Astral Chain: How to Use Legion Abilities

Wesley LeBlanc

Published: Aug 26, 2019 09:01 am

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Astral Chain is a fast-paced action-combat PlatinumGames game and that means that combat can get quite challenging. While it’s possible to tough it out on your own, you’re going to want to rely on your Legion for the best possible score after each fight. Here’s how to use Legion abilities in Astral Chain.

Here’s How to Use Legion Abilities in Astral Chain

A Legion is Astral Chain is basically a pet that you capture and train to fight for you. They’re always an enemy first because you obtain one after capturing an enemy during a fight. When it’s transitioned to your side, it becomes your Legion.

You can have multiple in the game but only one out at a time.

Each can equip two different abilities at any time, but you first have to learn them via the Legion Learning option in the Legion tab of the main menu.

After that, head to the abilities option to equip them.

Now that you’ve done that, during battle, hold down ZL on the Nintendo Switch controller to take control of your Legion. Then, press X or Y to use the move assigned to each button respectively.

Ability assigned to X	Ability assigned to Y
Press X on Switch Controller	Press Y on Switch Controller

As a tip, when you use one of these moves, your character will usually stop for a second which leaves you open for an attack. It’s not any longer that a second and you’ll gain control back quickly, but it’s important to note for rare situations where you might be one hit away from death.

Here’s a step by step breakdown of how to use these abilities

Equip the ability.
Enter the Legion abilities menu and equip an ability to either X or Y
Press X or Y in combat.
In combat, press X or Y to use the move assigned to that button respectively.

That’s it for our guide on how to use Legion abilities in Astral Chain.

For more information about Astral Chain, be sure to check out our Astral Chain Guide Wiki on Twinfinite for additional tips, tricks, walkthroughs, guides and more. We’ve also listed some other helpful guides for you down below.

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Wesley LeBlanc

Wesley LeBlanc is a graduate of the University of North Florida with a Bachelor's Degree in Multimedia Journalism. He has a passion for entertainment and the industry surrounding it. He's either playing video games or writing about them. When he isn't doing that, he's reading about them. Get a life, right? Wesley wrote for Twinfinite between 2018 and 2019 covering everything from the smallest indies up to the largest AAA blockbuster releases.