[Blight/Nurse] Skill floor & ceiling

Volcz

So I just got matched against a god nurse with 13k hours playtime. Instantly downed all 3 of my teammates on Meat Plant pretty much so I was left with hatch or gates. Thankfully, I was running exactly an end-game build and opened gates in less than 10 seconds after hatch closed. He was on me as soon as door opened though.

We both got to talking at the end and it was a nice convo.

But what we couldn't agree on is skill ceiling and floor.

This nurse with 13k hours was saying Nurse took more skill, where as Blight was more 'luck'. Thats when I was like no..not luck. He brought up the hit or miss collision with objects on maps and I referenced LilithOmen who is an insane player and knows pretty much every collision on every map or if you just slide off. Knowing that info and using it to your advantage to make absurd plays (which Lilith does do frequently) isn't luck to me, its skill and experience.

I think Nurse is high skill floor. Where as Blight is high skill ceiling. At the end though, he brought up his 13k hours and just said 'trust'. So I'm wondering, what does everyone think about these 2 klillers? We all know they're at the top, but it seems people are still divided on 'which killer takes more skill' when to me its very clear.

mischiefmanaged

It's more like a skill curve when it comes to Blight and that's pretty common with most types of characters like him in most video games.

There's generally a lot of games where doing very simple strategies at the beginning works. You then start to incorporate more complex things and do worse. Once you master the more complex things, you do better. Blight's collisions are very similar. If you start to understand things like hug tech and collision but don't fully know them, trying to do advanced techniques can make you worse with Blight than if you just didn't use them.

Nurse is a bit more straightforward with her curve. You learn the strategy with Nurse and then you learn to control the Blink. Once you learn the Blink, the rest is rather straightforward. There's some things to learn like understanding certain survivor jukes and how to counter them, but the curve is more straightforward in my opinion. Nurse doesn't really have the lower part of the curve though like Blight does. You can't really succeed at Nurse at all until you know how to control the Blink in chase.

Regulus47

I don't think it's fair at all to compare these killers. Blight has an actual skill curve, even if his skill floor is very low. Blight is like a set of stairs, nurse is like an elevator. Sure, if you've never seen an elevator before, it might take you a second to learn which buttons to press. But after that you don't need to think at all to use it. Similar with nurse. Learn how to hold M2 and look at survivors and boom you are unstoppable. At least blight has to learn exploits and think while using his power.

Shi283

I use Bright on my PS5 and it's easier to play with a controller.

Bright can be controlled by horizontal eye movement only, but nurses also need vertical eye movement to blink.

Also, it is difficult to feint with a controller

Rulebreaker

Personally we consider Blight to have a higher ceiling than Nurse, but nurse has a higher floor thats near blights ceiling. As some above said, blight you can learn incrementally and has more details while nurse its learn how to play nurse and your pretty good for most matches.

Sava18

Nurse has the highest skill floor for sure. But Blights skill ceiling is far higher than nurse. There is only one character people think is mechanically harder than Blight and that's Billy, but on the other hand Blight also has to learn more about maps than every other killer in the game by a large margin. Once you know what tile a survivor is playing, it's only reading them at that point for nurse. While Blight has to identify the tile, the collision around the tile and reading the survivor. It's just incomparable.