Can anybody come up with a good use for the Afterpiece antidote?

i havent tried it out myself yet (and im nowhere near good enough as a clown to really talk about high level clown strats tbh), but the way i would attempt to use it was by throwing a Afterpiece Tonic Bottle at the survivor, then an Afterpiece Antidote (which is inactive when it hits them) and them come into contact with it once i reach the survivors location.

so i'd use the inactive periode of it to throw it at the survivor and then use the speedboost myself once i reach their position, combined with the slowdown from a well placed tonic.

in theory that way the survivor shouldnt be able to get a benefit from it (without waiting inside the gas, which once again lets me catch up), while i could just zoom after them and catch up very quickly.

again, i dont know how that theory holds up in practise, but i think thats the way they intended it to be used?

You're acting like using it to go around the map is pointless because you have to reload, but YOU choose when to reload. You could think of it this way: if you gotta get somewhere quick, you can get there faster for the clutch moments and deal with the whole 3 second reload after you give yourself breathing room. Here are some examples of when it could be helpful:

Tinkerer procs and you're across the map. Use bottles to cross map faster and keep them from completing it, perhaps even getting there fast enough to utilize your undetectable for a grab.

You hook someone, patrol away, and see someone coming from another direction going for the hook. They're too far away to hit them with tonic, but if you use antidote you may be able to get to the hook for a grab or at least to get in a hit before they run.

You see survivors healing in killer shack with nurses. There is no opening to throw a bottle in on your side of the shack. Use antidote to increase your chances of getting there in time to interrupt

Chasing a survivor through a cornfield who has a good bit of distance on you and is good at dodging tonics? Use a antidote since he's probably not going to double back for the benefit.

Basically, tonics are for area denial, anti looping, tight spaces and for dropping on the head of unsuspecting survivors when you know you can land the hit. Antidotes are for when you have to get somewhere in a time sensitive situation such as to contest a nearly completed generator, unhook, heal, escape or sabotage. You also use it when a survivor has broken LOS and is unlikely to double back. Also, each antidote cloud decreases travel time by .9 seconds, so if you use them effectively, all 4 bottles will get you somewhere 3.6 seconds faster, so even with reload time you shaved half a second off. Not much, but it could be useful. Its a very tactical change and i am excited about it

So I'm at a very high level for clown, and know pretty much every current strategy and bottle placements on all maps, and I thought the antitode would be useless at first, but thinking and strategizing got me thinking that it might be extremely useful to predict throw ahead of a survivor if they are holding w and you'll get there at the time they are still running, and follow up with a pink bottle. It can be useful that way, but at strong loops I can see it being alright, but better off just using pinks.

If you know bottle placements really well, he is already a B+ tier killer. People just chuck and throw and mess up bottles. Any high tier clown will tell you that he is ridiculously efficient at ending chases super quickly. The buff is not much, but it's alright.

I face full meta swf all the time as clown, and splitting up on gens hurts any killer. There is some pallets that are really hard to play around as clown, but most of the time it's break. The god window on one of the macmillian maps is extremely hard on him and disturbed ward main building is rough, but everything else is easy to play around most of the time. I keep most of the pallets that are dropped up, due to the fact it's rather simple to play around. If you don't believe me you can look at dbdstats. You'll find me on the downed while intoxicated top 50 I think or close.

Wow

I have a few uses from the ptb

1. throw it at a survivor point blank before you hit them instead of doing the same with tonic instead (why, because after the hit cooldown it should be active for a quick catch up and the tonic doesn't affect the speedboost from being damaged only slows for about 1 second after instead of 5 seconds of speed)
2. throw it before you break a pallet, feather addons make this window wider but basically if you are forced to break a pallet throw it down if you can't land the tonic or do both
3. if you have 2 bottles and plan to reload (right as a chase ends with a down) throw on before pick up for fast transport, then after hooking throw one in the direction you are going and reload into it for movement speed after reload without using one of the reloaded bottles
4. use at loops boost one one side slow on the other can usually catch them out if you let the boost cloud fade before making a move
5. use for mobility especially with duration
6. use for tracking with cigar box

The good news is, you don't have to use it if you don't want to, you will still have the faster reload.

Alright, totally all me, you're not rude or anything. My bad.

Tossing it at a pallet before you break it should be a good use. I say should because every time I tried that trick, my afterpiece antidote releases afterpiece tonic gas for some reason.

Even if you can get it to work because of the bottle throw cool-down it actually makes you lose distance over just breaking the pallet and chasing like normal.