I give up on Trickster, its completely hopeless

Just stop, you're just being an ######### at this point and it's showing.

I never really tried to dig into him but what i don't get is the unnecessary mechanic of the laceration meter reduction over time.

In higher ranks, you have to play tactically, you have to choose and switch targets and you have to put pressure around the map or at least some parts of it. You can't do that if you have to chase a survivor for 3-4 pallets because otherwise you lose all your hard earned progress.

I'm pretty sure he would feel much more rewarding if they would delete this mechanic.

I mean, if Trickster isn't your jam that's perfectly fine. There are several killers that I intend to never get because they just don't appeal to me.

That said, if you want some tips for how he can be great, well I have some.

1. Use Monitor and Abuse or other Stealth perks. High Wall loops can be incredibly hard for Trickster to deal with. The solution? Get your damage in before they have a chance to get to them.
2. Use almost any other tracking perk over BBQ. BBQ is good, but Trickster doesn't really have the tools to be chasing Survivors across the entire map multiple times. He just doesn't.
3. Get used to sheparding Survivors. Because certain tiles are so good against Trickster, you NEED to deny them as much as possible. Survivors on a gen near shack? Swing around THROUGH shack before going to them. Take another half loop around the thrown pallet so they can't easily get to another good loop. That sort of thing is ridiculously important on Trickster.
4. Don't be afraid to drop chase. I sometimes fail at this tip myself, but if a Survivor does get to shack or somewhere else powerful and aren't nearly down... just leave em. I run Sloppy Butcher along with M&A on Trickster specifically so dropping chase is less painful. Heal? Sloppy makes it take longer. Don't heal? M&A lets me catch them out later. Win win for me.
5. Be territorial if you can. If you can force Survivors to come to you into a part of the map that's basically a dead zone vs knives, they're going to have an incredibly bad time. Perfect example... on the PTB, my first game on him was a win because I set up shop in the carnival on Father Cambel's Chapel. There's like... no high walled loops there so the Survivors got the other gens on the map done with little worry, but they just died whenever they came to my area. And they had to come since their hooked friends and the last 4 gens where there.

If you justsay that nurse is bad because you tried her one match and got 0k its because you dont have practice with her,she is not necessarily bad, actually she is one of the best killers in the game, she just need practice, about trickester I cants ay the same, he is a fun killer to play, his chaser emblems are broken but he is not strong definitel in maps like Azarovs or coldwind( jungle gym especifically), he need a ton of practice but if you put the same effort on a nurse or a spirit you will have a lot more coming back from it.

I would honestly buy ash for mettle of man its a fun and satisfying perk when you can actually get 3 protection hits

The only instance where I see Trickster being better than the other ranged killers is when he gets a survivor being out positioned, because since he doesn't stop throwing knives, he can just get the survivor from healthy to downed without having to catch up. The thing is, if just want to get quick downs when a survivor is out positioned, you can just play Bubba, Billy or Plague to have a similar effect, with the benefit of being 115%.

Trickster’s whole kit is horrid what do you mean he is viable?

his kit is only good on PC for starters and even then its only good with infectious and iron maiden

His ‘ult’ as I’ll put it makes him 92% movement speed, meaning it can literally be useless at many walls and it has a limit to how long its active, then you have his actual power which is unbuffable due to how badly it could go

literally every trickster uses melodious murder just because it makes him actually have a power, and the issue is if we gave him melodious as basekit he would be even more unbearable to face than he already is. And here is a thing before you say you can win as him, a single win doesn’t mean anything, but what is your longest win streak as him? I can win as trickster too and I play on console, but I can’t maintain a win streak, now I want you to use his basekit and do a winstreak and come back when its long enough to be considered to be a viable killer like winstreak

Did you read the last sentence?

whats your highest win streak?

So you think a 7 win streak makes him viable when compared to slinger and huntress? Or really any killer for that matter?

D tier≠ viable, as that means he is too weak in most cases