oh no... the blights are evolving

Yeah, Tofu was saying his power isn't great for loops but is super useful for transitioning to other tiles. I haven't had the chance to play him yet since my friends wanted to swf last night and I've dumped all of my BP into the new Survivor but I'm looking forward to learning the Blight since I prefer the high mobility killers.

My God... it's almost like higher skill level killers take more than a single day to figure out. Imagine how Blight will be playing... tomorrow! (OoOoOoOoOoOoh!)

Yeah, since you can rotate mid-Rush and turn just a tiny bit when you lunge you can get up to 90 degree turns with your power if you anticipate a survivors movements even without turning addons. I haven't even tried the turning addons yet because I played his first dozen matches with base-kit. They look like they're going to be his best though.

Most new releases get called weak or overpowered, then after a while it tends to flip around, then when people have properly learned to play as and against it, and any major problems one way or the other get ironed out people finally start thinking its balanced.

People are stubborn, some probably wouldn't accept it even if their was video footage, theyd point out small mistakes and claim that that makes them terrible.

His addons are really strong. People haven't learned how to take advantage of his poor turning nor the fact that he can't swing on the first rush / can't swing immediately after slamming. Once people learn how to 360 him and run towards where he slams and once his addons get inevitably nerfed, he'll be much weaker.

That is indeed what we are doing. You can rotate during the rush before you lunge, and then rotate a bit more during the lunge itself. I've found that by anticipating your opponents movements correctly you can pivot nearly 90 degrees when you do a lethal lunge (or whatever it's called).

Blight is very frustrating to learn and being forced to play him on a bunch of reworked maps who have been made incredibly dark and full of tall grass when his PoV is so low to the ground does not help (not to mention the usual sound problems where survivors only make noise when they feel like it it seems).

I've been improving with him over the few games I played with the small amount of perks I have available on him, but it also happen that my last games where on old maps where I could actually see stuff. So there is that.

His power is great for mobility. You can cover a lot of distance with it and bounce in any direction. Its also on a relatively short cooldown. But for everything else its very lackluster. Its near useless at any loop, but its not really meant to be used there. But Blight's ability to catch peoples in the open is fairly limited by how incredibly easy it is to lose sight of survivors. His very low to the ground PoV combined with screwed up sound and scratch marks on top of getting unfavorable super dark maps full of visiual clutter make it very unlikely to hit anything with Lethal Rush, not to mention the very limited turn angle and weird momentum of the attack.

Sure you can use some of his add-ons to help him turn better and keep track of survivor, but that just make him add-on dependant and thats not good for any killer.

I reserve my final judgment on Blight for when I'll have a decent set of perks and some more games played. But for now, while he might not be as bad as he seems when you first try him and has interesting potential, he also has issues. He really feel undercooked and in dire need of some small gameplay tweaks and QoL stuff.

^^ This.

Two months from now I'd bet this forum will be full of posts about how "Blight has no counterplay! Reeeeee!"

Then the devs will nerf him and we'll all shake our heads in disgust.

Theres always pantywetters when a new killer is released, if you put time into him he'll be a solid killer.

Stealth? Totems so you don't get hit with NOED?

In my recent games, I hit the lethal rush quite often. Of course it could be the survivors not knowing how to dodge it, but sometimes there's just no place to dodge, or they were too surprised. What I really like about his power, that it allows you to outrun "bodyguards" trying to take hits for an injured one (e.g. when the whole team tries to rescue someone in endgame). My first games were pure frustration, but now I'm beginning to really like the Blight. It's just so satisfying to rush over the map for me, best topped with hitting a lethal rush at the end ^^.

I feel myself dramatically improving with him each day, landing more and more difficult hits.

The only problem is he's so short you can literally lose people behind waist-high walls, and then tracking them again is hard because the scratches are difficult to see at such a low angle.

If they fix his perspective I'll be VERY happy with him. Having him be a 2 foot tall goblin actually hurts his potential greatly.

All he really needs is some QOL changes(POV should be same height as freddy, and a better lunge in lethal rush) and he'll be a solid killer for both sides