Nerf Pinhead pls too op and strong

He just got nerfed mate. I’m pretty sure Nurse and Blight are way more of a priority to nerf than Pinhead.

Welp, time for me to explain yet again why a killer is not OP.

Pinhead's power being annoying is very subjective. And LOL, he is not more oppressive than Leatherface in any way, even when he had unnerfed Engineer's Fang.

I've never understood this idea and this over-emphasis that Pinhead's chains takes no skill. Yes, you could argue that because his chains don't spawn in a set place every time, his power is rng instead of skill, which it is and that hurts the killer player as well a lot of the time. But if you looked hard enough, you could justify the argument that just about every killer power takes no skill. Trapper's trap escape attempts vary, so he takes no skill, and Legion can be near 1 survivor and get an injure or near all the survivors and get 4 injures, so his power takes no skill either. And Freddy is the worst offender of this, because survivors fall asleep automatically, the most skilless power of all!

Before Pinhead's add-ons got nerfed, he was sometimes able to interrupt the solving of the box to get a down AND a chain hunt instead of just teleporting, getting a down, but losing the chain hunt anyway because that's what the tp does. So really, teleporting to the box is something that Pinhead ideally never wants to do unless he's not in chase or defending gens and desperately needs some pressure on someone because he currently has none. And the chains interrupting you while you're solving a box is a bug, not a feature, which can be avoided by going for the box early instead of the last second when the chain hunt starts. You don't even have to solve it; just take Pinhead's power hostage because for some reason simply holding the box stop everyone else's chain hunt!

His add-on nerfs were completely unjustified. Most people absurdly agree that Engineer's Fang was too strong for a pink, even when it had to be combo'd with a green or purple add-on for that effect to be meaningful. But the rest of his add-ons? Nobody can defend why they were nerfed. It's like the devs took every single add-on, bar one or two, that did anything significant and said, "These are toooooo strong!" They were nerfing even his brown add-ons, I mean come on! He has like no strong add-ons now, so I don't know why you're complaining about them.

His perks are model perks, except for Gift of Pain which you failed to mention probably because it's a fine perk (in other words survivors can pretty much ignore its presence in the match, it's so weak). Hex: Plaything is a model hex, even though it gets countered by Spine Chill or SWF, but took a nose dive in playability once boons were out, and with Pentimento it came back into relevance, but now people know better and just boon over all the hexes. Deadlock is slept on and is basically a mid-game Corrupt, and it's a shame that Pain Resonance just ignores it or else more people would use it. It's 30 seconds of blockage and can only work 4 times, totaling to 2 minutes like Corrupt, but that's not regression or anything. It just slows survivors down so that the killer can play the game somewhat normally instead of having to worry about whether they've wasted too many precious seconds being suboptimal (since they're human) to win the match.

I know Pinhead's good against (bad) solos, which makes them want to play SWF and depletes the solo population, but Pinhead did not start this cycle. Survivors being too strong when they play optimal is what started the cycle. And I'm tired of people acting like solos have no clue what they're doing. When they're all bad and are expected to do stupid plays, there I accept that reality. But at higher MMR, it's basically like SWF. BT saves, body blocks, healing, committing to gens, 99ing the gates. Every survivor player is capable of that level of game knowledge and coordination if they just put in effort. It's not the responsibility of killers to simply accept nerfs so that bad solos can beat them. It's the devs responsibility to fix their game and break the cycle of solos being 'weak' but SWF too easy.

I really don't think that people who DC when playing against a specific killer should be talking game balance. It shows they're waiting for the killer to be weakened so that their mediocre skills can finally beat them, instead of learning the killer's counterplay which dramatically increases your chances of winning. When you DC against Pinhead, you create a self-fulfilling prophecy. "He's too strong to beat! Let's DC so I don't have to deal with this!" thereby making him win the match because now it's a 3v1 for the teammates you have betrayed.

Keep on giving Killers kills.