Fade was the first Legend designed for phones instead of ported to them, and he is still the name most closely tied to talk of Apex Legends Mobile Return. Real name Ignacio Huamaní, 26, from Solace, he is filed as an Assault Legend under the tag “Phasing Punisher,” and he arrived in Season 1 as a paid unlock costing 750 Syndicate Gold or 10 Fade Fragments. His whole kit is built around one idea: leaving a fight and coming back on your own terms.
Quick answer: Fade is an Assault Legend with Slipstream (15% speed after a slide), Flashback (returns you to where you stood five seconds ago, 25-second cooldown), and Phase Chamber (an 8-meter phase cage on a one-minute charge).
Fade’s ability numbers in one table
| Ability | Slot | Effect | Timing |
|---|---|---|---|
| Slipstream | Passive | 15% movement speed after a slide | 4s duration, 10s cooldown |
| Flashback | Tactical | Returns you to your position from 5s ago | 3s rewind, 25s cooldown |
| Phase Chamber | Ultimate | 8m cage, 10 damage, phases everyone inside | 3s delay, 5s phase, 1min charge |
Slipstream: a speed boost at the end of every slide
Slipstream fires when a slide ends, not while you are in it. Finishing the slide grants 15% movement speed for 4 seconds, which is enough to cross an open lane or break line of sight after a peek. A 10-second cooldown stops you from chaining slides back to back, and a visual and audio cue plays the moment the passive is ready again.
Two perks change what the passive does for the rest of the squad. Renewed Purpose triggers the boost when you exit Flashback without starting the usual cooldown, and Lingering Shadow turns the boost into after-images that teammates can run through for speed of their own.
Flashback: a 25-second rewind you can cancel mid-use
The tactical pulls Fade through the Void and back to where he stood a moment earlier. Over the course of 3 seconds it sends him to his position from 5 seconds ago, on a 25-second cooldown. The rewind can be cancelled at any point, which is what makes it more than an escape button.
Because the endpoint is a place you already occupied, positioning before the fight decides where the rewind drops you. Trade shots from a doorway after dropping off a roof and Flashback puts you back on that roof, behind whoever pushed you.
Start the rewind and cancel it after about a second. Enemies read the animation as a full retreat and push into the space you never left.
Phase Chamber: an 8-meter cage that pulls everyone into the Void
Fade launches an activator core from his suit, which bursts across an 8-meter radius. It inflicts 10 damage and slows enemies within the area. After three seconds, anyone remaining inside becomes phased for 5 seconds and can neither deal nor receive damage. The ultimate takes one minute to charge.
The cage affects enemies and allies in separate ways. While the phase continues, the Fade who launched the core can see phased enemies highlighted. Allies retain their usual movement speed, but weapons, abilities and grenades cannot be used inside.
That split gives it two uses. Thrown onto an enemy squad, it removes part of a team from the fight so you can focus the rest. Thrown at your own feet, it buys five seconds to break contact, and you leave the Void without a speed penalty.
Fade’s nine perks and what each one changes
Fade carries three Perks, three Finisher Perks and three Ability Perks. Finisher Perks only pay out when you commit to an execution, which is a real risk in a three-squad fight.
| Perk | Type | Effect |
|---|---|---|
| Renewed Purpose | Perk | Exiting Phase Space triggers a Surge |
| Lingering Shadow | Perk | Surge leaves speed-boost after-images for squadmates |
| Punisher’s Remorse | Perk | Flash Back can be used while knocked down |
| Battle Adaptation | Finisher | A finisher increases your Evo Shield total by 100 points. |
| Tactical Advantage | Finisher | Finisher recharges your Tactical |
| Mag Subscription | Finisher | Finisher refills your weapon and speeds reloads for 8s |
| Pact of the Suit | Ability | Flash Back restores 25 shield if your shield is empty |
| Phase Echo | Ability | Flash Back leaves speed-boost after-images for squadmates |
| Lost in the Void | Ability | Longer phase for your squad, no enemy scan |
Perk pairings worth knowing
Punisher’s Remorse and Pact of the Suit work as a pair. The first lets you rewind out of a knockdown, the second hands back a shield bar when Flashback fires on an empty shield, so a downed Fade can end up somewhere safer with something on the bar.
Renewed Purpose and Lingering Shadow chain into each other. Exiting the Void triggers the Surge with no cooldown, and Lingering Shadow turns that Surge into trails the squad can pick up, which is how Fade ends up rotating a team rather than just himself.
Lost in the Void is a trade, not an upgrade. Your squad stays phased longer, but you give up the enemy highlight that Phase Chamber normally provides.
Where Fade’s kit stands ahead of Apex Legends Mobile Return
Fade and Rhapsody are the only two Legends that never left the mobile game, and both have been pulled into the conversation about a relaunch. Datamined files in 2024 and 2025 showed Fade’s character animations, new ability sound files, and rebalanced versions of Flashback and Phase Chamber being tested inside internal builds of the main Apex Legends engine.
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EA CEO Andrew Wilson has been direct about why the first version did not last. The verticality and team-based complexity that define Apex did not translate to touchscreens as well as the company expected, and the game ran as its own silo rather than connecting to the console and PC title.
He also pointed to timing, describing a softer mobile market with shifting player habits at the moment of launch. The stated fix for any future version is deep integration, with cross-progression, synchronised battle pass progress and shared cosmetics across phone, console and PC.
No release date for a relaunch has been confirmed, and nothing about Fade’s numbers has been officially revised. Until that changes, the kit above is the one that matters: a slide boost, a five-second rewind, and a cage that takes everyone nearby out of the fight for five seconds.
