Apex Legends: Rampart's Season 13 Buffs Make Her More Viable

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Newcastle is no doubt the star of Apex Legends' latest season, Saviors. His kit offers a plethora of defensive options including his Retrieve the Wounded passive, Mobile Shield tactical, and Castle Wall ultimate. With all these abilities under his belt, Newcastle more than lives up to his role as a defense legend.

But while Newcastle hogs the spotlight (at least for the start of the season), another defense legend is slowly creeping up in the pick rates. Rampart — a niche pick in the Apex Legends community — has recently had some buffs to make her a more viable pick. She hasn't been totally reworked, but the small number of tweaks added to her ever-growing list of buffs allow her to more easily go toe-to-toe with the other legends.

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The first two of Rampart's buffs have to do with her Amped Cover tactical ability. Amped Cover provides Rampart and her allies with cover that blocks incoming fire and buffs outgoing bullets, so to make it more balanced, Respawn Entertainment saw fit to make it slow to deploy. This made it extremely easy for enemies to walk around Rampart's Amped Cover in close quarters or shoot at it from mid to long-range. Since the amount of health Amped Cover possessed while deploying was so low, Rampart players would usually waste their tactical ability cooldowns trying to set them up only for enemies to knock them down.

With the new season out, Amped Cover's deploy time has been reduced from 4.25 seconds to 3.6 seconds. On top of that, a second buff increases the tactical's health while deploying from 45 to 120. This is a big deal for Rampart players, as previous patches for the character mostly focused on making her ultimate ability, Mobile Minigun «Sheila» more