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I've been wrong about Hillbilly
After playing a few matches a night with him, I found him to be quite fun and strong. My main issue with him in the past was missing the chainsaw, which you can totally avoid doing most of the time, by looking at the survivor's feet as you're close to them to tell when to let go, and also having patience because the better survivors will try to spin and you're about to let go. After learning these things, he's way stronger especially with Bamboozle. He's not unbeatable of course because, just the other night I got a 0k from a macro clicker SWF that had god windows too close together, so my Bamboozle did nothing. But most of the time now, as long as gen speed isn't too crazy, I'll do well with him. His add-ons are a problem though, because there's so many I'd rather just not use because of how weak or detrimental they are.
The distance and instadown potential is pretty good. I'd place him at least mid tier, and I'll be playing a lot more of him in the future.
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I never liked playing him, and even less since his nerf. Good players will almost never be in a position to be sawed, and even if they are it can be a somewhat difficult skillshot (especially on blendettes). I never wanted to bother to learn how to curve, and from what I gather it's mostly dead now. He is reduced to an M1 killer at many loops, and any indoor map is just terrible for him.
I much prefer Leatherface since his buff. The Leatherface chainsaw is significantly more powerful than Billies if you can close the gap. All Billy has going for him these days is his really good terror radius music (that you don't even get to hear).
Plus you can just play Oni aka Billy but 3 times better.
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That's what I said before, that good survivors will never be in a good position to be sawed, but I think that's map dependent. Blood Lodge or some place with 2 strong windows can be bad for him, but there's also many good maps especially if you have turn add-ons. Because you have to M1 sometimes, I bring Franklin's, and others bring Sloppy or even STBFL. But yeah Hillbilly's in need of some changes, because why would you ever play him over Leatherface?
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I used to think that as well but Hillbilly to me seems for stealth like then those two but I get what you saying. I do think Bubba is stronger than him and Oni as well, that doesn't mean that Billy is hot garbge
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No, his chase music is incredible and him in his current state doesn't do it justice.
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Oni exists though. He's just flat out better than Billy.
Leatherface too. At least you can juke Hillbilly.
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not if the billy is good and not juke-able at close to mid range, even if he doesn't land every chainsaw the map pressure his kit provides outshines leatherface against better survivors.
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True. I just find Hillbilly to be really easy to beat now since the rework. Not that I found him particularly difficult before it.
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After they moved his pov forward and changed his add ons to trash stealth add ones, i dont play billy anymore.
Hes just not fun and feels clunky af
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