If people hate Skull Merchant so much, then why don't they hate Vecna?

I keep having this bizarre experience where as much as people hate on Skull Merchant, she is almost always the killer to break my crap game streaks....

Purely coincidence, but after game after game of bad luck, sweaty killers, idiot team mates, trash map spawns, dodgy hits due to ping etc, etc... the game that puts me back in a good mood again is almost always a Skull Merchant. I get some good vaults off, some pallet stuns, manage play around her power and nit be made to feel like a useless goober, succeed at pulling off my meme builds…

Win or lose it feels like an even contest that could have gone either way… completely anecdotal I understand, but it does make me chuckle how far my experience with this killer deviates from everyone else. XD

I don't find the AoE power denial fun in any instance. Yes I know how to avoid the scanning lines and yes I fully know how Skull Merchant works. I would rather play a bot game versus Trapper than play against Skull Merchant. The only thing that I find enjoyable about her power is the interaction of deactivating the drones. The gameplay loop against her is boring and I don't enjoy it.

The hidden scan lines until it scans it's first target is honestly stupid and should go. It's not clear to everyone even sometimes people who are aware of it and it causes so many random RNG deaths during a chase because wrong place at wrong time. It only takes players who don't even know it's scanning while invisible off guard and it's one of her many stupid mechanics.

And I'll just say it - She shouldn't be debuffing or even injuring people just because she decides to prolong the chase. She shouldn't gain extra speed for holding W because the drones. Everything about her power she gets is passively earned which is so stupid. You don't need to think when playing SM you just drop a drone and it will force survivors to another tile. They have one of the lowest skill floors of any killer in this game.

At least with Vecna a lot of their abilities they have to be proactive and aim them. Skull Merchant can drop their drones and forget about them until they decide they need more when they are on the other side of the map and need to remove older ones.

tl;dr - Skull Merchant is rewarded passively / Vecna has to at least engage with survivors they want to kill. Absolutely a case by case basis and just because let's say Pig passively kills survivors their power functions way differently and doesn't deny areas.

I hate vecna more

It doesn't make sense your point of comparison, although in a small sense they are similar, there are a lot of factors, to start with the most important one, because what is the great similarity is that with 1 with fast animation, it makes lose all the importance and specialty to a loop that depends on a safe pallet, but anyway this affects the player who at the moment is in 1v1, while SK, forces you to leave the loop, quickly since you enter at a severe disadvantage and that loop is marked like that forever until someone deactivates it, the problem is that from a distance you can ruin that loop again, in a short time the killer surely already has many engines and loop with drones deployed that causes a series of disadvantages for the survivors and advantages for the killer, you even feel suffocated because once the killer has all his drones deployed, because you will realize that almost the entire map is infected with drones at the volume level, obviously there will be spaces that are not, but surely they are the least relevant like sides and corners, in exchange neighbor if the chase begins from afar to If you get to a loop with a pallet and you pre-throw the pallet, the killer will lift it up and when you turn around again you can throw the pallet down again. Although this probably doesn't work very well, it's a welcome possibility, but anyway there are at least more gentle tools to face the killer, such as the items they give you in the chests of neighbors, among other things, there are also skills that feel more satisfying like crouching when he throws the skulls, even if it doesn't hurt you it still shortens your distance due to the loss of speed when crouching, there are also places and situations where it's very certain to suffer damage from the skulls, but anyway it feels like a much more playable and reasonable gameplay

I have a theory that it's not specific killers people dislike, but the types of players those killers attract. For example, bubba is notorious for a certain playstyle regarding basements. SM is linked with the 3 gen strategy, which made her popular. PH is associated with tunneling because his cages make it easy. The same goes for certain survivors or cosmetics, like pink-haired neas or base-skin dwight.

I think Vecna is still too new to have a stereotypical playstyle associated with him. Of course, I'm not saying that not every player using a particular character will play in a specific way, but it happens often enough for stereotypes to form, leading to assumptions and negativity.

Don't even get me started on her stupid sexy walk that makes her look like she's gliding across the ground instead of walking on it, like sure movement can look goofy as all hell in this game. E.G Trickster and Wesker's run animations look ridiculous, Wesker's even more so because of the 90's trenchcoat but they still look like they're a part of the environment, instead of like a badly modded character.

I agree with this, I said something similar to my friend in that "I can't hate Vecna because I haven't faced him on "even" ground yet, every time I've been against him its been on a small indoor map (which he chose to take us there with a map offering) so I can't get a gauge on how his powers feel in a match because he's on top of us before we get the chance to assess the situation, let alone touch a gen."

So yeah, I don't hate Vecna perse, I just hate the learning curve of the players who are picking him up because they want to see what he can do, but unfairly tip the scale in his favour by picking a small map.

I wouldn't say there's nothing bad about her prese, just mismatched, almost like they decided to smoosh two different concepts together and prayed that it would work. because in theory Skull Merchant, should work. A sexy rich CEO big game hunter, who is bored of hunting exotic creatures turns to hunting the most dangerous of all creatures, her fellow humans, because she views everyone beneath her. That concept is pretty scary, she's so rich she can get away with murdering people for sport. Paying off the police to hide or delay the finding of evidence, making deaths look like accidents or they crossed the "wrong" people. To make her image even scarier, she uses the bones of her victims incorporated into her decore at her penthouse, her clothes, her jewellery even (bone rings and necklaces).