Can we talk about the hag? She needs some help.

Okay, so this is obviously going to be a hot take, but right now I truly believe that hag is one of the worst killers in the game. I've mained hag since I got dead by daylight about four years ago. It's my opinion that when her counter play is understood, she can be bullied by even uncoordinated teams. It only takes one person to harass her traps and make her functionally useless, flashlight or no flashlight. So, I'll try illustrate some points.

Instant teleport hits are wildly inconsistent: Survivors can approach the trap in such a way that doesn't get their camera pulled. There's been multiple times where I knew someone had already used their sprint burst and was coming back for an item, I was mashing the teleport button, and they still had too much distance for a hit. I've seen this happen to every premiere hag main. Michi, SpaceCoconut, etc. If the survivors know how to moonwalk to the very edge of the traps range they simply have zero catch value. And that's not even mentioning sprint burst and DH. DH isn't quite as bad as sprint burst but still hurts hag in particular because she needs the instant teleport hit, if she waits it out she loses precious distance. Sprint burst is self explanatory. You teleport, your trap is gone, and the survivor is long gone too.

Circle of healing nullifies hags entire playstyle: Hag is hit and run. She gets the team injured and starts picking people off. Circle of healing makes it to where they can just run to the side of the map where you dont have traps and heal, undoing all of the time you put in for the injures. There are ways to play around this, you can do cheeky things like pre-trapping totems which has gotten me a few cute grabs, but nothing consistent. Time is money with hag and it hurts her a lot juggling set up, gen patrol, and snuffing out totems. If there's more than one in play, you're probably #########.

To add to my point, in a competitive setting like DBD league and the like, hag has the most stage bans and restrictions for what survivors can bring. A team running all sprint burst and flash lights, hag doesn't even hook anyone. This limits her build variety so much to the point where you have to bring corrupt intervention and franklins to stand a chance against any talented team.

Also, people severely overestimate hags skill cap. A lot of people say she's just "really hard" and takes time, she plays 4d chess, whatever. She has some versatility and creativity, sure, you can place your traps in clever places but the basic concept with hag is not rocket science. You set up a killzone next to a cluster of defendable generators if possible, trap up pallets, vaults, loops, and pathways going in and out of that killzone. Good luck doing that the red forest, decimated borgo, garden of joy, etc. though.

So what do we do? The biggest complaint from everyone is that hag camps or places traps in front of the hook. I can't tell you how many matches I've played where I placed one trap under the hook, thought in my head "Okay, time to go away and set up elsewhere" and before I can even leave the entire team 9/11's into my first hook, dies, and sends me hate mail after. Naturally, we make it to where she can't place traps within 8 or 9 meters of a hook. But that greatly diminishes her snowball potential. What should she get in exchange?

Hag first became arguably top 3 after the round of buffs that reduced trap setting time. In my opinion, the 25% trap speed add on should be basekit. But in addition to actually being able to set up, she needs something to help her in chase. I think a lesser version of mint rag should be base kit. Allow her to teleport to any trap regardless of if it's tripped or not within 8 or 9 meters. This will allow her to not only cut people off but potentially zone people back into her web. Traps should also have a greater penalty for being tripped. It should be much riskier than it is now. Survivors that know what they're doing there is essentially no risk at all. With demogorgon, survivors had at least some price to pay insofar as being oblivious. Hag having some kind of haste status upon teleporting would be a great qaulity of life update.

Opinions?