With its now nine legends, Apex Legends offers a wide selection of different characters. However, not all of them are equally strong, and players perceive one of them as particularly weak. The developers see it differently.
Which legend is it? It is Mirage. Mirage’s abilities include tricks and confusions of the opponent. He works with copies of himself and uses cloaking to lure enemies into traps or reveal their positions.
Why do fans find Mirage too weak? According to fans, it is precisely these abilities that make Mirage rather useless:
- his created copy just runs mindlessly in one direction
- the copies of his ultimate ability just stand around in a circle
- while he is cloaked, he cannot use weapons or other items
- when he is defeated, a reflection appears at his position and he lies cloaked beside it
- Mirage is not truly invisible while cloaked, but still visible as a silhouette
They are particularly disappointed because in the last patch the legends Caustic and Gibraltar received substantial buffs, even though these buffs did not really bring much. Mirage seems to have been “forgotten”.
What do the fans demand? The fans want adjustments to the abilities so that Mirage does not feel so useless. Specifically, his ultimate ability has been under fire, although fans already have concrete improvement suggestions for this.
In the reddit thread about the current patch, fans discuss that it would already be a buff for Mirage if his ultimate ability did less than it currently does. It would be stronger if he did not become invisible but remained visible. This way, opponents would not immediately know which one the real Mirage is.
That’s why there is no buff: However, in the same thread, a developer also responded to the criticism. According to Leeeeeee-RSPN, the win rate of Mirage does not indicate that he needs a buff.
Figures from early April show that Mirage is one of the least popular legends in Apex Legends. At the same time, he is also one of the legends with the highest win rate. Respawn currently sees no reason to buff him and has no plans in that direction.
Do you think Mirage needs a buff?
Console players apparently have quite different problems right now:
