Apex Legends developer Respawn Entertainment has some big changes planned for Wattson in Season 11, so much so that the patch notes revealed this week said “this is Wattson’s season.” The changes for the Legend consist of buffs across the board with the exception of a slight hitbox increase to make up for the removal of the Low Profile feature in the game. Even if you don’t play as Wattson, you’ll benefit from the changes as well if you’ve got a Wattson on your team since the character’s Ultimate ability has also been reworked.
Reduced the number of active Pylons Wattson can place from 3 to 1.
The Pylon now lasts forever (instead of timing out after 90 seconds).
The Pylon now has a pool of 250 Shields that can be distributed to nearby players, instead of effectively infinite Shields.
Increased the Pylon shield recharge rate by 150%, and smoothed regen rate. (2/second -> 5/second, or more accurately: 1/0.5 seconds -> 1/0.2 seconds)
When a Pylon is out of Shields, it no longer recharges players’ Shields, but can still zap incoming ordnance.
Taking damage while regenerating Shields via the Pylon delays continued regeneration by 1 second.
Ordnance is now zapped when the Pylon detects that it would hit any surface within range and line of sight of the Pylon, instead of being zapped as soon as it comes within range.
As a part of the changes, current issues where the Pylon doesn’t reliably zap ordnance (particularly concerning airstrike abilities, and ordnance that bounced off surfaces near the Pylon) should now be addressed.
