Apex Legends tier list in 2025: Who’s best in Season 25?

Season 25 simply arrived, so it’s time for a brand new Apex Legends tier record to find out who the perfect legends in Apex are to rank up and get the win. This season not solely has a brand new character debuted, however vital stability updates within the Legends division shook the aggressive meta with new arrivals in the S tier and a few notable departures.

After consulting the newest Apex Legends’ patch notes, it’s evident the place the builders needed to take the sport for its subsequent cycle. Much less hunkering down, much less static performs with extra motion and extra exchanges between groups; all whereas avoiding the “third social gathering” phenomenon the place, whereas two groups are clashing, a 3rd one is available in, swooping each of them. 

So, with out additional ado, listed here are the perfect Apex Legends characters in 2025. 

Our Apex Legends rating relies on private testing throughout preview durations and at launch, in addition to group testing and sentiment from informal {and professional} gamers. 

As Apex Legends is a Battle Royale, our most important parameter isn’t just win charge as a result of ranks are decided contemplating the general placement in a recreation, not simply who wins and who loses. That’s why some characters are higher to climb, because of their consistency, and a few are higher for pivotal promotion matches. 

To create this Apex Legends tier record, we’re utilizing the tried-and-true SABC tier system, so defining an S-Tier character and what makes it so is important.

In abstract, the greatest Legends to play in Season 25 are Alter, Ballistic, Bangalore, Sparrow and Lifeline. We’re awarding a particular point out to Catalyst for this overview to have a Legend for every Class, however with the newest adjustments, she went all the way down to A tier as her final misplaced some worth resulting from current nerfs.

Our Apex Legends tier record begins with Alter, one of the crucial versatile Legends on the sphere. She has all the things in her package: motion, injury and even invulnerability frames. The primary downside along with her is that she’s extraordinarily workforce dependent, so most of her worth is misplaced and not using a three-stack with comms. Ballistic, because of his capacity to slingshot care bundle weapons, is of nice assist to a workforce and is nice for solo gamers. On the similar time, Sparrow, the most recent addition to the Apex Legends roster, has rapidly grow to be the perfect recon hero within the recreation because of his low-skill, high-output in info gathering.

Bangalore stays on the high of the tier lists as a result of she is essentially the most adaptable legend within the roster. There’s no state of affairs (push, rush, flank or high-risk rez) the place she can not assist her teammates by means of her package, so those that grasp her have a tremendous likelihood on the win. Lifeline rounds up the S-Tier Apex Legends as a result of her flash heals are invaluable between heated exchanges of bullets, and her current rework solely solidified her place as the perfect fight medic in Apex Legends.

Pathfinder rose to the A-Tier because of its current buff in Apex Legends Season 25. His mobility is unmatched and glorious for solo gamers, as his utilities are comprehensible and straightforward to mess around with. Catalyst will get the title of greatest controller in Apex as her capacity to lock doorways and block sightlines is nice in sure maps. She struggles, nonetheless, in fast-paced exchanges.

Ash stays a particularly strong decide for pure injury dealing and motion enjoyers as a result of she will shut distances quick and rewards aggressive play. She can also be very enjoyable to play and may create bridgeheads with the best workforce like virtually no different character. Bloodhound is an A-Tier character as a result of he has the perfect beginner-friendly to workforce utility ratio in Apex Legends. Which means that even a brand new participant can get lots of solo worth to his workforce with this Legend, who’s additionally very straightforward to be taught and to make use of in battle.

When this season’s B-Tier Apex Legends characters, it’s evident that all of them have higher options within the earlier tiers, however those that are masters of them can nonetheless get some worth on the battlefield if their opponents should not 100% lasered in. Newcastle, for instance, has lots of counterplay to his final, however his shields are nonetheless highly effective, particularly to hunker down and revive an ally. The identical could be mentioned for Valkyrie: she’s unmatched in rotation velocity however could be simply outplayed.

Wraith is within the B-Tier as a result of, between Ash and Alter, the options to her playstyle are ample. Many, nonetheless, have been mastering her for a while now, so in case you are expert sufficient, you may measure your self towards extra meta characters. Maggie is one other fulfilling character who nonetheless is aware of easy methods to deal injury and assist her workforce, however she is outmatched in manoeuvring and rotations.

Octane, Rampart, Gibraltar and Caustic all had their second within the highlight through the previous few seasons, so it’s no shock to search out them down right here. Octane used to dominate solo lobbies, Rampart was essentially the most picked Legend of the Sapporo ALGS finals, Gibraltar was the second most picked Legend at that occasion, and Caustic dominated the whole lot of 2023 in Respawn’s Battle Royale. 

These legends should not very viable, however these knowledgeable sufficient can nonetheless get one thing out of them. Nonetheless, taking part in towards three stacks of S-Tier Apex Legends characters is sort of a assured defeat.

The very first thing to contemplate when deciding which Legend to play is their function on the battlefield. There are 5 lessons to select from: Assault Legends deal with dps and mid fight assist; Skirmisher Legends are for motion lovers and flankers; Recon Legends are anticipated to offer intel on enemy place and assets; Controller Legends manipulate the battlefield to their benefit and Assist Legends heal, defend and handle their teammates.

Inside every class there are totally different playstyles obtainable so select rigorously among the many obtainable legends studying not solely their talents (passive, tactical and supreme) but additionally their perks: throughout every recreation, you’ll be capable to select between numerous upgrades that change a Legend’s behaviour and ways so hop into the firing vary and get to testing. Additionally, don’t neglect that aesthetics and persona additionally play a giant half in having enjoyable in a online game: for those who’re vibing with a personality however you don’t’ like their playstyle, attempt utilizing them anyway in unranked video games, they may develop on you!

If you happen to’re on the lookout for the perfect Apex Legends characters to play in Season 25, the reply is Alter within the Skirmisher class, Ballistic Bangalore within the Assault Class, Sparrow within the Recon Class and Lifeline within the Assist Class. Catalyst’s greatest controller stays, however her viability isn’t because it was once. Newcomers ought to stick with Bloodhound for his or her ease of use and workforce worth, whereas Ash and Pathfinder each get pleasure from their current buffs and are actually extraordinarily viable.