#NerfNurse

I'm glad to see someone pointing this out. I've played nurse for a good couple of thousand hours and went to check the stream with an open mind. There's absolutely no way that nurse was anything other than average at best (no disrespect to the killer). One of the things you learn quickly (or should do) is to avoid using the second blink for traversal. It's better to have it in case you need to re-adjust targets or you're in a situation like an injured survivor and a borderline guaranteed one blink. The times you do want it for traversal are very few and far between situations (or if you're running double recharge I guess). Continuing with the vod, there's no complex movement either from the survivor side so with proper zoning she should have been able to get LOS back pretty quickly and land a hit, especially when they doubled back in the middle. This is why "edge mapping" tends to be more effective, not just because there's more to work with on some maps but also if you go down (which you will if the nurse is decent) it wastes more of her time. I'll give benefit of the doubt and assume her second blink was on CD (see earlier point), but medium vaulting against a nurse is usually a death sentence at close range.

For some ungodly reason though the developers thought it was a good idea to bring omegablink back which makes "running" nurse even more difficult. The DH nerf will pretty much remove one of her more reliable countermeasures so there's no way she can stay currently as is. I suspect what that poster means is they like running average nurses who aren't good with zoning and don't land their blinks consistently. However, it's 6 years and given the recent changes I have little hope they'll balance her properly. From a selfish standpoint it benefits me, but I won't sit there and pretend she's fine.

Certainly and for average nurses that's fine. The problem here is that often the argument made against survivor strength with optimal, coordinated gameplay is based on their skill ceiling while ignoring that nurse represents the other end of that spectrum. The former can be adjusted via perk rebalancing, removal of addons, toning down of item strength and map re-adjustment. However, the issue with nurse is that even if you adjust these things her potential is still phenomenal due the nature of her power. To give an example, take Gas Heaven, a map where conceding specific gens all but guarantees a loss but for nurse she can still patrol due to blinking through the car walls. Something that is often overlooked.

Generally speaking, even in comp or with high level survivors the consensus is that you don't "run" a god nurse, you pick the best possible place to go down and hope your team is ruthlessly hammering the gens out. Most survivors and heck, even most swfs will not stand up to a nurse player that knows what their doing which doesn't make for especially interesting or balanced gameplay. With the value of hindsight, she was a bandaid solution (in typical BHVR fashion) to a problem that didn't need to exist in the first place (map balance, item balance etc.). Now that we're 6 years in, we have a killer that has a stranglehold on the following aspects of the game:

• Map design/size (including Generator placement)
• Item balancing
• Perk design
• Spawn mechanics

Again, as an example, take the last point in the above list. One of the popular ideas (and one I agree with) is that survivors should spawn together, which would benefit killers like Trapper, Hag, Pig etc. However, this would indirectly buff nurse due to the time loss on generator traversal, same as certain soloq buffs would indirectly buff very coordinated teams. Map's sizes have to account for her ability to effectively move around, including maps with verticality (I'm sure we've all seen the horror show of a double range nurse on Midwich for example). Dragons grip apparently couldn't be buffed due to issues with Nurse and the last perk that has some real nasty strength to it (starstruck) is disgustingly strong on her (particularly with agitation on small maps like the game). The point ultimately being is that if we want to look at the apex of survivor gameplay, particularly with the upcoming nerf to dead hard, then it's only fair we look at toning down nurse in a reasonable manner. The "counterplay" only works up to a certain point after which it becomes "do what you can, die in the corner and hope to god we can smash these gens out"

Just stop arguing with the Nurse mains there's no point they'll keep coping and stay delusional nothing you can do about it.

Don't worry guys we know the reason you main Nurse is beceause it's easy to win with her and there's no real difficulty or challenge winning is fun right ?

If you can't win with her busted add-ons and a full slowdown build it's just a skill issue,there's a reason why Nurse has always been the strongest killer in the game...for 6 years now

They won't touch your OP broken overpowered busted Toy do not worry you're lucky the devs are unaware of how strong Nurse is that's why they buffed her ! Good keep buffing the most oppressive killer in the game and leave the garbage ones in the trash can.