There have been some big changes in Apex Legends recently, from the arrival of new Legend Loba to nerfs and buffs to existing Legends like Mirage and Pathfinder. However, Respawn’s attempts to shake things up haven’t been enough to impact which are our favourite Legends, it seems.
According to DreamTeam.gg (thanks, Dexerto), Wraith remains the most popular Legend to use in season five, hitting a usage rate of 27 per cent across all platforms – that makes her three times more popular than the second most used character.
Pathfinder and Lifeline come in second and third place with usage rates of 10 per cent and 9 per cent respectively.
Loba’s yet to feature – possibly because she’s still shiny and new – but it doesn’t look good for other late arrivals; Revenant and Crypto languish at the other end of the table with usage rates of just 4 and 3 per cent respectively.
In related news, Apex Legends developer Respawn is “working on” how its support character, Lifeline, can be improved without “straight-up add[ing] power to her”.
“Lots of talk about Lifeline and buffs, so let me speak to that a bit: Lifeline is in a complicated spot,” tweeted Apex’s lead game designer, Carlos Pineda, at the time. “Despite the claims that she ‘is in dire need of a buff’, the data says she remains top tier across different categories, e.g. pick rate, win rate, KDR. So in that sense, she does not need a buff at all.