Why doctor is bad for the game?

But it doesn't show auras, it just shows scream indicators lol. I suppose that's one good way to disqualify yourself from a balance discussion.

Oh boy, let me correct you on this because I smell a load of BS:

• "Free Slowdown"

No, no he does not have Free Slowdown. He needs to burn an add-on to get generator slowdown, and two of them only works if they are in the dream state. The Purple one also can be worse than the first two because it requires all 4 survivors to be asleep for it to work as effectively as possible.

• Insane Anti-Loop

Once again, no. His snares are barely a problem. If you see him placing snares, it's your cue to start getting the heck out of there. And even then, I have a friend who is a Freddy main and he has been playing Freddy with the Kid's Drawing add-on which basically makes his snares useless. He still 4ks every game without the help of snares, so no, his snares aren't a problem. Your skill as a survivor is.

• Reduced Terror Radius

I'll let it speak for itself:

• Shortened Height

The Pig, The Hag, The Legion, The Ghostface, The Spirit. Yeah no, he isn't the only one with Shortened Height, and the only reason it feels like that is because every other Killers are towering beasts (except the other 5)

Please don't derail this thread into another "Freddy is OP!!11!!!1!" thread, it gets tiring to see them when people are just clearly not as good as they think they are.

Forgot one of your points:

• Teleportation at Will

His teleport has a cooldown of roughly 60 seconds, faking a teleport gives him another cooldown of around 10 seconds. If he could teleport whenever then yeah, I agree he can be broken. But if his teleport incurs a LONG cooldown like this then it's relatively balanced. Not to mention SURVIVORS ARE GIVEN WARNING THAT HE IS TELEPORTING TO THEIR GENERATORS. So if you get hit after Freddy teleports knowing full well he is doing so it's 100% on you.

Laughs in Calm Spirit

Static Blast is so easy to avoid. If you're already well within his terror radius maybe it's not as easy, but even within his terror radius you can hop into a locker. A lot of the time you can hear when a Doctor is getting near unless he's running a low terror radius build, in which case Static Blast isn't nearly as threatening. If you hear him getting near, and you haven't heard him Static Blast recently, just try to stay at the edge of his terror radius, and when you hear him charge it, sprint directly out of it and you won't get hit. I've used this trick and avoided many a blast. Also, you just get a location indicator when you shock somebody. I'm pretty sure you have to put on a certain addon in order to get an aura reading ability, and it's when you level up the survivors' madness tier.

If you're having trouble with Reverse Skill Checks... You have more things to worry about than just Doctor.

I personally don't notice he has Reverse Skill Checks half the time because they don't change much.

I don't even know where to start honestly. First of all, you can't break away from a loop when a freddy places a snare. You wanna know why? Because he doesn't have a cooldown. You could spam as many spares as you like with NO penalty whatsoever. Trapper and hag have to spend time prepping and setting up, which with that risk comes a rewark if survivors step in their traps. Clown has a slowdown when he throws his bottle and placement and aiming is key with his bottles. He also has limited bottles so he cant just keep throwing bottles whenever he wants. This is the main problem with freddy, that he doesn't get punished for making mistakes. Let's compare him to the three other top tier killers, Nurse, Spirit and Huntress. A nurse has to be extremely good with her blinks in order to be rewarded with a hit, and messing up results in a long fatigue for her. Huntress has limited hatchets and once she runs out, shes a 110% killer until she reloads. Spirit can completely loose a survivor and suffer from a long cooldown if she phases incorrectly or gets mindgamed. See all of these killers have strong powers, yet they have penalties for messing up and require skill to use. You can't expect to 4k as soon as you pick up one of these killers. Freddy is completely opposite. Along with having no cooldown from placing a snare, he does have a slowdown if you look at how his power works. You have to break out of dream world every 60 seconds otherwise you risk the freddy sneaking up on you and will be extremely vunerable in chase with his snares. This isn't even considering the fact that dreamworld renders so many perks useless including BT. Yes his teleportation does have a 60 second cooldown but this is if no-one is in dream world, otherwise he has a much shorter cooldown. Also, freddy doesn't even have to work for his insanely strong map pressure. Just looking at Demogorgon alone, he has to place his portals around the map in strategic spots where the survivors can't see them. The main problem with him as i mentioned so many times is his that he doesn't get punished for playing bad. There's so much more i could go into detail with and talk about how he basically steals other killer's powers and make them look useless, but i'm not going to. Just look at one of my discussions if you wan't to see mroe. At the end of the day, I'm all for strong killers, but strong killers with a low skill cap and no penalties for bad plays? No thanks.

I personally have faced less and less of doctors here lately. I don't find him OP, or bad for the game. Even when I do go against one, I find them relatively easy to beat. The key for me is to stay opposite of where he is, and out of range of his SB. Some people use calm spirit, which is fine. It's personal preference, but I think that is a wasted slot that can be utilized by a more useful perk. I'm a killer main that also enjoys playing survivor.. ( pig, and blendette mains )..

Personally I loved playing against the old Doc as survivor because you'd have to think about where you are, what gens you can work on and actually play smart.

Doc now is okay, but I do miss his Treatment Mode (only thing was having to switch between modes was meh).

A perk used against CAMPING KILLERS? Also, you can't always find a survivor when you're being CHASED by the killer who was camping you. Sometimes you have to run from him, and loop him for a while, before he loses you, and you can't constantly be moving while looping a killer. Again, there's no excuse for that interaction. As for saying he DESERVES to down someone just for them being unhooked is incredibly biased.

As for why remove it? Let's see, because it's extremely abusable to the same effect as old Legion? If I gave a Doc a good run, he hooks me, camps me, someone uses BT to get me off, and he chases me again, and leaves me while I'm in tier 3 but also deep wounds, I don't think he deserves a free down. I don't see how anybody COULD think he deserves that. Mending should come before Snap Out of It. You can still be shown your location to him while mending, it's a fairer situation all around, if he wants to chase someone for another round while they're mending he has that choice. A free down out of circumstance is not fair.

I was told I played scummy just for playing Doc.

I hate doctor hes the worst killer and makes me not even want to play the game

Static blast has counterplay and is on a long cool down. What more do you want?