The backtrack on Pig nerfs was good, but it's time she gets a real add-on pass.
Some of devs' comments have been along the lines of "we want to shift focus from the RBTs to the ambush."
Ok, cool, most Pigs I've seen have been asking for that for roughly 6 years at this point. However, despite add-on passes in the past, countless nerfs, and a handful of buffs, Pig's add-ons are still heavily at odds with how her power should function.
By that I mean Pig's RBTs have always been intended as a set-it-and-forget-it stall. If you're spending your whole match following people around to Jigsaw boxes to tunnel them or to try to force their head to explode, you are undeniably wasting the stalling power of that survivor not wanting to do gens right now.
It's time to do a thorough clean up of Pig's add ons, and move most, if not all, of the debuffs on add ons from RBTs to "survivors hit by an ambush attack." This overall will push Pig to be able to benefit more from using her ambush more liberally, and remove a lot of junk add-ons which only serve a purpose when tunneling trapped survivors. You can't seriously tell me that Slow Release Toxin has ANY purpose besides making tunneled targets easier prey.
On top of that, her base kit should have a few tweaks to make her a more fluid killer.
First, the roar from the ambush attack should either be removed, or moved to when she starts the ambush. She already needs to make herself slower than survivors to approach, then stop in place to charge the ambush, and at that point it's not even a reliable attack. Having a honking great "SURVIVORS, I AM PREPARING TO ATTACK YOU, NOW IS THE TIME TO USE YOUR SPRINT BURST" alarm is downright unnecessary.
Second, I think John's Medical File should be removed and her base crouch speed should be 4.00, equal to survivors. Many, more threatening, killers can move at the same speed as survivors while using their skill. Stealth, these days, is more often survivor speed or faster. Pig's slow speed is a relic from the past, and an aspect of her kit intended for using her ambush solely to attack unaware survivors on gens. We have 6 years of knowing that isn't how the game actually works out. Map mobility is too important for a self-slowing M1 killer to work well.
Second, screaming from perks should not cause Jigsaw box searches to be interrupted. Since she has stealth on demand, Face the Darkness and Thrill of the Hunt is a genuinely unfair combination which can lead survivors to an inescapable death to the RBTs. They should be threatening, they should not be easily cheesed to force deaths.
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Sounds good, do you have ideas for the addons? I hope it is something more than ten variations of status effects slapped on the ambush. But I fully agree that her current set of addons is too heavily focused on the RBTs... I think the faster animation to put it on and slightly longer search time could stay though, same for the increased number of hats, so like 4-6 addons or so and the rest should be changed. And even those that keep their function could be adjusted.
It reminds me a bit of Demogorgon, his shred is obviously his main power and despite that he has like 4 addons that do something about that and the rest only affect the portals...
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