Apex Legends dev says Lifeline is a \u201clittle\u201d too strong after Season 9 changes Respawn EntertainmentLifeline has been a staple for Apex Legends players since day one, but she received a total rework going into Season 9, Legacy. Respawn are keeping an eye on her dominance though. Lifeline has always been one of the safer picks in Apex Legends. Perfect for new and experienced players alike, the combat medic always places high on the Legend tier list. Turns out it\u2019s not only on the open fields of Olympus or World\u2019s Edge that she performs well. Apex\u2019s 3v3 mode, Arenas, seems to be the perfect place for her, with the Legend deemed an S-Tier pick at the moment. Respawn have noticed her rise in prominence, and are weighing up possible tweaks, but at the moment, have no plans to implement changes. Lifeline meta in Apex Legends? Lifeline received some pretty hefty changes with the debut of Season 9, and while the devs are happy with her overall performance, there are concerns over how dominant she\u2019s become. Lead Game Designer for Apex, Daniel Klein, has responded to fan questions about Lifeline\u2019s current status. The TLDR is, that she\u2019s performing \u201ca little too well.\u201d \u201cNumerically, she\u2019s too strong. She wins too often, both across the game as a whole and in every single skill bucket we look at, and she\u2019s picked very often (particularly in Arenas)\u201d Klein writes, but highlights that this doesn\u2019t \u201cmean [Respawn] must nerf her right away.\u201d In terms of the main body of the rework, though, it seems like she\u2019s performing exactly as the devs wanted. \u201cExperientially, she\u2019s so much better. No longer having the res shield means it\u2019s feasible to thirst a downed enemy being revived; but that also gives Lifeline an option to engage you while you\u2019re otherwise occupied or when your gun\u2019s running dry. Good play on both sides\u201d It leaves Respawn in a bit of a sticky situation. \u201cNot sure what, if anything, we\u2019ll do to her, but I think the changes landed very well,\u201d Klein notes. \u201cMaybe we need to nerf her numerically a little bit (like drone heal speed \/ ult cooldown), maybe we can look at her hitboxes and see where they\u2019re too small, but right now? No plans to speak of.\u201d So, love her or hate her, we best get used to this current iteration of Lifeline. We\u2019ll need to wait and see if there are any future changes as the season continues to progress.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Apex Legends dev says Lifeline is a \u201clittle\u201d too strong after Season 9 changes Respawn EntertainmentLifeline has been a staple for Apex Legends players since day one, but she received a total rework going into Season 9, Legacy. Respawn are keeping an eye on her dominance though. Lifeline has always been one of the safer […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14659\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}