How are we feeling about the Blight?

He's got great mobility and is very powerful with Ruin/Undying (but who isn't?) but he has very clear counterplay based on the nature of his power. He's not overloaded like Freddy nor does he change the rules of the game like Nurse/Spirit do. I say he's below Freddy and Billy. So like B+ to A tier. I myself am somewhat mediocre at killer sometimes, but his raw map mobility has saved me more times than I can count.

Best thing they've ever crapped out. Very good addons, power that requires skill and incentivizes chase while allowing map pressure which is barely possible in higher ranks without some speed.

Mastered like how some master nurse with good addons, and he's easily among the top with Spirit, Nurse and Freddy. I'd argue he's stronger than Spirit with his best build and a very skilled player. And yet he isn't as oppressive as some of these killers despite this.

All he needs is more consistent bumping. Right now it's pretty inconsistent and makes for frustrating gameplay.

He's one of the best killers they have released recently to be honest.

He's got a great power that makes him strong, fair for both sides and with perks that add a new dynamic to gameplay, undying being the new meta perk and the other two being nice decent perks to consider.

He's really good.

The reason they changed Soul Chemical is that it was too similar to C21 in practice.

i didn't say it was a good reason, mind you. i'm just saying the reason.

Against Blight:

New Blight Player - "This is fun, exciting and invigorating, can't wait to face him again!"

Seasoned Blight Player - "OMG HE'S SO OP! NERF IT NOW! NERF IT INTO THE GROUND!"

Playing As Blight:

New Blight Player - "This sucks. He's so hard to get used to, and I can't hit anyone! Maybe I just should give up..."

Seasoned Blight Player - "THAT'S NOT GOING TO WORK ANYMORE! I AM BLIGHT, THE DESTORYER OF WORLDS, WITNESS ME, WEEP AND DISPAIR!"

Basically... If killers have the patience to "git gud" as Blight, then he'd get nerfed... so lets be thankful that most players aren't that patient, for the sake of all of our fun.

Just raise pov and bug fix that would be enough.

The buff i want ? make his swing faster

Sadly I've never played against him (one player trying to practice him who got 0 hooks doesn't count)

I'm loving playing him except for indoor maps and 🌽 which are hell

Can I ask the veteran blight players here about what add on synergizes the most?

Recently bought the character and still trying to figure out what works for this and that playstyle.

Since he is getting a POV change, I think he just needs bug fixes, especially on new Ormond, half of the map is unbounceable.

Also I would change few of his add-ons, I'm not saying his add-ons are bad, I'm just saying that I don't like some of them.

The Ultra Rare one that let's you break pallets with slams, not really that great, because Blight was buffed to have this ability base. (Mostly)

Also I think the rare add-on that increases the rush window when you slam is worthless, the yellow one is already good enough for what it should does I would say.

I've never heard a seasoned survivor player say that Blight needs a nerf...Like, ever. Its more often then not newer players that actually want him nerfed and even then its a very small minority.

I've only seen a few players choose Blight as killer, there's been rare occurrences when I seen Blight in action. For some, I'd like to believe that if they're new to playing blight of course they would start to suck, but I've seen other people who done pretty well as Blight. I'm sure some people out there try anything as possible to try and win, using powers to their limits and reusing abilities. I've watched ordinary people do it so far as well in a couple of videos even if they're not veteran players. However,some perk balances do need to be checked so they can be kept in order.

What I usually run is Alchemist Ring (best Add-On for him imo, allows you to be a slightly less lethal nurse but with 115% speed and way more mobility) and Compound 23 (I think that was the UR one) if I feel lazy.

This combo allows you to shred trough pallets faster than even a Bubba could and while Blight can destroy pallets basekit, he also needs to use 2 stacks and it takes longer. With these Add-Ons you hit a survivor with a rush, instantly get tokens back and rush after them, they often barely make it to a pallet, have to drop it early and then you just run into it, barely get stunned and by the time the stun is over you can rush again and down them. It also helps when you need to find the last survivor after closing the hatch by just running into walls near an exit gate, if you get points you know they are close and probably waiting for you to leave.

While Compound 23 is an easy to use boost, the alchemist ring does require you to be good with Lethal Rushes, but once you are it's possible to down people almost everywhere, probably 80% of my average hits are lethal rushes, so Alchemist Ring always finds a lot of use.

You don't need addons with him. He's very good just default all the way to Rank 1. Although that's not saying much with the skill of some survivors these days. :|

Just all around fun in my opinion, both playing him and going against him. And he's pretty good too.

Quickly became one of my favorite killers and they'd have to really mess him up to stop me from playing him 😄

Already typed out an answer but it somehow didn't get send correctly, so sorry if this isn't a very detailled answer.

Soo the only blight youtuber that I know of is ScottJund and he also uploaded a guide for the blight, although I haven't watched it yet so I don't know how good it is. I assume it is at least decent though and talks about certain tricks that you can use to your advantage.

If I have to give some advice myself it would be that you should abuse the fact that a lethal lunge doesn't have collision with the terrain, which allows you to slide off objects and hit people that you otherwise couldn't, combine this with the most important skill next to map knowledge, which is pre turning your camera before a lunge, which turns a 45 degree lunge into up to 180 degrees. Many players will try to stay behind small structures like those random rocks on disturbed ward to avoid a hit, but by using both the lack of collision and pre turning you can hit around the rock no matter what, there are only a few specific sizes of clutter that I didn't figure out yet how to guarantee a hit and requires faking a direction. These are also extremly important to make 90% of the existing loops rush-able, combined with fast aiming after a slam.

Another tip if you lose people during rushes, if you are ready to hit somebody running away from you, never run past them for your first slam so you can lethal rush them, since that wastes more travel time and allows them to lose LoS with you, you almost always can find an object between you too that you can quickly slam into and continue to lethal rush them without leaving them out of your sight.

Other than that ALWAYS use his power when possible. As a new killer thats generally what I recommend, even if it loses you the game, since playing it safe also prevents you from learning what you can and can't do with his power. Its better to look silly if you fail your first 10 games going for risky hits and actually get better with his power and gain an understanding of it, than to never improve.

Perk wise you have the standard build that benefits blight the most, which is BBQ (probably better perks out there, I am just a BP addict), Ruin/Undying and a free slot that I use for whatever, although many run tinkerer which admittedly is a great perk on him, especially if new, although you need to know priorities, it is better to let a gen go sometimes if its in a bad spot and you know you will get the down soon. Blight is REALLY good at defending both gens + totems and once you get good with him and use the alchemist ring you can turn into a legion that can down, its possible to quickly hit a person, run to a gen and make it regress WHILE hitting the person on it, THEN run to a totem and protect it while ALSO injuring that person in a span of 15-20 seconds. With that being said, your perks are fine, although I highly recommend getting ruin on him, even undying 1 is fine. This is just a personal opinion, but I really dislike running perks that only affect the m1 on my blight, since I can go multiple games with only ever hitting survivors via lethal rush, which makes those perks useless for me, although if you are still learning him and thus will probably use a fair share of m1's the perks you got are pretty reasonable imo.

Overall just practice, practice and practice. Go for risky plays or even straight up dumb ones. Learn what is possible and what isn't.

If you want we can also KYF and I can show you some of the stuff I said in practice.

I think he himself can be a pretty deadly killer. The few skilled Blights i've been blessed to face were terrifying.

However, I think he's much harder to play on console so I'd love to see some kind of adjustment for that.