Axle changes in Apex Legends

Axle's ultimate is much weaker, with less health, a longer cooldown, a much shorter stun and a lower knockback, and Nitro Gate launches slower; the new Drone Deployer upgrade brings the ultimate cooldown back to 90s.

• Tactical: From 8/25 Hotfix: Nitro Gate launch speed 750 → 700
• Kickstart (Ultimate)
• From 8/25 Hotfix
• Ultimate HP 200 → 150
• Base Ultimate cooldown 90s → 120s
• Ultimate knockback arc widened and max height reduced.
• Ultimate stun duration 1.5s → 0.25s
• Upgrades: From 8/25 Hotfix: Jump Gate replaced with a new Drone Deployer Upgrade that brings the Ult cooldown back down to 90s.

Axle's tactical slide boost is shorter, and the ultimate now stuns and displaces Axle and allies too, though allies take no damage; the new Long Haul upgrade brings back the longer slide.

• Nitro Gate (Tactical): Max slide boost time 5 seconds → 3 seconds
• Kickstart (Ultimate)
• Now affects self & allies (similar to Mad Maggie, Bangalore, and Gibraltar ultimates)
• Axle (self) gets damaged, stunned, and displaced (same as enemies)
• Allies get stunned and displaced, but won’t take damage
• Upgrades
• Replace Automata with Long Haul, which brings the Tac max slide time back up to 5 seconds
• Shuffled order
• Lvl 2: Sliding Shooter vs Long Haul
• Lvl 3: Jump Gate vs Super Slider

TipYou'll need to use slide defensively now since you take damage; coordinate with teammates when possible.

Axle can have fewer Nitro Gates out at once and they have less health, Super Slider now cuts the gate cooldown and adds a gate instead of a second charge, and knocked players can still boost through gates but no longer slide.

Nitro Gate (Tactical): From 5/29 Hotfix: Max in-world count 3 → 2

• Nitro Gate (Tactical)
• From 5/29 Hotfix
• Max in-world count 3 → 2
• hp 150 → 100
• Passive/Tactical: 29.1: Knocked players can no longer slide across zip codes as Axle or while under the effect of a Nitro Gate. They can still boost through a Nitro Gate, but once the effect times out, they will slow down accordingly.
• Upgrades: 29.1: "Super Slider" Upgrade no longer grants a second Tactical charge. Instead, it now grants Nitro Gate a 5 second cooldown reduction and +1 max in-world count.
• Kickstart (Ultimate)
• 29.1
• Kickstart now displaces victims on a parabolic arc based on their velocity at the moment of impact, instead of straight up.
• Reduced enemy highlight duration slightly to better match stun duration.

Axle is a new legend who slides faster with more control, places a Nitro Gate that sends anyone into a speedy slide, and fires a Kickstart drone that hunts enemies and knocks them into the air.

Passive: DRIFT: Increased control while sliding.: Axle accelerates and moves faster than others while sliding.

• Drift (Passive)
• DRIFT: Increased control while sliding.
• Axle accelerates and moves faster than others while sliding.
• She also has increased lateral control.
• Nitro Gate (Tactical)
• NITRO GATE: Deploy a speed gate that sends users into a boosted slide.
• Stepping into a Nitro Gate forces users into a speedy slide, where they have greatly increased velocity and lateral control.
• This effect lasts for up to five seconds as long as speed isn’t naturally slowed.
• Manually stopping the slide will end the effect (although it can be maintained through quick b-hops).
• The gate is team agnostic, meaning it has the same effect on friendlies and enemies, though Axle will be the only one with increased slide control.
• Kickstart (Ultimate)
• KICKSTART: Deploy an enemy-seeking drone that displaces targets on impact.
• Axle fires a drone straight out in front of her, where it traverses close to the ground in a straight line as it scans for enemies in a wide FoV.
• Once an enemy is spotted, the drone seeks towards the target, closing the gap to get within detonation range.
• If the target cannot outrun or destroy the drone before detonation, it will knockback all targets in range up into the air.
• Victims are revealed while airborne, take explosive damage, and are briefly stunned.
• Upgrades
• Level 2
• Super Slider: Gain a second Tactical charge.
• Automata: Gain a second Ultimate charge.
• Level 3
• Jump Gate: Upgrades the Nitro Gate to give a double-jump.
• Similar to how Octane’s Triple Jump upgrade works, this upgrades the Nitro Gate itself.
• Players can use up to one double-jump while the Nitro Gate effect is active.
• Sliding Shooter: Bullets shot while sliding come straight from inventory instead of magazine.
• Functionally, this allows for longer continuous firing while sliding before having to reload.
• Bullets shot straight from inventory are capped at half the weapon’s max magazine size (i.e. if a purple mag capacity is 30 bullets, 15 bullets will get pulled from inventory before instantly transitioning to the active clip).