I believe I know why many assume Legion sucks

Legion is one of those killers that will heavelly benifit from smaller maps

He's been my main killer for pretty much around 300 hours now.

People simply say he sucks because once he's used his power and injured everyone, he's basically a loopable m1 killer with no power to really help him in chases and down people. While yes, in low ranks he's hella powerful because survivors will be constantly dropping like flies and healing constantly, in high ranks however, where survivors actually know how to counter and loop him, he has a much harder time to shine compared to other killers.

I still do fine with him tho, while yes he does have his setbacks and problems, adapting and finding ways to overcome his weaknesses is in my opinion the learning curve you have to go through to actually become good at him. (pretty much every killer as well basically). But killers with many flaws such as Legion or Clown take much more effort to play well. They can still be effective and viable to a degree, but it will take much much more to do well with them than other killers such as Freddy, and even then they might still not be as viable.

Yes his power is hard to chainstab in bigger maps, but that's why you learn to know when it's time to cancel your power and instead just walk to their last location seen with killer instinct or return to the survivor you last injured.

Yes his power is really weak once survivors spread out, but that's just his specific weakness that comes with every single killer power.

I see how you can have trouble hitting frenzy at the shack, I used to as well when I first started out, but I learned to anticipate survivor movements and even learn to mindgame/manipulate my red stain while in frenzy to get some cheeky hits in good loops.

Yeah his frenzy running speed might seem slow at times, frenzy makes him move at 130% movement speed which is 15% faster than his normal walk speed. In my opinion his running speed is fine, you just need to time his frenzy correctly. He's already faster than regular cloaked wraith (wraith moves at 126% while cloaked) and while yeah sure a small buff to his speed might be nice, we must still take in account the counter play that the survivors can do to counter/evade his frenzy. If we made him too fast and too hard to counter, Legion would become the no skill-no brainer killer he used to be before, and survivors would be getting hit constantly while being able to do absolutely nothing against him. It's already rather easy to chain hits, so if we made it even easier, even people playing with their feets would be able to torment survivors with streaks of chainstabs. Sprint burst is indeed faster than frenzy, but not for long as frenzy lasts longer and eventually catches up. Heck, I'd even say that the fact that you can lose your power in frenzy if you miss a swing/get stunned gives me a sense of thrill every time I play him and makes chaining hits much more satisfying.

Now I might sound like I'm saying that Legion is fine the way he is, but honestly I agree that he needs a retouch, especially to his add ons as most are just plain outdated, and a few slight buffs to his power such as increasing power duration, power recovery speed and decreasing frenzy fatigue duration would be great.

So while Legion has many drawbacks and flaws, there are ways to "bypass" them and still do well with the killer. It's easy to injure survivors with him but hard to actually down them, but that is why as any other M1 killers, you learn to mindgame. It's even easier to mindgame as Legion because they are very small compared to other big m1 killers such as trapper or wraith.

He is SO close to being a good killer who can actually pressure multiple survivors well, he just needs a few tiny buffs and his hitbox to be fixed so that he can properly bodyblock while fatigued.

Personally I think Legion is just overall weak even if he was even faster in Frenzy than now because:

Their power is designed to beat BAD survivors in the first place by quickly injuring them without the opportunity to end chases quickly with said power.

Good survivors never heal. In fact some of them will thank you for injuring them as good survivors often use Resilience turning an injury into a slight action speed buff. On top of that they will still manage to not go down immediately if you come back to down them. As a result gens will fly like nothing and your power can do nothing about it.

Now bad survivors on the other hand will run like headless chickens when you frenzy them, mend in a corner, never touch a gen while injured, self care in a corner etc. all while you're on the other side of the map chasing/downing another survivor.

As a result you feel like you're "becoming stronger" as you describe it when in reality it's the result of bad survivor decisions.

However due to the current rank reset and easy pipping/ranking pretty much everyone gets to red ranks (on both sides) at this point resulting in numerous weak players that will often "play in your hands" allowing you to dominate with just about any killer even with suboptimal builds.

That's why I temporarily thought Bubba was actually a decent killer. I kept getting 4ks in 2 minutes on red ranks. But it wasn't because of Bubba's potential. It was because I played him for 4k hours and thus managed to use his chainsaw perfectly while red ranks is flooded with mediocre players.

Weak killer + player that uses 100% of the weak killer's potential VS mediocre survivors = easy 4k.

Stab wound study + Frank's Mixtape

Legion would like to have a word with you

I play exactly as I described it as survivor. I never heal and use Resilience to get a reward for injured gameplay. If you combine it with Spine Chill and any exhaustion perk of your choice you have a high chance of getting a headstart when/if the killer is coming and the exhaustion perk usually does the rest.

On top of that I'm getting the vault speed benefits of the perk combination making it even more difficult to down me.

I've been refusing to heal and hide for around a year now and honestly noticed I've consistently been the most useful survivor in most games. I usually fix multiple gens on my own (often while injured), distract the killer for multiple minutes and most of the time I also open the gate while others are crouching in a corner healing themselves (and getting downed in the process because of Nurse's Calling).