Clown needs something.. but what?

Unfortunately you are right. I love playing clown but he gets a lot less viable in high ranks. Which saddens me because he was my first main until the sad realization.

Clown just needs a way to apply pressure. I love this cosmetics though santaclown and his new one.

hes fine as a basic m1 killer. his power needs a small buff, thats all.

literally only small quality of life changes

increased reload speed, movement speed while reloading, maybe even make the flask of bleach base kit or make intoxication effect last longer.

If any killer could pop out of lockers...

I think clown could be buffed by making the gas damage generators and intensely buffing the base duration and intensity of his bottles

I actually like this idea as well, and to add on, this can be for all ranged killers such as Plague, Huntress, and Clown.

It makes sense realistically and can make applying pressure more easy for those killers. 😁

Also, thanks, I think this combined with your idea will make Clown solid. 😊

Residual Exposure

Every second a survivor is exposed to the Clowns Toxic fumes, their action speed is reduced by x%.

Survivors periodically cough due to continued Exposure to the Toxic fumes revealing their location to the killer. Becomes more frequent with further exposure

I don't think that's why they buffed Freddy...

Drinking his own tonics and sprinting around wildly.

I disagree that his power should get even more power in chases. Chases vs Clown are already uninteractive early pallet drops as is. Everyone chews through gens while the chased survivor spends all the resources in the map and with his nonexistant map pressure the survivors can afford to waste all pallets and still escape. Making him stronger in chases will just make him even more uninteracitve in chases and survivors will have even more of a reason to hold M1 to oblivion vs him. Not good design.

He needs his bottles to stay the way they are and to have some sort of map pressure. The strongest and best designed killers in the game have both map pressure and chase power (Freddy does exactly what Clown does in chases and has a teleport, Demo has both, Billy has both, Oni has both with his power active). The only exception are stealth killers, but stealth is a power in itself and does some things that map pressure does. You can't make a killer that's just chase power, they'll end up both weak and boring to play/face.

Let him place traps on gens, lockers, and pallets. When activated, a cloud of his bottle juice erupts, like normal. This would give him a bit of map pressure. And, you know, surprise! Like a clown.

Personally wheen affected by tonic you should have to "snap out of it" like you do with madness it would make his power alot more viable

You're right. He's great, but something is missing.

I love the idea of the fake generator.

Not sure how the traps would work though. Could be something silly like a 'Floppy Shoe' trap. A survivor runs over it and they stick to them an beep with every step they take, giving away their position. LOL

Entity grants increased movement speed going through his toxic clouds.

From the sounds of it, he could use an asthma inhaler.

You say it like Clown would be a viable killer.

He is pretty fine I think but because he is still a bit behind most other killers a couple of his addons should be in base Clown instead. Thick Cork Stopper and Robin Feather. So nothing huge but still an improvement.

I play Clown from time to time, not much so maybe my opinion isnt super informed but I believe he could benefit greatly from more consistency with his bottles.

Right now I feel they work in a very random way unless tossed in a straight line against someone with no obstacles in between. You can toss a bottle near a window and it would only affect the side where it landed even if there is gas everywhere, sometimes the arc seems to change in very weird ways, invisible branches break them at random if you try a high arc toss (especially on MacMillan maps), corners mess with the gas area, invisible edges break them before they reach the desired destination etc.

In understand making throwable objects isnt easy but at least with Huntress the axe throws always feel the same, same arcs, you charge 1 second they go faster but always seem to go at the same speed when you charge them 1 second (hitboxes are crap tho).

Also he could benefit from an improved reload mechanic, first the less bottles you need to reload the faster it should be the action, second if you need to reload 4 bottles and you stop halfway you should get 2 instead of starting over again and third maybe adding a timer which replesnishes 1 bottle after X seconds so you can reload all at once like now or wait for the timer to give you one, this could help him during chases if he misses or if he gets swarmed by survivors trying to help the downed guy.

Many ideas: Transform the gas into a laughing gas (nitrous oxide) with effects similar to the madness of the Doctor but with fits of laughter each time a dramatic event happens to the survivors (death, hooking) and other malus.

Not that the clown is particularly bad, strong killer in the right hands. I do always think that if you hit a player with your bottle, they should suffer some kind of negative affect. It's hard to balance this, but anything like 25-30% increase in gas effects would be something. At least this way, the added effect is based on being skilled rather than it just being a buff

Clown needs map pressure. So how about him being able to teleport to a throw bottle like Sombra? Puff of smoke and suddenly a fat clown is in your face.

If it's too OP, just give a delay on the teleport and or a timer how often he can teleport.

Rewards amazing skillshots, planning and manipulation of the map.