Ramya "Rampart" Parekh
| “ | If I ever let you down, it’s probably because I grew a bit tired of carrying you.
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Ramya Parekh, known commonly by her nickname Rampart, is a playable Legend introduced in sixth season of the Apex Games.
Biography
Amped Modder
Rampart is a blue-collar, private business owner who just needs a big gun and a backpack full of scrap metal to get by in the dangerous, wild west world of the Outlands. Before opening her popular modding shop on Gaea, Ramya Parekh (Rampart for short) made a name for herself in the underground gauntlet circuit. Parekh climbed to the top showcasing pure skill using her custom-modded gear. She began taking jobs from smugglers, Syndicate members, and everyone in between. Some say it ain’t great unless it’s got “Rampart” written on it.
Parekh never shied away from letting people know how great she was, or better yet, how bad they were. Maybe that’s what led a group of assailants to ambush her at her shop one night. Her business burned down and she was left with nothing -- except an Apex Card. For Parekh, the Apex card is more than just an invitation to compete - it's a sign that she may have lost her shop, but she didn't lose what built it. Like her motto says, she's the kind of person who can always "turn crap into gold.”
Origins
Ramya Parekh was born in 2712 on Gaea to M. and S. Parekh. She was naturally gifted and creative, making herself a device capable of excessively rapid firing of paintballs, fast enough to surprise her that it did not start a fire. Later in life, she began to gain notoriety through two endeavours - her custom equipment and her success in Arenas matches. During her tenure, she and Seer attained a great amount of perfect victories. She eventually opened Rampart Mods, a custom weapon shop, on Gaea.
One night, Parekh encountered Valkyrie at a bar. The two quickly became friends, and Parekh, hearing Valkyrie’s story about an ex-partner, decided to jokingly name her minigun “Sheila.” At some point after this, Parekh became involved with a gang led by an individual known as Big Sister. The gang’s enforcer, Frances, ordered Parekh to intentionally lose a gauntlet run. However, she refused.
The Endorsement
One night at Rampart Mods, after sharing a drink with Bangalore and Gibraltar, Frances and other members of Big Sister’s gang cornered Parekh at Rampart Mods. Seeking revenge for Parekh’s refusal to throw her match and a presumed financial loss on their part, they attack, with Parekh defending herself using her Amped Cover and her minigun, Sheila. After seemingly subduing her attackers, Big Sister arrives, and a gang member seizes the opening to attack Parekh. The assailants burn her shop down, leaving only Sheila and the store’s sign intact. After the gang departs, Parekh is met by Kuben Blisk, who had been observing her for nearly a year, having been considered missing during that time. Blisk commends her fighting spirit, handing her an Apex card and officially inviting her to join the Apex Games under his sponsorship.
Overtime
One Saturday in 2733, Parekh completed an Apex Games match on Kings Canyon. After noticing Caustic holding a bloody bag, she and Wattson followed him to a hidden laboratory, where they found him experimenting on starving prowlers. After he discovers and threatens the two, the prowlers escape and begin rampaging through Solace City. Parekh later arrived at a local hospital with the other Legends, only to be caught under debris from a landing dropship owned by Boss Willis of the Mercenary Syndicate. Parekh then assisted in rescuing the hospital’s patients from the rubble.
Season 6
The First Ship
Wraith took notice of the failing financial state of Mirage’s bar, the Paradise Lounge. In an attempt to help her friend, and much to his chagrin, she allowed Parekh to open the new location of Rampart Mods in the derelict restroom of the bar. Additionally, Pathfinder began to claim that he has a “girlfriend.” In protest, Mirage makes a bet with Parekh: If she is not “a five-alarm psycho train wreck,” Parekh will stay at the Paradise Lounge. The two arrive at Pathfinder’s home, where they discover that his “girlfriend” is an amnesiac Ash. The two leave when Pathfinder requests they leave after Ash suffers a power surge and becomes disoriented.
Returning to the Paradise Lounge, the two pester to Wraith about who won the bet. She declares that neither of them “won,” and that the two need to learn to coexist. She departs, reminding them to pack for the coming Apex Games matches. Mirage, using this comment as an excuse for petty revenge, loads all of Parekh’s belongings onto the Mercenary Syndicate’s rocket in World’s Edge. Parekh later comforts Pathfinder after Ash leaves him.
Mirage, attempting to make amends with Parekh, buys her flowers, despite her hatred of them. After his falling out with Wraith, Parekh also leaves Mirage, saying that while he may have heard what they told him, he was not truly listening. Mirage, seeking to truly make things right, returns with a bouquet of wrenches.
Season 7
As the Syndicate’s rocket launched from World's Edge, Parekh, Mirage, and Pathfinder gave chase to recover Parekh's belongings. They followed the rocket to Olympus, where the trio crash-landed after being shot down by one of the defensive railguns.
Some time after, Parekh filed a lawsuit against Hammond Robotics to recover her belongings. The final settlement allowed her to open a second storefront for Rampart Mods on Olympus, requiring her to withdraw her lawsuit and modify the Trident vehicle for use in Apex Games matches. Through this, Parekh earned both the respect and ire of Cheryl Amacci, Hammond Robotics’s chief legal officer, who felt that she had met her match.
Pathfinder's Quest
During his search for his creator(s), Revenant tricked Pathfinder into believing that he had killed them. Pathfinder, now despondent, intended to leave The Outlands for good, wishing to say goodbye to Mirage. Instead, he encountered Parekh, who helped him realize that Revenant had tricked him. While reviewing his evidence and footage, Parekh pointed out the similarities between the iconography of the Apex Games and the Apex Predators, the mercenary corps that had provided a security detail for Project Iris. Having found the missing link, Parekh offered to arrange a meeting between Pathfinder and Kuben Blisk with the intention the latter could help in Pathfinder's search.
Season 10
The Legacy Antigen
During the Medusa outbreak, Parekh remained on Olympus to assist in curtailing the spread of the Medusa vines. While fighting off the encroaching foliage, she tells Mirage that, due to her successful lawsuit against Hammond, she can move out at any point. As another act of petty revenge, Mirage destroys several of Parekh’s Amped Cover emplacements. The two begin arguing until the arrival of Evelyn Witt, Mirage’s mother, whose encouragement reminds Mirage of how it felt to have siblings. Parekh and Mirage reconcile, with Rampart agreeing to stay as a roommate, despite moving her shop.
Season 10
Eventually, Parekh established another new location for her shop in World’s Edge - located inside a large tank known as Big Maude. However, despite cutting ties with Big Sister, she continues to receive threatening messages from Big Sister's main enforcer Frances.
Season 13
Parekh helped to prepare for Bangalore's retirement party.
Personality and traits
Parekh is shown to have a fun playful personality and often buts heads with Mirage. She is known to be a prankster, pulling many stunts on the other Legends, notably Seer and Mirage. She is also shown to have a more savage side as she guns down Big Sister's gang in her shop with little remorse.
Physical appearance
Parekh is depicted with brown hair and eyes and has a athletic slender build.
Relationships
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Ramya has good relationships which most of the Legends however a few stand above the rest. She has a brotherly relationship with Mirage and has been known to pull pranks on him. Seer, Valkyrie, Bangalore and Makoa Gibraltar are all great friends of Parekh as well. She grew up alongside Seer in the Arena, while shared drinks and discussed weapons with the other three. She is also shown to have a good friendship with Pathfinder.
Apex Legends
Abilities
| Tactical Ability | Passive Ability | Ultimate Ability |
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 Amped Cover |
 Modded Loader |
 Emplaced Minigun “Sheila” |
| Build a crouch-cover wall, which deploys a full-cover amped wall that blocks incoming shots and amps outgoing shots by 20%. You can have up to 3 charges of this, and can place up to 5 of these at once. If you pick it up undamaged, you get a charge back. | Increased magazine/heat capacity and faster reloads when using LMGs and the Minigun. | Place a mounted machine gun that anyone can use. This has an infinite ammo reserve capacity, in exchange for long reload time and limited movement. Picking it back up recharges 50% of your ultimate, and you can place 3 of these down at once. |
Customization
- Main article: Ramya "Rampart" Parekh/Customization
Quotes
- Main article: Ramya "Rampart" Parekh/Quotes
Behind the scenes
Appearances
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Update History
Gallery
Images
Videos
- Apex Legends - Stories from the Outlands – “The Endorsement”
- Meet Rampart – Apex Legends Character Trailer
Rampart Character Trailer
- Apex Legends Season 6 – Boosted Launch Trailer
Boosted Launch Trailer
- AL NEWMESSAGE 1302 mp4
Rampart Voice Message 1
- AL NEWMESSAGE 1339 mp4
Rampart Voice Message 2
- AL NEWMESSAGE 1353 mp4
Rampart Voice Message 3
- AL NEWMESSAGE 1422 mp4
Rampart Voice Message 4
- AL NEWMESSAGE 1528 mp4
Rampart Voice Message 5
Trivia
- Early leaks reveal that the HMG rampart has was once named "Maxim" instead of Sheila, most likely a reference to the Maxim Gun used in the early 20th century.
- Rampart's voice actor also voiced Symmetra from Overwatch.
- Rampart's abilities are derived from Titanfall 2's A-Wall tactical ability. Her affinity for LMGs likely comes from the meta of using the Spitfire with the A-Wall for easy long-range kills.
- Due to some inaccurate leaks, there was a misconception that Rampart was a white male before she was revealed. (The dataminer responsible for the leak admitted that he paired names and faces through guesswork.) When Respawn was accused of "changing" Rampart's design, principal animator Moy Parra responded by stating that the leaked image was never Rampart and that designs cannot be changed on a whim. Knowing that people believed in the bad leaks, writer Tom Casiello seemingly created a male gunsmith character "Reginald" as a red herring to Rampart's identity on Twitter, before Rampart was revealed.
- While playing Rampart, the sound of a bubble popping can often be heard after landing on the ground from a fall that is higher than the player jump height since Rampart can be seen chewing gum and blowing bubbles in her menu animations, and in her icon on the legend select screen.
- Rampart's Heirloom is the only heirloom to include an animation that involves a different legend entirely, that being Octane's leg in a rare door kick animation.
- During very early development, Rampart was concepted as an old woman as revealed by concept art posted by Moy Parra on Twitter.
- Rampart's symbol can be found on her clothing, weapons that she modded and in the Graffiti Mod icon. Reactive weapon skins from the Season 4, Season 5, and Season 6 Battle Passes also have this symbol engraved. It is present on the Season 6 Battle Pass "Full Throttle" legendary skin for Pathfinder too.
- Rampart has been modding since she was 12 or 13.
- The weapons that Rampart modded are called "Ramparts".
- Sheila shares a name with one of Valkyrie's ex's. Valkyrie is not exactly happy about Rampart using that name for her gun, and has asked her multiple times to change its name.
- Rampart has a great deal of merchandise to her name, including shirts, hats, slippers, and action figures. She additionally seems to have her own brand of beer.
- Rampart once pranked Seer by modifying his heart chamber, causing his micro-drones to form the shapes of profanities. Seer then wrote a letter to her stating that he had removed them
- Before moving out of the Paradise Lounge, Rampart stole Mirage's bathroom door.
- Rampart's Limit Breaker skin is based on Kamen Rider and/or the Ronin Warriors and/or the Pink Ranger from the Power Rangers franchise.
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| Ash • Bangalore • Ballistic • Bloodhound •Catalyst •Caustic • Conduit • Crypto • Fade • Fuse • Gibraltar • Horizon • Loba • Lifeline • Mad Maggie • Mirage • Newcastle • Octane • Pathfinder • Rampart • Revenant • Rhapsody •Seer • Valkyrie•Vantage • Wattson • Wraith |