Apex Legends pick-rates force players to demand Newcastle buff with Season 14 Respawn EntertainmentRecent pick-rate figures for Apex Legends Season 13 reveal that the game\u2019s most recently added character, Heroic Defender Newcastle, is in desperate need of a buff with Season 14. Apex Legends\u2019 unique and diverse character pool is one of the most acclaimed aspects of the battle royale, with fans always keen to try out new Legends as they drop and even shake up their main character. Naturally, though, we see metas emerge in which the strongest Legends are typically most-used, while the weakest barely get a look in. While characters like Rampart and Crypto have long found themselves at the undesirable end of the Apex Legends spectrum, the least-picked Legend in the game is now, remarkably, the most recently added. Apex Legends fans call for Newcastle buff amid awful pick-rate The character in question is Newcastle, who was added with Season 13. While he started off fairly popular, he has fallen away massively as the season has developed, now sitting at a pick-rate of just 1.6%. That\u2019s lower than some of the game\u2019s most historic undesirables \u2013 with Crypto marginally higher, Mad Maggie at 1.9% and Rampart at 2.3%. The result was, understandably, fans calling for prompt and meaningful buffs to Newcastle when Season 14 drops in August. One player suggested he\u2019s simply a more awkward version of Gibraltar, saying: \u201cHis ability is a bit more technical than Gibby\u2019s and needs a buff for sure. But for now if you\u2019re being chased, throwing down at your feet helps keep the fire off you.\u201d Another said that the issue with his shield is how easy it is to destroy: \u201cThe number of times\u2026 I throw a shield at my feet and it just gets burned and I die. Whereas with Gibby that would never happen. It seems to me like in lobbies with worse players Newcastle actually does worse.\u201d Respawn have thus far been tight-lipped about the changes coming with Season 14 but, as it approaches, we expect details to creep out. Here\u2019s hoping a Newcastle buff will be high on the agenda.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Apex Legends pick-rates force players to demand Newcastle buff with Season 14 Respawn EntertainmentRecent pick-rate figures for Apex Legends Season 13 reveal that the game\u2019s most recently added character, Heroic Defender Newcastle, is in desperate need of a buff with Season 14. Apex Legends\u2019 unique and diverse character pool is one of the most acclaimed […]<\/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-15557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15557","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=15557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15557\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}