Killers who actually has to chase and those who don't

Actually has to chase mean they don't have a good power end it fast.

true trapper trap do work for him set them right don't get the list either was guessing.

I list all the killers that I like and that I dislike and give a made up inconsistent criteria to argue why I like them or not. At leat be consistent man saying knight has to chase while spouting that the most heavy chase killers like blight and wesker dont chase is ignorant at best and dishonest at worst.

A killer that doesn't chase, won't get any downs. The only other way to win is to hold a 3 gen for 60 minutes, which has become less reliable.

Hag may be an exception because her chases are a bit different.

But really, what do you mean by 'chase'? Chase means running after survivor to get a hit / down. If the killer has a power to get that hit or down easier, then it's still a chase.

Huntress' hitboxes aren't broken. Seriously play her. If you understand how hitboxes and latency work, you see that her hitboxes are very much fine.

Nurse can't win, if she doesn't chase. It's just that her chase power is ridiculously strong.

Clown has a very oppressive chase power but that is only normal for a killer without mobility.

Spirit does have counterplay but you need to play with headphones and also be very on point.

I have yet to see a Blight that can win without chasing. His chase power is very strong but that doesn't change the fact that he still needs to chase.

Wesker still needs to chase you. If he doesn't, then what's the point of his power?

Slog Merchant arguable doesn't need to chase because she could hold a 3gen.

You could try to do the same with Knight but that is only going to work against pretty bad survivors.

If you put hag as not having to chase then trapper needs to be in the same boat

This is such a weird list.

What do you want to point out? Killers you like and killers you dislike?

Almost all killers have to chase you. Not chasing = not hitting for most of the roster. Exceptions are Hag and..... Chess merchant that just wants to play a one hour trial.

The word "actually" can have so much meaning. Your example above says: blight chases but does not "actually" chase. Like how are we suppose to know in your head what "actually" means and what the point of your post even is for? You talked about chase then proceeded to call out killers with powers that are only meant for chase like nurse, blight and wesker as if they don't have to chase? They are strong killers but their powers are literally only meant to chase survivors.

Yet trapper who is a weak killer with 0 chase power without any pre laid traps, you say he does even though you could have a trap in some grass that a guy just does not notice and steps into and you pick him out of it for free with 0 chase even happening, like what?

I do not agree with trapper actually needing to chase, his power is designed to literally prevent that from happening.

I agree about wraith and Hillbilly, although Hillbilly has the chase cut out for him given his superior ability as it poses a greater threat to survivors when compared to a stealthy-ish killer without the base ability of downing a survivor with one hit. Also, wraith wouldn’t need to chase if he weren’t this odd speed/stealth hybrid killer that’s gargling his own saliva 24/7, i.e. he gives away his location quite easily.

Nurse is iconic and she’s just above and beyond. If any “veteran” dbd player dares to refer to themselves as such without having paid homage to the Queen of Queens and Lady of Ladies by mastering her on a console controller then they can go ahead and continue to play pretend. Only being half serious about this btw. Oh, and yeah she doesn’t really need to chase at all.

A killer with the range that huntress enjoys does not really need to chase, she can hit a survivor from a good distance and one hit is all it takes to reduce a survivor from one health state to the other. I think that killers with a more limited range like deathslinger would need to chase because of said limitation, and trickster as well, he needs to hit survivors too many times just to bring them down from one health state, so he needs to chase.

All the killers mentioned right before ghosts face need to chase I think, Hag being one exception as her power is trap based, and pig being another exception as she can stealth around and hit survivors from a distance with that portion of her ability where she can zoom fast as she growls. Ghost face himself doesn’t really need to chase, he can hide and use his ability to catch survivors off guard. There are many instances of this happening in game.

I just read the reasons that you have for blight and I would say that as strong as his ability is, it still amounts to a chase.

I think that most killers that don’t have a strong range, stealth or trap ability would need to chase.

You know, I just read the other comments and it looks like people can’t agree on the definition of the word chase. So everything that’s been said thus far has been thrown out the window now. With the exception of what I said about nurse, that’s dbd gospel, a part of our constitution in fact.

I agree with the other posters in that some of the interactions between killers and survivors are too complicated to simply have x killer be defined as a killer that needs or does not need to chase. For example, the onryo coming out of her tv and getting a hit on a survivor before the chase prompt initiates and the chase music commences.

For the sake of simplicity, I think that we should define chase as being a killer which can reduce one survivor health state without triggering the chase prompt; the chase officially starts the moment the dramatic chase music starts. Please ignore everything I said about the killers thus far, none of that matters anymore, with the exception of Nurse, she’s a Queen. The Immortal Empress Goddess Queen Princess Queen Queen Sally Smithson.

Also, I am not sure how good of a definition of the word chase there can be other than to base the definition on the mechanics of the game, that way we don’t lose ourselves with odd moments, or have to mental gymnastics our way around a killer’s power. It is not a good foundation to base our definition of the word chase given how clunky that mechanic in itself is, but it’s the best thing that we have other than to have some dev release a statement or something.

Clown is the definition of a chaser. He has nothing else. Same with Bubba.

Some takes are just out there. Not every killer someone dislikes is therefore unhealthy or badly designed. Some are stronger in chase, some are worse. Thats fine up until a certain red line, that should not be crossed.

As i said before, basicly EVERY killer has to chase a survivor for a hit or a down. The only exceptions are maybe Hag and a survivor that just stands still being afk. Its always: survivor runs, killer chases, killer catches up, killer gets stunned or killer gets hit.

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