Why do people gatekeep skill when it comes to Spirit players?

To be fair to Nurse, she is kinda ######### boring to play right now.

The jank with her blinks just makes it so much more frustrating to play her rather than fun. I'd love to main her again but the rework isn't worth it, man.

You're 100% wrong. Spirit becomes easier than nurse to play when survivors don't actually try to outsmart the spirit and just run around loops or running in general. Spirit becomes considerably harder however when a survivor is much more smarter with how they try to lose her then Spirit will have to make a good read to get a hit. The change to iron will shall make sure that the Spirit on training wheels will have to get better or drop her.

I think Spirit takes a lot more skill than the majority of the killers, but no way in hell does she take more skill than Nurse, Blight, and Billy.

As someone who's almost exclusively played killer for a few months, including Spirit herself, its because she is the second strongest killer in the game while being easy and having very little counterplay.

Yes there may be killers that are easier, but none are as strong. Additionally, many killers that you have to do certain things against, such as doctor, are in B or C tier, which means although they arent the most enjoyable to face, atleast you can win against them.

When did I say anything about playing? I said LEARNING. Nurse is a lot HARDER to pick up than Spirit. But once youve learned Nurse she becomes the easiest killer in the game since you dont have to deal with 90% of the ######### survivors throw at you

True, but you have to deal with what the devs threw at you.

Bugs, spots you can't blink, a cool down on a cool down, etc lol.

i personally think she takes more skill than people give her credit. I don't wanna compare, everyone's saying "harder/ easier than x", i don't think that matters because there are many factors and preferences. My personal win rate with her is currently lower than with Wraith for example, i play her without Stridor and only with yellow/green add-ons. When a survivor manages to mindgames me i often feel lost because with 110% and without power you're kinda helpless, especially if you need to go to the other side of the map to a gen for example. I also feel that, compared to a year ago, the red rank players have gotten much better against her, the braindead "running in a straight line"-survivors are not as common anymore.

I think its also a lot of preference, some people have no problem with seeing little glimpses of grass moving far away while others need the visual feedback of a survivor running in front of them. I know people who tried her multiple times and said they hated playing her.

From a survivor view, most Spirits i got matched with lately relied on "unfun" playstyles (proxy camping, hard tunneling the first survivor they downed, NOED). She is, unfortunately, really good if you play her like this.

Because they’re very salty and use that as their excuse of losing.

If survivor was so brain dead to play you wouldn't see as many potatoes that go down in like under 20 seconds against just m1s as you do. Is survivor easier than killer, absolutely but it's not nearly as easy as you make it out to be, there are times you have to make reads, understanding how to chain tiles and when to make distance, etc. these are all things that require a certain level of game sense.

I'd argue Spirit is generally easier than survivor assuming you have the basic fundamentals of killer down since you don't have to make any reads ever; as you can just follow sound and environmental cues, which granted is a skill but assuming you have semi decent headphones it's not one that particularly hard to acquire. Neither does she need to aim to hit a potential ranged attack or really do anything that requires a significant amount of thought.

Regarding the title: Spirit is gate kept because she offers incredibly little interaction to the opposing site, I often feel it's less about how strong she is or how easy she is but rather how incredibly mind numbing she is to play against.

There's barely anything unique to Spirit to learn as killer that you can't learn on other killers since her entire power is an incredibly strong phase / lunge that just needs you to be able to listen to sounds. Something that you can learn on every other killer especially when being flashlight blinded.

Low skill floor with high payoff essentially with an unfair and frustrating power to deal with.

She's not brain dead per se but again - Nothing really unique about her power to learn aside from the passive phasing aspect which is again braindead easy to learn. Everything else about her you can genuinely learn from playing other killers so she's a low skillfloor killer.