How would you Nerf/Balance Nurse?

I'd simply remove the ability to fake blink.

You click the thing, you blink.

I agree with this. Those are her two biggest problems. They are the reason why she’s able to consistently stomp survivors at 5 gens in the right hands. Make these adjustments and she’ll still keep her crown as number 1, but she won’t be destroying players so much.

Well, let's not forget one positive thing: in the next update, which is imminent, the nurse's scope addons will not accelerate her tp anymore! 🤗🙂

This will allow survivors to have less trouble against the nurse, and that's cool 😀😺

(on the other hand, the weepers ... nothing will change, they will always come to beg ... but we are used to it ... 😁)

Blinks special attack is cool plus i wouldn't mind nerfing the distance add ons so they won't stack. A lot of her add ons just feel like memes and aren't worth running. her base power is fine.

1. Remove the blink recharge. She should be able to blink again immediately after fatigue and waiting on tokens to recharge is stupid.
2. Give her a basekit instadown by making it so that if you blink through a survivor on your second blink, they become exposed for 2 seconds (long enough to be hit by an immediate attack, but short enough that it wears off if they miss).

I generally believe every killer should have an instadown in their basekit.

Give her 2 modes

Her first mode, she gains charges (1 charges/s) passively and can't blink. Instead, holding down the power button allows her to steal Survivors breath. Doing so will grant her 2 charges/s in addition to the 1 charge she already gains passively.

After having at least 20 charges, she can go into her second mode. Which replaces the ability to steal survivors breath with Blinks, and she no longer gains charges passively. (There would be an audio cue for when she switches, and a small animation. Not as long as Oni's transformation, but something similar) leaving this mode manually causes her to go into a 3 second fatigue). The reason why she needs to gain charges is because 1 charge = 1 meter for her blinks. This means if she has a max of 64 charges, she can do a fully charged blink and a fully charged chain blink, twice.

This would definitely be too much if they just slapped it on there with nothing else so to compensate:

-Shes made into a 4.4m/s (110%) killer

-Blinks recharging as we know it today, is no longer a thing

Of course some of these numbers could be tweaked a little, but this is just to get a general idea

This fixes a number of issues, firstly if a Survivor properly outplays The Nurse, she gets punished for it accordingly. She cant just blink all willy-nilly and has to be conservative with her blinks. Secondly, making her into a 4.4m/s killer still allows her to catch up to Survivors, especially now that she needs to recharge her blinks manually. Lastly, it removes the feeling of clunkiness that recharging Blinks currently gives. Since after shes done her fatigue she can Blink again immediately, at the risk of maybe loosing line of sight on a Survivor and wasting her charges.

Having her power be something you work for. Some powers are strong enough they shouldn't be active all the time (corrupt purge, demon dash & strike) but they're balanced by having restrictions on them.

So plague and oni are bad killers?

Reduce everything about blinks by half, they go half as far, charge twice as fast (so the time vs. distance is still the same). Rework range addons to do something else. Her blinks are now 10 meters for the first one, and 6 for the second one. Make her 4.0 movement speed. Give her an on cooldown 30-60 seconds global blink that she can go anywhere she wants but can't attack out of it.

This allows her to keep her chase game strong, but nerf her map pressure about without completely destroying it.

Are you saying to get rid of her blink recharge, because if that's what you're saying she'd be arguably even stronger than before.

The easiest and best way to balance Nurse in my opinion would be to reduce the reach of her third blink. Meaning her lunge range. Copy paste:

1. Reduce her post-blink lunge range. With her current lunge, she merely has to blink within the approximate vicinity of a survivor, there's a fairly big margin for error since she can make up for inaccurate blinks or survivor jukes with her lunge. With a reduced lunge range, she still has all the advantages innate to her ability, only players have to be more precise with her blinks to actually hit survivors, and well-timed survivor jukes can actually work out more often. The amount by which her post-blink lunge range should be reduced comes down to experimenting, maybe the -50% of White Nit Comb is a little too much, maybe -33% is better.
2. Make her blink hits not count as basic hits. Nurse already has insane snowball potential, there's no reason why she should also be able to capitalize upon the Exposed status effect from perks like Starstruck, Haunted Ground, NOED, Make Your Choice and so on. Blight's rush hits don't count as basics, and he's still a great killer. You can instead add an Exposed effect to the underpowered Matchbox add-on, where any survivor within Xm of the Nurse after she performs a maximum range blink will suffer from the Exposed status effect for a couple of seconds.

Range add-ons are thankfully getting fixed next patch to not also increase blink speed, but they are still a bit much because they substantially improve her already amazing ability, with no downside. The downside should be that they increase blink fatigue and/or recharge time by as much as they increase range, percentage-wise. Although with the reduced lunge range these add-ons could already be much less problematic, so perhaps the increased fatigue/recharge time should only apply after blinks that actually went beyond standard range, and only by as much as they did.

The only concern with the lunge change for the devs could be that it makes her even less accessible for new players. But those accessibility issues have always been there, new players would always have to invest time to get the hang of Nurse anyway, and besides, they've shipped multiple add-ons that make Nurse play more like a normal killer, by increasing her default movement speed - maybe Nurse should have those add-ons in her info box or something, as a suggestion for new players. These add-ons by the way also kind of alleviate concerns people have about Nurse then not being able to make use of basic attack-dependent perks at all, insofar that there's still builds in which she can use them.

Oh yeah, and I also agree that stunning Nurse should be much more impactful, since it's a high risk and low reliability maneuver that currently also has a low reward. It should remove her blink tokens and they should only start recharging once the stun animation has fully played out.

that's the neat part: YOU DON'T

Allow stunning her in blink and in fatigue (to get stun and fatigue combo timeout), add 0,5s cd between 1st blink and 2nd blink (but allow charging second blink in this time - you just can't let go immediatelly) /1st blink and attack (rn she can down you without materializing from survivors point of view), slow down her blinks so, that her avarage movement speed (charging, blinking and recharging combo) can't go over 4.6m/s (also meaning range addons increase token recharge time and recharge addons shorten max distance travelled).

But make her matchbox ultrarare something different/better as this one makes no sense (at least buff the speed bonus to 4,4 if nothing else).