Apex Legends update nerfs Wraith's Naruto run

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Apex Legends has nerfed Wraith's Naruto run in a new update, Respawn has confirmed.

Respawn said:
Wraith is a very challenging Legend to nerf. We look at Legend performance across a number of axes: how often trios with this Legend on them win games / place highly, how often this Legend gets knock downs vs is knocked down, how often this Legend is picked. Across each and every single one of these axes, Wraith dominates.

And yet each time we hit her abilities (which we’ve done a lot) she bounces back within a few weeks without bleeding a lot of pick rate. Her kit is uniquely useful both in solo games and in highly coordinated games. Also she’s just really cool. We get it.

Respawn believes Wraith’s Naruto-like iconic sprint animation is the culprit, “shrinking her shootable area from the perspective of the enemy.” As such, introducing a new sprint animation for the Apex Legends character will make her “more upright and expose a larger area of her body to gunfire.”

Moreover, Respawn will also introduce a cross-play beta available to all.

Apex Legends is available on PS4, Xbox One and Windows PC.
 

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