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Hot Take: Ghoul's not OP, just annoying
I'm biased because I'm a killer main, but I spend almost as much time as survivors (about 60% killer, 40% survivor). I don't own the ghoul, and I don't want to buy him, but please don't just nerf him. He's annoying because of that free health state. Unlike legion who has to actually get to you and stab you, the free health state on Ghoul is an auto aim attack doesn't feel like it has a lot of counterplay.
Edit: Just to be clear, I also hate every game I've had against him. I just don't think it's purely him being strong that makes me feel that way.
I don't expect this solution to be implemented, but here's an example of something better for the free health state:
After your first swing, you may left click to perform a Tendril strike. This is pretty much identical to Xenomorphs tail attack, but it only deals out deep wound. This will obviously be how you gain enraged instead of the current method.
Is this perfect? No. Realistic for behaviour to add? No. Is it better than what's in the game right now? I don't know. Ideas sound way better in your hand than out loud, and that's why I am saying them.
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Nah hes definitely OP and annoying.
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No, he's 100% overpowered. They removed Chucky's scamper but ghoul has a much stronger version of it. Furthermore he has both insane map mobility and chase power. Most killers with such incredibly oppressive and strong abilities like spirit or nurse have lower movement speed to somewhat compensate but nope, ghoul is just a regular movement speed killer.
Furthermore he is so fast, many times his attacks are totally unavoidable, he can fling himself so quickly it does not matter if his terror radius is 40 meters he can simply be next to you in less than two seconds. Killers like Billy can also do this but lack the auto win button of ghoul that instantly damages a survivor which removes any form of counterplay. Even perks like sprint burst don't matter since he literally forces survivors to stop. Essentially no killers have free 1st hits, even legion you can try something at a pallet to counter his power. Stealth killers that try to sneak up on you, there's the ability to either hear them or run perks to help. Ghoul? There's nothing besides sheer luck and the deck is heavily stacked in ghouls favor.
Even his ability to vault pallets is stupidly broken. Look at Wesker, his is long enough that if a survivor pays attention they can do something about it, with ghoul he essentially looses nothing from vaulting a pallet and can instantly catch up. It's a no win situation against the ghoul.
TLDR, if they want to make him balanced remove his powers ability to hurt survivors to get rid of his ability to get free injures with no counterplay on survivor side OR make it so his powers in chase are dogwater and reduce his base movement speed so he actually needs to put in some effort to get the down.7 -
I agree, he is definitely overrated just like Chucky was. He is very good at getting injures and travelling around the map but not much else. His performance entirely depends on how dense with pallets the map is, since if he gets a map with a lot of loops like Ormond Resort, he won't do much since he can't really anti loop. That's why WOO is such a hard counter to him, since as long as you always know the closest loop to you, he will pretty much never cut you off and down you, which is the only way he can use his power to down you.
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So make him a worse legion?
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So ur saying he could be completely unplayable so no one would play him yeah that totally makes sense
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Some players want weak opponenst (m1 killers) or just nurse, blight maybe billy and then wraths, trappers, legions, wraiths and all weak m1.
Look at blight as exemple he is mechanicly hard ok, but still he can brute force you like nothing more than current ghoul, he is always behind you and some loops you cant use longer walls like against m1 killers or he will catch you with rushes. Idk what many players liked about playing agaist his hug tech, he could use it almost on every loop and it wasnt that hard( easier than pin pong play and flicks), all it was about will he fail to do it correctly and miss you, like nurse blink but with more restrictions( will she hit it or not).
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Otz has him S tier on his tierlist.
Granted otz tierlists are meh he doesnt count perk potential, addons etc
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