The Legion| New mechanic aimed at higher level survivors, Addon Changes

this is something similar to my idea. the main problem with this idea is that survivor don't have any good practical counter-play in avoiding the hit. that is the main issue with legion downing survivors for why he got changed in first place.

pallet stuns unreliable because the killer can respect pallets. vaulting pallets counters pre-dropping and he moves faster than the survivor. In my original template, I invented an item that survivor could pick up at the start of the trial. it was called running shoes. The original version unlocked the ability to use dash and iframe an attack.

Looking back at it is now, I think i would change to be a 75% haste effect for 2 seconds. The idea being is that survivor could press it and attempt to wiggle to avoid the feral frenzy slash.

My version was a bit more aggressive. It worked based off deep wound timer. each hit would increase amount of damage onto for every unique survivor hit. If Legion hits the survivor a second time, He deals -25% flat damage, ending his power.

first hit → -25%

second hit → 50%

third hit →75%

fourth hit →100%

not necessarily. You get rewarded more for spreading injures but are given option to focus on 1 survivor at the cost of longer time to down.

maps with unsafe pallets get little value from this mechanic. the feature is rarely going come into play because m1 play will be faster. where this features does come into play are maps with atrocious loop strength.

Gideon's is example of a small map where there is safe pallet everywhere. This would greatly buff legion on maps that have survivor favoured loop design. Eyrie of crows, Badham preschool, Garden of joy. He'd be able to get downs against every type of safe pallet.

you can plan around it by doing feral frenzy such that last feral frenzy is at a strong loop. Like say someone is at shack and another survivor is nearby, you could hit survivor nearby then go to survivor B at shack, hit them twice and your next hit downs them assuming the survivor does not outplay you on initial slash.

The cooldown of current legion is 20 seconds. Once upon time, Legion's cooldown for his feral frenzy was significantly shorter. I do not remember exact values but i believe it was 15 seconds with the ability to use power mid-way cooldown. So for example, if you had 70% of gauge, you could activate feral frenzy and if you canceled it, you would not lose entire power gauge. it worked like Spirit's phase-walk. I believe I set cooldown to 12 seconds with an add-on to reduce it to 10 seconds(10 second being equal to the cooldown of the survivor item).

My biggest concern when I was thinking about this legion was the Legion's ability to tunnel off-hook. At the same time, since every feral slash has the ability to miss because of the 2 second of 75% haste, It might be ok. I'm not entirely sure about its effectiveness until I would play it. I know for fact that legion would be incredibly potent killer if executed correctly with no errors/outplays but I mean killer should be pretty good at that point.

Legion goes from a killer that requires all 4 survivors to down to a killer that straight up punishes 3 man group-ups and gains severe lethality increase if he finds two survivors to chain. While the number do sound low, consider that his feral frenzy duration is relatively short such that splitting up is not too difficult, at least in regards to base-kit legion.

yes. the oppressive level would vary for how strong the item is. The stronger the items, the less probability for the legion to successful hit the survivor in feral frenzy. Legion would be close to Xenomorph design where the killer is as powerful as the item counter.

an analogy. the stronger turrets, less effective the power. the less powerful the turrets, the more effective the power. Legion would follow same rules. despite that, I think legion would still be A-S tier killer just due to nature of the power design. at same time, he kinda deserves to be that strong.