Apex Legends meta: Season 30
In Season 30 (Marked), EA reworked Bloodhound, buffed Catalyst, Conduit, Fuse, Loba and Rampart and nerfed Axle, Seer and Valkyrie. The other 19 legends are unchanged this season.
Every buff and nerf here is the direction EA gave in its own patch notes, not our opinion.
Pick-rate tier list
Collecting data
625 of the 2,000 lookups needed in the last 28 days (1 October 2026 to 28 October 2026). Tiers by pick rate appear here automatically once there are enough. Until then, the balance changes below are the best guide to which legends EA has been moving.
Reworked in Season 30
A new or rebuilt kit this season.
BloodhoundRecon
- Season 30 rework: a new ultimate, Allfather's Cloak, replaces Beast of the Hunt.
- The passive now shows a red trail to fresh enemy clues, and White Ravens can be activated from a distance by looking at them.
- Eye of the Allfather now scans the full body for 3 seconds, then leaves four snapshot scans.
- New upgrades: Hidden Sight and Bird's Eye at level 2, True Predator at level 3. Taste of Blood was removed, and Raven's Flight was buffed and moved into the base kit.
- 25 August hotfix: the cloak is harder to see inside the dome and ring damage no longer breaks it; the scan lasts 1 second longer and leaves more frequent snapshots that fade over time.
- Midseason: snapshots fade faster, and disappear sooner once you see the head of the snapshot or of the player being tracked.
Buffed in Season 30
Every change EA made this season made them stronger.
CatalystController
- Piercing Spikes cooldown dropped to 15 seconds (was 20). The spikes are taller, the thrown projectile now damages enemies it hits, and throwing it into a doorway reinforces or rebuilds the door.
- Dark Veil fires much faster, and allies are no longer slowed or blinded passing through it.
- Catalyst is no longer immune to other Catalysts' abilities.
- Upgrades: Sole Piercer was removed; Resilient Veil (now also cuts the ultimate cooldown to 120 seconds) and Ferro-Door (now 6 reinforced doors) moved to level 2; Hidden Spikes moved to level 3; new level 3 upgrade Ferro-Frenzy.
ConduitSupport
- Energy Barricade fires faster, can be turned to lay its jammers in a forward line, and shows which jammers would break at the chosen spot.
- Jammers spawn higher and closer together, and activate much faster.
- Battpack and Bigger Jam were replaced by two new level 2 upgrades: Concurrency (refire the ultimate once within 10 seconds, with 2 fewer jammers) and Jammed Up (25% larger jammer radius; damaged enemies have their HUD jammed for 10 seconds).
- Radiant Transfer now previews on the shield bar how much temporary shield it will give.
FuseAssault
- Grenadier now also gives 25% explosive damage resistance and highlights ordnance within 30 m.
- Knuckle Jump is part of the base kit. Jumping no longer reduces the cooldown, and jump power is moderately lower.
- Knuckle Cluster gets you back to your guns much faster, and you can ADS to zoom while aiming it.
- The Motherlode raises faster, lands its main projectile sooner, shows its blast radius, sets off its mini-bombs sooner and loses less damage towards the edge of the first explosion.
- Upgrades: Knuckle Jumper and Wreckless were removed; Reignition moved to level 2 (1 second of ultimate charge per 3 explosive damage); Pyro Techniques doubles the flame radius; new level 3 upgrades Big Bang and Sticky Bomb.
LobaSupport
- 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.
RampartController
- Amped Cover walls have more health at low EVO levels (600/700/800, was 400/600/800), the amped section has 25 more health, and walls deploy 0.5 seconds faster.
- Battle Modder now also makes locked hop-ups unlock 50% faster.
- Sheila's base move speed while firing or spinning up rose to 104 (was 70). The Ramped Up upgrade still raises it further, to 139.
- The Combat Reserve upgrade now grants stowed reloads in place of red weapon access.
Nerfed in Season 30
Every change EA made this season made them weaker.
AxleSkirmisher
- Nitro Gate's maximum slide boost fell to 3 seconds (was 5). The new Long Haul upgrade, which replaces Automata, restores 5 seconds.
- Kickstart now hits Axle and her allies too: Axle takes damage and is stunned and displaced like an enemy; allies are stunned and displaced but take no damage.
- 25 August hotfix: Nitro Gate launch speed fell to 700 (was 750). Kickstart's drone has 150 health (was 200), a 120-second cooldown (was 90), a wider but lower knockback, and a 0.25-second stun (was 1.5).
- Jump Gate was replaced by the Drone Deployer upgrade, which brings Kickstart's cooldown back to 90 seconds.
SeerRecon
- Focus of Attention applies less turn slow.
- From the 2 July hotfix: Home Base moved to level 3 and makes the Tactical cooldown 8 seconds in the Exhibit zone (was 5), and Energizing Focus moved to level 2.
- 25 August hotfix: Focus of Attention no longer slows the turning of players it hits.
ValkyrieRecon
- Missile Swarm base damage fell to 15 (was 25), and the missiles no longer dive straight down over tall cover.
- Skyward Dive launches 15% lower, reverting the Afterburners upgrade that had been made part of the base kit in Season 27.
- Eye in the Sky's through-wall scan range is 100 m (250 m with line of sight), and Supersonic now cuts launch time by 40% instead of 50%.
Unchanged in Season 30
No balance change from EA this season. The date is their last change.
How this page works
Each EA patch-notes article is reviewed by hand into our data. Where it changes a legend, we record the direction EA gives that legend in the article: a buff, a nerf, a rework, or mixed when it goes both ways or EA doesn't say. A legend's season label comes from all of its changes that season.
Pick rates come from lookups on our player tracker: the legend each player has selected, once per player per day, never from crawlers. We publish them once the last 28 days hold 2,000 samples. Below that, the margin of error is wider than the gaps between most legends. The sample leans toward players who look themselves up, so it isn't the whole player base.
