How To Move Faster in Apex Legends

Although everyone in Apex Legends moves at the same speed while running, there are tons of different mechanics and methods you can use to increase your speed drastically and leave opponents in your dust. Some of these methods include wall jumping, super gliding, super jumping, and sliding.

In this guide, you'll find a few different methods you can use to gain an advantage over your opponents in speed. Running directly at an enemy will just keep you open for attacks, and isn't the fastest way to approach others. Here are the best ways to move faster in Apex Legends and how to use them to your advantage.

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Methods to Increase Speed in Apex Legends

Everyone who has played Apex Legends for a while knows that holstering your weapon will increase your speed. But, outside this tip, what else can you do to move faster in the game? There are many basic movement methods you can utilize, such as wall jumping, super gliding, and even tapping strafe, to get ahead in the game.

However, there are certain strategies you can use with the above methods to increase your speed even further. This includes:

Instant slides
Swapping weapons faster
Performing bunny hops

These strategies will be the best that you can use in the game to get around faster than your opponents. Most of them will derive from the increased speed you get from holstering your weapon.

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How to Move Faster in Apex Legends

With the methods we listed above, we will go into detail on how to perform these strategies to move faster in the popular Battle Royale, Apex Legends.

How to Perform Instant Slides

Image of a character getting ready to perform an instant slide in Apex Legends

Instant slides are a great way to perform faster slides and allow for more attacks on your opponent. You can perform an instant slide by following these steps:

First, make sure your weapon is holstered. Keeping your weapon out will make it harder to perform a slide, as you'll need to take at least 3 steps to be able to execute a slide.
Start sprinting, then immediately hit the slide button after taking one step. With your weapon away, you won't have to take those three steps.
To more easily whip out your weapon to attack an enemy after your instant slide, just before you start the slide, you can take out your weapon. This will prevent you from being open to attacks for a longer period of time. If you take out your weapon at the end of the instant slide, there will be more time for the enemy to take you out.
The exact method will follow: holster, unholster, forward, slide, and finally jump.

How to Swap Your Weapon Faster

Image of a character aiming at an enemy before swapping weapons in Apex Legends

In Apex Legends, like in many other shooter games, you'll have more than one weapon to utilize. Some will be useful for close-quarter combat, and some will be better farther away. This strategy can help you swap your weapons faster to prevent being an open target.

Start by taking aim at an opponent and doing some damage to them. Then, get yourself behind some cover.
Then, tap and hold the swap button. This will allow you to holster your current weapon and switch to your secondary weapon.
Now, perform an instant slide by unholstering your weapon, moving forward, sliding, and jumping. This time, your secondary weapon will be unholstered rather than your primary.

How to Bunny Hop

Image of a character performing bunny hops in Apex Legends

This one is relatively easy to execute, but can be particularly useful. To bunny hop, follow these steps:

Start by sprinting, and then performing a slide jump.
Right after the slide jump, keep tapping the jump button repeatedly to perform bunny hops. Make sure to continue moving forward, and you can use left and right to change your field of view.

Bunny hops are a good way to prevent your favorite legend from being an easy target. You can use this method to check the area around you for enemies, while also continuously moving to prevent getting hit.

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