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Rate all 2022 DbD Killers (Sadako, Dredge, Wesker, Knight)

Chocolate_Cosmos
Chocolate_Cosmos Member Posts: 5,734
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Sadako - ★★★

While being weak and underwhealming Killer, she is smoth and fun to play as and againts. She looks great (animations, desing, etc.). I just wish she gets buffed both to her base kit and to some of her addons (many of them are big meh). Overall solid 3/5. If she wasn't so weak I would give her 4/5.

Dredge - ★★★★

Dredge is probably my favorite Killer this year (unless The Knight gets huge changes or something). While his main power isn't super original (another teleport ability), the fact that he has Nightfall (probably my favorite part of his kit) and you can scare Survivors near lockers or even grab them is fun to me. He is okay Killer but very fun to play as and fun to go againts. Overall 4/5.

Wesker - ★★★

Wesker is the most popular Killer this year, no doubt. Probably for many the most favorite this year. For me, Wesker is pretty fine Killer that is fun but also bit clunky. He is not bad to play againts. He is cool and love his voice lines. His power is a bit on the simple side but Its fun to yeet Survivors on walls and stuff. Overall 3/5.

Knight - ★★ (so far! Subject to change)

Knight so far for me has interesting concept of power and unique look which is refreshing. He looks good. However his power is atm is not super fun to play as. His Guards are rather weak and Survivors have all the info and tools to avoid your power. His patroling is bad and his chase power is below avarage so you will probably end up using it just in chase. Cool idea, not great execution. If he gets big QoL improvements and some buffs, he could be 3 stars. Overall 2/5. My least favorite this year.

How do you like Killers from 2022? Any favorites? Any bad ones? Etc.

Comments

  • dugman
    dugman Member Posts: 9,714

    In terms of how much I enjoy playing them, Dredge and Sadako are two of my favorite killers since I really like both stealth and teleportation. I think I give Dredge the edge here a bit simply because of their aesthetic but they’re both a lot of fun. I think Sadako is consistently underrated in effectiveness, I personally put her around Wraith’s bucket in that department, and the dev stats and stats on Nightlight also kind of back me up on that since she consistently has above average kill rates at all brackets when you look at the data.

    Wesker is fun but like I said I enjoy stealth and teleportation and Wesker is more of a pure in your face chase killer. In terms of effectiveness I put him fairly high, slightly better than Demogorgon overall, mainly because he has enough indirect gen slowdown from his infections to keep survivors running around wasting time combined with his Bound being able to get around corners and go surprisingly long distances in a single attack. And again, I think the numbers back me up.

    My gut impression of Knight so far is he’ll be about on par with Artist with strong zone control but no map mobility to speak of. He also looks like one of the more complicated killers to really master so I think it’ll be a little bit before we see true Knight mains that are using him to his full potential. (For instance almost all the games I watched yesterday with him the Knight players were just going max distance on patrols every single time and never canceled old patrols that weren’t useful which seems inefficient. To me it looks like most of the time you would want to drop quickly with little or no patrol to guard a tile you think a survivor will try and run back to when you flush them out or to drop a guard at a loop you’re already running to force a transition, a bit like how Artist chases people.)

  • Mew
    Mew Member Posts: 1,837

    sadako: 3/5.

    Like you said, her visual and sound desgin is absolutely amazing- but shes just not the most fun to play as imo. shes just an m1 killer with a teleport on a 100 sec cooldown, with pseudo stealth. plus has a playstyle that can be kinda unfun as survivor (the condemn only no hooking playstyle). Also perks are pretty good.

    dredge: 2/5

    amazing design, but is kinda boring to play because of how much his power incentivizes holding W. Perks are also not the best (my favorite is darkness revealed) and i dont really enjoy playing against him, for the same reason as above.

    wesker: 3/5

    Power is super fun to use and i love playing him, and his visual design is pretty good. Perks are meh sadly, and i dont enjoy playing against him much-feels like every wesker is insanely laggy and will tunnel relentlessly.

    knight: 1/5 (as of right now.)

    Very cool design, and the power sounds good on paper- it just doesnt seem well executed. the guards are easy to counter if you can hold W- but if you cant, you kinda just die. he seems like a worse version of Artist with no ranged attack, but 10x more unfun to play and basically on the same level for unfun to play against. only things i really like about him are Hubris, and how unique his power is. (also, i might be biased because Knights power is what Legions power shouldve been... 😭)