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My Killer Tier List
I was bored and thought I'd put up my tier list with explanations for why I placed people where they are
The 3 most important aspects of a killer for me are:
- Mobility: How easily the killer can travel around the map
- Lethality: How quickly the killer can down a survivor
- Pressure: How well a killer can force survivors to act in a way that benefits them
Alright, lets move on to the actual rankings
- S- Killers who are incredibly strong both in and out of the chase, to such an extent that it can be overwhelming. They have incredible mobility, pressure, and lethality that far surpasses any other killer.
- Nurse: Incredible Mobility, Incredible Lethality, and Incredible Pressure
- A-These killers excel in at least two of the 3 aspects I mentioned above.
- Spirit: High Mobility, Very High Lethality, Average Pressure
- Billy: Very High Mobility, High Lethality, High Pressure
- Demo: High Mobility, Average Lethality, High Pressure
- Hag: Low to High Mobility (addon and player skill dependent), Average Lethality, Insane Pressure (You will do what the Hag wants you to if she plays well)
- Freddy: Average to High Mobility. Average to High Lethality. Average to High Pressure.
- Freddy bounces inbetween A and B tier based on the sleep status of survs and the addons he runs
- B-These killers are ones that excel in one of the 3 aspects and are okay in the other two (or make up for a failing somehow) With good maps, they're perfect as is.
- Trapper: Average Mobility, Average to High Lethality (Skill Dependent), Average to High Pressure (time dependent)
- Ghostface: Average Mobility, High Lethality (when used correctly), and Average to High Pressure
- Myers: Average to slightly above Average Mobility, High Lethality, Average Pressure
- Huntress: Low Mobility, Very High Lethality, Average Pressure
- Pig: Average Mobility, Average Lethality, Very High Pressure
- Plague: Average Mobility, Average to High Lethality, Average to High Pressure
- Similar to Freddy. Her Corrupt plague vs constant insta down dilemma makes for an odd state where she bounces between C and B tier mid match.
- C-Killers that are average across the board
- Bubba (GrootDude, forgive me): Average Mobility, Slightly Above Average Lethality, Average Pressure (Crazy defense but negligible if survs are smart, devastating if not) Fatal Flaw: Tantrums and Wonky Hitboxes
- Bubba has an instadown but it's fairly easy to avoid when playing properly and he can defend a hooked surv like it's a prized posession but both of these things are just better done by B tier killers with similar aspects to them and can be ignored by decent survivors. He's still definitely the best of this tier and, in the right hands can feel like a B tier killer.
- Doctor: Average Mobility, Average Lethality, Slightly Above Average Pressure
- Sure you can find literally anyone, but can you actually catch them? Sure you can keep them off of a gen or two, but can you keep them off of enough? He can excel with a 3 gen strat and he's decent in a chase but most killers can do the same but better. He's mostly here for people who struggle finding survivors or like to annoy people. Like everyone else at C tier, he's not bad, he's just not good. Just average.
- Legion: Average Mobility, Average Lethality, Slightly Above Average Pressure
- He's like a combination of Plague and Doctor but each one excels where Legion Fails. Too many nerfs made his frenzy kind of pointless (Some were justified, the speed nerfs weren't). The only reason he's not D tier is because his tracking was left after the gutting.
- Wraith: Average Mobility, Slightly Below Average Lethality, Average Pressure
- Without addons Wraith has to announce his presence before he's capable of hitting a survivor, something no other killer has to do, he isn't fully invisible in stealth (unlike Spirit), and he doesn't even get a good speed bonus to trade off for being cloaked and useless
- Bubba (GrootDude, forgive me): Average Mobility, Slightly Above Average Lethality, Average Pressure (Crazy defense but negligible if survs are smart, devastating if not) Fatal Flaw: Tantrums and Wonky Hitboxes
- D-Killers who fall below average in at least two categories with no saving grace
- Clown: Average Mobility, Below Average Lethality, Low Pressure
- His lethality is low for the same reason his pressure is low, he's slowed down when he throws bottles and the slow from the bottles is pretty trash for something you have to aim. He has to reload his power constantly and smart survivors can easily ignore it unless his throws are perfect. He has no way to keep people off gens, force saves, draw survs out, etc. Incredibly Addon reliant and Incredibly Perk reliant.
- Clown: Average Mobility, Below Average Lethality, Low Pressure
TL;DR
I'd love to see your guys' opinions and answer any questions about why I placed people in certain spots ^-^
This is more for fun than anything
Comments
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I feel like every tier list on these forums is the same tier list.
Maybe a few rearranges among C-D, but generally they all seem the same.
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FINALLY someone placed trapper in a spot he deserves!
i see soooo many tier lists where he is F tier or one of the 3 worst killers... like, use the traps correctly and you can have an insane amount of pressure and lethality.
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That's fair. But I rarely see people actually explain why they put people where they are. It's always just the list with maybe one or two small aspects explained
That's why I wanted to do this, something that explains all of my opinions in a simple, hopefully easy to understand format
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That's why i marked him as "Average to High" on those two aspects because it's entirely dependent on player skill. A skilled trapper can honestly feel like A tier sometimes.
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I'm not saying I believe your list is in any way wrong or bad, I am just saying that there seems to be almost no debate about which killers perform best and worst.
Even in skilled hands (youtube, twitch streamers)
I am not sure what that means, just making the observation lol.
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Why do people keep forgetting Ghost Face?
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Don't worry, I didn't take it as an insult ^-^ You're completely right
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He's on there
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See him now. Must have lost him in his Night Shroud.
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That joke hurt me, but also made me smile.
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But...he didn't forget...
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I swear, he was crouching behind some barrels when I posted that.
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Yeah, he does that. 😂
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Trapper is way too high. And if you want to know why I put him so low : his power wastes his time more than it wastes survivors times, he loses 2-3 gens to set up his power, his power has a lot of counter play, very weak against SWF teams, very weak against Object of Obsession, you can Dead Hard over traps, you can sabotage his traps with a Toolbox, his traps have bad hitboxes, he has a very weak base kit, he relies on purple and red add-ons and his power is RNG. Here it is, you can say I didn't give you any reasons behind my placement.
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Hag>everyone else and it’s not even close. 😜 I like and respect the list.
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Huntress is stronger than you think, and Leatherface is the worst killer in the game.
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I wonder why clown should be worse then Legion dafuq? xD
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Switch Leatherface & Clown and put Trapper behind the Pig, the rest is pretty accurate.
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I just have a question. Clown has less lethality than Legion how? Clown has bottles in a chase and Legion can't kill anyone with his power. Being a killer without power in chases.
But overall I think your list is pretty accurate.
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Here is my input
- Spirit and Billy are significantly better then Freddy or Hag. They should not be on the same Tier tbh
- Switch Demogorgon with Huntress
- Switch Clown with Bubba.
- Would put Trapper in C Tier.
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Pf
Switch Demogorgon with Huntress.
Freddy and hag tier B
Trapper at the bottom of tier C
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I say the same I already did to Croquedead and Michi. Prove it to me, without dcing like Michi pls.
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i agree but i would not switch clown and bubba since clown is really weak even played well, i would put the "top 3" in d tier (legion bubba and clown)
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A really good tier list but I feel like you should separate the mid tier killers even more by how much time and setup is required Vs getting a sneak attack without going into chase. @Ark_the_Bonsai
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I'm sorry I took so long to get back to you guys, been a long day.
Sure he'll lose 2-3 gens if you don't run certain defensive perks but after that he can lock down those last gens better than most other killers. Kinda like Hag, he's all about zone control and pressure. He does take far too long to set up compared to someone like Hag and the Dead Hard thing is pretty bullshit (I forgot about it) so he might be a little lower but I wouldn't but him below B tier
To be fair, I'm pretty biased about Trapper. He scares me more than any other killer due to the magnets in my feet.
I used to main her before Pig released and I still don't get why people don't see her as A tier. The amount of havoc she can wreak is insane once she's set up her web.
She only got stronger with those placement buffs.
I still think she's fairly strong. In retrospect she probably would've made more sense at the top of B tier or the bottom of A tier. I still think she's weaker than most others at A tier because of her movement speed, need to reload at lockers, and the ridiculous amount of assets that just cuck her shots. She's still absolutely terrifying in the right hands.
Legion has a lot more pressure than clown due to his "mobility" (if you can even call it that) and ability to keep everyone in the injured state for one shot downs.
Clown slows down every time he throws a bottle, has to reload constantly (which also slows him down), has to move at normal speed *at all times* and is incredibly addon dependent to even be usable.
Interesting changes, but why do you think Leatherface is worse than Clown. I had a tough time with that last tier but I felt Leatherface's ability to insta down, mind game with the saw, and destroy pallets faster put him at the top of the failures.
Like I mentioned before Clown's bottles have too many downsides for me to take him seriously. I could maybe see him and Legion being equals in lack of potential though.
I feel like you're underestimating Hag, but I can see Freddy dropping a tier
As for the Demo Hag thing, the reason I placed Demo where I did is because I value Mobility more than just about anything else and Huntress is severely lacking in that department. Her other strengths definitely make up for it to keep her high. Like I mentioned to Holdout, I think I probably should have put her at the forefront of B tier.
Everyone else seems to think the same there. Hopefully someone will give me a better idea of why they think he's so much worse than Clown.
I'm extremely biased on Trapper. He scares the hell out of me, moreso than any other killer. So I can't argue to much there as it wouldn't change much for me.
I value Mobility more than pretty much anything else that's why I put Demo where I did and put Huntress B tier. Honestly she should have at the very least been the top of B tier though.
You're underestimating Hag, she can dominate rather quickly once she has her web in place. I agree on Freddy, I was very unsure about his placement.
I'm too biased on Trapper to comment. I have magnets in my feet and playing him feels incredibly powerful when you have setup time (though that setup time can be a massive issue given Hag's is faster, stronger, and grants her mobility)
I can kinda see that. Would you leave Wraith at C tier where I placed him?
I would have gone a lot more in depth but I was worried that the post would get too long for anyone to even make it to the Tl;DR. I really tried to simplify things, thanks for the input though
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Thank you all for commenting, I love seeing different opinions ^-^
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I don't underestimate hag, I know her well. She is at the top of B tier. She struggles against swf more than other killers. I play Ooo and the hag is out. She is not top tier, hag mains fear to face decent groups of survs.
I have 2000 hours as Huntress, she is better and more consistent than hag, especially against good survivors. Why you need mobility when when you can simply throw hatchets to other gens. She adds a lot of map pressure because of that, while she can still down people faster than nurse.
Demogorgon is no way close to her.
Like I see m1 killers like myers and ghostface that are simply too weak to be able to face a group of decent survs (since they are m1 killers with a low skill gap) and you put them higher than Huntress.
And one of the worst killers, trapper as king of the m1 killers, which is also dumb, and wait, better than Huntress.
I think you have a poor idea about the balance of this game, no offence.
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That not true at all, I can understand that you say clown has low mobility and has to reload, but against a good clown, you will lose all your pallets in a few min. Clown is a threath compared to Legion, if you take slow down perks with him, like sloppy, pop, corrupt etc and you do good chases, you are atleast abit fine and can get more then 1 Kill.
Legion in the other hand has NO ability at all to down survivors, that means if the survivor is decent enough to loop you, you cant do anything against that, you just have to pray that the survivor does a mistake. And the "pressure" what you mean is not even there because in that time you run with your ######### 5.0 frenzy movementspeed to hit other ppl they last hitted ppl will just mend, so the "extra time" you get for the mend is the time to hit other, this is not how to slow down the game, and smart survivors will just not heal against you and just rush the gens, and you cant do anyting about that.
Sure it is a risk to stay injured, but you still have a HARD time to catch good survivors with Legion, only spirit fury can kind of carry you there, but if the survivor knows how to counter this perk then you are #########. And if the survivors heal for some reason, you still have to waste your time to spread your frenzy again. Clown in the other side dont has to do eitehr of them, he just goes on the hunt and is killing (atleast trying) everytime, that makes more pressure when you get survivors on hooks instead of healing.
That beeing said, it is still my opinion against your opinion, but I hope you understand what i mean^^
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