If You Had To Axe Half The Killers, Who Would You Cut?

Axing half them is hard, however I’ll do my best to see as many as I can. Legion, a bunch of teenagers who stab people, that’s basically Ghost Face. Clown, more room for Pennywise. And Billy because we have Bubba. I can’t axe anymore because all of them are unique killers.

I'd remove Spirit, Pig, Hag and Plague (And Legion)

Spirit - Regardless on the counters everything you do against good ones is a guess. Whether it's a blind guess or an educated guess you're still guessing most of the time against this killer. That isn't fun, that isn't counterplay and that's not an engaging way to play against a killer.

Hag - Fundamentally this killer is designed to camp - Mind you most people in the community play her wrong as she can be quite fun to play against. However she encourages camping which is boring over dealing with her in chase. She needs to be able to set up traps more actively and somehow discourage camping and she'd be fun.

Plague - Wasted potential / Should start over with this killer - Good concept but honestly the most efficient way to play this killer is tap a survivor with puke and hit them with m1 and play around that. It's more consistent and reliable instead of puking against good survivors because you'll waste so much time doing so with your power.

Pig - I'd go rework territory but this killer thematically needs so much I doubt it ever happens. Only licensed character in this game I'm disappointed with. Also this killer is the only one who seems to really encourage playing in a toxic unfun way. Camping, tunneling, etc. If you want a survivor dead you can guarantee it with this killer.

Legion - Overall disappointing use of the character and misleading promotional trailer. Would prefer this killer get the Freddy treatment and get a new power however still emphasizing speed. Mind you The Blight pretty much got the power I'd give Legion lol.

Don't really see a major reason to remove the rest of them. They just need rebalancing. Even the ones I mentioned I'm pulling at straws. Except Spirit I'd genuinely delete her from the game right now and not feel a loss at all.

substitute ghost face for hag and you got a deal!

The ones i keep i feel bring more depth to the game, since they all play different, and you have to play different against them.

The ones i cut i cut because a big part of their gameplay are already covered, like ghostface and pig are already covered my michel.

Huntress and Gunslinger are similar, as are freddy and demogorgon. Hillbilly has similarities to oni and letherface.

The other one like doctor, hag, trapper and spirit i would keep for their unique gameplay.

For that reason i would maybe keep nurse, but since next to noone plays her anymore it seems like a waste.

The plague and legion have a more unique gameplay than clown, but i dont like plague.

I play both sides, but surivor a lot more.

That's really interesting. Here's mine in order of who I'd axe first to last:

1. Hag: I will miss you ruin
2. Deathslinger: He isn't fun to face or play as for me. His perks won't be missed.
3. Trapper: Won't miss his perks or gameplay.
4. Wraith: He's alright but his perks aren't worth keeping. Other killers are more fun than him.
5. Oni: This is where I'm struggling. I find his camping ability too annoying at times. I'll miss Nemesis but Leatherface doesn't need it anymore.
6. Freddy: I have no problem with Freddy. He just isn't as fun as the ten I'll probably keep. I don't mind losing some of his perks.
7. Clown: I'll miss pop and his diverse set of cosmetics but his ability just isn't that interesting.
8. Demogorgan: I really like playing Demogorgan with STBFL. Problem is his ability isn't anything special and his perks are trash.
9. Spirit: She is class. She has amazing cosmetics and some amazing perks. The gameplay can be soo much fun but I find her counterplay too little at high ranks unless your using Iron Will.
10. Pyramid Head: This was almost Bubba. I don't like his new change and they didn't fix his camping ability. However I couldn't get rid of my main and can't get rid of BBQ. Pyramid I find fun to face but his perks just aren't that good.

This was extremely tough. Legion only survived because I find them really fun go play. Also Discordance is very good perk that I like to run on some characters.

Once you get past the first 4/5 it's extremely tough to choose who to cut. Especially when you lose the perks and map too.

This was actually pretty hard and fun to think about; since I like most of the cast my thought process was mostly 'who do I want to keep' and less 'who do I want to go'.

Huntress and Wraith stay because I love them, and other people do too.

• Bing Bong Boi is loved and adorable. I know there are other people out there to back me up on this. Philip is best Wraifu.
• There are more Huntress mains out there than you can shake a stick at. Even if ranged projectile hitboxes are a headache, she's gotta stay.

Trapper stays because he's too iconic.

• He even won an award for Best Original Character during a Canadian Video Game awards, and who am I to argue with that?

Pryamid Head, Mandy, Leatherface, and Michael stay because they're horror icons. I wanted to keep Freddy, Ghostface, and Demogorgon too, but then I would have been done with the list purely because some characters are licensed, so I went more in-depth.

• Pryamid Head stays because he's from Silent Hill. I can't axe him, I don't have it in me to do so.
• Pig stays because she's a unique and interesting character. She's fun to play, even though her add-ons need help and her power could use some tweaks. Also, boop the snoot.
• Leatherface is an inspiration for DBD and a particularly memorable horror icon. The original film predates Halloween and is quite memorable from a technical aspect as well as for being very unsettling. He's also not a wimp in-game anymore either; he's a slugging powerhouse and a genuine threat to Survivors.
• Michael Myers is one of the most iconic slasher characters. He's probably the biggest single reason this game blew up the way it did. In addition he's incredibly fun to face and play as and he has some really cool variety to his power via add-ons. He has to stay.

Nurse stays because she's the strongest Killer in the game.

• She's hard to master, but nigh unstoppable in skilled hands. And even more than being flat out the best (which she is) Killer, she's totally unique. No other Killer plays like Nurse; so much so that there are Survivor mains (mostly console probably :P) out there who love her for her uniqueness.

Legion stays because I believe in them.

• Yes, they were introduced to the game sucky. Yes, they drove away a lot of people then. Yes, they're still a little unpleasant to face and/or play as. Yes, they're not that strong. BUT even so, I have hope for this character. I still think BHVR can do something really cool with them if they ever actually touch them again or do a Freddy-esque do-over. And in the mean time, regardless of what you specifically think about them, they're certainly a unique Killer that's neat to look at.

Plague stays because she's great at snowballing, has no mobility, and isn't licensed.

• For my last character to keep it was a bit of a struggle, we have too many characters that are fun or unique to play. So I looked at who else I'd chosen and who all I'd have to get rid, and chose someone based on that.
• Michael is staying, and he has a strong snowball power. However he's a licensed characters. There should be someone that fits that general playstyle that you aren't required to pay for. We have two characters that fit that bill; Oni and Plague.
• However, Oni has extremely good mobility and, upon review I noticed that I'd given the axe to most of the high mobility cast out there.
• So I gave the spot to Plague with the reasoning that if there are almost no high mobility Killers, then the game could be balanced around the standard and slow move speed characters: smaller maps, a basekit way to traverse giant maps, etc.

Here's mine:

I ranked these based on how much fun they are to play, to play against, or both, to me, with a few exceptions (mainly Pig).

Firstly, Trapper. He's very fun to face, the constant feeling of paranoia of just "aaaaAAAA is there a trap" is amazing and makes the game feel so much more tense. Additionally, he's the icon of DBD, and so should stay.

Next, Wraith. I stan my bing bong boi, he's adorable, and amazing fun to play and to face. He might not be the best but seeing someone uncloak the yeet themselves around a corner and get you, that feels fair and fun and "oh ######### he can do that too??". It's such a blast.

Bubba. He's amazing to play but I haven't faced enough to make a decision on if he's fun to face or not. What I do know is seeing him chainsaw at you from like 30m away and getting closer and you just going "oh ######### oh ######### oH #########" is hilarious.

Freddy. My main man, love him to death. Pretty fun to face imo, when they play like normal people not ForeverFreddy:tm: or haha tunnel go brrr, and so much fun to play. Mained him for coming up 3 years, still love playing the character, and BHVR did a great job with his rework tbh.

Pig. She's pretty good to face from my experience but I haven't played as her enough to say if she's fun to play or nah. Honestly I mostly kept her for Cheers since he loved to play as her and told me she was amazing fun, so imma trust his judgement lol.

Pyramid Head. Reading him correctly can be amazing (this only goes for bad ones) and otherwise managing to stealth around all game is also amazing fun (hi I main Blendette). To play he's more fun than Freddy in my opinion provided you go for risky plays. Just sticking to the same old boring sword in ground, haha I win ain't that good but predicting where people will run based on past experiences in chases and guessing correctly for a well-timed Punishment is so ######### amazing. I love this killer to death and I'll stand by this till the day he gets changed.

Now we got Nurse. Despite her double cooldowns and how sick she used to make me she's still actually fun to play. 1 blink Nurse with Matchbox, bamboozle, endfury, and fire up is surpringly effective (because who expects endfury on a nurse lol) and even with 2 blinks she can be fun (just gotta stack double recharge for the best time). To face she feels great from my experience, so long as they're playing for fun. Facing a Nurse who kills the entire team in 0.2 seconds with Infectious is just boring, but hey at least it isn't Spirit.

Hag. She can be ######### monstrous in the right hands, but I'm not really the best hag player so sometimes she does feel very boring to me. Other times, however, when I predict correctly and get the trap placement just right she's almost as fun as PH to play. To face she's terrifying; she gives me the same paranoia as Trapper with 30x the strength. Just so long as it's a good hag, not a hag that uses all 10 traps around a hooked survivor.

Huntress. This is mainly going for a huntress on good internet, but she's very fun to face imo. Everything always feels fair (again, good internet being specified) and I enjoy going against her. I don't like playing her but that's because I don't know how hatchets work yet. If I put in the time I'd love it.

Demo. He's a good boy and deserves all the head pats. His power feels fair and fun, he can zone well but not too well like PH and there are some loops you can run him on where he can't shred, some he can shred amazingly well. Basically demo is just a fun killer.

Doctor and Clown- I put these two together cause their counters in chase are to just pre-drop pallets. Add to that that I'm a blendette main and Doctor removes stealth and he makes me feel sad.

James- James is so much fun to face but he's mostly here because I didn't want to axe anyone else above out. Sorry James.

Legion- It's legion. Moving on.

Myers- I just don't like facing him. I hate having to rely on my teammates to not give a killer their power and I hate how he can 99 off of the Claudette self caring, oblivious to the world, then come to me, pop his t3, and one-shot me instantly. This happens 3 times in a game, because of course it does, and I'm just there like "guess i should've swfed huh".

Billy. He's like James, I didn't want to axe him out but I couldn't think of who to swap him for. Sorry Billy.

Plague- She's just kinda boring ngl. It's either remove all stealth and be one-shot for the game or make her super-buffed Huntress. Just not the most entertaining thing in the world, but she's tolderable. She'd be in stay if I had room for her. Sorry Plague.

Oni. I hate him. I hate everything about him. I hate the way he looks, sounds, walks, acts, is related to spirit, all his cosmetics (except minotaur that's sick I'll give BHVR that one lol). I hate how he plays, I hate how he plays against, I hate relying on teammates to not get hit because of course we have a ######### meg who throws down shack pallet and still gets mindgamed on it. I hate everything about Oni and there's only 1 killer I hate more. At least playing Slinger is fun but Oni is just p a i n.

Deathslinger- I hate facing him, I hate how he's basically a stealth killer, I hate his ability to ADS and oh guess I should've reacted better to the ######### speeding towards me at the speed of sound to give me some pretty bad anal. But at least playing him and landing some amazingly predicted, charged shots is fun.

Spirit- I don't know where to begin with this #########. I have such a burning hatred of this killer I can't even put it into words. She's the definition of unfair and if I could remove a single killer from the game it'd be her in a heartbeat; I wouldn't even need to think about it. Spirit is the worse designed killer in Dead By Daylight and I will stand with this opinion till the day she gets changed.

Thanks for coming to my TEDTalk.

Keep Nurse, Huntress, Oni, Pyramid, Pig, Myers.

Screw the rest, none of them require pure skill to play them just cheese tactics and perk dependency with no real power over loops.

Especially hag and doc. Never cared about Ruin when it was old or even now reworked. Hate the doc cause they are the ones that will chase for 5 gens and 4k cause of noed.

I was opening an exit gate at Yamoaka, my spine chill never lit up I thought I was golden and yoink! Myers grabs me outta nowhere. But then he dribbled me, opened the gate and let me exit🤨. All I could think was "what a polite and quirky murderer".

It was fun to see which ones I would cut or keep. Some were easy, others were hard. I never liked Hillbilly or LF much (bye Chili ;-;) and most killers I kept were the ones I enjoy to play more, except the Nurse, which I hate to play, but like to go against.

Made solely on personal enjoyment

Look keep Myers, Pig, Trapper, Demo, Spirit, Bubba, Goatface, and Huntress.

Odd selection right?

Their stun sounds are the greatest.

cut because:

clown: causes irl problems to certain people, giving them headaches/migraines/eyestrain

deathslinger: not really fun to go against, and very hard to balance because making him fun to go against would make him weak

doctor: same reason as clown, but to a lesser extent.

freddy: jack of all trades, except every trade is really strong. he shuts down loops without even thinking, and can slow the game down immensely without any real effort with his teleport + pop (add ons too)

hag: her camping potential is nuts, and it makes her really not fun to go against. you also play against every hag the same way, just run away from the loop if she places a trap and hope there aren’t any traps near

legion: i dont really think i need to explain legion

spirit: same reason as deathslinger, but to a greater extent

plague: corrupt purge is limited and its the only fun part of her power, most of the game shes an m1 killer with no power

pyramid head: the epitome of “m2 to mindgame” with no real counter to punishment of the damned

ghostface: his reveal is a buggy mess, and hes essentially just an m1 killer with no power so he isn’t really fun to play