Apex Legends Revenant abilities analysis and character guide

Most online games get frequent balancing updates to tweak the corresponding metas, but few come close to matching Apex Legends in frequency and scope. The developers are constantly experimenting with new ways to keep weapons, items, locations and characters up to par. Revenant was one of the recent test subjects that received revisions to their abilities, and it seems his procedure was a success, as many more players now choose him in Apex Legends. This guide will cover the recent changes in detail, along with the other important things to know when using him. It just takes a quick look at Revenant's abilities to know that he boasts an offensive toolset that caters to aggression and movement. The Death Totem Ultimate ability is the crown jewel of Revenant's offerings. As the saying goes though, a good offense often makes for a strong defense. In this guide, we'll cover how all of the ins and outs of each ability can help you topple the best squads in the lobby, as well as keep them off your back to an extent. Intro Passive: Stalker Tactical: Silence Ultimate: Death Totem Squad recommendations and meta ranking Passive ability: Stalker There are plenty of Legends that have impressive movement characteristics, but none quite like Revenant. The main attractions of his Passive ability are that he can crouch walk with full walk/jog speed and climb significantly higher (and faster) than any other Legend. A skilled tactician playing as Revenant can use these perks in many ways to exploit opponent's expectations during firefights, such as outflanking enemies and escaping pursuit, to name a few. We'll focus on the recent climbing ability buff first since it's the most noteworthy change to Revenant's abilities. Before the update, he was already the best climber in the game. Revenant could overcome most two story buildings, depending on the ceiling height of the structure, and sometimes even scale three stories. What he could do before was already quite useful, but his new capabilities are a game changer. And they're more lore accurate at that. Just like in the original trailer that introduced him, Revenant can now climb vertically like a true, creepy machine. From mounting a wall to the maximum release height, Revenant can climb for about eight seconds. That's six times the climb height of the other Legends, generally speaking. Revenant can essentially climb any structure you happen across now, as well as most environmental obstacles. Let's talk use cases. The first thing to comprehend is how good this ability really is. Aside from gaining vertical height, Revenant can scale horizontally to a small degree as long as you're generally going up. Since many objects in the game feature small protrusions where you can stand, you can scale towards these to get on top and reset your climb height, effectively doubling the already generous potential. In fact, Revenant is easily capable of climbing the large tower in the Firing Range. By using the horizontal beams to stand on and reset, he can weave his way to the top in about 20-30 seconds. Revenant can climb this high in a single attempt and can do the whole tower with just two climb resets. Survive or assassinate This climbing buff is a game changer in terms of survival. The Ring in Apex Legends moves very fast at times, and some maps feature a lot of verticality that requires short detours to ramps and ziplines. Revenant's new climbing ability allows him to bypass a lot more obstacles now and focus on direct paths towards locations. In firefights, this is also a mechanism to escape pursuers that may not be able to follow. It's also important to remember that Revenant can scale silently, which may allow you to give enemies the slip after ducking around a corner and going straight up. Just like in the movies. Climbing is also a way to achieve a tactical advantage in offensive situations, or to gain the element of surprise. Seeing as Apex Legends is a game that caters to those who have height on their enemies, you can use Revenant to even the odds in more situations. Most enemies won't expect you (or hear you) climbing over the edge of a building several stories up either. This can allow you to get several opportune shots in before they respond. You can also use his climbing ability to get to ideal sniper perches and/or scout. Move like a killing wind Now that you have a few vertical strategies to consider, it's time to consider Revenant's swift and silent crouch walk. This mechanic has not changed, but most players don't use it to its full extent. Simply put, if you're not sprinting with Revenant, you should always be crouch walking. Doing so makes his footsteps completely silent, allowing you to hear enemies first and not be heard by them. You also reduce your hitbox significantly in this mode, without losing maneuverability. In fact, Revenant's movement and weapon accuracy improves while crouched versus walking, hence why you should always use it. When standing, Revenant loses left/right directional speed. When crouched, he retains full movement speed in every direction, even while aiming. Combine this with strafing during gunfights, and you have a clear advantage. This also makes him the best Legend to cover a retreat, as he can keep eyes on enemies without being a slow target. Revenant is also a superb escape artist due to the fact that enemies will never know where he's going when he's crouch walking. Use it to escape pursuers, and try to get creative with your escape routes, as you have the speed to pull off escapes that may defy the expectations of your enemies. Additionally, you can use his increased crouch speed to heal while rotating to different cover if enemies are trying to flank you. Slower Legends are pretty much stuck in one spot when healing, but Revenant can turn a corner without needing to cancel the healing. Due to his impressive movement abilities, Revenant can get up close and personal on enemies in Apex Legends in short windows. You should use crouch walk in combination with climbing tactics to hit hard and fast when opponents are distracted. Then, fade away if needed. Intro Passive: Stalker Tactical: Silence Ultimate: Death Totem Squad recommendations and meta ranking Tactical ability: Silence Revenant's Tactical is an excellent pairing with the rest of his abilities that contribute to his aggressive playstyle. The primary function of Silence is to disrupt enemy abilities. It applies to enemy Tacticals, Ultimates, and most Passive skills. It's primary function is to disrupt enemies and induce panic, but it can also be used to cause minor health damage and assert area denial. For these reasons, you should the ability on enemies whenever you have an opportunity to do so. Silence fires on an arc similar to a grenade, but with slightly more range. Revenant gets two charges, and it takes him about half a second to ready the ability. Silence grenades detonate on impact and create a obscure cloud of orange and black energy for 10 seconds on the point of detonation. The cooldown for each charge is 25 seconds. If you manage to hit an enemy, Silence does 10 health damage and blocks their abilities for 15 seconds. If you catch enemies unaware, you can fire it directly at them to begin a fight with an advantage. Those who rely on their abilities for panic situations will often hesitate (such as Octane or Gibby) as they first try to figure out how to react before then trying to locate you. Silence is an easy way for a team to pick off a single enemy before their teammates have a chance to provide support. At the very least, you can force enemies to perform a quick tactical retreat. Down and out While all of the enemies that you silence will lose their Tactical and Ultimate abilities for the duration of the effect, the loss of Passive abilities is often not considered as much. This is why it pays off to spam Silence. Legends like Lifeline lose access to their healing drone that also automatically revive enemies. Gibraltar loses his personal ADS Gunshield. Mirage can't turn invisible while healing enemies. Valkyrie even loses her jets, which to call disruptive is an understatement. You can even pull a Wraith out of their Dimensional Rift if you manage to hit them. Silence grenades also activate Caustic gas traps, so spam away. Just watch out for Wattson's Ultimate device, because it will destroy your Silence grenades. You can also use Silence charges to obscure enemy sightlines, as the effects are quite complex. If you find yourself on the receiving end of a push, block pathways with Silence to make enemies pause to weigh the risks of losing their abilities in order to continue their assault. Another unique perk of the Silence ability is that you can throw grenades or heal simultaneously while firing it. Revenant is a robot after all, so dexterity is just a matter of programming. Intro Passive: Stalker Tactical: Silence Ultimate: Death Totem Meta ranking and squad recommendations Ultimate ability: Death Totem Revenant's Ultimate has a few ins and outs, but it's one of the best aggressive abilities to use in Apex Legends. This is because Death Totem allows teams to make risk-free aggressive plays that may otherwise result in a wipe. Just expect to spend a few matches adapting your strategies before you're using it effectively, as you might end up sabotaging yourself with it if you don't pay attention. It's best to think of this ability as a timed extra life that Revenant and other players can all tap into. Activating a Death Totem places it on the ground in front of Revenant. The totem can then be activated once by each player to transform into shadows that have Death Protection. As shadows, players are bound to the totem and get 100 health along with 25 seconds to do whatever. This typically means rushing enemies, as death only results in an instant respawn with half health at the totem. However, if players do not die after the 25 second timer, they revert to normal form at their current location. Kill or be killed The best way to use Death Protection is during multi-team firefights where your team can enter the fray and exploit the chaos with minimal risk. You can also use it effectively against single teams as well if you are able to avoid getting overly pressured. You typically can't go wrong with beginning a fight in Death Protection, as it allows you to assess a situation without risk. However, trading blows with enemies and taking a little damage is also fine due to how the mechanics for this Ultimate ability work. Death Protection only applies to player health, which means you can enter it without shields and still have full health. This makes Revenant's Ultimate an excellent way to give your team an instant second wind when the enemies may need time to heal. This wave strategy is particularly effective if you concentrate the second push on downing more enemies and finishing them to skew the odds for the third push. By then, it's usually just a matter of cleaning up. You can also use Death Protection to perform rotations where you may be worried about taking excessive damage. It's a way to test the waters of who's watching you, and you can sometimes get the best spot on the map as a result of just going for it. Another strategy to consider is when you have your enemies' backs up against the edge of the ring and your team is in position for the next circle. Deploying a totem in a safe location as the ring closes and pushing into an enemy team can get them caught outside of the ring where they will take damage and potentially die. There are plenty of visual indicators that show Death Protection is active, but you need to focus on that timer wheel on the bottom center of the screen. Don't let it hinder you While Death Totem is a very powerful tool, it can also act as a double-edged sword. Players in Death Protection will need to watch their countdown timer closely, and in most cases, ensure they die. Most shadow rushes result in at least one player being returned to the totem. As such, this can be problematic for players that exit shadow form within close proximity of enemy teams. The best way to prevent this is to always keep a Thermite grenade on you if you need to kill yourself very quickly. Alternately, stand out in the open to incentivize enemies to kill you and unwittingly assist your return. There are some other considerations to be mindful of when using a Death Totem. As Revenant, it's important to place the totem at a hidden, but convenient location for your team to recover from. You don't want to be too far away where you can't continue a push if you need to finish off a team. You also don't want to be too close if your team is the one that needs to heal and reassess the situation. Enemy teams at near full strength will likely search for you after killing the shadow forms, and they can see which direction your shadow dissolves toward, giving away the totem position. This makes high ground or well fortified positions good locations for totems. Also, totems can be destroyed by enemies. This is another reason why you should try and place these in protected, concealed areas when you can. It's also important to know that enemies can enter shadow form through your totem as well, which is why you must keep these hidden. To further drive the point home of keeping these hidden, consider how disastrous it could be if a Caustic placed gas traps around your totem for your team to return to at half health. Additional notes Shadow form health is always determined by how much health you have upon activating Death Protection. For this reason, you should always restore health before activating the totem. Furthermore, you can't use any healing items while in shadow form, so you need to maximize the limited health available to you. Totems can also last for a while if players are continually using it. The totem spawns with a default countdown timer of 30 seconds, but each activation causes the timer to reset. Finally, don't forget to act like a monster while you basically are one in shadow form. Players that perform finishers on downed enemies will have their shields automatically restored upon exiting Death Protection, which is a nice little reason to flourish. You can use this perk mid-fight, especially if using the wave push strategy and want to get your shields back to finish off the remaining enemies swiftly. Intro Passive: Stalker Tactical: Silence Ultimate: Death Totem Squad recommendations and meta ranking Squad recommendations and meta ranking Revenant is generally flexible with the teammates he can fight with, though having at least one fast character can be advantageous for rapid flanks while Death Protection is active or while enemies are Silenced. Octane, Wraith, and Pathfinder are all good movement-focused options for capitalizing on Revenant's abilities. Since the Death Totem Ultimate respawns allies with half health, having a Lifeline around to heal immediately after isn't a bad idea either. Unfortunately, her health drones don't heal anyone during Death Protection, so don't bother there. Bloodhound is also highly recommended for teams with active Death Protection, as his scans can help reduce the time you spend approaching a situation. The last thing you want is for Death Protection to expire in a bad position. Bloodhound shows you exactly where to push in as little time possible. As for if Revenant's revised abilities now make him good for ranked/tournament level competition in Apex Legends, it's unlikely. Most teams already have preferred characters and strategies, so it would take more buffs to make competitive players reconsider Revenant when they already know what works best for them. However, he's certainly a fun Legend that can put up a real fight if you're sneaky and have a good sense of tactical strategies. Plus he has a terrifying scythe, which has to be one of the coolest Heirlooms in the game at the moment. If you’d like some useful tips and tricks for other Legends, weapons, and mechanics, check out our Apex Legends guides and features hub. Intro Passive: Stalker Tactical: Silence Ultimate: Death Totem Squad recommendations and meta ranking

Apex Legends Revenant analysis guide — The phantom nemesis

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