Support

Loba

Translocating Thief

Loba is a Support Legend. She was introduced in Season 5 and is locked from the base game. She can be unlocked using digital currency: either 12,000 Legend Tokens or 750 Apex Coins, or by buying the Champion Edition downloadable content.

A Legend specializing in getting the highest quality loot, Loba’s tactical ability Burglar's Best Friend allows her to throw a bracelet that teleports her to wherever it lands. Her passive Eye for Quality causes her to see and ping Purple and Gold-tier loot through walls. Her ultimate ability Black Market Boutique places a pillar that allows any player that interacts with it to teleport ammunition and up to two items from the surrounding area directly into their inventory.

Abilities

Checked against every EA patch note up to Apex Legends: Cipher Patch Notes (2 November 2026).

TacticalQ

Burglar's Best Friend

Cooldown 30s

Teleport to hard-to-reach places, or escape trouble quickly by throwing your jump drive bracelet.

Throws Loba's bracelet and teleports her to it when it lands.
While the bracelet is in midair, you can force it to drop straight down.
The max distance that the bracelet can be thrown varies based on the following:
While the bracelet is midair, it cannot be canceled (excluding other Legends abilities that can cancel the bracelet), and Loba cannot perform most other actions, like using weapons or healing items.
If the bracelet is thrown off the edge of the map, or into an out-of-bounds area, it'll return to Loba without starting the cooldown.
Can be used while on ziplines.
Since Season 30, the bracelet takes 0.4 seconds to equip (was 0.6), flies about 15% farther and reaches its target about 30% sooner.

Passive

Eye for Quality

Nearby epic and legendary loot can be seen through walls. The range is the same as Black Market Boutique.

Range is 112.5 meters.
Can ping items through obstacles, inside supply bins, and even Care Packages.
Includes Heirloom items.
Loot ticks and Death Boxes cannot be seen through obstacles even if they contain epic or legendary loot.

UltimateZ

Black Market Boutique

Charge time 2.5 min

Place a portable device that allows you to teleport nearby loot to your inventory. Each friendly or enemy Legend can take up to two items.

Loba starts every match with her ultimate 50% charged.
After placing down the Black Market Boutique, it takes about 4.5 seconds before it can be accessed.
After setup, any player can hold down // to interact with it, opening a menu similar to accessing Death Boxes from which each player can take up to two items.
The Black Market has 100 health and can block doors.
Loba can collapse her own Black Market by pressing the Character Utility Button // instead of interacting with it. Deploying a new Black Market will collapse the old Black Market.

Who is Loba?

Real name: Loba Andrade
Age: 36
Home world: None
Voice actor: Fryda Wolff

Loba's heirloom

Loba has an heirloom set — Garra de Alanza.

Loba heirloom details

Loba skins

The wiki lists 83 skins for Loba, each with its rarity and how it was unlocked.

Every Loba skin

Apex Legends meta this season

The Apex Legends meta page tracks every legend buff, nerf and rework this season.

Apex Legends meta: every buff and nerf

Other Support legends

Recent changes

Season 31 · 2 November 2026

Cooldowns raised after strong performance: Burglar's Best Friend to 30 seconds (was 25) and Black Market Boutique to 150 seconds (was 120).

Summarised from EA's patch notes. Read the original: Apex Legends: Cipher Patch Notes

Season 30 · 3 August 2026

Burglar's Best Friend equips faster and flies about 15% farther with about 30% less travel time.
Black Market Boutique's cooldown dropped to 120 seconds (was 150).
The Brand New Bag upgrade now gives purple backpacks, since gold backpacks no longer spawn.

Summarised from EA's patch notes. Read the original: Apex Legends: Marked Patch Notes

Season 24 · 10 February 2025

Black Market Boutique starts at 50% charge again.

Summarised from EA's patch notes. Read the original: Apex Legends: Takeover Patch Notes

Season 23 · 6 January 2025

Burglar's Best Friend now has two charges, with a faster toss and much faster recovery.
Black Market starts at 99% charge (was 50%), can be picked up remotely, can grab banners, and opens vaults without a key (no EVO). Small meds no longer use up a Black Market pick.
Eye for Quality: Loba can aim down sights while unarmed to see the loot of highlighted items.
Upgrades: new level 2 Wolf's Claws and reworked Shopping Spree; new level 3 Brand New Bag and Escape Artist (50 shield regen after a teleport).

Summarised from EA's patch notes. Read the original: Transcend the Otherworld in the Astral Anomaly Event