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Apex Legends Octane abilities, tips and tricksUse these Octane tips to run rings around your enemies
Use these Octane tips to run rings around your enemies
Want to learn how to win games as Octane in Apex Legends?Well, that depends. Do you love to be a playmaker who can spin circles around your opponents inApex Legends? Octane has always been the option for that but has recently seen a huge resurgence, with his usage rates skyrocketing up the charts - and it doesn’t look like his recent nerf with the Apex Legends Evolution patch notes will do much to curb his dominance.
Learn all about Octane’s abilities below, along with his backstory and some useful tips and tricks to get the most out of the speedster.
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Meet Octane – Apex Legends Character TrailerWatch on YouTube
Meet Octane – Apex Legends Character Trailer
Apex Legends Octane abilities
Octane, like every other Legend, has three abilities:Swift Mend (Passive),Stim (Tactical), andLaunch Pad (Ultimate). These combine to make Octane the most mobile hero in the game and a dizzying opponent to go up against. He is classed as an Offensive Legend alongsideWraith,Bangalore,Mirage,Revenant,HorizonandFuse.
If you want to make plays and win fights quickly, Octane and you are a match made in heaven. His ability to get around the map and get to places first means he often has the best pick of the loot and is able to make some truly insane rotations. Speed is helpful in and out of combat, so at least personally, you should be able to get value out of all of his abilities. His health management will come into play though, so mastering these abilities will be very important to winning fights.
Octane tips and tricks
Octane is somewhat of a balancing act, as his speed makes him powerful in fights, but it’s also easy to isolate yourself or not manage your health correctly. Octane can win matches or lose matches, so here are some general tips to make sure you don’t become the ire of your team.
Octane Passive Tips: Swift Mend
Description: Automatically restores health over time.
Octane’s passive is deceptively powerful. It will rarely win you games or strongly influence your fights, however, it provides tons of value over the course of a match. He heals for 1 health every second. This is a passive ability that will almost constantly be getting use, especially as you Stim to run around.
Few Legends' passives will see so much constant use. It means Octane doesn’t need to waste tonnes of time healing after a fight or carry so many healing items. Just make sure your shields are charged up and you can heal up to full in no time, no matter how low your health is.
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Octane Tactical tips: Stim
Stim is the ability that really defines Octane’s playstyle. Octane is all about speed, and this is what gives him that speed. At the cost of 20 health, Octane will be 30% faster at normal speeds and 40% faster while sprinting. Obviously, there is a bit of a balancing act between using the ability and not depleting your entire health pool, but for most situations, it’s a perfectly reasonable trade-off.
However, the ability has more use than that too, as it negates most slowing effects on the character. This ability makes Octane exceptionally hard to pin down unless he is silenced.
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Octane Ultimate tips: Launch Pad
Description: Deploy a jump pad that catapults you and your teammates through the air.
Launch Pad is Octane’s ultimate and is the only ability he has that provides value for his teammates. The pad can be used to get to unexpected places or have everyone rotate during a fight. This ability increases the maneuverability of everyone, allowing the team (or any player) to travel quickly.
It also has a ton of surprising and strange interactions that can become helpful in certain situations. Use it to get downed teammates to you or bank grenades in otherwise impossible ways. There’s a lot to experiment with as the ultimate messes with several physics in the game.
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Apex Legends Octane backstory
Octavio decided one day to try and set a new record in aGauntlet. However, to eek a little speed to beat the record, he used a grenade to propel himself across the finish line. (Side note: This is a fun callback to the record held in theTitanfall 2Gauntlet, where players would use grenades to cause extra propulsion.) It worked… a little too well.
The damage he sustained from the grenade left him without legs. However, that didn’t stop the speedster. He was far from hanging up his daredevil ways, so convinced Ajay Che, known as Lifeline, to create prosthetic, bionic legs for him. This made him faster than ever and gave him the confidence to join the Apex Games. Unlike other Legends in the games, Octavio isn’t in it for a dark, personal grievance he is trying to right. He just loves the thrill of competing in high adrenaline situations and the fame that comes with that.
That’s pretty much everything we’ve got on Octane for now, so hopefully you’ve learned a thing or two about how best to utilise his unique skillset. For full details and opinions on all of the characters together, take a look at ourApex Legends charactersguide.
