys also can be controlled with the default key to mimic you. To step it up a little bit launch your Psyche out then ultimate then press the default key set to have the maximum amount of decoys up being controlled.
Octane
This legend is a little nuts. He is fast he is swift you will hear the stim boost but will you have time to see him coming?
Passive Ability: - Swift Mend - This ability allows octane to regen health over time. This helps him when trying to run further and faster or just not having the heals you need.
Tactical Ability: - Stim - This ability is what makes Octane the fastest legend in the game. He will inject himself and run at speeds no one can obtain. Be warned though this does consume hitpoints to run this fast.
Ultimate Ability - LaunchPad - This ability allows Octane to throw down a launchpad to launch himself or his teammates away from an area or into an area. Like other jump pads in the game, this one can allow the double boost.
Pathfinder
This legend is another recon legend and support. He can help the team escape or help the team push or himself to push or self escape. He also is capable of scanning for the next rings.
Passive Ability: - Insider Knowledge - this ability allows him to scan for the next ring closer.
Tactical Ability: - This allows the legend to throw out a grapple to take him a vast distance compared to other legends. The longer the grapple the longer the cool down. The shorter the grapple the shorter the cooldown is.
Ultimate Ability: - This throws out a grapple that hooks objects. It can allow your team to push another quickly or to escape.
Rampart
This legend is both aggressive and supporting. Her shields offering support to damage for the team aggressive being can move forward planting shields one by one for protection.
Passive Ability: - Modded Loader - This ability allows you to have increased magazine capacity when using LMG weapons and also reloads them quicker.
Tactical Ability: - Amped Cover - This ability allows you to drop protection and damage shield. It takes a short period to build but offers a few different things. One being when you shoot through the shield on the blue side it increases you and your team's damage. It will also allow the block of enemy teams bullets until it has been absorbed and is destroyed. The bottom half remains till destroyed.
Ultimate Ability: - Emplaced Minigun Sheila - This plants a mounted minigun on your target point in front of you that anyone can use. It has a very high ammo capacity with a slow reload time. It is best to use your shields with this to increase its damage by a lot.
Revenant
This legend is creepy he is dark he demands control. He offers a few things to a party from aggressive gameplay to supporting the team for stronger plays.
Passive Ability: - Stalker - This ability allows the legend to duck down and move at greater speeds than other legends. Also allows him to strafe much faster. It also allows him to climb to greater heights over other legends.
Tactical Ability: - Silence - This ability can throw a fireball at the location chosen and anyone who steams into or close to it will lose the ability to use any abilities for a short period.
Ultimate Ability: - Death Totem - This allows the legend to throw down a death totem which when clicked turns you into a shadow. Once in the shadow, you lose so much hp you are ported back to the totem.
Wattson
This is a good support legend. She offers quite a few perks to her party as well as being a trapper.
Passive Ability: - Spark of Genius - This allows Wattson to use ultimate accelerants to fully charge her ultimate with just 1.
Tactical Ability: - Perimeter Security - This allows the legend to lay down connecting nodes. These fences connect creating a small grid of trap area of your choosing. They too can stop teams from pushing you or you trying to recoup wanting to be safe.
Ultimate Ability: - Interception Pylon - this ability allows Wattson to throw down a mechanic electrified device. This device can stop any ultimate from hitting the area of its effect. It also can stop all grenades. It will also while inside the area recharge your shields and the team's shields.
Wraith
Wraith is a very aggressive legend as well as small support. She is not scared to get into the action because she knows she can escape.
Passive Ability: - Voices from the Void - Wraith is able to detect with voices in her head someone aiming at her. It will allow you to issue a voice prompt letting the team know someone is aiming at you.
Tactical Ability: - Into the Void - You are able to go into void time to become invisble to escape to avoid ultimate damages or grenades. With also a slight run speed increase.
Ultimate Ability: - Dimensional Rift - This allows the legend to start a portal the legend is then able to run to her place of choicing dropping the portal allowing team to escape or yourself or to even go back through to push again.
@E9ine_AC Not gonna lie my dude, I didn't read it all either...but I mean i guess it wasn't aimed at us regulars lol.
+xp for the effort though!.....hopefully it gets pinned,would be nice to see something like this up there.
