Apex Legends Characters: Abilities, How to Unlock & More

As one of the most popular battle royale titles in the world today, Apex Legends lets players team up with two of their friends against other squads to prove who's the best.

Unlike other battle royales, which see players use a custom avatar, Apex Legends takes a character-based approach, letting people specialise to one playstyle a lot easier than in other games.

Here is a look at all the characters.

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Every Character in Apex Legends

Below we have listed each character in alphabetical order. Listed next to each character we have how to unlock them and their abilities, letting you decide which one is best.

Ash

• How to Unlock: 12,000 Legend Tokens or 750 Apex Coins
• Real Name: Dr. Ashleigh Reid
• Age: 121
• Home World: Unknown
• Tactical Ability: Arc Snare - Throw a spinning snare that damages and tethers the first enemy who gets too close
• Passive Ability: Marked For Death - Ash's map shows the location of recent deathboxes and marks surviving attackers
• Ultimate Ability: Phase Breach Tear open a one-way portal to a targeted location

Bangalore

• How to Unlock: Unlocked by Default
• Real Name: Anita Williams
• Age: 38
• Home Planet: Gridiron
• Tactical Ability: Smoke Launcher - Fire a high-velocity smoke canister that explodes into a smoke wall on impact
• Passive Ability: Double Time - Taking fire while sprinting makes you move faster for a brief time.
• Ultimate Ability: Rolling Thunder - Call in an artillery strike that slowly creeps across the landscape

Bloodhound

• How to Unlock: Unlocked by Default
• Real Name: Unkown
• Age: Unkown
• Home Planet: Talos
• Tactical Ability: Eye of the Allfather - Briefly reveal hidden enemies, traps and clues throughout structures in front of you.
• Passive Ability: Tracker - See tracks left behind by your foes
• Ultimate Ability: Beast of the Hunt - Enhances your senses, allowing you to move faster and highlighting your prey.

Caustic

• How to Unlock: 12,000 Legend Tokens or 750 Apex Coins
• Real Name: Alexander Nox
• Age: 48
• Home World: Gaea
• Tactical Ability: Nox Gas Trap - Drop canisters that release a deadly Nox gas when shot or triggered by enemies
• Passive Ability: Nox Vision - Allows you to see enemies through your gas
• Ultimate Ability: Nox Gas Grenade - Blankets a large area in Nox gas

Crypto

• How to Unlock: 12,000 Legend Tokens or 750 Apex Coins
• Real Name: Tae Joon Park
• Age: 31
• Home World: Gaea
• Tactical Ability: Surveillance Drone - Deploy an aerial drone that allows you to view the surrounding area from above. If the drone is destroyed, there is a forty-second cooldown before you can deploy another
• Passive Ability: Neurolink - Enemies detected by the surveillance drone within 30 meters of your position are marked for you and your teammates to see.
• Ultimate Ability: Drone EMP - Your surveillance drone sets off an EMP blast that deals shield damage, slows enemies and disables traps.

Fuse

• How to Unlock: 12,000 Legend Tokens or 750 Apex Coins
• Real Name: Walter Fitzroy
• Age: 54
• Home World: Salvo
• Tactical Ability: Knuckle Cluster - Launch a cluster bomb that continuously expels airburst explosives on impact
• Passive Ability: Grenadier - Stack an extra grenade per inventory slot. Fire grenades farther, faster, and more accurately.
• Ultimate Ability: The Motherlode - Launch a bombardment that encircles a target area in a wall of fame.

Gibraltar

• How to Unlock: Unlocked by Default
• Real Name: Makoa Gibraltar
• Age: 30
• Home World: Solace
• Tactical Ability: Dome of Protection - Throw down a dome shield that blocks attacks
• Passive Ability: Gun Shield - Aiming down sights deploys a gun shield that blocks incoming fire
• Ultimate Ability: Defensive Bombardment - Call in a concentrated mortar strike on a marked person

Horizon

• How to Unlock: 12,000 Legend Tokens or 750 Apex Coins
• Real Name: Dr. Mary Somers
• Age: 37
• Home World: Psamathe
• Tactical Ability: Gravity Lift - Reverses the flow of gravity, lifting players upwards and boosting them outwards when they exit.
• Passive Ability: Spacewalk - Increase air control and reduce fall impacts with Horizon's custom spacesuit
• Ultimate Ability: Black Hole - Deploy N.E.W.T to create a micro black hole that pulls players in towards it and hits them with a graviton blast at the end.

Lifeline

• How to Unlock: Unlocked by Default
• Real Name: Ajay Che
• Age: 24
• Home World: Psamathe
• Tactical Ability: D.O.C Heal Drone - Call your drone of compassion to automatically heal nearby teammates over time
• Passive Ability: Combat Medic - Deploy D.O.C to revive teammates leaving you free to move and defend
• Ultimate Ability: Care Package - Call in a drop pod full of high-quality defensive gear

Loba

• How to Unlock: 12,000 Legend Tokens or 750 Apex Coins
• Real Name: Loba Andrade
• Age: 34
• Home World: None
• Tactical Ability: Burgular's Best Friend - Teleport to hard-to-reach places or escape trouble quickly by throwing your Jump Drive bracelet
• Passive Ability: Eye for Quality - Nearby epic and legendary look can be seen through walls. The range is the same as Black Market Boutique
• Ultimate Ability: Black Market Boutique - Place a portable device that allows you to teleport nearby loot to your inventory. Each friendly or enemy Legend can take up to two items.

Mirage

• How to Unlock: 12,000 Legend Tokens or 750 Apex Coins
• Real Name: Elliott Witt
• Age: 30
• Home World: Solace
• Tactical Ability: Psyche Out - Send out a holographic decoy to confuse the enemy
• Passive Ability: Now You See Me - Automatically cloak when using Respawn Beacons and reviving teammates
• Ultimate Ability: Life of the Party - Deploy a team of Decoys to distract enemies

Octane

• How to Unlock: 12,000 Legend Tokens or 750 Apex Coins
• Real Name: Octavio Silva
• Age: 24
• Home World: Psamathe
• Tactical Ability: Stim - Move 30% faster for six seconds. Costs health to use
• Passive Ability: Swift Mend - Automatically restore health over time
• Ultimate Ability: Launch Pad - Deploy a jump pad that catapults teammates through the air

Pathfinder

• How to Unlock: Unlocked by Default
• Real Name: MRVN
• Age: Unknown
• Home World: Unknown
• Tactical Ability: Grappling Hook - Grapple to get to out-of-reach places quickly
• Passive Ability: Insider Knowledge - Scan a survey beacon to reveal the ring's next location
• Ultimate Ability: Zipline Gun - create a zipline for everyone to use

Rampart

• How to Unlock: 12,000 Legend Tokens or 750 Apex Coins
• Real Name: Ramya Parekh
• Age: 21
• Home World: Gaea
• Tactical Ability: Amped Cover - Build a crouch-cover wall, which deploys a full-cover amped wall that blocks incoming shots and amps outgoing shots
• Passive Ability: Modded Loader - Increased magazine capacity and faster reloads when using LMGs and the Minigun
• Ultimate Ability: Emplaced Minigun "Sheila" - Place a mounted machine gun that anyone can use. High ammo capacity, long reload time.

Revenant

• How to Unlock: 12,000 Legend Tokens or 750 Apex Coins
• Real Name: Unknown
• Age: Unknown
• Home World: Solace
• Tactical Ability: Silence - Throw a device that deals damage and disables enemy abilities
• Passive Ability: Stalker - You crouch-walk faster and can climb higher than other legends
• Ultimate Ability: Death Totem - Drop a totem that protects those who use it from death for a set amount of time. Instead of being killed or downed, users will return to the totem.

Seer

• How to Unlock: 12,000 Legend Tokens or 750 Apex Coins
• Real Name: Obi Edolasim
• Age: 26
• Home World: Boreas
• Tactical Ability: Focus of Attention - Seer Summons his micro-drones to emit a delayed blast that goes through walls interrupting and revealing enemies
• Passive Ability: Heart Seeker - Hear and visualize the heartbeats of nearby enemies when aiming down sights
• Ultimate Ability: Exhibit - Create a sphere of micro-drones that reveal the location of enemies moving quickly or firing their weapons within.

Valkyrie

• How to Unlock: 12,000 Legend Tokens or 750 Apex Coins
• Real Name: Kairi Imahara
• Age: 30
• Home World: Angelia
• Tactical Ability: Missile Swarm - Fire a swarm of mini-rockets that damage and disorient the enemy.
• Passive Ability: VOTL Jets - Use a jetpack to fly. Fuel is limited but refills over time
• Ultimate Ability: Skyward Dive - Launch into the air and skydive. Allies can hook into the take-off system to join you.

Vantage

• How to Unlock: 12,000 Legend Tokens or 750 Apex Coins
• Real Name: Xiomara "Mara" Contreras
• Age: 18
• Home World: Págos
• Tactical Ability: Echo Relocation - Position your winged companion Echo and then Launch towards him. Must have a line of sight for the echo to launch
• Passive Ability: Spotter's Lens - Aim down sights to count with your eye-piece (unarmed or with mid-to-long range scopes) and use a bullet drop indicator to see where your shots will land.
• Ultimate Ability: Sniper's Mark - Use your custom sniper rifle to mark enemy targets and apply a damage bonus for you and your team.

Wattson

• How to Unlock: 12,000 Legend Tokens or 750 Apex Coins
• Real Name: Natalie Paquette
• Age: 22
• Home World: Solace
• Tactical Ability: Perimeter Security - Connect nodes to create electrified fences that damage and slow enemies.
• Passive Ability: Spark of Genius - Ultimate Accelerants Fully Charge Your Ultimate Ability
• Ultimate Ability: Interception Pylon - Place an electrified pylon that destroys incoming ordinance and repairs damaged shields.

Wraith

• How to Unlock: Unlocked by Default
• Real Name: Renee Blasey
• Age: 32
• Home World: Typhon
• Tactical Ability: Reposition quickly through the safety of void space, avoiding all damage
• Passive Ability: A voice warns you when danger approaches. As far as you can tell, it's on your side
• Ultimate Ability: Dimensional Rift - Link two locations with portals for 60 seconds, allowing your entire team to use them.