Trickster: Constructive Criticism-Pros and Cons

drpynz
drpynz Member Posts: 247
edited March 2021 in General Discussions

I have played Trickster over 14 hours and I have over 1K hours playing Killer in the game. This is what is great with Trickster currently.

  • The backstory - Very cool backstory. Really love it. Probably my favorite backstory of any Killer
  • Perks are really great. These perks were needed to change the gameplay, mindset, and raise the skill level of people playing killer and survivor. Really great job on the perks.
  • The power is conceptually great and needed for the game to spice it up.

The Cons:

  • Trickster is too slow. His wind-up is similar to the Huntress without the killing power. The Huntress Terror radius is smaller too. To me this doesn't make sense. You cannot down anyone or injure someone in one hit and your terror radius is larger than someone like Huntress that can down/injure you in one hit.
  • Michael Myers terror radius of 6 meters and can down immediately with his power.
  • Hag terror radius of 24 meters and has the ability to be anywhere on the map at anytime.
  • Spirit has 24 terror radius but can invis and move faster and survivors don't know where she is. Strong map pressure
  • Oni regular speed can use his ability to run and 1 hit down people when he wants. You have to use Main Event in 10 seconds or its gone. You are slowed down to 3.68 M/S when you are in main event. Someone with Urban evasion can literally loop you around a pallet without hitting them. It also takes .15 seconds to activate it on the keyboard, after that another 1.5 seconds for it start throwing, when its done 3 seconds of fatigue and then another 10 seconds before you can throw knives again....
  • The gunslinger is a 4.4 killer with a 24 m terror radius but he can hit you from outside the terror radius and reel you in and you get a mending timer.

The Trickster has 0 slowdown on survivors like Trapper, Pig, Plague, Gunslinger, Freddy. No insta downs like the chainsawers, Mikey etc. No map pressure like most killers.


This DLC has a great story. Good perks and a good idea but the killer really is probably the weakest killer in the bunch. Other than him being cool with a great backstory and awesome theatrics I dont see anyone playing him much until he is reworked.

One thing I would like to mention. The Addon "Trick blades" makes him seem on par with other killers. I think if you put Trick Blades in his base tool kit you have a good killer. I think you have to take persk and addons and everything else out of the equation when you compare killers. His perks are teachable and any killer can use them. His base power compared to all the other killers falls far short. No chase, no map pressure. The perk no way out is great and entices the killer to not tunnel but any killer can use that perk. Tricksters base power doesn't measure up to any other killer.

I still think he's probably the coolest killer though. Great job on his design, sound effects and perks.

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