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Which Killer feels the worst to play against? Explain why.
I made the same post in the form of a poll and accidentally only posted it with three of the killers and I can’t figure out how to delete the post. So, please answer here.
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Hillbilly.
"Oh, I hear a completely directionless chainsaw noise, I should get behind cover."
"LOL [BAD WORD] YOU, you hid behind the SOUTH side of an obstacle instead of the WEST side so you're instadowned when I come around the corner in under half a second, no chase for you!"
Oh, you went through a window and around a corner? Nah, you're still downed.
You went 180 degrees around a wall? Nah, I turned at the start so I still hit you.
"Counterplay" is not "50/50 shot that he'll turn left when you go right" and vice versa.
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Freddy.
You just cannot escape him and his aresenal of abilities.
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Spirit. As soon as you get in a chase your odds of surviving are close to null. The entire sequence is in her favor since you get little to no information to what she is doing and when.
Even being stealthy and using Iron Will won't work if Spirit uses Stridor (and she should, since that nullifies her only weakness).
At least she requires some skill, Hillbilly is just free.
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How can you have an accepted answer to a question that doesnt have a correct answer?
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Billy. I can't loop him (I know it's my fault)
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Id say the Hag. I can never see her traps unless I already know theyre there. Feels like I have to crouch EVERYWHERE to avoid getting hit.
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Pig. Cause if she gets ya, you gotta get that contraption off your head, after someone unhooks you, and you have to heal on top of that
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Hag just because if you don't bring a flashlight (which are worse on console anyway) then she can lock down an area really easily.
It's not that I have trouble against her myself, it's also a lack of any people trying to counter her among my teammates either.
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Hillbilly by far. Hes so annoying to go against and his hitbox is outrageous
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Killers that eliminate chases- so...
Hillbilly. Coz it's easy with the right perks and map (and maybe a bit of luck) to just lock down a match.
Honorable Mention to Spirit coz chases cease to exist.
I also find Scratched Mirror Michael to be a bit obnoxious, but I would always want it to exist... even if it sucks to play against.
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hillbilly with insta saw haha no thank you
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I can't stand Ghostface. At my ranks, everyone who plays him tends to camp and breaking him out of his stalk seems very inconsistent. Bores me to death.
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Billy. His mobility is insane, combined with an insta-down chainsaw, absolutely despise him.
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Hillbilly sometimes. His chainsaw is so loud but yet it's not directional? Not only that but his chainsaw is busted.
Spirit is something else. As soon as you engage chase with her your dead. It's even worse when she throws on ruin.
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As far as my survivor experience goes, from a personal point of view I’d say Huntress because her non-directional lullaby gets into my head and drives me crazy. It truly annoys me, a lot.
From a gameplay perspective, definitely Spirit.
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I know it's because i'm new, but the one i REALLY hate is doctor. so much ######### going on that keeps you distracted, not a fun match when it's doctor
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for me personally id say plaque for the fact i play solo survivor mostly when i play survivor
and i have to deal with teammates cleansing and i get punished for it by going down by her corrupt purge
also the complaints about hillbilly is really weird yes if a billy is good he can challenge a lot but this takes a lot of skill to get really really good most billy’s arent that good
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Most of the insta-downs but mainly, Iridescent Head Huntress. Just have an overwhelming feeling of leaving the game instantly.
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Trapper. I enjoy chases and I like to run around the map and you don't really get to do either against him. Also, getting caught in a random trap feels a bit cheap.
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The Plague is my least favorite. Hearing non-stop vomiting noises for 15 min can get really obnoxious.
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Spirit. The only killer able to down me in less than a minute.
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Legion because mending is the most annoying thing to do in this game. The fact that you’ll probably have to mend 30 times against him makes me wanna put my head through a wall. It got to a point where if I see Legion using Feral Frenzy, I just stand there and let him hit me. Then I immediately mend right in front of him and he looks at me like I’m dumb. As if I’m going to run off to a corner just to mend
Freddy is also incredibly annoying because of his lunge and his dumb add-ons that keep you in the game for 45 minutes cause people don’t know how to pressure
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Trapper.
Yeah he is weak, but nothing is scarier than knowing you might step on a trap and running straight into it a couple of seconds later for me.
I prefer not to play mindfield as a survivor.
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The survivors, let me explain especially during rank reset it's still bad down in red ranks but the team mates get you killed so much that it is insane. Having games where all 3 survivors get downed because they are right next to each other and don't know how to separate when the killer comes out essentially losing everyone the game in the first 5 seconds is quite annoying.
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Hag I suppose. Nothing is more infuriating. Sure Spirit may not have any counterplay and Nurse is breaking every rule in game even after her rework but atleast they can still make mistakes. Hag just plays like a regular killer but can just spam jumpscare traps everywhere and spam them under a hook to have enough to hookcamp from the other side of the map.
The only one who comes close to her level of infuriation is The Doctor.
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Spirit. Certainly seems to attract a lot of campers/tunnelers.
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Ghostface. His detection is completely broken. Also almost every Ghostface I face is a heavy camper/tunneler.
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Hag, hands down. She's the reason I had Urban Evasion perma-slotted for the longest time. She severely limits mobility and makes unhooks 3x more stressful than any other killer.
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All of them, I'm just a bad survivor
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Map wide bing bongs wraith.... some players can be obnoxious with this addon and just sit there going in and out of stealth just torcher players.
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I don't like Killers that need to setup, like Trapper, Hag & Plague.
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I disagree with your comment about Hillbilly. The very first killer I played was Hillbilly and by my I played him for a quiet a while and it was very rare that I didn’t get a 4k. I can recognize that I was at a lower level (I only play surv) but I tried killer recently to rack up blood points and I was still able to get a 4K with Hillbilly even being rusty. That’s just me though
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I agree. I wouldn’t say I play DBD a lot anymore but to me it just seems like Ghostface’s kit is designed to use hooked survivors as bait and camp. Not to mention, WHY IS HE SO INSANELY FAST!?
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Trapper because you can outsmart him and mind game him.. but his traps are non-mindgameable.
also ghostface because I cant detect him half of the times while looking straight at him in the center of my screen,
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I NEVER got chainsaw sniped. Like, legit never. Everyone who gets chainsaw sniped is a complete noob or just had a potato moment and just has to git gud. Just wanted to make this one clear
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Spirit.
i can not freakin handle this passive phasing xD
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Spirit requires less skill than Billy. All you need for spirit is good headphones and good ears.
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And for Billy you just need a right hand.
Seriously though, both Billy and Spirit have great map mobility, but these are the differences than make a mediocre billy a much higher threat than a mediocre Spirit:
-Spirit has a power bar cooldown, Billy does not.
-Spirit cannot see survivors while phasing, Billy can while sprinting.
-Spirit moves at 4.4m/s, Billy at 4.6m/s
-Spirit's power allow for normal hits, Billy is an instadown.
-Spirit's power cannot break Palletes, Billy can.
A good spirit has to use her power, mobility and mindgames properly to be a threat. Spirits who just chase like normal M1 killers will probably get bullied, so there's definitely a good amount of skill and game knowledge required to play the Spirit.
There's a reason Billy is one of the first killers a new player will pick up, his power has no downsides, incredible utility and besides learning how to drift and flick the chainsaw, there isn't much depth to him.
TL;DR
At casual and mid level, Billy is a much bigger threat than Spirit. This tends to indicate that to do well with Spirit you need to develop skill and game knowledge much further than to do well with Billy.
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I will play against any killer as long as it's not Spirit, Trapper or Ghostface.
Spirits not a super busted killer but some of her add-ons are kind of busted to the point where the game becomes irritating & boring. Best perks to use against her: Iron Will & Urban.
I hate going against a Trapper, even a really good one but his traps are the real reason why I hate going against him. A smart trapper would trap spots that some survivors wouldn't expect to be trapped and it also throws me off because of the fear of not knowing where he trapped.
I really hate going up against Ghostface even though he's my second favorite killer in the game and the reasoning is that I really hate his stalk mechanic from both killer & survivor perspective. It's either I'm getting knocked out of stealth before I can even fully stalk someone or I'm being knocked out by a survivor behind a wall that I can't even see. Even from survivor pov it's either I'm knocking him out of stealth really quick and easy or sometimes I'm right on his back trying to knock him out of it but the audio doesn't even queue and there's moments were I'm staring at him trying to knock him out of it and it just ends up being a staring contest and I'm the one getting exposed.
So easy way to change Ghostface... Get rid of the stalk & expose mechanics and just make him a really good stealth killer and the only way to get him out of stealth would be to stun him with a pallet or if he goes for a hit/swing and knocks himself out, like it does now. I actually like the way how Tru3 plays Ghostface, it feels better and how he should actually be played plus with the changes coming in so he can't be detected by OoO anymore, he's basically the best stealth killer in the game.
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Trapper because I walk in the obvious ones and it is my downfall
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What i mean is chainsaw flicks and feathering not every billy is avle to do this most dont know about it
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I'll just make a list for this, from the most fun to face to the least fun to face.
- Hillbilly.
- Huntress.
- Demogorgon.
- Wraith.
- Bubba.
- Pig.
- Myers.
- Hag.
- Doctor.
- Legion.
- Nurse.
- Freddy.
- Plague.
- Clown.
- Trapper.
- Spirit. The absolute worst to face. I pretty much fall asleep any time I verse her because she is not engaging at all and usually when you get caught it's because you guessed incorrectly.
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Plague
When playing solo survivor trying to understand the general consensus on whether we're going to cleanse or not it's annoying.
If you don't cleanse it just takes one person to cleanse and basically put you all at risk.
If you do cleanse you potentially put the people who don't cleanse at risk.
Also for the love of god hearing my survivor constantly puke is more annoying than the stupid whispering from the doctor's madness tier 3
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Nurse. Everytime you hear her scream you know it wont be a fun game.
sloppy>slug meta>ignoring every mechanic of this game yayyy
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