Trickster Should Be A 4.5m/s Killer

I just got my Adept at Rank 4 with him after the patch dropped on Hawkins with 1 BNP, 2 toolboxes and a key. He's fine.

I've been playing him today. I think he's in a good spot.

I don't think that just buffing Trickster is the way to go.

The character needs an identity. A reason to play him instead of the three other Ranged characters; something that only he can do.

As is he's a worse Plague, and the only thing straight buffing him can do is to make him a better Plague.

He needs some uniqueness. A rework or something new added to his kit, not just buffs.

As for movement speed specifically, I don't think 112.5% would make Trickster better at throwing knives or at being a more unique and interesting character in terms of gameplay.

It'd just make him better at being "baseball bat dude"

making him 115 would not fix his core issues.

1. On what map did you get the adept?
2. how often did you down people with the power?
3. how many matches did you need to get the adept?
4. Try playing the same build for adept multiple times and see how often you get merciless or brutal

Just because you got merciless in one match doesn't mean the killer is fine, you got a good match, the survivors played bad, there are other factors that could lead you to a victory IN ONE MATCH.

Tricksters power is once again a combination of other killer powers and i'd say the devs took the worst things out of each power:

1. he is a ranged killer (Huntress) so he has to be 110% because his power can down survivors from a distance
2. he has to hit survivors multiple times to injure/down survivors (OG Legion) 'nuff said
3. he has to fill a meter with his power (Plague), but doesn't inflict any downside when the meter is full (except of course that the next hit will injure the survivor) and it even regresses over time

You are better off playing any of the other 3 killers i mentioned than playing trickster. You want to play a ranged killer? take huntress because one hit is one health state down ( or deathslinger if you don't want the 40m radius). You want to get a lot of hits? play Legion, he has stall potential with Deep Wounds. You want to fill a meter to get an instadown on survivors? Play Plague, she will get them broken even if she hits them once with the green puke, also has that nasty black puke that injures you.

Buffing his movement speed isn't gonna help much, his power need a drastic change because it's useless compared to other killers

That really depends on the survivors you are facing.. i have screenshots of many 4k with the Trickter in red ranks, and that means hes fine or decent? No he is still horrible when we are talking about competent survivors. He can't cut loops fast enough, and his power is really useless in most cases.

Yep that's the best explanation one can give about the Trickster. If they buff his mov speed it will solve only the problem of being looped easily but the power will remain mediocre. I would prefer a proper power change instead, the ones given in the recent patch obviously aren't enough.

Even I've managed to get a Merciless on Hawkins with a key in play, and I can't hit a damn thing with his knives.

That doesn't mean Trickster is fine, that just means a 110% M1 killer can work on Hawkins.

he needs ricochet as a base kit

Just going to make this short and sweet. Trickster is fine now. He's decent enough to come at on top. You boost his speed any more and half the forum will be on fire in a day with pitchforks. Just because you can't ALWAYS win with a killer doesn't mean they aren't good. Reminds me of people on here who think Spirit is fine and doesn't need any tells. Makes me worried about balancing due to feedback and how people just ignore everything because they want something a certain way. I will never agree with most but I will always share my reasoning for why I dislike or like certain things.

It takes 8 knives to change health states basekit. 7 with the green add-on.

Trickster is not fine, even if you're good with the knifes (which I am very good) you still struggle if you're being looped in a place where you can't use your knifes (around a rock as an example). You need to shot 8 times with knifes, in which point would have been better to M1... I get it, there are times to use his power and times where is not wise, but actually Trickster power has less accuracy the farest the survivor is, which means you can't really get many shots if they're too far so you need to use his power relatively close which means you can wait and just M1.

The only thing I think it's good, is when you're on a big loop, big enough to let you lift the knives and hit him a couple of tinmes each side, like the shack and even sometimes it doesn't work well.