Heirlooms are the rarest cosmetic items in Apex Legends. For most free-to-play players, they take a long time to acquire, and for players that prefer to spend, they cost a lot of money. In essence, every Apex Legends player is guaranteed a set of Heirloom Shards in their first five hundred Apex Packs. Sometimes, players that are lucky will get them in their first ten Apex Packs. In Apex Legends, Heirlooms are unique items that are specific to each legend in the game. As of Season 14, there are fifteen legends with heirloom items.
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Every heirloom is unique to its legend only. Players can either craft these using heirloom shards or buy/acquire every item during a collection event for a new heirloom. Each Heirloom item features unique animations, character lore, and interactions.
15 Bangalore: Cold Steel
Bangalore's heirloom is quite generic and boring. Many players find it underwhelming because it just is. It's a knife with a burnt edge. There's not much substance to it other than the fact that it's got a sheath.
It has some generic inspect animations like spinning, sheathing, and unsheathing. It's kind of satisfying using a melee attack with the knife.
14 Wraith: Kunai
This was the very first heirloom item added to Apex Legends. During the early seasons, Wraith featured a running animation like Ninjas from Naruto. So, naturally, the developers decided to give Wraith a weapon that a Ninja would use. A kunai, to be precise.
This isn't a very fancy heirloom compared to newer ones, but players loved it back when it was added to the game.
13 Gibraltar: War Club
Another one of these generic weapon-themed heirlooms. The War Club is an axe that refers to Gibraltar's indigenous background. In the context of the game's diversity and Gibraltar's lore, it's a pretty interesting choice for an heirloom item, but it looks generic.
In one of the animations, Gibraltar performs a tribal dance in first-person while the intensity of the flame at the edge of the axe increases.
12 Lifeline: Shock Sticks
Another one of the heirlooms to get added to the game during the earlier seasons is Lifeline's Shock Sticks. They're quite interesting compared to the knives, daggers, and axes that got repetitive. Lifeline's lore refers to her as a drummer for a band she was a part of, and these shock sticks are basically the drumsticks she used.
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They've got some interesting animations, and in addition to Pathfinder's boxing gloves are the only other dual-wielded heirloom in the game.
11 Bloodhound: Raven's Bite
Bloodhound's heirloom is a beautiful hatchet with significance to the character's lore. The Raven's Bite is a hatchet with a gorgeous engraving of a Raven at the edge of its hilt. It was given to Bloodhound by their uncle so that they could complete a rite of passage and get accepted into their tribe.
The Raven's Bite has some pretty cool animations. Bloodhound also nuzzles the engraving while inspecting the heirloom, in a neat touch that emphasizes their love for Ravens.
10 Pathfinder: Boxing Gloves
Pathfinder's heirloom is perfect, considering the character's theme. He's essentially a friendly MRVN from Titanfall that was programmed and trained as a skilled fighter. His heirloom is a pair of boxing gloves with screens on them. It was added when the Memoir Noir lore trailer was released.
Pathfinder's gloves have some hilarious animations and interactions. Players can visually see comic book effects on the glove screens with words like "Pow" appearing when they melee someone.
9 Wattson: Energy Reader
Wattson's heirloom is quite interesting. On the one hand, it's got some of the best animations out of all heirlooms, such as one where she pulls out a Nessie plushie and hugs it; her heirloom also gets a unique door-smash animation. On the other hand, the heirloom itself looks like a price checker.
A lot of detail has gone into designing this heirloom and players that have it will be able to notice these when they use it.
8 Mirage: Too Much Witt
This one is easily one of the more unique heirlooms in the game. While every other legend gets a tool or a weapon, Mirage gets a golden statue of himself - this is very much in tune with his character, where he appears self-absorbed and in love with himself on the exterior but is actually very insecure.
The heirloom features a very rare animation where Mirage eats some pork chops out of a bowl, in reference to his pork-chop jokes.
7 Octane: Butterfly Knife
Octane's heirloom is one of the earlier heirlooms to be added to the game and yet, among the best ones out there. It's a unique knife that looks like a pair of scissors with a test tube of sorts in the middle. It's likely that this test tube contains the same liquid Octane uses to activate his tactical ability, a stim that makes him run faster.
Octane is a legend that relies heavily on movement and speed. So, an heirloom like this, with its clean and fluid animations, is perfect for him.
6 Rampart: Problem Solver
Rampart, as a character, is all about invention and tools, so it would be pretty obvious that her heirloom should be a wrench. Rampart's heirloom defines her character perfectly, right from its interestingly witty name, Problem Solver, to its animations and interactions.
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Every inventor loves their tools, and Rampart will randomly kiss her wrench, as a response to which it makes some cute sounds and an emoticon.
5 Crypto: Biwon Blade
Crypto's heirloom is one of the coolest heirlooms in the game. Simply by virtue of it being a sword but there's also so much more to the sword than meets the eye. The Biwon Blade is color coded to match Crypto's original character in white and green.
It's also got some cool details, like a sharp, pointy tip and clean lines that imply Crypto's Korean background.
4 Caustic: Death Hammer
Caustic's heirloom is one of the most fun heirlooms to use in the game. A large yellow hammer with a skull against its hilt speaks for itself. It's an excellent design that not just appeals to the players' aesthetic sense but also makes it enjoyable to play with.
This heirloom's appeal is all about its ability to bonk opponents on the head with it. The satisfaction of landing a blow with it on someone's head with a jump is unmatched.
3 Loba: Garra De Alanza
Loba's heirloom is the latest one to get added to the game, and it oozes style and finesse. It's a beautiful fan with blades for edges that belonged to her mother, who was using it the night she was killed by Revenant.
The animations are just as elegant as they are deadly, just like Kitana's fan from Mortal Kombat.
2 Valkyrie: Suzaku
Valkyrie's heirloom is easily the most detailed heirloom released so far. The Suzaku, as it's called, is a gigantic spear that Valkyrie runs around holding like a javelin. It looks like the perfect weapon for a character whose abilities revolve around flight.
The way its side-blades extend from its hilt is nothing short of mesmerizing, and the manner in which Valkyrie holds the spear while running is brilliant.
1 Revenant: Dead Man's Curve
Revenant's heirloom is the best one so far. Its brilliance comes from the fact that it's a perfect match with the character it belongs to. Revenant is a cold, brutal assassin with an undying robot body. A Revenant chasing a player with his ultimate active, swinging this Grim Reaper's scythe around can be very intimidating.
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