So as we know, Lucio’s Speed Song and Amp It Up got reduced to make team engages slower. At the same time Lucio got a Wall Ride buff to make up for the changes. In the patch notes it is stated that the Wall Ride buff is “Passive movement speed gained while wall riding increased from 20% to 40%”. By the sound of it, it seems like only the “riding” aspect of wallride has been buffed since the burst of speed when leaping off a wall is usually referred to in patch notes as “The speed boost that Lúcio receives after completing a wall ride”.

The Wall Ride buff mean that the initial jump when starting a wall ride is faster because of the 20% speed wall ride increase. After those one or two initial jumps he quickly reaches max speed, which is decreased by a pretty large margin most likely due to the decreased speed boost from his Speed Song and Amp It Up.

This makes me remember when Lucio got his first rework and his burst of speed when leaping off walls would continue to stack making him reach unbelievable speeds. Of course this got quickly changed with a speed cap/reduction during higher speeds. So to wrap this post up here are some of my suggestions about the recent PTR Lucio changes:

With the new PTR Lucio speed being lower than Live, even after the wallride buff, the best way to counteract this might be to reduce the speed cap Lucio gets when leaping off walls, since with the new changes it seems like it has been increased in relation to the speed nerfs. If it would be reduced appropriately Lucio could have a very similar speed to Live when leaping off walls, which was probably the intent with the Wall Ride buff.

Of course, as has been stated before, another solution could be to bring Lucio his old speed and wall riding back while only his team speed boost would be nerfed.

Thank you for reading!

EDIT: As danoxyo stated bellow, the best way to make Lucio’s wall jumping speed when leaping off walls on par with Live would be to increase the boost when leaping off walls instead of just increasing the wall riding speed (and maybe revert some of the wallriding speed a bit so that the overall wall jumping speed doesn’t get any faster than it is on Live).

There are many solutions to make Lucio’s speed on par with the Live version, but if the speed boost when leaping off walls isn’t increased it is no surprise that the wall jumping feels slower.

EDIT 2: Rollout comparison: gfycat com / separatecoolfallowdeer

In the rollouts it’s around 0.5 seconds in speed difference, which doesn’t really seem like much, but to think that the only reason Live is faster because of a faster top speed goes to show that if the comparison would’ve been longer the difference would’ve been more significant. And some jumps are no longer possible due to the reduced top speed.