(Controversial) Why do people defend the nurse for because she's hard to play?

The same logic that has infected and spread all the way through this community.

If something is effective, or asks you to change up standard playstyle, or counters your usual perk / add on load out, it is clearly uncounterable and op, therefore we must move the goalposts again because its "Not Fair".

In other words, self serving logic.

Like ClickyClicky the difficulty of playing her is what makes it hard to master so that is why she isn't played as often so there is a lack of complaint. However I do notice that there is a way to counter the nurse's blink, before she materializes her visual range shows aka the red cone. The best way to avoid a hit is as soon as you see it is a sharp turn or vault to avoid the nurse. If the player is fast enough and can blink multiple times then this is difficult to avoid but doable. It also depends on if you have lag or not, if I'm not lagging I can avoid the nurse relatively well and keep her distracted.

Nurse also takes considerable skill to use. I'm absolute trash at her and mistime my blinks because.... well I'm not good with the range she has nor do I play her often. Not having add ons when playing also means that I make a lot of blind blinks which can be... well I'm just garbage at it to say the least.

I enjoy the skill it takes for someone to play her well and I love running into a good nurse player because it's a good game when you have a confident killer.

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Your latter explanation of why she's un-counterable is like saying Trapper is OP when you're close to him and have no pallets/windows... They're supposed to hit you if you leave yourself in a vulnerable spot where you have nothing to work with.

As for your first argument, you're ignoring the fundamentals of counter play altogether; You're just wrong. For example, if you come across a LOS breaker (like the shack):

If the Nurse is good? don't double back, or fake doubling back around a corner to make her waste her first blink. If the Nurse is a god? You'll have to outsmart them by sheer IQ, as a god Nurse will always fake going to a position by charging a blink and looking at one spot before quickly flicking and teleporting to a different one (which is what I usually do, and it tricks most people the first few times). If you juke them the first time, you have to juke them again by doing the exact same thing (although, to be honest, just faking a blink gives Nurse a huge advantage in any situation where she only has one blink left and isn't confident of the hit).

Call me "just wrong" all you want, that doesn't change facts: Saying Nurse doesn't have counter play is just an excuse to not use your brain.

You're asking for too much, as the devs like to largely ignore Nurse. It's probably a coding hell, but they made it so I can't really justify it.

If asking for simple bug fixes is too much, we won't be getting a rework.

I love Nurse where she currently stands (without addons as well), but the devs actively refuse to fix much of anything related to her. We might deserve a rework or a bug fix, but we're not going to get one over a new rift skin.

I don't say this lightly... but anyone who has spent the time to learn to play Nurse very well deserves to have an S-Tier killer at their fingertips.

You cannot nerf her unless you make her 10x easier to learn. No exaggeration.

I have tried Nurse a couple of times... *holy hell*. Words can't even describe how hard she is to play.

The only killer who is arguably more complicated and difficult to learn is Blight, though I've never played him.

I've said this in other posts, so I'll paraphrase here.

Issues with Nurse:

1. She can know too well where survivors are (this is more of an issue with the game mechanics of everything else, so this can't be solved by just changing Nurse).
2. She can cut her blink range short, giving her significantly more control over her destination than what was originally intended. This was introduced with The Pig patch.

Solutions:

1. (see above comment). Probably changes related to scratch marks and having the devs make a 3D sound map rather than 2D.
2. The Nurse should project a line in a sphere rather than a line in a cylinder/pile-of-circles when she blinks (assuming this already isn't the case with evidence from how The Nurse functions and comments on various dev streams). Nurse can appear on any applicable surface the sphere radius touches as long as she is facing that direction. If the sphere radius is past the potential appearance spot, The Nurse cannot blink there and will blink instead to a place on the edge of the sphere that is an appropriate blink location, as long as she is looking somewhat in its direction. This is more of how Nurse used to work (but with a circle, not a sphere), and this gives survivors more tools to accurately know how far The Nurse will blink after seeing her blink once or twice prior in a trial.

Point two is the biggest thing that needs to be addressed for the sake of survivors being able to have more options when in a chase against The Nurse, because forcing The Nurse to commit to decisions earlier is nearly always beneficial to a survivor. Also, remove the model of The Nurse appearing during her movement in the blink. This change should have been making a husk of The Nurse appear at her blink location about half a second before she gets there instead of making her model visible at the end of the blink. It has actually made me more incredulous at Nurse lethal blinks than less due to the visual response.

Issues with Nurse (killer-only perspective):

1. Blink cooldown exists

Solution:

1. Remove it. This did nothing to affect top-tier Nurses while making Nurse gameplay for casuals less fun. Also, bring back the blink speed add-ons. Also, there's absolutely no reason she should have the ultra rares she does. I've always been in favor of not having a template for add-on number and distribution because that results in nonsensical decisions (the addition of the spoon emulating the perk, all the negative add-ons, etc.), and it makes balancing harder, not easier.

Other comments: Devs, devote one person to each killer who is the chief expert on that killer's add-ons and power instead of having everybody switch off repeatedly over the years. That way, balance decisions could be done with a significantly higher degree of effectiveness and accuracy though limiting the importance of decisions passed down from people in power who have less of an idea of how the killer feels and fits into the game.

Also, I support three blink add-ons. I thought that all they needed was to decrease charge time, decrease distance, and decrease chain blink window all at the same time to compensate.

Additionally, perhaps it would be a good idea to test if a slightly longer fatigue time (similar to how the post-attack fatigue time is increase) should be given to The Nurse when she enters fatigue while charging a blink.

Is she the best killer? Yes! Is she by far the most difficult? Yes! Is she really ahead from the others killers? Actually, no! She relies badly on survivor’s mistakes too. This plus her god powers seems to make her that unbeatable, but she is not. Actually, as a main Nurse, I can assure that maybe she is not worth investing time and effort and definitly does not need another nerf. I play her cause I really love her style, her lore, and obviously cause she is strong. But people sell her really as an unbeatable character, this is not true. Even the best Nurse player out there will be crushed for those tryhard swfs.