It’s pure in a sport like Apex Legends {that a} new character can basically change the way in which the sport is performed at its highest ranges. Wattson’s introduction created a professional scene closely reliant on quick rotations and holding down locations within the last circles. Valkyrie launched a brand new type of preventing on the sting of zones and motion that beforehand wasn’t attainable.
Catalyst is one other legend that appears to have the potential to vary up the professional scene, and NICKMERCS sees it coming earlier than professional groups actually have an opportunity to regulate to a brand new character absolutely.
“That’s going to vary all the pieces, if that actually blocks Seer’s stuff,” the FaZe streamer mentioned about Apex’s latest legend. “[But] you don’t know till it truly adjustments. It will be powerful, although, that it comes out two days earlier than Oversight finals and 5 days earlier than Professional League.”
The Apex Legends International Collection isn’t any stranger to seeing meta shift and alter over the course of a Professional League season, somewhat than letting a meta settle earlier than beginning up professional play. Final 12 months, the Valkyrie-Gibraltar-Caustic meta that occurred solely grew to become significantly well-liked midway by way of Professional League’s first break up, and even then, groups had been operating their very own variants with characters like Wraith and Ash. By the point the ALGS Championship rolled round, many groups had deserted Caustic altogether, whereas FURIA launched the world to the sport’s hidden boss: Seer.
Nonetheless, with Catalyst’s talents seeming like counter to Seer and different scan characters that may reveal enemy areas, the brand new legend represents an fascinating wrinkle that professional groups must take care of. Virtually each prime staff in lots of areas has adopted Seer into their staff compositions. The query relating to Professional League shall be how closely Catalyst impacts Seer, and if it’s value it to proceed operating the character.
It’s additionally attainable that groups would possibly attempt to run Seer collectively alongside Catalyst. But it surely’s troublesome to inform simply how the pair’s talents work together, and whether or not Catalyst’s final would possibly block pleasant Seer scans, in addition to enemy ones. If that’s the case, it appears unlikely that the 2 shall be performed in tandem.
Just one factor is definite: the brand new character will certainly create some surprises on Apex leaderboards.
“That’s gonna make the event placings so fucking completely different,” NICKMERCS mentioned after watching the Eclipse launch trailer. “It’ll be all about who can adapt, and that is gonna be one thing that we’re should get accustomed to.”
The brand new season of Apex, together with Catalyst, releases on Nov. 1. The ALGS kicks off on Nov. 6.
