"fun and addicting"
Well, at least you understand what they're up to with her. Just don't be heartbroken when she gets her inevitable nerf next season.
hmmm is she that op though I personally dont think so, I believe whats gonna happen is; peeps not gonna pick her as much when her bubble dies out and then shes gonna get buffed when her pick rate drop this has been literally the case with almost every single skirmisher. Another thing. Im almost positive she was meant to be much more powerful at launch during playtesting but then she was tuned down after launch just to make sure she wont drive players away. Like Im almost sure she has 2 tacs with lower cooldown when they did the numbers but decided to wait a lil bit to see whether or not the current version would be enough for her to keep up with others and as I said earlier people will most likely stop picking her up as much soon and will go back to their mains and this is when she will probably get buffed if anything
"is she that op though"
Eye of the beholder. I have to admit that judgments made this early in her lifespan are suspect. I myself have used a lot of drama in my description of her and her potential effect on the game. But, at least for now, my initial judgment still stands: it isn't that she herself is necessarily overpowered or not. It's that she represents another pretty big step on the path to making this game so fast that a normal human being can't even comprehend what is going on around them, much less react to it. Respawn themselves coined the phrase "battlefield legibility." She is a pox on battlefield legibility. It would be one thing if it was just her, but it's her entire squad and quite often one or two enemy squads in the fray, all of whom, for now, have an Axle of their own. That's how many nitro gates in a given engagement? Too many. Too many players careening around as if it's Wildcard with an entire squad of Octanes running speedboost and hoverboards. Where can that end? How can any normal player respond to that except with an aimbot?
All I can say is that I have a short list of legends who, if I see them on the enemy team during the final circle, are deal-breakers and will cause me to quit the match. Right now she's on that list. She may not stay there forever. But right now I'm in no mood to deal. Or rather, I don't have an aimbot, so I can't hit her or her squad, and there's no point in my bearing witness to the atrocity. So I don't. The only legend previously that I felt that way about and wasn't wrong to, was the buffed Ash. I would still be quitting Ash finals if they hadn't toned her down a little. It also helped that people stopped using her when the novelty wore off. As you predicted will happen with Axle. Let's hope.
Interesting take, I came to realize that most people who use skirmishers only use them for the shortly lived fun. They will probably consider using another legend (when things get real) whose abilities do actually make a big difference and contribute to the team (support, recon etc...). I was burnt out after sticking only to Axle for a short 2-3 days and now whenever I play I mostly dont pick her up at all. btw can I ask for your xbox gt pls 🙂owo I rlly wanna play sum with ya bro
You flatter me, but let me tell you why I am the last person on earth you want on your squad. I won't drop with you. I will solo around the edge of the circle while you're in the center of the map taking on three other squads with just one teammate. A teammate who only started playing Apex two days ago. If by some miracle you make it to the final three then you just have to hope that I don't find any of my fairly lengthy list of deal-breakers. The most common deal-breaker: the new guy couldn't hack it, quit the match, and now I'm looking at an inevitably speed-boosted three man enemy squad. They don't have better position or game awareness, but now, thanks to Flash-style movement, they don't need any of those things. And I will quit before they can get a single bullet on me. And you'll be left alone to your inevitable doom.
And it does not matter if this is bots, pubs, or ranked. They're all exactly the same to me. I really am anybody's nightmare teammate.
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