You Can Use Vantage’s Ultimate At “Any Time,” According To Apex Legends Designer

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As Season 14 approaches, we finally know what new addition to Apex Legends, Vantage, will actually do when she joins the games. She’s a traditional sniper, but focuses on reconnaissance instead of pure firepower. Her Ultimate Ability grants her a third weapon – aforementioned sniper rifle – but that might not be the most overpowered piece of her kit.

Before we go any further, here are Vantage’s abilities in full:

Passive - Spotter’s Lens

Using her Spotter’s Lens to read tactical information on enemy squads at a distance, Vantage always has the upper hand with critical intel like Legend name, shield rarity, team size and range.

Tactical - Echo Relocation

Vantage’s companion Echo is at the ready to help her reposition herself in a fight. Using her modified jetpack and targeting system, Vantage can launch herself towards Echo’s position and take the high ground.

Ultimate - Sniper’s Mark

There’s nowhere to hide from Vantage’s custom sniper rifle, which reveals enemies with its scope and with its ammunition: a successful hit highlights opposing squads for 10 seconds accompanied by a diamond marker, and damage scales up with each hit.

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She seems like a combination of popular Apex Legends characters Seer and Loba, with a long-ranged rifle added into the mix. To properly assess whether these abilities are broken or useless, we need to take a closer look at them all first.

Vantage’s Passive ability looks great on paper. While TheGamer wasn’t afforded an interview with the Legend designers like we were with the map and weapons teams earlier this week, we can infer some information from the ability’s wording. Knowing a Legend’s name isn’t that important –