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Today's Strength: The Demogorgon

Boss
Boss Member Posts: 13,616

For an explanation on what "strength" entails for these polls, please refer to the first entry of this series: https://forum.deadbydaylight.com/en/discussion/comment/1337293


For this example, we got: The Demogorgon

How good do you rate it at sacrificing all 4 Survivors?

Today's Strength: The Demogorgon 35 votes

1 - Pacifists Kill More
2%
emptyCups 1 vote
2 - Baby Killer
0%
3 - Ugh
5%
musstang62PayneKiller 2 votes
4 - Nah, I'm Good
5%
ShrimpTwiggsF60_31 2 votes
5 - Meh
11%
Seiko300AvilgusGreentheNinjaRobotInPyjamas 4 votes
6 - It's Mkay
25%
BossSnakeSound222CheersVolantConch1719RainbowPatooieArashiNoHantaParallaxAwkward_FiendMusicNerd_TC 9 votes
7 - *thumbs up*
34%
BabyCameron10NuclearBurritoLounTaigaAhoyWolfRaven014tenoresaxCitrusfruitTotemsCleanserFobboKotoura_san94LimeSoda 12 votes
8 - Woah
5%
RagingCalmhmeekins 2 votes
9 - Holy Crap!
2%
PRSuzia69 1 vote
10 - Death Itself
5%
TodgeweihtFoxfire47 2 votes

Comments

  • Boss
    Boss Member Posts: 13,616
    edited June 2020
    6 - It's Mkay

    Shred's pretty awesome, but i feel the portals are kinda underwhelming, and it's half of its toolkit.

    There's probably amazing Demos out there, but...ehh.

  • NuclearBurrito
    NuclearBurrito Member Posts: 6,807
    7 - *thumbs up*

    He's good.

    Shred is a great gap closer and decent anti-loop. Portals give him more map mobility.

  • VolantConch1719
    VolantConch1719 Member Posts: 1,248
    6 - It's Mkay

    Pros:

    • Demogorgon can teleport, giving it some decent map control.
    • After teleporting, Demogorgon has Undetectable for a brief time, which should give him the jump on Survivors.
    • Demogorgon's portals, when active, give him decent detection.
    • Shred is amazing. Survivor running away, close the gap or eat them. Survivor looping you, prepare that pallet for destruction.

    Cons:

    • Demogorgon's teleportation can be entirely denied by the Survivors.
    • Using Shred slows the Demogorgon while it charges it up.
    • Teleportation has a ludicrous cooldown.
    • Hit someone = ROAR. Break pallet = ROAR. Teleporting = ROAR. Stunned = WHINE.
    • STOMP STOMP STOMP STOMP! Undetectable is now useless.

    Demogorgon is another Killer that's more fun than they are effective. I want to rate it higher, I really do, but it just gives way too much information to the Survivors. Half of its power can be denied. Oh, and it's best add-ons are brown. Something is completely backwards with that.

  • Cheers
    Cheers Member Posts: 3,426
    6 - It's Mkay

    Nothing special. In concept he's great, but he's got too many drawbacks.

    On the plus side, he is extremely enjoyable to play against.

  • Boss
    Boss Member Posts: 13,616
    6 - It's Mkay

    Seeing a meaty hole with 5 skin flaps instead of just a face is definitely a change for first-timers.

  • Cheers
    Cheers Member Posts: 3,426
    6 - It's Mkay

    We've seen a clown, we've seen a woman who is in 10 pieces, we've even seen someone who can go invisible, and just when you think you've seen it all, someone who doesn't even has face comes in.

  • SnakeSound222
    SnakeSound222 Member Posts: 4,467
    6 - It's Mkay

    Shred can help Demogorgon end chases and the portals give it more mobility, but it makes way too much noise (basically tells the Survivors what you're doing and lowers the effectiveness of the Undetectable effect) and the add-ons (minus the common, a couple uncommon ones, and Deer Lung) are crap.

  • Seiko300
    Seiko300 Member Posts: 1,862
    edited June 2020
    5 - Meh

    People will vouch for Demogorgon to death on the forums and in conversation, but in practice I hardly see any Demogorgon's at all these days. When it comes to Demogorgon it's all bark and no bite, I must have seen less than 5 in the last few months, they are practically an extinct species.

    Which is crazy to think about because for the longest time he was touted as one of the most balanced killers on release, with enough strengths to make him viable in high ranks but plenty of counters to make him fair to play against. And it's not like he's changed significantly since then, if at all.

    Hell, I see LEGION more often than I see Demogorgon, and that's a telling sign that something isn't right that either says something about: 1. Legion is not as universally hated as everyone says he is and everyone exaggerates this bit, or 2. Demogorgon is in a REALLY bad spot to be played less than Legion (from my perspective [as a survivor in red ranks and as a killer who doesn't play him])

  • MusicNerd_TC
    MusicNerd_TC Member Posts: 3,099
    6 - It's Mkay

    I stole this from a youtube comment I saw on an Otz video. "Demo is that guy who is kind of good at everything, but great at nothing."

  • Todgeweiht
    Todgeweiht Member Posts: 3,666
    10 - Death Itself

    Literally god incarnated as a 7 foot tall monster.

  • Raven014
    Raven014 Member Posts: 4,188
    7 - *thumbs up*

    I feel like they are very clunky... it doesn't help on console, either.

  • Kotoura_san94
    Kotoura_san94 Member Posts: 7
    7 - *thumbs up*

    he scares the crap out of me.... but i guess it just depends on the individuals particular build and play style ..

    He has some potential...Maybe

  • Foxfire47
    Foxfire47 Member Posts: 232
    10 - Death Itself

    Demo is my main good boi. I usually get 4ks with him and know how to mind game. If you play Demo really well, then survivors are 100% screwed.

  • TotemsCleanser
    TotemsCleanser Member Posts: 732
    7 - *thumbs up*

    Demoboi is balanced and extremely fun to play as. The problem is that all that he does, other killers do as well and more easily/brokenly. If other killers (such as Freddy) were nerfed, we would see him more often. Or if Demo were buffed. But he's my main along with Legion and I don't find him that weak tbh.