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The Truth about Hillbilly
As some others have already mentioned, there has been a recent trend in the forums about our favorite chainsaw wielding killer. Hillbilly, long considered to be the most balanced killer by both survivors and killers, is too strong according to some survivors. And I can see why.
Hillbilly has always been a viable killer, normally placing around 3rd on most Tier Lists. I think the only reason survivors are calling for nerfs is because:
1) Nurse and Spirit, who were normally considered to be stronger than Billy, were both nerfed. So by default, Billy became a stronger killer IN COMPARISON.
2) I believe the wording and reasoning behind the Ruin nerf fostered a belief that Killers are too strong. As we all know, low mobility m1 killers are weak. So what are the two things that people are complaining about that makes Billy OP? His mobility and the POTENTIAL of being able to chainsaw instead of hitting a survivor twice. I think low tier killers are being treated as balanced instead of what they actually are, low tier.
If you're a new survivor, no he isn't op. You just don't have the skill and/or experience to know what to do. Nothing wrong about that, you'll get better as you play more.
Survivor players, ruin hasn't even hit live. Can you wait a minute before calling for MORE nerfs? Or the devs will actually do it. I don't think the killer population could handle another controversial nerf.
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The “most balanced killer” was just something that got parroted around and spread enough times that people started to assume it was true. I’ve certainly never thought that.
Billy was generally number 2 on most tier lists before Spirit with a minority putting him at 1.
For quite a while he was still number 2 and it was only in 2019 when the Spirit fad started that people began putting her above Billy consistently in tier lists, but again people tend to follow the trends they see online. I personally would have always put Billy above Spirit.
To say its a recent thing is not true. The Billy controversy has raged for a long time now across the dbd fanverse. If anything it was the Spirit hate that came out of nowhere because nobody had an issue with her until last summer deapite the fact she had been that way for half a year. Again people tend to parrot what they hear online. Although to be fair what probably triggered a lot of that was that Spirit got VERY popular and seeing the same killer game after game would tilt anyone.
I have a different take on Billy. It was only when I truly got good at the game that I started to feel like Billy was cheap BS. He felt cheap as survivor being able to cross the map back and forth in seconds, and as killer changing from killers like Clown, Pig and Trapper to a guy who could instadown one survivor, sprint across the entire map in 5 seconds and then instadown another before they had even unhooked the first guy....it felt like I was playing with hacks. Or at least an unlockable boss character like in a fighting game. Thats why I’e never enjoyed Hillbilly because he never felt rewarding in my opinion.
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lmao are you on pc in eu?
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I prefer leatherface as my favorite chainsaw killer
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