All of Apex Legends' characters are divided into one of four classes: offensive, defensive, recon, or support. With Ash coming to Apex Legends in Season 11: Escape, the battle royale game is getting another offensive legend, bringing the total number of playable characters to 19. Of the 19, eight are offensive characters, four are defensive, five are recon, and two are support. Apex Legends needs a new support legend.

The support class was originally the hardest of Apex Legends' classes to define. At launch, Apex Legends' two support legends were Lifeline and Pathfinder, with the implication that support characters were legends that had abilities geared towards assisting their allies, with Lifeline as the resident healer and Pathfinder helping people move about the map. But several legends were able to do what Pathfinder can do, and so questions sprung up in the community as to why he was classified as a support legend and not, say, Wraith or Octane.

This issue was ultimately addressed in Season 4: Assimilation and Season 5: Fortune's Favor. In Season 4, Pathfinder was changed to recon, matching Bloodhound and Crypto as an information-gatherer. Then in Season 5, Loba was added to the game as the new second support legend, finally solidifying the class into what it is today--characters with at least two abilities that allow them to aid their allies in securing loot and/or healing. Lifeline does this with her D.O.C. Healing Drone and Care Package, while Loba fulfills her class role with Eye for Quality and Black Market Boutique.