Another Spirit Post you'll see today, yes yes I know.

I kind of wish the game had a stat site where you could look up average stats like scores and kill ratios by killer. Everybody assumes Spirit is top tier (including me) but we don’t actually have good data to back it up. 🤷‍♂️

As far as the complaints, some of it stems from Scott Jund for instance complaining about Spirit and Deathslinger being “boring” to play against. His opinion is that at loops you can’t actively do much against a Spirit with Stridor or Deathslinger, the ball is in their court to miss an attack. Of course you can do things to increase the chances they will miss (e.g. use terrain to give yourself some cover from Deathslinger, move unpredictably and use noisy objects to muffle your own sounds in chases when you think Spirit is phasing) but in his opinion those things aren’t “interesting to do” and are “robotic”. (Personally I think he’s offbase on that, to me “robotic” is using quick reflexes to dodge an attack because you see the animation. The counterplays of strategically deciding where to go and how to move during a chase are more of a mindgame I think.)

As far as why I think she’s a top tier killer, it’s because she has a combination of fast map travel and a solid ability in a chase at a loop. There’s only a handful of killers that can get from place to place faster than walking that also have a really good ability that helps get downs efficiently and they’re all top tier because of it (Spirit, Nurse, Freddy, and to some extent Billy although his chainsaw isn’t quite as consistent as the other three killer’s abilities at loops so I put him at fourth here. Hag is a special case, she can cover a wide part of the map without chases and doesn’t care about loops really so she’s also really good, probably around number four or five.) That’s just my opinion though, like I said at the top I don’t have stats one way or another to back it up.

Thats just what i said, the surv is guessing where the spirit could go and the spirit hears where the surv is, so you pray that the spirit ######### up.

It is by far the strongest power in the game, even against a good nurse i was able to predict where she would port, how long she charged her blink and with her seeing exactly where i go, jucking her into porting behind a window i didnt jump through.

I dont even want her to get changed or nerfed, but just dont say shes not op, she is by far the strongest killer and its mostly unfun to play against her. (without iron will)

Stretched res lets you see over obstacles and walls at loops and requires you to change your resolution to a kind of bizarre 1:1 ratio to pull off. It’s definitely cheating.

I’m not familiar with the surround sound audio third party thing you’re talking about, how exactly does it compare to that? What is it doing that makes it better than just using typical headphones in a chase? Headphones are already directional and you can just turn up the game volume if you’re having trouble hearing sounds right? Just curious what the advantage actually is.

Freddy's rope add-ons where nerfed after the stats. Also don't forget the ruin nerf that also happened after those stats.

Freddy's old rope add-ons + old ruin and pop was certainly the biggest factor for his highest kill rate.

This is an old hint. Metas change. The devs also said clown is underrated. They don't really know how things play out.

Well if you don't play like that you're going to lose?

If hundreds of players are telling you the same way to counter a killer and get away and you still don't do it or decide that that method of play to counter them "isn't your style" Its not a killer problem.....its a YOU problem.

Scott Jund is guilty of the same thing because "well playing this way against a killer is, boring" <----Well you got a choice, play against every killer as if they are exactly the same, or adapt to each situation and play against them accordingly. If adaptation is boring then again....thats a YOU problem not the killer or the design.

The whole argument is like getting on a drag race track with a soccer mom van against a Lamborgini, and then complaining when the lambo beats you, even though you had access to a different race vehicle that could beat the Lambo. YOU make the choice to stay in that van and lose the race, again, its not the Lambo's fault for you losing that race, its YOURS, because you purposefully made the choice to lose in that instance by not playing to your advantage against said obstacle.

People assume they can't do anything vs the spirit. They then refuse to change how they try to vs her, and predictably get downed quickly due to not adapting. Therefore, the Spirit beats them consistently, thus fulfiling their mindset and proving themselves correct.

Most survivors are so stubborn they would rather lose to prove themselves right, than take a chance on something different. Its why my best advice is to play spirit consistently and see how people outplay you: It makes you considerably better at the matchup having the opposite perspective, especially when it comes to any type of mindgame scenario.

Well I don't know what to say I have no problem facing her it could be that I played her for so long that when I go against her, her mind games don't work on me.

If you say so

So hearing panicked breathing, an intended mechanic and the reason why most survivors sound so scared, is a "soundhack?" Also Shadowborn, a perk that only makes the FoV reasonable for the side that is forced to play in 1st person (as opposed to the side that plays in third person) Is "basically hacks?"

Different survivors have different volumes to their breathing/grunting/etc. Go play Ace if it bothers you so much, dude basically gets a free Iron Will just for existing.

Also, Shadowborn literally makes you get blinded EASIER. Lightborn is the one that makes you immune to blinds (again, intentionally) and does nothing about the FoV.