Valkyrie

“	Valkyrie on standby, ready for anything. Hell, everything."

Valkyrie
Winged Avenger
Details
Real Name	Kairi Imahara (今原カイリ)
Gender	Female
Age	30
Home World	Angelia
Gameplay
Legend Type	Recon
Tactical Ability	Missile Swarm
Passive Ability	VTOL Jets
Ultimate Ability	Skyward Dive
Passive Perk	Recon
Real-world Info
Voice Actor	Erika Ishii

Valkyrie is a Legend released in Season 9. She can be unlocked using digital currency; either 12,000 or 750, or by buying the Valkyrie Launch Bundle for 3000.

Valkyrie is a Recon Legend who specializes in flight. Her passive, VTOL Jets allow her to fly for a few seconds but can only use Missile Swarm and while skydiving, she can mark enemies. Her tactical, Missile Swarm can be good for dealing damage, especially while in her passive. Her ultimate, Skyward Dive, can be used to skydive into a new area for exploration.

Abilities

Missile Swarm

	Tactical	Q///
	Missile Swarm
	Description	Fire a swarm of mini-rockets that damage and disorient the enemy.
	Cooldown	30 seconds

• Info
• Interactions
• Tips
• Bugs

• Launches 12 missiles in a 4x3 array, dealing damage and stunning enemies.
  • If a Legend gets hit, the first missile deals 25 damage and every subsequent missile deals 3.
• Needs ample vertical clearance to use, meaning you can't use it on interior spaces with low ceilings.
• Minimum target distance (same elevation) is 12 meters; Maximum target distance is 100 meters horizontally, regardless of elevation difference between target and Valkyrie.
  • When within valid range, the crosshair aligns with the closest row's middle rocket

Can be used while VTOL Jets is active.

Use while in VTOL Jets to get clear shots for maximum efficiency.

When enemy is hiding behind a boulder, aim the reticle at zone between the closest base-edge and the top of the boulder; as the targeting columns extend away from the reticle, it will decrease the chance of missile overshooting your target

The stun time is long enough to cancel VTOL Jets and prepare to shoot a target, which makes this a very effective tool for ambushes.

The markers for where the missiles will impact are visible in the Firing Range even if she’s not in your realm.

Using this ability to down an enemy from any distance, even an enemy right in front of you, can give you the Long Shot Badge.

VTOL Jets

	Passive	HOLD Space//
	VTOL Jets
	Description	Press the jump key while in the air to engage jetpack. You can switch between hold and toggle mode in the options menu.
	Cooldown	?

• Info
• Interactions
• Tips
• Bugs

• While in the air, press Jump again to engage VTOL Jets.
• Using the Jets consumes fuel. The Fuel gauge is on the right side of the screen.
  • Activating the VTOL Jets will consume about 12.5% of your total fuel
  • Maximum duration is 7 seconds.
  • Fuel will begin to refill 8 seconds after the last Jets' usage.
  • Fully refueling from empty takes 10 seconds. (1 second will refill 10% of total fuel)
• While using the Jets, Valkyrie cannot use any weapons except for her Missile Swarm.
• Once the Jets are released, there is a 1-second delay (a hand animation will be played) before she can use her weapons.
• Normal flight direction is upwards in the direction Valkyrie is facing.
  • Hold ADS to conduct level flight
• Jet-Fighter HUD - Activates while skydiving or using her ultimate, Skyward Dive (in both launch and skydive).
  • Marks any enemies within 250 meters with a direct and uninterrupted line of sight to Valkyrie. The champion will be marked with "CH" and the kill leader will be marked with "KL"
  • Enemy cannot detect your scan, unlike Bloodhound and Crypto.
  • Squadmates attached to Valkyrie also benefit from these target callouts.

After using Octane's Launch Pad, VTOL Jets are unavailable until the double jump is used.

Mirage's decoys aren’t marked during the skydive by the Jet-fighter HUD.

In the gameplay settings, there is an option to switch the control scheme between holding the jump button and pressing it once to toggle. Use whichever you feel most comfortable with.

Due to VTOL jets, advanced bunny hop and wall jumping is more difficult, require more precise timing

Treat the VTOL Jets as a double jump - short burst to get you to the roof of short buildings.

When activating the VTOL Jets, it consumes about 12.5% of your total fuel, which only allows you to do 8 bursts maximum with a full gauge; be careful when turning them on and off in the air.

• However, bursting the VTOL Jets gives you a burst of speed and provides a slight dodge, at the cost of fuel.

You can activate VTOL Jets right before landing to eliminate fall stun

Due to the wide scanning range of Jet-Fighter HUD, purposely conducting skydives through the use of ultimate, jump tower, geyser, and even trident reject can help provide good intel of enemy location in a large area. However, do note that while your scan is not revealed to unsuspecting enemies, alerted players will notice your dive trail.

Jet-Fighter HUD are occasionally deactivated for teammates if either Valkyrie split off from the group during the jump, or if teammates split off from the Valkyrie jumpmaster.

Changing legends while in the Firing Range as soon as the VTOL Jets are deactivated or fuel runs out reduces gravity.

• Change back to Valkyrie will revert this bug.

Skyward Dive

	Ultimate	Z/+/+/+
	Skyward Dive
	Description	Press once to prepare for launch. Teammates can interact with Valkyrie to join the launch. Press again to launch into the air and skydive.
	Charge time	3 minutes

• Info
• Arenas
• Tips
• Bugs

• Upon usage, Valkyrie enters a setup animation that charges up over 2 seconds, after which she can press Fire to launch ~180m into the air and enter a skydive, similar to using a Jump Tower. Squadmates can press Interact near Valkyrie to launch with her.
  • Skyward Dive can be canceled during setup either by taking damage or manually by pressing the Ultimate button again. 75% of its charge is refunded when canceled.
  • While in pre-launch, using ping will mark Valkyrie for her squad and display a "Let's fly!" notification in the kill feed.
• Vertical clearance is required for flight.

The maximum height she will launch into the air is only ~50m in Arenas.

Skyward Dive could be used as an excellent recon ability, as her passive to scan for enemies works both during launch and skydiving.

It is very beneficial to use this if the Ring is right behind you, and you’re a long way away from the next Ring.

If Death Protection wears off while using this ability, it will not launch you in the air and instead will keep the players in the launching animation permanently. While in this position, players can also freely pass through geometry.

• This also occurs if activated on a slope, except you'll go straight under the map.
• If you activate it while someone is below an object, the person will get launched under the map and will most likely die.

Recon

	Perk
	Recon
	Description	Scanning Survey Beacons reveals the next circle's location.
	Cooldown	?

• Info
• Tips

• Allows you to access the 12 survey beacons available on the map in any given match to determine the circle location after the currently marked circle.
• The interaction with the survey beacon takes 7 seconds, during which you are vulnerable.

A survey beacon can be used again when the next round starts.

Lore

Bold, brash, fiery and fierce, Kairi Imahara isn’t above greasing palms and bending the law. When she was a child, she stole a Titan. It belonged to her dad: callsign Viper. She wanted to be just like him when she grew up. But the next day he left on a mission and never returned. In some ways, she still followed in his footsteps: it wasn't a Titan, but her ship offered a decent living. Her personal life, however, was anything but. During the day, she smuggled precious cargo, and at night, went shot for shot with the outlaws and mercs in the bars. But even though she had her ladies, her liquor, and her love of the sky, she was still obsessed with finding the man who’d put her father in harm’s way: his commander, Kuben Blisk.

She tracked Blisk down, prepared to kill him. But he spoke of her father with respect -- and challenged her to be better. She shot him anyway. But not to kill. Knowing she could get to him was enough. Well, that, and the Apex Games card she took from Blisk’s grasp.

Using the intact flight core from Viper’s Northstar, she built a sleek new jetpack that honored her father’s memory. And that was when Kairi could finally soar on her own… and in a version of her dad’s Titan, a modified Northstar with an enhanced VTOL and flight core, that ended up being hers after all.

Cosmetic Items

Skins

There are a total of 47 Legend skins for Valkyrie; 8 Legendary, 5 Epic, 18 Rare and 16 Common.

• Legendary skins
• Epic skins
• Rare skins
• Common skins

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  Titan Tested
  1,200

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  Military Grade
  1,200

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  Golden Opportunity
  1,200

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  Azure Blessing
  1,200

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  Birthright
  3,000

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  Omatsuri Fury

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  Aerial Evolution
  Level 25

Note:

Story of Valkyrie:

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  Hack the System
  400

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  Blockchain Reaction
  400

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  Daemon Hunter
  400

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  Fiber Optics
  400

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  Heat Sync
  400

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  Collider
  60

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  Arachnophobia
  60

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  Backdraft
  60

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  Disruptor
  60

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  Fishsticks
  60

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  Ornamental Nature
  60

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  Throwback
  60

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  Unicornucopia
  60

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  Electric Synapse
  60

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  Scribblers
  60

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  Sweet 16
  60

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  Desert Scorpion
  60

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  Running Fatigues
  60

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  Midnight Charm
  60

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  In Bloom
  60

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  Intricate Detail
  Level 53

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  Punk Rocket
  May 2021

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  Turquoise Sun

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  Original
  Default

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  Amethyst
  30

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  Arctic
  30

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  Cardinal
  30

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  Clearwater
  30

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  Evergreen
  30

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  Flamingo
  30

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  Hydro
  30

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  Limelight
  30

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  Mandarin
  30

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  Midnight
  30

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  Rage
  30

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  Sahara
  30

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  Skyward
  30

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  Vino
  30

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  Yellowjacket
  30

Finishers

Main article: Finishers

• Turn and Burn
  Default

• Hard Landing
  1,200

Badges

See: Valkyrie/Badges

Emotes

Main article: Emote

• Party Crasher - 1,200
• Trust Fall - 400
• Take A Bow - Default

Skydive Emotes

Main article: Skydive Emote

• Showing Off
  Level 92

• Inflight Entertainment

Holo-Sprays

Main article: Holo-Spray

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  Rise to the Occasion
  1,200

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  A Toast To The Fallen
  Valkyrie
  400

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  Head In The Clouds
  Valkyrie
  400

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  Looking Fly
  Valkyrie
  400

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  Put In The Work
  Valkyrie
  400

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  Runs in the Family
  Valkyrie
  400

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  The Ghost of Viper
  Valkyrie
  400

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  Born to Fly
  Level 09

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  Swat This!
  Level 34

Loading Screens

Main article: Loading Screen

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  High Speed Interstellar Travel Ain't Cheap
  Level 32

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  Kampai
  Level 45

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  The Ghost of Viper
  Level 56

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  A Mercenary Wife
  Level 76

Music Pack

Main article: Music Pack

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  Valkyrie
  Level 66

Voice Lines

See: Valkyrie/Voice lines

History

Patch notes

May 27, 2021 Patch

• Missile Swarm: hovering now consumes the same amount of fuel compared to not hovering when using the tactical.

May 24, 2021 Patch

• Skyward Dive:
  • Added a short input delay after using the ability to prevent players from accidentally activating - then immediately cancelling - the ability by accident.
  • Fixed a bug that allowed the ability to be activated shortly after using a Launch Pad
• Fixed an exploit that let players record stats in the Firing Range while using Valkyrie.
• Reenabled for use in the Firing Range.

May 12, 2021 Patch

• Temporarily disabled in the Firing Range to fix an exploit that was allowing players to rack up an infinite amount of kills for their stats.

May 11, 2021 Patch

• VTOL Jets: No longer highlights dead players.

May 04, 2021 Patch

• Introduced.

Teasers

• When Season 6 launched, a Rampart artwork shows her repairing Viper's Northstar Titan. Three seasons later, this is revealed to be a teaser for Valkyrie.
• On April 14, 2021, Apex Legends posted a video on their Twitter celebrating 100 million registered players. At the end of the video, Valkyrie can be seen flying.
• On April 15, 2021, Apex Legends posted a tweet of an image with the caption, "Searching the Stars." Most notably, there are manga volumes, a statue from Angel City, and other Titanfall references.
• On April 17, 2021, a second tweet was posted with the caption, "Seeding the Soil."
• On April 19, 2021, "Northstar" was released.
• On April 22, 2021, the Season 9 Launch Trailer was released.
• On April 26, 2021 the Season 9 Gameplay Trailer was released.

Trivia

• Valkyrie's abilities are inspired by the Northstar Titan from Titanfall 2.
• Valkyrie is a ship pilot. (She is not a certified Titan Pilot.)
• Valkyrie is a lesbian.
• Valkyrie has a few voice lines that are similarly quoted by Viper, most notably her "Valkyrie sent you" and "Got you in the pipe" lines.
• In voice lines when Valkyrie revives or re-spawns Rampart, she profusely begs Rampart to change the name of Sheila, due to it being the name of her ex-girlfriend.
• Valkyrie shares many similarities with her voice actress, Erika Ishii: They are both mixed race, they are both queer, and they have similar outgoing personalities.
• Valkyrie had a Caucasian father and a Japanese mother. Although Valkyrie was exposed to her mother's heritage, she cannot fluently speak Japanese. Valkyrie can still understand Japanese, and she speaks Japanese to her mother at home, but she is not comfortable with speaking it in public.

Gallery

Videos

Images

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  A render of Valkyrie.

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  Concept art of Valkyrie.

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  Concept art of Valkyrie.

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  Concept art of Valkyrie for Stories from the Outlands - Northstar.

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  Concept art of Valkyrie's Birthright skin.