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Why does nobody play Plague
Seriously tho. Why?
Plague is an amazing killer imo especially since her recent buff.
You either cleanse, and deal with Corrupt Purge, or you stay injured.
Plague is critically underrated, and I almost never see her at all on console or PC. I see more Clown than Plague. Its like she was released and forgotten about, since there really wasnt any toxicity concerning her power on release
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I agree, plague is amazing. But people who want to pip won't play her because she is terrible at pipping. I've seen a 3 man + 1 DC de-pip game as Tru3tal3nt playing her.
Also, IMO, I kinda hate her. I just find her playstyle not fun.
Nothing against plague players, they can do as they want. I just hate playing as/against her.
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With this new buff its good because plague players get a say in their power, but after the corruption is gone the survivors still have a say over whether you use your power or not and she becomes an M1 killer.
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I enjoy playing as Plague, but she's not very quick, so I find that I actually waste a lot of time trying to get Corrupt Purge if survivors cleanse, especially on maps like Backwater Swamp where all the fountains are at the very outskirts. But I think her power's really neat, and I like the sound of her voice.
But yeah, I don't tend to see a lot of her! Makes me sad because I like playing against her too. Then I can yell at my survivor for being gross as they puke on themselves lmao.
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Mostly because shes very tall so its easier to see and loop, no mobility (regular 4.6) so compared to spirit/billy; ghostface/myers have instadowns, even huntress and now deathsliger due to their range are deadlier. But I agree shes viable. I still use her every now and then.
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I only use her when i see more than one medkits. I enjoy her but the way to pip with her is more of a hassle for me.
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I absolutely love playing as Plague, but on console she is too framey for me to use the puke. Same with doc, his static makes my frames horrible. It makes me sad. :(
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I always got gen rush whenever I played her. Her power take too long to make survivor broken so I have to use normal attack twice which take too much time to take down someone. Also Survivors's pukes are hardly visible so I still need to equip tracking perk.
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From my experience, any killer whose power is determined by the survivors is a bad design.
Trapper's traps
GFs stealth
Plagues corrupt purge
Oni's rage
Hags traps but not nearly as bad as trapper. Her traps can be replanted very fast and she doesn't have to go across the map to get them.
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I love the Plaque now and even before her power up. =) The funny thing is I hated her when I first started playing the game but she has become one of my top 3 favorite killers. The other 2 being Clown and Hag.
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I tried playing her but was robbed from infecting survivors so many times by dedicated servers that i lost all motivation to play her immediately. Really that was the most annoying thing in this game i ever encountered. When your puke connect multiple times with survivors around the corners but they dont get infected. Ultimate frustration
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From my experience as well as some of my friends it's her vile Purge. At low walls it's fantastic, but at higher walls she doesn't shorten a loop as well. I play on console so aiming can be a nuisance.
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Because shes boring because nobody cleanses.
EDIT: thought this post was about Nurse, and I need to get my eyes checked.
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I see her a bit more often since she received her buff.
But she is a mid tier killer, so of course we don't see her as often as Billy or Spirit.
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Survivors can do too much to influence my own playstyle, i don't like killers that are designed like that.
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Because she's incredibly misunderstood. M&A is a must on her. Her playstyle is different and I used to play her wrong too, until I played against a great Plague. You want slug the first survivor and look for the other 3. Once everyone is broken and after your next down, you power up, then hook. with BBQ + M&A you're guaranteed to down the next one extremely fast.
Thana is really good on her and you want another gen slowdown perk.
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1. She's slow (has no mobility)
2. Good survivors know how to dodge her corrupt purge (duck behind cover right as she pukes)
3. You have to go out of your way to get your power and for a killer with no mobility that's a lot of time especially with how fast gens go
She's an okay killer but not great. If most killers are like me she's just overall frustrating to learn. She's probably the hardest killer to learn next to nurse. Simply because she requires a lot of strategy otherwise 3 gens will be done by the time you get your corrupt purge and down somebody with it.
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For me it's not because she's a bad killer (she isn't), but rather because she is the most unbelievably boring killer to play as and against, and is very difficult to rank up with (imo)
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I think some find it unpleasant for the eyes. but come on, it's a horror game,her latest skins are amazing,i love and i need it
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Her vomit projectile feels inconsistent. My only gripe.
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I play her occasionally, and I can tell one thing; she isnt for everyone.
First off, her BP gain and emblems suck ass. Your Deviousness category heavily depends on whether Survivors cleanse or not, and even if they cleanse your gains are still nothing amazing like Legion or Doctor, or even (good) Nurse. Emblems, nothing we dont know. 3 emblems heavily punish her playstyle. There goes two reasons why you would play Killer.
Second, the "sweet middle" in terms of matches are rather rare. You either get people who cleanse as soon as they become infected (basically screaming "Im new to the game"/"Never played against this character") or people who remain infected the entire match, focus on generators nonstop and cleanse with 1 generator left. For the former, you are noob stomping, and that may be fun for some, but its not that satisfying for me. For the latter, mainly because her power removes a way to apply pressure on Survivors; healing. Granted you can do this with any Killer, but its way more apparent with her. You could say "free instadowns!", but then we come back to the usual problem of map design towards M1 Killers...
Third, she has been needing a couple of QoL changes for a while, a few buffs and bug fixing. Stuff like being able to see Survivors' infection level so you dont waste time puking on one while chasing. Make it easier to "tap Vile Purge" (if you click it too fast to infect a generator or vault or pallet, it cancels and gives you the full cd). Increasing her basekit Vile Purge ineffectiveness and adjusting her add-ons accordingly (I would rather get this than a free corrupted fountain). And the amazing problem that came with dedicated servers which puked on Survivors will literally grunt as they are being puked on, but they dont get infected.
The upside is she has amazing perk synergy, and with her own perks nonetheless, like M&A, Infectious Fright, Corrupt Intervention. As well as interesting choices, like Devour Hope, which they never see coming.
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Well my gamertag on Xbox is something that is very related to Plague, so I like her :) The coolest looking killer in the game. Love her Memorium outfit.
No doubt in my top 5 favorite killers and one of my most played killers. And she was good before and even better now with the change. Perfect to switch killer to her when you see many medkits in lobby.
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I play The Plague quite a lot. I generally don't bother with corrupt. The round is even easier if people stay sick. Corrupt I only ever tend to take if I am mid chase and they run by a corrupt fountain, I have the time to stop off and grab it there and use on the person I am chasing. I wouldn't travel to get it if I wasn't already with someone.
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Personally, because last time I played her I had a rough match and promised I won’t touch her again... my chases were super fast and yet all gens were done in 8 minutes.. It just didn’t feel fair but I thought about it.. the survivors literally had nothing else to do other than gens since they can’t really heal themselves.. so I can’t really blame the survivors for it. I blame the devs.
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I love playing plague, but lately the gen rush has been soo bad and the ammount of cordinated swf has been too big for me to handle
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Tbh I love her, if she has corrupt your set and if your a decent killer like me you will know where survivors usually spawn on the map in accordance to you, so her mobility isn’t a problem, I just fully infect one and then they keep getting infected. Plus if you use builds with high pressure like me they are forced to cleanse
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She is very loopable without Corrupt and she has a hard time pipping.
Being infected isn't really scary and doesn't give any downsides besides being injured.
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I play The Plague and get 3 or 4 kills pretty much every game, she's probably my favorite killer. All those toxic swf make me puke
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I see Plague just as much as any other killer. People say they rarely see killers like Plague and Clown but I run into them as much as I do a killer like Myers.
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She has some major latency issues with her vomit at longer ranges. Specifically you'll see Survivors reacting as though they've been puked on but never actually have their vomit bar fill. So you're then forced to get up close and personal which can cause other issues because it can be difficult to hit Survivors that are moving at close range.
Tack onto the fact that she's also got issues like Clown in that she NEEDS perks more than most to slow the game down and if those perks can be ignored, she gets rushed HARD.
Survivors are also learning that Plague players are making builds around people being constantly injured and as such are cleansing more frequently, requiring changes that hybridize the permanently injured and corrupt purge builds with mixed results due to, once again, latency.
Latency is the Survivor's cure for Plague currently in addition to inconsistencies between matches more than most.
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She's a bit underwhelming, it takes her a while to get everyone broken. Honesty she's okay because of corrupt vomit but I'd rather play Legion because he can essentially do the same as plague but a lot quicker than her, with the addition of them wasting time mending then healing.
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She's the best M1 killer in the game since her buff. Don't @ me with Freddy or Doc. People often go about her the wrong way by throwing on garbage perks like thanataphobia which adds 13 seconds to a solo gen at 4 injured survivors. If your best case scenario is 13 seconds on a gen, that's not worth a perk slot. Pop/Monitor/Enduring/Spirit Fury. 24m terror radius at 115% with a one shot who can get free hits off pallet stuns and also has a ranged attack. Stop trying to slow a game down if the real issue is downing survivors. You can add 5 minutes to Torment Creek or Rotten Fields and still not take care of half the pallets.
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From my experience I see many Plagues in my game.
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Buff for slowdown genrush. If gen is infected his progress a decreased, like if "new ruin" is on, even if survivor work on them. But hey, this buff will be very frustating and unfun to play for our dear surv mains.
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The physics on her vomit are terrible and designed to make it hard / impossible to get survivors hugging walls around curved loops.
She is tall so can't mindgame on any loops
she can only walk. So the terribly difficult task of holding m1 on a generator will destroy her.
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I’m assuming by “M1 killer” you mean killers who can’t down reliably with their power, benefit from Spirit Fury/Enduring, and usually have to run loops normally (so no Nurse, Spirit, Billy, Hag, Huntress, Deathslinger).
That’s a very controversial statement that I can agree and disagree with. Plague has been on of my mains for a year and I believe she is highly underrated. I just don’t know if I can put her above Freddy. She just can’t control gens as well as Freddy and doesn’t have map control. I can agree that she’s probably better than Doctor.
Plague is better when she has Corrupt Purge but Freddy is arguably going to win matches more often :/
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She's too slow to be viable outside of low ranks. And committing half your slots to build speed doesn't help.
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Exactly.. She's extremely boring to play against and your chances of pipping are slim. The fact that survivors aren't able to heal almost removes altruism completely from her matches. An entire ranking category completely removed from the game just because of a killers abilities.
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I played her once and once only, I really like her play style, the only thing I hate about her is that she loudly whispers in my ear which makes it hard for me to actually hear any survivors
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Because mostly she is trash and can easily be looped. Especially if people don't cleanse. She does get one free one now though. Same reason few people play Demogorgon or Oni. They just will get owned by anyone who knows how to play.
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Ghostface is a good killer tho
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Only because he is inconsistent in terms of revealing.
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I don't feel like getting cucked because a rock got in the way of my puke or losing my power because I got hit by a pallet or playing hide and seek because I have my power
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Disagree here. Hes the best stealth killer in the game. Hes a better wraith, with a built in instadown
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Most people don’t play him using his instadown. They play him as a “non-healing” killer who has zero terror radius and no red stain.
He is the killer that can utilize the stealth mechanic best but I don’t think he is better than Myers overall and I don’t think his stealth is THAT much better than Myers since Myers can have almost a 0 meter terror radius in Tier II with M&A and Dead Rabbit.
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Also noticed as Plague is hard to even +1 pip. As Legion you can 0 pip with zero kills...
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I LOOOVE plague. She’s so much fun to play and to go against. I’ve been seeing a good bit more of her lately, so that’s been kinda nice. Well, unless I brought a medkit in
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