Knight's Minimum Distance thing makes him feel clunky

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Playing a few Knight matches the one thing that really annoys me most about playing him is that you can't use your power if you're too close to a wall or any other solid object, which is really kind of annoying since one of his better plays is to quickly summon Carnifex to break a pallet and keep chasing, but I usually am delayed on using my power for a second or two because of this minimum distance requirement.

Is there a way to change this so it doesn't feel horrendously clunky?