Playing Nurse is frustrating

How long have you been practicing nurse?

She is the hardest killer to master in the game. You aren't gonna win every match and a part of learning and improving with ANY killer in this game is that you aren't gonna 4k. Personally, I don't see how this is something to complain about. That is part of almost any pvp game.

One day, like magic, a Bad Nurse gets her wings and becomes a God.

Playing Nurse takes time, discipline, and above all: a good sense of survivors movements.

There are currently 2 tactics most commonly implemented by Nurse players: Reactive, and Predictive.

Reactive: These players use the Nurses Blink ability to follow a survivors pathing, and react to how they react to her movements. You can blink to a survivors last position .3 seconds ago, and still have .5 seconds to react to where they move, so if they move behind an object, and you Blink to their last visible position, you see wherein they are moving next and can again react to that for your next blink, or in the case of them back tracking, attack. This tactic is very effective for a new Nurse player, but also easy to avoid once a survivor learns of it.

Predictive: You actively predict where the survivor will be, regardless of obstacles, and either blink right on their position or right ahead of it. This tactic is very advanced, but at the same time easy to avoid once a survivor learns of it.

After I've defined these 2 tactics... do you see the thing in common with both of them?

Survivors aren't stupid, so, to be a true Nurse MONSTER to the survivor community... you have to master being the 3'rd and most rare type of Nurse player: The Adaptive!

This is a Nurse who recognizes any survivors who have previous experience of either the reactive Nurse, or the predictive one, and employs their blinks in contrast to what they're expecting! You have to have a fluid sense of mind, and an immediate sense of situation to both play against this kind of survivor, and adapt on the fly. For a seasoned Nurse recognizing a survivors playstyle, based upon the Nurses they've encountered thus far, only 1 or 2 chases is enough to suss them out, but once you discover what catches them off guard, and down them, they might still might try to change their tactics, and so you must be willing to change yours as well. No one says this will be easy!

THIS IS WHY THE NURSE IS A VERY HARD LEVEL OF KILLER TO PLAY, and it's what makes her the most exciting! Her tactics and skill take much more time to become simply "decent" with against any equally "decent-good" survivor, and it takes FAR more time to "Master" her against other "Master" survivors! Because of this, she is often seen as one of the ONLY killers capable of keeping up with, and even able to challenge the highest SBMM survivors. To me, that makes her actually fun to both play as and play against, because no matter what level of skill you play at, she can meet and challenge it.

What I'm saying is... I know you don't like her right now, but trust me, she's far more powerful and capable than you know at the moment, and NO, that's not including add-on or Perk combos, because a truly skilled Nurse can still "win" or at the minimum, "put up a decent fight" (without perks or add-ons) against the highest SBMM Survivors... and that scares them (but honestly though, it should invigorate and inspire them to take the challenge head on and do better).

She is probably the only killer designed around a "high effort = high reward." Regardless, it's well earned, so don't give up on her, and you'll understand why after enough time playing her (if you have the patience to put up with it, which, surprise, most "Reward me now/entitled" players don't). It takes a minimum of 20 hours playing her exclusively to just get "decent" or at the least "good" with Nurse... and sadly it take 3x that to become a "Master" with her, and at least 2x that to become a "GOD"... Funny enough, no other killer in this game takes nearly that long. However, amongst all the killers in the roster... Nurse, is actually WORTH the effort! This is probably the only thing the devs have gotten right IMO.

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Stop complaining. Decide if you are willing to put in the effort to master her, or simple give up instead of coming here to complain about it. She's Very Hard to learn, but I promise you: If you devote at least 50 hours into playing her exclusively, you'll be more than "decent" and well on your way to "Mastering" her, and if you actually do "Master" her... you'll actually start to pity the survivors you face. Not because she's "broken" or "OP" mind you, but because you damn well earned your skill level with her, and there are very few survivors out there that can compete/say the same.

Nurse is arguably the hardest killer in terms of skill, but as a reward for that, she is by far the hardest killer to go against. Her power essentially circumnavigates all the things that go in favor of the survivors (pallets, windows, etc.). Looping is useless against a good nurse and the only counter to her power is to break line of sight.

The hypotheticals you're talking about do not apply to every survivor you go against. I play solo-queue mostly and when you say all gens are popped within 3 hooks that just doesn't happen often (I wish all my solo-queue team mates were that efficient 🤣).

Learning Nurse takes a lot of time.

If you have learned to blink properly (meaning to land on about every spot from every angle on every map), only focus on search & chases. Don't even think about "winning".

I usually use Infectious fright, whispers, BBQ, and Starstuck for body-blockers (and to snowball when they f*-up). No addons. Other detection perks are good too (Nurses, that one from Ghostface, Spies, ...) There are way stronger builds but they are nasty and do not really help to improve the chases.

Spies may help you a lot. It's rarely used and survivors who mind the crows are pretty rare.