Now that 90% of the community agrees that trickster is bad let's make a list showing what is wrong

Heres mine

1. Remove recoil, we already have to manage movement of both players, an ammo count, aiming, and adjusting for the knifes coming from the left and right side of the screens, at this point just remove recoil its unnecessary.
2. Remove laceration meter decreases, m1ing any survivor decreases the meter on all survivors by half even the ones you didn't m1, remove laceration meter decreases on hook, all survivors on the map don't need their meter reset just because you hooked someone
3. Remove decay over time, there is no need for his power to be less than useless just because you couldn't get it to full, it needs some sort of stored progression or time investment from the survivors to decrease
4. Add his death throws iridescent ranged effect to be basekit, you should always be rewarded for knife throws at farther distances not just if you have an iridescent addon, it makes him more interesting and raises his skill ceiling, say for example a knife at 20 meters has 100% bonus, 40 has 200% and 60 has 300% meaning it only takes 2 crossmap knives per health state which would make him pretty fun with stuff like bitter murmur and bbq for snipes.
5. Increase base movement speed to 115%, his payoff of throwing 8 knives that hit for a single health state is already a lot might as well still leave him with the ability to loop normally when he can't because in most maps where he doesn't have los he both can't use his power and can't loop because of being 110% speed
6. Let him save his main event ability, remove either the windup, the cooldown, or the 10 second duration that you can't throw knives after because in its current state its basically a detriment as soon as the survivor exists los because you never move fast enough to catch them

The problem with trying to balance him around 110 after playing him, is I see no way you can make his current power be strong enough to justify 110 without just making him impossible to deal with. I also don't see a good way for him to really stand out from Huntress or Deathslinger.

A good niche Trickster could have is being faster. 115 base, have reduced speed that is still faster than survivors when holding out his knives, and when he starts throwing knives he becomes slower. This would also buff his main event as now he'll have faster movement in main event while not suffering the reduced speed penalty from throwing. He'll still have to land 8 shots to damage survivors, but he now has a better shot at landing those hits when playing tiles with tall walls whereas right now it's practically impossible due to laceration decay.

Boosting this so it stays at top of thread (idk if that works but something has to be bloody changed, it's legion-V1 again, boring useless power, can and will down someone with it but in a excruciatingly long period of time with literally no counterplay but LOS blocking)

What's wrong with the Trickster? The summary is that his main event suffers from the Myers problem of having a power that's too demanding for less payoff, except it's much worse, and his knives are only useful in some circumstances, but he doesn't have average speed to rely on, making himself highly dependent on a situational power.

You can break the problems of main event down here.

1. Main event is, on average, only downing 1 person out in the open because of the 10 second duration. The only exception is if survivors try to body block.
2. It can only be used out in the open or on the way to a short filler loop since it forces you to be aiming at all times.
3. Canceling or not, you get a total of 13+ seconds of not being able to use the knives.
4. You can only 99 it, not store it, and on top of this, it has a lengthy wind up time.

This means main event is effectively the most anemic ultimate ability for killers while being the most restrictive. It's like if Oni 99'd his power in one hit, but could only down 1 person. This theoretical Oni would also be better than Trickster because he still could down survivors at walls in a timely manner. The most obvious solution to this is remove the 15 second use timer, and let the killer use his power for those niche scenarios, and let them walk whenever they want instead of a forced slow. This is not unreasonable. This power at a wall loop is basically 10 seconds of being comparable to Huntress, Deathslinger, or Demogorgon with only Shred. Out in the open, it's just 10 seconds of being Billy or Leatherface. The cooldown could also probably be axed. Basically, every single negative attached to the power is a bad balancing decision in the development process.

Now for the knives.

1. Line of sight blockers prevents his power usage. This isn't terrible until you consider that any window vault forces Trickster to take the long way around.
2. He requires a grand total of 8 knives to get a down. This DPS is so low, that he has to win mindgames and hit survivors in vault animations twice whereas every single ranged or psuedo-ranged killer in this game only has to do so once. This means that he just burns time even when played effectively, causing the gens to fly.
3. He's 4.4m/s. It's not a matter of "there are these circumstances where you shouldn't use his power." He can't win loops that faster killers can, so any loop his power can't deal with is a loop you must avoid. He might be the only killer that might struggle in L and T walls.

The result is that the only playable structures for Trickster that don't burn massive amounts of time are short filler loops, or out in the open, which is terrible.

How is that solved? Well, for one thing, the most obvious solution is to make him 4.6 m/s (while keeping the 24m terror radius because he needs all the help he can get). Having a situational power isn't that bad if the killer in question can fall back on M1 mindgames, which he can't ATM. The second thing would reduce his required knives from 8 to 6. This way, he could actually get survivors in locked animations if he wins a mindgame, and starts pelting them before they even get to the window (still weaker than say Huntress or Deathslinger if they get a last-second shot). I can't stress this enough. Demogorgon's shred will handle LT walls and jungle gyms better than him, and he's 4.6m/s with an entire other power in his kit, and he's considered by many to be mid-tier at best. Even if Trickster deals damage with 6 knives out in the open, he would not be killing faster than Huntress out in the open.

The devs have clearly shown that, in the development process, they never ask the question "what does the new killer do relative to the rest of the cast, and are those killers overpowered?" The answer for Trickster is that he does worse than any other killer of his type (ranged) in just about any scenario, and the only high-tier ranged killer is Pyramid Head, which should have been a warning sign that he was going to be trash on release. But you know, the feedback from players that understand the core game mechanics need to go straight to the garbage bin.

I'm so glad I only used shards to get him. Bamboozle will be practically mandatory on him if I want to use him and not just farm his perks. I'm disappointed even thought I didn't pay money. Can you imagine how unsatisfied paying customers are for this chapter? Only half the content (the survivor and perks from both sides) is good.