The issue with Deathslinger, Pyramid Head and Spirit

Please no don't take deathslinger first billy now this please no.

I'm pretty sure Pyramid Head can be dodged.

How do you break LOS? He has a 16m TR with Monitor and an 18m chain. He also has one of the crappy new TRs that sort of spins up slowly and makes it hard to gauge distance. By the time he shows up, he's probably to be very very close to you. If you're not right next to a pallet you can pre-drop you're not going to break LOS and he's going to get a very quick hit. Then there's the fact that many maps don't really have many LOS blockers. Repairing a gen in the corn on Coldwind? Unless you see him coming early, that's an easy hit. Playing on many of the Autohaven maps? Better hope he doesn't pop around a corner 20m from your center gen, because that's also an easy hit.

I just hate the combination of stealth and a ranged attack. He's the only killer that has that. Stealth for the easy first hit, shoot/zone for the easy down if they don't happen to be near a strong pallet. PH is more annoying than him in a chase because ping usually isn't good enough to actually dodge his ranged attack and he's got the 115% movement, hitting through walls, no need to reload, etc., but at least with PH you know he's coming.

Spine Chill is definitely a killer for him, agreed, and maps like Lery's will be tough. And if you're at a loop with a strong pallet, you can at least pre-drop it and run him for a bit.

I just hate how common it is for him to show up and be like 10m away before you see which direction he's coming from. At that point it's a really easy first hit, and if you can't find a good pallet with your speed boost you're going to have like a 15 second chase. The deep wounds mechanic is just another layer of irritation with him.

You and me both.

I really only do SWF in KYF thanks to crossplay. I mostly SoloQ in public matches and that is atrocious. We don't bother doing SWF with public matches because, since crossplay, the survivor queue times in the late evening when everyone is available are a lobby simulator game. SoloQ, I get survivor matches at that time within 2-3 minutes, but the experience of playing those matches doesn't make it worth it.

So, I just screw around as Killer in public matches. Right now I am seeing if like Deathslinger. He's still Level 1 because I don't put BP into a killer unless I enjoy how they play, or the perks are worth it (and his aren't for me and my builds at this time).

I'm also still undecided if I like Spirit, so she's still sitting at level 1. I got her perks off the shrine over time, anyway. Ditto for Pyramid Head being level 1. Love Oni, though.

Ah, see, we all just play DbD very casually. I hit green ranks since I came back the day crossplay launched and was Rank 20 because I hadn't played in so long. I've dropped back to Yellow ranks messing around with Deathslinger, and don't care.

About the only game we go into with a clear desire to 'win" is Overwatch in the six-stack full team. And even then, since it's just Quick Play with nothing on the line as far as rank and such, if we lose we lose.

I just hate SoloQ because a majority of the time I am left to die on first hook, so never get to actually "play" a match.

I honestly never played DbD much before crossplay. I bought the game for Myers, Freddy, and Leatherface, the three Icons I grew-up on in the 80s, and could never get Killer matches unless I played very late at night. Well, I have a kid to get to school, normally, and then start my writing work day by 10am at the latest, so I prefer bed no later than midnight. So, playing late at night just to play Killer wasn't in the cards.

I bought the game June 2018 on a Steam sale along with the DLCs at the time. I have just under 200 hours logged in those two years due to those queues. By comparison, I have close to 1,000 hours logged into Overwatch because I can always get fast queues there, albeit I started Overwatch on launch day in 2016.

I've studied the game, but am just now finally able to play it when I want thanks to crossplay.

Funny thing. I followed it in the beta. But then Overwatch came out in May 2016. Now, I'm not a shooter guy. Although I play Borderlands nowadays, I didn't play shooters before 2016, and besides Borderlands have only played Overwatch and a short stint in Paladins.

My eldest son (now 27) got Overwatch for me as an early Father's Day gift because some friends and family were getting it and they wanted me to play. So, DbD completely fell off my radar until my now 10-year-old found out about it in 2017 and told me Myers and Freddy were in there (Freddy had just released).

I still resisted getting into yet another game until June 2018 when the Steam Summer Sale made it too tempting. But I want to play Killer since Survivor side just doesn't appeal to me. I tried it, but unfortunately enjoyed counselor in F13 a lot more than Survivor here. But until crossplay, could never get killer lobbies.

With doc, predrop pallets. Avoid rooms where you can get trapped(the car on autohaven, that office area on lerys, etc.). Know when to break off into another loop. Break LoS so he'll have to guess his shocks. Use lockers/terror radius to your advantage to avoid his blast. Bait his shocks to slow him down and gain footing against him. Don't ######### wait at pallets.

Personally I love these killers that break the norm. Why the ######### would I want to run circles against every killer the same? The killers really should have variance in strength in different areas. I'm totally fine with Deathslinger's strong chase. He's got weak as ######### macro and pressure. I find myself escaping against Deathslinger most of the time. Back when I tracked stats for 100 rank 1 games, I escaped against every Deathslinger.

Yeah, it's the matchmaker that is making me take a break already. It's either stomp them or get stomped. I've very few games in-between, and it's already boring. I mean, I just stomped a team as a Level 15 Wraith of all things. I'm Rank 13 after losing some on Deathslinger, and they were a green, two purples, and a red. They got two Gens done, and then it was a 4k. Sigh.

I love going against good slingers but it's probably just because I main slinger. I'm expecting their moves and I'm like damn I coudn't predict that when they spear me. I can get why most people don't like going against him though.