Poll: What are Hillbilly's Best Very Rare (Purple) Add Ons?
Hillbillly has four Very Rare Addons:
- Lopro Chains - Continue a Chainsaw Sprint after breaking a pallet or wall. Survivors hit within five seconds take damage for a single health state.
- Pighouse Gloves - While overheated, break pallets, gens, and walls 20% faster (Brutal Strength) and decrease pallet stun duration by 50% (Enduring).
- Spiked Boots - Increase turn rate by 44%. Increase chainsaw stun duration by 28%.
- Tuned Carburetor - Increase chainsaw charge speed by 25%. Decrease base movement speed to 4.4 m/s.
I would like to see what the community feels is Hillbilly's best purple addons. I will update this post with the thread replies.
What are Hillbilly's best Purples? His worst? Why?
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Figured I'd separate my vote from the original post.
I feel Spiked Boots is his best Very Rare addon. I think the turn speed allows for more hits with zig zaggers, makes cross map navigation easier, gives me the zoomies feeling, and helps with snipes. He feels more versatile with these imo and is one of the few addons imo that make him feel like a better killer.
Have to say I wish his Very Rares didn't all have drawbacks to each one though.
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- LoPro
- Boots
- Carburetor
- Gloves
The bottom two are debatable.
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Unpopular opinion, but I'd say Tuned Carburetor.
Lopro Chains are heavily, heavily overrated. You're only liable to get one use of them a round before the survivors catch on, and from then on they'll just predrop while out of sight. There's also a minor delay before piercing through the pallet, which coupled with Billy's low turn rate and the survivor being able to move means there's a good chance you'll get sidestepped. It also removes one of Billy's main strengths, if used - his instadown. Still, at least it doesn't hurt you.
Spiked Boots are... alright, but not fantastic. Increased turn rate isn't a huge deal unless you're using Dad's Boots with it, in which case it can actually be pretty strong. There's also always the risk of colliding with the garbage hitboxes of many reworked map objects. (looking at you, Macmillian trees)
Tuned Carburetor is a transformative addon. Combined with Doom Engravings, it's actually surprisingly strong, but 4.4m/s is a heavy price to pay for a powerful chainsaw. But the power of a Carburetor Engravings chainsaw can't be understated. Try it yourself. It's very similar to the Crack Billy of old. I was hesitant at first, and depending on the map/tile it can be a deal-breaker that stops you from getting hits, but it actually makes his chainsaw a threat.
Pighouse Gloves are a meme. You shouldn't be intentionally overheating to begin with, and the benefits aren't that significant without an entire build dedicated to it. Plus, you're sacrificing your instant down to get value.
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1. LoPro Chains
2. Tuned Carburetor
3. Spiked Boots
4. Pighouse Gloves
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I love the LoPro chains! They can create some very inventive plays and catch out less-aware survivors. Also, you can attack from afar, through a pallet from a direction they may feel safe from.
Basically, LoPro all the way, followed by the Boots. The better steering is always welcome. The other 2 depends on what you're after: The Carburetor is good for those wanting quick, fast downs, although messing it up is more costly, and the gloves can act like a couple of extra perk slots such as Enduring and Brutal Strength combined, but keeping the Overheat at that level to truely benefit may have more cons than the pros you get. So gloves are probably more situational, even though if you can get them to work then they are veru useful.
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LoPro. No question. Billy is hard countered by safe dropping pallets. LoPro at least gives you a chance to punish that.
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Lopro chains, followed by Spiked Boots. Pighouse Gloves used to be good, now they're not. Tuned Carborator could be good but also you're a 110 killer now and your animations still don't work so no it isn't.
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Spiked boots. Lopro chains are way too situational in comparison even when taking the fact that you can curve into account. I find im more likely to get chainsaw snipes using turn addons than a free hit from lopro chains. Boots will also help you navigate around the map easier which means better map pressure. Other 2 I'd just dismiss as garbage. We have "become huntress speed for a primer bulb" and the other is just made by someone who hates the killer.
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Tuned Carburetor is only good with Engravings, otherwise it's hot garbage. Lopro is just always good, especially for pallet zoning, which I don't think the guy above me realizes.
Sooo
- Lopro
- Tuned Carburrator WITH DEATH ENGRAVINGS
- Spiked Boots
- Pighouse Gloves (that rework really sucked lol)
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The shade
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😎👉️
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1-3-4-2
Lopro Chains is imo his best addon. It's just great when a survivor "outplays" you just to get hit after wasting a pallet.
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In terms of usefulness, spiked boots. In terms of being interesting/fun, lopro chains.
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I absolutely love Tuned Carburetor.
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I’d consider Lopro Chains to be a bit overrated as I feel like it’s easily countered by just taking a corner. Spiked Boots massively increases the turn rate which is a big deal so I’ll take the boots.
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the biggest strength of lopro is zoning, not for hits. that's why it's rated so highly esp in competitve.
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Lopro turns Billy into a BTEC Pyramid/Nemesis with movement, tbf.
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Lopro Chains
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Lopro Chains
Would be shocked if someone argued that. I'd argue that Lopro Chains is Hillbilly's best addon in general.
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Lopro are his best purple addons. The boots are nice, too. Tuned Carburetor is okay, but heavily map dependent. Probably one of my favorite addons for indoor maps, to be honest. Pighouse gloves are absolutely terrible. I once ran them 4 games in a row without ever getting any value out of it. Complete and utter garbage.
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Honestly didn’t think of it that way.
Yeah true but honestly PH and Nemesis were designed in making that their strengths. Billy has other strengths and I don’t consider Lopros to be impactful against good survivors. It’s decent, just not great.
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Updated first post with results to this point. Lopro is the leader by far with ten out of sixteen votes. Spiked Boots seems to be recognizably a good addon as well with four votes. Tuned Carberator has a couple of votes of confidence; and surprisingly made a couple of second place spots in the lists above. Pighouse Gloves is considered bad by all so far who spoke on it.
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