You Know Why Plague Is The Least Picked?

The only issues with plague really are desync and survivors having too much say over her power.

I would prefer she be able to pull her power from her fountains where ever she is, like Freddy’s teleport except she’d teleport her power to herself.

desync issues being the other.

to cleanse or not should be up to the survivors but this whole, I’ll cleanse far away from the gens thing on top of being able to cleanse at the same time to force power us able and cleanse the fountains is a bit much

I'd quite like the change where cleansing doesn't heal a survivor unless they became injured via sickness damage, but other than that and her dubious hitboxes, and the fact that all of her fountains get wiped when they fill instead of just one/a few of them, I'm very happy where she's at. She also has a pretty good spread of addons and while I'd like the addons you're suggesting, I also think they're on the powerful side, especially the regression.

To me, the best attribute of Vile Purge is that you can tag environmental objects. Primarily this is generators, though you can puke on pallets/windows in areas with difficult LOS (mainly shack and high wall loops.) What you get is either herding survivors away from the object (moving them to more favorable loops, making them wait on a regressing generator, or making them waste time looking for a clean generator) or a combination of time bomb and information. That little touch of infection from a thrown pallet isn't going to get you a damage state in chase unless you vom on them or you chase them for way longer than you should, but it will make them loud and easier to locate. Which is overall alright. But infection from starting up a random gen you hit? Way better. They'll be injured or well on their way by the time that's relevant to you, or you can see the flash of yellow in the HUD, go 'that person touched one of my gens', and backtrack to harass them. You can also do this with your hexes, though the ambiguity of what was touched makes it harder to react if you're also tagging gens.

But regardless. Either they cleanse before they encounter you, and you get a free fountain with very little effort or loss involved, or you come across random noisy injured survivors for quick downs.

You're also discounting the use of Vile Purging a healthy survivor in chase. No, you don't do this every time, or often (unless you brought emetics.) But if you do it against survivors that are running out in the open, or running towards a strong loop in a predictable line, Vile Purge can be more effective than two M1s because sickness damage doesn't grant a speed boost, so you can M2 straight into M1 with no catch-up involved. And for survivors that are successfully running you in low/windowed loops, Vile Purge can be nice to both passively and actively chip at their first health state so that when you do catch them, they go down from it. It also gives you a free infection on whoever unhooks them, which is nice.

plague is probably least picked because she's really hard to get into, but a good plague wrecks shop.

she's like if spirit had a difficulty curve. she's like if nurse could be looped. she is so strong, but she's also hard af to play, so people who try to get into her just get beat and then play something easier.

nothing to do with how strong she is, given she's super strong.

Sounds like people are sick of the Plague.

"survivors control her power"

Yeah they can either decide to be a one shot with no way of hiding all game or give you the nuttiest ranged ability in dbd, which you can still use once regardless of their input

I'm fine with either

To me, it seemed easier to begin learning dbd as a survivor, and so I did. By the time I reached level 50 with Meg and had played Feng and Nea a bit, I was so sick of other survivors, that I knew Plague would be my first unlocked killer. I like her look. I like her back-story, and there is nothing better after a day of grinding solo survivor than the catharsis and glee of vomiting on survivors. That said, I agree whole-heartedly that she deserves some attention. In addition to the many good points already made, the speed of vile and corrupt purge is ridiculous at any distance other than right on a survivor's heels. Compared to Huntress, Deathslinger, and Trickster, the amount of time it takes for vile and corrupt purge to reach a survivor at any distance would allow someone to go to the drugstore, buy anti-nausea medication, return and slip it into a pool of devotion, and Clown's and Doc's weapon and power have areas-of-effect that the purge does not remotely possess. As for purge being comparable to Trickster's daggers, I would very much like to learn the source of that description, because it looks to me like a sustained torrent of bile, and when it hits what's directly on the right and left of a survivor running in a straight line, without getting so much as a drop on his/her back, MY impression is that it's a problem of mechanics.

Plague is just fine as she is.

Her mechanic has flaws, mostly her hitboxes, yes. But on its own it is an interesting change to the gameplay as you have to make your choice: Cleanse and give her the power-up or stay sick and be a one-shot. A loose-loose for any survivor.

Your only choice is to cleanse in a way that Plague has to go to an uninteresting area, so that she can not use her power near you. This however slows you down and takes time away from your team which is equal to a slowdown.

Now if Plague just plays Thanatophobia (Nurse, its free) you have an even worse choice: Slow-down or Slow-down?

Also Plague rewards skillful play: Can you aim your Infection right? Can you spread it through all survivors to force them to make a bad choice?

She is an interesting killer to face and a powerful killer when you can play her. I lost many times to a good Plague and aside from wanky hitboxes on both sides it was always a good match.

A debuff for injured Survivors would be a general idea. Currently most descent survivors are far to comfortable to stay injured against most killers (Ghosty, Meyers and other stealthy things aside) as their most powerful perk (Dead Hard) is up or they can just Sprintburst away. It is actualy more often a wast of time to first heal and then do the Gen and in most cases the better choice to finish that Gen and then maybe heal up befor the next one.

Didn't Scott Jund get a 32 4k streak on old speed limiter leatherface? Plague isn't trash but saying "Just watch someones win streak" doesn't really mean much.

I have to say while i don't think plague is weak i LOVE the idea some people have suggested of making her pools map wide. Because there's this "funny" little situation where survivors can rotate between tapping a gen and running to the dark side of NARNIA to cleanse and now you're screwed. They're healthy, it'll take either two M1s or a purge + M1 out in the open, and then you're playing a loosing game of puke'a'mole.

Having either ALL pools light up red when and a charge counter on your power, or chaneling cross map are great ideas imo.

She has one of the strongest powers in the game, what have you been smoking sir?

I actively avoid those on the bloodweb because it counters her. She's not the only killer with addons that are straight nerfs to her, either.