Skull Merchant and unavoidable hits.

But the same thing goes for every other killer. It isn't exclusive to SM.

I don't know if it's been covered in here yet, but I wanted to just stop by and say (since I've seen a lot of debate in this thread about why crouching matters).

If you pay attention to a drone, and the color of its scanners you'll notice one of two things.

1. When standing, the drone while in its FOV is emitting yellow/orangeish scanners. That means it can see you. It's true that even if it can see you, walking or standing protects you, but the second you sprint in the counter direction of the scan the drone will mark you with 1/3 of the scans necessary to take a health state.
2. When crouching, the drone while in its FOV is emitting white/clearish scanners. This is an indication to the Skull Merchant that a survivor is IN the FOV of the drone (if they're paying attention), however while the scanners are white it CANNOT scan you, and does not see you. This change was implemented to allow survivors to do generators while inside of the drone FOV without adding charges to your 3 scans.

I hope that helps! ^^

No need for the harsh response, mate.

But either way, the video shows a play made around a dangerous pallet. If the killer was Huntress or Deathslinger, the outcome would most likely be the same.

Getting a hit on that scenario isn't something that only Skull Merchant can do.

But I have not used it to dismiss your post, or anyone else's posts on this thread.

It is a fact that a "hate train" against Skull Merchant exists, because of her problematic release. The same thing happened with Legion years ago. And because of that, a scenario where multiple killers would have gotten a hit gets far more attention, simply because the killer is Skull Merchant.

The assumption that I haven't even watched the video is also wrong. I watched it then gave my opinion about it. It is the whole point of this thread, is it not? I am just participating in the discussion you've proposed, so I don't think a harsh response was warranted.

I only have 42 comments talking about Skull Merchant, 43 after this one is posted. None of them ever dismisses someone else's opinion as a hate train, nor have I ever accused anyone of being part of said train.

Same as you, I acknowledge that it does exist. And I do believe it will dissipate with time, because this is being based on the experience we've had with Legion, but the proper feedback will remain. There are no dismissals on my comments, there never have been.

If there are any dismissals in this discussion, here it is. I can record my screen with the video playing in its entirety if you want me to.

The fact that the tile is unsafe matters because it means different killers could have gotten a hit there. The Skull Merchant eats the stun, but the drone gets Meg. A Huntress, for instance, could have respected the pallet and get Meg while she was locked in the animation. Deathslinger would have just shot her at the spot.

Meg had already been scanned twice, and we don't know how those scans happened.

That doesn't mean the killer is perfectly fine as she is, or that she has no need for changes, I just think this video in particular has other aspects that need to be taken into consideration when used as an argument.

Ok. A passive power that requires little to no input from the player and damages the opponent. It could be a beam, a banana peel, a bowl of ice cream, or anything really. Point being, it requires literally no skilled input from the killer to benefit.

Well, that's not true. You need to know positioning, timing, and even a little bit of aim.

I think people kind of get duped into thinking Skull Merchant's drones require no kind of skill because they keep seeing survivors who stalwartly refuse to counter them, and any power looks kind of skill-less if the opponent is just running into it over and over. If you're going against survivors who put literally any effort into avoiding beams - and please note I'm not invoking the mythical "good survivor" here, this doesn't take much skill on the survivor side either - it becomes a lot harder to benefit from the drones in an actually passive way.

You have to start, y'know, actively using them. Picking the right spots, chasing in the right direction, maybe making use of the active rotation-switch ability.

They only passively injure with no input from the killer if the survivor lets them in 99% of cases. Otherwise, both killer and survivor are exercising their skill in trying to play around the beams.

Its futile but I'll bite anyways.

Why does the clip matter when the killer is just poorly designed anyways?

Like there's so much scrutiny being applied to what is essentially a drop in an endless sea of moments where SM proves she is not well put together.

I don't think its wrong, the drones should not injure you under any circumstance, they should simply provide info/boost the killer in chase and that's it. I don't have anything else to add that hasn't been said already however, so I'll see myself out.

Chalk it up to me having no counterargument. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I like figuring out different strategies to overcome her. It’s exhilarating to pull off escapes again her.

The most liked comment. Yes, would love another rework for her please. Every single sm post people are complaining about her being a killer

Just give up. When i hear her TR i immediately kill my self in the firt opportunitty. I refuse to play against this killer. This killer has a ZERO skill to play as, like that, absolutelly unsafe pallet and, just put a drone, and? Hit... I dont try do nothing against her, i just seat and wait for a hook to kill myself. Im waiting anxsually to a complete rework on her

she can keep track of the lines and crouch for a bit to avoid it. she had the distance for it. she can also stand still while it passes, but it's better to crouch there.

also why try to mindgame this pallet at all here? just a bad idea against a good killer.

the other 2 stacks were maybe avoidable too. maybe even more easily.

the killer is using their power, you gotta give something up, be it distance, resources or the hit. it's normal stuff. if trapper or hag had a trap, she would need to go around it. if there were projectiles, she would need to dodge, etc etc...

you can't always just run forward

Except that this Skull Merchant was so bad that she did not even get a hit in there. But got a Hit, because she is so poorly designed.

You can wah wah as much as you like, but this does not change the fact that a bad Killer got a free hit.