Apex devs \u201cworking on\u201d Wattson changes, will include hitbox nerfs Respawn EntertainmentWattson has been the most contentious Apex Legends balancing point in the last few seasons. While Respawn have confirmed they will be giving her a buff, the changes will also include a nerf, to maintain balance. Wattson is far from being the most popular Legend in Apex Legends. In fact, she has the second-lowest pick rate in Season 9 at 1.6%, only higher than Rampart at 1.5%. However, despite this, Respawn believes the Legend is totally balanced \u2014 and even \u201coutperforms\u201d some of the more meta picks like Wraith. The tug-of-war between developers and players over Wattson has hit fever pitch though after the Genesis Collection update, which saw a \u201cmajor buff\u201d to the Legend only giving her extra Nessies to drop on the map. After the update, lead game designer Daniel Klein confirmed that they plan to \u201cmake it more in the moment fun and powerful to play Wattson while removing some of the invisible power.\u201d This means the changes will \u201clikely need to include a nerf\u201d. \u201cWattson doesn\u2019t have much room to increase her power, so once we make changes to make her feel better, we\u2019ll also have to nerf other parts of her kit to make up for this,\u201d he said on Twitter. https:\/\/twitter.com\/danielzklein\/status\/1409571480006905856 Wattson hitbox changes likely solution, Respawn says Developer John \u2018JayBiebs\u2019 Larson added later on July 15 that Respawn\u2019s first \u2018solution\u2019 for Wattson is likely to be a hitbox change. Regardless, the Legend won\u2019t be receiving \u201ca straight-up buff\u201d. \u201cI think, and we can talk about this, low-profile removal, that\u2019s the single biggest thing for a character. That\u2019s massive. In Arenas [and] BR, Lifeline and Wattson are at the top just because of high values. \u201cSo we beefed out Lifeline a bit, make her hitbox match a bit better, and Wattson, when we make these changes, will inevitably, for the health of the game, most likely a hitbox change will accompany that. However, they want to try and increase Wattson\u2019s \u201cfun factor\u201d to tap into her utility and make her more enjoyable to play, without being completely overpowered. \u201cWe wouldn\u2019t be so cheeky if we didn\u2019t have changes in the works. Right now we\u2019re trying to work on the fun factor for her. There\u2019s a lot of usability there that we can change, a lot of changes with the ultimate. We are working on it.\u201d The related segment begins at 50:25. It\u2019s a bit more of a solid indication of Respawn\u2019s ideas on Wattson after Klein said devs were \u201cworking on stuff\u201d in the immediate aftermath of the recent update. We will update you once Respawn finalizes the changes \u2014 perhaps in Season 10, which is fast approaching.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Apex devs \u201cworking on\u201d Wattson changes, will include hitbox nerfs Respawn EntertainmentWattson has been the most contentious Apex Legends balancing point in the last few seasons. While Respawn have confirmed they will be giving her a buff, the changes will also include a nerf, to maintain balance. Wattson is far from being the most popular […]<\/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-18543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18543","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=18543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18543\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}