Why is Blight so hated?

Blight is a pretty good scapegoat when it comes to being "sweaty", "op", "try-hard" etc. He's fine to play against for swfs and good players, but oppressive when against solo queue and new players. Besides, people will always blame something for their problems :/

No offense dude, but the average solo queue team is really bad, if you have a player that is extremely skilled on his character he should massacre the average solo queue team, the issue is not the character but the matchmaking…

yeah, the average groups are really bad and the pool of survivors that can compete with a good blight are incredibly small. blight is simply overtuned and anyone with eyes can see that. no reason to debate it.

because there is no matchmaking in this game. Sweaty Blights aren't just isolated to some super secret top 1% matchmaking queue. They get matched with random solos too. I know because I got a 7000 hour comp Blight a few nights ago. It was about as fun as it sounds. Sweaty four man teams struggle against a sweaty blight and typically lose even in comp level gameplay. If this game had any real matchmaking that kept these players out of regular matches then it wouldn't be an issue. As it is now a sweaty Blight is basically a guaranteed loss for the overwhelming majority of teams. If you need a comp team to have a chance against something then it is overtuned. A streamsniping comp team with the most busted builds imaginable was literally the only thing that was able to stop the almost 2000 game blight winstreak. Even then they barely won.

I'm sorry but how is he the "hardest" one to learn when killers like Hillbilly exist which take a lot longer to learn how to curve at every tile

He's always been 1 of my favorites to go against, just b/c of his pinball style power.
But he's also had some of the strongest addons that went unchecked for far too long, and when they were finally, some of them took multiple edits/changes and now were here.

I do think good players didn't mind him as much. But the new players and a lot of solo que enjoyers found him crazy oppressive, not just b/c of his addons & all the techs but survivors were already going into the match solo, so having a teammate on your team who wasn't good in chase or didn't last long in chase vs Blight, was far more likely & that just resulted in even more games lost.

It was like a stacked card against yours.

Because it's very binary, you are either in a part of the map that has the right geometry or you're not at which point the Blight has to actively mess up in order for you not to go down. Basically it feels up to the map and the Blight's skill and the survivor doesn't have a ton of input on the situation.

Compare this to Xeno in which you can strategically put turrets in places either as an early warning system or at choke points to get them out of crawler mode or Huntress where you have to dodge and/or bait hatchets and pick up on the habits of each Huntress you go against and I feel like Blight is a snooze fest in comparison.

Blights (and nurses) are mainly used by sweatlords with 4 slowdowns, a map offering and, of course, tunneling at 5 gens and a lot of slugging

Blight WAS fun to play against. Then they made him boring.

When you remove different ways to play a character, it also removes more interesting ways to counter-play said character; which has resulted in forcing Blight to effectively play all tiles the exact same, every single time, to get their confirmed hit, it's boring.

Probably PTSD from blight when he had stuff like c33, alch ring, adren vial, blighted tag, and old double speed. Once killers get a reputation for being op/annoying to vs it never goes away no matter how many changes are made.

They should just do old crow (6%) basekit and nerf/rework his speed addons that make him inconsistent to verse. Also opens up room to add speed reduction to strong addons w/o them making him unplayable.

The thing is the Blight player was 15h into his stream and made obvious mistakes he wouldn't have if he was a little more rested and the reason it is overtuned is because it required comp squad survivors and a series of Blight mistakes to get a 2man out in a game that doesn't even have a separate ranked playlist. About 1900 games, most of those with pre-nerf addons, were a waste of time for 4 people because they had no hope of escaping just alone for the fact that the most important skill survivors need against mobility killers, coordination, is not allowed by the game itself. On top of that the lack of knowledge that the killer will comp it out and survivors being encouraged by archives to essentially goof around though this is beside the point. You can bet it wasn't the first snipe attempt on his streak, it was just the only one that worked.

Blights base power is unhealthy for a version of the game where 90% of the killers are more viable.

Just look at the new hook feature. Absolutely fine on almost all killers. On blight? Pretty stupid because it makes his downtime after a successful down non-existant.

Blight is, similarly to Nurse, pretty easy to get good results with. He has a really high skill ceiling, which is almost never necessary to reach in public lobbies.

He's very fun to play, therefore often seen.

He had the strongest set of addons almost any killer had for a very long time, making him very despised for that reason alone.

Those are just some reasons to why Blight is not liked.

probably bc almost every blight rn in pubs is using the pallet exploit

I'm annoyed with blight players abusing his stun bug atm. It's gotten very pervasive every game with a blight just abusing tf out of it.

It immediately negates the time to walk to a hook. I'm not talking about his cooldown. I'm talking about the downtime where he needs to carry people to hooks. That is valuable downtime for the survivor team.

A killer wastes a lot of time carrying survivors throughout a trial. You can find out how much time that is by slugging anybody and not hooking at all.

By using autohook, killers can negate that downtime. This saves a lot of time. For most killers this is fine, but for the higher tier killers, like blight, that can apply pressure very fast, this can easily become too much.

Of course all other killers can do that. Blight and some others however, have base powers that strong, that a mechanic like this can easily make them too oppressive compared to other killers like Doctor for example. That's why I pointed out that Blight and some others will be a problem if the game becomes more oriented towards the lower tier killers in a form of basekit killer buffs.

I know it's a time limited event. That's why I mentioned other aspects as well.

I do think killer needs some sort of early game mechanic and a mechanic that discourages tunneling, rewarding hook spreading and punishing heavy tunneling.

Making the game focus on the killer getting as many hooks as possible and keeping the 1v4 up as long as possible would result in a more fun experience all around. Obviously this would need heavy basekit changes for both sides.

I'm fine with small changes for killers in the current version of the game. Blight is fine in our current version.

But if the game would change for the healthier, killers like Blight could easily become a problem.

I reported day 0 of ptb because it happened within 10s of testing out the supposed fix for him looking down after pallet break. It's clear they wanted to shove out the anniversary with new cosmetics over doing bug fixes.

In a perfect world, matchmaking would create more balanced matches, but that doesn't mean certain killers/perks aren't strong or overpowered. You mention Nurse, saying she's "beatable if players know what to do." This is surprising because many/most pepole in the game reagardless of killer main or survivor main agree that Nurse is fundamentally unfair and overpowered, because her power is basically a cheat. Just because people have won against her doesn't make her any less oppressive, as is the case with Blight. These killers have winstreaks in the thousands, and I feel it is unreasonable to say it is only because of facing unskilled survivors due to poor matchmaking. Assuming they only win because of bad matchmaking and not because they are just inherently strong shows a strong bias.

The issue with survivor skill not matching killer skill is significant. To have a chance at winning, all four survivors need to be equally skilled to match one killer, which is inherently imbalanced. The game is designed for killers to be stronger to make the 1v4 dynamic work, so the killers "skill" is already higher by default. Expecting the entire opposing team to lose (excluding hatch) if even one of them is a "weak link" which again, just means a player who makes a mistake, is not indicative of a "balanced" or "fun" opponent.

If your argument is that a more skilled player should win, it depends on what you mean by skill. In a 1v1, the killer always wins. In a 1v4 with no perks, items, or add-ons, the better skilled player(s) should win. However, this isn't always the case due to other factors in the game that can change outcomes drastically: maps, perks, add-ons, items, "playstyles" like slugging or tunneling, and perk synergy all impact game results. Combining these factors with a killer who is already strong without any of those things creates an oppressive opponent that can feel unfairly matched.

Personally, I think Blight is in a decent spot, but that doesn't mean he isn't strong. He often tears apart teams rather than struggling against them, as shown by stats and winstreaks, and many players' experiences support this. This is why people may not enjoy facing a killer who feels very punishing. I usually like the challenge, but I'm not surprised other people may not.

Basically to end this, your question was why people "hate going against blight" and your position seems to be that blight isn't that strong and it's just bad matchmaking. I disagree, I feel there is plently of evidence to support that he is strong regardless of matchmaking, and I was just explaining why I believe people don't enjoy going against him. You can disagree, that's completely fine. I'm not trying to sway minds here I'm just trying to give a little insight as to why people really struggle with this speedy boy.

I wish you fun in your future matches! gliyn gamer

Well it would show bias if such huge streaks were common for example in comp… Why does Nurse in comp not win every single game? I'm not saying those people win only because of matchmaking, I am saying the win that many games in a row because they are really really good at the killer and the matchmaking does not provide players of equal skill… I'm also not saying those killers are weak, but there is a difference between strong and overpowered… And I don't think neither Blight nor Nurse are overpowered, it is just matchmaking that makes them look like it in combination with facing players of superior skill.

I mean if you want a balanced match the survivors skill and the skill of the killer need to be equal, the rest of what you say here is just personal preference.

I mean ofc the killer is going to win eventually in a 1v1, because the ressources on the map will get used, so what? That is intended by the game. Skill is the ability to do something, in our case play the game, I don't really think there is much to argue about what skill is… Obviously the game has many random elements, but in the case we talked the outcome was fitting wasn't it? Both sides brought the strongest stuff they could think of and one side won, presumably because the other side made too many mistakes. Playstyles are also a form of skill, just like using a build order a macro playstyle in DBD is something you need to learn and execute when you deem it fit, just because something is unfun for the opposing side does not mean it cannot be effective, in the scenario we talked about it was basically about winning at all costs, so taking into account the fun of the other side is pretty much a non factor here.

I never said he is not that strong, I said he is not overpowered, and such huge winstreaks are not a result of the killer being overpowered, but the killer being strong, the player being really good at the game and the matchmaking being absolutely terrible giving the Blight almost exclusively way worse players.

This is a very unfortunate

The fact you claim Blight takes skill but Survivor is "some of the easiest gameplay in the mainstream" is disheartening.

You are completely dismissing that survivor can, arguably, take more skill than any single killer takes to learn. Not only do you have to learn how to optimally counter 36 killer powers in this game. But also learn a majority of the add-ons as they can drastically alter the killers power.

Blight is hated simply for the fact he doesn't offer a whole lot in the way of counterplay. We can see this by the fact that Billy, a killer who requires skill comparable to Blight (if not even more since they get screwed over by map collisions more) is incredibly loved and respected.

Just ask Survivors what 3 killers they hate the most and you'll see for yourself. Most people would answer at least one of the following: Skull Merchant, Knight, Clown, Blight, Nurse. All of them have either little to no meaningful counterplay. Or their counter play is incredibly boring (drop pallet or run to next tile till you get cornered and die)