Afterpiece Antidote is so useless

Often times afterpiece alone does not do enough to close the gap, however, when combined with antidote it can make impossible gap closers possible on most loops! It's actually really effective, sadly it seems most clowns don't know how to combo it.

I don't think it's useless. I just think the applications where it shines are just very limited in scope.

I think the main problem is that the yellow bottles do require skill to use usefully, but the reward for being successful with them is not that high which puts them in an awkward spot.

It's a lot of extra work. It's like double blinking to hit a survivor when you can single blink and hit them.

I mean the first badham pallet is unsafe with every killer. T-L wall is also unsafe. It already has mindgame at one of the window. The other stuff he doesn't show or say is that you can throw 2 purple tonics and still get the same hit. for example fracture cowshed loop, you can throw 1 on each side, push the survivor into first cloud, than push the survivor into second cloud and they'll be hindered for entire duration. Also can apply to T-L wall in some instances. At the shack, you can medium vault the window on like 2/3 of the wall but he can also double back so you need to pay attention to red glow but I think most clowns will just walk forward in most cases.

its big telltale that people need make videos to showcase that clown's power is useful. Look at freddy rework, it was immediately obvious that he was stronger killer after his change. I think clown's change was not made to make him stronger, it was made to LOWER his skill-floor and make him easier to play. what signs point to this? Reload buff making his bottles more spammable needing less precision and less punishment for missing i.e more newbie friendly and the fact that yellow bottle is conveniently only useful when the survivor is 15+ meters away meaning that new clown never needs to land long-range purple bottles ever. he can just throw yellow bottles for guaranteed speed-ups for same gap-close distance i.e more newbie friendly.

Clown's problem was never that he was too hard. Clown's problem was that his ability had NO reward and that it encouraged survivors to play in such a way that is detrimental to the killer(Play safe). In reality, killers profit from survivors greeding loops because it allows them to mindgame in certain instances to get hits, e.g survivors looping a filler pallet one too many times resulting in a hit+pallet drop. If everyone just drops every safe pallet, than you do not get opportunity to mindgame the vast majority of loops hence you get no downs and no kill pressure along with bad early games i.e 3-4 gens in 1 hook.

Here's the big kicker, most of the killers that people think are strong or were considered strong ALL punished early pallet droping

Nurse (Does not care)

Old billy(He had instantsaw and droping every pallet resulted in instant pallet breaks, else you get to face his curving)

Spirit(Drop pallets are still unsafe because phase walk mindgames)

Huntress(Recklessly dropping pallets will just result in axes during the pallet drop animation)

Current leatherface(Instantly breaks pallets+punishes greeding looping)

The other killers that get played a lot are meta driven(Freddy -Gen defense perks) or partially counter early pallet droping(Deathslinger,Oni,Doctor,)

No the activation is a smart thing, but it waaay too long