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Based on documents published up to Aug 24, 2026

Update — Season 30: Marked

The August 25 update — Axle, Bloodhound and Seer

Went live: Live during ladder 3 (8/25 – 8/30)

A three-legend pass, three weeks into Season 30 — and an unusually open one: Respawn published the numbers on August 21 as "something a little bit different" and shipped them the Tuesday after. Three pillars: a heavy nerf to launch-dominant Axle, mostly-buff touch-ups to the freshly reworked Bloodhound, and the removal of Seer's tactical turn-slow. Weapons, maps and RP maths go unmentioned.

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At a glance

  • Axle is nerfed around the ultimate: cooldown 90s → 120s, HP 200 → 150, and the stun is effectively gone
  • Bloodhound's cloak survives more and the scan runs a second longer, but its position marks now fade with time
  • Seer's tactical turn-slow is removed outright — the season's launch notes had only softened it
LegendsNerfed

Axle — the headline nerf, touching nearly the whole kit

Five of the six lines land on the ultimate: durability, uptime and stopping power all come down together, and only the uptime can be bought back — through an upgrade. The Nitro Gate tactical loses a little launch speed and is otherwise left alone.

Tactical — Nitro Gate

  • nerfedLaunch speed 750700

Ultimate

  • nerfedHP 200150
  • nerfedBase cooldown 90s120s
  • nerfedStun duration 1.5s0.25s
  • changedThe knockback arc widens and peaks lower

Upgrades

  • changedJump Gate is replaced by the new Drone Deployer upgrade, which buys the ultimate cooldown back from 120s90s
“We're announcing changes today that will go live early next week (aiming for Tuesday morning)”
Quoted from the source: Apex Legends: Latest Update 8/21/2026

Sources: Apex Legends: Latest Update 8/21/2026

LegendsMostly buffs

Bloodhound — a cloak that holds, and a scan that lasts but fades

The first pass over the kit reworked at launch. One way of breaking the cloak is removed and it reads less clearly inside its own area, so the ultimate does more of what it was built for — ambush and escape. The scan runs a second longer in exchange for a change of kind: the positions it gives now decay instead of holding.

Allfather's Cloak

  • buffedCloaks are harder to pick out inside the cloak area
  • buffedRing damage no longer breaks a cloak

Scans

  • buffedThe tactical scan runs one second longer
  • changedSnapshots come more often, and each one fades out over time

Sources: Apex Legends: Latest Update 8/21/2026

LegendsNerfed

Seer — the tactical's turn-slow is not softened but gone

One line for Seer — but the same slow was only *softened* in the season's launch notes, and has gone entirely three weeks later. Being tagged no longer drags your aim; what the tagging player learns is untouched.

  • nerfedThe turn-slow on being hit by the tactical is removed
“Turn slow will be removed when hit by the Tactical”
Quoted from the source: Apex Legends: Latest Update 8/21/2026

Sources: Apex Legends: Latest Update 8/21/2026 / Apex Legends™: Marked Patch Notes

Not in this patch

Nearby topics from the same week, easy to conflate with this patch.

Sources

Each entry is a summary with our own commentary, not a translation of the original. The primary documents it rests on are listed at the end of the write-up.

Note: No shipped patch-notes article existed when this update went live; this write-up rests on Respawn's August 21 announcement, and silent fixes beyond it are possible. Japanese proper nouns follow EA's Japanese Season 30 patch notes.