Killers should be more punished for messing up/less punished for playing well - with some exception.

This is just more of a ranty point of view i wanted to get out there, about skill based killers/killers with higher skill caps. Where i feel like some killers have detrimental caps that stop them from excelling, when there supposed to be in place to stop them going too far. ie they have caps or cooldowns, that stop them from just being too powerful, but those seem to be detrimental even when played perfectly. This is far less about buffs and nerfs, and more about punishing killers less for what they should be doing with their powers.

Blight at the moment seems to be a near perfect form and function, and he's the most rewarding and fun killer for me to play for this reason. im punished if i slam for too long, or miss a hit, but hitting someone gives me the default cooldown for a hit, whilst retaining my vision. the cooldowns are all the same for missed hits, but your rewarded for swinging/attempting, by not having your vision altered. he also has a skill cap of techniques that can be preformed with him that lift his skill cap up, make him feel very rewarding to play well, but also punish you if you missplay. the reverse is true of current hillbilly as an example

So lets take the Hillbilly for example. getting downs with his chainsaw can be rough at times, and missing hits/revving endlessly should be punished - that was the main intent behind adding overheat to him as a mechanic. it was to stop him infinitely revving around a pallet or short wall, and getting an instant down off, or infinitely camping. - - - But its in place when he does well too. you get a few chainsaws off, some hits and then you have to stop using it for a while, ultimately capping out his ability to do anything.

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Simple solution to hillbilly would be that successful hits with the chainsaw lower his overheat by a small amount. Literally rewards him for playing well. (ie he should have less of a detriment to actively getting downs/succeeding as a killer) But if he continues to play poorly, or go across the map covering large distances, his overheat builds up.

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On the reverse side... some killers are punished for paying incorrectly to harshly, or carry the downsides of their regular powers into their punishment.

Ie huntress, trickster (of whom i don't neccessiarly think need buffs or nerfs) (and to a lesser extent deathslinger.) - when your out of hatchets/knives, you have no power. your essentially a slower killer, and have to treck back to a locker to refill, which is also slower then checking a locker normally as any killer. But you have to do this literally every match minimum, due to the need for refills to actually functionally use your power, as you can't chase like a normal killer without it.

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Simple solution for these killers whom can "lose their power" even if their successful with it, is to simply give them the normal speed of a killer when their completely out of their power. Ie for every hatchet under 5 that huntress has, she moves 1% faster up until 115% movement speed at 0 hatchets. make her ultra rare restore a hatchet on a successful hit. For trickster, simply make it every 8 knives removed from 44 till zero gives him a 1% movement speed buff, or give him the full 5% when out of knives.

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The nurse is also probably the heaviest contender for this in the game. she's punished for doing well, and playing poorly. But she also has the highest skill cap in the game. She's also one of the least played killers in the game at the moment for this reason, ie her being incredibly hard to play and incredibly punished for all actions she takes.

Now i don't think nurse needs any buffs, furthest from it. shes the closest thing to blight that there is in terms of form and function. But like how blight had his double fatigue removed, and had it made linear (so that all fatigues/attack animations have similar animation downsides) i feel that she should be made to feel more functionally similar to this gold standard - ie remove double fatigue, but make it the same effective duration. she misses, but isn't cursed to look at the ground endlessly. she gets a hit woo! no double fatigue, but she still recovers at the same rate whilst looking around

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ie linerarly i feel nurse should get the post release blight treatment, where her fatigues are treated differently if she swings and misses/hits/double blinks/single blinks/etc. Single fatigue. same duration, but the visual cues and player speed are altered, whilst also allowing the rewarding nature of hits to actually come into play. to counter this "buff to nurse players" as visual tracking is very important, single blinks could be buffed on their recharge, but double blinks could be nerfed slightly (rewarding singular blinks more then blinking twice and readjusting for a miss.)

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Ghostface feels punished alongside myers, though lets focus on ghostface for now. at the moment, the best possible addons to run on him are his charge speed addons. and thats because the duration for being broken out of stealth (which the player ultimately HAS to do in order to attack,) is a massive 30s. Thats incredibly punishing for just attacking someone! he can no longer use his power for 30s even if he gets a sneaky hit, not to mention if he's just broken out by someone looking at him.

Simple solution would just be to lower his power cooldown upon a successful hit (ie to say 16s) and to nerf his addons. this would reward him for playing correctly, getting hits, getting grabs, but would actually have him be punished for being broken out and not just have it be the same cooldown for something he's actively forced to do.

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Myers is actively one of the most punished killers for playing correctly. alongside legion. Legion has a gigantic 4s stun everytime he exits his power, even if he uses it and gets hits off! and myers is punished by simply existing in a match due to having a slower build up then the closest charecter too him - the oni. Early game myers suffers so much expecially with anti stealth perks, or general awareness, and legion is forced into having giant stuns even if he plays well. Myers as well has a lock on the amount of stalk he can get. this is incredibly punishing in the late game! he can actually not have a power in the late game if you kill off an unstalked player early by some means, meaning he plays completely as a 115% killer with no power, and a slightly smaller terror radius.

• make myers 115% without mirror addon in tier 1. this is simply to punish him less starting out the match, and allow him to chase like a normal killer. because being forced to stalk up until a minimum of 6s to play normally, or a maximum of 60 (not usually hittable in a normal game, but you can prolong it to about 30s, by just staying an avg of 20m away meaning the myers has to get incredibly close which isn't always feasible, expecially with objects in the way that can outright obscure stalking.)
• Give myers the ability to stalk multiple people at once back. This will punish people sticking together early on. where a killer should also be most dangerous, whereas he's artificially punished by the system for playing well and sneaking up on multiple survivors.
• Make myers stalk regenerate on players outside of a 32m radius. if left alone, he can then later tier up on them, much like ghostface can remark an individual survivor.
• Make legion be less stunned when he hits someone affected by killer instinct (ie every player over 1) This would allow him to lower his stun time, if he plays correctly and gets many hits, and allow him to chase after the final survivor he hits rather then giving them a sprint burst and a 4s stun. By the time the 4s stun is over, their sprint burst/plus distance has carried them off into the abyss. His power is literally a reverse stbfl, but it gives you a speed boost to hit a large amount of people in a small amount of time.

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And finally trapper. oh boy is he punished for doing exactly what he should do. if he goes across the map to get a trap and place it due to his limited supply, a generator pops. he places a trap in chase, the survivor simply runs away. he fake places it, then he has to chase the loop like normal unless the survivor falls for the bait. He is an incredibly tactical killer, that requires massive skill and gameknowledge. But he's punished for gathering his power. its akin to a huntress having to reload after every hatchet, but the reload points are located on the furthest points of the map, sometimes even outside of loops. Sure they down like iri head in a way, their practically an instant down if someones leg snaps into them if their next to you. but they can be exceptionally hard to gather at times or even place/replace without a bag addon. Trapper suffers incredibly from time efficency, and even if he's playing at the best of his ability, he can effectively have no power due to map spawns, rng, or just simply having no time to do what he needs to.

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Literally the only real thing that trapper needs, so that he can be far less punished for playing well, is putting his traps closer to the centre of the map. we don't want them spawning out in a z wall, near absolutely no gens, that the killer will never ever want to check over, due to it being a complete waste of time! Traps should spawn within a radius around generators and powerful loops. - this alone would marginally increase time efficency, by allowing him to go to the places he would normally go, and gather traps/pick them up aside.

also give the trapper the ability to hold a single extra trap basekit. this literally physically doubles his time efficency, rather then being forced to move between 3 seperate locations to set down two traps, he only has to move between two to even one.

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In conclusion, i think a lot of killers are punished for using their powers correctly or gathering their powers, and that these gameplay scenarios just feel rather underwhelming. hillbilly is punished for chainsawing correctly. Nurse is punished with double visual fatigue upon getting a successful hit (weapon swing, and then an actual blink fatigue where i feel it should just be swing and wipe). Huntress and trickster being unable to chase normally, when out of ammo, and trucking back to lockers to reload, both slower then a normal killer, or being forced to chase slower then a normal killer but without a power. Myers is punished for stalking upon multiple people at once, and is punished for killing someone he hasn't stalked much early by having no more stalk for the match, effectively removing his power if he plays well. myers is also punished early, being unable to play like a regular killer, being forced to stalk which might not be optimal due to loops or distance. Legion is forced to tank a 4s stun, no matter how many successful hits he gets off within a chase. ghostface loses his power upon a successful hit, and is forced to recharge it at the same rate as if he was broken out by a survivor. And trapper is severly punished through time efficency, if he wants to use his power, he has to go out of his way to on some maps, to even obtain it, let alone get to a point he can use it.