Why is Freddy such a brain dead killer?

Looping is the only skillful interaction for both sides. Killer deals with loops only, survivors hold M1 and loop. I argue both Freddy and Spirit are braindead because Freddy ignores all looping, the same with Spirit. The "mindgames" Spirit have are negated by equipping the perk stridor, and wearing a pair of headphones. They see you, you are dead. There is little to no counterplay. It was the same, as still is the same, with Nurse. But at least she got nerfed into the floor so that only top tier players can use her. Any goon can pick up Spirit or Freddy and do well with them currently.

What is DBD but chasing and hooking survivors? That is the definition of looping. You need to know who you can chase, who you should abandon, and which generator clusters to protect. That is about the extent of the gameplay.

There s no any particular way to run tiles.

Dumbest thing I have heard in a while. I almost don't want to explain why because it is so basic.

You can run a tile in a way it takes 60 seconds for the survivor to drop the pallet and run to the next tile, or run the tile in a way it takes 10 seconds to drop the pallet and run to the next tile. Hmmmm. No particular way to run them.

10 seconds to drop the pallet? Okay tell me then. Lets take shack or jungle gym . How to run them?

You said there s a particular way to run the tiles as if survivors are bots that always choose one rout . Its not like that.By your logic i can always know which rout killer choose and then i can just go the other way.

Playing against spirit there are no mindgames. It's still just guessing since the nerf did almost nothing about the real problem.

I will say something literally almost everyone in this thread will disagree with.

Facing Spirit and Freddy is fun, they actually pose a challenge to me as a Survivor. The only reason people don't like going against them however is because their power sometimes requires you to put more effort in than the killer themselves. And I feel like that's how facing a strong killer should feel like. How a strong killer should be. You need someone who understands Spirit and how she plays to counter her, to fool her during a loop or to beat her when she is faking her phase. And you need someone who constantly keeps Freddy busy and tear down his Fake Pallets and Snares so it'll be easier when being chased by him again.

It's not a 1v1, it forces Survivors to try be a 4v1. In a thread I made a while back, DBD right now feels like a 1v1v1v1v1 and I am very bothered by that. It's why I think playing Killer is easy right now, because solo survivors typically don't play the game as if it is a 4v1. It's a free-4-all.

Freddy forces a second objective, the Alarm Clocks, they force the survivor to choose either being vulnerable while asleep or risking waking up so it'll be easier for him to be chased around the map without the risk of being snared for 90 seconds. That's a full generator if you could keep Freddy busy for that long. Unless he can hit you during that duration, he is an M1 Killer. The game itself made it clear that staying asleep is horrible for you, that staying asleep is not advisable, that you should wake up when you can or wake up when it's no longer safe to be asleep.

As long as you are good enough you can keep Freddy busy before he even has a chance to use his power, he can waste 2 generators before he is even able to use his power on you if you start off wide awake. His Ultra Rare Add-ons are actually worth to use unlike certain other killers, and that's how Ultra Rare Add-ons should feel like. They should immediately feel like the Killer has a more crushing pressure from the start, and Survivors need to work harder to get out and escape.

And before anyone asks, I don't main Freddy, I suck at him. I don't know how to play him effectively. But I do know as a Survivor I always cheer whenever I see the clock at the bottom left of my screen. Because I want to see more killers like him, strong and effective, and forces me and my teammates to work harder to escape. To think differently to how we counter him compared to other killers.

Anyways, now that this is over, I'd like to also mention.

I know I am probably the odd one out here, I know the popular opinion is that Freddy is overpowered or braindead. But I feel like mentioning something.

Not everyone wants to play Survivor against a Killer they can easily understand and counter. Some of us actually want to feel like we earned our escape, to sometimes sacrifice others or yourself so that some of the group may escape. If Freddy is overpowered and braindead, then the Freddy killers I have been facing must be really braindead because they haven't been able to easily get more than 2 kills. But then again, that is just my experience.

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My main issue is that the difficulty surviving against Freddy skyrockets when survivors quit and it happens Alot

Freddy is in need of a major nerf and I'm so glad that people are speaking up about it. He's the most OP POS killer in this game that takes zero skill to play. The only people you'll see defending him are Freddy mains or killers that switch to Freddy when they get steamrolled by a team that outplayed them just so they can mindlessly get their 4k and feel like a winner without actually improving. Everyone else recognizes how OP he is and agrees that he needs a nerf. But noooooo, just like everything else in this game BHVR gotta cater to the minority of killers that whine about not getting a 4K in every game.

Definitely what a Freddy main would say.

Eh, take it what you willl. I just want killers that aren't easy to go up against, Freddy and Spirit gives me that kind of challenge :)

I'm sorry if you just cannot take going against a Killer who is strong like him.

Strong killers are fine. But if they're boring, I don't care for them.

How is he boring? He literally forces you to have a second objective which you can ignore, but can prove lethal if you keep doing that for ages.

He also gives you a time limit before he can use his power (if you haven't been hit) on you, the guy literallly keeps the threat level high. How is that boring?

Freddy has a near 4k average. Which is insane. That's nowhere near balanced but Freddy mains will defend him because they know he's the only way they're getting their 4ks. Future Freddy mains are the same people that whine about toxic SWF or that they get looped into oblivion but don't take their own advice and "git gud".

@DelsKibara Going to have to entirely disagree with that. I think Freddy was overtuned and he's unhealthy for the game, but to each their own.

same for legion.

Please keep the discussion civil and respectful.