Pyramid head is too strong

Actually you should do a little research, the firing speed and fire delay make it surprisingly strict to shoot animation locked players..if you dont pre fire it they can at least dead hard away..and missing slows you hard, initiating his power slows him to about 96 percent for a second,/ removes his ability to strafe and slows his turning , all while at 110 speed..a tad much for an ability that highlights where it fires and is that easily dodgable, the cages arnt consistent and not enough to carry him

Actually the initial sword plant does the slow I mentioned and the miss animation is at least 3 seconds..quite a big one , and it's a simple matter to bait him to fire or fake running from the pallet with reverse pallet vaccum, and when I say inconsistant I mean torment is by no means garunteed , so then what? Half his power isnt in play at that point..I've been on both sides of this killer constantly since his release..its harder than it looks

Sis has been out for 5 days give it time to learn to counter him.

Like always after the bulk of sales for the dlc have happened it'll get nerfed to be more in line with the rest and a ways down the line it'll get adjusted and people will complain no matter \what they do.

He does lose distance so that is very false , windows may not be uber safe vs him but huntress and death slinger are even less safe because they have better control, as for pallets..supposedly vaulting pallets makes you immune to potd, assuming it's a bug but regardless it's there

I now have 20 hours into pyramid head, level 50. I'm not prestige, because I want to practice with perk loadouts beforehand.

I will say this: pyramid head punishes himself all the time. Thats his biggest weakness. You need to use his trail like traps, you need to bait people into them, and if you don't, survivors never get tormented, making you unable to use cages, or do final judgment. So there's that, then look at the torment mechanic itself. People can heal torment by uncaging other survivors, and the caged survivor also gets healed from torment. This means people are less inclined to use cages in the first place, because they want to guarantee the DS counter or the easy Kill at third hook. So there's a whole power, only useful to people who are good at snowballing pressure with him, which takes a hell of a lot of practice, as it should. His ranged attack, while strong, is extremely limiting. I cant strafe left or right, there's a huge tell for the attack, and his terror radius is much larger that its range, making it super easy to just stay on the cautious side as soon as you hear a heartbeat. I climbed from R17 to R9 with Phead, and the higher I grt the more swf's and red ranks i see in my lobbies, and unless I have them completely cornered at a pallet or window, like the corner in Gideon Meat Plant, or a classroom on Midwitch, its almost ALWAYS a bad idea to use the ranged attack. Sure, some perks make it useful, like Nurses Calling or Im all ears, but those are perks that only really works on very few killers, and needed a buff as is. Introducing new Maps and Killers is a way to buff and nerf perks, killers, and survivors. For example, Clown is good on Midwitch, and whispers is much less useful on Midwitch. Indoor maps that a lot of killers do bad at, pyramid head does great at. Outdoor maps, Phead struggles, unlike huntress or oni. In total, I'd say pyramid head is pretty balanced, and feels about high B to low A tier to play, if Nurse and Spirit are up in S rank, and Freddy is in A. He has a fairly high skill ceiling, with balancing all of the elements to his character and using them all effectively. His strengths lie in his ability to snowball and quickly dispatch potato survivors, but to an untrained killer, hes easy in theory, and extremely difficult in practice against high ranking lobbies. He almost requires add-ons of green or higher to reliably spam his powers, and even then, the amount of time survivors have to dodge, readjust, and break line of sight, is way more than I personally believe they need, and that's coming from someone who's played as him extensively and someone who's played against him about 20+ times. He's in a good place, and if he was overpowered, we'd see him up there with Nurse, and guess what, we don't.

But he cant turn effeciantly and has a wider hit box so hes already got less wall hugging ability , those make a difference

So I've messed with that strategy, but there's a weakness and slowness to it. The issue is that if you don't cage, you don't snowball. Chases with pyramid head are too long if the survivor knows how to properly dodge and play around the ranged attack. If you're up against a good survivor, you'll need to chase for around a minute or two, and end on a ranged hit or an M1 if you're lucky. He's fast, and thats one of his strengths. So if you do that, unfortunately, and i say this from experience, 2ks are what you're in for. Sometimes 3, with a hatch escape.. Now if you chase, torment, hook, cage, then mori, thats the sweet spot. Not to mention the already embedded reliance on endgame slugging. That's the most optimal time management for kills. And sadly, it requires the survivors to get tormented not only once, but twice, and that's rare against good survivors. Perks are one thing. Any killer can run good perks and play well. But from a core game play and strategy aspect, pyramid head is not easy to master, i haven't mastered him or even really are an expert yet and ive been playing non stop since he dropped. I still miss ranged attacks, I still need add ons for confidence in game choices. I still misjudge distances and miss hits. I still punish myself constantly for deciding not to cage or caging alike. His core element is chase and loop control, hes really the first if his kind that can do that in a proficient manner. But thats why he's so hard to use. If there was no downtime between range hit and registration of motive, if there was no tell for the attack, and if there was no cooldown and punishment for hit or miss alike, not to mention the speed boost survivors still get from being hit by POTD. My 3 second stun plus your speed boost, means you CAN AND WILL get away, and if i devote to that chase for that second hit, there goes 1, 2, maybe even 3 gens. You have to remember that its a 1v4 game, not a 1v1 game. Sure. It sucks to be the one to die first, in a scummy way or you could just barely not dodge that ranged hit. But what sucks more? Getting hit by POTD because you yourself made a mistake, or getting sniped 30m by a huntress you can't even see? There's so much more pressing and "overpowered" methods inthe game that need addressing. I stand by my opinion, even with Survelaince and Ruin, with Nurses Calling and BBQ, even with his pink add-ons. He's a low A at best. And I can speak from experience. I recommend you try to actually play him. Get him to 50, not by using BP you get by using survs or killers. Level him 1-50 game by game using only bp you get from those matches. And tell me how easy of a time you have with the "overpowered" character. I'm not trying to be rude or toxic, im just trying to get my point across. If you have the time, consider playing the killer thoroughly before you decide he's OP. Its a much different experience behind the Machete.

Yes but that's a great thing because the formula sucks it always has you think we like to take sht from your loops fck no it good that he exists because all the incredibly strong loops can now be nerf to a balanced state plus there have been to many times where the killer has been looped for 5 mins straight and pyramid head is here to fix that problem plus the t walls meat tree killers shack come on man they all had to be brought down to size eventually

So there you go. Thays exactly what I'm getting at. Once we figure out how to go against him effectively, and thise high rank survivors learn the counters, his power will fade, drastically. And since you've played with and against him, you know he's harder to play as than it seems. Dedicated servers and registration also don't help at all with ranged killers either. You're understood. Friend. Thanks for being civil, I enjoy discussing things without all the trash talking. Its a welcome change for once lol.

If you drop it at a pallet and they LEAVE the pallet, it acts the exact same as a Freddy snare. You force them to leave the pallet. It's not silly to compare the two when they have the same result. The only time it doesn't have the same result is if people don't care about being tormented, but giving the killer that much of an advantage(no exhaustion reset, no BT, no DS, etc) is pretty darn bad, and you were complaining about people avoiding the torment, I just gave you an EASY way to get people tormented, or force them to be downed easily. There's no situation in which there's no advantage for PH in that situation, dunno why you moved the goal post.

PH head slows down when laying trails, meaning he loses distance if you leave the loop compared to if he didn't lay anything.

Freddy doesn't have this weakness since he moves at full speed while placing traps.