Let’s talk about Blight
I recently made a post a few days ago discussing how often I see blight and it feels like every other game is a blight. Gathering up all the experience and data I think I can confidently say blight is in need of a nerf. His speed addons should be reworked entirely, I kid you not every single blight runs double speed and it gets very repetitive time and time again. They give blights already stupidly fast basekit speed even more and makes looping a half decent blight almost impossible. His cooldown and rush tokens also need to be looked at. I find it funny how the community hated chuckys 10 second cd so much but blight also has a 10 second cooldown at max along with nurse only having a 6 second but that’s a topic for another day. The amount of 2nd chances blight gets to readjust is just overkill, at max I think blight should only have 3 rushes. Each with a 4 second recharge for a maximum of 12 second cooldown. I think reducing the amount of rushes, removing speed addons along with slightly increasing the total cooldown on blights power will put Blight in a much more balanced and reasonable state. There’s a reason why blight is one of if not the most popular killer in the game, he’s very strong, not that hard to learn, and can hold his own very well against every team you throw at him. Let me know what you think of blight and if there are other changes you’d like to see happen.
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I think we are at the point where he is clear as the strongest killer now ahead of Nurse.
I have been facing a large number of Blights in solo queue myself, recently and if the player is even half decent, it is more often than not an easy win for the killer. An open map, even more so.
If they are running speed add ons and something along the lines of Lethal, Pain Res, Grim Embrace and one of BBQ, DMS or possibly Eruption, Surge, you'll be lucky to do more than a single gen because it just turns into a game of blocked gens and hook exchanges or slug/hook another one and return to the hook before the original person is rescued if survivors are slow.
He is extremely strong and I'm not surprised someone was able to get nearly 2000 wins in a row with him and was only stopped by a cracked SWF specifically hunting him down.
At least the games are over quickly and it doesn't last for 30 minutes or more like Skull Merchant used to. That's probably how he's been able to avoid a major nerf!
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yea I can agree with him being the best killer in the game rn simply because of his consistency. I think once time goes on we’ll see more and more blight nerf posts like chucky and SM to the point where the devs will inevitably have to do something about his basekit and speed addons. Currently on nightlight blight is the 2nd most popular killer only under Freddy because Freddy just got his rework. I guarantee if Freddy didn’t get his rework then blight would be the most picked killer rn. Yea there’s a tome challenge for blight but that doesn’t justify the absurd amount of blights running the same addons and pretty much same builds (all meta). I hope sometime during 2025 Blight and Nurse will finally get their long awaited nerfs to bring them in line with the roster.
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Great idea let's nerf one of the killers that can compete with 4 man SWF teams
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Thing about Nurse is, I barely see her anymore, at least compared to the amount of Blights! I play against them occasionally but just feels like her pick rate has gone through the floor. Plus, apart from the idea of nerfing her aura reading abilities while charging blinks, I don't know what else they can really do with her. At one point she was clear as the most powerful killer but she has been reigned in a bit when they changed her blinks to special attacks and killed Starstruck Nurse for one.
Im sure she had the lowest kill rate in some of the kill stats BHVR released last year so I doubt they feel the need to touch her any time soon. A good Nurse is an absolute wrecking ball, but there must be a lot of bad ones to give her such a low kill rate!
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she’s one of if not the hardest killer to learn and that tanks her quite a bit…most killers you can get at least a 1-2k picking them up, but until someone starts getting her blinks down it’s basically 4e.
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Agree with that. I was pretty terrible when I tried to play her to get the trophies associated with her. Several of the killers I got adept the very first game I ever played with them. Certainly not with Nurse!
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I’ve definitely at a time contributed to tanking her KR because I was absolute garbage trying to get dailies with her and was humbled quickly.
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