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Octane

Octane (real name: Octavio Silva) is a high-velocity Skirmisher in Apex Legends. Introduced in Season 1, he focuses on speed, flanking, and relentless momentum. He’s unlockable with Legend Tokens, Apex Coins, or via the Champion Edition.

Octane High-Speed Daredevil

Class: Skirmisher • Age: 26 • Homeworld: Psamathe • Nickname: High-Speed Daredevil

Abilities

Stim (Tactical)

Temporarily boosts Octane’s speed at the cost of health, while reducing the impact of slows.

  • Effect: +30% walk speed, +40% sprint speed for 6 seconds
  • Cost: 20 health (cannot drop below 1 HP)
  • Cooldown: 1 second
  • Removes existing slows on activation and reduces new slows during the effect

Tip: Use Stim to take long flanks quickly, rotate between off-angles, or disengage with evasive zigzags. Always track your HP—Stim cannot kill you, but it makes you easier to finish if you overuse it mid-fight.

Swift Mend (Passive)

Automatically restores health over time after avoiding damage.

  • After 6 seconds without taking damage: heals 1 HP per second
  • Disabled while silenced

Tip: Let Swift Mend top you off between skirmishes to save syringes and Med Kits—especially helpful when dipping into the Ring for a quick revive or extra loot.

Launch Pad (Ultimate)

Deploys a jump pad that catapults anyone into the air; press jump again to double jump.

  • Charge Time: ~1.5 minutes
  • Pad Health: 200 (max 4 pads active)
  • Trajectory: high arc when walking/sprinting; low, farther arc when sliding/crouching
  • Items and abilities can bounce off the pad to extend their reach

Tip: Use pads to outflank, force angles, or launch a downed ally to safer cover for revives. Indoors, the pad can send you to ceilings; placing one in a doorway can block entry. The activation sound is loud—expect attention.

Legend Upgrades

In Battle Royale, Octane can unlock upgrades as his Evo Armor levels up (Season 20+):

  • Level 2: Thick Skin (−5 Stim damage) or Mad Hops (+1 Launch Pad charge)
  • Level 3: Thick Skin (−5 Stim damage) or Airborne Agility (change direction on Launch Pad double-jump)

Lore

Octavio Silva lived fast and lavishly, chasing adrenaline on camera for his fans. After a grenade-powered stunt shattered his legs, he pressured Ajay Che to procure bionic replacements. With cybernetic limbs and a taste for danger, Octane found his ultimate rush in the Apex Games. Despite complicated family ties—his CEO father now helms the Syndicate—Octane cares most about one thing: winning in the flashiest, most death-defying way possible.

Cosmetics

Octane has a vast cosmetic collection, including Mythic, Iconic, Legendary, Epic, Rare, and Common skins, along with finishers, banner frames and poses, holosprays, emotes, skydive emotes, transitions, and a music pack.

Finishers

  • Hot Drop (Default)
  • Full Throttle

Heirloom Sets

Butterfly Knife

  • Banner Pose: Spin and Flick
  • Melee Skin: Butterfly Knife
  • Intro Quip: “Run fast. Hit fast. Win fast.”

Octane’s Prototype

  • Banner Frame: Fabricator
  • Melee Skin: Octane’s Prototype
  • Finisher: Over Stimulated

Emotes

  • Feet Don’t Fail
  • Human Spring
  • Sparkling Spin Cycle
  • Livestream
  • Cerebral Vortex
  • One Leg Army
  • Maraca Madness
  • TA DA!
  • Nervous Energy (Default)

Skydive Emotes

  • Full Circle
  • Influencer
  • Without A Paddle
  • Fidget Spinner
  • Just Keep Swimming
  • Cluster Bombs
  • Ricochet

Banner Frames

Highlights include DJ Stim, Hare Raiser, Publicity Stunt, Shark Teeth, Top Rider, Strong Tailwind, Jump Masters, High Performance, Deep Dive, Fuel Injected, Successful Launch, Admiral Acceleration, Sacred Gate, Screamin’ Speed, Wild Spirit, Altar Ego, Road Rash, Ancient Infusion, Wisdom’s Peak, The Silva Study, and Divine Kicks.

Banner Poses

  • Spin and Flick (Mythic)
  • Epic Fail, Headrush, Smash Like, Speedbagged, Lucky Headshot, Dashing Through the Snow
  • All. Day., Double Down, Explosive Personality, Hot Mess, Leg Work, Lens Flare, Mad Props, Reckless Abandon, Showtime!
  • Marathon (Default)

Holosprays

  • Faster! Faster! Faster!
  • Boo-Yah!
  • Break A Leg
  • Can’t Wait
  • Rapido!
  • Reckless Full of Wrecks
  • Wanna Race?
  • Let’s Go For A Ride
  • Catch Me If You Can!
  • Trouble Double
  • Wild Ride
  • Octrain Wreck
  • Don’t Blink
  • Break Through
  • Flexing On ’Em

Music Pack

  • Octane (unlocked at Level 15 in its season track)

Transitions

  • Record Breaker
  • Send in the Clowns
  • Tea for Two
  • D.O.C. Audio Log 12.1.0084
  • Eulogy for Navidad “Navi” Silva

History

Notable balance and fixes over time:

  • Stim: increased speed boost, health cost set to 20, rapid re-use (1s), removes slows on activation
  • Swift Mend: healing tuned to 1.0 HP/s (after a brief delay), disabled while silenced
  • Launch Pad: added double-jump, improved trajectories, cooldown tuning (60–90s over patches), item/ability bounce improvements, bug fixes

Teasers

  • Octane was teased on launch day of Apex Legends alongside another Legend.
  • Jump pads appeared around Market before his Season 1 release.

Trivia

  • “Octane” is also a hydrocarbon found in gasoline.
  • His kit draws inspiration from Titanfall 2’s Stim; his backstory nods to speedrunning The Pilot’s Gauntlet with grenade boosts.
  • A quip references Viper from Titanfall 2: “Speed is life.”
  • Octane was free to unlock during the game’s 3rd Anniversary celebration week in 2022.

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