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Why Clown Sucks 2 (Improved)

Erk
Erk Member Posts: 230
in General Discussions

Clown is the worst killer in the game. He lacks mobility and lethality, if you want to use your power you need to be at %40 speed for 5 seconds and he doesn't reward players for playing good. I can just stop here but I will explain in details so everyone can understand me.

Clown is a basic killer, 32m TR and %115 speed. His power, the Afterpiece Tonic, hinders survivor by %10 (with the Flask of Bleach %15), makes survivors cough and doesn't allow survivors to fast vault IF they touch the gas cloud. This power is just stupid. It doesn't reward you for direct hits on survivors so there is no reason to make a good play with Clown since it doesn't change anything. If you do a good play with Legion you injure and apply DW on 4 survivors, if you do a good play with Trapper you get a survivor on the hook but if you do a good play with Clown, you injure them. If you don't do a good play you still injure them. There is no point in playing better.

DudeDelicious always says that you need to use the gas clouds as "traps" so that "the survivors' movement is controlled by you". So, what if they get to a pallet ? Then what ? You either need to break the pallet or mindgame the pallet (if it's unsafe). This is not special to Clown, every killer can do this. Well, you might say "But Erk, every killer gets countered by pallets !" You would be wrong. Spirit can "mindgame" the pallet, Nurse can blink through it, a good Trapper will deny the pallet entirely, a Pig will use her ambush to mindgame the pallet (keep in mind this is part of the power) and the list goes on... Clown can't do anything.

Clown has no lethality, you can only injure and down survivors and you have no tools to catch survivors quicker. The Tonic is so underwhelming that if it works, it works because of the addons. If you play Clown with no addons you will see how much of a pain it is against decent survivors that are solo. His power sucks and only works with addons, and not everywhere !

Clown has no mobility, in fact he has less than no mobility ! He can slow down survivors, sure, if a pallet isn't nearby and if a survivor is not near a pallet every killer can down that survivor but the worst part about his mobility is his reload. 5 secs of being slower than a walking survivor. 5 seconds may not seem much but play Clown and reload once. You will see what I mean. So, how do we fix this mess of a killer ?

My suggestions are :

  • Slow down a survivor more in a direct hit with the Afterpiece Tonic
  • Make bottles be reloadable one by one (so 4 seconds if you have no bottles)
  • Add a new effect : Drunk (or whatever you want to name it). If Clown hits you while you were hindered, you gain this effect. During this effect, if you are repairing a generator and you get it to %40 (or any number you want), Clown sees the gen you are working on. The effect goes when you get healed or heal somebody else.

This is it. What do you people think ?

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