Huntress Balance after and before the Patch
Before talking about the ways to counter Huntress, I will argumment about the hitboxes used in an Esports game like Overwatch on which you can either see characters that are hitscan and other that use projectiles.
Hitscan means that where you shoot is where the "bullet" automatically goes, projectiles, as you can imagine, need some seconds to land on the objective.
Widowmaker is a hitscan sniper, this heroe shoots at hitboxes that are equal to the shape of the enemy character.
Hanzo is a slow/fast projectile heroe depending on how much you charge your arrow which uses hitboxes bigger than the shape of the character.
Huntress is pretty much like Hanzo, you need to charge your hatchets to shoot without crosshair at moving targets that are more difficult to hit depending on the distance and the survivor's ability to dodge them (which is not very difficult to adquire).
With the current crosshair Huntress is not viable. Mid range hatchets that are capital to be effective are now very easy to dodge, the survivor just needs to be looking behind. This killer is one of the more skilled required ones and now can be countered heavily by almost every new player even if the huntress is pretty good.
Why Huntress doens't needed a nerf and actually needed a buff:
She has a directional distance Humming of 45 meters, that allows every survivor to get an alert if she is approaching to him. Huntress is a slow killer, so then if the survivor starts to run from her once she is pretty far away from him, the huntress would need to either try to shoot a mid range hatchet to hit the survivor which needs a lot of skill to be able to predict survivor's dodges at that distance (which most huntress are not allowed to do) or just get closer to be able to hit with success the survivor. Two situations on this escenario:
Situation 1:
The huntress has to get closer to be able to shoot the survivor at less than let's say 10 meters. but usually it's lower.
Since the chase starts before the actual chasing status begins the huntress doesn't charge bloodlust for the first maybe 10, 15, 20 seconds depending on the map, she loses a lot of time. Result, the huntress is countered and two gens are popped at least if she is able to actually down that survivor when she gets closer to him.
Situation 2:
If we take in consideration the case on the huntress is very good and can hit with guarantees a mid range shoot, anyway she is going lose time to get closer to be able to have a clear view for the second hatchet and despite being skilled, in some maps, is just imposible to hit range hatchets because there are too many obstacles, like for example haddonfield. So you are forced to procede as in situation 1. Survivors that are good dodgers complicate a lot this situation (prepatch, now is not even considered).
The current state of the hitbox completely disrupts situation 2, since mid range hatchets are now very easy to dodge, and the skill of the huntress is now not considered, just the capacity of the survivor to be able to look behind. Also complicates situation 1, since even if you get close it is pretty easy to miss hatchets, even if the survivor screw up at loops, or jumps at windows. Low charged hatchets are completely useless now, charged ones are still easy to Dodge.
And as you already may know, sometimes the hatchet even pass trough the survivor's body without hitting.
In conclusion, she was a decent killer that had some flaws even in a case that the Huntress was skilled, now she is pretty much not viable, not fun, she does not reward skill and hours put into her, because the success of the hatchets relays only if the survivor trys to Dodge them or not.
In fact, most of the experienced part of the community was aware that huntress needed that humming distance to be reduced to at least 40 meters. After this nerf she is not viable anymore.
I'm a huntress main that has more than 1000 hours on her. I used to be effective, but anyway when survivors just took advantage of that humming distance and the map i was still very counterable. Now, Huntress is just awful. The hitboxes prepatch were the ones that a killer like Huntress with it's characteristics needed. Using only "the shape" of the survivor as the hitbox is an error, not balanced considering how she works.
Thank you for your attention,
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I just stacked some nice addons on huntres..... what a pitty
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