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Make the Dark Lord have an initial transform cooldown

Dracula is definitely a very strong killer, not the strongest but arguably top 5 and inarguably top 10.

One thing that makes him so strong is how fast he can get his pressure up. As soon as the match starts he can turn into bats and fly to where Survivors are. Sure, he can't see them, but good killers can usually figure out rough Survivor spawn locations, or he could use lethal pursuer, which is already a really powerful perk on high mobility killers. I watched some top tier Dracula gameplay and literally all pros used the strategy of instantly using bat mode to fly across the map and get early pressure.

This is a really powerful ability, especially considering how unrestricted his movement is in bat form. Nurse has fatigue, Blight has to bounce around walls, Hillbilly has to deal with a reduced turn radius, Onryo starts with her TVs turned off, etc... Dracula can just get there with fast movement and teleportation.

To counteract this intense, consistent early pressure I suggest starting Dracula off on a cooldown. The Lich, who has a similar power to the Dark Lord but is overall weaker, does have such a cooldown so I don't know why Dracula doesn't.

So my suggestion is to give Dracula an initial cooldown on transforming to prevent sudden high pressure starts. I would think 20 seconds would be a good time, this should make it available by the time you found the first Survivor but doesn't allow instant pressure on the spawn area.

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  • Member Posts: 9,513

    no thanks. if anything, cooldown of every killer at the start of the match should be removed. A lot of player asked BVHR to put Corruption invention base-kit. Corruption invention base-kit is not what is needed. what is needed is remove of cooldowns at the of the match. Allow killer pressure survivors early on and not need to run CI.

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    This would just widden the gap between weaker and stronger killers even more. Sure, Lich or the newly buffed Freddy would appreciate it, but weaker killers like Legion, Trapper or Pig would get not change and therefore just fall behind even further.

    It's also not just fun game design. Survivors usually have an opportunity to get in a bit of gen progress and take in their surroundings to identify the best ways to loop. That's why other killers can't do that. Dracula reaches then so fast they can't even do that.

    It also doesn't seem intentional to me, there is a reason you don't start out in bat form or in the Survivor spawn area.

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