Apex Legends Season 9: All Legends buffed and nerfed

Ah, the joy of awaiting a new Apex Legends update can be felt in the air as Season 9 approaches at great speed.

With the inclusion of Valkyrie, the tweaks to weapons and a new permanent game mode in Arenas, the content coming our way is packed, to say the least, but let’s not ignore the elephant in the room: the buffs and nerfs to our favourite Legends.

From the addition and removal of features to what is going to happen to low profile underdogs, there's plenty of changes coming.

• Read more: Apex Legends Arenas guide: Match format, maps, gear, more

With that said, here’s everything you need to know about the Apex Legends Season 9 Character buffs and nerfs.

If you are interested in how the Legends now rank, check out our Season 9 Legends tier list.

Apex Legends Season 9 Character buffs and nerfs

Low Profile Characters

Low profile no longer exists! This trait has been removed from Wraith, Lifeline, and Wattson.

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Lifeline

• Combat Revive: No longer deploys a shield. Can now revive two players at the same time. Can now cancel active revives in progress to allow your teammate to defend themselves with their knockdown shield.
• D.O.C. Heal Drone: Heal rate increased from 5hp per second to 8hp per second. Deployment time before healing begins reduced by roughly 33%.
• Care Package: Cooldown reduced from 6 minutes to 5 minutes. Now guarantees an upgrade (if possible) in three categories: Body Shield, Other Equipment (Helmet, Backpack, and Knockdown Shield), and Weapon Attachment, based on your team’s current gear when the Package arrives.

Octane

• Stim: Reduced cooldown between stims from 4s to 1s. Increased health cost from 12hp to 20hp.
• Increased bullet spread while in the air and shooting from the low Launch Pad trajectory.

Loba

• Burglar's Best Friend: Can now run and slide at full speed while aiming the bracelet and while the bracelet is in the air. Loba will no longer be slowed after translocating.
• Fixed a lot of bugs that caused bracelet tosses to fail.
• Black Market Boutique: Increased cooldown from 90s to 120s.

Horizon

• Gravity Lift: Reduced lift speed by 30%. Reduced side-to-side acceleration. Limited the time you can sit at the top of Gravity Lift to 2 seconds. Increased cooldown from 15s to 20s.
• Horizon’s abilities will now get zapped by Wattson pylons.

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Fuse

• Knuckle Cluster: Fuse now has two stacks of Knuckle Cluster. Reduced cooldown from 25s to 20s.

Bangalore

• Smoke Launcher: Thickened Bangalore’s smoke. 

Bloodhound

• No longer receives assists from Eye of the Allfather.

Crypto

• Crypto's drone can now scan and open care packages.
• Can no longer use his drone to "hijack" a respawn beacon that's already in use.

And that’s about it! Whether your main got more nerfed than buffed, or vice versa, we are just ecstatic to start a new Apex season and this news means we'll do so with a bang.

Make sure to stay tuned as Season 9 for the Apex Legends title launches worldwide on 4th May 2021.