Genuinely don’t understand Dull merchant gamers.

That's weird, I play Skully and don't do any of that. 😉

But no, that's the nature of players being pigeon-holed into the "meta" playstyle for her. I personally like her for adding risks to staying in the same area, but man is it a case where playing nasty works (see Pyramid Heads torment/never caging)

Yes it is and i believe the general consensus is that aswell.

I had a few quitters when I started playing her, but got through that mmr-range fast. After that everyone plays normally.

There are quite a few who realized that they can defeat her outside of this forum too.

I do wonder if Behavior will do more with Skull Merchant since she wasn't on the road map. I personally don't think she is acceptable in her current state. Still by far the worst killer to play against. At this point I am in favor of just deleting her outright.

I - unfortunately - have to admit that this is true.. Still it doesn't mean that all of us have to hate her :)

"You don’t get any BP" That's a blatant lie- Bots will give you just about as much BP as normal players. Also it's just because a lot of survivors are still following that same trend of "it's not a basic M1 killer, go next" because they refuse to learn counters. It's been happening with most of the recent killers which is what I'm mainly hating with survivor mains at the moment because that's what makes the game boring imo because they just want all killers to be basic M1 only. It's why I like going against killers like Skull Merchant because you can't just default to the same monkey brain mode of running around a loop and trying to be as efficient as possible which brings in that sense of chaos and panic at times.

Also I just have to point out that her kill rates are the highest because they're still using data from pre-reworked Skull Merchant where it was basically a guaranteed 4k every match due to the 3-gen hostage strategy with her before her rework nerfed that strat heavily and the only reason the stats barely changed since then is due to how many of y'all fed her high kill rates post-rework making the "high kill rate" argument pretty much invalid at this point.

It appears you answered your own question with your very first sentence!

I don't play Skull Merchant but - as with many other players, both Killer and Survivor - winning is a large part of the enjoyment. It's also amusing from any Killer's point of view when someone has a hissy fit and disconnects or kills themselves on hook.

A lot of people on this forum are in the sweat lord mmr and it shows from their posts. I played SM plenty before Chucky dropped and only had one game where everyone dropped when they saw her. I just farmed all those bots for what they were worth, didn't ruin my game lol.

Have your infant and cat climb into the micro wave together and your spouse getting stuck trying to get them out. That adds another layer of urgency. I also "hate" the "I had something in the oven" situation. Can't let a perfectly good casserole go to waste but too bad, it seems I won't get to enjoy playing against this masterpiece of a killer. And nobody wants to eat a cold casserole, so I had no other choice but to eat it right then and there.

Also, that is kind of gracious, if you think about it. Your team mates get to enjoy all the more quality time with her after all, now that you are no longer there to hog it all to yourself. 😥

Tbf, why would we? After 2 botched reworks my good will regarding Slog Merchant is completely gone. I despise her. No, that's not strong enough. I abhor her and I have no reason to change my mind now. She still has the same problem that she had before from a killer's POV. She is pretty boring and has little depth in gameplay and from a survivor's POV they created a killer, that has pretty much no real counterplay. Don't mess up (not that you have a whole lot to mess up in the first place) and the survivor is screwed.

Well not merchant fault ur team foesnt know how to play agaisnt her.If the team doesnt activate drones you are a ghostface with less undetectable

Apart from being a terrible gameplay design that offers little room for skill expression or engaging/fun interactions on either side, the primary issue is that she still excels at 3-genning. People here pretend that has changed, but it just simply has not. Every Merchant I have faced since the rework has still been playing around a gen cluster from the get-go. The only difference being that where previously she could hold gens indefinitely and "win" by survivors eventually messing up, giving up or the match timer running out (hilarious that BHVR made it so survivors die at that point, by the way, encouraging "strategies" like this by suggesting the killer has won), now she wins by actually consistently downing and hooking survivors around those gens. Scan progress inevitably builds as survivors get chased off the gen cluster and have to contest gens and hooks in it, hacking drones does nothing because she can recall and reset them. Leading to a scenario where survivors will constantly be injured, Deep-Wounded, Broken, Hindered, while she will have Haste and Undetectable and tracking. It's a guaranteed win if the survivors are not on comms, and even then depending on the gen spread it can be nigh impossible to succeed against.

One tremendous improvement would be to make it so hacked drones cannot be recalled, as that way survivors could actually contest a gen cluster without inevitably dying to 10 status effects stacking. Merchant will still be obnoxious without excelling at 3-genning because she simply gets everything handed to her at the press of a button, but at least she would actually and actively have to chase people.