Apex Legends Mobile’s New Legend Rhapsody Is Exactly What The Battle Royale Needs

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Apex Legends Mobile Season 2: Distortion has launched this week, bringing Kings Canyon to our phones for the first time. Skull Town’s back too, if you’re pining for the busiest POI in Apex Legends history (yes, I’m including Fragment East). The most exciting addition is the second exclusive Legend to hit the mobile version of Apex, Rhapsody.

Rhapsody is a superstar DJ who is helped by her little drone Rowdy. As a brief aside, when are we getting Drone Legends? I’d pay good money to see Rowdy team up with D.O.C. and Newt and work their way through a battle royale match. Anyway, Rowdy is the amplifier for Rhapsody’s banging mixes, and also forms the core of her abilities in Apex Mobile matches. It’s these abilities that make her such an interesting addition to the Apex Games, as at first glance they seem to be a solid counter for the current meta.

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Her Passive allows her to hear opponents from further away. How well this will work remains to be seen, as Apex has well-documented issues with its audio and players can easily sneak up on you undetected, footsteps completely absent in lieu of ambient noise. Rhapsody’s Tactical seems a bit like a toned-down version of Wattson’s Ultimate, recharging teammates’ shields and giving them a speed boost until you next take damage. Her Ultimate, Rowdy’s Rave, is the most important though. “Rowdy projects a wall of flashing lights that blocks incoming sight and scans.”

Apex Legends is firmly in a wallhack meta. Seer’s popularity has risen, the ambush artist rising through the ranks to replace Bloodhound as the scanning flavour of the month. Valkyrie’s near-100 percent pick rate in the ALGS has bumped her