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Unhealthiest Killer in DBD?
Which killer is the unhealthiest for the game's longevity and demands an update, rework, or deletion? Comment below why
If your pick isn't here, comment it below and why
Unhealthiest Killer in DBD? 113 votes
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Nurse
Nurse literally ignores every survivor defense in the game.
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Hag
Very bias opinion maybe but I hate Hag with a passion. Her ability to camp is very unhealthy and doesn’t do the one fun thing that survivors do which is chase.
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Legion
-Boring to play as
-Boring to play against
-Extremely underpowered
-Power doesn't represent their lore at all, they are a gang of 4 Killers but you only ever see 1 at a time
They should be reworked so that the 3 Legion members you arent playing as are AI.
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Nemesis
Since Ghostface and Trickster aren't here, I would say Nemesis simply because of how boring I find him to be.
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Nurse
I hate it to play as the nurse and i hate it to play against the nurse.
If they remove a killer then they should remove nurse, it's the most unfair and unbalanced killer in DBD.
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The Plague.. obviously🤢
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Probably clown. He is an obese old man with what sounds like copd.
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Legion
Does Spirit suck, yeah
Is any nerf Nurse ever gets deserved, absolutely
But Legion is just... #########, not even luck can outplay Feral Frenzy, which also happens to ignore every game mechanic, if Legion weren't terrible, they'd be the most hated killer by far
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Deathslinger
I don't like ranged killers in general, but least of all Deathslinger!
Bubba was unfortunately missing from the poll. XD
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Nurse
Most outdated killer in the game imo.
She doesn't play DBD, she plays the Nurse game.
Which can be fun... But I'm here to play DBD yknow?
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Spirit
Real answer (probably): Spirit
My answer: Plague
Honorable mention / bonus answer: Pyramid Head
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Nurse
Kind of wanted to put Spirit with a close second The Twins. But although it's rare to face a good nurse, if you do face one, she's clearly the most unhealthiest for DBD. Partly because of how good she can be in chases and her map pressure. But also unhealthy because the Devs have to consider every killer perk's balance in terms of how good it is on the nurse (and other top killers).
For example, Old Undying + Ruin used to be very strong on all killers, even those with poor map pressure. But on Nurse and other top killers, it was way, way too oppressive. BBQAC is another great perk for all killers. But it's even better with Nurse because she doesn't have to go around obstacles, she can blink straight to a survivor. NOED, another amazing perk. Good on all killers, extremely good on Nurse. You get my point.
Then there's the issue of how can you give a general buff to all killers after solo queue survivors (hopefully) get a buff? Nurse is already top tier, so what can you do without making her even better? It's difficult.
I have to say though, in the average game, I do enjoy facing Nurses much more than I do Spirit/Twins. A lot more.
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Spirit
Spirit...
Unfun gameplay to face with no counter
Spirit players know that and abuses it
Many spirit are sweating their games off
Resulting in survivors doing the same
Resulting in poor game health and unfunny games
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Spirit
I voted Spirit just because she has almost all of the control. She's exceptionally hard to counterplay and just about impossible once you're injured (unless you ran Iron Will and even then it's countered by add-ons she can run to see your blood). Not going so far as to say she's broken, however, but if I had to pick from the list... her.
Nurse, I feel like you can counterplay - you just break line of sight, then do something unexpected. Also, absolutely abuse 3 dimensions. You see her charge her blink when you're not on the lowest floor of a building, just abort your current direction and start running toward her. Almost always, they'll knee-jerk and aim down to prevent overshooting you... and wind up on the floor beneath them. That's probably my favorite trick.
Hag, same thing as Nurse - there's counterplay - though with the caveat that she's abyssmally busted at low ranks... since there's zero instruction given on how to counterplay her, nothing is intuitative in her counterplay and even if you know how to counterplay her, you can be *screwed over* by someone who doesn't... like during hook rescues. It's basically free 2 pips until Rank 12 or so on Hag (as a former Hag main).
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Spirit
I really like this idea, I think it should be some sort of thing like the twins where when you are not using another member then they go around the map looking for survivors and mark the location of them with killer instinct when they get close, and if they get hit then the mend effect gets added. Then I think you should be able to switch to another member for a short time in feral frenzy or something similar so they have some kind of map pressure.
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Twins
As much as I dislike Deathslinger, I think the Twins are more unhealthy and THAT is sayings something because I despise Mr. Hookreel. I think the devs completely went tone deaf with these two. Neat idea, but they epitomize everything survivors have been complaining about for the last five years. Camping and slugging? Yes, let's make a killer that's more efficient at doing both. 😒😒😒
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Nurse
Honestly Plague needs to be reworked, mainly how her fountains work. It is way too easy for survivors to cleanse and still spam generators. Her vile Purge is great but just underused. She just needs to have some changes and made more relevant to the current state of the game and maps. But so do many other killers that have gotten absolutely nothing in regards to changes in years. Adding killers is great, but causing all of the others to be outdated as the games grows until BHVR feels like changing them is just lame.
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Tie between Deathslinger, Twins, Nurse and Spirit.
- Deathslinger because of his quickscope mechanic.
- Twins because camping and slugging is the best way to succeed with them, which are strategies we should actually fight and not support with a killer who plays exactly like that.
- Nurse because she ignores every defence and kinda plays her own game.
- Spirit because its a guessing game.
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Pyramid Head
It shouldn't go through walls and obstacles.
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I'm really disappointed I thought this would be a poll for the most out of shape killer and was curious if anyone was going to say anyone other than clown.
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Nurse
Hate to say it, But Nurse. Her power allows her to ignore everything in the game.
Honorable Mentions go to Spirit, Twins, and Hag.
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Nurse has more counterplay and takes more skill though.
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Twins
You'd need an entire team with anti-slugging, camping, & tunneling builds just to counter some of these Twins players. Everyone having unbreakable isn't enough & soul guard is only good if they're running a hex perk. Slugging is very hard to avoid even if you try as the Twins.
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Deathslinger
Hard to say as hag and nurse are pretty bad offenders for game health too.
Hag because she's a boring killer that literally just defends and never chases, to win hag, you just set up a 3 gen at start of match and camp anyone you down inside of the 3 gen.
Nurse teleports through walls, she literally ignores every one of the game's normal chase mechanics, so much so that she's the only killer who is slower than survivors and she still remains one of the strongest despite that.
I decided not to include spirit because the only reason I think she is unhealthy is that she is overpowered and has addons that are too strong as well. You could just nerf her a bit and reign her addons in and she would be fine.
Old legion was pretty unhealthy, new legion is kinda boring and weak, but I don't think he's unhealthy.
PTB trickster is pretty unhealthy.
Death slinger has to be my main choice though. His power is entiirely impossible to react to if the killer is a quick scoper (you can literally just use a piece of tape or software crosshair and then literally anyone can do it,)
The only way to consistently counterplay a deathslinger is to hold W and early throw pallets before he has the opporunity to use his power. Additionally because there is basically 0 downside to faking a shot, you can just fake shots until you're confident it's an easy hit and the survivor will literally just let you catch up by trying to juke shots you never take. Basically there is no risk on killer's part, he is literally always mindgaming a 20 meter radius around him by just existing. If I were to tweak deathslinger, I'd add a small wind up to be able to shoot kind of like huntress but not quite as long of course and I'd make the ADS slowdown persist for a little longer after you stop aiming in order to make it take skill to aim, predict, and dodge shots. Although as a compensation buff, I think a lot of his addons could use tweaks because most of them are garbage
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Freddy
He's literally dead.
Second place is Clown because of his smoking/alcoholism.
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Deathslinger
Deathslinger isn't OP, but his kit is not fun to play against at all imo.
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Twins
Victor is a demon spawn that should go back to whenceforth he came. He's fast as cloaked Wraith, has the hitbox of Huntress, the detection ability of Legion, can ignore pallets and dead hard, his respawn time is like 5 or 6 seconds, and on top of it all, you get 0 points for being chased by him.
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Twins
Twins are basically nonexistent in my games as a surv or they usually camp very hard (because their playstyle just DEMANDS it).
They need a hard rework.
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Spirit
Thanks, but I dont camp or slug. Twins is a good killer only if she falls into the right player. I should know, I'm a twins main.
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Nurse
I'm a Twins main as well, and i don't camp or slug either.
Whenever i play against the twins, i never get camped or slugged.
There aren't many people that play Twins, so if they nerf the Twins that would be really stupid.
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Nurse
Loops are useless and all you can do is take the L
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Spirit
This is kind of what I thought the Legion was going to be when I saw them announced (before I even played). I thought it was going to be that there were four killers on the map and you could jump between their bodies.
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