Hot Drop: Apex Legends Needs More Characters Who Are Bad At Killing

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Hot Drop is GameSpot's weekly Apex Legends column, in which Jordan Ramée takes a closer look at Respawn's battle royale to provide additional insight into the game's evolution, as well as dive deeper into its episodic storytelling and characters.

I really like Apex Legends' newest playable character, Newcastle. I don't like him so much that he's my new main--it's going to take a lot to get me to move on from my girl Valkyrie, especially now that she's getting her heirloom in the Awakening Collection Event--but Newcastle represents the type of character that Apex Legends is sorely lacking and could use a bit more of: someone who's selfless.

There are very few completely selfless characters--playable characters with abilities that strictly benefit others and not themselves--in Apex Legends. Really, the only other character who's anywhere close to being as selfless as Newcastle is Wattson, and the Apex Legends team specifically buffed her with a «selfish» passive to address the perceived lack of power in her kit.

So Newcastle is pretty much the only selfless character in Apex Legends' roster. His passive ability allows him to sacrifice his own knockdown shield to protect downed allies as he's dragging them to safety, for example, and his ultimate ability--which sees him jump forward and put up a massive wall--is best used for leaping to a squadmate pinned down by enemy fire, making him the louder and more obvious target to go after. Even his tactical ability isn't all that selfish. Though it throws out a shield that he can use while cornered, its ability to move and be redirected actually makes it far more useful for leading the charge around a blind corner or shielding an ally long enough for them to safely move past a