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Which Characters are Played as the Most?

I was just thinking about this, and I don't think I've ever seen any statistics regarding pick rates for different survivors and killers, so I wanted to know if there are any.

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  • Chaotic_Riddle
    Chaotic_Riddle Member Posts: 1,953
    Dwight and Legion, clearly. :sunglasses:
  • Tarvesh
    Tarvesh Member Posts: 765
    Squadette
  • TAG
    TAG Member Posts: 12,871

    I imagine Hillbilly is probably up there. Just guessing, though.

  • Aluna
    Aluna Member Posts: 66
    I play Feng and The Pig
  • Okapi
    Okapi Member Posts: 839

    Billy, Claudette, Dwight, Nea and Meg have to be the top 5

  • ATOMIC_ACE_PUGG
    ATOMIC_ACE_PUGG Member Posts: 359
    Hillbilly leatherface and Michael myers
  • Eveline
    Eveline Member Posts: 2,340
    Blendette.
  • BACKSTABBER
    BACKSTABBER Member Posts: 1,809

    we would need a complex and long SQL query from the DBD side to answer to that accurately

    so from my inaccurate perspective I think Claudette is the most played cuz she is camo/perks

    from killers is harder to guess

  • Chibi
    Chibi Member Posts: 1
    edited February 2019

    if there isn't any statistics available do your own. start with scientific method. make an observation, ask how why who or what, answer question - hypothesis, design an experiment to test hypothesis - with replication. accept or reject hypothesis based on data.
    what I would do as my own test: play a number of games, can be 10, 20, 50, however many. The more one plays the more data one can collect. play half as a survivor of your choice (exclude yourself so bias play wont be an issue. [i.e picking same character the whole experiment.]) and other half as killer. Each game you play tally up who is playing what characters. eventually you will find out who is played more. fun little idea. I'd do this twice in the year. one at the begging and one near October. i'm sure you'd get different results. others can test it too, never hurts to compare data.
    just a random suggestion :)

  • Saint_Ukraine
    Saint_Ukraine Member Posts: 942

    @not_Queen said:
    Claudette and Trapper are the most played.
    I was confused with Trapper as I was expecting Billy. Someone explained that it is because it's the go-to character for new players.

    Thanks Queen.

  • Dreamnomad
    Dreamnomad Member Posts: 3,931

    Claudette is no surprise. She seems to be picked around 20% of the time in games I play as the killer. That is a rough guestimate though. Trapper on the other hand is a little surprising.

  • HavelmomDaS1
    HavelmomDaS1 Member Posts: 1,948
    not_Queen said:

    Claudette and Trapper are the most played.
    I was confused with Trapper as I was expecting Billy. Someone explained that it is because it's the go-to character for new players.

    Wow, trapper really surprised me, I thought billy or wraith.
    Do you have statistics of the 2 least played characters aswell? Would be interesting, I will guess nurse (because too difficult) and Jake :)
  • SlothGirly
    SlothGirly Member Posts: 1,146

    @Aluna said:
    I play Feng and The Pig

    Hey, that's not fair, I play Feng and Pig! under breath: there can only be one.

  • Dwight_Confusion
    Dwight_Confusion Member Posts: 1,650

    Yeah he's on the cover of the game, and the 1st one. And he looks menacing. Plus Samination's videos have glorified him in a good way.

  • Saint_Ukraine
    Saint_Ukraine Member Posts: 942

    @Dwight_Confusion said:
    Yeah he's on the cover of the game, and the 1st one. And he looks menacing. Plus Samination's videos have glorified him in a good way.

    That's funny, because Samination usually depicts the Trapper as kind of a pushover.

  • TheMidnightRidr
    TheMidnightRidr Member Posts: 599

    @not_Queen said:
    Claudette and Trapper are the most played.
    I was confused with Trapper as I was expecting Billy. Someone explained that it is because it's the go-to character for new players.

    What about higher rank killers and survivors? Is it any different?

  • Cymer
    Cymer Member Posts: 946
    Well trapper is the first killer to select and if you are new and have no clue or favorite you just pick the first one and if the my dailies aren't broken, the trapper is the first daily you have to do.

  • Dwight_Confusion
    Dwight_Confusion Member Posts: 1,650

    @Saint_Ukraine said:

    @Dwight_Confusion said:
    Yeah he's on the cover of the game, and the 1st one. And he looks menacing. Plus Samination's videos have glorified him in a good way.

    That's funny, because Samination usually depicts the Trapper as kind of a pushover.

    Well that is what I'm saying. He's glorified as this "cool" funny type of killer. SO people might play him more for that too...

    Just because he's like the really unique nice killer.

  • Mat_Sella
    Mat_Sella Member Posts: 3,556

    @TheMidnightRidr said:

    What about higher rank killers and survivors? Is it any different?

    There's no way it stays the same, at least for killers. someone has to get pushed out to make way for Nurse and Billy

  • The_Bogeyman
    The_Bogeyman Member Posts: 269

    Trapper's a surprise. He is a boring killer to play.

  • Hoodied
    Hoodied Member Posts: 13,020

    @not_Queen said:
    Claudette and Trapper are the most played.
    I was confused with Trapper as I was expecting Billy. Someone explained that it is because it's the go-to character for new players.

    Trapper I expected, its the default killer,
    Claudette is something........else

  • Lavernne
    Lavernne Member Posts: 98
    edited February 2019

    Would be cool to see a complete statistic about it. :) About how much everyone is played.

  • Saint_Ukraine
    Saint_Ukraine Member Posts: 942

    @Dwight_Confusion said:

    @Saint_Ukraine said:

    @Dwight_Confusion said:
    Yeah he's on the cover of the game, and the 1st one. And he looks menacing. Plus Samination's videos have glorified him in a good way.

    That's funny, because Samination usually depicts the Trapper as kind of a pushover.

    Well that is what I'm saying. He's glorified as this "cool" funny type of killer. SO people might play him more for that too...

    Just because he's like the really unique nice killer.

    Fair enough.

  • The_Crusader
    The_Crusader Member Posts: 3,688

    @not_Queen


    Do you have rankings of the nost popular DLC from top to bottom?

    Not looking for the actual sales numbers, just rankings.

    E.g. I imagine the Halloween chapter would be near the top due to how popular laurie and michael are. Whereas you never see clown or Hag, so I imagine curtain call and Of flesh and mud would be nearer to the bottom.

  • The_Crusader
    The_Crusader Member Posts: 3,688

    I guess.


    It's hard to tell though when shards and shrine come into it. I.e. buying ruin off the shrine and ditching both, or people that bought Kate with shards and skipped the dlc pack.


    Kind of glad less people use Hag. She's a pain in the ass when I play survivor. I think stats wise she was confirmed as the least used killer, followed by clown. Which is weird because both are pretty good.

  • Javierdbd
    Javierdbd Member Posts: 8

    The most played characters are Meg, Claudette, Nea, Billy, and Nurses

    I almost never see any Tapp, Quentin, Adam or Freddy :(

  • Eninya
    Eninya Member Posts: 1,256

    I doubt Claudette would be the most picked survivor if she didn't have Self Care/Empathy starting out. Those are a lot more useful to a new player than Sprint Burst, and possibly Urban Evasion.

  • not_Queen
    not_Queen Member Posts: 1,114

    I can try to see if I can get data on more. Not promising anything tho.

  • FireHazard
    FireHazard Member Posts: 7,314

    I'm surprised by Trapper also, and Claudette I wasn't cause... its Claudette lmao.