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What Is The Worst Killer

DetailedDetriment
DetailedDetriment Member Posts: 2,632
in Polls

As it stands now there are 5 bad killers: Wraith, Doc, Leatherface, Clown, and Legion. Which of these killers do you find to be the worst?

Some people also say Freddy is bad. No idea why but OK.

What Is The Worst Killer 97 votes

Wraith
4%
[Deleted User]thefallenloserAnthony151201MysticMusician 4 votes
Doctor
0%
Leatherface
25%
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Clown
52%
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Legion
16%
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Freddy I guess?
1%
shane32 1 vote

Comments

  • DetailedDetriment
    DetailedDetriment Member Posts: 2,632
    edited January 2020
    Clown

    I personally find the Clown to be the worst killer due to not having any map pressure whatsoever and his power being useless unless specific add-ons are paired with it. This essentially restricts him to a powerless 115% movement speed killer.

  • Exerlin
    Exerlin Member Posts: 1,352
    Leatherface

    Clown's power at the very least causes pallets to be dropped early, but if a survivor is in a decent position, it's almost impossible to chainsaw them as Leatherface.

  • Vuk
    Vuk Member Posts: 43
    Leatherface

    Clown is better then the other killers of the list, maybe paired with legion.

  • nimesulide
    nimesulide Member Posts: 39
    Clown

    I don't even see why Wraith, Legion or Doctor are on this list, IMO they are great killers if played well.

  • Brucecastro81
    Brucecastro81 Member Posts: 1,609
    Clown

    Doc is good after rework, and legion can't be the worst, since he can apply a little pressuere and gain the first hit easily (don't know why people think he worst than clown but ok)

  • Brucecastro81
    Brucecastro81 Member Posts: 1,609
    Clown
    https://forum.deadbydaylight.com/en/discussion/comment/1066540#Comment_1066540

    WWWHHHAAATTT???

  • Todgeweiht
    Todgeweiht Member Posts: 3,666

    I dont think any killer is bad if played well, at much they are unfun and frustrating to learn.

  • hinoutoumei
    hinoutoumei Member Posts: 294

    worst killer in game is ghostface..

  • thefallenloser
    thefallenloser Member Posts: 1,281
    Wraith

    You can be bullied to all hell with flashlights and rendered completely passive for 10 seconds at a time lol.

  • thefallenloser
    thefallenloser Member Posts: 1,281
    Wraith

    Also Doctor is great now. I'd say he's low A-tier now.

    Replace Doctor with Pig.

  • Gibberish
    Gibberish Member Posts: 1,063
    Legion

    It depends on the map, but Legion, Clown, and Cannibal are all pretty dire.

    I voted for Legion though, as they offend me on a conceptual level.

    Why the hell did they make a Killer who's whole concept is "they are a gang of 4 killers", and then not have the other 3 members of the Legion you arent playing as as part of the power. Utterly idiotic.

  • Yung_Slug
    Yung_Slug Member Posts: 2,238
    Clown
    https://forum.deadbydaylight.com/en/discussion/comment/1001479#Comment_1001479

    Leatherface forces pallets too, but he also has an insta-down.

    And if you use PWYF + Nemesis, it's almost impossible for survivors to escape your chainsaw.

  • then4321
    then4321 Member Posts: 234
    Legion

    Very interesting poll results. I main Leatherface, Clown, and Pig and have an above average success rate.

    Standard build: Corrupt, Brutal, Pop, Mangled

  • PigMainClaudette
    PigMainClaudette Member Posts: 3,842
    Clown

    Clown's power is FANTASTIC. He shuts down loops, and can gather information from it.

    The problem? He's literally the M1 killer. He has no movement options, no map pressure outside of a chase, standard terror radius, so he's easy to hear coming.

    A lot of these problems can be fixed with perks, but some of these perks have drawbacks. Play With Your Food requires you to find ONE out of four survivors, and break chase with them up to 3 times, but you lose the perk's power after hitting people. Monitor and Abuse lessens his terror radius, but you have just used a perk slot that could be used for other perks like Pop Goes the Weasel or Thrilling Tremors.


    On his release, Clown was great. What changed? Survivors learnt how to counter him. They started dropping pallets early. They played more stealthily. They learnt to avoid his gas areas.

    Survivors learnt to beat him, and now he's in a bad spot.


    Legion can do something about pallets, apply map pressure and force survivors to do something other than generators. Bubba can also deal with pallets and has an instant down. Wraith keeps people on their toes and moves faster while cloaked. Doctor and Freddy are both now top-tier post-rework.

  • MysticMusician
    MysticMusician Member Posts: 149
    Wraith

    Personally I think Freddy is the most broken character, simply because his sleep is time based and not event/skill based. If I could never have to play against any specific killer again it would be Freddy. Honestly none of the ones on the list I think are that bad, maybe it's just the games I get but I tend to find that trapper is one of the most under powered killers.

  • gungle
    gungle Member Posts: 33
    Clown

    If your talking about worst to play against then the doctor. If your talking about worst to play as then the clown.