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Billy vs freddy

Which one do you enjoy playing as and against more and why? For me its billy because freddy relies on disabling the survivors with his snares which i just dont find fun cause hes just an m1 killer while billy has his chainsaw which is really satisfying to get hits with and when mastered is very powerful

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  • Deadeye
    Deadeye Member Posts: 3,627

    I prefer Freddy both ways. One thing is that I can't hande the chainsaw that well and that most Billys I play against just do the body block trick to get chainsaw downs, so you can't really do anything to dodge it. Equally annoying like a Wraith or Plague blocking you in a corner to get the easy down. Against Freddy as well as playing as, you need to find out about correct placement and while learning, you sometimes can eat the snare and still make it to the pallet. Just dream pallets are a bit braindead and I dislike that you are locked in the animation while Freddy has no clipping so you cannot even use Dead Hard

  • Cheers
    Cheers Member Posts: 3,426

    Billy games are always fun for me, love trying to duke him, especially that I play Billy, Freddy is boring for me. Can’t stand playing against them.

  • Mister_Holdout
    Mister_Holdout Member Posts: 3,144

    I agree. Billy is a lot more fun.

  • Momentosis
    Momentosis Member Posts: 824

    I enjoy playing as and against Freddy more.

  • Aven_Fallen
    Aven_Fallen Member Posts: 16,264

    I enjoy playing as Billy more. Even tho, it is more difficult to me, since I have not played him for a month, so it takes some time in a game to get used to it again.

    Regarding playing against, I think a good Billy player is probably the most fun Killer to play against.

  • PrettyFaceKate
    PrettyFaceKate Member Posts: 1,776

    Billy hands down for me.

  • Lexilogo
    Lexilogo Member Posts: 587

    Imma be controversial and say for playing, I enjoy playing Freddy more.

    Certain Killer powers like Huntress' hatchets or Billy's chainsaw just kinda stress me out when using them, so even though I REALLY love those awesome Billy chainsaw charges and the map pressure I often enjoy a simple M1 playstyle more.

  • Oicimau
    Oicimau Member Posts: 897

    Freddy is more fun to play with and against.


    Billy is just that chainsaw non stopping all the match. Super speed and instadown. Boring to play against. And he is specially strong in console.

  • wichael_wyers
    wichael_wyers Member Posts: 202

    Billy is fun to predict especially if they're ambitious. I don't feel annoyed if they got me. Snare Freddy feels cheap if they put 10 snares in a loop and get me. I mean it's loopable, but feels cheap like a reverse bloodlust.

    Pallet Freddy is kinda fun at times. It's an inconvenience to wake up, though. By the time I get back to the gen I was at, the timer is probably half way down anyways and I probably didn't see many loops on the way back that actually don't have pallets. If I lose to a fake pallet I'm not as annoyed, just pretty neutral.

  • edgarpoop
    edgarpoop Member Posts: 8,365

    Billy is definitely the more technical of the two, both playing as and against.

    With Freddy, there's limited "technique' to him, just snare placement and gen teleports in chase. But once you have that down, you have Freddy down. He has a very low skill cap relative to his high output. But I actually don't mind playing against him.

    Billy is one of the deeper killers in the game from a mechanical standpoint. It's fun to play against high level Billys that go for ambitious curves, back revs, etc. It takes a lot of practice to get to that level.

  • MrDardon
    MrDardon Member Posts: 4,033

    Freddy can't do se*y curves. I'll go for Billy.

  • PigMainClaudette
    PigMainClaudette Member Posts: 3,842

    Freddy. For and Against.

    The false sense of security within loops, baiting with the teleport and actually having a chase are WAY better and more fun for me on both sides of the game.


    @Oicimau put it well for my feelings about Billy. Theoretically you could destroy an entire survivor team with only a mouse/joystick and one button as Hillbilly. Most people use two joysticks+button/mouse+5 buttons to do this. Part of the reason I play Hammer Billy, which is better than 99% of the player base will give it the credit it deserves.

    It also probably doesn't help that I'm a Pig main, and I take the lesson for both emblems and using that character as "toy with them, make them suffer, break their spirit and ONLY THEN can they taste the sweet release of death." rather than the typical and kinda false statement of "I'm a killer, my job is to kill!", ok then Jason. Go back to Friday the 13th if that's how you want to play.

  • Entropius
    Entropius Member Posts: 63

    Although Freddy is incredibly easy to play, I prefer him to play as over Billy. Billy has a higher skill cap and he's stressful against the best teams that know how to loop; they basically force you to have to curve around loops and NEVER let themselves get caught out of position.