Remove the Oni's mid-sprint kill ability from the game. Forever.

Well think about it like this:

Oni is this middle area between Blight and Billy.

• Blight is extremely fast and lethal, their ability leaves a lot of room for mistakes and errors, but also only takes a single health state. Their ability can be used for most of the match, accessed from the beginning.
• Billy is extremely fast and lethal, their ability punishes making mistakes and errors, but also only takes two health states as a result. Their ability can be used for most of the match, accessed from the beginning.
• Oni is extremely fast and lethal, their ability laves a lot of room for mistakes and errors, their ability can take two health states. The downside to this is that their power has to be earned, does not have access from the beginning. Limited duration.

Oni is basically Billy and Blight smashed together into a single Killer (Oni even has the whole "bad addon" thing from Billy, go figure). Mechanically, it is a mix between the two Killers... you charge your ability and gain limited turning (Billy), but are able to slide around objects and flick the end of your power around tight corners (Blight) to get an insta-down (Billy).

The main drawback to their power is that it can be denied the entire match, Oni has an incredibly weak early game as a compromise for high snowball potential. In the competitive scene, it is common to see many Oni players run Play With Your Food AND Corrupt Intervention because it is the only way they are physically able to get their ability, and it often heavily relies on finding the Obsession which often hide because of how common those two perks are to see in competitive when facing Oni.

Well. As a survivor main that actually mained Oni for a short time when playing killer... This one is absolutely fine.

• Good squad can deny his power for a long time (absolutely not the whole match as stated above - those are not public matches and I consider competitive just an outlier for core game) - until 2-3 gens actually pop.
• There are loops that are perfect negation to him. It can't be too short, but it can't be too long. Perfect example for this one is map Ironworks of Misery and next to main loop long-ish crates with single pallet. No Oni can actually use his demon strike on that one and get the survivor (if the survivor is not outright throwing)
• there are a LOT of opportunities for mind games (also this is one of the reasons I hate the idea of higher FoV/FoV slider for killers) - a good survivor will abuse your expectation of what he will do and hide behind a barrel (basically on a plain sight) or run out from behind a corner just as you are entering it - perfectly abusable on jungle gyms (and others conditionally too - for example I have seen a lot of LT's that allowed it, but also a lot of LT's that are easy for Oni)
• Some filler pallets (they are not created equal - other fillers are death sentence) are very strong against his dash as it gives a lot of opportunities to dodge him + just move around as you recover

Overall his ability is one of the strongest in the game. But it's also very limited (in this regards same as plague). But even if it's strong, it still allows counterplay and mind games. This feels healthy to me. I see no reason why this should be changed. There are other things that are just pure unfair in the game (C33, tombstone piece, MDR, BNP's ...). Oni's ability 100% does not belong to that list.

Also - I presume you haven't played like too many games with the killer. Wait some time until your MMR adjusts and try to play at prime time where best survivors actually play (say at 8pm on Friday). You will be humbled very soon and very quickly (the only other alternative is, that you are insanely cracked at the killer - but that does not seem likely as I am sure you would know about demon strike in dash).

Pretty positive the vast majority of the community likes Oni a lot, including survivor players. He is one of the most balanced killers in the game if you ask me. And while his demon dash is very strong, it certainly has counterplay.

I am positive he won't be seeing any balance changes any time soon.

Yeah but the claim of "I didn;t know he could smash mid dash and I did just fine" holds no proof right now. You can claim that but until I know the skill of the survivors you faced via video then I can make a good opinion.

tbf, people had an issue with Billy's charge addons. People really only wanted the charge addons changed.

Oni also had a similiar addon that halved the charge time for his dash and the devs at least only nerfed it.

Negative, ghost rider. I'm leaning about 90% of the way to saying this is troll bait since it's funny watching people flounder at the sight of really dumb takes. But since I do know for a fact people like this can exist I'll give a serious reply. Oni offers plenty of counter play to both sides. Survivors can get strong loops to outplay demon dash while good Oni mains can learn angles and flicks to also get survivors when they don't expect it.

He's an M1 killer with a slow start up and timed patches of power spikes where he can put down both chase and map pressure. A much more well designed version of Myers honestly.

And if this is a real post I'm having trouble taking your opinion seriously because A: You aren't even capable of properly reading ability descriptions that clearly explain how the ability works, thus revealing to you that you had insta downs all along. And B: You're playing against survivors that you can still 3 and 4k while basically using half of Oni's kit.

I'm gonna take a bit of a presumptuous guess here and say if I went against those same survivors as a perkless and powerless M1 killer the results would be about the same.