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How Did You Find Your Killer Main
Every time I played Wraith in the dailies I felt like something was missing and I was right the perks to accent his game play.
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I tried all killers while trying to find my main one. For awhile I couldn't find any that fit my playstyle so I kept rotating between all killers until I got into purple ranks. Then I started seeing better results as Hag above everyone else. So for awhile I mained the Hag until the recent Wraith buff and now I main him because I'm seeing better results then I did with Hag. I find that he's seriously underrated right now. Oh and I love to play stealthy and ambush people in different games so the fact he's stronger now is very good to me.1
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I always was planning to main my Billy boy. I did the most research and have all perks for him. I have also found myself playing the hag a lot and a bit of clown/trapper here and there.1
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I played Billy and got annoyed of looping then i switched to nurse as she can't be looped if you do it right.
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The hag is fun (kinda) but I feel her weakness is SWF. lolthekiller490490 said:I always was planning to main my Billy boy. I did the most research and have all perks for him. I have also found myself playing the hag a lot and a bit of clown/trapper here and there.0 -
I started out rotating between all the killers and when Micheal released I thought he fit my playstyle perfectly and i played him a ton. Then bubba released and I was excited to play him but I didnt find him very fun. That all changed when freddy released though. I love ambushing the sleeping survivors and pulling them into my nightmare. Then pig cam out and I loved how the rbts worked and I learned to use her ambush ability around pallets and such. So I moved on from Micheal and I became a Freddy main while playing tons of pig. I got pig to p3 and freddy is p2. I liked clown when he released but his playstyle just didnt fit me. However I'm really enjoying the spirit now so she might be my 3rd main1
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With the exception of Nurse what killers weakness isn't SWF?SteveyHooves said:
The hag is fun (kinda) but I feel her weakness is SWF. lolthekiller490490 said:I always was planning to main my Billy boy. I did the most research and have all perks for him. I have also found myself playing the hag a lot and a bit of clown/trapper here and there.0 -
Great and i find funny story. All I can see is someone going "I'm done running in circles I'll just teliport to them and wack thier ass!"shanks3042 said:I played Billy and got annoyed of looping then i switched to nurse as she can't be looped if you do it right.
This actually a good story. I like how you had to swap so many times. For me playing Huntress is hard because she's just not as fast and her lunge feels short. It's just not not the same.PhantomMask20763 said:I started out rotating between all the killers and when Micheal released I thought he fit my playstyle perfectly and i played him a ton. Then bubba released and I was excited to play him but I didnt find him very fun. That all changed when freddy released though. I love ambushing the sleeping survivors and pulling them into my nightmare. Then pig cam out and I loved how the rbts worked and I learned to use her ambush ability around pallets and such. So I moved on from Micheal and I became a Freddy main while playing tons of pig. I got pig to p3 and freddy is p2. I liked clown when he released but his playstyle just didnt fit me. However I'm really enjoying the spirit now so she might be my 3rd main
Good point when her entire ability can he countered by crouching... it's tough to get people to trigger them.The_Fallen_Utopia said:
With the exception of Nurse what killers weakness isn't SWF?SteveyHooves said:
The hag is fun (kinda) but I feel her weakness is SWF. lolthekiller490490 said:I always was planning to main my Billy boy. I did the most research and have all perks for him. I have also found myself playing the hag a lot and a bit of clown/trapper here and there.0 -
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@SteveyHooves sorry if I sounded rude in my response I was just wondering if there was anyone else not ruined by SWF. And yeah it is Strange how crouching stops the traps going off but it's never worked against me really since I trap locations they run to in a chase instead of trapping generator and such. I think the fact that crouching stops them was to stop the Hag becoming even more powerful at defence but I could be wrong.0
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@SteveyHooves said:
All i can image is someone going "I'm tired of running in circles! Screw it i'll teliport to them and wack their ass!"
Yeah somewaht like that I'd say
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@The_Fallen_Utopia said:
@SteveyHooves sorry if I sounded rude in my response I was just wondering if there was anyone else not ruined by SWF. And yeah it is Strange how crouching stops the traps going off but it's never worked against me really since I trap locations they run to in a chase instead of trapping generator and such. I think the fact that crouching stops them was to stop the Hag becoming even more powerful at defence but I could be wrong.i tried when i played hag but no one ran where my traps where during chases and when they did we were out of chases and i was to far away. i mean come on! Plus no you didn't come off as rude you were just expressing everyone really is flawed by SWF and i have played enough SWF to know its true. So you're good.
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I love Hag and Trapper for thinking strategically. I love using survivors’ knowledge against them.
But my personal favorite is the Doctor. I really enjoy being an oppressive force and laughing in the face of their screams. There’s just something about him that really scratches my itch as a killer. Unlike Nurse, I enjoy how Doctor requires the prediction without staring at the floor and I like how I can play the long game with him.1 -
I kind of have three mains, though Hag is top among them.
I fell in love with The Hag from the start. I think part of it was that she was the most monstrous of the killers when I started playing. As a noob, of course I played her like a camping #########. Not much else you can do when you're too noobish to trap anything but hooks and gens. I learned and got better, though. I like that she's smaller and has more tactical gameplay.
The Doctor was my second favourite, for the opposite reasons. He's big and not sneaky at all. That gave me a killer to play when i didnt feel like being a sneaky chess player.
Then I added The Pig to my favourites. She's like a happy middle ground between the other two. She's small and sneaky, but doesn't require the advance planning that the Hag does.
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When I first bought the game, I did a quick google search of which killer was the easiest for noobs to play. Top results said Billy and Wraith (lol I don't know why). I tried Billy for like 2 games, kept running into walls with chainsaw sprint, and decided to do Wraith. I did terribly on him, but grinded to level 50 (rank 18-20 the entire way), at which point I looked up what the best perks for killers were. Ruin was at the top of the list, so at first I got Hag specifically for Ruin and didn't play her.
I played a bunch of killers along the way for varying lengths of time, but mostly did not play Hag because everything on the forums said she was bad. I eventually tried a few games with her (this was pre-buff) and fell in love with the style. It was perfect for someone like me, who enjoys logic puzzles and strategy games, but fails at anything that requires aiming or depth perception. I claimed her as my main and about a month after that she got buffed and I was ecstatic.
I am terrible at straight up chases, so that's why I main killer Hag and survivor Claudette :X.
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I surprisingly haven’t found my main idk why but I like playing all of the killers and rotating with them I think it’s because they all have a different play style1
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I used to hate going up against the hag, mainly because most of the teams i solo'd with didn't seem to understand the crouch method.
Then i started playing hag.... Now I giggle to myself constantly as i place traps in popular looping spots, random exit routes and my favourite..in front of dropped pallets. Hag forced me to play strategically instead of marking up all the gens, and SWF forced me to play extremely strategically. There are still teams that wipe the floor with me, but there is something to be said for watching a looper teabag beside a dropped pallet,only to turn around and run into one of your traps 2 feet away, resulting in a hag slap to the face.....
I'm slowly building her up into a no-hex build that I'm dying to try out when it's ready
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@PhantomMask20763 said:
I started out rotating between all the killers and when Micheal released I thought he fit my playstyle perfectly and i played him a ton. Then bubba released and I was excited to play him but I didnt find him very fun. That all changed when freddy released though. I love ambushing the sleeping survivors and pulling them into my nightmare. Then pig cam out and I loved how the rbts worked and I learned to use her ambush ability around pallets and such. So I moved on from Micheal and I became a Freddy main while playing tons of pig. I got pig to p3 and freddy is p2. I liked clown when he released but his playstyle just didnt fit me. However I'm really enjoying the spirit now so she might be my 3rd mainI love this because the constant switching. I know what it's like to switch killers. It feels so strange playing Huntress now. I don't share the love for her as i once did.
Yeah I really did switch out between killers a lot now that I think about it lol. But that's the point of games and characters, finding the one that fits you the best.
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My 2nd brain kind of led me to huntress. My insanity led me to the doctor.
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I fell in love with his big..... traps...
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@Mr_Jay_Stark said:
I surprisingly haven’t found my main idk why but I like playing all of the killers and rotating with them I think it’s because they all have a different play styleit takes some time. i thought i was a huntress main because of her ranged weapon but i forgot i suck at aiming. lol Just wait and the right person will come along. Just play them all for about 10 games and you'll get a good feel for em. after 2 or 3 games you'll get a feel for the killer the rest are if you want to stick with the killer. that's what i recommend.
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Initially, I started by playing mostly Trapper. Then as I browsed my options and watched some guides I learned that the Doctor made more Bloodpoints per round overall compared to most of the killers. I was new, I lacked a lot of the teachable perks and decided that it was in my best interest to main the Doctor. After a while, I started practicing with Huntress and realized that the Huntress was the better fit for me.
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Used to play only Huntress on PC. Stopped playing the game for a bit, and came back on PS4.
Stuck with Huntress for a while, but then got the Saw DLC and found out how much more fun Piggy is to play. Then they killed the hatchet throws so I spent my killer time playing Amanda and Rin. Even though Huntress is back to normal, I still think Amanda is more fun to play. And Rin even more so.
I may go back to Bunny at some point. I miss her. I enjoyed listening to the lullaby and I found that I play much nicer... as Piggy, I can be a real #########.
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Used to main Doctor. After a while I got bored with him and decided to get to rank 1 Freddy to see how hard it was.
Then I completely forgot how to play as Doctor and just stuck with Freddy. I got to understand him a bit better and found some of his strengths despite his vast weaknesses.
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I was a Trapper main, and mostly played him because he was the first killer I played when I started playing DBD. (I started playing KYF.) Then as I got online, I still played only him and sometimes Bing Bong.
Until I got the saw DLC... A little while after I got the saw dlc actually. I was like rank 18 killer, and I had another Pig daily. So I decided whatever, and did the daily. The game went so well, that I continued playing her. And continued... Until I got to rank 12, with Pig... Using only MYC 1 and Bitter Murmer 1.
After that I decided to get a bit more into her, and started watching this pig main on twitch called Psychoscorpionz.I started playing Doctor for daillies and it was fun so I continued.
With Bubba, I played him because he was the only killer who I had bbq and chili on, and continued playing him after getting the teachable because it's fun playing him.
I am a better Pig than I am Doctor or Bubba.
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I started out as trapper but something didn't click (I think hecause survivors were following me aroujd and disarming my traps). Next tried hundreds, and while I really enjoy her I didn't fimd a "main" until I played the doctor.
I really like how he is able to slow the game down (also I was pretty new so being able to farm a ton of blood points was a plus).
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Doctor because I thought he was fun during the free weekend back in September 2017. I also thought his power was pretty cool.1
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I’ve only been playing for two months now and I still have a few of the great meta perks that still need to be obtained. I first started with Trapper and I really liked his style, then I found these wonderful forums and found out about BBQ & Chili so I purchased Bubba and even though I love Bubba he just wasn’t for me.
Once I got BBQ teachable I then started playing with Hillbilly, I was doing much better with Hillbilly than any other killer up to this point so I got enough BP to level up nurse to unlock Nurses Calling. Shortly after that I had a daily for the Wraith so I gave him a shot and actually started to enjoy him a lot, he was the first killer that I actually grinded to lv 50. However I was starting to really get bored with him so I just used him to grind out 1 million BP and purchased Amanda.
I dumped all of my BP’s into her and gave her a solid five games to see if I liked her. The first two were absolutely horrible (I was around rank 12) and I didn’t even get one sacrifice, but at the same time I was really enjoying myself game wise due to her ability of mind games and being able to quickly and easily change strategic playstyle on the fly, I just had to figure out when to change. My next three games were amazing and an absolute great time so I decided to really learn her and dump a bunch of time and BP’s into her. Since then she has gotten me to rank 7 and I now only play Piggy (unless it’s a daily that I really want to do) and I’m about to prestige her to lv 2.
For me, she is the best killer in the game (so far) just because no matter win or lose, I have a ton of fun with her and that is the main point of the game…..just have fun!
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Hag - Jumpscares, small body, small terror radius, neat camera shenanigan potential (though I don't rely on this). It's hard to even see her on some maps, and a lot of maps make it difficult to spot her traps at all. She's an adorable little grey gremlin.
Pig - Tryhard main. Bad stealth mechanics, but designed with disincentives for tunneling. Make Your Choice and the Reverse Bear Traps are excellent map controllers and pseudo trackers. She takes a lot of judgment on her part to master, as well as a bit of luck to really lock everyone down under her pressure. Tragically, Ambush is garbage, and it's better to just stand up in higher play.
Spirit - Working on adding her to my mains. She's fun... when her power and hit recognition work properly. She's very buggy in general, though, especially her lunge not registering hits on people.
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Well i started from the very beginning, so choosing one wasn't hard since there were only 3.
Used Wraith to just dump BP into everyone by using the many bugs that existed back then. (Like getting BP from hitting someone on the hook.)
He was my main and i simply love how he plays.
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Simple I love Freddy Movies and had to play him in a game. I lost a lot until I got good at him and I pretty much only play him now. I also like the Spirit now as my second and the Trapper as my third.
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I came into the game the Halloween chapter dropped and fell in love with The Nurse fast. She was just an absolute blast to play and all her perks were just fun! However, I started realizing that just using the same killer over and over gets a bit dull, so I tried out The Shape, and I haven’t regretted it. I try to play all killers as evenly as I can but to this day Mikes playstyles still manage to get me fired up, and the variety with addons make him the most diverse play style killer. His perks are also just downright fun to use and I probably have had the most fun in this game with them. Gen pulls are usually done in at least half my games and it’s hallarious to rewatch if the person is streaming on twitch after the trial. It’s incredible to hear an ominous and aggressive jingle just before stopping a tbagging Meg who just gave me all her evil and thinks she can loop me with 3 PWYF stacks in her tracks and just murdering her with the ultra rare combo, effectively killing her team too. There is also special sense of dread that comes with Michael Myers that I am sure many enjoy as survivor as well, me included, so in most games everyone gets to have a fun time.1
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the Saw DLC was the first one I bought on PS4 and I played around with Amanda a little just didn't put any BP in her till the double BP weekend I love her now. Not as much as wraith thoughEight said:Used to play only Huntress on PC. Stopped playing the game for a bit, and came back on PS4.
Stuck with Huntress for a while, but then got the Saw DLC and found out how much more fun Piggy is to play. Then they killed the hatchet throws so I spent my killer time playing Amanda and Rin. Even though Huntress is back to normal, I still think Amanda is more fun to play. And Rin even more so.
I may go back to Bunny at some point. I miss her. I enjoyed listening to the lullaby and I found that I play much nicer... as Piggy, I can be a real #########.
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I love the Saw movies as well the nightmare on elm street movies too. I just bought a few so I could relive the past and I have no regrets. I also started leveling my Freddy he's a lot more fun than I though he'd beSimple I love Freddy Movies and had to play him in a game. I lost a lot until I got good at him and I pretty much only play him now. I also like the Spirit now as my second and the Trapper as my third.
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@SteveyHooves Hag is definitely a hard killer to learn so I understand. I watched a few guides to trapping specific locations before I got used to them and even then it took awhile. I'd explain how I use them in more detail but it's very complicated to.1
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Been playing a few months now on PS4, and when I first got the game I purchased Pig for myself since I love the Saw franchise, and I found her ability to crouch and have no terror radius to be the greatest thing ever. I mained her for a while, but decided to switch over to Spirit once she came out.
Reasoning with Spirit is simple. One, Haunted Ground paired with Ruin. I have 2/3rds of a chance to get an exposed on my Survivors, and in the most ideal way this ever came out I had three people hooked in the basement before the first gen was even completed. What I mostly like about Spirit though is her Haunting, especially since a lot of people don't wear headsets and send their sound through them when playing DBD, so that loud wind is hard to pick up. (Actually played against a Spirit without my headset today and I couldn't hear anything over the gens.) I just pop the haunting, fly to a generator and listen for the sounds of maintenance, and if I hear it I pop in and get a Survivor.
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When I first started playing, I read the base killer descriptions. Billy and nurse didnt sseem overly interesting, (and they still don't) and the trapper seemed pretty basic. Running around invisible and throwing weapons? Those sound interesting. I played the wraith a bunch before trying huntress. I like her gameplay because the usual defenses don't work on her (pallets and windows are potentially traps, etc).I tried all the paid only dlc killers, and I really liked the pig and the shape. Freddy was meh, and leatherface outright wasnt fun.1
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Same that's why I got her I loved her too. When it came to the spirit I have trouble with her. I can't play her. She seems like a mid rank killer or you need a lot of skill to play. Which I just don't have. I got her 2 reasons. her perks and Dat Ass.TatsuiChiyo said:Been playing a few months now on PS4, and when I first got the game I purchased Pig for myself since I love the Saw franchise,
I can agree leatherface is dull. I actually enjoy Freddy. I started to play him a bit. I see the merit in his game play. He's not as fun as the wraith or anything but hey want to try some new characters. I also really liked Mikey and the Pig. To the point where I might prestige them. Pig first though.Chrona said:I tried all the paid only dlc killers, and I really liked the pig and the shape. Freddy was meh, and leatherface outright wasnt fun.0 -
I started as a Billy main but I did not like his chainsaw so I would just whack people with my hammer. After a while I switched to Wraith, Hag and a bit of Doctor. But I have settled for Trapper for now as I find it funny when people get caught in the same trap multiple times.
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Freddy then Hag. I grew up with Freddy and Hag just clicked from the get go.
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I like flinging stuff as the Huntress and I got some decent perks for her, but I think my main main is the Pig.
Sneakie slashie slashy pig.
The RBS, while I wish I could restock them like the Huntress restocks hatchets are still fun for me.
They add an extra layer of skill checks, gives me more time to get people dead, and an adds urgency once that timer starts a goin'.Also Game over, man. Game over.
Watching someone that doesn't know what happens when they try to leave through the gate without taking the RBT off? Finding the dead body of some unlucky survivor with a bloody mess for a head?The only thing that could make it better would be a deadlier trap like the shotgun shell collar trap to alter her from a deadly delayer to a really deadly delayer.
P.S. Spirit is gunning for top spot. Rancor is fun, and a good name for it. Kinda inspired to make a Kill loadout. Now if the perks all come up is the question.
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When I started playing, picked up the DLC at the time (Hag, Doctor, Shape) since it was on sale. Played Survivor for a bit, didn't like it much. Tried out Killer and got into a conversation with the Survivors after a match I played as the Shape. They said noone ever played Hag. Tried her out and loved the gameplay. Over a year later, she's even better and I wish I had the time to devote to playing her, but need to get those Prestiges first. So she sits at P3 L50 until I finish up my list of P3s to complete.
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When I watched the Trailer for the Doctor
thats when the Game fought my Attention since in all the Thumbnails was the Picture of the Doctor
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I took a bump on the head a few months back, and ever since then I have enjoyed going through things that put me in an IMMENSE amount of pain.
Boom, I was a Leatherface main.
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Huntress main on PS4: Got DBD on the free release and loved it. Got into a match against the Huntress before I even knew she was a killer and got dropped by a long bomb hatchet and just had to play her.
I now live for the long bomb.
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Once I played Myers I fell in love with his playstyle. He's the one killer (Pig too) who can illicit a reaction from a survivor. He isn't top tier, but the stealth aspect of him is ao much fun. There is no more fun than scratched mirror on Lerys. Also after so watched the Halloween movies I started playing Laurie alot more often too... I think I see a pattern here1
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Why main 1 killer when you can just main killers. I can prestige 1 all my killers and will when use all there green and purple add ons. i can have favourites like leatherface for farming and the spirit for fun. But i choose to try to play them equally cause very enjoyable.
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Hmm, I just might maybe main the nurse, not quite sure yet. And yes I have the joy of blinking on PS4, where you can't do a 180 in a 10th of a second, (I can't wait to get a PC) but I manage. I was naturally going to main clown, as the challenge of the nurse was stuck in my head, but I saw Tru3 play her, and I wanted to play the "Killer" tier killer. The one killer that was actually feared, that had the true power role that all killers should have. But I was still worried about my platform, so I found a incredible guide on the nurse for ps4, went on to my second psn account where I had the perfect learning environment. (Rank 20)
The first game I played, Quaded, second: Quaded, third, 3K. I was sold, I rose to rank 10, where my main account is. I got a perk build, and while I struggle at times, I know that I can do better. Sometimes I wonder why I chose the most challenging killer to main on console, and remember that it's because I want the best chance to win, and the nurse is not only the best chance to win, it's if and only if you can play her well. I main the nurse for the Highest of risks to be given the chance for the Highest of rewards.0 -
Been looped to many times....
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Lol yup I heard a very similar story. I could agree then then and I still can. Very understandable reason.Global said:Been looped to many times....
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I’m a Myers main simply because I love the Halloween movies. Not to mention he is a great killer. Although I’ve ventured off to Spirit since she was released because I love her cosmetics, power, and overall appearance. I WANT to main Nurse but I’m just not good enough to play her effectively. Huntress is another one I want to get good at playing as. For now I am a Myers/Spirit main
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