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Billy Is Too Weak in 2v8

Star99er
Star99er Member Posts: 1,463
in Feedback and Suggestions

I don’t feel like he was compensated enough for his saw no longer insta-downing.

Comments

  • k3ijus
    k3ijus Member Posts: 278
    https://forums.bhvr.com/dead-by-daylight/discussion/422138/billy-is-too-weak-in-2v8

    I played billy and i noticed he was better as a support rather than offense. Chain next to teammates and let them m1. The only weakness is out of the 5 killers 3 of them have a m2 ability so its kinda hard to get value normally if the killers arent colmuncating

  • Coffeecrashing
    Coffeecrashing Member Posts: 3,904

    Billy is mostly useful to zone survivors towards their teammate. For example, if Billy and Huntress are chasing the same survivor, Billy can use his fast movement to zoom past the survivor, and try to push the survivor towards Huntress. It's the same reason why Wraith is decent in this game mode. When one of the killers can easily move way faster than survivors, it makes it way easier for the killers to pincer attack a survivor.

    This is also the reason why Trapper and Huntress are the weakest killer duo in 2v8. Both of them move so slowly, that they can just spend way too much time holding W, to chase survivors, because neither of them can zoom at high speed to quickly set up a pincer attack. This will increasingly become a problem with 2v8, if more killers are added to the game mode, because any duo pair that has two killers that are stuck moving at default speed, are going to struggle to zone survivors into a pincer attack.

  • Devil_hit11
    Devil_hit11 Member Posts: 9,169
    https://forums.bhvr.com/dead-by-daylight/discussion/comment/3769213#Comment_3769213

    i think it is mainly because those slows killer relied on camping, 3 gen and defensive gameplay to be effective and 2vs8 mode focuses on aggression, fast hooking and potent 1vs1. Billy is great for that. He easily setup pincers, can find cage players to tunnel them out and has decent 1vs1 if the player is skilled at curving. None of broken loop design in the maps matter if it is 2vs1.

  • Emeal
    Emeal Member Posts: 5,330
    edited July 2024

    Billy can literally be at any point in the map in SECONDS, I highly doubt Billy is underperforming in 2v8.

  • mizark3
    mizark3 Member Posts: 2,253

    The funny thing is Trapper is a better support Killer than Billy (at least in my matches on both sides). Trapper's traps force a Survivor to permanently be on disarm duty, and if they get chased, someone else needs to take over. If someone doesn't take over disarm duty then not only are Trapper's chases threatening, but the Killer's duo partner's chases are even more threatening, with the looming threat of a trap at any given loop. Plus the traps are effectively making their teammates chases instadowns without even needing the effort of hitting the Survivors themselves.