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Revenant changes in Apex Legends

Latest change Season 27 Winter Wipeout Event ·

  • 11documented changes
  • 11patches
  • 1buff
  • 2nerfs

Abilities

  • Assassin’s InstinctPassive
  • Shadow PounceTactical
  • Forged ShadowsUltimate

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Every documented change to Revenant

11 changes across 11 patches, newest first

Season 27 Winter Wipeout Event Monday, 5 January 2026

  • CHANGELegends

    Revenant

    Revenant's tactical can be charged for longer, and the ultimate takes slightly longer to deploy.

    • TACTICAL: Max charge duration 1.3 → 1.7s
    • ULTIMATE: Increased Ult time 2.0 to 2.2s (10% slower to deploy)
    Official source

Season 27 Amped November 2025

  • NERFLegend Changes

    Revenant

    Revenant's Shadow Pounce has a lower top speed, so the strongest pounces are slower.

    Reduced the maximum possible velocity of Revenants Shadow Pounce

    Official source

Season 23 From the Rift November 2024

  • CHANGELegends

    Revenant

    Revenant's Forged Shadows shield now regenerates up to 50HP instead of refreshing instantly after a delay.

    Forged Shadows: shield will now regen up to 50HP instead of instantly refreshing after a 3s delay

    Official source

Season 22 Space Hunt Event Thursday, 12 September 2024

  • NERFLegends

    Revenant

    Revenant's Forged Shadows shield has less health and takes twice as long to activate.

    Forged Shadows: Shield health 75 → 50

    • Forged Shadows
    • Shield health 75 → 50
    • Activation time doubled
    Official source

Season 21 Double Take Collection Event Thursday, 20 June 2024

  • BUFFLegends

    Revenant

    Revenant's Grim Leaper upgrade now refreshes the tactical on both knocks and assisted knocks within a short window.

    Upgrade: Level 3: Grim Leaper: Tac will now refresh on BOTH knocks and assisted knocks within a 3s window

    Official source

Season 20 Shadow Society Event Thursday, 21 March 2024

  • CHANGELegends

    Revenant

    Revenant's Forged Shadows no longer refreshes or speeds up the tactical and takes longer to come back; a new Level 2 upgrade cuts the ultimate cooldown and Agile Assassin is removed.

    Forged in Shadows: Knocks no longer refresh the Tactical during Ultimate

    • Forged in Shadows
    • Knocks no longer refresh the Tactical during Ultimate
    • Tactical Cooldown is no longer shorter during Ultimate
    • Ultimate Cooldown Increased by 60s
    • Upgrades
    • Agile Assassin: removed
    • Tactical Cooldown: moved to Level 3
    • NEW Ultimate Cooldown: reduces Ult Cooldown by 30s (Level 2)
    Official source

Season 20 Breakout February 2024

  • CHANGELegends

    Heavy-Rig Legends (Gibraltar, Caustic, Pathfinder, Newcastle, Revenant)

    Gibraltar, Caustic, Pathfinder, Newcastle and Revenant now use medium-rig first-person running animations, so they feel less sluggish even though their actual speed is unchanged.

    • Now use medium-rig first-person movement animations
    • Actual game speeds have not changed, these Legends will feel less sluggish when running
    Official source

Season 19 Ignite November 2023

  • CHANGELegends

    Ultimate Updates

    Newcastle's Castle Wall leaps higher and recovers faster on landing, Revenant's Forged Shadows has a much shorter window for assists to extend it, and Vantage's Sniper's Mark gets one more bullet.

    Newcastle’s Castle Wall: Reduced recovery time on landing

    • Newcastle’s Castle Wall
    • Reduced recovery time on landing
    • Increased max leap height
    • Revenant’s Forged Shadows: Time extension window for assists 30s → 3s
    • Vantage’s Sniper’s Mark: Bullet count 5 → 6

    TipNewcastle has more vertical mobility for rotations, Revenant must finish kills immediately for assists to extend effects, and Vantage's spam potential increased.

    Official source

Season 18 Resurrection August 2023

  • REWORK

    Revenant has been reborn

    Revenant is reworked with new abilities and moves from the Assault class to Skirmisher.

    • Updated class to Skirmisher (was Assault)
    • New abilities (see above)
    Official source

Season 14 Hunted August 2022

  • CHANGE

    Revenant

    Revenant's Death Totem now shows a placement preview when activated instead of dropping immediately, so you can choose where it goes.

    Death Totem will now show a placement preview when activated instead of placing immediately.

    Official source

Season 10 Emergence August 2021

  • CHANGE

    Revenant

    Revenant's Death Totem now gives a visual and audio warning that every player can see and hear when its protection is about to end, and players are briefly slowed after being recalled to the totem.

    • There’s now a visual and audio cue when Death Totem protection is about to end which can be seen/heard by other players.
    • Added a brief slow after being recalled to Death Totem.
    Official source