Killer is unironically a joke right now

This isn't a rage topic or anything. This is just an objective statement.

Couple of points why i say that

1- you do not have enough time. Gen repairs are too fast. If 2 survivors do gens back to back together, perkless and itemless you are left with arround 17,5 seconds (add a few seconds for travel time between gens) to get each hook if we assume that you need 12 hooks to win the game. 2 survivors. That means that you got half the team that can distract you, save eachother with flashlights and whatnot and run loops with you and you'd still be on an unforgiving timer.

2- Survivors have too many ways arround whatever you can do that don't even require you to be good at the game most of the time. Best example ? Flashlight saves. Just swarm the killer when he's about to get a down and use the painfully long animation lock of picking up a survivor to blind him, which takes only a fraction of the time they are locked in picking up someone. It's not fun, it's not skilled it adds nothing to the game in its current state except frustration for killers.

3- Game systems working against killers. Like hit validation. Oh you were smart during your chase and mindgamed the survivor to hell and back ? Well don't be so hasty my little kilelr, how about some nice hit validation on DH, so you get the sound of your hit connecting with the survivor but the game tells you no no, so he can keep running but you have to sit there slowed by your "missed" swing. We could also talk about killer features legit working against them, like freedy's map atmosphere that makes some maps so dark you lose survivors because of the sheer darkness of certain spots, mothers dwelling being a prime example of this.

4- Killers are too easily looped. There are too many spots on the map where you can't ever catch a smart survivor and you need to gamble with mind games, too many pallets on certain maps like the game... Which is also not helped by hit validation as discussed above, helping pallet camping. M1 killers are such a joke right now it's not even funny. The simple fact that on every tierlist any M1 killer that can't teleport is at best average and more often than not below average is proof enough of how low the lethality of killers is if they can catch or hit a survivor by no means other than keeping W pressed as hard as they can.

5- SWF. Instead of uncoordinated survivors that already have a ton of advantages over killers, you can also have killers experience the joy of facing all their disadvantages but with the added bonus of cooperation impossible to replicate with random survivors and vocal communcation of the survivors. Making everything even more fun : totems gets called out if seen during a chase, your perks, add ons, location, who to heal, who goes to save. All the strategic planning of a killer could go to waste because of the simple fact that his opponents can vocally communicate with eachother. All that without a single way for killers to effectively do something about it.

6- The cost of playing killer compared to survivor is ridiculous. Killers in general (few exceptions aside like executioner) need perks and add ons to achieve consistent results, certain killers are even unplayable without add ons (hello trapper, even if that's slightly better with his recent buffs). So you need to buy the killers, unlock the teachables, find the teachables and between every game replenish your add on supply. Meanwhile you can go perkless, itemless into a game as survivors, find items in game, rush gens, play a bit smart and escape consistently. It's gotten to a point where i have become a hoarder when i play survivor soloq because i feel like bringing an item might be a waste due to the fact that i could just grab an item in a chest and escape with that so i just keep growing my item stock.

7- Now killers even have to look for their own totems. You can't make this up. Killers have to actively waste time and look for their own totems because survivors can bless them for immensely strong bonuses like : party wide (yes area restricted but still) self care, and next chapter party wide unbreakable. This being completely ridiculous on multi level maps, because if the totem is upstairs, you'd have to cancel the chase or down the survivor, hook the survivors if you downed him, go upstairs, find the totem, snuff it out, go back down, and find survivors again ... all that to get rid of it. So you are left with the painful choice of either leaving it up or waste all this precious time to snuff it out, just for it to perhaps get blessed again a few seconds later.

8- Having said all that above and having experienced decent mmr sweatfests it is glaringly obvious that killers are not the power role. Everything depends on what survivors do. In a game where killers are supposed to be the driving factor in a game and survivors having the number advantage to counteract that, you have survivors being what the game evolves arround. You can play like a god, get every mind game right, hit everything and still be at the mercy of survivors being good or not. And let's not even talk about how things work out if you dare to play a killer that isn't top tier and face a good group. Getting 4 hooks will be like breaking a world record. It is undescribably frustrating to know that you are powerless. The success rate of everything you do is based on whether the survivors are good or not while the opposite is barely ever true.

Now i get that the game is balanced arround casual players because you want to get new players to dbd, but you have to udnerstand that you can't expect your game to work if you bet everything on getting new casuals, that likely wont stick arround, to join your game while having 2000+ hour killer mains leaving out of frustration or swapping to survivor because it is much more fun, enjoyable and stress free.

Hope this didn't end up being a rant, I kind of didn't plan this post to begin with so i structured it as best i could.