Killer mains and tiers

The big things with M1 or lower tier killers are going to be your basic mechanics and decision-making. Are you running every tile correctly and efficiently? Are you zoning survivors correctly before you break pallets? Are you following survivors in an exact straight line like an AI or are you zoning them with your pathing and cutting them off? Just some things to consider.

Another big aspect of M1 killers: some tiles on the map are completely safe, others are 50/50s, and some can be turned into 50/50s with your M1 killer mechanics. Your success is largely determined by how effective you are at generating 50/50 opportunities and converting them into hits. There are lots of ways to do it. Some are obvious and basic, others are more subtle and require you to be experienced at reading survivor behavior and predicting them. A good place to start is switching up whether you respect pallets or not throughout the match. Players often talk about respecting pallets as if it's some golden rule and a binary habit. Both work at different times. And often times you'll land a hit by respecting a pallet if you've already established that you hold W and charge through pallets against a player in that trial.

Its very hard to pickup a new killer and do well when you are facing matches against experienced survivors, so what I do is:

Expect to lose.

The only skills that universally, mostly transfer between all speed tier same killers is M1 hits in chase, and tile movement. And even this isn't consistent due to things like DH, individual employment of such, and different visual appearance of each killer( Like, Sadako is short and twitchy, people often misjudge where your reach is at).

Pick a skill you want to work on and make sure to practice that skill. As an example I wanted to learn Blight. Blight has a lot of ######### going on. First I put on all regression perks(To take max time in a game), And I used his rush exclusively to traverse the map, and I went from gen to gen, all of them just M1ing people based on his mobility. I did this until I understood things you can bounce off of, things that make you slide and the range of a rush. When I tried to progress to the second stage of Blight, where I might rush hit survivors, I did it with a separate perk setup, and different rules. Again, IDGAF if I lose, actually its better to lose the matches so people don't waste your time with salt. For Wraith, his better players seem to body block me a lot, into tiny corners, and approach gens that I'm on from blind corners. Most of that would be tile and map knowledge, I guess, I can't be sure, I'm not working on Wraith, he makes me annoyed to play.

If you accept that learning to work with the killer's special will result in some losses, its easy to drop the gen regression perks, If you find a better set of practice perks, you will want to use those, because they support your learning. With the Blight example above slow down is good for me, I just want them stuck in the match so I can hit them, and rush.(I let them out at the end, cause they actually helped me, even if they have no idea they did).

You mention being good at Spirit, I am terrible at this killer, I want to be good as she looks so great, but I just can't play with headphones and inspite of running her over powered add-ons, I can barely hook a single player. So I had to accept that this killer just doesn't work for me.

Trappers that I play against do well on certain maps, strong M1 use, and being very smart with traps. I have no idea how to make that happen, I just know from experience to look down at choke points, avoid weeds, and slow down(exposing myself to M1 hits) whenever possible.

I personally think playing a multitude or low tier killers is extremely hard as you become a jack of all trades, master of none. Unless you have like 6000 hours playing m1 killers then you never really learn which loops each particular m1 killer can outplay. I usually say if you want to learn a low tier killer then play 10-15 games on each map and don't play to win but play to see how each loop works with that 1 killer. You'll realise when you know which loops you can outplay with that killer, them being low tier matters a lot less.

I did this with Doc (sure he's probably as middle tier as you can get) and I tend to perform significantly better than I do with either Artist or Twin (which I'd argue are higher tier). I used to be scared of the game, now I love it as 90% of the loops are unsafe just high risk if you mess up timing. And I only run impossible skill check-esque builds.

TLDR practice one low tier killer for over a few hundred games with the outlook to learn loops and not win.

it's sad that they didn't buffed properly my old main (trapper), giving him tools in order to keep up the pace that survivors have to accomplish their goals...