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I've always felt it in my blood. I am a thief. And a good one at that. It was the only way I felt true to myself. And those same feelings grew into opportunity. I honed my skills, and enhanced my methods. With success came wealth, power, and friendship. I was the best, and everyone knew it. But something was always missing.
Loba
Loba
Translocating Thief
Details
Real Name Loba Andrade
Gender Female
Age 36
Homeworld None
Gameplay
Class Support Class Support
Tactical Ability Burglar's Best Friend Burglar's Best Friend
Passive Ability Eye for Quality Eye for Quality
Ultimate Ability Black Market Boutique Black Market Boutique
Real-world Info
Voice Actor Fryda Wolff[1]

Loba Icon Loba is a Support Support Legend. She was introduced in Season 5 Season 5 and is locked from the base game. She can be unlocked using digital currency: either Legend Tokens 12,000 or Apex Coins 750, or by buying the Champion Edition downloadable content.

A Legend specializing in getting the highest quality loot, Loba’s tactical ability Burglar's Best Friend Burglar's Best Friend allows her to throw a bracelet that teleports her to wherever it lands. Her passive Eye for Quality Eye for Quality causes her to see and ping Purple and Gold-tier loot through walls. Her ultimate ability Black Market Boutique Black Market Boutique places a pillar that allows any player that interacts with it to teleport ammunition and up to two items from the surrounding area directly into their inventory.

Abilities[ | ]

Burglar's Best Friend[ | ]

Burglar's Best Friend Tactical Q/LB/L1/LB
Burglar's Best Friend
Description Teleport to hard-to-reach places or escape trouble quickly by throwing your jump drive bracelet.
Cooldown 25 seconds

  • Throws Loba's bracelet and teleports her to it when it lands.
  • While the bracelet is in midair, you can force it to drop straight down.
  • The max distance that the bracelet can be thrown varies based on the following:
    • 71 meters if you're on normal ground levels which is the standard distance.
    • 100+ meters if you're on high ground places such as towers or buildings, maxing out the distance.
  • While the bracelet is midair, it cannot be canceled (excluding other Legends abilities that can cancel the bracelet), and Loba cannot perform most other actions, like using weapons or healing items.
  • If the bracelet is thrown off the edge of the map, or into an out-of-bounds area, it'll return to Loba without starting the cooldown.
  • Can be used while on ziplines.

  • The bracelet's distance can be extended by bouncing it off a Launch Pad Launch Pad. This does not work if you are too close to the pad; you'll just teleport right on top of it.
  • Silence Silence can cancel the teleport while the bracelet is in midair.
  • The bracelet can hit a Surveillance Drone Surveillance Drone and teleport you to it, even though the drone is not solid ground.
  • Wraith's Dimensional Rift Dimensional Rift will cancel the bracelet's effect if it's in midair and the portal is taken at the same time.
  • It will not go inside a Gibraltar's Dome of Protection Dome of Protection but will instead bounce off the dome.

  • Note that if you throw from standstill or walk, you cannot run; but if thrown while running, you will keep running and can slide.
  • There is a brief animation that plays after you get teleported before you can use your weapon, plan accordingly.
  • Teleport behind an enemy to attack them by surprise.
  • Use the ability again while the bracelet is mid air to force it down behind cover, or other advantageous positions.
  • Don't forget that you can throw the bracelet through windows and small gaps in walls.
  • The bracelet's sound effects are very loud and its trail is visible to everyone so enemies can be notified that you're nearby, so be cautious when using.
  • Climbing will cancel the animation of the bracelet. Used at the right time, this can save you a second.

  • Occasionally, the bracelet can get glitched and stop working after taking Wraith's Dimensional Rift Dimensional Rift. Once it gets glitched, it can only be fixed by using the Black Market Boutique Black Market Boutique, which will somehow undo the bug.
  • Under rare circumstances, if Loba gets hit by a melee attack at the same time her bracelet touches a surface, she'll teleport the enemy that was meleeing her along with her.
  • Aiming with a Peacekeeper, Wingman or Prowler Burst PDW directly after using the bracelet causes a visual glitch (that last if still aiming with the Peacekeeper).
  • It is common for the bracelet to not teleport Loba but rather return back to her.
  • There are multiple exploitable spots on all maps that are accessible by the bracelet, especially on World's Edge.
  • The bracelet can teleport the player inside some structures with no way out.
    • Also, when thrown between two objects, mainly generators on buildings, the bracelet will teleport them inside the building rather than outside. This is most prominent on World's Edge.


Eye for Quality[ | ]

Eye for Quality Passive
Eye for Quality
Description Nearby epic and legendary loot can be seen through walls. The range is the same as Black Market Boutique Black Market Boutique.
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  • Range is 112.5 meters.
  • Can ping items through obstacles, inside supply bins, and even Care Packages.
    • Ping range is 12 meters; optics can extend the range.
  • Includes Mythic items.
  • Loot ticks and Death Boxes cannot be seen through obstacles even if they contain epic or legendary loot.

  • Use this passive ability to inform your squadmates about the location of loot in the area.
  • If you see an item disappear you can use this information to know that enemies are in the area.

  • Sometimes, Loba can't see contents in an unopened Care Package even though it's within her range.


Black Market Boutique[ | ]

Black Market Boutique Ultimate Z/LB+RB/L1+R1/LB+RB
Black Market Boutique
Description Place a portable device that allows you to teleport nearby loot to your inventory. Each friendly or enemy Legend can take up to two items.
Charge time 2.5 minutes

  • Loba starts every match with her ultimate 50% charged.
  • After placing down the Black Market Boutique, it takes about 4.5 seconds before it can be accessed.
    • When it finishes setting up, it releases a large pulse that enemies can see.
  • After setup, any player can hold down E/X/Square to interact with it, opening a menu similar to accessing Death Boxes from which each player can take up to two items.
    • The range of the Black Market is a 112.5-meter radius sphere visible to Loba and her squad on the minimap.
    • Items within the range will hover off the ground slightly when a player is using it.
    • There is a glimpse of a teleport trail back to the Black Market each time a player takes an item from it.
    • Full stacks of Ammo and Health Kits will be taken when selected.
    • Ammo has no maximum limit and does not take up space towards the two items' allowed limit.
    • Squadmates' banner cards cannot be retrieved, unless there are already crafted banners within the radius.
    • Treasure Pack Treasure Packs for the season's Quest can be retrieved if the user has not collected their daily one.
  • The Black Market has 100 health and can block doors.
  • Loba can collapse her own Black Market by pressing the Character Utility Button H/Down/Down instead of interacting with it. Deploying a new Black Market will collapse the old Black Market.

  • Black Market is susceptible to friendly damage from both Loba and her allies.
  • Ultimate Accelerant Ultimate Accelerants only charge 25% for the Black Market Boutique, as opposed to the normal 35%.
  • When multiple copies of the same item are available, taking one will pull the farthest one from the Black Market.
  • Black Market cannot loot the contents of randomized loot sources like Loot Ticks, Cargo Bots, or Loot MRVNs.
  • Supply Bins and Care Packages can be looted from even when closed. They are opened automatically when an item is looted from them.
  • Deathboxes from Flyers must be dropped before they can be looted.
  • Loba herself can take one item from locked Vaults, Bloodhound's Trials compartments and Vend-it Machines on World's Edge, locked Caustic Treatment compartments on Kings Canyon, and the locked Icarus Bridge on Olympus. Items that can be looted this way will show a lock icon on the right side of the item button and will ask for your confirmation before looting that item. Doing this immediately destroys the Black Market and sounds a loud alarm from the room that can be heard at a distance.
    • The Black Market will be immediately destroyed regardless of how many items were taken from it beforehand.
    • The destruction of the Black Market this way also does a small amount of damage to Loba, and if health is low enough, can knock her down.
  • Because it will always try to pull a full inventory stack, Wattson can take two Ultimate Accelerant Ultimate Accelerants while only using one slot. Fuse can do the same with grenades, as well as anybody picking up Large Regen Items with a Level 4 Backpack.
  • Pathfinder's Grappling Hook Grappling Hook can attach to the Black Market.
  • Causes Wraith's Dimensional Rift Dimensional Rift to disappear when placed on it.

  • The Black Market, in effect, function as a loot radar. As such, placing it well and frequent will helps make your teammate loot less by showing what is and what is not available; even if their desired loot is available, they may no longer have the need to deviate from the team.
  • It is better to leave the Black Market up so your teammate can grab what they need, then to have them run around and cause the entire team lose.
  • If it's not your Black market, do not break it.
    • Enemies can get at most one or 2 items, which you should have cleared out. If it's not yours, do not break it.
  • Give your squadmates time to loot before retrieving the Black Market Boutique.
    • If your squadmates need a certain type of loot and you don't need anything, you can take the item(s) for them and drop them.
  • Due to its range being cylindrical instead of spherical, place it in place with cover instead of places that are exposed.
  • An alternative way of considering the black market is that it allows your teammates to grab what they need from safe places.
    • For example, given that your team is bunkering in a building, with fights all over, and a bunch of death box nearby; the black market allows teammates to acquire necessary resources to continue the fight, instead of having teammate go into dangerous area to grab what they need.
  • When being used, items in the Black Market's range float off the ground. Be wary of enemies using this information against you.
Battle Royale
  • If your squad is already geared, one option to use the Black Market for is to drop your current purple/gold/red Body Shield Armor and take another high tier shield from the area. Be careful when doing this method as the Market will list the armor that you've dropped nearby.
  • Before looting a locked item from a Vault or a Bloodhound's Trials compartment, make sure your squad is finished using the Black Market since it will be destroyed immediately after looting the locked item, regardless of how many items were taken from it beforehand.
  • When going to third-party fights, use the Market to steal their loot before fighting them.
  • Using the Market is great after using a Respawn Beacon Respawn Beacon or Mobile Respawn Beacon Mobile Respawn Beacon so your revived squadmate(s) can quickly gear back up.
  • If your squad finishes a fight near the edge of a Ring that is about to close, you can deploy a Black Market to quickly loot what you need such as shield swaps, healing items, and ammo, then run towards the safe zone as soon as possible.
  • The Black Market can also grab loot outside of the Ring, which becomes more valuable in later Rings when their damage is high.
  • You can use the Black Market to loot the contents of a Supply Ship before it lands at its random destination on the map MapIcon Supply Ship Landing Spot.
  • Try saving a Black Market as the late-game approaches, as its range will be able to cover a large part of the remaining space in later rings.
    • In later rings, you can use the Black Market to pull all the nearby ammo into one spot so that enemies can't restock their supplies. This is especially useful when playing with defensive characters who can defend the ammo stockpile.
  • Loba can use black market to retrieve crafted banners from crafter. Due to this, Loba can craft teammate's banner, utilizes jump drive to move away (so enemies won't target you), then utlize the Black market to retrieve the banners.
Arenas
  • Place this ultimate early in the round so you can loot the Supply Bins before enemies can get to them first.
  • Leave one slot unused so that when the Care Package lands, you can take a weapon from it without putting yourself in harm's way.
    • If you're not taking any weapons, you can also steal all the ammo from it so enemies that do want the weapons only get one magazine's worth of shots.
  • Since this ult can be so easily used to grab Shield Batteries and Medkits, Loba herself doesn't need to purchase them.

  • Unexpected feature: If you ping an item in the market, leave, and then hold the ping button on the pinged item, you can see a line leading to the item at its original location.
  • When the bug that prevents the player from looting Death Boxes occurs, this bug also makes it so nothing can be taken out of the Black Market Boutique. When this happens, players cannot ping items or acknowledge teammates' pings, and any items that players attempt to take will appear to be taken, only for them to reappear in the black market.
  • Occasionally, in the Firing Range, you can hear the sound of a player looting a Black Market or collapsing it, even if there are no Black Markets in your realm.

Legend Upgrades[ | ]

Main article: Legend Upgrades


Legend Upgrades are special perks introduced in Season 20 to all Battle Royale modes. These add upgrades to a Legend's abilities as you level up your Evo Armor. Only one option may be chosen per level-up for a maximum of two perks total.

Level 2 Upgrades
Level 3 Upgrades

Lore[ | ]

Main article: Loba (character)
When Loba was nine, she looked on as simulacrum hitman Revenant killed her family. Left with nothing, Loba survived by picking pockets, using every tool at her disposal to lift herself from the gutter - including an experimental Jump Drive, pilfered from a supposedly impenetrable research facility. She was just that good.

With her new teleportation bracelet, the most secure and unattainable items were within Loba's reach, and so was her dream of living the high life. Rumors spread across the Outlands: if you wanted something valuable -and well guarded- Loba was your woman.

She was almost able to put her past behind her. But when Revenant joined the Games, her past catapulted into her future. Desperate to find a way to kill him, she sabotaged a facility full of Revenant bodies, bringing Skull Town and Thunderdome crashing down in the process. However, she learned it was just one of many such factories hidden across the Frontier. After finding out Revenant wishes for death, she’s made it her mission to keep him alive as revenge. She plays in the Games to keep getting vengeance on Revenant, but it doesn’t hurt that the arenas are brimming with treasures just waiting to be plucked.

Cosmetic Items[ | ]

Skins[ | ]

There are a total of 83 Legend skins for Loba; 3 Mythic, 26 Legendary, 16 epic, 22 Rare and 16 Common.

Note:

  1. Included in the Ice Queen Bundle.

Story of Loba:

  1. Petty Theft: Loba was the daugther of two prolific grifters. After their deaths left her with nothing, she swore she would rise from the ashes into a life of wealth and privilege-and she would do it with the tools they gave her.

  1. Included in the Queens of the Night Bundle.

  1. Included in the Dressed to Kill Bundle.

Finishers[ | ]

Main article: Finisher

Heirloom Set[ | ]

Main article: Heirloom
Loba Heirloom Set

Loba's Heirloom Set

This set was made available during the Beast of Prey Beast of Prey Collection Event. Anyone who completed the Beast of Prey Collection set was given this automatically.

This set contains:

  • A banner pose: Trazer de Volta
  • A melee weapon skin: Garra de Alanza
  • An intro quip: "I'm in a class of my own."

Prestige Skin Set[ | ]

File:Loba prestige skin.png

The set contains:

  • A skin set: Apex Lycanthrope
    • Tier 1: instantly earned.
    • Tier 2: deal 30,000 damage with Loba to obtain.
    • Tier 3: deal 100,000 damage with Loba to obtain.
  • A skydive trail: Translocator, instantly earned and usable with all Legends.
  • A finisher: Enraged Claws, unlocked at Tier 3. Can only be used while any tier of Apex Lycanthrope is equipped.

Badges[ | ]


Emotes[ | ]

Main article: Emote
  • Crushed It - Crafting Metals 1,200
  • Righteous Staff - Crafting Metals 1,200
  • Sale Icon Blowing Kisses
  • Fancy Footwork - Crafting Metals 400
  • Spellbound Collection Event Toying with the Enemy
  • Veiled Collection Event I'll Lead
  • Season 17 In Hot Water - Level 15
  • Brush It Off - Default

Skydive Emotes[ | ]

Main article: Skydive Emote

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Holosprays[ | ]

Main article: Holospray
  • Season 15 You're A Gem - Level 74

Music Packs[ | ]

Main article: Music Pack

Transition[ | ]

Main article: Transition

Voice lines[ | ]


History[ | ]


Development[ | ]

  • Loba had been in the works since October of 2018.[2]
Rosie

Datamined concept art and model of Rosie, a scrapped Legend.

  • A year before the game's launch, there was a Legend called "Rosie" with abilities very similar to Loba. Writers Tom Casiello and Ashley Reed confirmed that Rosie was a completely different character and was scrapped.[3] Despite this, Loba's datamined files still used the codename Rosie suggesting Loba had replaced Rosie.
    • Rosie's design was reused as as a Lore Character, "Rosie Casiello"
  • Loba was created by Tom Casiello. He was influenced by the women he worked with on WWE, who wanted to be equal to, but different from, men. When he saw the lineup of female characters, he noticed an "erasure" of sexuality in their designs and designed Loba to be a woman who likes to look good. He pitched the character and it gathered support among the female employees of Respawn Entertainment. He intended Loba to be a character that women would "own" and would want to be.[3]
  • Ashley Reed wrote Loba as "Catwoman but with Batman's backstory." Reed was inspired by the video game character Bayonetta while writing Loba's dialogue. She often watched and listened to Shakira's single, She Wolf and the Spanish version, Loba.[3]
  • Loba's in-game model is created by Patrick Yeung, who previously worked as a character artist on the Avatar film franchise.
  • When developing Loba, the developers thought of Wattson and made Loba into her literary foil - a "mirror" or "opposite" character.[2]
  • Loba was a turning point for the writers of Apex Legends. As they weaved her and Revenant's stories together, they wondered how else could Legends affect one another.[3]
  • According to the developers, Loba's mocap work was done with heels on.[2] With this information, Tina Sanchez can be identified as Loba's mocap actress: Nine months before Loba's release, Sanchez tweeted out two images of herself doing mocap work with heels and a stick.
  • Tina Sanchez's input was reportedly instrumental and vital to Loba's look, style, personality, and story, ever since Loba first got pitched.[4]
  • Earlier in her development, Loba had an ability that allowed her to scan the area, revealing different types of loot through walls.

Teasers[ | ]

  • On January 30, 2020, Loba's character was officially introduced in the Season 4 Launch Trailer, which shows Revenant murdering both of her parents, Marcos and Alanza Andrade, on Olympus, Psamathe. Loba was left unnamed, but shown to have survived the attack.
  • On April 16, 2020, a device appeared in a building in The Dome. This device is similar to banner cards and depicts a map of Singh Labs with a note: "More sub-level rooms... Connections? Where?"
  • On April 20, 2020, a second device appeared in Sorting Factory. This one continues the map, showing a massive circular structure connected to the labs, and says "Electrical device? Check with Jaime" and "More tunnels... check west half of island"
  • On April 24, 2020, the third and final device appeared in Harvester. This one shows the center of the circular structure and says "Jaime says 'capacitor'", "How big is this?", and "Cased the place dead-end, check west".
  • On April 28, 2020, a tweet from the Apex Legends Twitter account shows 'Project 617', where someone seems to be gathering information on Revenant. They've acquired previously seen email chains about him and are wondering how to access his source code.
  • On April 29, 2020, another tweet showed that this person is now researching simulacrums and digging through early tests by Hammond Robotics.
  • On April 30, 2020, "Legacy of a Thief" was released, officially establishing Loba as the next Legend for Season 5 Season 5, and showing that she can teleport.
    • The same day, Loba begins appearing in the background of the lobby screen. She walks behind the banners, at one point she even whips her braid. At the end of the animation, she uses her Tactical Ability to disappear from the lobby.
  • On May 1, 2020, a third tweet showed an additional early document from Revenant's construction.
    • The vault at Train Yard is now empty. A hologram left by Loba taunts players, daring them to find her. In the back of the room is a bracelet, which players can interact with. Doing so briefly teleports them to a massive hangar full of dormant Stalkers, and they are activated as the player teleports back. The minimap shows that this hangar is underground, northwest of Skull Town.
    • An Instagram post states Loba is a well-known 'trendsetter and art aficionado' and has been seen in Solace City, specifically at Mirage's bar.
  • On May 4, 2020, an Instagram post showed Loba's conversation with Jaime. She explores the underground base, calling it a maze, and Jaime sends her the access key.
  • On May 5, 2020, the Season 5 Launch Trailer was released.
  • On May 8, 2020, the Season 5 Gameplay Trailer was released.

Trivia[ | ]

  • During the 3rd Anniversary Collection Event 3rd Anniversary collection event, skins were released based on Loba's Purple Reign skin - Air Orchid for Valkyrie and Violet Veteran for Bangalore.
  • Loba's artwork seems to feature a P2020 with a similar design to the Ivory Fang skin.

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