Is tunneling a weak strategy?

They were just salty, streamers will literally say anything when they lose. Last week I played against this SWF that was streaming and they were complaining about how singularity has no counters lol.

Getting one person out ASAP is very common in comp because 3v1 is so much weaker than 4v1 it's only a bad strat if you're not managing gens simultaneously and the rest of the team is acknowledging the person is probably dying and they just rush gens over saving them cuz that can often result in a 1k but most pub teams arn't smart enough to do that even SWFs.

It depends.

If you know that survivor won't last very long in chase it's probably the best thing you can do from an optimal gameplay point of view. But you must know when to do it and how to do it, otherwise you will have gens flying left and right, remember that there may be 2 or even 3 survivors working on generators while you are focusing on a single survivor.

Lol tunneling works. People just get salty about it which I do understand, particularly streamers, makes for good content which gets them engagement.

Had a streamer cussing me out on stream for tunneling a yui, after they uhooked her in my terror radius and then yui proceeded to crouch in a very sparse bush right next to hook 🤣

I have mixed feelings about tunneling. It's very effective if you can kill a surv before they've finished 2-3 gens, it can blow up in your face though if you try to tunnel a good chase runner.

On the survivor side it is mad frustrating when you get hard tunneled, particularly early game because you don't get chance to do anything. I hate it as survivor because I'm not great at chase.

Personally when I play killer I tend to gear my approach towards how the survivors are doing. If I'm clearly winning I dial back a notch and play around a bit more, everyone gets more bp. If survs are gen rushing and i struggle to catch one or two of them I will defo tunnel them out.

No one is saying you should lose, but tunneling out early is kinda harsh and a bit of a lazy tactic, tunneling is boring and kind of too easy. I will often deliberately chase an unhooker or initiate a new chase with someone who has no hook states rather than one who is injured and freshly unhooked. Hell sometimes I'll down someone with 2 hook states and just leave em slugged, not to be toxic and camp but to give them a bit more game time and it forces someone to heal them, bit more pressure.

It's not a weak strategy it's just unfun to play against but if survivor fun doesn't matter to you do whatever you want.

Well, that interaction isn't a lot to go on - but I don't really think that remark was meant to say tunneling is a weak strategy. If done right it's - for now - the most efficient one there is. (Wil have to see if the self unhooking mechanic will change something about securing second stage / kill)

People who've been around for a long time/accumulated a lot of hours and experience tend to agree though that the most efficient DBD is also the most boring DBD. There's also that phrase "the dbd community has a knack for optimising the fun out of the game" --- which holds true for at least a good chunk of the playerbase.

Giving the benefit of the doubt I suppose that was what they were getting at. Especially if there was no salt being openly thrown around.

I look at DBD like a game of four player Smash. I could target the dude who has one stock whilst everyone else still has three, but that would put the guy out of the match whilst everyone else gets to keep playing. Doing that just feels... anti-social to me. There are times where it may be necessary to tunnel to get a win, but I personally don't care enough about winning to do it. Fun is always more important.

It all depends on the context, while it's true that removing a survivor from the match asap is always ideal it really depends on the time invested on that survivor, if they are good and capable of looping you for extended periods of time between each tunnel attempt and the rest of the team is splitting gens efficiently then it's a poor strategy, if you're tunneling some shitter that can't loop at all then they're probably going back to the lobby.

That being said being tunneled as a survivor is probably one of the worst experiences in the game as it is frequently abused in toxic manners, one of the most common occurrences of this is in solo que lobbies simply due to the ease of tunneling players not on comms together and of course for the fact that solo que players are simply less skilled most of the time. Tunneling bad survivors is simply too effective so why wouldn't most killers do it? The problem then becomes a poor experience for those survivors who often don't continue playing the game as the time required to learn how to run every loop to gain the most minimal advantage to make it to the next loop without getting a hook state.

Even in high level play tunneling is a popular strategy and this makes it a common enough strategy to make it sometimes difficult to tell where you cross the line, I would say that in many solo que matches and just random ranked play it's more often to see it being abused as there's simply less the survivors can do to counter it, in SWF's at higher ranks they have many more opportunities to fight back but even then tunneling is still used in tournaments despite the best teams going against each other. Suffice to say it's never going to be regularly "enjoyed," by people on the receiving end of it so getting lash back from survivors should always be "expected."

Weak? Lol is the most broken strategy a killer can take , GGEZ

If tunneling was weak, people wouldn't be complaining about killers tunneling them out of the game.