Bangalore changes in Apex Legends

Bangalore gets a broad buff: a faster passive, smoke that fires faster, passes through doors and recharges sooner, and a shorter ultimate cooldown, but other abilities can now clear the smoke.

Abilities: Passive: Double Time: Speed increased by 5%

• Abilities
• Passive: Double Time: Speed increased by 5%
• Tactical: Smoke Launcher
• Canister breaks and travels through doors
• Projectile speed 2500 → 2900
• Pull out time 0.35 → 0.25
• Cooldown 35s → 30s
• Smoke now reactive: ordnance and abilities can disable it for 5s when used inside/nearby
• Ultimate: Rolling Thunder
• Cooldown 270s → 210s
• Anim frame to fire projectile 5 → 1
• Upgrades
• Level 2
• Ultimate Cooldown+ & Tactical Cooldown: removed
• Cover Me: moved to Level 2
• Electric Smoke: electrifies Tac dealing 100 damage to enemy Ults and destroys Tacs
• Level 3
• Refuge: removed, integrated into Cover Me
• NEW ECM Payload: electrifies Ult dealing 10 more damage, destroys enemy deployables
• NEW Medal of Honor: faster revives and passive triggers running towards knocked allies

TipSmoke constantly to control fights; Electric Smoke disables aggressive ults without cost.

Everyone inside Bangalore's smoke is now highlighted in white to other nearby players who are also in the smoke.

Smoke Launcher: all players within smoke will now have a white highlight visible to other players in smoke within 20m

Bangalore's ultimate and smoke both take longer to come back, and the smoke no longer deals damage and clears sooner; Big Bang is replaced by a tactical cooldown upgrade and Refuge heals faster.

• Rolling Thunder: Cooldown 4 → 4.5m
• Smoke Launcher
• Cooldown 33 → 35s
• No longer deals damage
• Smoke duration 18 → 11s
• Smoke particles now dissipate faster
• Upgrades: Level 2
• Big Bang: removed
• NEW Tactical Cooldown: reduces Tactical cooldown by 5s
• Upgrades: Level 3
• Cover Me: Auto-Ping no longer tracks the player who triggered double time
• Refuge : Heal Rate increased to 3.5 HP/s (was 3HP/s)

Bangalore is weaker across the kit: Double Time ends sooner, the smoke clears faster and Rolling Thunder stuns for less time.

• Double Time: Duration 3s → 2s
• Smoke Launcher: Smoke lifetime 23s → 18s
• Rolling Thunder: Stun duration 8s → 6s

TipBangalore's defensive abilities have shorter durations; time your escapes carefully and don't rely on smoke to cover full rotations.

Bangalore's Rolling Thunder explodes sooner after being thrown.

Rolling Thunder: Time it takes for explosion 8 seconds → 6 seconds

TipThe ultimate activates faster - enemies have less time to escape before the detonation wave hits.

Bangalore's Rolling Thunder ultimate comes back faster, so you can call it in more often.

Rolling Thunder: Decreased cooldown from 4.5 minutes to 3 minutes

Bangalore's Rolling Thunder deals twice as much damage, so it hurts a lot more to get caught in the blasts.

Damage 20 → 40

• Rolling Thunder
• Damage 20 → 40