How to rework Legion
Hello,
Im a r1 killer with about 3k hours in this game. I love legion and heard a rumor they are up to be reworked. So as someone that knows the game well and has spent a lot of time with this killer I thought Id throw some suggestions.
The great thing about Legion is they are one of the few killers that can engage the entire team making them stronger than most in the 1v4 while being pretty weak in the 1v1. I love their current power as its fast paced, the main problem is that its not very rewarding because there is nothing lethal about it. Good survivors just skip healing and do gens and focus beating you at the 1v1 since theres not a lot you can do about it.
With this in mind this is what I think would elevate them to A tier:
The first and 2nd survivor hit by FF has the deep wounds applied, the 3rd survivor hit during FF has deep wounds applied and is mangeled for 90 seconds, the 4th survivor hit during FF has deep wounds applied becomes mangeled until healed and is broken for 90 seconds. The 5th and beyond can be downed during FF if they arent in deep wounds and are injured (if they are somehow magically healed they recieve same status as survivor 4).
Deep wounds now takes 15 seconds to mend at base
This does a few things, it encourages the survivors to heal to avoid being downed later, it rewards them for splitting up (his counter), and it rewards the killer for using his power effictively and provides some natural slowdown as survivors will want to heal. It also makes him weaker in the beginning (when survivors are more likely to be seperated) and stronger towards the end (when theyre more likely to be grouped).
Additional QOL: Fatigue should be shortened just a little (1 second) and bloodhound should be basekit during FF (like Victor) and duration of FF should be increased a little as at base its pretty bad right now. Hitting a survivor with basic m1 no longer lowers FF.
What this amounts to is making him more lethal during FF when the conditions are right (its pretty rare to get 5+ tbh, i think ive hit everyone on the team twice 1 time in hundreds of hours of play). It will also give him the smallest of buffs in the 1v1.
Comments
I am not sure I would buff mending time. Players would not be happy about this one, it is just boring and it wouldn't help Legion that much anyway.
You don't really want them to get mangeled or broken, because you want them to heal. They waste time healing, when it is so easy for you to injure them. Anything that would discouraged from it is not good for Legion.
If I understand that correctly that hits are only chain, right? I don't know about you, but to get 3 chain hits is pretty rare. There is not reason for them to heal, because you will not be able to get that many chain hits, unless you buff duration and speed of Frenzy.
Those changes above are not great imo, but Fatigue, bloodhound, better duration and m1 no longer lowers FF would be great.
We did up the FF duration, i mentioned it there in the post. But you can always have it down the 4th person hit during FF. Increasing the duration, especially during late game will increase the odds of you getting 4 or 5, if you hit 4 even once theyre going to want to heal imo, but increasing the speed would probably be good too. Like 2% increase every hit you land or something. Once they want to heal mangeled will hurt them.
I think it would work pretty great. 5 is pretty rare but i hit 3 or 4 every game, multiple times. I think if you hit 3 its going to make people want to heal, you hit 5 once they wont stop healing. Especially late game.