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New Apex Legends Lifeline changes buff more than just her healing

Apex Legends Season 16 is certainly a season of massive change for the battle royale, with seven popular legends getting balancing sweeps alongside that all-important class rework. One thing that definitely won't change though is launch legend Lifeline still being the game's only healer - however, she is one of the special seven getting tweaked and will receive some nice buffs to her kit.


As you'd expect, Lifeline will remain a Support legend in the newly reworked Apex Legends classes, and will be joined in that class by Loba, Newcastle, and Gibraltar. Lifeline's old ability of being able to access additional loot in blue supply bins has now been extended to the entire Support class, so what is Respawn doing to make sure Apex's only healer is still a viable pick?


Well, for a start the slow penalty applied when activating her revive will be "greatly reduced" in Season 16, according to Devan McGuire, Apex Legends' lead legend designer.


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