Nurse or Freddy overall.

Not counting her bugs.

I voted after you posted this, so I'm number 4, but I'll still give my reasons.

Biggest one is consistency. This MAY just be because I'm a console player, but Nurse's blinks seem very inconsistent with hits. I've had games where 9/10 swipes after a blink I've gone "HOW DID THAT NOT HIT?" when any other killer who lunges would have hit the survivor.

Survivors are also a huge part to consider when talking about these two, and if you're going to talk optimised killers, then we have to talk with optimised survivors as well. While, yes the Dream World can be avoided through the use of other survivors, or the alarm clocks, but during a chase, you are good as trapped. And Freddy's power is much harder to avoid, as opposed to Nurse's blinks that can be easily baited or juked. Freddy literally shuts down loops this way, giving Hindered and other status effects. Admittedly though, Nurse is still the better chaser if you can predict/learn/counter survivor tricks but this is still a very slim margin.

Freddy also has a greater sense of map pressure, with his Dream Projection and Dream Snares, he has greater mobility options, that do not also give away his position, to move survivors off generators. His power is useful outside of a chase, yet he is still considered a Chase Killer. Nurse however, is only about the chase. Is she better there? Yes, but she is weaker to Freddy in every other sense.

There is also one thing that Freddy does that Nurse will never be able to do outside of a few niche circumstances and builds: Easily cancel Borrowed time. While not normally a factor, and you shouldn't target the unhooked survivor, many high ranking survivors have gone to using the unhooked as a body-blocker. With the Dream World giving the Oblivious effect, and his lullaby NOT a terror radius, Borrowed Time does not activate, meaning it is easier to punish an unhooker, and take another hook in the process.

Nurse wins in terms of Chaser, but for Gatekeeper, Malicious and Devious, I have to award the win to Freddy. Between his map pressure, information and ability to shut down loops almost as well as Nurse, Freddy seems like just a better overall choice.

Nurse would be good, but I like Freddy more as he can cut down chases faster than her now

After her change, she cannot catch up to survivors running in a straight line with blinks

Its due to the distance you can blink (and the little delay between now) that a survivor can cover the same distance as you blink while running in a straight line. Basically if you miss a blink attack on a survivor they can gain more distance than you can ever hope to make up (provided a path forward exist).

Now mind you this isn't possible on all maps but it makes playing Nurse on console even tougher because we already have horrible fps to deal with.

Nurse is literally slower than a survivor. Survivors are a base 4m/s. Most killers are 115%, or 4.6m/s

Nurse is currently at something like 3.6m/s meaning that you are either super reliant on your blinks to get someone, or the survivor has to be record levels of dumb.

Nurse at brown feels harder than Pig at green.

Good nurses dont depend on the map

Well i mean it really depends on the nurse players skill, in some aspects yes the layout of the map can change to outcome of a chase whether you have no chance to escape and have a 50/50 chance, that is if the nurse is an amateur and is still in the learning phase rather than on a nurse main i didnt mean it to be a offensive thing i just had to point it out sorry if i sounded mean or toxic in someway 🙇‍♂️

Nurse is probably better for a experienced player who knows what they are doing, but sadly you can do the same level of play with less frustrations and less grind to learn Nurse with equal or better results with another killer.

Before her nerf my answer would of hands down been Nurse.

Freddy does not suffer from the crippling penalty of missing a survivor can cause you to basically just lose them because they can hold W.

A nurse who misses a swing after blinking can legitimately be run to the end of the Thompson House map. From one wall to the other without catching up. A survivor just runs straight and wins. Then imagine this happens again and again. Between her slow base speed and her current recharge speed without addons she crippled from the start just by missing and then attempting to catch up. Freddy can do better simply because of Being a 115% with Snares.

Ya Nurse can go through walls, but not all Survivors are brain dead enough to fall for that either. Nurse isn't someone you loop conventionally so comparing both in a manner like that will always make Nurse be stronger.

Least Freddy can catch up and play with them.