Horizon

This article concerns the subject and the content related to it in *Apex Legends*. For the subject in *Apex Legends Mobile*, see Horizon (Mobile). For the background of the subject in Apex Legends universe, see Horizon (character).

You don’t know what it meant to me to hear his voice again. Well, that was daft… Of course you know what it meant.
I dinnae know what I can say to you that you don’t already know, but maybe some things have faded with time. For that, I can offer a wee refresher…
I had so much doubt. I’ve been goin’ full tilt for so long—solving an energy crisis, escaping a black hole, fighting my way to the Apex Games—that doubt rarely had time to seed. Being a bloody genius doesn’t hurt much either.
But I felt it not but a week ago. What if I don’t make it back?
Then I heard your message — and the timing couldn’t have been more perfect. But you knew that too, didn’t you?
I hope to do you and him proud, you brilliant lassie. Til we meet again.
Sincerely,

 **Horizon** is a  Skirmisher Legend. She was introduced in  Season 7 and is locked from the base game. She can be unlocked using digital currency: either  12,000 or  750, or by buying the Champion Edition downloadable content.

A Legend with gravity-based abilities, Horizon's tactical ability  Gravity Lift, when deployed on the ground, lifts any player that steps into it into the air. Her passive ability  Spacewalk increases her in-air movement speed and decreases her movement delay after falling from a height. Her ultimate ability  Black Hole throws a device that causes nearby enemies and grenades to be pulled toward its center.

## Abilities

### Gravity Lift

 Cooldown

* Info
* Interactions
* Tips
* Bugs

* Throws a device which creates a 30 meter cylinder above it. Players that enter the cylinder are lifted upwards.
	+ Players inside the lift can move horizontally. Exiting boosts the player upwards and outwards.
	+ Players that reach the top will hover there for 0.5 seconds, then be ejected.
* Stays active for 10 seconds.
* Cooldown starts after 10 seconds. (If the Gravity Lift is immediately activated, the cooldown starts when the ability ends.)

* Can be destroyed by Wattson’s  Interception Pylon.
* Can also lift Tridents.
* Can bend the trajectory of ordnances, causing them to be lifted as well.

* Aside from helping your squad reach high ground, you can also use it to disorient enemies by throwing it under their feet.
* Gravity Lift can block off doorways and corridors. Make sure not to block off yourself or your teammates.
* You can use Gravity Lift to Launch your knocked teammates to safer locations. Make sure to toss your Gravity Lift away from your knocked teammate so they don't go in an unintended direction.

* It can stick to the top of Gibraltar’s  Dome of Protection.

### Spacewalk

 Cooldown

* Info
* Interactions
* Tips

* Horizon experiences no landing shock from landing after a long fall.
	+ If Horizon lands while crouching, she will immediately transition into a slide.
* Horizon makes quicker turns in mid-air.

* Horizon's greater air control allows her to strafe out of the pre-determined launch paths of Gravity Cannons or Octane's  Launch Pad.

* Unlike other legends, if you are falling down a shaft with a zipline, Horizon does not have to grab the zipline to avoid a fall stun.

### Black Hole

 Charge time

* Info
* Interactions
* Tips
* Bugs

* Throws a low-gravity device. 2 seconds after landing, players in a [10] meter radius are pulled towards the device.
* Lasts 12 seconds.
* N.E.W.T. has 175 HP and can be destroyed to cancel the pull.
* N.E.W.T. is susceptible to friendly damage.
* Enemies are highlighted if their position is behind the N.E.W.T.

* Can be destroyed by Wattson's  Interception Pylon and Crypto’s  Drone EMP.
* Can change the speed and trajectory of Caustic's  Nox Gas Grenade.
* Takes 50% more damage from explosives.
* Doors within its radius will be destroyed.

* Try to combine the black hole with area-of-effect attacks like Grenades, Caustic's  Nox Gas Grenade and Fuse's  The Motherlode.
* If you yourself are caught in the black hole, you can either use mobility abilities, such as Wraith's  Into the Void, or destroy it to escape the black hole.

* Can destroy Wraith’s  Dimensional Rift if at least one side of the portal is within range of N.E.W.T. This is maybe due to some geometry on Olympus.
* In very rare cases, the ability can get deflected by Bloodhound's  Eye of the Allfather, even though the scan should be a visual effect.

## Lore

*Main article:* Horizon (character)

Mary promised her son Newton she’d return safe and sound. But Dr. Reid betrayed her, stealing the Branthium and sending her shuttle into the black hole’s orbit. Using her wits, Mary modified her robotic vacuum companion N.E.W.T. to escape. But time moves differently on the outskirts of a black hole, and she was 87 years too late.

## Cosmetic Items

### Skins

There are a total of 73 Legend skins for Horizon; 2 Iconic, 22 Legendary, 12 Epic, 21 Rare and 16 Common.

* Iconic
* Legendary
* Epic
* Rare
* Common

* Hidden Blossoms
* Flower Girl

* Solaris
 1,200
* Terra Nova
 1,200
* Dark Matter
 1,200
* Golden Boson
 1,200
* Overfloater
 1,200
* Neon Stardust
* Supermassive
Needs Dark Matter
* Galactic Guardian
* Biotic Luminary
Level 50
* Brave Hero
Needs Terra Nova
* Jewel of Olympus
* Rising Storm
* Atom Heart Mother
* Brood Mother
* Phoenix Rising
* Biophysic
* Singularity Specialist
Level 50
* Deep Space Scientist
* Lethal Lass
* Brood Anomaly
* Spectral Slayer
* Player Three

* Daemon Hunter
 400
* Fiber Optics
 400
* Hack the System
 400
* Heat Sync
 400
* User Friendly
 400
* Cosmic Hitchhiker
 400
* Absolute Zero
* High Polish
* Anya's Armor
Level 1
* Below Zero
* Thermodynamic
* Inverse Polarity

* Brain Candy
 60
* Collider
 60
* Death Adder
 60
* Dire Wolf
 60
* Disruptor
 60
* Field Trip
 60
* High Frequency
 60
* Hypothesis
 60
* Life Cycle
 60
* Prowess
 60
* Racing Stripes
 60
* Royal Decree
 60
* Sizzle Reel
 60
* Superunknown
 60
* Woodland Warfare
 60
* Copper Constellation
Level 01
* Inverse Polarity
November 2020
* Flux Capacity
* Hieroglyph Heroics
* Porcelain Powered
Season 10
* Ornamental Orbit

* Original
Default
* Arctic
 30
* Cardinal
 30
* Clearwater
 30
* Evergreen
 30
* Flamingo
 30
* Hydro
 30
* Limelight
 30
* Mandarin
 30
* Midnight
 30
* Orchid
 30
* Rage
 30
* Sahara
 30
* Skyward
 30
* Vino
 30
* Yellowjacket
 30

### Finishers

*Main article:* Finisher
* All Charged Up
Default
* Event Horizon
 1,200
* First Law
 1,200

### Heirloom Set

*Main article:* Heirloom
 File:Horizon Heirloom Set.png

The set contains:

* A Melee Weapon Skin: Gravity Maw
* A Banner Pose: Scientific Method
* An Intro Quip: "When you see me, you'll know it's the end. Or a new beginning. It's all relative, really.".

### Emotes

*Main article:* Emote
* Lighter than Air -  1,200
* Mom Dance -  1,200
* Inspiration -  400
* Oh Behave - Level 12
* Hover Pen - Default

### Skydive Emotes

*Main article:* Skydive Emote
* Game Time
Level 51
* Black Swan Dive
Level 92

### Banner Frames

* Legendary
* Epic
* Rare
* Common

* Astrodial Mischief
 1,200
* Caffeinated Chemistry
 1,200
* Lost In Space
 1,200
* NEWT's Cradle
 1,200
* Station Commander
 1,200

* Ensnared Escape
 400
* Precious Cargo
Level 52
* Lush Landing
Level 58
* Cosmic Canyon
Level 79
* Xenothrone
* Gravity Grooves
Level 97
* Gravity Vortex
Level 56
* Eldritch Horror
* Cosmic Horror
* Crystal Charge

* Containment Unit
 60
* Don't Try This At Home
 60
* Energy Investigation
 60
* First Class
 60
* Gravitational Pull
 60
* Foreign Contaminant
 60
* Good Fortune
Season 10

* Rookie Card
Default
* A Friend Indeed
 30
* Starshine
 30
* Tessellate
 30
* Universal Blueprint
 30

### Banner Poses

* Mythic
* Epic
* Rare
* Common

* Scientific Method

* Agent NV5A
 400
* Nailed It
 400
* One Small Step
 400
* Tropical Menagerie
 400
* Working Together
 400

* Dream Catcher
 60
* Epiphany
 60
* Head In The Clouds
 60
* Hyperfixated
 60
* Little Newtie
 60
* Perfect Partnership
 60
* Projectile Accelerator
 60
* To The Stars
 60
* Uplifting Experience
 60

* Ready For Launch
Default

### Holosprays

*Main article:* Holospray
* There's Research Afoot
 1,200
* A Bit Of A Float
 400
* Best Buddy
 400
* Field Work
 400
* I Need A Tea Break
 400
* Not An Exact Science
 400
* Science Time!
 400
* Time For Bold Action
 400
* A Promise To Keep
Level 49
* Wee Marvel of Science
Level 57
* Meets Immovable Object
Level 36
* My Newtie's Hungry Today
Level 57

### Music Packs

*Main article:* Music Pack
* Horizon
Level 08

### Transitions

*Main article:* Transition
* Me, Myself & Regret
Level 60
* Timetravel is Money
Level 81
* A Matter of Time

## History

	+ Hard landing audio adjusted to match other legends
	+ Soft Landings now play audio in world (not just for Horizon)
	+ Gravity Lift exit audio range increased to make it easier to hear characters who exit

  September 19, 2023 Patch* Gravity Lift
	+ Weapon accuracy decreased while in Lift (more spread)
	+ Vertical Lift speed reduced by 20%
	+ Hover time at top of Lift reduced from 2.0s to 0.5s

February 14, 2023 Patch* Gravity Lift
	+ Increased weapon spread in Gravity Lift
	+ Increased vertical speed of Gravity Lift by 10%

August 09, 2022 Patch* Black Hole
	+ Adjustments to N.E.W.T’s hitbox to make destroying it more reliable.
	+ N.E.W.T. takes 50% more damage from explosives.
	+ N.E.W.T. is now susceptible to friendly damage.

August 03, 2021 Patch* Gravity Lift
	+ Increased lift speed.
* Black Hole
	+ Reduced the slow after the initial pull.

May 04, 2021 Patch* Gravity Lift:
	+ Reduced lift speed by 30%.
	+ Reduced side-to-side acceleration.
	+ Limited the time you can sit at the top of Gravity Lift to 2 seconds.
	+ Increased cooldown from 15s to 20s.
	+ Players will no longer have weapons drawn if they are knocked as they enter the ring at Pathfinder's Fight Night via a Gravity Lift.
* Black Hole: Fixed an issue with NEWT not getting refunded if it immediately dies due to a bad spot.
* Horizon’s abilities will now get zapped by Wattson's  Interception Pylon.
* The  1x Holo will no longer block view when using certain skins.

March 09, 2021 Patch* Black Hole: Increased cooldown from 2 minutes to 3 minutes.
* Gravity Lift:
	+ Fixed the Gravity Lift falling through the floor when used on the train tracks in Sorting Factory on World's Edge.
	+ Using a zipline after a Gravity Lift will no longer increase accuracy.
* The All Charged Up finisher now has more frames, from 141 (4.21 seconds) to 180 (6.0 seconds), to be more in line with other finishers’ completion times.

February 02, 2021 Patch* Gravity Lift: Increased effective cooldown from 21 seconds to 25 seconds. (The 15-second cooldown began 4 seconds later.)
* Horizon's abilities no longer get destroyed by Wattson's  Interception Pylon. (Undocumented)

January 05, 2021 Patch* Gravity Lift: Increased effective cooldown from 16 seconds to 21 seconds. (The 15-second cooldown began 5 seconds later.)
* Black Hole: (Undocumented) Cooldown now starts when N.E.W.T. disappears.
* Fixed an issue with Horizon’s abilities not affecting Lifeline’s DOC and Crypto’s drone.

November 04, 2020 Patch* Introduced.

## Development

* Originally, Horizon was a character named Firebug with fire-based abilities and was a germaphobe.
	+ She was also said to be an evil genius CEO-type similar to Lex Luthor. Interestingly, there was another datamined Legend named Downfall who had the title "Populist Pyromaniac". This was later revealed to be one of the possible legends Jackson Williams could have been tied to before being shelved..
* Horizon's character was created by the Respawn writer Sam Gill who wrote all her dialogue. Her short "Promise" was written by Amanda Doiron, and it was one of the first things she wrote when she started at Respawn.
* Horizon is named after Mary Somerville.

## Teasers

* In "The Broken Ghost" quest, Ash recites some lines from Horizon. Lifeline comments Ash "tried to be a 'wee bit' Scottish."
* At the end of the Season 6 gameplay trailer, Kuben Blisk says "Something big is on the horizon."
* In "The First Ship" quest, Kuben Blisk tells Ash that "an old friend of hers is back", with Horizon resurfacing at almost the same time. Season 11's quest Chapter 1 confirms that Blisk was indeed referring to Horizon.
* On October 13, 2020, the first set of gravity lifts, that were placed around Kings Canyon and World's Edge at the start of  Season 6, began to activate. Horizon asks the player to meet her in the Firing Range to do some tests for her. After completing the "A Wee Experiment" challenges, Horizon introduces herself as Dr. Mary Somers, a.k.a. Horizon. The player is given the Horizon's Test Subject badge.
	+ On the same day, the Apex Legends Champion Edition Trailer was released which teases a new Legend for Season 7 and Horizon's silhouette. When the trailer promotes that the Edition unlocks "9 Legends," Horizon can be seen to the right of the banners in the background, between Rampart and Revenant's heads.
* On October 19th, 2020, the Apex Legends Twitter account tweeted a transmission from Horizon of her saying "branthium" (which was also mentioned by Ash at the end of "The Broken Ghost").
* On October 21st, 2020, the Apex Legends Twitter account tweeted another transmission from Horizon. This time she says "...a wee bit of betrayal...eh, dearie? I was so daft." (These lines were said by Ash at the end of "The Broken Ghost")
* On October 23rd, 2020, the Apex Legends Twitter account tweeted a third transmission from Horizon. She reveals that she is on a ship and has been off-world for 5 months but is scared to do the math for how long that would mean back home (due to time dilation). She is working on how to fuse the branthium without critical mass. She also wonders what "he" is doing.
* On October 26th, 2020, "Promise" was released.
* On October 28th, 2020, the Season 7 Launch Trailer was released.
* On October 30th, 2020, the Season 7 Gameplay Trailer was released.

## Trivia

* Horizon's black hole ability is similar to the Gravity Star from *Titanfall 2*.
* At the end of  Season 7, players who played Horizon were able to re-route the Phase Runner by activating the panel at Hammond Labs. It would take them to a secret inaccessible area at Bonsai Plaza, to hear a message from Newton, as well as earn some free rewards. Upon completion of the message, the Phase Runner would take the player to Rift Aftermath as normal. (This can only be done once per match by anyone.)
* Her All Charged Up finisher is the only finisher to have ever been changed, as, in the 8.1 Update, the time to complete the finisher was increased from 4.21 seconds to 6 seconds and added a little more animation in the beginning. This is because the finisher was faster than other legends’ finishers before the change, even Pathfinder's Hi-5 finisher, the current fastest finisher in the game, making it one of the most powerful finishers in the game.

## Gallery

Videos

Images
* A photograph of Horizon and Newton.
* Concept art by Brett Marting.
* Concept art by Brett Marting.
* Concept art from Ashes to Ash.

## References

1. ↑ Horizon Loading Screen Text "A Matter of Time"
2. ↑ Respawn on Twitter
3. ↑ Respawn on Twitter (2022-08-09). "One more change that didn't quite make it into the patch notes: ...".
4. ↑ Horizon was originally a Fire Type, and this was what it was like (Apex Legends)
5. ↑ Apex’s Horizon went from an “evil genius CEO” with fire abilities to an endearingly odd scientist who slings black holes
6. ↑ https://twitter.com/tommiecas/status/1518699930914676736
7. ↑ Amanda Doiron on Twitter
8. ↑ Amanda Doiron on Twitter
9. ↑ Amanda Doiron on Twitter
10. ↑ RV-YaBoiBrian on Reddit
11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 ArtStation - Apex Legends, Brett Marting