Which Killer was the greatest failure?

Twins.

Honestly though, the entire chapter was a technical failure as things some like perks and the killers themselves had massive bugs.

Twins.

You can argue about this or that power being bugged or nerfed or weak, but Twins is a failure on every level.

Ugly, frumpy character model that isn't scary or horrifying or gross. Just dull. Even the monster-baby isn't grotesque.

Pathetic lore that is as boring as it fails to justify the means, drive, or background for being a killer in the first place.

No power what-so-ever in the base form, while the baby form is mostly recycled. Victor has Legion-style speed/blindness and Demogorgon-style pounce. But the core design relies on you using that on injured survivors only (and is only strong if survivors 1) don't heal and 2) don't stick near one another to squash the baby. The whole thing relies on just downing and moving on, which solo people HATE and SWF trivially punish.

The only thing unique about Twins is Victor grabbing onto an injured survivor or standing as a sentry, but neither of these are well developed enough to be the crux of the power, so it's another failure. And that's to say nothing of the recent nerf, making a bad killer feel even worse to play.

Despite loving his concept, art, and trailer, I'd consider Trickster their biggest failure so far:

• His knickname doesn't reflect his game-play or character as well as it should
• His power is bland relative to the roster before him
• His power lacks meaningful direct synergy with perks

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Note: The below describes Trickster in his base kit (no add-ons), which is how I feel powers should originally be designed for.

His knickname "The Trickster" is a failure because it requires in-depth knowledge of his lore to understand, and nothing about his visual character nor ability reflects the trickster part of him. Names should be clear, easily understood identifiers that represent something. In Trickster's case that doesn't exist without investigation on the users part, which should be optional.

His power is bland because he was developed to be a machine-gun version of Huntress with no twists or turns to him. You simply aim and hold M2. In contrast, Deathslinger was a great example of a new ranged killer done right. Deathslinger has one shot, and if he hits, you can make a decision on how to proceed (get a hit or break the chain). Trickster doesn't have any additional decisions or features to his ranged attack. Ironically, the guy named "The Trickster" is the guy with the fewest tricks in his kit!

His power is also bland in that it has no direct synergy with perks. Like honestly, what directly works with them? The Third Seal now that secondary hits apply it? Okay, but you're probably not slugging with this character so why does that matter? Meanwhile Trapper can have basement builds, Clown can have chase builds, Hag and Pinhead have item builds, etc. But Trickster? All you can really do is run time-waste perks on him like gen regression and that's that for an already relatively dull killer.

Honestly, I wish they gave him bouncing blades by default and let add-ons adjust what happens when they hit a wall. Do they bounce with increased stats? Do they shatter? Do they explode into paint and give aura-reading?

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Which brings me to the last thing that really frustrates me with Trickster:

There's so much wasted potential for his character.

Honestly, just give him bouncing blades by default, let his add-ons change what wall interactions do and suddenly his name makes sense and gives players a more unique style of ranged game play never seen before! And if these changes make him too strong, nerf something. Instead, they took a character with a lot of potential and made his power and name both controversial and dull because of what I can only assume was laziness.

Trickster. At least Twins were a very unique and difficult to implement concept - one which wasn't implemented all that poorly, actually, but in practice ends up involving a lot of slugging and semi-camping by design. But at least their power concept was incredibly unique and complex. Trickster is just easier, weaker, less fun, less counterable and less complex Huntress mixed with Old Legion. Why did they decide to try Old Legion again? Who at BHVR thought this was a good idea? Not only that, but his power is almost a direct clone of Huntress in terms of how it operates on a base level. He's lazy, uninspired, weak and unfun.

It also doesn't help that BHVR have a very clear bias towards Trickster. He gets a skin every major update, he's gotten like 4 separate buff passes since he released, he's constantly advertised and hyped up by BHVR and he even got to skip the Tome queue.

It's very obvious that BHVR made Trickster, and by extension All-Kill, as a cash cow - Huntress is the most popular killer besides Trapper and she's free. BHVR's probably been kicking themselves for making her free, so Trickster's copy-pasted power, constant buffs in an attempt to force him to be strong and massive advertising campaign is an attempt to get those Huntress players to play a "new, better" Huntress that costs money. That, combined with the whole KPOP angle and Trickster's appearance just leaves the whole thing feeling like a very poor and rushed attempt at making money.