Freddy is not OP

Think about what you just said. Something can be strong but that does not mean it is overpowered. Spine Chill is strong, is it OP though? Not in my opinion, no. If they nerf everything that is "strong" on the killer side, what would the challenge be? For that matter, where would the actual fun be in this game on either side?

Instead of "nerfing" every killer, the developers and balance team should be focusing on making killers like Trapper, Wraith, Pig, Demogorgon, and the other killers that are significantly worse than Freddy, Spirit, and the rest of the roster more in line with them. It would create killer diversity and in turn would create a much better baseline to what is and isn't overpowered. I think the problem is that the majority of the killers in the game are so underpowered that players have lost sight of what a balanced killer actually looks and plays like.

Okay, I gotcha.

That said, there is so much wrong with looking at stats with no context but that is a completely different issue I don't wanna get into.

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He does not require any skills for all the benefits he receives:

• Reduction of up to 60% of the teleportation cooldown that can accumulate up to 80% using addons. No character in the game achieves such a reduction number as Freddy in his power
• The rope and chain addons are passive and do not require Freddy to do anything to get results, where literally the game can start with a slowdown already applied. Again, no character has this feature
• Apply Oblivious status when entering the dream preventing the use of BT, basically a full plate for tunnelers only using the M1
• Lullaby with one-dimensional sound preventing the survivor from being able to discern where Freddy is because he breathes too low. Another super resource for free
• Alarm Clocks are super counter intuitive to use because crossing the map to wake up for him to just teleport on your generator and put you in the dream again is a complete waste of time

All Freddy's problems are concentrated between him getting an advantage by doing nothing, this is the most frustrating part of facing him, because you feel hurt to avoid him in all ways and he still succeeds because of his complete and super kit easy, it's just frustrating

My issue with Freddy isn't that he's OP. In terms of power, I think he's fine. The issue, however, is just how easy he is to play, mostly because he has so much and is rewarded for doing nothing!

Need to get to a survivor? Good news, on open maps, you're flat-out invisible until they start hearing your TR. Are they blending? Don't worry, you have anti-blend?

BT? What's that? Oh, need to have people asleep to even use your power? Eh, just wait a minute. They'll all fall asleep. Speaking of which, more sleepy survivors means lower cooldown on your teleport! All for just waiting a minute and doing nothing with 0 skill involved.

So what if they wake up? Well, they have to go across the map to go to an alarm clock that you can undo in a second. Fail a skillcheck? You know where they are AND free regression! Sweet! Waking each other up? Too bad that gets less effective the more they do it.

Loops?! Oh no! Better place a snare, completely disabling the loop and forcing them out into the open where you can hit them! Game too fast? Just get a few completely passive slowdown add-ons and stack them with slowdown perks.

Mobility, Slowdown, chase, stealth, 115% movement speed, easy to use—he has everything and rarely has to work for any of it. I don't think he's OP, but he is, hands-down, the easiest killer in the game. I know not to trust the stats, but Freddy and Nurse are outliers—if Nurse is the lowest in killrates due to her learning curve, then Freddy is the highest because his curve is nonexistent despite being so powerful.

yeah, he's not OP, he's just the kind of killer that gets survivors to kill themselves quickly on hooks to be done with the match. 10/10 great design. Shouldn't be changed.

His base speed needs to be reduced slightly. He can teleport across the map. Meanwhile the nurse crawls and can barely jump as far as I could throw the hag

This is what I like about him. I only play killer for about 1/4 to 1/3 of my matches (depending on my mood) and even with 3.2k hrs in total, I'm just not the person who wants to get stomped matches after matches while playing another killer learning that power. The frustration and toxic survivors is just something I don't want to endure all the time.

Maybe I made the mistake and ranked up pretty high with Freddy (I even got to rank 5 with old Freddy) so I'm quite stuck there, because I get stomped if I play any other killer. So Freddy it is.

I just hope they get the MMR fixed so I can play other killers as well without getting sweaty swf all the time.

I don't even bother using dream snares. I have far too much fun watching overconfident survivors balk when pallets explode into blood and I slash open their bellies.

Freddy has far too much of a presence to be fair.

It takes 60 seconds without the killer moving a muscle to get rewarded as Freddy.

"Oh, just stay awake."

If the survivors all go to sleep at the 60 second mark, you better pray to RNGesus that the clock doesn't spawn on the opposite side of the map. Apart from that, survivors would be expected to stay together at least as pairs in order to wake up if needed. That means there will be more survivors on gens. Discordance tells you exactly where they are so you can make your way there. Apart from that, if you stay together and freddy teleports, he now has more than 1 survivor to chase.

Maybe if you didn't fall asleep while doing an action: Opening chests or working on generators, healing someone else, etc.

Or if the game spawned alarm clocks in multiple locations at any given point, so that waking up can't mean trekking to the other side of the map where nothing else might be.