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Please start playing pyramid
The last time I saw someone play him in my matches was 2 weeks ago and it was a 1 perk pyramid. Why don't people play him? He is a very strong killer but I guess people think he's weak? Don't like DS? He is perfect for you
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hes boring though, pyramid heads time is up, its the year of the blight now
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He's not weak, people know he's strong. One of the strongest in the game in fact. However, he actually has a decent skill ceiling to him as well.
There is a lot of decision making and planning, like he borrows a tiny bit of trapper logic and a tiny bit of like pig logic in his playstyle I find. On top of that, his active attacking ability, is a bit like doctor.
What I mean by all this is that you have to think about when to use your abilities actively, get used to the delay on his ranged attack and the overall awkward feel he has initially, and also be smart with where you leave your trails and when.
The result is that there are some scary good pyramid head's that demolish a team, but a lot of people playing him like 3 games and going "Wow this sucks" when they miss like 10 punishments in a row. Don't worry, you'll see more in the future as more people pick them up.
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Yea no, I thought blight would be my 2nd main but he slides off objects too much and his camera is too low to see sometimes
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Sliding happens, but the amount of sliding objects decrease significantly when you look out for them
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His camera/pov is going to be adjusted "Soon" according to BHVR.
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Strong how?
His POTD is too easy to dodge when trying to play him on console
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He got NERF twice. Though player may decreases, it never increases.
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I see him here and there and have played him a few times recently. Do greatly prefer to see him over the usuals like Spirit, Bubba, and Freddy. Even if he stomps me... at least it's not them.
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What the others said.
He works when the players are dumb. You are banking on them making errors, not good plays on your end. A smart Survivor can evade the Trails, know when to avoid the shockwave, and not mess around at pallets or standoffs.
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How soon is soon because its felt like months since they announced changes
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I have and usually enjoy Pyramid Head. My one problem is that I like coming up with interesting builds. Because of his powers, running perks that need basic attacks or pick ups or hooks doesn't exactly work.
That makes making fun and interesting builds for him tricky at best. I prefer Death Slinger to Huntress for similar reasons.
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Probably by the time the next killer comes out.
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played him once tonight, his power still feels useless outside of locked animations so it's just .. whatever
i don't buy the kool aid of "bu bu you can spam his power now".. no, not in the middle of a chase out in the open, unless you want to give them time to run to a loop
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I got the game in the first place for Pyramid Head. It took survivors about a week or two to understand his mechanics and after that, every game is an outrageous struggle to get anything going.
His barbed wire trail is absurdly bad. It takes too long to set up, vanishes too quickly, can't be placed on the most valuable spots (unlike every other 'trap' ability), does nothing to actually slow/hurt/hinder survivors, and using it locks you out of your own hook abilities as well as survivors. Also, its cages got nerfed because why not.
His shockwave is his only real power, with the ability to go through obstacles but with such an huge lead-up, deafening sound cue, short reach, and punishing recovery that unless you're pro-tier, you're going to end up letting survivors just get away for free 9 times out of 10. Also, it got nerfed because why not.
What may be the worst are his add-ons, though. With 2 exceptions (increased range on his shockwave) they ALL revolve around his barbed wire trails or his cages (which require the barbed wire trails). They either do some slight increase to the trail to make them SLIGHTLY (but not sufficiently) less bad, or they inflict a (useless) status ailment. Top that off with his highest tier add-ons being completely useless and you've got a killer with no decent boosts. You don't get fun "change your ability for a new playstyle" options like Dream Palettes or perpetual tier 1 Evil Within. You don't get powerful add-ons like 1-hit hatchets or auto-kill tombstone. You don't even get "this just makes the game easier to play" options like constant red-light Discipline or move faster in shred Rat Liver. His ONLY good add ons increase the range of his pathetically short shockwave (and what a shock, they're also the only two that don't rely on the terrible barbed wire trails).
As was mentioned, his power relies on survivors messing up, which is why he seemed so good when he first came out. Nobody knew how to deal with it, so everybody got Tormented. Now? Forget about it. If you're not a skill-shot master with his shockwave, you might as well be playing the loudest M1 killer in the game.
I love the dude and I would love for him to be fun to play, but considering the double nerf to his abilities, zero regard for his pointless add-ons, and apparently, the Developer belief that he's working as intended, it's just not going to happen.
And that sucks.
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I don't play him because of the common complains but if you insist I will.
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I mean, apparently they're nerfing Freddy because people play him and win a lot. Maybe if everybody plays PH and just loses constantly, the numbers will add up to show the core problems to the Devs?
As-is, the only people playing him are the ones who are super skilled and can actually win, so his numbers are probably skewed by the 5% of killers who are playing and can hit every shockwave.
Or, I guess, he's a fine choice if you need to down-rank. Too slow to stop gen rushing, too feeble to catch up in chases, too reliant on survivor mistakes to get cages. A sure-fire recipe for anything but Chaser points.
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This will help you some: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TeUR6idHDM4
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In what way is he strong? he is slow and heavily telegraphed to the point where it is THE SURVIVORS FAULT if they get hit with zero input from the killer.
The delay on his attack makes him feel awful to play as well.
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I see a lot of pyramid heads. Red ranks.
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Why would anyone put that amount of effort into a killer who, at the end of the day, is mostly m1? You could instead choose to put that effort into a killer like Nurse and Spirit, who are far more rewarding.
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Probably 2 years. Give or take 1 year.
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He's incredibly strong, but given how people are still learning a lot of less experienced killers haven't realised this yet.
Of course if you compare him to spirit or nurse no duh he's not that strong of a killer, but I mean if those are your standards then you are setting yourself up for a huge disappointment for literally every other killer- and you're going to get bored of this game real quick.
He's not top tier; but he is well above average, and plenty viable in red ranks once you get used to him. Not many killers can negate so many survivor perks, shave so much time out, hit multiple survivors, etc.... His kit is like Demo in that he has a varied toolkit that is simplistic initially; but requires some effort to learn.
As I said; if you expect every killer to be Spirit or Nurse; then you're going to get bored of this game real quick. If you're only approaching the game with the mentality of having to have the best everything always; you're going to be behind that guy running brown add on trapper every day of the week.
Also Spirit, really? You say you dislike characters that mostly press M1 and use spirit as your example? Pyramid head has far more to him than spirit does; and a lot more thought you have to put in. Characters like that will teach you a LOT more about the game much quicker also.
Once you get used to it; that delay is not a big deal. It's about when you use it.
The ability to shave tons of time off the match, hit multiple survivors, hit through walls, pallets, and almost anything in the game, control over where your map pressure is, negate some of the most meta survivor tools in the game, and can punish survivor mistakes crazy hard.
He's well above most of the killers in the game in terms of strengths, he's just not at that Spirit/Nurse/Freddy/Etc level.
It's perfectly okay to lot like how a character "feels" though, I get that, but calling him weak is just silly.
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Ehh he's just boring to play for me. I don't wanna just tunnel people off hook and have less chases cause that's what I enjoy as killer. His ranged attack is also just meh. It's got limitations so you can't do cool shots like huntress, and you often end up baiting more than shooting the actual power which is just eh. Would rather go for cool hatchets and be able to hatchet in all situations than be limited to baiting most of the time.
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everything you mentioned is a mistake made by the survivor, not anything you did as the killer.
Good survivors don't get tormented.
His attack is loud, directional, and has warning animations with a slow travel. if you hit a survivor behind something they either let you or are really yellow/ green ranks.
Good survivors will not let you animation lock them, and if they do they probably have dead hard to counter it.
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It looks like you're trying really hard to make this killer look bad. Almost nothing you said is true just false information.
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I mean i’m that guy winning 99% of my killer matches with Nurse. PH is way too hard for too low of a reward. You will not beat the best groups with him.
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A good survivor will get animation locked at some point in a chase, no matter how good they are. Pyramid Head has a lot of control over when that happens too.
You're severely underestimating his ability to get hits through his POTD.
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I wish I stopped getting him in my games too to be honest. He's very unfun similar to Slinger. Players who main him don't know how to play a killer who takes skill and I'm a killer main who mains Blight before anyone says I'm an entitled survivor.
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I main him and I play all killers except trapper and hag. Blight isn't even hard I play him on console p3 literally easier to play then pyramid lol
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You have no idea what you're talking about.
Blight is not easy to play at all LOL. Why do you think you never see him when you're playing survivor and when you do they get stomped? Because he is very hard to play with a very high skill ceiling, probably second or third hardest in the game. Pyramid Head is very easy to play with his free zoning and he can literally hit through objects which means anytime someone is in animation lock, it's a free hit. Don't be biased, not a good look.
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I would play him more but Killer queue is like 3 hours long so /Survivor.exe it is
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How do You post videos on here? I don't know how people find him hard. If you find him hard to play, I guess I'm just more skilled with him then you? Also, hitting prediction shots through walls is a lot harder than you think
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Personally I just use my YouTube account to upload clips and link them to the thread. If you add the URL and hit space it will load the clip thumbnail like this:
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Be my guest, but putting up a video of a handpicked clip means anything since there are many factors to account for. I've played both Pyramid Head and Blight at Rank 1 against 4 man sweat squads and Pyramid Head was far easier to 4k with. He's easy to tunnel with and like I said, can literally catch anyone in animation lock, that with his free-zoning makes him a very simple killer with a low skill floor and a low skill ceiling.
Also, when did I say Blight is hard for me? He was at first but I have about 300 hours into him so far. He does have a high skill ceiling since his power literally depends on the map and RNG along with constantly having to analyze what you have access to within the chase. Pyramid Head is the same old, follow, pretend to use your ability, use it if the survivor tries to throw the pallet or vault the window, if not, keep following and get an M1.
Blight takes much, much more skill to play than Pyramid Head does. You can ask anyone, this isn't worth discussing further.
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Cant 2016 facecamp anymore nor braindead fake. Not fun
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Well let's agree to disagree then ik I'm right so yea no point wasting my time with this
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I want to play him almost solely because he's DAMN aesthetic.
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Definitely not weak in right hands. Also, please no... I already had 4 in a row yesterday, and I usually get him once or twice a day. I'm so sick of going against this boring Killer along with Legion/Doc/Hag. I usually don't do well against PP Head but have been lately, along with Dickslinger. I try not to ######### about Killers anymore and get used to them. I ended up liking going against Dickslinger and multiple others now.
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Alright, if you're going to be ignorant, that's fine.
But according to recent killer stats, Blight, Nurse and Huntress which are three of the hardest killers to play are lowest in kill rates in Red Ranks. Everyone knows the potential of a good Blight, Nurse and Huntress which are almost unbeatable but that's when the player has close to mastered the killer. I don't know if you're in Red Ranks or not, which it seems you aren't even though rank doesn't mean all that much but the hardest games do come from Red Ranks which reflects from the stats that they are lowest in kill rates implying that their powers are difficult to use effectively. Maybe Blight is easier at the Green Ranks but against competent survivors, not so much which makes mastering him to his highest potential even more satisfying. Blight is the perfect example of a killer who is very strong but only based on the players skill level. Pyramid Head is the opposite, just like Freddy, an easy killer to play that anyone can 4k with. Say whatever you want, but it's a known fact that Blight is much harder to master than Pyramid Head but I guess you probably also think that Freddy is harder to master than Nurse so it's alright.
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I feel like a lot of killer players are in the same spot as I'm in. I'm not good with his ranged attack, and when you're not good with a key part of a killer, you should just not play him, because you're missing out on so much value.
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I love him but I can see why a lot of people would not. I usually warm up with an easy killer and then transition into him because he takes a ton of effort to score hits if the survivors are really good at juking.
I get the animation lock hits like everyone but against good survivors I usually am feathering it half the time or pretend to do a flick at a pallet loop while canceling; then they dodge away to avoid the fake flick and I get the M1 with the distance they lost. It’s pretty hilarious but sometimes I want to play a more brain dead killer like spirit or bubba
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Especially easy considering his counter is moving slightly to the left or right.
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I just can’t put myself through it anymore on console.
- Nurse
- Huntress
- Demo
- Deathslinger
- Pyramid Head
- Blight
- Twins
They’re all far far too frustrating to use due to how easy it is for survivors to dodge
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I feel like his range attack is so clunky, I find it difficult to make sharp turns with it. Also I feel like if I miss a range attack I get punished unless the survivor stay at the pallet.
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Hella
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I've never come across a good blight, I'd love to see someone prove me wrong, but, yeah, rank 8 survivor as of current, unless these skilled blights are in red ranks exclusively
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Blight is definetely harder to play than Pyramid Head (especially on console).
Anyway,i don't play him because his power feels clunky and awkward to use compared to other killers.
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From what i've seen,or rather not,good blight players are extremely rare.
Watch a streamer like AscensionWho playing blight.He's insanely good at him.
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This game tends to have a trend where the newest killers are the least played because most people are:
Stubborn
reluctant to try out something new that they aren't perfectly good at
focused on maintaining their rank
actually playing the killer, but not doing well because the killer is fairly new (see #2)
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thanks for the suggestion
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