lets discuss who is considered to be the weakest killer in the current meta?

Honestly, Im just going to say it, the Knight is not as bad as people make them out to be. The only "issue" the Knight has is that their power is boring to play with and against.

I have always stood by the idea that Dream Pallet Freddy and Sadako are the worst Killers in the game atm, mostly leaning towards DP Freddy, since their power is entirely countered by memorization (and soon to be Any Means Necessary since you can just drop all the DPs and reset any actual pallets with no consequence).

I think it's a pretty open and shut case, personally: Trapper.

No other killer has as much holding them back for as little reward as Trapper, in the current state of the game. Next up from him would probably be Clown, since both of his bottles mostly do the same thing and that thing is only "decent".

I've gone at length about why Trapper shouldn't start with his traps in other threads, but for brevity I'll try and do a TL;DR: The tactical juggling of traps and choosing where to set them ahead of time is an integral part of Trapper's identity that shouldn't be removed without extremely careful consideration, and simply giving him all his traps at the start of the game allows him to just brute force his way into a down and then set up around the hook without much thought. That's why the Trapper Sack has the downside that it does, to dissuade that tactic and let him use all his traps the way he's meant to in a risk/reward sort of way.

As for what would help him, a few things. Traps should spawn closer to him and towards the centre of the map so that he can pick them up easily and won't ever be in a position where he loses access to part of his power because it spawned in a far corner of the map, for starters, and after that I'd suggest that his traps should no longer be revealed by maps and should get either realm-appropriate camouflage or partial transparency to help future proof him against brighter and less grassy maps. Those are his biggest problems, and there are a few other small tweaks that'd help him sit in a better position. I saw someone suggest he should get to toss and arm traps like Freddy's snares, with a short delay before they set, and that'd honestly be a pretty cool change that helps him be more mobile. I definitely don't think his kit needs to be fully reworked, just tweaked.

its not easy fix for trapper because his issue is SWF disable traps. if you follow trapper around and stay 20-30 meter away from him. The trapper following you will lose the game because he is m1 killer and has little to no power in the chase but if the trapper ignores you, you can disable all his traps and he will become an m1 killer with no ability.

Trapper's strength is unpredictability but once you remove unpredictability. there is only predictability. there is a number of ways to go about fixing trapper's primary issue but all of them have some drawbacks.

Solution 1: Make trapper traps not time efficient for survivor to disable them.

• Increase the time it takes to disable traps from 3.5 to 30 seconds.

This change makes it unrewarding for survivors to disable traps because it is so time consuming that doing so is waste of time. This means trapper can put traps at pallets right in the open and it becomes win-win. If survivor disables trap, they waste a lot of time doing so. If they do not disable traps, a potencial powerful pallet is eliminated from the game. I think biggest issue behind this is that it strength's trapper ability to lock-down 3 generators and basement. I think this gameplay relatively boring.

Solution 2: Put Iri stone base-kit.

• Traps are automatically reset every 30 seconds.

Disabling trap is fast but becomes just as time consuming as increasing the disarm time. it has same issues where 3 gen lock-down and basement are stronger leading to stale gameplay.

Solution 3: Make trappers traps transparent and add minimum viewing distance(e.g you must be within 6 meters of a trap to see the trap on the floor). Combine this change with the ability for Trapper to throw his traps similar to placing freddy's snare pools.

I think this would best change for him because he could do something i like refer to as dead-angle trapping. Dead-angle trapping is when the trapper puts a trap out in the open at a sharp corner and the survivor when being chased takes sharp corner and walks into a trap. this works because even though trap is perfectly visible out in the open, survivor when looping a specific direction such as clock-wise need to bend their camera FOV to see traps behind sharp corners. Most survivor player do not that because its irregular to do that especially in the chase. you usually place your FOV on survivor in front of you or behind you as survivor. Never to the side. As a result, 99% of survivors will just take sharp corner while looping trapper and directly walk into his trap. this would allow him to have increased flexibility in placing traps out in the open freed from requirement of placing grass positions but they could still potentially be disabled if someone sees you throw the trap. At very least though, it would be harder to spot traps and trapper could use LOS in key moments to make it tricky to figure out where the trap was placed.

If your out in the open in a stray pallet, the trapper being able to throw his traps means that he can zone survivors by pushing them away from pallet/window, kinda like mini-hex blood favor/bamboozle. This is similar to how Artist can put birds at loops and people can run away or Knight ability to throw guards. its not amazing anti-loop nor is it time efficient but at least its better than trapper power being so slow at placing traps that power is nearly unusable in the chase.

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If including all add-on and all perks. I think freddy is worst killer overall because nothing he does is better than other killers. Staying out of dream world is m1 killer. Gen TP can be outclassed by other mobility killers options. Anti-loop can be counter by pre-drop pallets given that his snares placement slows him down to 100% negating the purpose of the hindered. Has zero good add-on to elevate him.

Trapper. The sheer time investment required just to use his power is enough to cost him multiple gens at the start of the match, and these are traps that can be spotted very easily, and neutralized quickly and painlessly by the survivors if spotted before a chase has started.

Killers like Freddy have pitifully weak powers, but Trapper's power is so weak and time-consuming that in some matches, it can make you question if it was worth using at all.

Trapper mains are a rare breed. The most famous one I know of (Otz) has actually said Trapper is no longer his favorite, saying it's near-impossible to properly hide a trap on most maps.

There's so many killers in the game now that I find it imposible to keep track of what the current consensus is on tiers anymore. But AFAIK Pig is still pretty awful. Trapper and Sadako are other common picks but Trapper has asnowball/sudden comeback potential and Sadako has a similar slowdown mechanic except hers is passive and she also has teleporting... so still probably Pig.

It's going to be the skull merchant. No Anti-Loop, passive pressure and map traversal. Just a big oops by BHVR

its because those type add-on's promote lock-down play-styles that survivors dislike playing against. trapper's power promotes 3 gen lockdowns, basement lock downs, zoning and stealth trapping. I am willing to bet that all those play-styles are dislike by survivor player-base. This is evidently shown by other killers that exhibit similar traits. for example artist and knight are able to place traps at loops quickly and many people dislike playing vs this because it promotes hold-w gameplay. This is evidence of dislike zoning gameplay. Trapper would be like this if his trap setting speed was not extremely slow to the point of irrelevancy.

The reason why certain killer are weak is because survivor dislike playing vs some killer play-styles. for a killer that has simple power, trapper is a lot more tricky to improve without being obnoxious to go against. I think his niche play-style is suppose to be based around setting stealth traps and survivor walking into them but its kinda weak play-style that is really easy to counter in swf and is possible to counter in soloq but most survivor do not bother to do so. this makes trapper a lot stronger then what people give him credit for. I believe certain streamers such as Tru3 dislike the whole premise of stealth-trapping gameplay. I am not exactly sure why. Perhaps its because getting hit by a trap that you cannot see invalidates your looping skill or perhaps the trapping sound is displeasure feeling? No clue.