Will Sable be able to dethrone Feng as the most popular survivor?

Dunno. I feel like I see less and less Fengs as time goes by tbh. I think Sable will be extremely popular and will have alot of new cosmetics for the next 12 months or so.

I believe we are going to have at least 3 sable per lobby in the release month. My friends are eager to play as her.

I used to hate Fengs because they were usually the most toxic to go against. Then they came out with the Bunny cosmetics and they somehow became the most wholesome cutie pies that made me want to let them all live.

Even as survivor, I found the Bunny Fengs would usually go out of their way to help someone. They softened my heart and I no longer hate them.

Mikaela is now the object of my hate along with Nancy. Ohhh how I hate Nancy mains.

I don't think that is possible.

hatsune miku herself could join dbd and feng would still be #1.

Nah. She will be very popular and undoubtly amass both: a big, loyal fanbase and lots, lots of cosmetics. But Feng is too well connected to the game and too long a thing. Sable is awesome, but she won't be hitting everyones buttons and is not the be all, ultimate form of all cute survivor girls,

You can play as wholesome as you like, but know that every injured cry of pain, every excruciatingly sarcastic "oooh oooh ooooooh" is communicating "oh dear mister killer, seems you missed your attack, would be a shame if this pallet were to hit you in the face, again" (cue her three plastic teammates standing nearby sniggering).

Feng to her SWF mates out of earshot: "omg they totally just believed that I love them, can you like even believe how pathetic they are, like totally."

Fengs might buy the most cosmetics, but are we even sure Feng is the most popular Survivor?

I swear I see more Claudettes, Megs and Dwights in my games than Fengs. As much as I'd love to hear less of Feng's injured moaning in my future trials, I'm not that lucky... She's not going anywhere.

Her lore is pretty bad, a lot of it comes off as trying too hard, way too hard. It's almost wraps around to endearing.

People often act like it's some sort of big factor, but does anyone actually weigh perks heavily when choosing a survivor? Or a killer for that matter? I'm looking at this from the perspective of someone who picks up everything anyway, but I think what perks a character comes is this pretty close to a non-factor, since almost everyone is just going slap a bunch of pre-existing perks on them anyway. Especially survs, who are essentially just skins of each other.

It's not like she's licensed and will cost actual money. Most people with a spare 9K shards are gong to pick her up.

And no one will ever dethrone Feng simply because so many people already have a metric ton of cosmetics for her. But I'd bet Sable is going to be the most popular new surv in years, and will having some staying power. And I'd be stunned if BHVR doesn't immediately start loading her up with cosmetics; she's going to be a great vehicle for selling them.

Depends who you ask..me? I don't purchase any survivor just based on looks or visual. If they got good or interesting perks, then I start to consider it.

As for killer, different cause they have a unique power to them. Like I love Blight's kit of being a bouncing wrecking ball, so I got him for that alone. I mean 9k shards is 9k shards I could use on something else like a cool cosmetic. I don't need a big library of survivors w/ bad perks. I'm not obtaining survivors just to...have a bunch of survivors to pick from. Most people have 1-3 survivors that they cycle through anyways. I'll obtain survivors only if 1) perks are decent or I see myself using them 2) they are appealing both in visuals and audio (like grunts of pain or how loud they are, how the character is animated, etc).

I think Sable will see some popularity in the beginning & then fall off like all the others, IMO.

Not to mention Feng has better teachables for newer players. So newer players might be drawn to her over Sable.

I think Sable's the next Yun-Jin. She'll be popular at first because she has a unique look and nice default skin, but her cosmetic catalogue will never catch up to Feng.

I hadn't read her lore yet. It's... something lol so did she voluntarily follow Mikaela into the fog?

Yep. She went looking for Mikaela, found the Entity still chillin' there and decided to go in. The trailer is when she goes into the fog as well. Which is why I honestly don't like the trailer that much because the Unknown doesn't appear nor does it have anything to do with the trailer.

Her tome should be the next one and I can't wait to see it! It's going to be so hilariously bad haha. I hope it also makes her not feel as forced into Mikaela's backstory. Mikaela's lore focuses on her and her best friend, Julian. And then Sable just comes in like 'Hey I was here the entire time too! My parents don't love me!"

does she? self-healing yourself is one of best tools for a new player to acquire. I am pretty sure that strength of the shadow is going to be a popular perk. It might be a meta perk with like 10% pick-rate. that is my prediction. i am hoping the perk doesn't get nerfed but i would not be surprised if the perk ends up being weakened to 35% healing speed like current self-care in 1 year or 2 year time.

i don't think the condition matters because strength of self-healing is the fact other survivor don't need to walk to you to heal you.

I'm sorry, but this is no contest. The base kit character that everyone has and has a hundred different outfits isn't getting dethroned by any upstarts.