Horizon changes in Apex Legends

Horizon's Gravity Lift is faster, hovers longer at the top and comes back much sooner, Black Hole has a shorter cooldown and more health, and new upgrades add fast falling, gliding and tactical charge on knocks.

Gravity Lift: Lift speed 300 → 375

• Gravity Lift
• Lift speed 300 → 375
• Hover time at top of lift 0.5 sec → 1.5 sec
• Cooldown reductions
• Reduced cooldown by 5 seconds (25 sec → 20 sec)
• Reduced delay before cooldown starts 8 sec (10 sec → 2 sec)
• Effectively reduced cooldown from 35 sec → 22 sec
• Black Hole
• Reduced cooldown by 30 seconds (3.5 min → 3 min)
• Health 175 → 225
• Upgrades
• Level 2
• Ultimate Cooldown: Removed (included by default)
• Tactical Cooldown: Removed (included by default)
• NEW: Gravity Boots: Press crouch while in the air to fall much more quickly
• NEW: Newt Scoot: Press jump after exiting gravity lift to glide
• Level 3
• Conservation of Energy: Unchanged
• Combat Reserve: Removed
• NEW: Knock Expert: gain tactical charge on knocks.

TipHorizon's upgrades are movement rather than cooldowns now. Use Gravity Boots to drop out of your own lift quickly instead of riding it up.

Horizon's Gravity Lift has toned-down visual effects so it clutters the fight less, and players riding it are easier to hear.

Gravity Lift: Adjusted visual effects of the lift to reduce visual load on the battlefield

• Gravity Lift
• Adjusted visual effects of the lift to reduce visual load on the battlefield
• Adjusted audio of players in the lift to be more noticeable

Battpack replaces Horizon's Battery Collection upgrade; it still shows battery counts in Death Boxes and also adds an extra battery per stack.

Upgrades: Battery Collection: removed

• Upgrades
• Battery Collection: removed
• NEW Battpack: in addition to the extra battery per stack, this upgrade now also shows battery counts in Death Boxes
• Shockwave: Level 2: Battery Collection: Shield Battery count shown above Death Boxes.
• From the Rift: Level 2
• Battpack
• +1 Battery per stack.
• See Battery Count in Death Boxes.

TipBattpack carries the extra battery per stack as well as the box readout, so it pays off from what you hold, not only from what you can see. Use the counts to decide which box is worth the stop.

Horizon's Gravity Lift has a longer cooldown, so it is available less often.

Gravity Lift: Cooldown 20s → 25s

TipUse Gravity Lift sparingly on its longer cooldown; commit to rotations and escapes rather than using it to reposition frequently.

Horizon's Gravity Lift raises you faster but makes your weapon less accurate while you ride it.

Tactical - Gravity Lift: Increased weapon spread in Gravity Lift

• Tactical - Gravity Lift
• Increased weapon spread in Gravity Lift
• Increased vertical speed of Gravity Lift by 10%

Horizon's N.E.W.T. in Black Hole is easier to hit and takes more damage from explosives, so it is easier to destroy.

• Black Hole: Adjustments to N.E.W.T’s hitbox to make destroying it more reliable.
• Black Hole: N.E.W.T. takes 50% more damage from explosives.

In Arenas, Horizon's Gravity Lift and Mirage's Psyche Out each start with one fewer charge, and Bloodhound gets one fewer free scan during Beast of the Hunt.

• Horizon's Gravity Lift starting charges 2 → 1
• Mirage's Psyche Out starting charges 3 → 2
• Bloodhound's free scans while in Beast of the Hunt 3 → 2

TipYour early Arenas rounds shift without burst ability spam - adjust economy and rotations around single charges.

Horizon's Black Hole slows you less after its first pull, and Gravity Lift now lifts at a speed between its 9.1 and Legacy update values.

• Reduced the slow after the initial Black Hole pull.
• Bumped Horizon gravity lift-up speed to a happy medium between 9.1 and Legacy update launch values.

Horizon's Gravity Lift is weaker: it lifts slower, steers less, only lets you hover at the top briefly and has a longer cooldown, and Wattson pylons now zap Horizon's abilities.

• Gravity Lift: Reduced lift speed by 30%.
• Reduced side-to-side acceleration. Limited the time you can sit at the top of Gravity Lift to 2 seconds.
• Increased cooldown from 15s to 20s.
• Horizon’s abilities will now get zapped by Wattson pylons.

TipGravity Lift is now a shorter-window escape tool rather than a repositioning crutch - use it to gap close or bail, not to camp height.

Horizon's Gravity Lift has a longer effective cooldown because the timer now only starts once the lift is gone, so you can use it less often.

Gravity Lift effective cooldown increased from 21s to 25s. The 15s cooldown timer will now start when the Gravity Lift disappears.

TipYou can't rely on repositioning as often - plan rotations around the longer window between uses.