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A new season means new content for EA’s always relevant team-based battle royale title, Apex Legends. A plethora of exciting features have been introduced with the latest chapter, which players are surely celebrating with its fitting theme of Revelry.
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One of the most significant introductions that’s arrived with the most recent season is the revamped Legend Classes. Now that each Operator has been reorganized into their own specific class, we’ll be giving you an idea of what each group will be like to give you a leg up on the opposition. So sit back and relax before you party up because we’ll be taking an extensive look at Apex Legend’s new mechanic below.
Full Class List in Apex Legends Season 16

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There are now a total of five classes – Assault, Controller, Recon, Skirmisher, and Support – that all available Legends have been categorized into. Each group also has its own specific playstyle that caters to the game’s diverse player base and typically makes them stand out from one another.
With that said, here are all of the class lists in Apex Legends Season 16:
Assault
- Ash
- Bangalore
- Fuse
- Mad Maggie
- Revenant
Controller
- Catalyst
- Caustic
- Rampart
- Watson
Recon
- Bloodhound
- Crypto
- Seer
- Vantage
Skirmisher
- Horizon
- Mirage
- Pathfinder
- Octane
- Valkyrie
- Wraith
Support
- Gibraltar
- Lifeline
- Loba
- Newcastle
EA and Respawn Entertainment have almost equally distributed all Legends throughout the five categories, with most being classified into the Skirmisher class. An even more notable feature that they’ve introduced with Season 16 are the unique class perks that each category gets. Read on to find out what all of these are.
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Apex Legends Class Perks
The developers have also given each class their own unique perks that they can use in a match to gain an advantage. We’ve listed all of them below along with other pertinent information:
- Assault – Access the Secret Compartment of Weapon Supply Bins
- Contains 4 “smart loot” attachments for you or your team’s current loadout
- One loot slot is reserved for optics
- Chances for a magazine & hop ups are lower than for other gear
- If the secret compartment is opened while no one on your team has a weapon, a weapon will drop with 2 attachments for it
- Min Tier for all attachments is RARE
- Carry more ammo per ammo stack
- Light, Heavy and Energy ammo can stack one extra
- Shotgun & Sniper Ammo has a reduced extra stack
- Controller – Use Ring Consoles to find the next Ring Location
- Recon – Can Use Modified Survey Beacons
- Reveal all enemy positions on the Map/Mini-Map for 30s
- Enemies in pulse range are alerted to beacon use
- Skirmisher – Can spot incoming Care Packages to see the highest value contents in them
- Care Packages are revealed by looking at them for a few seconds
- They can be spotted in the air as they fall OR
- At their landing location, if within range
- Can also see when the item has been taken by another team (turns grey)
- Can ping map icons or in-world icons for team
- Care Packages are revealed by looking at them for a few seconds
- Getting line of sight on a falling package, or rotating quickly into range of the landing area will help them snag the info early.
- Additionally, they can see when/what high value weaponry has been snagged by others.
- Support – Craft ally banners (even if expired)
- Current Cost = 30 Crafting Materials
- Banner can be recovered from the Crafter once crafting is complete
- A crafted Banner will contain all recoverable teammate
- Access Secret Compartments on Blue Bins
- Compartment has increased chance for large health kits (Shield Batteries and Med Kits)
- Compartments has unique Survival Item logic
- Increased % of Heat Shields when outside the ring
- Increased % of Mobile Respawn Beacon if carrying a teammate banner.
- This logic has an internal limit (cannot be repeated) and will not trigger if already carrying the item.
- Compartment has increased chance for large health kits (Shield Batteries and Med Kits)
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