Season 5 Pick Rates
So data was released this week which shows the Legend pickrate since the onset of Season 5. The data shows that Wraith and Pathfinder are still the most popular Legends by a good margin. Despite be...
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@Axs5626Sxa5001 Honestly I don't want to see anymore nerfs to these two characters cause they're not obnoxious to play against anymore. What I wanna see is the other Legends buffed and/or skills reworked. No matter how much they nerf Wraith or Pathfinder people who main them will still play them and it's not really fair to force people out of playing a certain character by constantly nerfing them.
@Daze623I agree, but it could be argued that both Wraith and Path were already in an ok place before their past nerf— that didn’t stop Respawn from nerfing them more.
And the severity of the Pathfinder nerf (a 133% increase) demonstrates that they (the devs) are totally ok dropping significant changes on the player base to achieve what they want (less Pathfinders). Don’t you find it odd that they literally did a 180 and made the fastest cooldown (15 sec) the longest cooldown (35 sec)?
All that being said, the evidence suggests that instead of buffing the weaker Legends, we are going to see more nerfs to Wraith and Pathfinder.@Axs5626Sxa5001 Pick rates also say that Gibby is really unpopular although he's one of the strongest legends, so we'll see another Gibby buff? lol
I don't think they only look at pick rates, some characters will always be more popular than others, that's how it works in every game. Wraith is a cool legend and her abilities suit well team play, Path in pubs is still the best in terms of fast movement and repositioning. I highly doubt they'll nerf Wraith and Path again, as now they are just in perfect position. One more nerf and they'll be completely useless. They should focus more on fixing bugs and servers.
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The funny thing is, I often ask the Apex community (on reddit, sometimes here, and in other forums) if a specific character is “now in the right place” after they receive an adjustment. I asked when Path had his season 3 grapple hook adjusted— the majority of people said “yeah he needed to be slower and easier to hit, he’s good now”. Then they nerfed him again and I asked if he is in a good place now that he takes increased damage everywhere. The majority of people said “yeah this nerf was needed, he’s good now”. And then they nerfed him again and people said the same thing: “yeah he’s good now”.
But I thought he was good before? Lol.
Honestly it’s the same with Wraith. Post nerf, people agreed she was “now in a good place” but then retracted that after she received her subsequent nerf.
It makes wonder if some people are actually just kinda happy to see someone other than their main become weaker, because that makes their own Legend more viable.
I think it’s clear that I’m a Path main. But I’m definitely not crying and I’m definitely not switching mains. I’m adapting to the changes and I’m fine. However, I AM concerned that Path will get nerfed again, as his popularity remains high and kids are still going to complain when a Path successfully out plays them with a grappling hook. Watch. Lol.
- @Axs5626Sxa5001 I think it has less to do with the selection rate and more to do with making other legends competitive and balanced.
I still go on rampages with Wraith. I had a 2k 8 kill, 3 revive and 1 respawn game the other night.
I was pretty sure this was the case, because i see plenty of Wraith and Pathfinders. But did they deserve more nerfs - definitely no.
Respawn are touching carefully and they are doing great job with the "nerfs", they actually not nerf or overnerf, despite all the Pathfinder crybabies on here. What they are doing is tuning down an OP legend, and they are doing it in best manner. Not nerfing the skill, but actually just put longer CD, which means no SPAM on it, as it shouldn`t be, and in that fashion you actually need to use your brain on when to use your abilities and invest into aiming/movement skills actually.
As i said million times, there shouldn`t be abilities that should deny you a death you deserve, because you made the wrong decision, or aka pre season 5 Pathfinders, charge 1v3, if not working out, run away with his grapple, because of a joke of CD he had on his grapple .
And one more thing, legends like Path and Wraith are picked, because they have escape mechanism abilities, but they also have great team helping abilities, like portal, zipline, Wraith passive tells you if people are near, and Pathfinder zone scan, which is extremely useful in ranked/tournaments.
No other legends has that, and this is the reason they are picked and played that much, and thats why they are that strong, even with all the nerfs they get, and they deserved.
Pathfinder was clear number 1 last season, now he is top 5 legend, so as i call before, all the crying was exactly that crying.He is still super strong legend and he is still very useful.
And i actually like Respawn for not just buffing a certain legend, and make this game in abilities spam s**** and then the game will became totally unbalanced.
They should process very carefully with the buffs for other legends.
For Octane the situation is very easy, but for other legend, its very hard if buffed, to not become OP.
As for team usefulness and escape mechanism i forget to put Loba in there, cause she belongs there now. Another strong legend, and now we have a bit more variety.
