In the upcoming patch notes it says that the phase ability will now take 1.25 seconds to activate including a 20% movement slow. Why? Wraith was in no way overpowered as a legend and this has just gone too far. Her portal is the best tool for rotation. Nerfing my legend to the ground is just ruining apex legends for me. Now I feel as though I have to completely re learn how to effectively phase because respawn decided to change the ability into a “repositioning tool” newsflash. The portal repositions, the phase’s entire point is to negate incoming damage. This is total bs. All wraith gets is nerf after nerf after nerf. Honestly if this continues I’m done playing apex legends.

People play wraith in ranked and pubs for her portal. The repostioning ability is the best in the game and that’s why she has a high win rate. Being able to make clutch rotations is very important. Please stop coming up with ways to nerf this legend. She is balanced and is in no way over powered. And honestly it’s insulting that I’m a good player, with a high win rate, and I have around 12k kills logged with this legend. And you like to think that the legends with a high pick and win rate deserve a nerf? What kind of incentive is that? I guess I should stop playing my favorite legend all together and win a crap ton with someone else in order to win enough so you can just nerf them too!? Honestly respawn, learn something about your game before changing it. STOP NERFING WRAITH. I’m soooo excited to have to completely re learn how to play my legend tomorrow... it’s gonna be soooooooooo great... :/

It’s really early to judge, her tactical last longer and its cool down decreased 10 seconds. let’s call it a change for now, until we see actual games after a few weeks.

@HarmoNoise The 20% is only when you activate it.Once it is activated, you move 30% faster, can see people, and it lasts longer.This was actually an interesting rework, not an actual nerf. They made the activation worse, but everything else better.

While this is a more of a rework, the way i see it, its a nerf, and its a undeserving one. She was already nerfed. She was nerfed in a season 5 as well, with a hidden nerf to her portal and phase speed. I still don`t get why people aren`t talking about this one, cause the numbers was nerfed quite a bit.This rework scream this: its towards less skilled players, and this is BAD. You should reward skill based stuff, not lowering the skill cell of the game.Seeing people while in phase, an extra second and a 30% movement speed, this is obvious towards which kind of players .....I see no one complains about the stuff that this thing will change, aka get away from a certain situations, get away from a grenades, get away from a lot of ultimates and sticky situations.And they even nerf her portal, which is just too much.Yeah she got a 100% pickrate, high winrate and so on, she was strong, no doubt about that, but she was in a no case OP or broken, she was strong but fair.As i said million times i`m okay with nerfs and reworking legends that are too bad or too strong, but Wraith was okay and this rework of her phase was totally unneeded. But if we look closely to what Respawn actually wanna do is to change the meta and change the must pick choice in a high level of gameplay and in a competitive play.Right now Competitive is 100% Wraith, 100% Wattson, and the rest get split between Pathfinder/Gibraltar/Caustic.With the new changes i gonna say that maybe Lifeline will get in there. But my question is what about Bangalore/Bloodhound ??? You got to rework them as well, to make them viable. Right now they are not viable at all, unless you play for fun(i`m specifically talking about Pro level).

even if it was a nerf is it really that confusing?"oh jeeze why did they nerf the SSS tier legend"

Wraith... why another nerf? | EA Forums

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Shmexxyyy
5 years ago
People play wraith in ranked and pubs for her portal. The repostioning ability is the best in the game and that’s why she has a high win rate. Being able to make clutch rotations is very important. Please stop coming up with ways to nerf this legend. She is balanced and is in no way over powered. And honestly it’s insulting that I’m a good player, with a high win rate, and I have around 12k kills logged with this legend. And you like to think that the legends with a high pick and win rate deserve a nerf? What kind of incentive is that? I guess I should stop playing my favorite legend all together and win a crap ton with someone else in order to win enough so you can just nerf them too!? Honestly respawn, learn something about your game before changing it. STOP NERFING WRAITH. I’m soooo excited to have to completely re learn how to play my legend tomorrow... it’s gonna be soooooooooo great... :/
Alphabets
5 years ago
It’s really early to judge, her tactical last longer and its cool down decreased 10 seconds. let’s call it a change for now, until we see actual games after a few weeks.
Shmexxyyy
5 years ago
The only tactical that takes longer to activate is crypto’s drone. It’s the initial phase attempt with a 20% movement slow that has me angry at the developers of this game. 1.25 seconds is more than enough time to get shredded by an r99 or a havoc. Wraith will never be the same if they keep her this way. She has received more nerfs than any other legend, and more than any other video game character I have ever seen. I won’t stop playing wraith. And at a certain point if the nerfs keep coming I will leave apex
Shmexxyyy
5 years ago
They put this down as ”because she has a high pick and win rate” we need to come up with another nerf. Well respawn, I’m sorry I’m too good at your game. I thought I would get a reward for playing well but it turns out all you want to do is nerf my legend as I continue to get better and better. I will never stop playing wraith and you will see me continue to pick and win with this legend, no matter how many nerfs come my way. What a terrible job you do. You look at the players who main a legend, who win a ton of games, and you say, ok, let’s nerf their mains so it’s harder for the good players to win. Hats off to you for that devs. Nice incentive for playing well. Nice to know the more I win the more my main gets nerfed.
HarmoNoise
5 years ago
I agree with your general sentiment. The logic behind the changes doesn't make a great deal of sense to me. As someone pointed out on Reddit, the reason she has such a high win rate, is because a lot of people play her. So using that as a reason to nerf her doesn't make a lot of sense to me.

The 20% movment nerf is utterly too much. Ok fine increase the time it takes to activate but why make it reduce the movment.
Sir_Named
5 years ago
@HarmoNoise The 20% is only when you activate it.
Once it is activated, you move 30% faster, can see people, and it lasts longer.

This was actually an interesting rework, not an actual nerf. They made the activation worse, but everything else better.
Eurlannd
5 years ago
even if it was a nerf is it really that confusing?
"oh jeeze why did they nerf the SSS tier legend"
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Seasoned Ace
5 years ago
@Shmexxyyy It's not necessarily a nerf but a change to how her tactical is supposed to work, It's now much more effective as a repositioning ability than a getting out of tough situations ability
HarmoNoise
5 years ago
@Sir_Named I know it's when you activate it. Itll be similar to Loba when she tosses her jump drive. You're exposed for that period of time untill you're actually in your ability
Sir_Named
5 years ago
@HarmoNoise Yeah, she’s more like Loba now.
It’s now a reposition tool, and not just an escape tool.