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inferior killers and changes
i'm going to talk about killers that are objectively worse than others just based off of on paper abilities clearly being matched and then surpassed by another killer with no downsides and little to no unique qualities to balance it out.
im thinking of a killer that can stop/slow their movement to go invisible that grants a movement speed bonus while invisible and after coming out of invisibility to hit survivors.
2 killers do this:spirit and wraith. the differences are only that spirit has no tells and no reappearance penalty as well as being immune to light burn.wraith has 115% and no cooldown. both killers power does the same thing spirit just does the same thing way better. spirit>wraith
im thinking of a killer whos base kit creates an area to slow survivors for a limited duration.this can be used for no movement penalty in a chase.
freddy and clown do this but this is less clear cut than above. clown's bottles may afflict a greater area than freddy's snares but freddy has more of them 2.5 times more i think its reasonable to say clown's bottles might be 2.5 times more useful than freddy's dream snare. having preset snares in the right place is just as useful as being able to more effectively use bottles in a chase we can call that a draw. and now clown is out of attributes but freddy still has a ton of stuff left to play with: no dream snare reloads, the dream state slowndown, teleportation, alarm clock alternative objectives, alternative hard-to-read terror radius and sight on killer. freddy>clown and clown actually doesn't have a single thing on him that can be said to be an improvement on freddy.
there are a couple more such as freddy>demo for their similar teleport ability hillbilly>leatherface though this has gotten less blatant. plague>legion for powers based almost entirely off of capitalizing off of unwarranted survivor panic. gf>myers for stealth gameplay oni>myers for snowball gameplay. DS>huntress for close range range killer gameplay.and it might be too early to tell but blight>nurse? blight seems light torn bookmark nurse except 3 extra blinks and its base kit 5 blink nurse but restricted to sightline and its basekit?
what do you guys think of this? are all of these wrong? are they bad for the game? do these need buffs or nerfs to balance out?