Adept Killer Needs A Complete Rework

I'm not the first to suggest this, but my experiences the last couple of weeks is a good indication as to how badly the Adept achievements for killer are set up.

I've been trying for Adepts, after ignoring them for the longest, and I've been doing them at Rank/Grade 1 for a few weeks. My SBMM rating is presumably pretty high, and after the revelations about some of the mechanics of it, I'm not surprised that, even playing killers I've hardly played and done terribly with previously (Twins, Oni, Blight, etc.), I was still getting really good opponents, likely based on my performance with the killers I do play often/well.

I still managed some outstanding efforts -- 4K's with 10-12 hooks, and still lost out on Merciless for the dumbest of reasons (punished on Malicious for Plague because survivors kept cleansing over and over when they shouldn't have, costing me "healing" points for my playing the killer correctly and them not playing optimally, losing Chaser points as Wraith because presumably survivors "escaped" chases because I cloaked and uncloaked a lot, losing an Adept because I was penalized for being "too close to hooked survivors" when my opponents were constantly hook-bombing before I could move a foot away, etc.). I had a lot of close calls, but it was frustrating to see how I seemingly was losing out due to survivors playing sub-optimally, even while I was playing "correctly".

Right after the Grade reset last night, my first match as The Blight, I ended up with a pretty solid match, but only a 3K, since someone who brought a key ended up reopening the hatch after I'd closed it during the Endgame. I had a solid enough match, but not nearly as good as a couple of 4K's I'd had earlier in my tries (a too-altruistic, more inexperienced lobby helped). No problem -- I figured it was just another try on the books, and some much needed practice.

Yet, I finally got Adept in this match. Because it's so much easier to pip at what's essentially Rank 20 (after the reset) than it was all those matches at essentially Rank 1. I was stunned when it popped up, and even more so to see two Gold emblems with the two Iridescent I scored, but at that Grade/Level/Rank, it was enough apparently.

I frankly didn't deserve the Adept for that match, but considering the matches I felt robbed in prior, it all evened out, I guess? In any case, Adept for killer is poorly designed. To equate it to the survivor Adepts, a 4K under any circumstance should be enough to get the achievement -- when playing less optimally gets it for you over matches you did better in, and when you're penalized for playing your killer correctly, something is definitely off.

For the record, I celebrated getting the Adept Blight by running off a streak of 5 straight survivor Adepts I needed on PS5 right afterwards, needing only 7 matches to get the 5 escapes (and it would have been 6 if not for a blunder at the end of one of them on my part -- and also for the record, I was Rank/Grade 1 before the reset, and presumably would be getting the same SBMM opponents, or something close, to what I was getting on the killer end). The survivor Adepts were almost too easy. I'm not suggesting they should be changed, only comparing the lack of consistency between how to get one over the other.