Should this Freddy nerf go through?

Yes, but I think black box needs a different change, and either increase his speed to 105 when placing snares or give him in a extra snare or two.

He's one of the easiest killers in the game to play while also being one of the strongest. He's rewarded everything passively while also having no consequences to spamming his power mid chase. Add on wise, he had the potential to slow the game down say too much when paired with certain perks and even then his base kit does a pretty good job at it.

Simply put, he could do everything. He wasn't the best at anything, but he was one of the best at everything which just made him too strong no matter how you cut it.

Doesn't matter about strong survivors. The game isn't only balanced around 4 strong survivors, look at the ruin rework for example. They explicitly said they did it bc of newer players.

Besides, you rarely face high level survivors. I play Clown and I win almost all ot my games and even those that I lose aren't usually high level survivors.

If the game was completely balanced around high level survivors then I don't think the game would be in a great spot.

Although usually I don't agree with stats being the sole reason, if he's averaging three kills a game in red ranks it tells you either he's really strong or really unfun to face and survivors are suiciding on hook. In either of the cases, he needed a nerf due to how easy he was to play.

Pig has the fourth highest when we take that to red ranks, and although 2% doesn't sound like a lot, she has about a 2% smaller pick rate than Freddy, who is both the heighest for kills and has one of the heighest pick rates among the rest of the cast. That's why Nurse is the lowest on the red rank rates. Has a high pick rate but not all of her 6% is good with her, while majority of Freddys 5.7% is good with him which isn't that hard. It's also why Doc and Bubba take second and third with also high kill rates. They're killers that aren't too hard to play that can win often.

Unlike Pig, a lot of the community voices their complaints about Freddy, usually poor survivors complain about Pig but most survivors and even 50/50 players and some killer mains realised he was too strong for how little effort you had to put in to him. If stats were only taken, Pig, Bubba and Doc would have been nerfed but the fact that he's one of the most complained about killers (Only behind Spirit) means that people do truly dislike him.

Finally, according to the devs saying he is averaging 3 kills a game, that means been doing so for the past 6 months and the explicitly say at the start of it "For some time now" which shows that they're not looking back only 6 months ago, they're looking at the fact that even with new additions and changes that his kill rate hasn't fluctuated at the top. While many other killers kill rates may have changed (Which makes so much of your argument invalid with Pig) the devs have their own up to date stats which tell them he's still averaging 3ks.

No, absolutley not. Weaker killers should be brought upwards, the few good killers should not be brought down.

Once again their stays mean nothing because there's no process

he's pay to win, i'd rather spirit get a buff than freddy's changes get reverted

at least spirit requires SOME effort and the ability to hear things, freddy just ignores perks and has no terror radius passively, plus his power is uncounterable, you're always going to fall asleep regardless of what you do.

You have no clue what you are asking for if you would rather spirit get buffed. Spirit is just as easy as Freddy if you have a headset.

The only perk that Freddy ignores is BT which they are thankfully fixing. The fact that he has no terror radius in the dream world also means he can not use infectious to become a slugging monster.

Freddy is not unbeatable, He is just as beatable as any other killer. He isn't even in the top 5 best killers. It is hard to call him pay to win when he is simply a good killer with god awful perks.

Rework is nerfing basically and also I'm against the nerf. This isn't an ordinary nerf it's a super nerf. In the beginning he was op sure then u nerfed him which made him weaker but still doable. Now you turn him into the worst killer to play as. As all his add-ons turn into garbage and are useless. Plus bubba is in my opinion the most abused killer in the game simply because he has no chainsaw cooldown so If he missed you with his saw he can just swing his weapon instead. Too many ppl think freddy is still op but that only means survivors just want an easy game to play. Having tough killers is useful in this game which helps survivors learn and adapt to playing against these killers. Simply put survivors just want to be lazy and want to put zero effort into ranking up.

Although personally I would have changed his kit in different ways based on upcoming mechanics

1. Dream snares and dream pallets can be disarmed while affected by the alarm clocks 30 seconds of sleep immunity, basically you can see the traps really well and disable them during this time
2. Make dream snares and pallets have 8 and 10 tokens again but keep the slowdown while placing them
3. Change how falling asleep works to have 40 points to fall asleep and gain 1 point per second in freddys terror radius, 0.33 points per second outside of his terror radius, and instantly fall asleep on hit
4. Make his dream pallets the basekit power so you have to give up addon slots for snares

Overall this would make putting survivors asleep a more active effort and allow survivors to disarm his dream traps set up ahead of time at stronger loops using the alarm clocks while still giving him resources to set up ahead of time