I will never reach R1 as a killer. Thanks Gen Rushing.

I do agree that getting to Rank 1 Survivor for some reason is way easier than Killer R1 (I'm a FAR better killer than I am a survivor but my killer rank is lower than my survivor rank). I wonder if there's actually something to that or if it just feels that way. I imagine a big part though is getting a good group of survivors (not even SWAT Teams, just random groups who are good) is far harder to beat as a killer than running into a really good killer. No matter how good a killer is, they can only really focus on one survivor out of the four per game where survivors only have one killer to deal with.

As for the SWAT Team SWF, it does definitely make the game less enjoyable when you run into them (especially as you stated, a lot of them seem to also go out of their way to be ######### about it) but I don't know how you could smack the 15% of SWF groups who are SWAT Teams about it without directly screwing the 85% of people who just want to play with buddies.

Also as a Side Note with everything else, personally I'd just stop caring about rank.

This isn't a direct competitive game like sports or fighting games where your rank would (mostly) correspond to your actual skill.

I've seen low ranked killers wipe the floor with red survivors (especially now with goofy MM) and I've seen Reds who look like they've never played the game in their life. Rank in DBD is not a direct result of your ability and skills as there are far too many factors out of your control when it comes to a Trial.

I've found the game is far more enjoyable now than it was when I worried about rank.

Sounds like you aren't good enough yet. As for why it's so easy to hit rank 1 as survivor, it's because survivor rank is busted easy and shouldn't be that way.

Corrupt is I think properly rated for certain killers. Other killers don’t need that time and so it’s not useful on them (Ghostface).

I would agree with OP, although this was probably not their point, is that high rank killer is very difficult without perks and an understanding of using those perks. Either to slow down survivor interactions or to improve chases. If a player performing poorly refuses these perks then that’s a self inflicted handicap.

It is a really good Perk on some Killers. But I agree, someone who is using it to replace Ruin does not put that much thought into it. E.g. I am quite confused when I see a Spirit with Corrupt Intervention.

When the emblems first got here i managed to hit r1 as my trapper. That was back when ruin was useful and i used all my bloody coils to do it. I did it once for the achievement and said never again. Its too frustrating to go against reds ALL the time.

Sadly to hit r1 as killer these days you need to be a try hard. You either need to use a meta killer, meta perks, be very good or a bit of luck. Play enough games and im sure youll get there but in all honestly its not worth it.

Fyi. Corrupt intervention is amazing on trapper. The ruin nerf didnt affect him much because of this perk.

I managed to reach rank 1, and I had to deal with red ranks at the green ranks. I had to use Oni for most of it, then I decided to not care about gen protection and ran NOED on Clown, Ruin on Doctor, and anti-heal Ghost Face and played around BT with his power to deny safe unhooks. You need to find a Killer and build that works best with your style of play. I made it to rank 1 with Clown before the emblem and Ruin changes, and I made it to rank 1 again. You can do it eventually.

You're not entitled to reach rank 1

What's wrong with CI on Spirit? It makes perfect sense because you are more likely to get surprise hit and sometimes without the survivors even hearing you coming. In the late game, a 3 gen with Spirit can be GG.

I'm not surprised by it on any killer, since its not wrong on any of them. I guess you're just more used to meta maybe?

I said literally none of those things and was criticizing the fact that the OP is blaming survivors for playing in a "boring" way, like it's their fault that that's the most efficient strategy.

I jumped on, did a couple tombstone games cause it's rank reset. Then I get this object SWF I had eboni'd as ghostface ~2 days ago.

Decided to do ebony clown for them, game goes pretty rough cause they offered springwood. Manage to get 3 of them with the ebony, the last guy keys out the hatch. 3k entity displeased. They were all at rank 2-3 already, and they proceed to tell me that I will never be rank 1 and im "hardstuck" at rank 6 even though I nailed them all while being a rank 1-2 killer already.

I'll never understand these discussions. I'm a survivor main. Other than the slow down builds in the game and moris (which aren't even that bad) know what is the most annoying thing in the game as a solo survivor? Other bad/dumb survivors. Whether its dying on first hook, DCing randomly, sandbagging, dive bombing hooks all game and not doing gens, trust me... we all feel the pain in this game.

Why do you want to reach rank 1? There no point except sweaty matches.

Rank 1 as killer is overrated. Besides getting an achievement for it, there's no benefit, which means there's no point. Regardless of rank, you're going to going against survivors of all kinds. And in the end, you should play killer because you WANT to play killer. Don't put too much thought into rank, as the current rank system is being discarded even by the devs.