The battle royale game Apex Legends features wild battles until the last survivor. How to win despite the tough competition can be found in our following tips.
In Apex Legends, 60 players compete in 20 three-player teams and fight until only one is left. Except for a brief tutorial, not much is explained about the gameplay and its specifics.
Therefore, we have listed some useful tips and advice for you here. With these, you should perform much better in the battles!
Don’t be a loot raccoon!
In Apex Legends, good loot is particularly scarce at the beginning of the game, and nothing is more frustrating than running around completely empty because your teammates have greedily stuffed their pockets.
Especially for ammunition and weapon upgrades, you should only take what you really need. However, if you do take a valuable piece, be fair and drop it at the next loot opportunity, letting your teammates know that this item is available.
Use the ping system
According to many fans, the ping system in Apex Legends is the best that has ever been in a BR game. You can ping pretty much anything in the game with a single click or button press. Your character will then comment on the situation, for example, “There’s a Longbow here,” “Heavy ammo here,” or “There’s an enemy!”
You can send more specific information by holding down the ping button and selecting further phrases from a wheel menu.
Especially when you find good loot or drop an item from your inventory that your squad might need, you should always ping it. That way, everyone knows it’s there and where it is located. Additionally, you can ping items in your inventory as well to ask for ammunition or upgrades.
Familiarize yourself with the movement
In Apex Legends, while you can’t (yet) move as acrobatically as in Titanfall, you do have some useful movement features compared to the competition that you should adopt early on:
- Sliding: If you see a slope, ALWAYS use the sliding feature. This way, you can slide down the hill quickly and are harder to hit.
- Shrink your weapon: You can shrink your weapon with a press of the 3 key, allowing you to run faster. This is ideal if you want to escape the zone.
- Climb walls: If you hold down the jump button and approach a wall, you can climb up it.
- No fall damage: Jump down anywhere freely. The jetpacks on your heroes prevent you from dying from falls. Just watch out that you don’t fall off the island; that is indeed lethal!
- Use ziplines and balloons: If you want to switch locations quickly, use the ziplines scattered throughout the game. The lines leading to the balloons are particularly effective. From up there, you can then cross long distances while airborne.
Think carefully about going to the supply ship
At the beginning, a supply ship flies alongside your dropship over the map. It offers a selection of cool loot in a compact space.
However, keep in mind that the ship may not be easily accessible, as it spawns randomly. Furthermore, many opponents will also have their eyes on the loot. Make sure to land first and find a weapon immediately.
If you find yourself unprepared against an enemy, just grab the loot and jump right back down.
On the map, you will also see the outline of the ship. This indicates the location where it will land in the end. However, by then it may already be completely looted.
Look for supply drops; they contain the best weapons
There are two legendary weapons that can’t be found in the game: The massive sniper rifle Kraber and the Mastiff shotgun. Both weapons are absurdly powerful, but if you want them, you need to find and loot a supply drop later in the game.
So think carefully about whether you want to take that risk. Nonetheless, finding such a super weapon significantly increases your chances of achieving final victory. If a drop goes down near you, make sure to get there quickly and watch out for campers.
Learn how to interpret the color of damage numbers
In Apex Legends, you gain shields from armor that you can recharge to protect you from damage. Since you can’t see the armor, it’s hard to gauge whether an enemy is easy to kill or can withstand a fair amount with full shields.
Fortunately, there is this simple trick to determine how tough the opponent still is: The color of the damage numbers.
- Purple: You have a problem here; the enemy has optimal level-3 armor and can have up to 200 hit points, which is double that of an unprotected hero.
- Blue: Your opponent has a maximum of 175 health points as they are wearing level-2 armor.
- White: This indicates level-1 armor. Therefore, the opponent has up to 150 health.
- Red: If you see “red numbers,” the opponent has no armor left and can be easily killed.
- Yellow: This color indicates headshots.
Leave downed enemies
If you’ve knocked out an enemy, you shouldn’t kill them immediately. Often, the defenseless one lures in their teammates, allowing you to trap them. Furthermore, it’s sometimes not that easy to reach a downed enemy, as they can sometimes have a shield.
You can kill enemies with a finishing move, which saves ammunition and even recharges your shield with the legendary level-3 armor. But keep in mind that during the animation, you are completely defenseless and may die quickly if there are still enemies around.
So think carefully about whether you want to pull off a show.
Think carefully about reviving friends and use the respawn
As is usual in battle royale team modes, you can revive your friends in Apex Legends when they go down. But be careful not to blindly run into enemy fire when your friends are lying in the middle of nowhere.
In that case, it may be wiser to kill the enemies first and then help your teammate. If they die in the meantime, it’s not a catastrophe.
Just collect your teammate’s banner in time after the fight and respawn them at the next respawn beacon. By the way, anyone from the team can do this, not just the one who collected the banner.
Remember, in this case, the respawn starts you back in the game completely without equipment. Ideally, give them one of your weapons.
By the way, keep in mind that the character Lifeline revives friends faster and generates a shield while doing so. With her, you might be able to successfully respawn even under heavy fire.
Separate just before landing
The coordinated jump is a brilliant idea, and you should definitely jump as a team and aim for a common landing point. However, just before landing, you should still separate and land at a nearby location.
Otherwise, you might all end up in the same house and find insufficient loot for everyone. But if each team member has a slightly different landing spot, you will surely find enough loot for all.
By the way, if you want to know how to land especially fast, check here. The best landing spots with great loot can be found here.
Save shield cells with this trick!
After a fight, you should always refill your shields. But first, keep your hands off the shield cells in your inventory. Loot the enemies first.
If they also had shields, then take them from the enemies, even if they are of the same level. Because the looted shields are fully charged when you equip them!
There is a way to revive yourself
The legendary and epic items in Apex Legends often have special features that one does not usually have. The legendary knockdown shield allows for a very cool self-revive! You can revive yourself once with an adrenaline syringe.
This takes a bit, and you are defenseless during the process. However, since many opponents don’t know this yet, you can surprise them. Just imagine enemies camping over your corpse to ambush your friends, and suddenly you stand back up behind them and take them all out.
Don’t hold back your abilities; use them!
Your heroes have an active ability that you can use again after a short cooldown. So don’t hoard them but use them whenever you feel like it. Who knows if you’ll get another opportunity.
And the skills are almost always useful. Every team appreciates Lifeline’s heal or Gibraltar’s large shield. And often, Bangalore’s smoke grenade saves you from certain death.
However, you should be more cautious with your ultimates. They take quite a long time to charge without accelerators. Their use can, again, be decisive at the right moment.
For instance, when Lifeline requests optimal loot via airdrop, Wraith creates a super useful portal, or Bangalore takes out entire teams with her artillery strike.
Test all heroes
Since each hero can only be in the team once, you cannot rely on your favorite always being available. Therefore, you should try out each hero at least once so that you don’t end up looking foolish in such situations.
Additionally, it doesn’t hurt to know the strengths and skills of your opponents when they are playing that hero.
Make sure you have a complete loadout
Especially at the beginning of the game, you should quickly find the following items:
- Helmet: Headshots are less severe if you have a helmet
- Armor: Only this provides shields, and they are vital!
- At least one weapon: Without a weapon, you are not very useful and can hardly defend yourself. So quickly get some kind of gun. Even the Mozambique is better than nothing.
- Appropriate ammunition: Ammunition is often scarce in Apex. So make sure to take what you can get in appropriate rounds.
Also help your friends in the team by pinging excess items. This ensures that everyone quickly has their full loadout and can continue to act.
A good starting weapon is, by the way, the Wingman pistol. It deals heavy damage, is accurate, and can still be useful in the mid or even late game.
Make sure you have a balanced mix of weapons
You should expand your loadout as early as possible. Ideally, you have one weapon for medium or long range and another for close-range combat. For the first category, assault rifles and snipers work well.
Shotguns are ideal for close range. SMGs, on the other hand, are also good for close combat but can also be useful at medium range. Regardless of what you take, make sure you don’t carry two similar weapons and that you have enough ammunition available.
Flank your enemies, stay in motion!
Apex Legends is a fast-paced game that rewards active gameplay. When you encounter opponents, don’t just start shooting right away; instead, try to flank them and take them by surprise. This way, you can gain a tactical advantage and possibly eliminate the enemy quickly and effectively.
Many hero skills support this:
- Pathfinder and Wraith can quickly open alternative routes
- Gibraltar can draw fire with his shield
- Bangalore is very fast under fire and can protect the team with smoke grenades
- Bloodhound prevents you from being flanked with his scan
- Those who properly utilize Mirage’s illusions can seriously confuse the enemy
The zone doesn’t have to be your death
The Apex map is quite large, and the zone may keep you on your toes. However, especially in the first phase, the damage you receive in the power field is still quite harmless. You can comfortably heal yourself on the way and still survive long distances somehow.
However, keep in mind that you may be ambushed by enemies when you reach the safe ring.
By the way, if you have the medic Lifeline on your team, healing after the zone is not a problem because her drone fixes you up in seconds. Your shields are also not scratched by the zone.
That’s it for our tips and tricks. Do you have any other advice? Let us know!
