The Gun
An overview of the Exotic Perks, Firing, Ammo & reloading, and finally some rare glitches.
Basic Techniques
How to use Lion to get kills, techniques for every range and how to get the total damage for the kill.
Advanced Techniques
How to use Lion in your playstyle, beyond just shooting. Aggressive play, peak shooting, dueling, and a couple tricks.
Detailed Damage Analysis
Details on Lion’s damage in PvE from the Tribute Hall and in PvE from Private Match testing.
Weapon Pairings
Fighting Lion dictates your whole loadout, so here are some thoughts on playstyle, perks and specific choices to get you started. Also, a neat Time-to-kill and Shots-to-kill discussion for clean-up kills.
Armor: Mods & Stats
Discussion on Individual Mods such as Reloader
s, as well as Stat Preferences.
Sample Builds: Non-Seasonal & Charged with Light
Putting it all together, with the first 3 armor slots and/or the last one.
Exotic Armor Choices
5 to 10 choices per class, using criteria such as Reloading/Dexterity
, Mobility
, Melee/Grenade Synergy
and Utility
.
Subclasses
Choices for each Class’s options. I’m a Warlock main, so take the Hunter/Titan stuff as a best guess.
Videos
My montages of using Fighting Lion, from all 3 years of Destiny 2.
Patch Notes
Relevant portions of all patch notes from D2 Vanilla and a graph of Damage Changes to Lion thoughout.