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Killer tierlist based on each killer max skill cap
Aka "How much big brain and practise you need to have to do the maximum best with each killer".
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I think in theory it's actually Huntress. Since if you were a human aimbot you would be cross-mapping every single hatchet + skybox hits.
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Hmm.
Tier S - Yes, but I'd move Cenobite down to A, he sort of has an artificial 'power' cap no matter how skilled you are. At best, you'll be chaining people more and finding the cube more often, which is subject to RNG.
Tier A - I'd move Huntress and Artist up to S. Incredibly high skillcap killers. Artist in particular is, like Nurse, theoretically unstoppable with perfect play. Slinger goes down to 'B'. He's like a simplified, less effective Huntress.
Tier B - I'd move Demo and Hag up to A and Doctor down to C. Both Demo and Hag can do a lot of really crazy stuff if you understand them well. Doctor honestly depends more on latency than skill, barring standard M1 chasing ability. He's another 'comfortable' killer in terms of playstyle - very simple.
Tier C: Wraith goes up one. At high end play, there is actually a lot of complexity to him regarding his hitbox and precisely bodyblocking mid chase while decloaking.
Tier D: Ghostface definitely goes up to B. There is a lot of stuff to learn on him at the higher end, regarding the reveal mechanic and clever approaches/stalks.
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I'd move Cenobite down 1 slot.
Switch Hag with Artist. The best Hag plays and proper webs take awhile to master.
Possibly rotate Deathslinger with Twins.
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Twins and clown should be higher imo. Twins have a lot of intricacies that you can master and clown while having a low skill floor requires high map knowledge and decent mechanical skill to play well
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Nurse should be a tier its own, nothing come close to her
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Eh...
I'd say that Billy and Blight are on par with Nurse, with Huntress only slightly behind.
Nurse is actually very easy to understand. It's all mechanical skill and gamesense.
Billy and Blight have curves, which require an entirely new system of controlling your system and incredible knowledge of tiles.
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Sadako should is D tier , she same as freddy.
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I suprisingly agree with basicly anything.
Maybe Nemesis abit higher, there are alot of cheeky spots to hit over or through which requires a decent amount of muscle memory and also general memory and ALOT of try and error.
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I think Huntress technically has the highest skill cap. Comparing her to Nurse for example, hitting 100% accuracy with unlimited range hatchets would take more skill then hitting 100% of blinks.
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I think Huntress should be S, Trickster should be B, Artist should be S, and Bubba should be C.
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Nurse isn't the hardest Killer in the game imo. Billy is the hardest and Blight the second hardest, with Nurse being the third hardest.
I'd move Pinhead to low A or even B tier. He's not that hard to play as you're usually not going to use his chain unless you want to lose distance.
I'd move Artist and possibly Huntress one tier higher.
Deathslinger should be lower B or C tier. Ever since his nerf, he's better at zoning than actually shooting.
Hag, Plague Demogorgon and Twins could go up 1 tier
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Pyramid Head in B tier, beneath Doctor, Demo, Plague, and Slinger? Absolutely not he and Hag need to migrate upwards to A tier at least
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non facecamp bubba is actually quite hard against good survivors, he definitely requires more time to learn than everyone in c and most in b
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Plague should be at least A imo. The arc on her vomit is such a hard thing to master. Even the macro gameplay of knowing when to take your corrupt purge is a complicated strategy.
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Skill floor I agree. When you learn the basics though, there really isn’t that much to learn other than just knowing that first blinks are used to close gaps and second blinks are used to get a hit. Billy and Blight have waaaaay higher learning curves.
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Nemesis and Artist deserve to be way lower. A trained parakeet could learn how to play these Killers.
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I think technically huntress should be the highest since hitting a survivor across the map 100% of the time should be more difficult than 100% accurate nurse blinks when you consider the craziest possible shots that she could take, even if a lot of them aren’t realistic to be 100% accurate with.
I’d also move artist higher and pinhead a bit lower.
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What?
Nemesis has quite a lot to learn regarding which objects he can hit over, and how to move the lingering hitbox of his tentacle.
Artist requires you to know how survivors run loops, predict movements and land repeated skillshots.
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I value mechanical skill above everything else, you need hundreds of hours practice with Nurse to be playable at all, the other killers are very easy compared to her. Blight is Nurse lite though, still he lot easier than Nurse
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Huh.
Honestly, I've tried to learn both.
Blight is indeed easier to pick up, but once you get to a certain point I'd say he's a lot more demanding to play well.
Nurse is harder to pick up, but...once you get the tempo of her blinks down and have a rough idea of how survivors are going to move, the rest is just refinement.
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Keep in mind that this tier list isn't measuring how hard it is to pick up a killer, it's only based on how much time and effort it would take to master all of the intricacies of the killer's power and play them flawlessly. That's what "skill ceiling" means.
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