In this Apex Legends characters breakdown, we’ll be going over every single hero in the game, pointing out their abilities. There is a grand total of eight characters available to play in Apex Legends, six of the eight are playable the other two are locked. You can either grind the game out to unlock them or pay and skip the hard work.
Let’s Start the Apex Legends characters breakdown.
BLOODHOUND
As far as we know the identity of Bloodhound is unknown. Rumors are the crow-clad hunter was greatly wealthy compared to living the life of a slave in his past life. He functions as the ‘tracker’ character in Apex Legends. Bloodhound’s skills focus on being able to pinpoint enemies locations through structures and track the footsteps.
Apex Legends – Bloodhound Skill Set
Passive Ability – Tracker: Enemies leave behind clues for Bloodhound to find.
Tactical Ability – Eye of the Allfather: Shortly reveals enemies, clues and traps threw out all structures around you.
Ultimate Ability – Beast of Hunt: Enhances Bloodhounds senses, giving him the ability to see cold tracks and move faster.
LIFELINE
Ajay Che is a healer that’s been living life with a heavy conscience. Once a part of a family of wealthy war profiteers, Lifeline ended up leaving them once she truly realized the extent of her family’s distasteful business. Lifeline focuses on providing support for your other two teammates and out of a squad of three its always good to have a medic on your team.
Apex Legends – LifeLine Skill Set
Passive Ability – Combat Medic: revive you’re knocked down teammates faster while being protected by a shield dome. You can also use healing items 25% faster.
Tactical Ability – DOC Heal Drone: Deploys a flying drone that heals you/teammates. NOTE: Everyone has to be near the drone in order to heal.
Ultimate Ability – Care Package: Care package that drops down full of defensive equipment.
GIBRALTAR
Gibraltar is the main defense hero in Apex Legends. He’s known as the wild, but gentle giant, his father lost an arm saving him and his boyfriend from mudslide after they both stoled his motorcycle and went on a joy ride. His passive ability to be able to use a shield when aiming down sights means you can always take on your enemies.
Apex Legends – Gibraltar Skill Set
Passive Ability – Gun Shield: When you’re aiming down sights he deploys a gun shield that deflects incoming fire.
Tactical Ability – Dome of Protection: Deploys a dome shield that protects you from incoming attacks for 15 secs.
Ultimate Ability – Defensive Bombardment: Calls in a mortar strike on a position that you set with a flare.
WRAITH
We don’t know much about the mysterious Wraith, she is more on the experimental side when it comes to heroes in Apex Legends. she woke up in a detention facility years ago then she started to hear voices in her head. Once she started listening to those voices, she acquired powers that allow her to jump between dimensions.
Apex Legends – Wraith Skill Set
Passive Ability – Voices From the Void: A voice calls her when danger gets close.
Tactical Ability – Into the Void: Reposition your location quickly through the use of a void, avoiding any damage.
Ultimate Ability – Dimensional Rift: Link two locations with portals for 60 seconds.
BANGALORE
Despite her rugged military exterior, Anita Williams has a noble cause for joining the Apex Games. Pulled away from her family during a military mission, she’s raising the funds to fight her way back to them. Bangalore is as close to a soldier as you’re going to get in Apex Legends.
Apex Legends – Bangalore Skill Set
Passive Ability – Double Time: Taking damage while your sprinting gives you the ability to move faster for a short period of time.
Tactical Ability – Smoke Launcher: You can fire a smoke canister that explodes on impact.
Ultimate Ability – Rolling Thunder: Hit them with the Thunder! Calls in an artillery air strike that moves across the map.
PATHFINDER
Pathfinder is over a decade old, He was booted on in an abandoned laboratory and has been on a mission to find his creator ever since. Even thought Pathfinder is classified as a medic, It has more in common with the scouting ability of Bloodhound.
Apex Legends – Pathfinder Skill Set
Passive Ability – Insider Knowledge: Scan a beacon to reveal the ring’s next location.
Tactical Ability – Grappling Hook: Grapple up structures getting to higher vantage points quicker.
Ultimate Ability – Zipline Gun: Creates a zip line for you and your teammates to use.
Locked Apex Legends
MIRAGE
Elliot Witt is someone who likes to out-Witt his opponents. Having the power to be able to deceive enemy teams, by deploying holographic decoys.
Apex Legends – Mirage Skill Set
Passive Ability – Encore! : Automatically deploy a decoy and become cloaked for 5 seconds, whenever you get downed.
Tactical Ability – Psyche Out: Send out a decoy of yourself to confuse your enemies.
Ultimate Ability – Vanishing Act: Just like magic you can become cloaked, and send out a team of decoys.
How to unlock – Costs 12000 Legend Tokens or 750 Apex Coins.
CAUSTIC
A scientist named Alexander Nox once worked for the Frontier’s leading pesticide gas manufacturer, he would be changed forever thought after he decided to test a more powerful formula on himself. Caustic’s abilities focus on the use of poisonous gas, which can slowly chip away at his enemies.
Apex Legends – Caustic Skill Set
Passive Ability – Nox Vision: He can see all enemies that pass through his deployed gas.
Tactical Ability – Nox Gas Trap: Place up to six gas canisters. They will be triggered when shot or when enemies walk through them.
Ultimate Ability – Nox Gas Grenade: Cover a large area with the deadly Nox gas.
How to unlock – Costs 12000 Legend Tokens or 750 Apex Coins.
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