Apex Legends players blame \u201cmeta\u201d characters for Newcastle\u2019s low pick rate Respawn EntertainmentApex Legends\u2019 latest character, the heroic defender Newcastle, has fallen far in terms of his pick rate \u2014 and some players think they know why. There was a lot of intrigue surrounding Newcastle before Apex Legends Season 13 officially arrived, thanks to his backstory as Bangalore\u2019s brother and speculation around his ability kit. However, since his introduction to the game players seem to have slowly drifted away from him in favor of staple choices like Gibraltar, Wraith, and Octane. Now, the most recent data from Season 13 revealed Newcastle is currently the third least picked Legend, with the consensus from players seeming to think he\u2019s simply outshined by other \u201cmeta\u201d Legends. Newcastle third-lowest picked Legend in Season 13 A post on the Apex Legends subreddit started a discussion among the community as to why Newcastle only had a 2.2% pick rate in Season 13, falling over 17% from the start of the season. The post spawned some healthy debate, with some players chalking up his steep fall due to new Legend excitement, while others think his low pick rate is due to his role as a Defense character. However, Reddit user \u2018LinceDorado\u2018 put forward that maybe it\u2019s because \u201cthe \u2018Meta\u2019 Legends are just too good at what they do. It isn\u2019t even that the other Legends are bad, it\u2019s that the meta ones are better.\u201d Plenty of the comments brought up Gibraltar as a likely factor in Newcastle\u2019s pick rate, with LineDorado even noting that \u201cNewcastle, for all intents and purposes, is just a worse Gibraltar.\u201d Apex Legends\u2019 meta has revolved around Gibby\u2019s shield meta for quite some time, with Respawn continuously trying to find balance changes to shake things up. While some of Newcastle\u2019s kit is reminiscent of Gibby\u2019s, Gibby\u2019s overall kit has cemented his place as the premier Defense Legend in the game. It\u2019s important to note that, as user \u2018EKrug_02_22\u2018 pointed out, \u201c\u2026buffing the Legends will not make them popular\u2026See how Crypto, Rampart, Wattson, etc. [got] buffed, became almost 2x of themselves, [and] still [had] low pick rates?\u201d Though players remain divided on what Newcastle needs to make him shine going forward, it\u2019s clear that he\u2019s currently facing stiff competition from mainstay characters that define Apex Legends\u2019 current meta.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Apex Legends players blame \u201cmeta\u201d characters for Newcastle\u2019s low pick rate Respawn EntertainmentApex Legends\u2019 latest character, the heroic defender Newcastle, has fallen far in terms of his pick rate \u2014 and some players think they know why. There was a lot of intrigue surrounding Newcastle before Apex Legends Season 13 officially arrived, thanks to his […]<\/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-15733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15733","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=15733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15733\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}