Why is the Oni Flick Still In

That side-step is part of the counter-play of the power which a flick bypasses. Blight's speed/bounce is what should be doing the heavy lifting by cutting survivors off and getting to survivors with good bounces, not also 90 deg flicks to hit over windows you were perpendicular to during a rush. If flicks are a necessity, then the base power needs work.

Oni's demon dash is a mobility tool used to take advantage of information quickly, cut off survivors, patrol quickly, and it has some use as an insta-down tool should a survivor be unlucky. But Demon Dash becoming a primary chase tool leveraging sliding and camera angles to prevent bumps to increase speed in LT walls while still being an instadown is frankly BS.

Billy's curve bypasses that linear motion associated with his sprint to get tight curves in areas a survivor might otherwise think that the killer wouldn't be able to hit.

All three of the above involve manipulation of the base power itself to avoid counterplay revolving around the power. Making the counter-play inconsistent with its presentation, and ultimately more esoteric and annoying to learn.

Wesker's eurobend may be a bit problematic, but the counterplay to the ability prior is mostly consistent and the throw fits with the theme of "The Mastermind". Frankly it could become basekit with a bit of polish for all I care.

Without those mechanics all 3 would be terrible killers because their powers would be super easy to dodge... On Blight the shoulder flick is basically required because side stepping is way to easy to do without it and it completely negates that you basically used bump logic correctly to hit them otherwise.

If Onis demon dash is not his main power to get a down then he is just like a Myers with mobility and a bigger lunge, which would also make him a terrible killer.

Curving is what enables Billy's gameplay... You want to have Billy just back revving or what?

I have to say I don't think it makes sense to remove any of those 3 as those mechanics are what gives depth to the characters and how to play them as well as play against them.

By consistent you mean that it is not a 100% guaranteed method to avoid the hit? If that was a thing that would be horrible, how are you going to outplay the survivor if they have a guaranteed way to always avoid the hit no matter what you do?

So your solution is to simply be content with the powers as they are now instead of improving them such that they have visual and physical consistency with their animations and basic physical assumptions for players? Like making blight able to cut a rush short without a bounce, giving Oni the ability to adjust turning speed by lowering their sprint speed (by holding the backwards movement key) without having to perform angle stuff, giving billy a short window of high turn freedom before accelerating faster and restricting movement, or making it so that Wesker doesn't dash with survivors once hit and instead immediately decelerates while unrestricting camera movement and following up with a throw?

When I mean consistency, I mean the power able to standalone perform the kinds of things you'd expect the power to be able to do "naturally". Flicks and curves all ignore momentum and as such are not visually well telegraphed to players and ultimately just makes it feel cheap.

Yeah, visuals should match what is possible, though in blight's case not having any kind of movement slowdown prior to a hard flick would need to be a mechanical change, not simply visual.

In Oni's case, does it make sense to slow down by wiggling your movement? Or is it just accepted because that's what is available? Why can't you slow down/speed up via forwards/backwards input?

I like depth, but there's a difference between utilizing mechanics together for a better result, and utilizing mechanics to bypass existing mechanics.

For Oni I would say if it is not broke don't fix it..

Shouldn't this logic be applied for Chucky's flick and Blight hug tech? /shrug

I thought part of the reason Chucky's flick got removed was due to it not being possible with a controller? Should we apply that logic to everything?

do you think Oni flicking for 180 is possible on controller? You need extremely high sensitivity to pull it off. Something that controller doesn't have but you can somewhat cheat the exploit by looking up. For a long time, Blight on controller was also unable flick and i want to argue that controller players probably weren't able to hug tech either. they eventually changed sensitivities for blight specifically for controllers to be able to flick. I remember reading this in one of the patch notes.

Oh I agree controller players badly need more options.