His addon, requires you to use one bottle and get a direct hit, much like a backrev with billy on a survivor in order to instadown. little cheap, but not entirely unfair (i don't think it should be an addon, but i can understand why the devs didn't think it was bad enough to warrant taking out of the game.) Unlike iri head, which can lead to instant downs across the map.

He shouldn't be punished for mixing clouds though, he's using half his default power essentially. he should be rewarded for it, or atleast sidegraded into something different. arbitary limiters on killers simply make them worse then the rest of the cast (i mean just look at billy post rework, compared to now.)

And the pallet stun legthen, is to make it harder, or rather more risky, to throw two bottles in a loop and effectively just get an instant down, or getting an instant down through a pallet because you decided to walk through it. with it being longer after stepping in the gas, it is the punishment for playing wrong, but still requires a survivor component of skill to force him to walk through his gas and wait to throw the pallet (which survivors usually don't wait to throw pallets against clown)

the whole point of a longer pallet stun, is to try and get survivors to keep pallets up longer against clown, whilst also throwing them down at the right time, because it becomes far more risky with this buff in mind. But if the clown outplays the survivor or forces them to run through the double gas cloud they effectively end the chase which would be a neat buff.

I mean, they did butcher a few of his addons, but i'd still agree that there a bit better (some higher raritys got lowered, mangled on the bottle with the update lasts forever, and he still has all of his old good addons.)

deffinately needs to have his normal tonic fixed though, but im not having too too many issues with it. but he deffinately could still be better. i feel he's a lot more playable and this felt more a quality of life rework, rather then one that pushes him from the bottom of the tierlist. he still struggles against good survivors, and whilst i don't want him gamebreakingly op, he could do with a little more to bring him more up to other charecters with more lethality with similar abilities in chase (leatherface, whom i'd say is a good counterpart, breaks pallets faster/goes through loops faster, and has instant down potential in his basekit, whereas clown in chase feels like a worse version. your still kiting survivors and chasing them where you want them to go/chewing through pallets, but he does it arguably a lot worse minus his instant down addon)

Making them not benefit from the invigorated effect would be very very powerful in chase, and effectively when stacked with his other ultra rare lead to a lot of really poor gameplay imo. his bad addons need reworks too, though there not in as bad a place as say demos

but doing that with an ultra rare means every single pallet in the game would effectively become an unsafe pallet. just throw a slowdown and a speed bottle at the pallet, and boom, the loops very unsafe. they runaway into nothing you down them. they go to the next loop, well you've still got atleast two more bottles. it removes any kind of mistake a killer could make by using the tonic. i'm not saying its a wrong decision, but it would lead to very unhealthy gameplay (even by ultra rare standards) which would leave survivors with no counterplay if they try to loop normally, which is what should be avoided.

It could be very good if done well, and if done poorly could severely both impact the clowns preformance negatively/positively and add to a negative gameplay experience. but again if done well, it could make the clown even more rewarding to play, along with adding to the skillcap.