I've always loved Newcastle because the biggest benefits he provides that people don't seem to see are time and options. You can use the shield as a safe window to peek. It also regularly buys you a few seconds to make a decision. There is also no better feeling in the game than when someone tries to play your shield against you and you just move it. Followed by someone tries to hide behind your wall blocking a door and you just remove it.
I love watching off meta mains shows nuanced stuffs. I was a caustic main back in the day way before they added way to destroy cans and he was a beast. So many neat interactions that are now gone
Yeah back when everyone thought caustic was trash, then more and more people started to play him which made people realize how annoying he actually is with those indestructible traps 💀
@@plainbubble or throwing the trap at your feet put Caustic INSIDE it partially so, the trap would take a lot of damage for you. It was the reason he was useful even in exterior exchanges where there was little or no cover.
Newcastle forces you to jump a skill gap like; The peaking around corners becomes tougher since your such a large character. Very minimal things you would thing about as an avg legend become much more prevalent playing as Newcastle. I could 100% say learning to play him has increased my skill ceiling. Just becoming familiar and comfortable with pushing and not pushing certain scenarios. Forces you to take a 3rd person view on the fight. Definition of a chess piece.
5:30 I go health on my NC wall as well. I've had too many times where they bust my shield. Give it more health, then it takes more people to bust it, or just one guy doing nothing but shooting my mobile. Lets me last another 5 seconds on average. Tight spaces is where I am normally, so speed is useless. Health is better.
omg did you see at 4:00 when he baited them through into the loop of his mobile shield and then ducked back out the other side at exactly the right time?? dude 100000 IQ
I feel like its like Rampart. People just arent into the playstyle. I think people really like skirmishers when they have aggro on the mind. They never notice the potential as well as the aggro potential of other characters.
9:30 @alsogamingmerchant If they are in a small forward cone, it will send them flying 5+ meters away from you. 3 times the length of the cone. If you consider that as stun, yes. It doesn't lock onto enemies unfortunately, of course it's not supposed to either, it's meant for getting to allies faster. Although, half the time when you leap to a down ally, they occasionally glitch to the other side of the wall. Sometimes that gets them killed. Best to have the mobile ready just in case that happens, so you can pop the mobile on them and get the rez off so they can get behind the wall. BTW: One of the latest updates to NC is while the electric is active, incoming grenades are eliminated. Like a one sided watson pylon. However, it still lets you throw grenades outbound. It also doesn't stop grenades landing at your feet from above or behind, aka flank. That is a FUN perk. Saved my team several times already.
WTF what a coincidence, I just thought about entering "Newcastle main" on RUclips search because I wanted to try him out and suddenly this video was on my RUclips landing page 🤣
I think characters such as Crypto, Catalyst and Newcastle are bound to not have as many active players, since their kit are very unique. However, given enough time, they can become unarguably strong picks.
I am a NC main, and I am happy ppl are realising he is underrated. But on the other hand, I want him to stay low picked bcs if he ismeta, apex will become a living hell :D
I think Newcastle crypto & Watson are the legends that are good but they need big brain. I tried giving them a chance but I’m just not that good when using them
I main Newcastle, one ability that a lot forget is his ult also breaks doors, many times I use it when players are blocking the door to break the doors and at the same time it pushes them back, like getting hit with a MadMaggie ball :) yes he can be very aggressive, give it a try :)
Best thing to do with newcastle is learning reload times and abusing rez cancels to shoot the enemy while they're reloading and then re rez an ally. You can also rez to bait the enemy behind portable cover, cancel and shoot them with pk while they're trying to sprint past the cover in full sprint mode with gun ready up delay preventing any dmg window on u
If his tac had a toggle where it would match your movement, kind of like mirage, he would be played more. It can be a hassle to constantly reposition the shield in a gun fight since you have to keep spamming the tac button and if you aren't looking at the ground when you do it, it'll just send off into the distance. He is in my top 3 legends because his ult is fun to launch with
One of my fav things with newcastle is late game when the other team has high ground, and you use your ulti to push them down sometimes out of the zone plus you have high ground and cover
Honestly the most slept on character if he is last in pick rate. He is extremely good at keeping your team alive just from the shield alone plus the revive perk he has, but he also has extremely good aggressive utility as well. His passive makes it so you can bring a gibby bubble fight no matter where you are, but better. You can move it with you, move it away from the enemy so when they try to use it they get punished, and you can run at people with it with the fast shield perk. Unbelievably slept on.
You can also do a niche tech with his shield like gibby is able to do; using your shield/bubble to block off doors so people can't break them. They try punching the door and instead his the shield.
It's kind of a perfect fit for controller players. You use the shield to get the fights up really close range, then take advantage of the AA when things are close up. Newcastle has always been great, but he's huge. Other than Pathfinder, no one really wants to play the huge legends.
Yesss! Please show appreciation to Levels! He’s honestly one of the best players I have seen and uses Newcastle flawlessly! Man only has nearly 3k subscribers but deserves all the love he can get. I might seem like I am d**k riding him but I’m just showing appreciation. Levels is an underrated LEGEND in Apex as Newcastle is. Much love Levels 💙👑 @LevelsEditsTV
I supposedly played with the 90th place Newcastle on console. What made the main difference was the coms. I actually outkilled and outdamaged them surprisingly enough. They were cool
7:10 That's why KDS needs to be a little wider. NC is wider than KDS are. When I'm NC and knocked, they shoot my shoulder to kill me because the KDS isn't wide enough. At least he was there otherwise Horizon would have utterly died. Although further back, covering at least down past shoulders, would be preferable, make turning to counter strafers easier.
4:35 I try PK shots like that, I deal 30. Dead center, clear hits. The edges of the quick blast like that go past their shoulders and legs at that short range. You NEED to aim for a few seconds to charge it up to tighten it to do what he keeps doing. Controller aim assist is broken.
Honestly Newcastle is a God in any situation imo, and the thick shield is honestly the best you don’t have to rush the push and you can fake a team out making them think your alone and ultimate to your team. I’m currently trying to main him for my support I use to love Gibby, but his just become to slow. Mirage is good, plus those late games you can save your mobile shield for instead of just wasting ultimate if need be.
It’s CRAZY how people don’t like Newcastle. Newcastle is obv op and should in theory be one of the best legends. I just don’t get why more people don’t play him especially in pro league. Nice video merchant I love u!!!❤️❤️❤️🔥🔥🔥🐐🐐🐐
There is 2 reasons why you can’t immediately stun someone with Newcastles alt. First it knocks them back and second it takes a few seconds for the electricity to activate.
Lifeline main here, used to call him the most useless legend, until one day i played him after watching crazy Pred games. Now I'm transitioning to maining him instead.
I don't think newcastle's bad, I just don't like supporting in general as my teammates tend to rely too much on the res instead of playing their life. Really good legend to use when you're stacked tho, survivability in the end game is insane.
I’m a Newcastle player and I genuinely don’t think he needs a buff he’s really strong as is and I worry if he gets buffed he’ll get nerfed soon after and end up being a worse version of what he is now
10:05 @levelseditstv You just knocked a guy. You have your shield. Put the shield just past him and use a finisher instead of using a battery: Saves the battery, fully restores your shield, and grants an additional 100 Evo to your evo score on top of kill evo. Instant full red shield because you are 84 from red.
Not like it really mattered. You got the red shortly after. But, as you were getting shot at the time, missed out on 25 and had to charge it. Eh, you do you I suppose.
Who made you think newcastle is bad in the first place? the pick rates? It doesnt prove the power of a legend but rather how easy or fun they are,thar determines the pick rate. you see newcastle and crypto are the least picked legends because they are both really hard and not fun
Bro, I don't know why I use his shield to peak enemies and headshot I support my team especially with the knockdown shield revives. I think people are crazy.
It doesn't really matter who they play as if they have amazing aim and great movement they're going to win fights regardless.Some legends can just compliment your play style with their abilithis person doesn't need it clearly
To be good at Newcatsle, you need to be extra good and land all shots with close range, which is challenging for most mnk players. Not sure about console though. But yeah, he makes me want to play newcatsle and just practice close-range combat.
The only thing that makes me not want to play NC is the HP of his abilities base, I feel like a full team should have to mag dump like 2 times before it breaks just think about how much damage you can lay down in the firing range on a target most guns can do like 225 in one blue mag his upgrade path just lets your wall survive one more spray with the 250 hp+
In the first 30 seconds I saw him do some movement through the streamer building that told me it's not solely the legend, it's the movement and he'd be good with anyone
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Yea I was about to say that looting in the beginning when you were looting I was like wtf he looks fast for roller 💀
@jeremy8481 hes on roller on both of the games in this video
Levels, My man
"they're doing the most" is a bit ironic lmao
He is incredibly powerful. He always has been. He just doesn't fit a lot of people's playstyle
Preach ☝️
He’s only good with high IQ players that’s why😉
@@samaantreeno you don't need a high IQ to do well with him
Because a lot of people crutch movement legends
I agree with you!
newcastle is definitely underated
Never thought of Newcastle as a bad Legend.
I've always loved Newcastle because the biggest benefits he provides that people don't seem to see are time and options. You can use the shield as a safe window to peek. It also regularly buys you a few seconds to make a decision. There is also no better feeling in the game than when someone tries to play your shield against you and you just move it. Followed by someone tries to hide behind your wall blocking a door and you just remove it.
I love watching off meta mains shows nuanced stuffs.
I was a caustic main back in the day way before they added way to destroy cans and he was a beast. So many neat interactions that are now gone
Yeah back when everyone thought caustic was trash, then more and more people started to play him which made people realize how annoying he actually is with those indestructible traps 💀
@@plainbubble or throwing the trap at your feet put Caustic INSIDE it partially so, the trap would take a lot of damage for you. It was the reason he was useful even in exterior exchanges where there was little or no cover.
9:25 I think Newcastle’s ult knocks opponents back when you land on them
The Wattson at the start of the video is actually movementless, one of the best movement players out there.
yea i was about to say like he was lowkey going off the whole match, and he wouldve survived that if he wasnt like 80 hp
Newcastle forces you to jump a skill gap like; The peaking around corners becomes tougher since your such a large character. Very minimal things you would thing about as an avg legend become much more prevalent playing as Newcastle. I could 100% say learning to play him has increased my skill ceiling. Just becoming familiar and comfortable with pushing and not pushing certain scenarios. Forces you to take a 3rd person view on the fight. Definition of a chess piece.
The legend doesnt make the player the player makes the legend.
5:30 I go health on my NC wall as well. I've had too many times where they bust my shield. Give it more health, then it takes more people to bust it, or just one guy doing nothing but shooting my mobile. Lets me last another 5 seconds on average. Tight spaces is where I am normally, so speed is useless. Health is better.
omg did you see at 4:00 when he baited them through into the loop of his mobile shield and then ducked back out the other side at exactly the right time?? dude 100000 IQ
I feel like its like Rampart. People just arent into the playstyle. I think people really like skirmishers when they have aggro on the mind.
They never notice the potential as well as the aggro potential of other characters.
9:30 @alsogamingmerchant
If they are in a small forward cone, it will send them flying 5+ meters away from you. 3 times the length of the cone. If you consider that as stun, yes.
It doesn't lock onto enemies unfortunately, of course it's not supposed to either, it's meant for getting to allies faster. Although, half the time when you leap to a down ally, they occasionally glitch to the other side of the wall. Sometimes that gets them killed. Best to have the mobile ready just in case that happens, so you can pop the mobile on them and get the rez off so they can get behind the wall.
BTW: One of the latest updates to NC is while the electric is active, incoming grenades are eliminated. Like a one sided watson pylon. However, it still lets you throw grenades outbound. It also doesn't stop grenades landing at your feet from above or behind, aka flank. That is a FUN perk. Saved my team several times already.
Until he comes across a Maggie with 2 drills 🤣
Ngl, as NC main, I can confirm, I hate Mad Maggies xD
crap, youre not wrong
The current Ult zaps drills, but yeah the tactical gets cooked
finally my man Levels gets the respect he deserves, also , he plays with Ramya , she is the rampart main with most rampart kills on PC.
Let's goooo ty for the info. Does she stream?
With all due respect, dont mention ranya and my name in the same sentence🤢😅
@@LevelsEditsTVoh?
@@LevelsEditsTV bro couldn't resist the urge to roast her in a shoutout video aswell 😂😂😂
WTF what a coincidence, I just thought about entering "Newcastle main" on RUclips search because I wanted to try him out and suddenly this video was on my RUclips landing page 🤣
It's fun but hard to master
Someone or something was reading your mind~
they got to ur mind brother
I searched for "fps games" on mobile the exact day the new COD mobile released, just by coincidence. I didn't know it was releasing.
I never seen someone like you gaming merchant, you are a good Human, you have my respect brother. keep up the good work
I think characters such as Crypto, Catalyst and Newcastle are bound to not have as many active players, since their kit are very unique. However, given enough time, they can become unarguably strong picks.
I am a NC main, and I am happy ppl are realising he is underrated. But on the other hand, I want him to stay low picked bcs if he ismeta, apex will become a living hell :D
I think Newcastle crypto & Watson are the legends that are good but they need big brain. I tried giving them a chance but I’m just not that good when using them
If i play ranked with Newcastle we always get more RP. He is so Strong in endgame and against 3de party's (gold knock Free win)
Iv loved Newcastle since day ONE. So many low pick legends in the past are just used in the wrong way and I love being able to use them right
I main Newcastle, one ability that a lot forget is his ult also breaks doors, many times I use it when players are blocking the door to break the doors and at the same time it pushes them back, like getting hit with a MadMaggie ball :) yes he can be very aggressive, give it a try :)
there is a guy called mrjokujo who is pretty good with newcastle too
Best thing to do with newcastle is learning reload times and abusing rez cancels to shoot the enemy while they're reloading and then re rez an ally. You can also rez to bait the enemy behind portable cover, cancel and shoot them with pk while they're trying to sprint past the cover in full sprint mode with gun ready up delay preventing any dmg window on u
2:26 wait thats the name movementless was using lmao, what a legend
If his tac had a toggle where it would match your movement, kind of like mirage, he would be played more. It can be a hassle to constantly reposition the shield in a gun fight since you have to keep spamming the tac button and if you aren't looking at the ground when you do it, it'll just send off into the distance. He is in my top 3 legends because his ult is fun to launch with
One of my fav things with newcastle is late game when the other team has high ground, and you use your ulti to push them down sometimes out of the zone plus you have high ground and cover
my friend and i play newcastle ash, double ulting on squads before they have any time to react it’s hilarious
Honestly the most slept on character if he is last in pick rate. He is extremely good at keeping your team alive just from the shield alone plus the revive perk he has, but he also has extremely good aggressive utility as well. His passive makes it so you can bring a gibby bubble fight no matter where you are, but better. You can move it with you, move it away from the enemy so when they try to use it they get punished, and you can run at people with it with the fast shield perk. Unbelievably slept on.
You can also do a niche tech with his shield like gibby is able to do; using your shield/bubble to block off doors so people can't break them. They try punching the door and instead his the shield.
Very fun character imo, using the shield to push enemies in the middle of a field is satisfying
Man, you make the best #1 legend videos out there! Thank you
I main newcastle and I believe he offers the absolute most to a team than other legends. He should be very aggressive but he's good defensively too.
That last fight is the reason why i still play Apex.
It's kind of a perfect fit for controller players. You use the shield to get the fights up really close range, then take advantage of the AA when things are close up.
Newcastle has always been great, but he's huge. Other than Pathfinder, no one really wants to play the huge legends.
It's not only that, his competition is gibby. Gibby is pretty good with his arm shield and infinite health bubble, though the CD does stink
Yesss! Please show appreciation to Levels! He’s honestly one of the best players I have seen and uses Newcastle flawlessly! Man only has nearly 3k subscribers but deserves all the love he can get. I might seem like I am d**k riding him but I’m just showing appreciation. Levels is an underrated LEGEND in Apex as Newcastle is. Much love Levels 💙👑 @LevelsEditsTV
That Wattson at 2:22 was movementless
how can you tell?
@@calitoosh45 his name + he loves playing Wattson
BRO the gaming merchant looks like he didnt sleep in 3 days
I supposedly played with the 90th place Newcastle on console. What made the main difference was the coms. I actually outkilled and outdamaged them surprisingly enough. They were cool
I think the potential for better plays is higher on MnK, however close range roller is just undeniably broken.
Cry more
@@teazzers crutch harder :)
@@Dad_K I'm on console. What else can I use? A fucking gear shift? Keep crying. And dying to AA. It's not the problem. You gotta skill issue
@@teazzers Keep going, you're winning this debate!
@@Dad_K Why thank youh!
7:10 That's why KDS needs to be a little wider. NC is wider than KDS are. When I'm NC and knocked, they shoot my shoulder to kill me because the KDS isn't wide enough.
At least he was there otherwise Horizon would have utterly died.
Although further back, covering at least down past shoulders, would be preferable, make turning to counter strafers easier.
4:35 I try PK shots like that, I deal 30. Dead center, clear hits. The edges of the quick blast like that go past their shoulders and legs at that short range. You NEED to aim for a few seconds to charge it up to tighten it to do what he keeps doing. Controller aim assist is broken.
Honestly Newcastle is a God in any situation imo, and the thick shield is honestly the best you don’t have to rush the push and you can fake a team out making them think your alone and ultimate to your team. I’m currently trying to main him for my support I use to love Gibby, but his just become to slow. Mirage is good, plus those late games you can save your mobile shield for instead of just wasting ultimate if need be.
I recently started maining New castle. My only gripe is the hitbox but he's super underrated.
He’s a tank character the hit box is gonna be big, but he has extra 15% damage he can take and he’s the fastest of the bigger characters
@@flyjr22 all characters are and always have been the sme movement speed. Every single one
It’s CRAZY how people don’t like Newcastle. Newcastle is obv op and should in theory be one of the best legends. I just don’t get why more people don’t play him especially in pro league. Nice video merchant I love u!!!❤️❤️❤️🔥🔥🔥🐐🐐🐐
There is 2 reasons why you can’t immediately stun someone with Newcastles alt. First it knocks them back and second it takes a few seconds for the electricity to activate.
I've almost got 10k kills on Newcastle and not only has playing him been very fun but learning him as made me such a smarter player
Lifeline main here, used to call him the most useless legend, until one day i played him after watching crazy Pred games. Now I'm transitioning to maining him instead.
There will be a Newcastle Renaissance once his buffs come out next season
That dude is insane with New Castle!
I don't think newcastle's bad, I just don't like supporting in general as my teammates tend to rely too much on the res instead of playing their life. Really good legend to use when you're stacked tho, survivability in the end game is insane.
His perk 75 regeneration health made him a monster
I’m a Newcastle player and I genuinely don’t think he needs a buff he’s really strong as is and I worry if he gets buffed he’ll get nerfed soon after and end up being a worse version of what he is now
He’s not bad its just nobody want to play frozone on a bulk.
When i play ranked with Newcastle we always get more RP. He is so Strong in endgame and against 3de party's (gold knock is Free win)
Bro has the Sundowner drip. HE'S FUCKIN INVINCIBLE
10:05 @levelseditstv
You just knocked a guy. You have your shield. Put the shield just past him and use a finisher instead of using a battery:
Saves the battery, fully restores your shield, and grants an additional 100 Evo to your evo score on top of kill evo. Instant full red shield because you are 84 from red.
10:15 finished him with shotgun, missed out on red shield at that time you otherwise would have had if you had finishered.
Not like it really mattered. You got the red shortly after. But, as you were getting shot at the time, missed out on 25 and had to charge it. Eh, you do you I suppose.
Who made you think newcastle is bad in the first place? the pick rates? It doesnt prove the power of a legend but rather how easy or fun they are,thar determines the pick rate. you see newcastle and crypto are the least picked legends because they are both really hard and not fun
Honestly he’d be good with any legend because of his awareness, gun control, etc.
New castle is very strong you have no idea how annoying he is when you are in a tight spot
Bro, I don't know why I use his shield to peak enemies and headshot I support my team especially with the knockdown shield revives. I think people are crazy.
It doesn't really matter who they play as if they have amazing aim and great movement they're going to win fights regardless.Some legends can just compliment your play style with their abilithis person doesn't need it clearly
6:54 wtf this shit was too perfect
Hes definitely not bad. But not everyone wants to play as a team and what's the point of a shield if there's no one to protect
If you could use every legend without unlocking them Newcastle would be much higher
I think every character takes time to really master, not one being harder to play than another… some characters are just more fun to play than others.
Taida plays Newcastle in Algs
If they make his shield movement a bit easier to Handel and his ult placement better i think more people would play him
Found levels out this year he’s insane
Underrated character. Especially in Rank.
That watson was moventless i think he was in the kill feed
GOD DAMN!!! I’m subscribed to Movementless on twitch he’s the GOAT!!!
And kirito eas there
Watch the pro player taida on Newcastle. He is presently playing him in ALGS
I feel like on mnk shield manipulation could be even better.
It is definitely most underrated legend for sure
Newcastle game play is so fun to watch and easily the most underrated legend
Most entertaining legend to watch BUT FAR!!!🔥🔥🔥
What sens do you play on
I play ranked random and with some legends its hell. Like Newcastle, Watson, Crypto,very hard.
I will admit tho. I mained newcastle a limg time and when i use rampart its a lot more rewarding. But Newcastle is fun.
Newcastle is like Gibby.bigger hit box , easy one clip. takes skill to play the legends
GamingMerchant you can't land on somone and stun them because his ult has a rather agressive knock back that will fling opponents away
LETS GO NEWCASTLE GETTING LOVE THIS SEASON! 💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻 love to see it, I just got 2k res’s
What is that website to show legend usage
I love Newcastle. I just started up with him but he is a blast!
I main Newcastle and Mirage. He's a sleeper legend on Stormpoint fr.
To be good at Newcatsle, you need to be extra good and land all shots with close range, which is challenging for most mnk players. Not sure about console though. But yeah, he makes me want to play newcatsle and just practice close-range combat.
1:20 he has aimbot on for a fact. Its undeniable there.
child cyber bullying caught on camera live 😭
People just forget that tanks are the strongest characters in games.
As a Newcastle main, these are trade secrets!
He’s easily an s tier in ranked. I main him when I wanna win games more than have fun
I'm New Castle played for the first season hi appears . Powerfull Defense
5 hours till breakout challenges
The only thing that makes me not want to play NC is the HP of his abilities base, I feel like a full team should have to mag dump like 2 times before it breaks just think about how much damage you can lay down in the firing range on a target most guns can do like 225 in one blue mag his upgrade path just lets your wall survive one more spray with the 250 hp+
That had to be lamic fences
@mrjokujo has 15k on newcastle and uploads content. He deffinately deserves a watch!
Newcastle is so good this season.
Just the same reason why gibby was low pick rate, not all that interesting to play to most people
Newcastle os good if you be my sword I’ll be your sheild 😼
In the first 30 seconds I saw him do some movement through the streamer building that told me it's not solely the legend, it's the movement and he'd be good with anyone
As a Newcastle main, I think he's completely busted and I've never understood the low pick rate.