How would you rework the nemisis

IMO his tentacle is a boring power to play as and against. Not the biggest fan of anti-loop powers, but the thoughts behind his power could've been better. I'd honestly be down for a freaking rocket launcher at this point.

Once you have reached infection T3, press the activate ability button to kill all zombies and respawn them on the nearest hooks, this effect can only be activated every 60 seconds.

He needs an addon pass because he only has like 2 consistently good addons aka marvins (random nerf LOL) & broken recovery coin with I guess "decent" addons that rely on his zombies which struggle to go 5 seconds without getting stuck on thin air.

Remove zombie, give rocket launcher

I love Nemesis as is, but he needs some touch ups.

He needs more add ons that focus on his tentacle strike mechanic and less on the zombie AI. Condense any AI offerings into 2 or 3 offerings and then make some cool ones that change the tentacle. Also, improve the AI so that they become aware when they are stuck on something faster and have it so they can either maneuver in a way so they don't get stuck again or self terminate themselves.

His base kit is fine as is only changes would make would improve the zombies AI and an overhaul on most of his add ons.

Addon rework, better zombie pathing in general and buff some of his base kit stats.

Not gonna give him a rocket launcher since it doesn't fit the game thematically.

If BHVR ever were to consider putting serious work into Nemesis (which I doubt since even after all this time and even with another RE chapter dropping soon, they aren't even addressing the glaring flaws of this killer, i. e. the zombie issues and his painfully lackluster mutation tiers and add-ons), it would definitely have to be that they give him a special ability on top of his normal tentacle strike. Or better yet, multiple abilities.

There are various pretty obvious ones that I think would work well enough in DbD without even having to put in that much effort. There's the roar, which would stun survivors in place briefly, allowing Nemesis to catch up a few meters. They could balance that by giving it a lengthy cooldown akin to Doctor's static blast. He could dash, just charging in a straight line at an increased movement speed (Billy default chainsaw speed perhaps) until he either tackles a survivor, runs into a wall, or the player manually cancels the charge. Dropped pallets or breakable walls would be destroyed by this. This would both give him another line of attack as well as a way to traverse the map more quickly or catch up over long distances in chases. Mutation tier 3 could increase his movement speed or tentacle reach further and allow him to infect zombies with the parasite upon hitting them with the tentacle (rather than killing them, which serves no purpose once in tier 3), which in turn increases their movement speed and attack range, maybe even enabling them to briefly hold survivors in place. Tier 3 could also apply to any other secondary abilities, such as reducing the roar cooldown and increasing the dash speed. Grappling hook-esque stuff where he would have a secondary tentacle ability that allows him to hurl himself towards objects or throw survivors around would also be great, but that's something that would require a lot more work than I think BHVR would ever be willing or able to put in, not least given that even Wesker whose entire ability is sort of like that has its limitations.

Being infected should definitely carry more ill effects for survivors (Hindered, Mangled, Oblivious, etc.), and anyway, I think there should be some impactful mechanic tied to vaccinations. One idea would be that if the survivors use all vaccinations, a crate spawns in the map that Nemesis can go to and retrieve a rocket launcher from. Or rather, since survivors would be able to deny this ability simply by leaving 1 vaccination unused, always spawn that crate once all generators are finished, and however many vaccinations survivors used determines how many rockets it has. I don't think it would even be difficult or ridiculous to have it in the game and balance it within the gameplay. For one thing it would already be limited by the fact that it's only available in the endgame, and only contains as many rockets as survivors used vaccinations. And then just like in RE3, there could be multiple aspects that make it possible to play around, such as the target laser that shows the area of impact, the relatively slow projectile speed, the time it takes Nemesis to ready a shot, as well as the lengthy cooldown after he shoots before he can shoot again or otherwise attack. Make it an insta-down on direct hits, and injure within a certain radius of impact, also destroying pallets and walls within that area.

Press the alt. ability button once to send a zombie into a direction, hold the button to call it over. Boom

Personally I get why BHVR toned him down but I'd like an addon that spawns two weapon crates for Nemesis to use end game - Essentially his own version of noed. They don't need to be fully accurate like Inferno difficulty but having a Rocket Launcher and some sort of Flamethrower would be cool. For example in Standard difficulty the Rocket Launcher essentially is just concussive and knocks you around dealing small damage. Would be cool to have that option end game with limited ammo. I don't want him to full on have a rocket launcher but essentially just a thematic power up with limited uses for end game.

The Nemesis we have now is comparable to Assisted Difficulty Nemesis. I'm okay with that but the zombie ai sucks so sometimes it doesn't feel so great.

For those who haven't played RE3 they probably see a suggestion for a Rocket Launcher and think we want to insta-gib survivors. The rockets don't even do that unless you play on highest difficulty anyways. If he had a rocket launcher you could balance it because in the game...

The rockets are slow, they are primarily just knockback and within the boundaries of DBD you could tweak it by affecting Nemmy's movement speed. If there was a weapon crate in game Nemmy could be restricted to only having access to them after the generators are powered and by doing so it would be a detour he would have to take away from survivors + when he's holding it it's telegraphed to survivors easily. Survivors could also memorize where these are before Nemmy is able to open them. Highly doubt making across the map shots would be easy as well if you kept it accurate to games.

id remove zombies, make his tentacle damage and infect instead of only infect, and add a 3/4% hinder while infected

it wouldnt feel like a bad thing to use his anti loop, it ditches his map pressure for pure chase, and theres a reason to cleanse

or id fix his zombies ai so they actually do something, thatd be cool too

Give him something extra in tier 3 instead of just a tiny bit of extra range on the tentacle. Maybe make it so another zombie spawns? I'm not sure, but reaching tier 3 is underwhelming.