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How To Move and Fly Faster Using Legends in Apex Legends

As an Apex Legends player with over 500 hours of experience, I’ve learned that movement and positioning are critical to success. Knowing how to fly quickly across the map and move efficiently during fights can give you a major edge. In this guide, I’ll share the best techniques for flying faster, sliding farther, and using legends’ abilities to enhance mobility.

Basic Movement Speeds

First, it’s important to understand the base movement speeds in Apex Legends:

  • Walking speed: 3.8 meters per second
  • Sprinting speed: 5.7 m/s
  • Crouchwalking speed: 1.75 m/s

These speeds are the same for all legends. However, some legends and weapons slow your movement speed while aiming down sights (ADS). Generally, assault rifles and LMGs have a 50% ADS movement speed penalty.

Flying and Dropping Faster

When dropping from the ship, you want to reach the ground as quickly as possible to grab the best loot. Here is how to fly faster:

  • Dive straight down until your speed hits 140-145.
  • Pull up into a glide around 125-130 speed.
  • Repeat diving and gliding to balance speed and distance.

This diving technique allows you to cover more horizontal distance than just holding forward. Time your final dive so you reach the ground at high speed.

Slide Jumping

Slide jumping is essential for maintaining speed during fights and traversing the map quickly. To slide jump:

  1. Start sprinting
  2. Crouch to slide
  3. Jump at the end of the slide
  4. Land sprinting to repeat

Time the jump properly to carry your momentum into the next slide. Use slopes and jumps pads to slide even farther.

Legends Movement Abilities

Here are some of the best legend abilities for faster movement:

Octane

  • Passive: Restores health over time
  • Tactical: Stim – Injects speed boost at health cost
  • Ultimate: Launch Pad – Throws jump pad for whole squad

Octane is great for slide jumping and flanking enemies quickly. Use stims liberally and launch pads to push fights.

Pathfinder

  • Passive: Scans survey beacons
  • Tactical: Grappling Hook – Grapple to locations quickly
  • Ultimate: Zipline – Creates zipline for the squad to use

Pathfinder has great mobility for reaching high ground and taking aggressive positions using the grapple.

Wraith

  • Passive: Voices warn of danger
  • Tactical: Into the Void – Becomes invulnerable for a short time
  • Ultimate: Dimensional Rift – Links two locations with portals

Wraith can use her tactical and ultimate together to quickly reposition herself and her squad.

Valkyrie

  • Passive: Jetpack to reposition while skydiving
  • Tactical: Cluster Missile – Fires rockets to damage and disorient
  • Ultimate: Skyward Dive – Fly squad to scanned survey beacon location

Valkyrie has great aerial mobility and can use her jetpack to escape bad situations. Her ultimate allows the team to reposition across the map.

Ash

  • Passive: Marks deathboxes and map location of killers
  • Tactical: Arc Snare – Throw snare that tethers and damages enemies
  • Ultimate: Phase Breach – Tear open a one-way portal to a targeted location

Ash can use Phase Breach to quickly push enemies by teleporting through the portal.

Advanced Movement Techniques

For advanced players, there are high-skill movement techniques that are difficult but extremely effective:

  • Tap strafing: Rapidly tapping movement keys during a jump to turn sharply in the air. This technique will likely get removed eventually.
  • Wall bouncing: Jumping into a slide jump off a wall to maintain speed. Useful for crossing gaps and traversing buildings.
  • Super gliding: After a wall bounce, looking down and jumping again to get a speed boost.

Mastering these techniques takes a lot of practice but allows legends like Octane and Pathfinder to reach speeds and positions that give them a major edge in fights.

Final Tips

Here are a few final tips for moving faster as a squad:

  • Holster weapons to run faster
  • Use jump towers and gravity cannons to cover distance
  • Octane should always place launch pads before fights
  • Pathfinder can use ziplines to reach unexpected angles
  • Coordinate portal and phase breach placements

I hope this guide gives you the tools to fly faster and run circles around your opponents. Experiment with different legends and master slide jumping for starters. Eventually you can learn difficult techniques like tap strafing and super gliding. Use your movement abilities together as a squad to outmaneuver your enemies. Now get out there, jump master!

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