Wattson changes in Apex Legends

Wattson's fences hit harder and go up faster, and both fences and the ultimate pylon now reinforce nearby Hardlight meshes and rebuild them if broken.

Perimeter Security (Tactical): Increased fence damage (was 20, now 35)

• Perimeter Security (Tactical)
• Placing a fence in front of a Hardlight mesh will reinforce it; if the mesh is broken the fence will rebuild and reinforce it
• Increased fence damage (was 20, now 35)
• Reduced fence deployment time (was 1s, now 0.5s)
• Interception Pylon (Ultimate): When Wattson’s ultimate is placed it will reinforce Hardlight meshes in the zone of the pylon; if the mesh is broken it will rebuild and reinforce the mesh.

Wattson's Energized Healer now heals properly, and the Ultimate Conductor upgrade no longer charges when it should not.

• Energized Healer should now heal as intended
• Ultimate Conductor upgrade no longer causes charging when it shouldn’t

Wattson uses Ultimate Accelerants faster, and Wattson's fences come back much faster, have tougher nodes, slow sliding and jumping enemies, and electrify doors to stun anyone who opens or kicks them.

Passive: Spark of Genius: 50% faster Ult accel consumption

• Passive: Spark of Genius
• 50% faster Ult accel consumption
• Passive Shield Regen 1s → 2s
• Tactical: Perimeter Security
• Fence node HP 25 → 50
• Cooldown 15s → 4s
• Fences now slow sliding and jumping enemies, and consume cooldowns on Ash’s dash and Sparrow’s double jump
• Fences placed across doors will electrify the doors
• Stuns enemies when they open an electrified door or kicks it in
• Electrification ends if the fence is obstructed or the fence is removed, and restarts when the fence is active again
• Removed doors exploding when opened into the line of a fence
• Upgrades: Level 2
• Falling Stars: integrated into base kit
• NEW Help is Here: gain all support perks (access Support Bins, faster revives with health regen, gain MRB with Banners)
• NEW Ultimate Conductor: damage to enemies is converted to Ult charge and knocks give a burst of 30% Ult charge
• Upgrades: Level 3
• NEW Energized Healer: gain double small med healing
• Power Pylon: double Ult HP, healing rate, and capacity

Wattson loses the Fresh Start upgrade at Level 2 and gets Revive Expert instead, which revives allies faster and gives them health regen.

Upgrades: Level 2: Fresh Start: removed

• Upgrades: Level 2
• Fresh Start: removed
• NEW Revive Expert: gives access to Support Class Revive Expert Per
• Shockwave: Level 2: Fresh Start: Revives allies to 50HP.
• From the Rift: Level 2: Revive Expert: Revive allies faster and with HP regen.

TipIt lands at level two rather than from the drop, so nothing about her early game changes. Plan the first revives around whoever is closest and route them through Wattson only once she has taken it.

Wattson's Power Pylon upgrade now regenerates shield charge, Split Current is removed, and the new Emergency Power upgrade makes the Interception Pylon regenerate shields faster.

Upgrades: Power Pylon: now regenerates shield charge

• Upgrades
• Power Pylon: now regenerates shield charge
• Split Current: removed
• Emergency Power - Added: Increases Shield Regen Rate of Interception Pylon

TipPlace the Pylon where the squad actually intends to hold rather than dropping it mid-rotation, and take Emergency Power if you plan to fight on it, since that upgrade raises the regen rate.

Wattson's Split Circuit upgrade no longer lowers shield regen capacity, and Falling Stars pylons stop making Arc Stars once Wattson's squad is eliminated.

Upgrades: Split Circuit: no longer reduces shield regen capacity

• Upgrades
• Falling Stars: Pylons will stop spawning Arc Stars when her squad is eliminated
• Split Circuit: no longer reduces shield regen capacity

Wattson's Perimeter Security fences have an improved placement system.

Improvements to Perimeter Security placement system.

Wattson's fences hit harder, debuff for longer, recharge much faster and place farther away, while her Pylon is limited to one that lasts forever but holds a limited pool of shields that recharges faster.

Ultimate - Interception Pylon: The Pylon output has been significantly reworked.: Reduced the number of active Pylons Wattson can place from 3 to 1.

• General
• Improved the reliability and responsiveness of placing Wattson's Tactical and Ultimate in-world objects.
• Wattson can place her Tactical and Ultimate objects on valid surfaces above Wattson's eye level (to a reasonable extent).
• General hitbox size increase, to compensate for the removal of low profile in the Legacy update.
• Tactical - Perimeter Defense
• Increased damage on crossing a Fence by 33%. (15 to 20)
• Increased debuff duration on crossing a Fence by 100%. (1.5 to 3 seconds)
• Increased the time allowance to be hit again by a subsequent Fence effect by 100%. (0.5 to 1 second).
• Decreased recharge time by 50% (30 to 15 seconds).
• Increased placement range by 50%.
• Decreased the delay between Fences shutting off and reactivating after an ally passes through them by 60%. (1.0 -> 0.4 seconds)
• Wattson now moves at Unarmed-speed while readying/placing Fence nodes.
• Fence nodes can now be placed as soon as the weapon is readied, instead of waiting for the animation to finish.
• Ultimate - Interception Pylon
• The Pylon output has been significantly reworked.
• Reduced the number of active Pylons Wattson can place from 3 to 1.
• The Pylon now lasts forever (instead of timing out after 90 seconds).
• The Pylon now has a pool of 250 Shields that can be distributed to nearby players, instead of effectively infinite Shields.
• Increased the Pylon shield recharge rate by 150%, and smoothed regen rate. (2/second -> 5/second, or more accurately: 1/0.5 seconds -> 1/0.2 seconds)
• When a Pylon is out of Shields, it no longer recharges players' Shields, but can still zap incoming ordnance.
• Taking damage while regenerating Shields via the Pylon delays continued regeneration by 1 second.
• The UI on the ground and HUD elements now displays the amount of Shields that remain in the Pylon.
• Pinging a friendly Pylon will now display the percentage of Shields remaining in the Pylon.
• Pylon ordnance-zapping has been moderately reworked.: Ordnance is now zapped when the Pylon detects that it would hit any surface within range and line of sight of the Pylon, instead of being zapped as soon as it comes within range.

Wattson's Perimeter Security fences deal more damage each time an enemy touches them.

Perimeter Security: Damage per touch 10 → 15

TipHer pylon punishes pushing much harder - place it at chokepoints to lock down aggressive teams.

Wattson's Interception Pylon now shoots down Caustic barrels in flight if they would land inside its range, so Caustic cannot throw traps into its cover.

Interception Pylon: Trophy system will now shoot down Caustic barrels in flight if they would have landed inside the range of the trophy.

Wattson is a new legend who builds electrified fences that damage and slow enemies, places up to 3 pylons that destroy incoming ordnance and repair shields, and gets a full ultimate from Ultimate Accelerants.

• PASSIVE: Spark of Genius: Ultimate Accelerants fully charge Wattson’s ultimate. Standing near the Interception Pylon boosts Wattson’s tactical recharge rate.
• TACTICAL: Perimeter Security: Create electrified fences by connecting nodes. Fences damage and slow enemies.
• ULTIMATE: Interception Pylon: Place an electrified pylon that destroys incoming ordnance and repairs damaged shields [can place up to 3 Pylons at one time].