Nemesis has the lowest kill rate out of all the killers

The opposite was true in the past. The nightlight kill rates were lower than official kill rates the last time they released official stats. In fact I remember most people on here were surprised that the actual kill rates were over 60% at high MMR. I don't think they are trustworthy for that reason alone. It would be nice if they gave us some actual statistics.

^^This and then make the speed add-on allow the zombies to sprint in short bursts.

where do you get this info

That's true for stealth killers that destroy new and uncoordinated players, that's one reason why Wraith is always the recommended killer to start with. But the low level Nurses were also the ones that made her killrate bad, the same for other complex killers.

0 kills is the most common result according to that data, I don't think less experienced players that play Nemesis mostly M1 will improve these numbers.

There have been a lot of changes in the game since the last official data, it's not as easy as then.

Since we can't get any of his weapons that he uses in the game. I made this a suggestion a long time ago.

Nemesis gets a permanet 2% Haste affect in tier 2 and in tier 3 it'll increase to 3%. If Nemesis breaks 2 generators, pallets, or walls while in tier 3 he will have the ability to damage generators, break pallets and walls with a basic attack for a short duration.

Nemesis should gain a sprint ability every time he hooks a survivor. Make it as fast and as long as the blight serum from the Halloween event, but with much better turn control and the ability to attack during the sprint. A Nemesis who can't sprint simply isn't Nemesis

Nightlight's kill rates are taken exclusively from survivor-reported games. This means not only do you have a potential selection bias of the kind of data people generally like to submit (e. g. games in which they did well), but also of the kind of people that generally like to submit data (experienced players that would even know about a site like this and be interested in tracking stats). Basically, you have kill rates of randomly matchmaked killers against survivors that on average are on the more experienced side, and that would also be expected to play SWF more often and whatnot.

That said, Nemesis absolutely deserves buffs. He is not weak, if you're good at him you can win most of your matches (because most players aren't stellar and neither is the matchmaking), and the strafe tech actually makes his tentacle fairly oppressive, but it is true that against a group of equally skilled and experienced players, he can struggle. Between having to first infect survivors and acquire tier 2 before he starts being menacing, his early game is lackluster and fairly abusable by survivors pre-dropping pallets, regularly forcing him to break them with his hands. Zombie AI has been improved but it is still not ideal. Many of his add-ons are lackluster (at best), and even if the zombie AI improvements have collaterally made some of his add-ons more impactful, it's just boring that most of them pertain zombies, an entirely passive "ability" you have next to no influence on or let alone control over.

While his kit generally is underwhelming when compared to the kind of stuff Nemesis could have had and while there could be ideas for reworks that make his kit much more compelling, there's also plenty of ideas for simple adjustments that would already go a long way to make Nemesis stand out more. I think initially when they released Nemesis one of the reasons why they didn't do anything more complicated or powerful with him is that they expected a lot of new players to pick up the game because of the RE license, and they wanted those players to have a nice and simple enough time playing both as and against this iconic foe. But years have passed, the indeed many players that joined the game back then have either stopped playing or are perfectly experienced enough by now not to need that kind of hand-holding.

First of all, one great way to improve the zombie aspect of his kit would be to give him the ability to remote-control zombies. They could make it so that he can look at a zombie or zombie aura and initiate an interaction that allows him to point that zombie toward a gen or a survivor (in either case both a gen or survivor aura and just ones that are within his line of sight). This should be simple enough because all it does is manually overwrite whatever "alert" and "target" state the respective zombie might be in. But if that is actually too difficult to implement, at least give Nemesis the ability to remotely kill zombies (again an action that pops up when looking at them or their aura), which would already help with getting zombies out of dead areas or spots they have gotten stuck in. As well as the ability to then point toward a gen that the zombie will respawn as close as possible next to (i. e. at whatever hook is closest to it).

For his tentacle attack, there could at least be add-ons that affect things such as the range, the recovery time after attacking (successfully and/or unsuccessfully) or breaking a pallet, the movement speed while charging and holding the tentacle or after unleashing or cancelling it. If this is a tad oppressive, just make it scale with the mutation tiers, e. g. +1 meter tentacle reach for tier 2, +2 for tier 3. They could also make it so that his tentacle cannot be bodyblocked, meaning any survivor within its hitzone will be hit, even if there's multiple. Another idea is that the initial Contamination could incur no hit sprint, or at least buffing the Hindered effect on that Contamination (or at the very least buffing Licker Tongue a lot). Hell, being Contaminated could afflict a slight, continual Hindered effect, as well as other status effects, tied again to add-ons (Oblivious, Blindess, Exhausted, Mangled, Hemorrhage, ...).

His mutation tiers could do more. Particularly tier 3 should be more menacing, such as by having it increase his movement speed to 4.8m/s (4.7m/s at tier 2), his tentacle both infecting and injuring survivors simultaneously at that point, making it so pallets he gets stunned with break automatically, or other, similarly notable power-ups. Remove add-ons that make it too easy to tier up too fast, if need be.

A fair few of his add-ons need buffs. Just to take his painfully underwhelming Ultra Rares for an example: Iridescent Umbrella Badge almost never does anything because survivors are almost never anywhere near you when they vaccinate, and you then not only have to traverse the map to get to them, but also find and then manually chase them trying to get an M1. The amount of times this add-ons has gotten anyone downed in the history of the game even in the already awfully rare cases in which the killer even equips the add-on to begin with must be vanishingly low. Why not instead make it so that a survivor becomes Exposed when they become Contaminated? And the Shattered STARS Badge could instead increase zombie movement speed by 0.3m/s indefinitely, for every completed gen (1.5/ms in the endgame). It could also increase the attack reach of zombies.

These are just various simple ideas for straight-forward buffs. Obviously they shouldn't implement all of this, but it goes to show that even very low-effort changes could improve things a lot for Nemesis.

Nemesis, the 3-hit killer that cant get to final stage of his ability before the match is already over, yet Alien can thrust through pallets and windows similar to Nemesis but a lot faster and more efficiently. Also, the zombies are a complete joke.

Yes it is because it includes hook suicides which kills the whole team. This means kill rate in games where survivors don't give up is around 50%

That is not correct. They don't even count those you know, as a cover to hide how badly balanced the game is. The kill rates are probably closer to 80% if you count those.

that is the point. There’s an intentional 10% bias towards killer.

We had a whole thread about this like a week ago but I’m way too overwhelmed with uni work to go on a search.

As someone who played Nemesis a lot in the past, I would say that the Zombies dont really need much adjustments. But I also ignore the Zombies most of the time when I play Nemesis. They are a source for infection rate if needed, but nothing more. And I also think that there is a strong confirmation bias around the Zombies - if someone plays Nemesis the Zombies seem useless. If someone plays against Nemesis, it feels like there are 8 Zombies on the Map.

Regarding more Zombies - the Devs tried it back then and apparently it causes performance issues. Not sure if this would still be a thing (I would think that increasing the number to 3 Zombies would be fine), but it might be a reason against more Zombies.

IMO Nemesis needs an Add On-Overhaul (since most of them are not really good) and the small change that Zombies should not provide a Speedboost when infecting a Survivor (so when they hit a Survivor who is not infected). Because it should not be the case that a Survivor can get a Speedboost from a Zombie when a Nemesis is behind them who decided to not infect them.

Single use rocket launcher crate on a map. Insta down for all survivors in 6m area. Fixes everything. Or add zombie dogs / mr x addons.

People do have a tendency of giving up when they see her.

Please ignore the name...

Funny how most killrates get inflated because Survivors give up at first hook. Its like they can abuse this and try to get Killers they hate nerfed.

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Funnily enough, some people actually tried to do that.

It wasn't a coordinated conspiracy, of course, but it did happen.