Blight is the hardest killer in dbd
I honestly think he's the hardest killer, yes harder than nurse.
He requires extensive tile and map knowledge, requires the most planning when using his bounces, all while not being the best killer in the game.
He has anti-loop, but it is extremely difficult to pull off, and requires you to conserve your charges. There is no killer like blight in the game right now, he's extremely unique, and has gameplay that differs from every other killer.
I'd like to hear your thoughts on him, and if he's more difficult than nurse.
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lmao
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I still think nurse is harder but let's agree to disagree.
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No. Nurse is more difficult because of her slower base speed and bug-ridden power
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Thanks for your very constructive and informative response. Now come back when you actually have something to add to the discussion, and not your nonsense.
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Yeah, blight is really difficult to play at fullest potential
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I personally find the blight to be on the same playstyle of nurse and spirit and to be difficult, but I think blight is the easiest to play out of the 3
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Spirit doesn't really require much skill, nor does she have a very high skill cap, once you learn how to play basic m1 killer, you can play spirit well, since you know how to track using scratch marks and injured noises.
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Idk thats just me I usually destroy as blight but struggle some games as spirit
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I still feel that his skill ceiling is too high how for how little he offers. He is good if played at max potential but he cant reach the levels a spirit or a nurse can.
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I don't think he needs to be as good as spirit or nurse, he is already a pretty high tier killer when played well, because of his amazing map pressure and chase.
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Blight is only harder than Nurse because he's unplayable with the throwing up. Apart from that Nurse is harder and stronger in every way- Blight, without his power, can fall back on being a 115 killer with Mobility. Nurse can't do that.
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Fair enough, he can still chase without his power, since he's a 115% movement speed killer, unlike nurse who has to use her power.
But I still think his power is a bit more difficult to use than nurses blinks.
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Not even close, he's limited, has low vision and can be buggy while also RNG dependant. That doesn't make him that hard to play overall but rather difficult to use due to limitations put on his power.
Nurse requires completely different approach to be even useable, killers like hag/trapper requires substantial extreme amount of map knowledge and knowledge of survivor pathing and leading them to correct areas of the map while juggling all of them. Huntress/Deathslinger require very high precision and timings and every second you're not shooting when you could you're basically not playing into their full potencial. All of these killers are far harder to play then blight.
He's not easy to play but he's also definetly not that hard to play either.
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A fair analysis, but I don't know how he is RNG dependant, besides some maps being garbage for him (Lérys, the game, rotten fields etc).
I don't think hag requires that much map knowledge to play, since you are mostly trapping pallets, or using her camera swing traps.
Deathslinger is definitely difficult to play, and I can see the case being made for him, but not huntress, since she has gigantic hitboxes. Huntress has a higher skill cap, and you can do a lot with her power, but is pretty easy to play, unlike deathslinger who has a pistachio sized hitbox.
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His map pressure is godly, but his chase is where he falls short, you need to have good like reflexes and PHD knowledge of the tiles in the game to get full value out of it, and even then I am not sure if it is really worth it.
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I slightly agree, but only because I think there's been a killer that's much harder than Nurse for a while: Deathslinger.
Blight is hard. Even once you've learned him, he's hard. I don't think he's Deathslinger hard, but he's close. Nurse... Nurse gets pretty easy once you learn her. If you're landing blinks, then you've reached her mechanical skill cap. Blight is as you say: you need good EVERYTHING. Map knowledge, reactions, opponent judgement. But both of those killers can make a couple of mistakes and get away with it thanks to their mobility. Slinger doesn't have that fallback.
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Difficulty is not measured by how bad a killer can be, its measured by how much their highest potential gives them. Blight has amazing map pressure which means he can start chases fast, but once a survivors gets to a loop his power can't be used and he becomes an m1 killer due to his 115% base movement speed, Nurse on the other hand can completely destroy even the sweatiest swf groups if she is good, she doesn't have a skill ceiling because theres always room to improve with her since every survivor plays and paths differently she always needs to observe the survivors she is currently facing because she always has to use her power while blight can just become an m1 nurse can't even catch up to a survivor if she is not blinking. Spirit also has a high skill cap but its different than nurse since she has to decide to mind game or to actually use her power and not be able to see the survivors, she is 110% and can barely be an m1 killer which again forces power usage to be effective, a good spirit can destroy a swf group, but a swf group can also completely destroy a baby spirit. And thats the difference, a blight can always just turn into an m1 killer around a pallet, his skill ceiling is limited by his own power, having turn angles means survivors are the ones deciding if he gets a hit or not, once they learn his angles (like with oni) it'll get even worse, but he'll always have the map pressure to find chases fast and if they are in a dead zone get fast down. As an ending point no Blight does not require anywhere near as much skill as nurse or spirit simply because of his power limitations and for being a 115%.
Then there are other skill ceilings like huntress/slinger for projectiles, hag/trapper for knowing survivors pathing and map tiles, stealth killers with map knowledge to find the fastest and most hidden way to get to the survivors for that early grab or injure before they know its a stealth killer etc. Blight is a middle of the ground when it comes to skill since all he does is just running around bumping into stuff
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Well, he can traverse large maps better than any other killer in the game. I'm new, and I don't understand a lot of tiles and maps, but I consistently 2-4k with him just because I can beat players to spots and run them off gens.
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They need to fix the man's POV tbh. They need to also increase the sensitivity for controller players if possible ( I am aware they have done it, but I feel there needs to be a bit more in).
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I'd say Blights on the same level as nurse. While his power is harder to get use out of, he at least gets to fall back on being 115. Slightly unrelated but ######### that POV he has.
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I main both killers. Nurse is harder. Blight is much easier. You just use Blight's power for mobility 80% of the time and chase as an 115% killer.
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He's much easier to pick up and do well with than nurse is.
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I have to disagree. I remember when I started to play Nurse it took weeks before I was even able to have my blinks down and even then I still sucked at the time because I still had to get used to survivor patterns and jukes, map layouts, and being able to tighten my reaction times and build muscle memory.
I don't even own Blight BUT the other day I spent the night at my cousin's place and he does own Blight. Now I'm not saying I was instantly a god the minute I picked him up. In fact it took me a few games but eventually I kinda got him down to a point where I was getting some nice hits with him. With a little more time I'm sure I'd be able to improve to a point where I'd be able to confidently use him against good teams. The process definitely did not remind me of how hard it was learning Nurse though(whom which I learned pre nerf btw).
Picking up Nurse today? It would be extremely difficult. If you aren't using your blinks right you will be heavily punished. You'll never catch anyone unless they are a complete baked potato.
As for other killers such as Huntress; she requires you to be able to aim with precision all while also leading your shots depending on distance. If you ever watch Umbra you'll know thay those crazy cross map shots and even the mid-long range ones don't come from luck but instead come from strained hard skill.
If someone wanted to actually put their time into becoming a pro Blight they would need quick reaction times and a decent understanding of map and tile layouts. Nurse already requires this and more. You need to use your power to catch survivors, you need to build your muscle memory, and as I said before you need to be able to anticipate survivor movement and jukes through breaking los and things like that. For Nurse every survivor has a playstyle that you need to quickly adapt to in order to catch them whether that be constantly breaking los and doubling back to throw you off or just holding forward. Or they can mix it up to really get in your head. When you get into the nitty gritty you really see how hard it is to actually be able to play her.
Blight isn't an easy killer but he's definitely not the hardest imo.
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I can't stand how low his POV is. It's so easy to lose survivors especially in grass like in the swamp.
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Just be good at blight come on man.
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I wouldn't say Blight is harder to play than Nurse. A more accurate statement is that Blight has a higher skill ceiling than Nurse.
A God Nurse is still on a completely different level than Blight and definitely should be, but Blight can make use of more information and knowledge than a Nurse due to the flexibility of his kit and unmatched map presence. The more a player uses these tools the more they access that high skill ceiling.
The point is newer or less skilled players may be terrible with Blight, but veterans than know the maps, mechanics, gameplay well will be fantastic with him.
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Blights only harder because of all the jank still left in the game for him. Sliding off objects, double stuns from using your power too fast (alchemists ring small window after landing a rush hit using power again, instant use or waiting it out seems to do the trick), colliding with an object for using your power too fast (ping usually, if you play faster than it you get punished) and not being able to rush because you are too close but not being able to get far away enough to rush because you move too slowly after a slam
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Perhaps you should take into account outside FPS skill. I've seen my friends, who don't play shooters, have a go at Slinger. He's hard. I barely dabble in shooters and I think that.
And that's without all of the little amazing tricks that seem extremely gimicky but can potentially shave of enormous amounts of chase time.
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I think for me he might come off as less difficult if you're already very experienced with twitch-reflex based games, like shooters or games with extensive high mobility. I am very familiar with those types of games, so even without extreme map or tile knowledge, I still get very good use out of Blight. I imagine that expertise will only expand as I learn how to deal with more and more unique situations.
It's a weird sort of scenario, you can't "fall back" on your high speed reflexes with nurse, but if you don't have those reflexes to begin with, then you're really not gonna get much out of Blight outside of crossing the map quickly.
Then it comes down to which part of the difficulty curve we're talking about, since being a decent M1 killer and using his power to get across the map is extremely suboptimal compared to knowing when to get slams out in chases (or, say, spotting another survivor as you're chasing one, and then using your slam to redirect yourself to the second survivor before they know it, instantly doubling up the pressure) and being really fast at aiming and striking with lethal rush.
Are we talking about getting "okay" with Blight, or getting masterful with Blight?
That said, it's a little hard for me to compare him to someone like the Nurse, who is difficult for a whole other set of reasons, and they both have bugs/weird design decisions that make them trickier to use. Speaking of map knowledge, did you know there's a small piece of grass in the MacMillan maps that has a Blight slam hitbox for some reason, even though you can walk right through it? Generally there's one of them placed on the outside of the main building, at a corner, remembering that I will collide with that bush has already gotten me some hits I couldn't get otherwise and also saved me from using my last rush token hitting a friggin' blade of grass. Remembering that kind of obviously-unintentional stuff definitely starts adding up.
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Being buggy and map specific makes Blight hard to play sure. But most of that doesn’t come down to the player’s skill with the Killer. You’ll still get screwed sometimes no matter how well you play him.
I’d consider Nurse, Spirit, Huntress and Pyramid Hard hardest to play because they can be consistent with enough skill and practice. Blight never will be because of his power’s unstable design.
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I think that on console he's insanely hard to play. I remember playing him on my PS4 and I felt like I chains around myself because I felt so limited in my movement. But when I play him on PC, I feel like he's insanely easy and has easy control.
Amazing how much of a difference a controller does vs M&K
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I think Blight is easier to play at a reasonable level than Nurse, it is very difficult to learn to hit Blinks consistently while you can get around the map and score occasional hits with Lethal Rush after just a few games. However, Blight might have a higher skill ceiling at the expert level than Nurse. With Nurse once you are good enough to hit Blinks it’s pretty much mechanically doing the same Blink-Blink-hit every time regardless of the terrain. Blight though is hypothetically capable of doing three, four or five bounces off terrain to incorporate hairpin turns in Lethal Rush hits and that it a skill that could take a long time to really master.
So essentially I think Blight is more new player friendly, you can be “ok” with Blight relatively quickly, but becoming a top level Blight players who can consistently get crazy multiple bank shots will probably be a real challenge, even maybe harder than becoming a very high skill Nurse. (Maybe)
P.S. Either way Blight is waaaay more fun to play than Nurse. It’s not even close, Nurse is my least favorite killer to play while Blight is really enjoyable.
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You usually shouldn't anti-loop with him. Just use his dash for distance, and if the survivors are out positioned then you can attack with it. The only anti-loop he has is the insta-break pallet add-ons. Even then, the survivor might be able to get to yet another pallet. If you're not using one of those add-ons, Brutal Strength is pretty good on him.
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You absolutely should anti-loop with his power, it's incredibly good at certain tiles, and can be even better depending on the random detritus around the walls/the angles the survivor has on you.
His power being hard to use at a lot of loops doesn't mean it doesn't work, but a good Blight will not be afraid to pull off some advanced trig to shut you down before you get a second loop.
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He's difficult, but at least you can swing after using your power consistently.
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I am a blight main and I haven’t gotten down his anti loop completely but I am at rank 3 rn after playing the game for a little bit. I think blight is the most inconsistent character in the game when you’re going against real good survivors, his height and trouble with corners makes him hard on maps like Larry’s and the ######### CORN MAPS. I love playing him at his best it’s crazy fun flying from one side of the map to the other and hitting someone with BBQ and Chili but his worst I say he’s the worst killer who is very limited due to his height model. gladly Behavior is fixing his height model and he won’t actually be shorter than grass after that fix I think he’ll be a lot easier as that’s the main problem Iv always had with him.
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Honestly most of Blight's difficulties come from his absurdly low POV making even low wall loops extremely difficult because you can't see over them. Playing him in the PTB with the new POV feels so much nicer on him on now and isn't such a hair ripping experience.
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Nurse is the most difficult when being a noob to her... blight is the hardest overall while arguably being the most fun as well..
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Agreed. And it's know what tiles to use his power on. This is a great way to judge the skill of a blight in your first chase against him in a match. There are spots that are impossible to get rush hits and some that are. The timing when they start to rush on a tile is also a good telltale.
Damn I love this killer.
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