Who is the most balanced killer?

Im guessing by "balanced" you mean a fair tradeoff between pros and cons? I'd say Oni. He can ramp up in strength if he gets good first few hits and make the survivors bleed, spiraling him out of control during the mid-late game. But survivors have very strong options to deny him early game because he's pretty much a generic m1 killer until he can snowball from his first power.

I'd say either demo, oni or even pig, i think oni might be a stretch because of add-ons but he usually has a slow early game and he makes it back up during the mid/end game so if survivors play really well during end game and/or oni plays really well during early game it's really anyones game, demo is just really fun and not even that strong, he's strong enough that he's at least playable and can be won with but he's not too broken where if you find a demo you auto lose, i think with any background on killer you can pick up demo super easy and have a fair match against survivors, pig is where it's a bit iffy but i think she's really balanced, yeah her boxes can have horrendous rng but that's just any part of a game, but i think the most important part determining how balanced she is, is honestly just knowledge about her dash and crouching, if you know some of the dashing/crouching techniques she can be super fun and you'll usually have a super close game, or at least i do, i don't go out of my way to play her super well or anything but i still think most of my games with her are super fair despite having terrible trap rng

could just be my thoughts but i definitely think it's one of these 3, but feel free to disagree and call me stupid or anything because that's usually what happens if you post your opinion online

Base Billy no add-ons, he's like the standard. Billy is what every Killer in dbd should be like if not better than him. Unfortunately BHVR doesn't look at making balanced killers so we get Killers with underwhelming powers and perks on cooldowns. Really sad wish we could just go back before spirit was released when we didn't have cool down bars on powers.

Nurse

Pretty much agree with this ^

How well you do as Huntress is pretty much reliant on how skilled you are at throwing hatchets. She has pretty good control in a chase and isn’t dependent on a survivor making a mistake.

She has a very strong power with downsides like that she is 110% and has to reload her power.

There is also quite a bit of counterplay to playing against Huntress as well.

The only thing holding her back is that a majority of maps are not kind to her, but she can still do well on most maps.

Killers like Nurse, Spirit, and Billy are NOT OP but they are just a bit too powerful to be considered the most “balanced killers”. They are the BEST killers but it doesn’t mean they are the most balanced.

What every other killers does. Lose. If the survivors are good players, split gens, and make little mistakes then you probably won’t win. Doesn’t matter whether you’re playing Oni or Billy. Even Spirit and Nurse will struggle hard in the scenario.

Spirit can’t do much about safe pallets. She still has to break them just like every other killer. Nurse, not so much...but she is still gonna struggle.

If the player is even halfway decent, they’re still gonna get a hit. Once Oni has his power he starts to snowball hard. In Blood Fury he really doesn’t care about safe pallets or safe windows. Billy’s power isn’t as strong as Oni but he can use it all the time. Both have their upsides/downsides.

But doesn’t counterplay mean something is balanced? Players complained that Nurse and Spirit had little counterplay and they’re still not considered “balanced” because the entire round is going to revolve around how good the Spirit can hear and track and how skilled the Nurse is at blinking. The survivor skill doesn’t play a huge factor.

It’s supposed to be PVP not “how skilled the killer is”. You don’t feel outplayed by your opponent when your skill is irrelevant.

It's just one map out of how many? I wanna cry at certain maps as particular killers, but hey. There are offerings to help eliminate some of the RNG of the map selection.

I think his base power should be what the devs go for lol it has mobility,anti loop and also skill is involved his insta addons are really strong tho what I’d do is keep the insta saw but put it into a pink addon

Safe pallets don’t only counter Oni. Wraith? Pig? Billy? Demogorgon? The list goes on. Most killers HAVE to break the pallet.

I usually don’t have an issue with having so many safe pallets that I can’t get an early hit. The only map I really have troubles with is The Game map because all of the pallets are unmindgameable. Usually I can moonwalk and get a hit on a survivor at a basic jungle gym.

What maps in particular do you think have THAT many safe pallets?

You lost me there.

Lery’s and Hawkins do NOT favor Oni. He can’t even use his power half of the time. There is too many tight corners and you can’t physically round the corners as fast as survivors can hug them. The entire map is just tight corners.

Autohaven and MacMillan maps are relatively balanced when compared to other maps. They can spawn a lot of pallets but they aren’t uber safe the the ones on The Game.

I think with balanced most people mean a killer that when played optimally, against optimal survivors, has pretty much a 50/50 chance of winning or losing, just like the survivors have a 50/50 chance of winning or losing.

Oni can definitely feel overwhelming when he has his power, and as a survivor you can get into situations more easily than against other killers where you can't do anything and get downed against him. But the fact that he has to spend time not having any power at all gives survivors a fair chance of winning as well.

If people aren't good with his power they probably won't be getting many downs with it. And why does the point that he can be looped not count? That doesn't really make sense. Of course how good a survivor can counterplay a killer relies on their skill as survivor.