Valkyrie

Valkyrie
Winged Avenger
Details
Real Name	Kairi Imahara (今原カイリ)
Gender	Female
Age	30
Homeworld	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

“	I'm in the pipe, five by five.

Valkyrie is a Legend released in Season 9 that is locked from the base game. She can be unlocked using digital currency; either 12,000 or 750.

Valkyrie is a Recon Legend who specializes in flight. Her passive VTOL Jets allow her to fly for a few seconds, and she automatically marks enemies while skydiving. Her tactical, Missile Swarm, launches a group of missiles that damage and stun enemies. Her ultimate, Skyward Dive, launches Valkyrie and her teammates into the sky to skydive towards the ground.

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 the player cannot 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 the player's realm.

Using this ability to down an enemy from any distance, even an enemy right in front of the player, can award 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	?

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VTOL Jets

• 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 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".
• Enemies are not notified by this scan, unlike Bloodhound and Crypto.
• Squadmates attached to Valkyrie also benefit from these target callouts.

VTOL Jets

• After using Octane's Launch Pad, VTOL Jets are unavailable until the double jump is used.
• While flying through gravity cannons, use of VTOL Jets add to the horizontal momentum from the cannon.

Jet-Fighter HUD

• 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 feels the most comfortable.

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 bursts to reach the roof of short buildings.

When activating the VTOL Jets, it consumes about 12.5% of total fuel, which only allows the player 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 provides a burst of speed and provides a slight dodge, at the cost of fuel.

VTOL Jets can be activated right before landing to eliminate fall stun.

Be careful when using VTOL Jets when flying through gravity cannon, as the jets add to the momentum, and thus can allow the player to overshoot the normal flight path.

Jet-Fighter HUD

• Due to the wide scanning range of Jet-Fighter HUD, purposely conducting skydives through the use of ultimate, jump tower, geyser, and even trident-ejections can help provide good intel of enemy location in a large area.
  • Do note that while the scan is not revealed to unsuspecting enemies, alert players will hear the takeoff and notice the 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

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• 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 in about 7 seconds (1.5 seconds slow climbing and 5.5 seconds fast climbing) 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.

Remember Skyward Dive could be used as an excellent recon ability, as her passive to scan for enemies works both during launch and skydiving. It does not have to be used to team relocation purpose

• Communicate with teammates if intending to use it as a scan instead of relocation.

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

If Death Protection wears off while using this ability, it will not launch the player 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 the player will go straight under the map.
• If activated 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 the player 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 the player is vulnerable.

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

Lore

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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, that ended up being hers after all.

Background

Kairi "Valkyrie" Imahara, born in 2704 on Angelia, was the daughter of Viper, a notorious mercenary who worked for the Apex Predators. She held great respect and admiration for her father, and wished to follow in his footsteps as a Pilot. Viper would often humor her by taking her for joyrides in his modified Northstar. However, he frowned upon his daughter becoming a Pilot, telling her that these Titans were “death traps." As a result of her father’s profession, Imahara would often see Kuben Blisk in her home.

In 2715, Imahara hijacked her father’s Northstar, flying it solo around and above her family’s home. Despite her father’s commands for her to land, she continued to fly, eventually reaching an altitude where an aircraft battle was taking place. Caught in the crossfire (and likely due to inaction from its pilot), the Titan engaged its autopilot, firing a salvo of missiles at its nearest target. In return, an aircraft fired and struck the Northstar, causing it to fall uncontrollably to Angelia’s surface. Viper followed in his own aircraft and took control of the Titan, ejecting his daughter and crash landing in a nearby field. Imahara and Viper both escaped relatively unharmed.

Soon after this incident, Viper left to escort the Ark during the Battle of Typhon, where he was killed by Jack Cooper and his Vanguard-class Titan BT-7274. Not knowing who killed him, Imahara blamed Blisk for her father’s death.

19 years after Viper’s death, Imahara and her mother moved from Angelia to the Outlands, settling in Gaea. The trip was prohibitively expensive and to obtain funds, she stole a slot machine from a casino. Soon after arriving, she met Rampart at a bar.

Northstar

Imahara received a smuggling job from Kuben Blisk in 2731 to retrieve Viper’s Northstar from the wreckage of Typhon. While searching for the Titan, she encountered a mass of Medusa vines, which were being weaponized by the IMC under the codename Project: Legacy.

Taking the Northstar and her father’s corpse, she arranged a meeting with Blisk, where she intended to kill him as revenge for Viper’s demise. Blisk was able to talk her out of the act, handing her an Apex card and telling Imahara that her father wanted her to forge her own legacy. Shooting the glass of liquor in Blisk’s hand, she left his vessel, declaring her callsign as Valkyrie.

Taking the wreckage of the Titan to Rampart’s shop, she had it reforged into a custom jetpack and set of armor.

After retrieving Viper’s body, he was cremated. Some of his ashes were left at the family’s home on Angelia, near the barn where his Northstar was stored, while some were kept in their new residence in Gaea. The rest were scattered on a sudden gust of wind by Imahara’s mother so that he would always have “a sky-high view."

The Legacy Antigen

While the Legends were investigating the Icarus Fleet’s sudden arrival in Olympus, Loba fell through a suddenly-opened hatch on the deck. She was saved by Imahara, who flew beneath and rescued Loba. Whilst discussing the cure for the disease caused by the Fleet’s rapidly spreading Medusa vines - or lack thereof - it was found that Bangalore had been infected with the terminal illness.

A potential cure was revealed to lie within the venom of the monstrous Carthage spider, native to Gaea, by Caustic. Upon arriving, Imahara searched with Loba, but the pair were soon surrounded by a horde of the arachnids. Despite capturing one spider, the pair, alongside Crypto and Caustic, were taken to the spiders’ den and bound in a net of webs. Imahara broke free of her bindings using Loba’s jump drive bracelet. She returned with Fuse and Bloodhound, helping to clear the way. After the Legends were freed, Caustic attempted to take one spider for himself, but was punched by Imahara. With these spiders, the Legends were able to end the Medusa epidemic, though the vines’ growth was merely delayed.

After ending the outbreak, Loba was devastated to hear Bangalore state that they were “just friends”. Imahara comforted Loba, asking if the latter needed someone to “catch [her] again."

Season 11

Imahara encountered Loba at the Firing Range, where the latter was attempting to keep her mind off of Revenant and Bangalore. The two talk, both talking about their pasts and traumas. Imahara repeated what she had told Loba in the jungles of Gaea - by not killing Revenant when she had the chance, her pride had put herself and those she cares about in danger. Soon after, the pair agreed to go out to dinner, paid for by whoever loses a shooting contest.

Imahara was later seen with Loba and Jaime at a carnival. However, unbeknownst to them, Revenant had followed them, setting his sights on Jaime.

Season 13 Launch Trailer

Imahara attended Bangalore's retirement party. She later assisted in fighting the beast that came ashore on Storm Point, but was quickly struck down. Bangalore helped her to recover after the creature was killed.

Cosmetic Items

Skins

There are a total of 57 Legend skins for Valkyrie; 13 Legendary, 9 Epic, 19 Rare and 16 Common.

• Legendary
• Epic
• Rare
• Common

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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

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  Air Show
  Needs Titan Tested

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  Cloud Marauder

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  Blue Bomber
  1,800

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  Air Orchid

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  Ultra Legend
  Needs Military Grade

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  Slingshot
  2,400

Note:

Story of Valkyrie:

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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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  Hack the System
  400

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  Heat Sync
  400

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  Spatial Anomaly
  400

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  Aligned Vectors

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  Hypnotic Nightmare

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  Deep Dive
  April 2022

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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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  Callous Cartographer
  Season 12

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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

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

Skydive Emotes

Main article: Skydive Emote

• Showing Off
  Level 92

• Inflight Entertainment

• Laid Back
  Level 96

Banner Frames

• Legendary
• Epic
• Rare
• Common

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  Calm Waters
  1,200

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  Fire Within
  1,200

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  No Limit
  1,200

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  Spring Day
  1,200

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  Underground
  1,200

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  Scorch the Sky
  Level 80

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  Aerial Acrobatics
  Level 32

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  Combat Challenger

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  Cell Block
  800

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  Bamboo Garden
  60

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  Blooming
  60

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  Final View
  60

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  Flow State
  60

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  Thrusters Primed
  60

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  Cockpit View
  60

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  Spoiled Riches
  Season 12

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  In Too Deep
  April 2022

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  Rookie Card
  Default

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  Bloodline
  30

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  In The Pipe
  30

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  Interconnected
  30

• 

  Locked On
  30

Holo-Sprays

Main article: Holospray

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  Rise to the Occasion
  1,200

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  A Toast To The Fallen
  400

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  Head In The Clouds
  400

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  Looking Fly
  400

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  Put In The Work
  400

• 

  Runs in the Family
  400

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  The Ghost of Viper
  400

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  Born to Fly
  Level 09

• 

  Swat This!
  Level 34

• No One Looks Up - Level 83

Transitions

Main article: Transition

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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 10, 2022 Patch

• Skyward Dive:
  • No longer possible to spin in the air while launching.

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 piece of Rampart artwork shows her repairing Viper's Northstar Titan. Three seasons later, this was 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.
• Valkyrie was unlockable for free between February 22nd and March 1st, 2022, in celebration of the 3rd Anniversary of Apex Legends.
• The highest possible damage that can theoretically be dealt with a single Missile Swarm is 3364, while playing in Duos.

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.

Merchandise

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  Plush of Air Orchid skin.