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The keys to legendary are the same ones I tell my father in law who I am helping recover from a stroke: SLOW DOWN and THINK BEFORE YOU ACT.
You cannot bullrush your way through legendary. There are too many foes and they are more aggressive. Two Jackals can lay the MC to waste on Leg, if you just run up on them. Enemies fire a bit faster and dodge a bit more, and that plasma does nasty things to your MC shields, as do needles. You have to slow down and use cover when needed.
Thinking about how you want to handle any upcoming battle includes most importantly the distance the engagement may best be approached from. Other difficulties you can do alot of close in fighting and not really worry about dying. On Leg, you have to use the weapons advantages to keep more distance between you and your foes. Often times you can completely waste whatever Covies there are without them ever firing a shot back at you by using the "reach out and touch someone power" of the needler, pistol and plasma pistol/rifle, not too mention what you can do with a sniper rifle. AI enemies will not engage you beyond a certain distance, even if you are slaughtering them.
Grenades are much more important in clearing out groups of covies on Leg. As is the ability to stick a plasma onto an enemy from a distance. Given that there are more enemy numbers on Leg, there are usually plenty of plasmas laying around. It can be alot of fun to use the pistol to lay out four or five grunts in close proximity to each other and then toss one grenade into the pile. When Elites resume patrolling rather than looking at you or watching your movements a well placed trigger nade will do wonders for your day, but not his. I love those secondaries going off, it is very satisfying to watch living and dead fly off into the air when 4-6 plasmas go off. Even better is when the living drop grenades in the process of dying, and they go off as well (although that seems to happen more in H2 due to sputnik and catch).
All in all, beyond those two first items, only weapon selection is left to seperate out how to beat Leg. That is a subject for another time.