Deathslinger Versus Huntress

I love huntress, I'd consider her my main now - but I think slinger is actually actively more fun. I don't think he's as clunky as everyone says, even after the ads nerf (which I am actually in support of anyways). I think he has less of a high skill cap than huntress but you still need to read people just as you do with hatchets BUT you can spear them through the tiniest holes in loops and buildings to build on top of the aspect of reading people.

I also think he is easier to learn and easier to aim with too - hitting a hatchet over a loop to hit the tip top of someones head is a lot harder than with the spear. I have been playing him a LOT lot more lately and been having a blast.

I still have to mute the lobby screen though because I physically can't listen to the spitting noise he makes because of reasons I don't want to dive into on a forum post.

Deathslinger's add ons get a bad rap. Both killers have limited options if your goal is to win a game. Huntress is going to want wind up, cooldown, or aura reading. Slinger is reload, prison chain, and cigar.

To be honest, Huntress feels clunkier than Deathslinger to me. You reload more frequently on Deathslinger, but you don't need to walk over to a locker to do it after 5 shots. And you'll hate the locker placement on some maps with Huntress.

Perk diversity is more or less the same. Aura reading and slowdown. You don't really need chase perks, although Brutal Strength can be nice.

I think Deathslinger is really fun. You can get really creative with his shots, and there a shocking number of skill shots to hit with him. Cracks in shack, cracks in tiles, basically anywhere there's a hole.

A lot of people will say Huntress. But I vote Deathslinger.

Our vote goes to the huntress.

As your wants are on variety and fun and while both have effectively similar on variety (both can play stealth [slinger gets no tr and can spook unaware survivors from a distance, huntress has a lullaby but without a heartbeat it generally causes confusion for survivors which is enough], both can play "snipe" [huntress naturally and using all aura reading can be scary in the right conditions while slinger has his coin]) but slinger feels more clunky (atleast to us as we played alot of him with old quick scope) and huntress' ceiling means you can probably find creative ways to hurt survivors that slinger cant do.

As a slinger main, I have always considered slinger to be budget huntress, but with the addition of so many awfull maps, I realize comp players were right all along, huntress is very map dependant, slinger while being less map dependant is not a good killer, no good survivors should be hit by a snipe/gap shot, however since most people are really bad at the game, you will get snipes/gap shots.

Imo he is more fun because I prefer the harpoon over hatchets, since its quicker and chases feel fast paced, so I play him.

I’m glad our experience is different then, he’s probably my least favorite killer to face in the game lol. Playing nearly all day long I haven’t seen one in like a week.

Yeah I see a lot of blights, wesker, huntress and nemmies I’d say

I vote deathslinger. I've played both and he is for sure my favourite. Huntress is cool too but i struggle to land hits with her hatchets, requires good timing and prediction.

Deathslinger is the weakest mechanically for sure, his add ons are pretty naff and his range is very limited. But for fun value? There is nothing I enjoy more in dbd than reeling in a survivor like a screaming terrified fish and bayonetting them 🤣 especially if you nail them through a vault window and hit them through it. Plus I love his sadistic little chuckle when he smacks a surv. IMO his mori is one of the coolest in the game.

Few tips if you do choose him: Best addons to start with are reload and chain break stun speeds to mitigate misses and bad hits. When you can hit reliably go for reeling speed and chain strength. Or mangle haemorrhage on spear hits for budget sloppy butcher if slowdown is your thing. His iri add ons suck so bad.

to make hitting easier think like a torch wielding surv, it's easiest to hit whe a surv is forved into a choke point like a door way or an animation, I.E. vaulting. You can hit a speared surv through vault windows but not dropped pallets. An uninjured surv will take an injury and deep wound if chain snaps so spear them over pallets and angle the chain into the pallet to break it quicker but this will do nothing to an already injured surv. If you swing and don't hit it releases chain and no injury occurs. Do this to mitigate the bad hits over pallets on injured survs.

Mind games: a good surv will zig zag when you aim at them, extremely hard to hit them when they do this but it slows them down. I tap trigger to aim and make them take evasive maneuvers but I'm back to full speed quick and gain good distance. So even with the slow move speed slinger can actually M1 and if they don't zig? Spear them it's a catch 22 😈

Slinger is shockingly bad at tight pallet loops, but can really punish survs looping killer shack or double vault windows, it's all about LOS. Sometimes though (with the chain strength add ons) on unsafe pallets you actually have enough leeway to pull the survivor around the short end of the pallet loop and smack them.

As for perks, i run a stupid meme hex build on him because it's fun. Retribution, ruin, haunted ground and devour hope. To play serious aura read perks are always a good shout so you can preaim round walls. Nowhere to hide is good for this. Usual slow down perks are always a good shout. I've been meaning to try an anti pallet build with him, spirit fury and hubris sounds like an interesting idea because spearing reeling and dropping an exposed full health survivor has been extremely satisfying. Tinkerer is a good one for him too, nothing like getting speared out of nowhere off of a gen because you didn't hear the terror radius lol.

If you feel like trying him I can promise rootin' tootin' survivor shootin' fun.

Edit: he does feel a bit clunky sometimes, slow move speed and his ads is a little longer than I'd like, no quickscoping with him. But once you get the hang of him it's so. Damn. Satisfying. Landing those spear hits.

Of the two I strongly prefer deathslinger, as I think he's more versatile. He can reload at any time so he doesnt have to break chase to reload. His deep wound provides small amounts of slowdown if you do hit and run stuff with him. The fact that he reels survivors in makes him a very unique ranged killer in the fact that he can actually benefit from exposure perks and other perks that benefit from basic hits. Also the fact that you drag survivors in means they make less distance on you when you land a hit on them.