Octane

“

Do you know, I remember everything about this moment. Know what I’m thinking here? Not ‘I can’t feel my legs’ or ‘are those my feet dangling by the bone?’. No, I’m thinking how cool it is that thousands of people are cheering for me, and they’re still not as loud as the heartbeat in my ears. Tha-THUM. Tha-THUM. Tha-THUM. That was the moment I realized: life isn’t worth living, if you don’t know this feeling.

Octane
High-Speed Daredevil
Details
Real Name	Octavio Silva
Gender	Male
Age	24
Homeworld	Psamathe
Gameplay
Legend Type	Offensive
Tactical Ability	Stim
Passive Ability	Swift Mend
Ultimate Ability	Launch Pad
Real-world Info
Voice Actor	Nicolas Roye

Octane is an Offensive Legend. He was introduced in Season 1, and can be unlocked with either 12,000, 750, or by purchasing the Champion Edition downloadable content.

Octane is a high-speed Legend. His tactical ability Stim causes him to run much faster for a short period of time, at the cost of health. His passive ability Swift Mend regenerates health over time after a short delay. His ultimate ability Launch Pad places a pad on the ground that launches any player that steps on it into the air and also allows them to double jump.

Abilities

Stim

	Tactical	Q///
	Stim
	Description	Increase walk speed by 30% and sprint speed by 40% for 6 seconds. Costs Health to use. Reduction to slows while active.
	Cooldown	1 second

• Info
• Interactions
• Tips
• Bugs

• Costs 20 health (or all health but 1, if Octane has 20 or less health).
• On activation, stim will remove all slow effects, except the intended slows players receive while healing. Slows that are applied after activation will only be reduced, not removed.

Can be activated while using a regen item.

Removes slow effects from explosives, Caustic gas, or Wattson's fences.

You cannot bring yourself below 1 health. It is not possible to kill yourself, but you are easier to kill. You may want to take care when using this ability in fights - do not use it too much as you will weaken yourself substantially for enemies to pick you off.

Always keep track of your health before using this ability. Avoid running into new areas with only a sliver of health.

Use this ability to flank the enemy from the long path, since the enemy is less likely to be keeping tabs on the long flank and because your Stim can greatly reduce the time it takes to flank the enemy.

The ability can be used to quickly rotate between off-angles, giving you the ability to condition your enemy into focusing their attention on one off-angle and allowing you to shoot them from another angle or flank them.

When disengaging from a fight, use this ability for a quick getaway. Never run in a straight line, but try zigzagging instead to avoid incoming fire.

Use stim just before finishing a Med Kit or Phoenix Kit so that you can have the effects of stim without losing health.

You can use stim to quickly disengage or run away from enemies while healing at the same time through bunny hop healing, though you'll lose the ability to bunny hop heal after stim has ended so be mindful of that.

If Octane activates Stim while riding a zipline, his weapon will be lowered while active, making him unable to use any weapons or throw ordnances while on the zipline.

Octane is unable to use melee attacks for a moment after Stim ends.

He cannot drop Holo-Sprays while Stim is active. This was intentionally disabled to fix an exploit allowing him to stim with an extra speed boost and no cooldown. Also, he cannot inspect weapons while Stim is active.

If Octane goes through Wraith's Dimensional Rift or a Phase Runner while Stim is active, it will be cancelled without starting Stim's cooldown. However, Octane will still have the effects of Stim for the normal duration.

Swift Mend

	Passive
	Swift Mend
	Description	Automatically restores health over time.
	Cooldown	?

• Info
• Interactions
• Tips

• After avoiding damage for 6 seconds, Octane restores 1 health per second.

Does not apply when silenced by Revenant.

Managing your Stim shot uses and watching your health regeneration can help you minimize your syringe and Med Kit use.

Do not expect this to fully heal you. Med Kits and syringes are your best friends. This will not heal you very fast, and stim will take health away. Only count on it if you have little health needing to be healed

It will activate a few seconds after using Stim.

The ability also allows you to save up healing items when you're going out of the Ring to either loot or revive a teammate.

Launch Pad

	Ultimate	Z/+/+/+
	Launch Pad
	Description	Deploy a jump pad that catapults anyone through the air. Press the jump button to double jump.
	Charge time	1.5 minutes

• Info
• Interactions
• Tips
• Bugs

• Launch Pads have 200 Health.
• Maximum 4 on map.
• Will send players in the direction they were moving when they touched the launch pad.
  • Hitting the jump pad while walking or sprinting will launch players along a high arc.
  • From a crouch or slide, players will launch along a low arc, meaning they'll fly lower but farther in the horizontal direction.
  • If the player used melee's momentum to get onto the jump pad, they will bounce straight up and down.
• Players cannot double jump while healing or while downed, regardless of what the UI says.

Thrown objects can be bounced off the launch pad to extend the distance they travel. This includes:

• Grenades such as Frag Grenades, Thermite Grenades, Arc Stars, Revenant's Silence, and Bangalore's Smoke Canisters
• The grenades and flares used for Bangalore's Rolling Thunder, Gibraltar's Defensive Bombardment, and Caustic's Nox Gas Grenade.
• Thrown objects like Caustic's Nox Gas Traps, Gibraltar's Dome of Protection, Lifeline's D.O.C. Heal Drone, and other Launch Pads.

Mirage's decoys will bounce on Launch Pads as real players would.

• If Mirage tries to make his decoy stand where the launch pad is, the decoy will continuously bounce straight up and down until expiring.
• If Mirage sends out a decoy while mid-bounce, the decoy will go much farther than a player would.

Wraith cannot interact with a jump pad while using Into the Void.

Launch pads that are thrown in between tight or small spaces will be refunded instead.

Fuse’s The Motherlode can damage and destroy the jump pad.

Crypto's Drone EMP does 100 damage to the jump pad, and can potentially destroy the jump pad.

You can throw the launch pad further than you might expect.

Deploying the launch pad indoors lets you "fly" on the ceiling

Placing the launch pad in front of a door makes the door impassable. (When trying to enter from the side with the launch pad.)

The launch pad can also be used to launch downed players to a safer place, thus allowing a safer revive.

Use this ability to outflank enemies behind rocks and the like. Just make sure you have an escape route or and object to hide behind after.

If you bounce a launch pad off another launch pad and jump right where you should, adding extra mobility to travel distances quicker.

You can give yourself an offensive advantage by throwing a grenade at enemies while in-air, or firing in midair. Most players won’t be able to hit you and you will have given yourself the upper hand. However, since this is difficult to perform, it is worth practicing in the Firing Range.

If you want to bounce straight up and down for any reason, use a melee attack to push yourself forward onto it so that you touch it without using any movement inputs.

Be aware that the launch pad produces a loud, distinctive sound when used. Enemies can hear this sound for quite some distance. Plan accordingly.

Sometimes the pad will not launch players in the air.

In rare cases, spamming the "jump" key after using the pad will cause the double-jump effect to remain on the player. This can cause the player to remain in the air for a long time.

Placing a jump pad right next to a supply bin to the point where it is clipping through the supply bin and then driving a Trident into the supply bin will launch the trident a very far distance.

• Also, after the Trident lands on the ground after using the jump pad, using the pad while the trident is not moving, but still touching the trident, will cause players themselves to fly very fast and a very far distance, or sometimes even off the map.

Combining a jump pad with a Death Box and using Pathfinder's Grappling Hook on the trap will cause the trap to fly upwards indefinitely with Pathfinder still grappling it.

Jump pads right next to a parked Trident can cause the player to fly at a really high speed.

Lore

Main article: Octane (Character)

“

One day, Octavio Silva was bored. In fact, he was bored most days. Son of the preoccupied CEO of Silva Pharmaceuticals and wanting for nothing in life, he entertained himself by performing death-defying stunts and posting holovids of them for his fans to gawk over. So, this day, he decided to set the course record for a nearby Gauntlet by launching himself across the finish line – using a grenade. As he lay in triage hours later, the doctors informed him that the damage done to his legs meant his daredevil days were over. That didn’t sit well with Octavio, who turned to an old friend for help: Ajay Che, who he guilted into forging an order to replace his legs with bionic ones. Suddenly able to repair his limbs at a moment’s notice, Octavio decided petty online stunts weren’t enough: the ultimate adrenaline rush, the Apex Games, was calling. Now, he’s going to become an Apex Champion doing the most incredible, death-defying moves anyone’s ever seen. Maybe in the arena, he won’t be so bored.

Cosmetic items

Skins

There are a total of 79 Legend skins for Octane; 22 Legendary, 14 Epic, 27 Rare and 16 Common.

• Legendary
• Epic
• Rare
• Common

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  El Diablo
  1,200

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  Speed Demon
  1,200

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  The Victory Lap
  1,200

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  Gold Rush
  1,200

• 

  Red Shift
  Needs El Diablo

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  Extreme Measures
  Needs The Victory Lap

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  Jade Tiger
  Level 75

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  Laughing Fool
  1,800

• 

  Dasher

• 

  Clocktane
  1,800

• 

  Surplus Acceleration
  Needs Speed Demon

• 

  Arachnoid Rush

• 

  XL-R8

• 

  Holeshot Hotshot
  Needs Gold Rush

• 

  Sonic Boom

• 

  Fast Fashion
  Level 50

• 

  El Tigre

• 

  Oni's Shadow
  1,800

• 

  Wild Speed
  2,500

• 

  Peak Performance

• 

  Overdrive
  1,800

• 

  Riding Dirty

Note:

Story of Octane:

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  Daemon Hunter
  400

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  Fiber Optics
  400

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  Hack the System
  400

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  Heat Sync
  400

• 

  Neural Net
  400

• 

  Sea Streak
  800

• 

  Hot Pursuit
  1,000

• 

  Wildfire

• 

  Burn Out

• 

  Shuriken Showboat

• 

  Apex Jump

• 

  Muerte Rapida
  1,000

• 

  Real MVP

• 

  Verdant Spirit

• 

  Bloodline
  60

• 

  Circuit Breaker
  60

• 

  Critical Path
  60

• 

  Electric Synapse
  60

• 

  First String
  60

• 

  Head Trip
  60

• 

  Ornamental Nature
  60

• 

  Peel Out
  60

• 

  Prowess
  60

• 

  Racing Stripes
  60

• 

  Running Fatigues
  60

• 

  Snakeskin
  60

• 

  Tie Dye
  60

• 

  Vicious Cycle
  60

• 

  Volcanic
  60

• 

  Messenger
  Level 48

• 

  Whiplash
  August 2019

• 

  Glacial Pace
  Level 01

• 

  Exo-Weave
  Season 4

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  White Lightning
  500

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  Hit and Run
  Level 01

• 

  Wicked Intent
  Level 53

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  Adrenaline Affliction
  March 2021

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  Daruma Darter
  Level 01

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  Abstract Splash
  20 cans

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  Splashdown
  Season 11

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  The Quick And The Quilted
  Level 53

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  Original
  Default

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  Arctic
  30

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  Cardinal
  30

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  Clearwater
  30

• 

  Evergreen
  30

• 

  Flamingo
  30

• 

  Hydro
  30

• 

  Limelight
  30

• 

  Mandarin
  30

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  Midnight
  30

• 

  Orchid
  30

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  Rage
  30

• 

  Sahara
  30

• 

  Skyward
  30

• 

  Vino
  30

• 

  Yellowjacket
  30

Finishers

Main article: Finisher

• Hot Drop
  Default

• Full Throttle
  1,200

Heirloom Set

Main article: Heirloom

Octane's Heirloom Set

The set includes:

• Banner Pose: Spin and Flick
• Weapon Skin: Butterfly Knife
• Intro Quip: "Run fast. Hit fast. Win fast."

Badges

See: Octane/Badges

Skydive Emotes

Main article: Skydive Emote

• Full Circle
  Level 70

• Influencer
  Level 21

• Without A Paddle
  Level 85

• Fidget Spinner

• Just Keep Swimming
  Level 52

Emotes

Main article: Emote

• Feet Don't Fail - 1,200
• Human Spring - 1,200
• Livestream - 400
• Nervous Energy - Default
• Cerebral Vortex - Level 91

Banner Frames

• Legendary
• Epic
• Rare
• Common

• 

  DJ Stim
  1,200

• 

  Hare Raiser
  1,200

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  Publicity Stunt
  1,200

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  Shark Teeth
  1,200

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  Top Rider
  1,200

• 

  Jump Masters
  120

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  High Performance
  Level 77

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  Deep Dive
  Level 21

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  Fuel Injected
  Level 52

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  Successful Launch
  Level 84

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  Successful Launch
  Level 43

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  Sacred Gate
  2,150

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  Screamin' Speed
  Level 33

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  Wild Spirit
  2,500

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  Altar Ego
  2,100

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  Road Rash
  Level 89

• Ancient Infusion - Level 65

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  Air Show
  60

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  Big Ups
  60

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  Blade Racer
  60

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  Street Fight
  60

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  Zip By
  60

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  Grand Maw
  120

• 

  The Formula

• 

  Flight Risk
  Level 18

• 

  Never Jaded
  Level 8

• 

  Running Hot
  Level 63

• 

  Linked
  Season 4

• 

  Cosmic Fracture
  Season 11

• 

  Rookie Card
  Default

• 

  Momentum
  30

• 

  Outsider
  30

• 

  Plans
  30

• 

  Rock
  30

Holosprays

Main article: Holospray

• 

  Faster! Faster! Faster!
  1,200

• 

  Boo-Yah!
  400

• 

  Break A Leg
  400

• 

  Can't Wait
  400

• 

  Rapido!
  400

• 

  Reckless Full of Wrecks
  400

• 

  Wanna Race?
  400

• 

  Let's Go For A Ride
  400

• 

  Catch Me If You Can!
  Level 04

• 

  Trouble Double
  Level 44

Music Packs

Main article: Music Pack

• 

  Octane
  Level 15

Transitions

Main article: Transition

• 

  Record Breaker
  Level 94

• 

  Send in the Clowns
  Level 39

• 

  Tea for Two
  Level 86

• 

  D.O.C. Audio Log 12.1.0084
  Level 25

• 

  Eulogy for Navidad ‘Navi’ Silva
  Level 90

Voice lines

See: Octane/Voice lines

History

Patch notes

September 14, 2021 Patch

• Swift Mend: Reduced healing rate from 1.5 to 1.0 hp/sec.
• Launch Pad: Reduced jump pad horizontal distance by 10% - 15%.

June 29, 2021 Patch

• Launch Pad: Increased cooldown from 60s to 90s.

May 04, 2021 Patch

• Stim:
  • Reduced cooldown between stims from 4s to 1s.
  • Increased health cost from 12hp to 20hp.
• Launch Pad:
  • Increased bullet spread while in the air and shooting from the low launch pad trajectory.
  • Grenades will no longer get stuck and disappear when being bounced off of launch pads.
  • Death Totems will no longer bounce when a Jump Pad is placed under it.
  • Players will no longer have weapons drawn if they are knocked as they enter the ring at Pathfinder's Fight Night via a Jump Pad.
• Updated his Fidget Spinner Skydive Emote to correctly remove his leg for which he is using it to do the helicoptering.

March 15, 2021 Patch

• Fixed an issue with the Fidget Spinner Skydive Emote preview not being present when inspected on Xbox One.

March 09, 2021 Patch

• Launch Pad:
  • Repeatedly using the same jump pad no longer disables double-jumps.
  • Players can no longer “glide” along a wall after using it.
• Swift Mend:
  • Now disabled if silenced by Revenant.

February 02, 2021 Patch

• Launch Pad:
  • Hitting the jump pad from a standing position will launch players along a high arc (the speed and trajectory of the old super-jump).
  • From a crouched position, players will launch along a low arc, meaning they'll fly lower but farther in the horizontal direction.

January 07, 2021 Patch

• Launch Pad: Fixed an issue with it preventing players from jumping.

November 04, 2020 Patch

• Swift Mend: Tripled healing rate (from 0.5 hp/s to 1.5 hp/s).
  • NOTE: The Patch Notes says doubled, but in actuality, it got tripled.

October 06, 2020 Patch

• Fixed a visual issue that removed Revenant’s shadow form from a player after jumping off an Octane Jump Pad.
• Fixed an issue with the Jump Pad clipping into the ground in certain areas.
• [Undocumented] No longer able to drop Holo-Sprays while using Stim.

August 18, 2020 Patch

• Stim: Now able to use while healing, but not removing the incurred slowness.

June 30, 2020 Patch

• Stim: No longer able to use it while healing.
• Swift Mend: Fixed an issue with the regen being delayed after the use of Stim.
• Fixed issues with being pulled out of ADS, weapon firing stopping when Stim ends/landing from a Launch Pad.

June 25, 2020 Patch

• Stim: Updated ability text.

June 23, 2020 Patch

• Stim:
  • Now removes speed impairing effects when activated.
  • Sprinting speed is increased from 30% to 40%.
  • [Undocumented] Increased HP cost from 10 to 12.
• Launch Pad:
  • Players can now double jump and change direction easily in mid-air.
  • Fixed an issue with the pads “deleting” other Legends' abilities.
  • Fixed an issue with the pads disappearing when other legend’s tactical interacts with it.
  • Fixed an issue with the pads falling through the floor on supply ships.

May 12, 2020 Patch

• Launch Pad: Cooldown reduced from 90 seconds to 60 seconds.

October 01, 2019 Patch

• Stim: Fixed an issue with FoV scaling messing up ADS aim sensitivity.

August 13, 2019 Patch

• Launch Pad: Fixed bug where sometimes the launch pad would not launch the player.

July 02, 2019 Patch

• Launch Pad: Fixed bug that caused throwable items to bounce off without actually touching the launch pad.

June 11, 2019 Patch

• Launch Pad: Fixed audio bug.

June 04, 2019 Patch

• Stim: Fixed issue where the trail would still linger after death.

April 03, 2019 Patch

• Launch Pad: No longer affects players when using Wraith's Into the Void ability.

March 19, 2019 Patch

• Introduced.

Teasers

• Octane was teased alongside Wattson on the game's launch day, when he was briefly shown from a distance in the Apex Legends Gameplay Deep Dive Trailer.
• Octane's Launch Pad was teased with several Launch Pads placed around the outside of Market before his introduction in Season 1.

Trivia

• Octane's abilities are derived from Titanfall 2's Stim tactical ability, which provided both healing and speed. His backstory was inspired by the way players would speedrun The Pilot's Gauntlet using grenades for speed boosts. His reveal trailer contains a link to the world record run of 12 seconds by player CashMayo , The Record Breaker Transition shows "11.7" in the background, the world record at the time, although a new record of 10.3 seconds was set by CashMayo in December 2021.
• One of Octane's kill quips, "You need to move faster than that, amigo. Speed is life.", is a reference to Titanfall 2's Apex Predator, Viper, who repeatedly says, "You need to move faster than that, son. Speed is life."
• Octane was unlocked for free between February 8-15, 2022, in celebration of the 3rd Anniversary of Apex Legends.

Gallery

Videos

Images

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  The bloodier original version of the Record Breaker loading screen.

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  Octane riding a Flyer.

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  Early concept art of Octane.

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  Concept art of Octane.

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  Octane's face, seen in Chapter 8 of Pathfinder's Quest.

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  Concept art of Octane's Clocktane skin.

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  Concept art of Octane's Jade Tiger skin.

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  Concept art of Octane's Arachnoid Rush skin.

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  Concept art of Octane's XL-R8 skin.

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  Concept art of Octane's El Diablo skin.

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  Concept art of Octane's Riding Dirty skin.

Merchandise

• 

  A Funko Pop of Octane that will be released in July 2022.

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  Action figure released by Jakks Pacific.

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  Action figure released by Jakks Pacific, featuring the Hit and Run skin.

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  Action figure released by Jakks Pacific, featuring the Arachnoid Rush skin.

See Also

• Octane (Mobile)