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Apex Legends Balance Changes for April 2025: P2020 nerf, Seer buff, Ash nerf, and more

Apex Legends Balance Changes for April 2025: P2020 nerf, Seer buff, Ash nerf, and more
Apex Legends Balance Changes for April 2025 update (Image via Respawn Entertainment)
Respawn Entertainment just released a new Apex Legends balance update, targeting to fix major issues with the current meta, including the overpowered P2020. Apex Legends Season 24 mid-season update, released on March 25, made significant adjustments to the legends and weapons. However, it resulted in some overpowered weapons and legends. This mid-season April update targets legends like Ash, Mirage, Conduit, and Seer. Furthermore, weapons like Hemlok, Volt, and P2020 were also adjusted to maintain competitive integrity. P2020 in the current Apex Legends Season 24 meta has been uncompetitively overpowered. The community has been asking for a P2020 nerf for some time now, and Respawn Entertainment has finally listened.This article will brief you on all the buffs and nerfs in the Apex Legends Season 24 April update.

Summary of all buffs and nerfs in the Apex Legends Season 24 April update

Buffs

Nerfs

Fixes

Mirage

Ash

Accelerated Weapons Ult Charge Fix

Conduit

P2020


Seer

L-Star


Hemlok

Accelerated Weapons


Volt



All SMGs



All buffs and nerfs in the Apex Legends April update

Legends

Ash

-Increased ultimate's max distance travel time from 1.4s -> 2.5s-Increased ultimate's minimum distance travel time from 0.3s -> 0.5s

Mirage

-Increased the number of decoys created during Mirage's ultimate from 5 -> 6

Conduit

-Increased tactical health regen per tick from 3 -> 4

Seer

-Decreased the time for Seer's tactical to hit targets from 1.4s -> 0.8s
-Decreased the time for Seer's tactical to finish from 1.0s -> 0.9s


Weapons

Hemlok

-Increased Hemlok headshot damage by 2-Increased Hemlok magazine sizes by +3 for the base, white, and blue mags

Volt

-Normalized the Volt hipfire to match other SMGs

All SMGs

-Increased all SMG headshot damage by 1

P2020

-Decreased P2020 damage from 25 -> 24

L-Star

-Increased the vertical and horizontal movement in the recoil pattern of the L-Star-Reduced the projectile size for the L-Star

Accelerated Weapons

-Ult gained from knocks and assists with Accelerated Weapons has been reduced from 30% -> 20%-Fixed an issue where assists with Accelerated Weapons would sometimes not grant additional ult chargeThat covers all the balance changes in the Apex Legends April update. For more news on Apex Legends, check out the links below:


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