Whoever thinks that Dredge is good...

Then I guess survivors make a lot of mistakes.

Also, I wouldn't say that his power slowing him down more than Artist is an issue at all. Consider that while you're holding his power, leaving your remnant behind, you're creating two positions with which to 'resume your chase' once they leave the loop. This gives you a choice of which point will be closer to the route you want to take to 'herd' them a certain way. The freedom of this choice can make up for a significant amount of lost distance and more than counters the increased slowdown for channelling his power.

For example, if my remnant is at one side of the loop, and I've gone around to the other side, the survivor has a choice of which direction to go in, or to go perpendicularly to both me and my remnant. In either case, I'm still going to be closer to them than Artist would be, when the survivor runs in the exact opposite direction to her.

overrated killer. he is noobstomper. He gains killer instinct while teleporting to lockers in nightfall, Its anti-stealth mechanic but in stealth in 2022 is not that prominent. Its mostly what new players because of their lack of looping skills. Nightfall block's vision of loops. All survivor above 5000 hours that are at high-level memorize all pallet loops hence blocking vision is irrelevant. Locker teleport is situational as survivor can hear him exit out of lockers. He also has large ambient sounds making him ineffective stealth. His remnant anti-loop can countered by chaining-tile junks tiles. Of course lesser experienced survivors struggle to loop and chain-tiles together. His anti-loop only works if there are no loops for survivor to detached to. As a result, he is strong when you are in the corner of the map as survivor. Ironically, he is like artist where he lacks counter-play when your in the corner of the map but his time to down is very slow, He is generally easy to beat if your team is effective on generators and you drag out the chases properly.

I'd put him B-tier. Teleport + anti-loop is a nice combo. And at least in solo q, Nightfall is much more effective than people give it credit for.

Your sniffer is broken

This man is like Sadako with less stealth component and more tp potential. He has map pressure, but in chase is pretty weak against a w holder and mindgames. The fact that you can hear him appearing in a locker eliminates his potential to catch survivors off guard. He is stronger than Sadako, but does not get to mid B-tier to me. I mean, a killer that depends on which map are you playing does not feel quite right to me.

Try Make Your Choice/Floods Of Rage on Dredge.

Everyone after the first hook has one health state, and by definition you're not camping or tunneling.

He's pretty meh. His anti-loop can be denied pretty heavily by pre-dropping because he has to place his remnant on the spot and then loop around as a very slow husk. The survivor can use that window to chain the tile. I just drop the pallet as soon as he goes to place the remnant and then he's kind of out of options for that tile unless I've really zoned myself. It's not like a Clown bottle where he can throw it to the long side of a tile while he plays the short side and still get the hit either way.

Nightfall is super gimmicky. He's never going to catch someone with a good pair of headphones off-guard. And the elephant in the room of a time mechanic like Nightfall is that survivors can just wait it out and play passively if they're in a SWF (rare, but I've done it).

The mobility is just...ok. But it's mobility for the sake of mobility. He doesn't really have much else going for him. Kind of the same issue Sadako has, although I think Sadako is the better killer.

He's okay, not really strong, but not really weak either. Could use a few buffs but overall he's okay. He could be a bit more silent in Nightfall and the locking the locker animation needs to be a bit longer imo.

He really is overrated. Like Freddy and Sadako, he's an M1 killer with a teleport. But talk to most people on here, and they'd call him top 4. The biggest thing that hurts him, which nobody ever talks about, is the slight delay on teleporting to lockers or to the remnant. It's the exact same thing that ruins Hag. Against good survivors, you need to be getting that hit immediately after the teleport, or else they just won't get hit. This is not even going into the completely arbitrary counter survivors were given in the form of locking lockers, destroying the remnant, or hearing the Dredge clear as day through Nightfall.

For real. If locking the lockers involved not just sliding the thing in, but actually placing a lock over, lets say, 3s, then survivors would maybe a bit more selective with which lockers they close up. At least it would be a sort of secondary objective, something thats always welcome. Right now closing the things up is barely taking any time at all and even if survivors mindlessly close them all, the Dredge gets a 1s mini-stun from hitting each and every one.

First of all, i like to play as dredge. Became my second main alongeside hag instantly after its release.

But yeah, he is map dependant, especially in the locker setting. I had matches where maps had all lockers clustered on 2/4 of the map, and the other 2/4 were wasteland (not exegerated, thats the autohaven-maps, where only trees and stones are around the gens).

As for closing lockers, it can be annoying, and comes too cheap for survivors in my opinion (it should be used to gain a tactical advantage, not just do it because it doesnt cost you anything), but thats usually all. even if i teleport in a chase, the distance i gain is usually enough to make up the time i waste opening that locker. And usually, with good placemant, you only have some lockers you use as teleport-target anyway, so once they are free you are good to go anyway.

His antilooping is ok, but not his strong point, but as part of "mindgames" can become unbeatable for survivors in certain positions.

Nightfall is a fun mechanic, i like it very much. Sure, you dont come as a stealth killer then, but you take a lot of survivors map awareness away. And waiting it out doesnt work if you run 1-2 auraperks and/or the teleport-aura-Addon.

In my opinion, he really isnt the strongest killer, but he is not weak either, and he is a lot of fun to play. closing locker or the slowdown while teleporting could be reworked (both might be a bit too much) to make him play a little more smoothly, but the real issue is the rng dependence of locker placement.

He is not Sadako level trash, she's in a tier on her own, dredge is probably a solid B for me, but maybe my opinion doesn't count because I also put doc as a solid B and I'm not sure if those 2 are equal in tiers....

Deserves all the praise he gets. He has a nice balance to his kit, despite some QOL adjustments here and there. I'd say overall the good heavily outweighs the bad and it's easy to pick out his strong aspects like map pressure, mind gaming, mobility, chase power, and solid add-ons. I'd say his kit works well enough together to better those strengths through Nightfall. Hail to the Lord of Darkness.

I think he's pretty decent, but probably one of the most map dependent killers in the game

A Dredge on Midwich and a Dredge on Swamp are 2 very different games

I mean, he's like most killers, they tend to have maps they are good at, and maps that are worse. Like Ghostie is better in darker arenas. Triskster/Huntress need some throwing room. Dredge needs lockers. I think he's pretty good overall.

Dredge is way better than Sadako... the teleport works way better...

Sadako can only teleport to TV's which are closer to gens and also need to be powered yet Dredge has almost all map to teleport (except dead zones).

His cool-down is way lower than the one Sadako has

Dredge performs better in-chase due to Nightfall, sometimes they will have a hard time seeing what's in front of them and besides, not having the red stain is a good addition.

Most players are not that good vs. Dredge.