{"id":92330,"date":"2026-10-29T14:21:48","date_gmt":"2026-10-29T18:21:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=92330"},"modified":"2026-10-29T16:47:21","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T20:47:21","slug":"apex-legends-update-lets-you-dual-wield-the-wingman-brings-back-lifeline-revive-shield","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=92330","title":{"rendered":"Apex Legends Update Lets You Dual Wield the Wingman, Brings Back Lifeline Revive Shield"},"content":{"rendered":"<section data-transform=\"mobile-ad-break\">\n<p>Apex Legends: Cipher is coming on November 3 and it\u2019s bringing a new weapon style that makes me scared. The Wingman is a semi-automatic revolver that utilizes Sniper Ammo, and it\u2019s been the bane of my existence since Apex Legends launched. <\/p>\n<p>Some people are absolutely cracked with the Wingman. And now they\u2019ll be able to use two at once. Cipher introduces Akimbo Wingman, which trades off some of the accuracy for big(ger) damage.<\/p>\n<p>The Wingman has wavered a bit in recent seasons and sits as the 19th most effective weapon in DPS terms, but it\u2019s still deadly in accurate hands, across basically any distance. It\u2019s two-to-four headshots for a Wingman kill depending on the armor they\u2019re wearing, which is what makes it so deadly in the right hands.<\/p>\n<p>The Akimbo Wingman will push players in closer to barrel stuff your face. It\u2019s going to be interesting to see where the weapon ends up with this new option \u2014 famously, the Akimbo Mozambique was famously nerfed quickly after it went from a barely used gun to the game\u2019s dominant weapon. <\/p>\n<p>On top of the dual revolvers, Crypto is getting a rework dubbed Crypto Rewired, which sees him role switch from a drone-camping<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apex Legends: Cipher is coming on November 3 and it\u2019s bringing a new weapon style that makes me scared. The Wingman is a semi-automatic revolver that utilizes Sniper Ammo, and it\u2019s been the bane of my existence since Apex Legends launched. Some people are absolutely cracked with the Wingman. And now they\u2019ll be able to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":204,"featured_media":92332,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92330"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/204"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=92330"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92330\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92334,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92330\/revisions\/92334"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/92332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=92330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=92330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=92330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}