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Who are the current weakest killers and why?

ManOMaker
ManOMaker Member Posts: 368

Title. I kinda just wanted updated info and what people think.

Comments

  • Brimp
    Brimp Member Posts: 3,552

    Trapper and skull merchant. Hag I would say is barely hanging on by a threat. Trap killers in modern dbd really aren't doing good with the addition of certain survivor perks.

  • GeneralV
    GeneralV Member Posts: 12,666

    Trapper and Skull Merchant, I would say.

  • Shroompy
    Shroompy Member Posts: 7,779

    Merchants power is purely ornamental a good chunk of the time

    Myers is the only killer in the game who's entire power can be replicated with perks

    Trapper can at least snowball really well and can be an absolute menace on certain maps with the right add ons, and also basement

  • BlackRabies
    BlackRabies Member Posts: 1,317

    Trapper and Skull Merchant easily.

    Trapper takes to much time to set up his traps and easily countered. Skull Merchant gutted by the devs and intentionally left in such a horrible state for a full year until her rework some time next year.

  • jesterkind
    jesterkind Member Posts: 9,544

    Definitely agreeing with Trapper and Skull Merchant.

    Trapper's weaknesses are numerous- he's slow, he has ridiculously effective counterplay, his power is very simple, he doesn't have much versatility in playstyles from his addons or base power, map design changes over the years have hurt him, and so on. He has some saving graces, like perk versatility being pretty high on him and his capacity to snowball being high, but he's not very good overall.

    Merchant's drones practically don't do anything these days, meaning her power against even remotely aware survivors is just on-demand stealth. It's not nothing, but unless you want to try ten times as hard for half the reward as even other weak killers to force her drones to give value, that's all you've got.

  • 100PercentBPMain
    100PercentBPMain Member Posts: 2,764

    it's just skull merchant.

    Trapper always had the blowout potential from basement. skull merchant has nothing besides her Pocket Insidious

  • MechWarrior3
    MechWarrior3 Member Posts: 5,368

    Trapper, Skull Merchant. Obvious reasons of course.

    Houndmaster (due to her bugs)

    Sadako (due to survivors having too much control over her power)

    Demogorgan - he’s outdated and has been power crept. He needs some love.

    Myers - he’s in a weird spot. I don’t have a lot to say because I don’t play him, but I’ve never lost against a Michael.

    I feel like I am missing someone but I could be wrong.

  • SoGo
    SoGo Member Posts: 4,254

    Eh, Hag is definitely a contender.

    She avoids trash tier pretty well.

    Ofc, Rusty Shackles are a must and you have to lean into one of her two annoying playstyles (3-gens or proxy-camp).

  • Brimp
    Brimp Member Posts: 3,552

    Thats if you can avoid all her bugs thats going on right now.

  • Shroompy
    Shroompy Member Posts: 7,779

    Rusty Shackles is probably one of the most overrated add ons in the game and the only way I can think of why people think its strong is because its obnoxious to go against. If you trigger the trap and she decides to TP to it she's going to hit you anyway, but she actually has slightly less of a chance since theres no camera flick.

    Id say Hag is fine. Power crept sure, but that doesnt necessarily make her a bad killer, probably mid B tier at worst

  • Abbzy
    Abbzy Member Posts: 2,139

    Skulmechant number one I would say then trapper (atleast his power still does something not like merchants which is just way worse clown with temu stealth), mayers he is weak without tombstone and ghostface weak without addons and the les gens are left his stealth is worse and worse his play area gets smaler all you need to make him powerless is just someone to look at him and he is done all he can do is then get like 1,5 seconds stalk and 4,5 is what he needs for mark then they are killers like pig (her mains will beat me for this but its true she is weak),legion,demogorgon.

  • Caiman
    Caiman Member Posts: 3,472

    Ghostface. An M1 killer countered by being looked at. No mobility, no range, no info, just stealth that can be counterplayed by looking at him.

  • ShanoaLegendaryPlz
    ShanoaLegendaryPlz Member Posts: 1,241

    I agree with trapper. But i still get results with skull merchant by constantly using her drones for stealth. I'd say pig is one of the easiest to lose with even with the traps causing massive slowdown. The way she usualy ends up winning is tunneling people trying to get their traps off.