Clown feels too strong to play against
I’m a survivor main so right off the bat this probably seems a little biased but I feel the clown is just way to powerful in his current state.
The add-on’s feel so powerful sometimes they can make you have the effect longer or a larger smoke radius and I feel those are mostly fine but my problem is the clowns movement speed.
I probably sound like a whiny survivor main and I kind of am but the clowns ability slows you down and he gets like 5 bottles and since they have a radius the require less aim than the hatchets so they are easier to hit and slow down the survivor so why is the clown a lot faster than survivors. The nurse is as fast as survivors but that is because she has an ability that can give her so much mobility and that’s why she’s slow. The hag is slow because she can teleport to traps that are triggered so shes pretty mobile but for them to be good they must have skill. The clown seems like he requires little skill to hit his bottles so he should be as fast as the survivors or a little faster but not as fast as he is right now he should have to use his bottles more strategically so he slows the survivors down to catch them rather than his just throwing a bottle and if there are no pallets basically being guaranteed a hit I think he should be slower so he requires more strategy to play.
I’ve never played him so I could be completely wrong and maybe he should be buffed but I doubt it because I’ve faced a lot of them and some got 4 man games with little to no skill and the survivors I get could just be bad but in my personal opinion he should be nerfed. He is as fast as most other killers but most other killers don’t slow survivors down with their abilities without add-on’s so I feel he should have around 100% ( the same as the survivors ) rather than 115% ( his speed right now ) like most killers.
After reading lots of comments I do agree he shouldn’t have 100% movement speed but I still do think he should have around 110% movement speed or 105% but his affects last longer because once you learn how to play him you can deny things like decisive and his bottles interrupt actions so you have all that power of you know how to use him correctly, I still think his speed should have a minor nerf but his bottles should have a minor buff though.
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Slowing a Killer down so he can slow survivors down in return makes little sense, making the Clown move at 100% speed so he can slow survivors down by 15 for 3 seconds would make him inferior to the WRAITH. Who moves 15% faster than survivors at any time!1
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this is why i refuse to buy any dlc.... same thing happened with freddy. he was a stone-cold killer till they got their money. then they kicked his teeth out.... i bet they do the same thing to the clown. hope yall enjoy nurses because thats what you'll be seeing the most of....
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What rank are you? He's honestly not that strong, while reloading its a free getaway, , there are many cases where a survivor standing in the mist won't be intoxicated, he's a mid tier killer at best
Overpowered add-on? Ever seen a Huntress with 1 hit kill hatchet? Clown got to get behind you throw a bottle into your body then hits, which can be countered by dropping a pellet/window etc
you said you never played him so, time to play him, tell us what it's like on Rank 1 with him and you'll see
he's nowhere near as strong as Nurse, same with Billy and Huntress
if he has 100% movement speed he will end up becoming the worst killer. he won't ever be able to catch up to survivors and survivors can just outrun him. slow duration only last like 2 seconds unless with add-ons
by the time a survivor is slow, the moment he vaulted out the survivor would be in another loop spot already
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He is quite easily countered, he still suffers from what most killers suffer from, gen rushing
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His bottles can be easily dodged. Since they fly so slow. He's mediocre at best.
Do you really want to face Nurse only?
Nerfing every mediocre killer until killers have no other choice than playing nurse or survivor.0 -
I have no clue how to play against him because he is so weak that noone plays him, thats why I get screwed easily when I try to loop him. (literally palyed against 3 or 4 clowns so far)
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He is actually a rather strong Killer since he can deny a lot of the survivor shenanigans without special downsides once you learn to manage your bottles correctly.Master said:I have no clue how to play against him because he is so weak that noone plays him, thats why I get screwed easily when I try to loop him. (literally palyed against 3 or 4 clowns so far)
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@ChesterTheMolester said:
He is actually a rather strong Killer since he can deny a lot of the survivor shenanigans without special downsides once you learn to manage your bottles correctly.There is no better feeling then throwing a bottle through an upstairs window on Haddonfield and hearing those screams. Really makes it easy to deny some house loops.
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Clown is a Huntress mixed with Doc. Doc can stop you from vaulting with his shock and immediately switch and knock an entire row of teeth out. The Clown can actually hit you much sooner than a doctor can switch stances and hit you. At least he could on the PTB. You just cant do damage with his bottles. Like the doc's shock. But even with no addons, you can throw a bottle quite a distance away, and like other people have stated, being able to throw a bottle through an upstairs window is satisfying. Meanwhile, kinda OP. He's the only killer that can do that.
I play more survivor than killer (about 60/40) but... IMHO, Huntress' Hatchets and Clown's Bottles should have an infinite distance and only disappear when they come in contact with something(maybe this was lag for the Clown but in quite a few games, bottles disappeared in midair when thrown AT me, while Huntress has a known travel distance before her hatchets will just vanish).
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if he trows a bottle,just run in the other direction.don't try to loop him and look behind you from time to time.
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