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What do you think about the Blight?

AhoyWolf
AhoyWolf Member Posts: 4,645
in Polls

I personally really like him and I think he's balanced, but I want to hear opinions from other people!

What do you think about the Blight? 64 votes

Overpowered
0%
Better than average
21%
CamoRangerthen4321konchokAvilgusFFabeqPlantCollectorTodgeweihtLordRegalbubbabrothaRepostRiposteLargeDeeCamo720freyt65JacobD 14 votes
Average / Balanced
51%
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Worse than average
23%
F60_31musstang62Dr_Loomispichumudkipthenegativoneoh_0krickyray101MaxwellChurchofPigPior_MorteLiddyJeffalationsmusefancheezjtzTheFatTopHat 15 votes
Underpowered
3%
Gibberishgetuy45u4iu 2 votes

Comments

  • Blazelski
    Blazelski Member Posts: 351
    Average / Balanced

    He's a frustrating blast with great map pressure. He requires skill and/or strategy to use his power in a chase well. I personally enjoy that scratch marks are hard to see through grass with him. I think he's very well designed, honestly.

  • Seiko300
    Seiko300 Member Posts: 1,862
    Average / Balanced
    https://forum.deadbydaylight.com/en/discussion/comment/1620049#Comment_1620049

    The sheer skill it takes to use The Blight at all is largely what keeps him in line- very similar to how if you're a god at Nurse basically nobody will escape, but it can be so difficult to get there so few people report having encountered them (especially considering differences on PC vs. Console, these killers are notoriously more difficult to control supposedly).

    He has a really good traversal tool that if you're good enough can also be used as a chase tool but if you don't know how to use it you're better off going about your chases as an m1 killer than wasting your time.

  • MrPenguin
    MrPenguin Member Posts: 2,426
    Average / Balanced

    I think he's fine right now, we'll see if the player base catches on to his counter-play and how that ends up working out. But its still pretty early to tell.

  • Uistreel
    Uistreel Member Posts: 634
    Average / Balanced

    I don't think he's trash like people are saying, but I also don't think he's particularly strong. I think he's pretty average, good at some stuff, bad at others.

  • Awkward_Fiend
    Awkward_Fiend Member Posts: 687
    Average / Balanced

    After putting about 25 rounds or so, I think that he's pretty strong. Not as strong as Pyramid, but definitely better than Plague and Huntress. His ability to get from A to B quickly is quite strong. His between pallet game is completely unmatched, aside from a Fury Oni but that's a given.

  • SCP_FOR_DBD
    SCP_FOR_DBD Member Posts: 2,416
    Average / Balanced

    They're getting better at this.

  • NekoGamerX
    NekoGamerX Member Posts: 5,457
    Average / Balanced

    he just hard to use for me anyways.

  • Avilgus
    Avilgus Member Posts: 1,261
    Better than average

    A good surprise, for once.

  • Slashstreetboy
    Slashstreetboy Member Posts: 1,811
    Average / Balanced

    It´s kinda hard to tell since I haven´t encountered a really skilled Blight yet. From what I can tell he performs well enough on average.

    As for me, the power really doesn´t fit my particular taste, and I have no desire to put the time and effort in to git gud with him, so I don´t intend to ever touch him again. Got the achievements though.

  • TransverseCaster
    TransverseCaster Member Posts: 552
    Average / Balanced

    He was wildly underrated during the testing and immediate release. I tried him and hated it thinking it was a combination of everyone else's weaknesses. But then I started facing decent Blight's and noticing the things they did. For instance, simple things like bouncing off of an obstacle in order to reorient for a second bounce is a design feature, not a gimmick. It let's him re-angle after misses too. He's actually pretty smart design and he's super fun to play against.

  • pichumudkip
    pichumudkip Member Posts: 155
    Worse than average

    I think Blight is one of those killers where for him to be good, you just have to be good as him. I suck as Blight so someone like me may say "oh they're the weakest killer" when in reality they're not. The only reason I decided to go with worse than average is because his hotboxes are janky has heck. I played as him on Oni's map and whenever I ran into trees or rocks, it would just slide off them instead of bumping into them. Then there's other situations where it looks like I hit nothing. I know the PTB Blight was a lot worse, but I think Behaviour should have tried to fix his hitboxes a little bit more.