Respawn promises Revenant will \u201cclimb to the top\u201d with new Apex Legends buffs Respawn EntertainmentRespawn has promised new Revenant buffs will see the Synthetic Nightmare \u201cclimb to the top\u201d of the Apex Legends metagame again, after he slid to a lowly 2.6% pickrate in the opening days of the \u201cLegacy\u201d season. Revenant burst onto the Apex Legends scene all the way back in Season 4 armed with a scintillating backstory and an ultimate that let him cheat death \u2014 a very handy ability to have in your arsenal in a one-chance battle royale. At first, Revenant shone on Kings Canyon and World\u2019s Edge. The simulacrum\u2019s \u2018unstoppable\u2019 promise never really landed, however. Since his release in February last year, he\u2019s struggled to find his place in the meta. That\u2019s all set to change, if Respawn truly has hit the nail on the head with their planned Revenant changes. According to the devs, the buffs they\u2019ve been cooking up for the popular Synthetic Nightmare should see him \u201cclimb to the top\u201d in Season 9, without making him a must-pick character after the changes. \u201cRevenant\u2019s still weak,\u201d one Apex Legends dev said. \u201cWe have a set of changes we\u2019re trying out internally [to try and fix that], and they feel fun and fine.\u201d Klein admitted he\u2019s not in a position to lift the lid on the possible buffs and changes just yet, but did offer up a clue in the middle of his promise. \u201cI can tell you he\u2019ll certainly climb to the top,\u201d he teased. This may suggest that, on top of a guarantee Revenant may be a little more playable once the Season 9 buffs ship, his upgrades may also come in the form of some passive changes, including his wall-running abilities. It could also just be the Respawn game designer having a little fun with fans too, of course. The Apex Legends dev concluded by warning fans the planned Revenant buffs \u201cmay not move the needle on power a lot,\u201d but will \u2014 \u201chopefully,\u201d he added \u2014 actually give players a reason to pick the struggling simulacrum. That \u201cmay well be fine\u201d in the long run, Klein continued, \u201cso long as people playing against him or against him in Apex Legends matches are having fun.\u201d If the Revenant changes do hit live servers this season, it will mark the sixth time Respawn has toyed with the Synthetic Nightmare in the last 14 months. The murderous robot assassin has also been plagued with bugs and issues since his Season 4 release; eight of the following 49 updates have included patch-ups for his \u2018Silence\u2019 tactical and his ultimate \u201cDeath Totem\u201d ability. Rampart is another legend set for \u201cspicy\u201d buffs soon. On the flip side, Wattson was accidentally nerfed recently, but those were quickly rolled back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Respawn promises Revenant will \u201cclimb to the top\u201d with new Apex Legends buffs Respawn EntertainmentRespawn has promised new Revenant buffs will see the Synthetic Nightmare \u201cclimb to the top\u201d of the Apex Legends metagame again, after he slid to a lowly 2.6% pickrate in the opening days of the \u201cLegacy\u201d season. Revenant burst onto the […]<\/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-18722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18722","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=18722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18722\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}