Who is your favourite Killer and why?

Nurse because the idea to link her power to the precise timing of a button is pure genius.

I will forever love Nemesis.

I was first introduced to him through Marvel vs Capcom 3 and through that, got to experience the larger Resident Evil franchise that I now hold so dearly. His power is clunky and there is no option to play as Classic Nemesis but I will always love him despite his faults. This is a joke suggestion but I wish he had an addon to give him crimson heads.

For a licensed killer, The Executioner is my favourite. Alongside being from my favourite gaming series, he has a strong power which has counterplay, yet still devastating. His mechanics involving the trails and cages adds for a bit more strategy and I do like how he can be a menace to face with an eeiry presence. He desperately needs some better, more diverse add-ons to make him more appealing to players who may otherwise be happier playing the likes of Nemesis or Wesker. I reckon he'll be seen more often if his add-ons are improved.

For an original, it is The Oni for me. He has a fun and extremely devastating power that the killer has to earn to begin with, which I felt was a novel mechanic that should be explored again. His add-ons are decent, he has a scary presence that - like The Executioner - can be heard across the map. He's a strong killer which again has counterplay but also is powerful.

Six other killers I like that are worth mentioning as ones I enjoy are: The Onryō, The Hillbilly, The Dredge, The Trapper, The Deathslinger and The Singularity. I haven't played The Alien yet, but that will likely replace one of the above later.

Wesker.

I love to play as and against him, he has a high skill ceiling, good addons and is a lot of fun too.

He was also the first killer I mained after Freddy got nerfed so hard I gave up on him. No other killer could really satisfy my playstyle till Wesker came.

Having a hard time picking an absolute favourite. I’m kind of a Jack-Of-Most-Trades when it comes to killers.

Gameplay-wise, Slinger, when he works, is some of the best killer gameplay I’ve ever had. Given that he was also my first experience with ADS’ing, I’ve also come quite a ways with him.

Sadako was my favourite until very recently. I have a tendency to gravitate towards lesser-played characters (although not the very least picked.) To me, it was her combination of efficacy through on-the-fly teleports, and the fact people consistently kinda underestimated how good a non-slugging Sadako could be. But now that she’s been updated I can’t consistently teleport away from a bad chase anymore, meaning more downtime that I often can’t really afford. Also Slugdako’s have soured her character.

As for theming, predictably I have to say Artist. She is birb lady, and I like birbs. The fantasy of controlling an army of crows seems really fun, and when she just came out I had a great time with her. But now that players have adapted to her I’m struggling to make sense of her playstyle.

Nurse; she's the only killer that I feel is truly based on my skills as a player, other killers get ruined by RNG/map design/perks/add-ons/etc but If I lose as Nurse then I know I was just simply outplayed whereas losing as Trapper is usually cause the maps are not in his favor/meta perks/and not due to my skill as trapper.

Nemesis. His music alone just makes me feel like a big, hulking, badass, even if things aren't going well. XD

Ghostface, there's something great about 99'ing survivors during Corrupt Intervention, a great way to have an upper hand in early game, it's enjoyable and I hope to keep learning how to play with him.

I recently prestiged her because I wanted her perks. Wound up thoroughly enjoying her while doing so. (Same with Freddy, The Doctor, Pyramid Head...)

I found that her strong suit is 3-gen camping at the end. You "wink-wink-nudge-nudge" make sure the last 3 gens are close together, then you constantly send crows to them and chase people off of them and slowly win through attrition. The crows scare them off of a gen quicker because they think you're coming for them.

My best games as her were on Raccoon City PD. Survivors will try to aggressively do the gens in the center room because they don't want to be forced to do them later, so you aggressively keep them off of those gens, and make sure those two and a nearby one are the last three.

Nemo. I throw matches for the triple tap. Works once in a blue moon but when it does it's glorious. I also hate getting stopped by pallets.

The Knight.

Before you get out your pitchforks and torches, let me speak out about my disastrous opinions.

I like this killer, the atmosphere, the music, and the dark fantasy.

This killer is certainly not super good, although once mastered 100%, he can become really good.

Yes, this killer is painful to face, with "another killer who will soon be reworked" he is the one who benefits the most from the slowdown mechanic, it is a horror a loop, "Hold W or Give Up".

These addons are... meh, really not crazy. But, damn, this killer is quite pleasant to face, not really bad maps, he even does very well on The Game map.

Simply, we are reduced to simple gameplay, and to innovate we have to add lots of little things ourselves that are almost useless.

I love Oni. He is big and his cosmetics are great. The sound he makes when he gets his power is sooo scary!

I don't play killer tho, but I love to go against Oni, because of jumpscare from nowhere.

DEMOGORGON

Demo is the reason I tried out dbd in the first place. The idea of playing as a supernatural creature and hunting down survivors really appealed.

A year after starting he is still hands down my killer main. One of the most well balanced killers in the game imo. Requires skill tonuse well and can really sing. Love running jumpscare builds with him, nothing quite like launching yourself out of the bushes to shred an unsuspecting surv 🤣

I just wish he'd come back soni could buy cosmetics for him

It's Spirit, Rin Yamaoka, in my case.

I've been playing her ever since her release, during her peek days of truly oppressive and very unique power that has made me consider maining her. Back then I have barely even played the game, so she was the first killer whom I have tried out and been satisfied with after a few matches, making me creating a certain bias towards her and maining her.

After a while, I have read her lore.. And, I can sort of relate to that. Not completely full of accidents and misfortune, but a huge part of it covers it. It'd sound silly, but I feel like I have felt some connection because of that, so no matter which killer got released and Rin got nerfed, I've still stayed loyal towards her and bothered playing with her.

However.. Xeno just got into the game, so I might change my main and start mastering curving the tail with Xenomorph, giving me an edge in every single chase I enter, infinite chasing power.. I don't care that much about the lore in game of this beast, the movies were good enough to cover that.. Right?

The Dredge.

I started playing for Leatherface and loved the game because of the movie tie-ins. Never that interested in original killers until Dredge. Played them a lot, for fun, but I was here to play horror movie.

Love his power, love his looks, love the idea of the "monster that might be in your closet". I'm drawn to characters that are grim and mature, but Dredge makes me think back to being a kid, seeing a shadow outside and being sure it was a monster. It's so simple, innocent and primal.

Also Dredge is scary, powerful and fun. Also kinda gross, bonus.

Until Dredge, I was here to play killers I was a fan of, but now I'm a fan of an in-house creation, opened my eyes to the others. Thanks to Dredge, I'm now a fan of DBD's Lore. We actually need a little more Dredge lore, btw.

Pig. I like the stealth, though slow, it's a free hit or yoink usually with Lethal. Plus I love the Saw movies and Amanda was my favorite disciple of Jigsaw. Her Ambush is primarily used to get pallet huggers and zoning to a different location.

Wesker. Another HUGE RE fan and Wesker has always been the enigmatic antagonist I craved more of to see in every game he appeared in. Highly intelligent, highly clever, highly mobile, etc. He's not op, he's actually fun to play and against. The theme is even epic. Wesker is THE man with the master plan.

Trapper. As character I love that he still has original terror radius/chase music and hope he keeps it - I really I'm not a fan of majority of the unique music and wish there was option to have original instead. He's had some pretty good cosmetics. He has a great grunt when pallet stunned, perfect annoyed what just happened grunt.

I love seeing what random places I can set his traps to catch survivors. I wish maps would have more ground cover for this but since realm beyond began there's been less and less and maps have become brighter which is a huge bummer as a Trapper fan. I know alot hated old Haddonfield map but it was one of my favorites to play Trapper on - all that grass and tight spots where survivors couldn't avoid the traps, it was great.

Whenever I hear the snap of a trap from catching a survivor it always makes me smile, even when I'm playing survivor against Trapper. There's just something so satisfying about that snap sound.

I've had plenty of matches where I just end out laughing at some survivors getting caught in traps I've placed - same survivor stepping in traps I've placed back to back, matches where I place a single random trap and every survivor manages to step in it, one survivor stepping in same randomly placed trap multiple times throughout the match while sneaking around the map, etc. I probably laugh the most playing Trapper.

He's the only killer in the game that in next match after playing against him I am still paranoid about his power - I'll still be looking for traps for sometime even when I know it's not Trapper. 😂 I also tend to not feel bad after losing to a Trapper because either they are really good or I messed up - there's no "how did that trap catch me?" because of latency or what feels like a funky hit box.

He's one that survivors underestimate and will become cocky against but he can quickly have the match snowball in his direction from some well placed traps. I've had too many matches as survivor where I see my teammates get cocky and then just snowball after stepping in a single trap.

I caught 3 survivors at once from 3 randomly placed traps around the map, was quick end to what probably would've been a 2/3E became 4k. The multiple snaps/screams was great. Nothing will ever top that for me.

I’m with you on his laugh. It sounds so spiteful huh? “HEH HEH HEH HEH!”

And his summer BBQ was definitely a treat.

Any killer with high mobility. With how fast gens fly these days, plus the size and hinderance of some maps (Shattered Square as an example of size, Gideon as an example of hinderance), plus the number of chase extending options survivors have, if you don't have mobility you're already losing a gen as soon as you spawn in and start looking for survivors.

It's awful playing some killers like Trapper and Hag, where you have to spend time with setup on top of mobility issues (if no one trips a Hag trap or erases it, you're walking). Particularly Trapper. Poor guy actually has to go around and pick up his power, then set it up, then look for survivors. At least two gens gone at that point.

Ghostface, because the film series is fun, and you csn have some thematically silly fun with the survivors. Also, stealth and jumpscare killers are just overall more fun and interesting.

Knight useful powers without the awful we made the killer too good so we will make controlling them awful rather than balancing the game. Worst idea ever. Oni is so cool looking and a great killer but when you use the power the controls are so terrible unless you are on PC with a special mouse. This idea make it hard to control is why so many players quit