{"id":10662,"date":"2022-05-08T14:31:32","date_gmt":"2022-05-08T14:31:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.itgesports.com\/uncategorized\/apex-legends-dev-confirms-respawn-is-looking-to-tackle-shield-meta\/"},"modified":"2022-05-09T05:00:53","modified_gmt":"2022-05-09T05:00:53","slug":"apex-legends-dev-confirms-respawn-is-looking-to-tackle-shield-meta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.itgesports.com\/apex-legends\/apex-legends-dev-confirms-respawn-is-looking-to-tackle-shield-meta\/","title":{"rendered":"Apex Legends Dev Confirms Respawn is Looking to &#8216;Tackle&#8217; Shield Meta"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"720\" height=\"405\" src=\"https:\/\/www.itgesports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/apex-legends-dev-confirms-respawn-is-looking-to-tackle-shield-meta_6278a005abe99.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.itgesports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/apex-legends-dev-confirms-respawn-is-looking-to-tackle-shield-meta_6278a005abe99.jpeg 720w, https:\/\/www.itgesports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/apex-legends-dev-confirms-respawn-is-looking-to-tackle-shield-meta_6278a005abe99-300x169.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"tagStyle_13haoeb-o_O-style_1tcxgp3-o_O-style_48hmcm-o_O-style_dx59f4\" data-mm-id=\"_5a2fztlgr\">In Defiance, Gibraltar has continued to see a mere <a class=\"tagStyle_13haoeb-o_O-style_1x6hgip\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dbltap.com\/posts\/apex-legends-season-12-legend-pick-rates-full-list-01g1xw2vjyan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">3.1% pick rate overall<\/a>, a stark contrast to the 100% pick rate he had in the NA Apex Legends Global Series (ALGS) Pro League Split 1 Playoffs. This remains one of the most interesting balance topics in Apex moving forward as <a class=\"tagStyle_13haoeb-o_O-style_1x6hgip\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dbltap.com\/posts\/respawn-wants-to-make-gibraltar-sexier-pick-without-buffing-him-01fatpnr4nyy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Respawn Entertainment has already acknowledged in the past<\/a> that it&#8217;s tough to nerf Gibby for the pros without making him even worse in the eyes of the general community.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dbltap.com\/posts\/apex-legends-dev-confirms-respawn-is-looking-to-tackle-shield-meta-01g2g8y3s09e?utm_source=RSS\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More Here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apex Legends Dev Confirms Respawn is Looking to &#8216;Tackle&#8217; Shield Meta<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":10663,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[114],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itgesports.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10662"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itgesports.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itgesports.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itgesports.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itgesports.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10662"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.itgesports.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10662\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10665,"href":"https:\/\/www.itgesports.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10662\/revisions\/10665"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itgesports.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itgesports.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itgesports.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itgesports.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}