What's an unpopular opinion that you hold.

Thank you for that very well-reasoned, very well-verbalized response. I have a lot more respect for that than the typical responses of "OMIGOD, I never thought I'd live to see the day when people complain about WRAITH. He's perfectly fine. There's nothing wrong with him at all. He's only just now worth touching for THE FIRST TIME EVER. Just be great at looping and be next to a window at all times and you can counter him easy. God, I hate survivor mains".

You're correct, I've only been at the game for three months. That means that I did see Wraith before the buff and I thought he was fine. I don't get the general mentality of the community that if a killer doesn't have a special executable power they're just "awful M1 killers". I saw people do well with him, I did alright with him. I'm not disputing what you said, I believe that people quit using him and / or thought that he sucked, etc. I'm just saying that I think what happened is that as the game progressed and other characters were added that were more complex and powerful, people seemed to just decide that he wasn't worth using. I don't know why because the people I did see using him used him quite well, but to each their own.

Now that he's gotten a buff I can definitely understand the mentality that finally, he's competitive again (to an extent, because again, while I didn't see him languish for five years, I did see him before the buff and he seemed fine to me), and by extension the attitude that reverting him in any way would be a massive disservice to fans who have been waiting so long for such a thing. I definitely get that. It's just that there's a real sense of defensiveness, possessiveness and ignorance with many (not all) of the people who have discussed the topic with me. Few people do what you did and objectively looked at the pros and cons, accurately assessed why some might find him cheap now. Usually it's just a quick "he's totally unchanged", "the data says his lunge is no different", "just get better at looping", "just wear headphones", "just be better at seeing his blur before it's too late", etc. I'm fine with the character being improved, but he's not impoved in any kind of intelligent way that makes him more difficult to use for more meaningful gains. Instead they just upped his speed and took away the most reliable way that survivors could know that he was coming. That's a cheap change. That's like buffing Trickster by making him 10 percent faster and reducing the amount of knives it takes to down a survivor to just one. That wouldn't be a fair change that adjusts the balance to be equitable, it would be a change that simply turns up how powerful a killer is without adjusting anything else to accommodate or balance that change.

That's how I feel about Wraith. It's not that I'm against him being buffed, it's that his buffs feel cheap. Instead of having to ring the bell and take a couple of seconds to catch up to a survivor who at least has a chance to start running, the Wraith can now just appear right next to a survivor, uncloak silently, and smack him into the injured state, even if the survivor acts fast enough to try to run as soon as he sees the blur bearing down on him. It's too unfair an advantage. There's no counterplay. It's the same thing people complain about when they talk about Spirit: You basically just have to guess, she's too hard to counter accurately when she goes invisible, she has little to no tell, etc. I mean I've now had COUNTLESS matches against the Wraith where I'm doing a gen, trying to focus on not blowing it up, trying not to be distracted by other players running into frame or screaming in the distance, all while looking all over my shoulders for a sudden blur to appear. But there's hardly any reason to bother, because once the blur us on my screen it's too late. I can - and have - gotten up and fled so fast that I didn't even give the blur time to form into the Wraith, yet boom, I still get whacked from behind anyway.

I've said before: Let him uncloak silently, or let him have his super fast lunge. Not both.

The counterplay to camper killers is gen rush. To tunnelers is gen rush. To tombstone Myers is gen rush. To oni is gen rush. To spirit is gen rush. Then killers cry because survs gen rush. So devs overbuff killers, and the solution is to gen rush. So the fair solution is nerf every killer and add another objective for survs.

Solo and SWF should be their own rankings

Bruhhhh

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