Tips against the clown
Hello, yes I'm quite serious..
I know the clown is really low on the killer tier list. I know most people will also just laugh at me for dying against a clown but damn no matter what I do this killer kills me super quick.
I'm talking 10 to 20 seconds chases from start to finish.
If I ''hold w'' he throws a bottle my way and I get hit then I can't see anything & I get downed at the next vault/pallet.
I try to strafe and avoid bottles? He catches up too quick. I pre-drop a pallet? I'm either on the wrong side because no matter what 50/50 I try, I get mind-gamed or I do that to myself. Then I vault or keep running and I'm too slow to get anywhere else. I feel the only place I have hopes at evading him would be a building where shutting down everything with bottles is hard.
I literally do not know what I'm supposed to do against the clown. I've read everywhere that you should just ''make some distance'' (against something faster than me?) and that I should never try to loop. So what then? Are you just supposed to accept he'll down you and you gotta hope the team is doing gens quick enough? Because my escape rate is probably 5% against clowns and I got quite decent in chases. I hover around rank 1-3 and while that doesn't mean anything, that's all you can say in this game as far as accomplishments go.
So all in all does anyone have any other tip I could use against this ugly dude... or any perks that you'd found helped you when you faced a clown? I would take anything at this point. I'm so frustrated that when I see the (almost) weakest killer in the game; I know I'm dead.
T.L.D.R. Please I'm bad against the worst killer & I could use anything you can throw my way except ''hold w''.
This really is THE killer I try really hard not to kill myself on hook against.. 😔
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As a clown main I won't share my dark secrets to success
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Same way as Freddy, drop pallets early. Usually, loops are composed of 2 cycles and you can try to extend its life by running the side that didn't pass gas.
Also, try to interchange tiles and break away after breaking LoS. Here's a video with good examples:
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Rotate loops and drop pallets early. The gas is meant to shut down individual loops, so if you can chain them together, you can avoid it entirely. He's also good at getting unfortunate hits because the tonic's slowdown can make it so you are hit before you reach the pallet. Try not to greed with clown.
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Thanks for your answers
Except the dark secrets up there 👀
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I’m a Clown main, and if you’re ever against a good Clown that knows exactly what they’re doing, there is really very little you can do in a chase other than drop (waste) Pallets early. Which isn’t ideal, and they’ll still down you very quickly regardless.
Seriously, Clown’s biggest weakness is survivor stealth. Avoid getting into a chase with Clown in the first place by playing cautiously. Clown’s only means of pressure is ending chases very fast, and quickly moving onto another chase once another has ended.
Too long out of a chase hurts Clown very badly.
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Drop pallets early.
That's all there is, he's an incredibly boring and bland killer and there's nothing you can do outside making him kick the pallet.
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Drop pallets early, rush gens early. Clown is pretty much screwed at that point.
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But they did a rework on him, obviously that resulted in a far more interesting Killer!
Oh wait, instead of just slow bottles, they added fast bottles.
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You pre-drop pallets. The counterplay to him is just as boring and brain-dead as actually playing the guy.
There's really isn't much else to it, it's completely one-dimensional gameplay.
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He's one of the most boring killers to play against, hide, drop pallets early, sometimes just hold W but dodge behind large walls that he can't bottle you through so you can keep going forward without dealing with slowdowns.
He's as braindead as he is to play against as he is to play. If you are at a loop he is going to throw a bottle where you are going and a yellow where he is going and force you to take a hit, that's about all he does, he ends chases really quick.
Splitting up and doing gens very far apart so he can't get any slug pressure and you'll probably win. It's why Freddy is so strong even though clown is better at ending chases quickly; because he can deal with that and clown can't. Freddy can also counter stealth and things like BT where clown cannot.
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