Expected release: Monday, August 17
1v1 Featured Event
Teammates holding you back? It's your time to shine in our 1v1 event lasting August 21-23!
Twitch Drops
To celebrate the new patch, we will be having twitch drops for every live channel from the 17th to 23rd August.
Nova Cup
Monthly 2v2 tournament with an $875 prize pool and 4 divisions
The next Nova Cup will be August 29-30. Join the Tournament Discord to participate and receive tournament notifications. View all past Nova Cups here: Legion TD 2 Esports Portal
Major Updates
New Fighter: Rift Trader
Rift Trader
Cost: 55g
Role: DPS
Typing: Impact/Swift
Ability: Portal of Trash
Attacks cycle as follows:
Tomato or teeth: 25 damage
Coin: 45 damage
Tin can or fork: 65 damage
Anvil: 85 damage
Heroic Rift Trader
Upgrade cost: 130g
Role: DPS
Typing: Impact/Swift
Coins now generate gold, and Anvils now stun.
Tomato or teeth: 75 damage
Coin: 140 damage and rewards you with +1 gold
Tin can or fork: 205 damage
Anvil: 265 damage and stuns for 1.5s --> 0.6s (10% against bosses) from waves 1 --> 21
Game Balance
Read more about our design philosophy on game balance, and use Drachbot to see mastermind, unit, and spell win rates and pick rates!
Masterminds
Ace 
HP gain: 40 → 50
Attack speed: 1.4% → 1.15%
Attack speed stacking: Additive → Multiplicative
Shifting power from attack speed → HP to make Ace viable on more openings. Multiplicative stacking makes it consistent with other attack speed buffs.
Scrapper
Starting gold: 0 → 3
No longer affects bonus value on Kingpin, Hydra, and Sakura (70% sell rate on bonus value)
Angler is no longer less likely to roll with Scrapper
This makes Scrapper stronger on average and more versatile, but less abusive with a few units.
Legion Spells
Embargo
Gold gain: 80 → 75
High win rate.
Prosperity
Gold: 155 → 160
Low pick rate and slightly low win rate.
Pawn Shop
Gold: 68 → 75
No longer affects bonus value on Kingpin, Hydra, and Sakura (70% sell rate on bonus value)
Sacrifice
Gold: 88 → 92
No longer affects bonus value on Kingpin, Hydra, and Sakura (70% sell rate on bonus value)\\
This makes Pawn Shop and Sacrifice stronger on average and more versatile, but less abusive with a few units.
Robo Squad
Mythium: 40 → 35
High win rate.
Savior
Gold: 90 → 92
Low pick rate.
Sorcerer
Mana regeneration: Decreased by 3%
Slightly high pick rate and win rate.
Fighters
Peewee / Veteran
Attack speed decreased by 4%
Slightly high pick rate and win rate.
Angler
Damage decreased by 12.5%
Bounty Hunter / Kingpin
Damage and HP increased by 1%
Shifting power out of Angler.
Orchid
Shuriken Cyclone: Bonus attack speed: 85% → 100%
Slightly low pick rate and win rate.
Honeyflower
Damage: 9 + 0.02% max HP → 8 + 0.04% max HP
Overall a nerf with a small compensation buff against very high HP targets.
Deathcap
Damage: 31 + 0.07% max HP → 32 + 0.07% max HP
Shifting power from Honeyflower to Deathcap.
Heroic Scrappy
Wind Up: Cost: 40 → 30
Wind Up: Now lasts for 10 seconds (after first attack)
Wind Up: Attack speed: 12% → 25%
This makes Wind Up less coin-flippy, less OP on certain waves, more versatile (shifts power budget from splash to attack speed), and more visible.
Priestess of the Abyss / Azeria
Mana regeneration decreased by 4%
Slightly high pick rate and win rate. One of the strongest openings in the game.
Ocean Templar
HP increased by 13%
Low win rate. Substantial buff.
Doppelganger
HP increased by 1%
Base damage increased by 2%
Doppelganger can pop off with the right supportive fighters, but on average, it underperforms.
Fenix
HP and damage decreased by 1.5%
Slightly high win rate.
Crawling Catapult / Wandering Trebuchet
Damage decreased by 1.5%
Slightly high win rate.
Soul Gate / Hell Gate
Summon HP increased by 2%
Low win rate.
Mercenaries
Needler
Attack speed increased by 2%
Low usage rate and slightly low win rate.
Waves
Wave 1: Crabs
If the battle phase lasts longer than 45 seconds, it will now fast forward at 2x speed (mythium generation still 1x).
It’s interesting when a battle happens to last a long time, since it influences the game state and causes chaos. However, it’s too easy to consistently force a long wave 1, in particular with Fire Archer + Bone Warriors. This change reduces frustration without nerfing the actual fighters.
Balance Watchlist
The dev team is constantly monitoring game balance, between looking at data and listening to community feedback. If anything is being more closely monitored than usual, it will be listed in this Balance Watchlist section. For this patch, the following are on the watchlist:
Strong: All Out Assault
Weak: Bazooka
Improvements
Fixed some performance issues with heroic units vfx
Fixed leaked units sometimes attacking other lanes
Improved profile and matchhistory loading times
Fixed Sniper making the projectile from Catapult/Trebuchet invisible
Fixed the game not pausing correctly when a DC happens right at the start
Fixed rerolls not showing up in chat
Fixed some crashes
Fixed being able to mistakenly place Sorcerer on Kingpin
Added a way to unlink your currently linked twitch account (unlinking has a 30day cooldown after receiving a drop, to prevent abuse)
Improved Discord account linking flow
You can now purchase double down in queue
Fixed gold values when loading a sandbox build with nekomata
Fixed Seadragon self damage not being reduced by damage reduction
Game Translations
If you'd like to contribute to improving the game's translations further, visit the following link: Help Translate Legion TD 2
HUGE thank you to everyone who has helped up to this point! 
Reward for Boosting Discord
Anyone who Boosts the Legion TD 2 Discord will receive 
500 Premium Essence each month the Boost is active. Here's how it works:
When you Boost the Legion TD 2 Discord, you'll get a DM from Safety Mole with a code
The code can be redeemed by clicking the book icon at the bottom of the main menu and selecting Redeem Coupon Code
Players who keep their Boost active will receive a new code every month
Codes expire when the Booster receives a new code or if the old one wasn't used
Thank you to everyone for contributing to the community!
Monthly In-Game Reward Code
This month’s ultra-secret code is icanseemynest to unlock some free Essence in-game!
Each month, a new code will be revealed right here in the patch notes. Codes are only valid the month they are announced and the following month.
Here’s how to enter a code in-game:
Closing Remarks
As always, with any major patch, we'll keep a close eye on things and rapidly hotfix as long as needed. Thank you again for playing Legion TD 2! We hope you continue to enjoy the game. 
If you've enjoyed the game, but haven't left a review yet, please consider posting a short (hopefully positive 
) review for the game! If the game reaches 90% positive, Steam will give it more visibility = more players = more freelo & better matchmaking! If you enjoy these updates, please give it a Thumbs Up, too! If you have constructive criticism, let's chat about it. Discord and /r/LegionTD2 on reddit are our main channels of communication, and aside from the development team, there are community helpers who can ensure your feedback is heard, as well as answer pretty much anything you've ever wanted to know about the game.
Sincerely,
The Legion TD 2 Team
