My thoughts on the live Legion changes

So, let me preface this by saying, these changes did not kill Legion. Not at all. I do, however, think these changes are a nerf overall. But what grinds my gears about these changes is that the tweaks that literally everyone and their grandmother were asking for ever since the Legion update was announced were not made in the span of weeks that Legion was on the PTB. And they aren’t even complex changes; they are mere number changes that could totally turn these nerfs into a huge buff. Today, I’m going to go over such changes—simple number tweaks that I and everyone who doesn’t want Legion to be a bad Killer wants.

So, before I describe the changes I want to see made, I want to point out what is, in my opinion, holding Legion back the most.

1. Feral Frenzy cannot effectively chain hits against Survivors who spread out or otherwise know what they’re doing. If FF moves at 5 m/s, and a running Survivor moves at 4 m/s, this means that FF only has a closure rate of 1 meter per second against a running Survivor. With a 10-second Frenzy, this means that all a Survivor has to do to avoid a Frenzy hit is be more than 10 meters away from the Legion when their Frenzy starts. And that’s just running in a straight line; that isn’t including Exhaustion Perks or loops or anything else a Survivor has at their disposal to keep a Killer at bay.
2. Deep Wound is not a threat. Because it stops going down when the Survivor is in the Killer’s Terror Radius and when the Survivor is mending, this means that simply forcing a Legion to chase someone else even remotely nearby prevents it from going down, allowing a DW’d Survivor ample time to do a generator instead of mending—the exact opposite of what Mending is supposed to do.

In short, the utility behind Legion’s power is cancelled by well-coordinated or even decently intelligent Survivors. Mending can be rendered useless by having someone else simply exist near a pallet, and the Legion’s ability to chain hits is, at best, very weak because of how little distance Feral Frenzy closes against a running Survivor. Turning Legion’s power from a chase/utility power into a utility power and then nerfing the utility is not a good idea.

The problems that cause these weaknesses are as follows:

1. The nerf to Feral Frenzy’s movement speed. The closure rate was okay-ish before, but the new Legion catches up to a running Survivor over 20% more slowly than the old one.
2. The harsh restrictions applied to Feral Frenzy’s usage. The inability to catch up to a second Survivor in just one use of Frenzy would be fine if you could follow it up with a second Frenzy if the Survivor was in a compromising position. But if you don’t get that hit, you will have to wait 20 whole seconds to even attempt to set up another one. That’s way too long of a time.
3. The slower speed when vaulting in Frenzy. The new speed is slow enough that unless the Legion still has a high amount of Frenzy, Survivors can drastically hinder his ability to chain hits by simply vaulting or throwing down a pallet, which leaves me asking—what’s the point of vaulting now? If it can’t quickly and effectively overcome loops while chaining hits, then it’s pointless.
4. Legion’s 32-meter Terror Radius. This change is overall healthy as it prevents Deep Wound from being exploited, but at that radius, there is a huge chunk of space around Legion that Survivors can sit in to prevent their Deep Wound timer from ticking down. Legion, just by existing, helps to nullify the threat level of his power. And Monitor and Abuse doesn’t even help, because your TR is widened in a chase—and if you aren’t in a chase as Legion, what are you even doing?

So, what are the solutions to these issues? The answer is simple: Number tweaks—among other things, but mostly number tweaks.

Below is a list of every Legion change I’d like to see, separated into 3 categories:

-Chaining hits: Changes needed to make Feral Frenzy better at quickly and effectively injuring multiple Survivors

-Deep Wound: Changes needed to make Deep Wound more of a threat that forces mending.

-Other: Changes that aren’t relevant to the issues that I listed here, but would be nice to see.

CHAINING HITS

1. Increase the Feral Frenzy movement speed back to 5.28 meters/second. The closure rate between the Legion and a running Survivor must be increased.
2. Reduce the Frenzy window vaulting speed to 0.9 seconds, and the pallet vaulting speed to 1.1 seconds. The whole point of that mechanic is to prevent those things from being effective blockades.
3. Allow Frenzy to be used once 25% of it has been charged. That’s waiting 5 seconds for 2.5 seconds of Frenzy at the bare minimum. If the Legion ends up falling just short in that first Frenzy, they should be allowed to quickly follow it up with a second one if the Survivor is close by or in an otherwise compromising position.

DEEP WOUND

1. Reduce the Legion’s Terror Radius to 28 meters. I know Killer’s Instinct is dependent on the TR as well, but I think 4 less meters that Deep Wound’s urgency can be rendered null is a fine trade-off for 4 less meters of Killer’s Instinct, especially when Frenzy can cover that distance in a mere 0.8 seconds (or 0.76 seconds, if the speed nerf is undone). And also, 32 meters is a huge distance to be notified of the Killer’s presence from anyway.
2. Make Mending take 20 seconds when outside of the Legion’s Terror Radius. This will increase its stall potential if the Survivor is lazy with their mending but also rewards Survivors for taking the risk of mending while near the Legion.

OTHER

1. Allow Legion to see blood pools while in Frenzy. I don’t understand why that nerf was made.
2. Reduce the tunnel vision caused by Frenzy’s fatigue. This isn’t so much a buff as it is making him less annoying to play; as it stands, he suffers a similar issue to Nurse where people with weaker eyes could very easily get headaches or nauseous due to the fatigue if they aren’t running Shadowborn. And in a game where Killers can’t afford to run a Perk as non-useful as Shadowborn, that’s a major issue.

Thats just my take on what I think needs to be done to fix Legion 2.0. Hopefully Frenzy’s utility is brought to a brighter shine, because as it stands right now, it really struggles to get its point across.