Killer Rework Series: The Trapper
This is a series that I'm making, whether or not I get any attention for this. The idea is that i offer suggestions on how to improve certain underpowered killers (not based on stats) and improve their viability. My ultimate end goal is to get a killer as good as what Demogorgon theoretically is (around A Rank), while keeping the spirit of the original killer. I will also introduce QoL changes and update their power descriptions to how the most recent killers' descriptions are.
Let's start with the poster child, Edward McMillan - I mean Evan!
Original power - Bear Trap:
A large foothold trap made of steel. Traps are found lying around the area waiting to be picked up and set anywhere.
- Immobilises and injures trapped Survivors
- Sabotaged traps return after 3 minutes.
New Power: McMillan's Craft
Your passion for elaborate traps was born from a history of neglect.
BEAR TRAP
10 Bear Traps spawn around the map, armed and ready to pick up. You can hold up to 3 Bear Traps at a time. Press the Ability Button to set a trap on the ground. Survivors can disarm traps, revealing them temporarily.
° You see the auras of these Bear Traps at all times.
° Survivors who step in a bear trap become Immobilized for a set amount of time.
° Survivors can break free at a success rate of 25%. Survivors can break trapped survivors at a higher 45% percent success rate.
° Survivors who do break free become injured. The Trapper can also pick up survivors from Bear Traps, picking the Bear Traps up in the process.
° Traps that are disarmed or that have been escaped must be reset manually.
SPECIAL ABILITY: GENERATOR SABOTAGE
Any time you damage a generator, that generator becomes sabotaged for 20 seconds, indicated by a large amount of sparks flying out. Survivors who touch that generator instantly cause it to explode and regress for 25%, and highlighting that generators aura. Sabotaged generators damaged this way do not regress.
SPECIAL ATTACK: TRAP ON A ROPE
Pressing the Special Attack Button will allow you to enter a channeling action for 5 seconds, affixing a Bear Trap in your inventory to a rope. With a Bear Trap on a Rope, you can press the Special Attack Button again to toss it directly in front of you. If it hits a survivor:
° It gets consumed, and you must make another Bear Trap on a Rope. The Bear Trap is returned to your inventory.
° It damages that survivor down one health state.
° If a survivor is injured by this attack, they can be pulled Slightly towards The Trapper by pressing the Special Attack Button again.
° Survivors can avoid being pulled in by throwing pallets.
° If a survivor tries to vault over a window or pallet when they are pulled in, their animation is cancelled and they are pulled to the side they begun the mount.
New interactions: Sabotage simply decreases the time it takes to disarm a trap. It also allows you to save yourself at a 55% success rate, and other survivors with 95% success rate.
Slippery Meat increases your self saving chances to 80% instead.
The current issues with trapper are a lack of generator stall, an ironic lack of map pressure, and little chase potential. Current Trapper also suffers from the need to 3 gen to be effective with some games. Giving him more active traps should allow for more flexibility and less set-up time. Although the new attack is a little out of line with Trapper, they should still boost the main character's chase potential quite a bit, especially if survivors aren't playing around loops properly (if at all).