Do You Think Plague Is In A Good Spot Currently?

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I wanted to know what Killer Mains, Survivor Mains, and everyone in between thought of Plague’s current viability particularly at red ranks. What do you think of her power’s viability from the POV of playing her and playing against her? Do you think she needs to be nerf’d or buff’d in any way or need an addon pass?

Here are my thoughts, feel free to share your own:

Vile Purge:

•Is a good way to get people injured while preventing a speed boost from doing so. If caught out in the open a survivor will likely reach max sickness even without effectiveness addons before making it to a loop.

•With Addons like the green or purple effectiveness addons vile purge can seen like an inevitable injury state depending on how good the plague player is.

•At tall loops using your vile purge can seem like more of a hinderance rather than advantage as your puke seems to travel so incredibly slow (more on that later)

Corrupt Purge:

•Entirely in the control of survivors without the Apple addons as you only get one corrupted pool in the beginning.

•Survivors can completely deny your power in one of two ways.

~ Never cleansing making you a 115% killer that can only M1 and if they have an exhaustion perk they likely have a way to extend chase even while being max sickness.

~Constantly cleansing and flooding your pools so quickly that they just end up giving you your power at a time that’s not up to you and completely resetting every pool in the match.

•Is a great way to get injuries and downs but is entirely up to the structure of the loop and the competence of the survivor running it.

Overall Thoughts: Plague has addons that work well with her power and are in a good spot; however her power can be a bit underwhelming against survivors that know how to make her power frustrating to use. The fact that she has to completely traverse the map at times to get her corrupt purge can lose her a lot of close games. If survivors are smart to only cleanse by gens that are already done or in parts of the map otherwise of no interest for them to be it can be impossible to find a good time to get that purge. In addition to this, plagues vomit seems to travel very slow and is clunky to use without rubbing oil and her green cooldown addon. I personally love plague but I believe making her purge less clunky to use would serve her well in terms of quality of life.

DawnMad

Well she has game slowdown, she has a chase ability, she has information while she still has a ton of counterplay. I would say she is in a really good spot.

Axe

I only have one issue with her, if every survivor cleanses from every fountain the corrupt purge will be forced on you.

This needs to be fixed, I don't understand why survivors have this kind of control over the purge.

HectorBrando

I dont think Plague is a bad Killer per se but she feels very clunky to play as, same as Trapper and old Doctor.

Brokenbones

https://forum.deadbydaylight.com/en/discussion/comment/2177540#Comment_2177540

I believe that's a thing to stop survivors from cleansing themselves into a corner, so to speak

The devs probably always want survivors to have the option to cleanse, even if the plague doesn't use her power (Which yeah makes no sense really but hey, it probably happens)

HealsBadMan

Lots of Plague's capitalize on perks that benefit from having injured Survivors- personally I love Thanataphobia (game slowdown) and Blood Echo (severely limit Exhaustion perk usage), either being very strong since everyone's injured or incentivizing cleansing, which leads to Corrupt Purge. Vile is mostly used to get someone infected quickly or vomit on items of interest (if enough people arent infected), only use Vile to injure if they're close to full infection or you're in an open area. Corrupt is used like Huntress Hatchets, use if you got LOS or for animation locks like vaults.

The one issue with her power is that the hitbox of her vomit (both Corrupt and Vile) is misleading. It's not a continuous stream but several small projectiles connected via visuals. So instead of XXXXXXX its --X--X--X--X where X is a projectile. This leads to seeing some animation and audio cues that you infected someone but you didn't.

Also since you mentioned addons, she's got pretty good ones w/Vile effectiveness, addons that improve movement speed/charge time/recovery time for both purges, and a great Iri. addon with Black Incense (Iri. Seal needs a rework though, its trash).

HectorBrando

https://forum.deadbydaylight.com/en/discussion/comment/2177540#Comment_2177540

You can always consume an extra pool to renew your power and avoid that, I do it when I get mass cleansers, sure I lose some seconds on wathever vile purge I still have left but is not that bad.