Tuesday, April 20, 2021
Apex Legends Season 8 is drawing to a close and the new season is due to begin at the start of next month, with quite a few more connections to
Titanfall. Developer Respawn won’t be calling it Season 9 though; instead, the season will be called Apex Legends: Legacy. Amongst the new content and gameplay it will introduce is a new legend, who just happens to be the daughter of one of
Titanfall 2’s main antagonists.
Kairi Imahara is the daughter of Viper and she’s looking to avenge his death. She never knew exactly what happened to him, just that he left one day and never returned. She grew up in his legacy and has already made a name for herself as one of the best titan pilots. Now she’s looking to create a legacy of her own by joining the Apex Games and players will get to know her better under her callsign Valkyrie. While she won’t have her own titan, she will come with a rocket-firing jetpack that players can see being created at the end of he
Apex Legends Season 9 Adds New Valkyrie Character, Bow And Arrow, And Olympus Changes
This is shaping up to be one of Apex Legends largest seasons to date.
Respawn has released a new trailer for Apex Legends Season 9: Legacy, which showcases the backstory of the season s new playable character, Valkyrie. The developer has also revealed that Season 9 will introduce a new bow and arrow weapon as well as change up Olympus.
As seen in the new trailer, Kairi Valkyrie Imahara is the daughter of Viper, one of the Apex Predator Pilots that you face in Titanfall 2. Viper piloted a specially modified Northstar Titan, one designed primarily for aerial combat. Thanks to some tinkering from Rampart, Valkyrie utilizes the flight core of her father s old Titan as a jetpack, soaring into the skies as Apex Legends first flight-based hero.
The newest Season of Apex Legends is nearly upon us, and Titanfall 2 fans best rejoice. We have many new content incoming, and a lot of the lore ties into the Apex Legends’ predecessor. This, first and foremost, includes the newest Legend: Kairi Imahara, aka Valkyrie.
New Legend: Valkyrie
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It was revealed in the latest Stories from the Outlands that, while she is not from Titanfall 2, Valkyrie is the daughter of Titanfall Pilot: Viper. Valkyrie is unique and set apart from the other Legends thus far by the fact that she has a jetpack. Some players have likened her set-up to Overwatch Hero Pharah, and Valkyrie will definitely shake things up from the ground to the skies.