What are Knights guards supposed to do now?

Truth be told, I can't say I'm a fan of him selecting guards. Jailor was my go to renovations expert I hated him so much I'd go out of my way to get him away from Me and get to a good guard

If you're getting chased by jailer across the map from the knight, just grab the banner.

I'm keeping an eye on that too, but I also don't want to come to firm conclusions before I've tested it.

It does sound like something that'll need to be changed, though.

I feel like it's pretty clear carnifex is for pallet breaking, assassin is when you want to split pressure and jailer is when you wanna try and pincer a survivor.

Assassin is not meant to get a hit. None of the guards are meant to get a hit. BHVR wouldn't allow a killer design that gets hits 100% of the time. Actually carnifex with the dried horse meat is the one that's supposed to get a hit. Your calculations are all fine until you think about the banner spawn. Any decent survivor is going to loop them around a Z wall and go back to the banner because it spawns too fast. This isn't reliable against carnifex because his banner spawn is lot longer. Assassin is meant to punish hook rescues by spawning on top of the survivor as they finish the unhook. The animation takes too long to make enough distance and it's almost a guaranteed hit. At the very least, it's going to prevent bodyblocking so you can tunnel. Jailer's the worst out of the 3 at the moment. He's best used as a skull merchant drone.

The guards are at their strongest when the knight is zoning with them, so that the survivor can't freely rush to the banner and is forced to move to a useless part of the map. The knight is at his strongest when you chase 2 survivors at the same time who are also converging on the same area, meaning a surv runs to the same place as the survivor you're currently chasing, so now you're guaranteed a hit on at least one of them, and there's only 2 survivors doing gens. The chances of this happening in a real match are slim because to do this consistently you need to spawn a guard on a survivor outside of a chase and find another one immediately after. Such as in a 3 gen situation where a survivor is threatening a gen that you're leaving to defend another one or an unhook situation.

But this is too difficult to do at the moment, and even if you do spawn a successful chasing guard that doesn't just wander around, the survivor will simply run to the banner and cut the chase short unless it's carnifex. That's what these changes is intended to strengthen. You can now choose jailer at will with the longer chase and banner making it the best solo chaser guard, especially with a potential 36 second chase. That is nearly impossible for the survivor to outlast considering that already a 24 second chase from carnifex results in a hit or a very small distance saving the survivor.

Why does Assassin move at 4.4 m/s AND applies deep wound then? What is the point of deep wound on hit if he is not suppose get the hit? He is definitely designed around being summoned and acquiring hits. It is in the guard name. He doesn't hits because of poor balance. Drawing long path right now with Knight is unrewarding. That is what this update aims to improve.

Your calculations are all fine until you think about the banner spawn. Any decent survivor is going to loop them around a Z wall and go back to the banner because it spawns too fast.

A decent Knight will just camp the banner. No good knight player will ever allow survivor to use Banner in chase. When Knight hits a survivor, the guard chases ends and so does banner. The banner is designed to make split pressure irrelevant for Knight. It completely rob of any ability to 3 gen because survivor can disable the guard chase if knight does not camp banner which is common in 3 gens as knight is using his guard for "split pressure". Despite this, many survivor are terrible enough to still 3 gen by the knight.

The knight is at his strongest when you chase 2 survivors at the same time who are also converging on the same area, meaning a surv runs to the same place as the survivor you're currently chasing, so now you're guaranteed a hit on at least one of them, and there's only 2 survivors doing gens.

Wrong. He is weakest because survivor are easily able to exploit banner. He is stronger when you are in the corner of the map, He summons a guard and he deploys a pincer attack where one guard goes right/left and Knight goes right/left closing in on the survivor. This updates aims to nerf this aspect of knight however i think that the numbers chosen are far too aggressive. 300% depletion rate is just an insane number. I suspect this number will be nerfed to lower value such as 200% post PTB. My other suspicion is that Assassin will still be ineffective because there is nothing in patch notes that says that guard may phase through pallets like they used when he was released. It used to work properly but something changed. They'll likely buff knight from PTB.

This is just ridiculous. The Knight does get rewarded by long paths with Haste, although that's not enough and he definitely needs more. This update improves almost nothing about him; just selecting the guards. But what do you mean a good Knight camps the banner? I've literally never seen a Knight stand on the banner waiting for the survivor to circle back to it, and if they're not doing that then they're definitely not classed as "camping" it. They chase the survivor, the same as the guard, so that they can pincer. At the same time, sometimes he and the guard can chase the survivor, and they somehow get around to the banner anyway. How is the Knight "allowing" that if he's chasing them how he's supposed to? You're completely grounded in theory, like the killer's always gonna know exactly what path the survivor's gonna take to cut them off, or that camping the banner is somehow a good play when you're basically not doing anything.

Don't get me wrong, I agree with most everything else you said, but the parts I highlighted are just weird or miscommunicated. It is somewhat refreshing to see, as opposed to the usual "Knight is bad design (in that he can actually do something against survivors)!"

Haste is useless. you lose more distance for drawing path than haste gives. A survivor moves at 4.0 m/s. for every second that you stand still, the survivor gains 4.0 total distance. For example, if you draw a path for 4 seconds, the survivor gains 16 meter distance lead. Killer move at 4.6 m/s. they catch-up 0.6 m/s. Knight gains 5% haste for 10 seconds. 0.2 x 10 second = 2 meters. So you lose 16 meters but gain 2 meters on haste. None of the knights guards can ever hit you at base-kit. it is free hold-w play for survivor.

For this reason, The dev are aiming to nerf knight's current play-style which is just to instant drop guards at loops because you lose no distance as knight for doing that. If you use Map of the realm+Double jailer, the Jailer has 18 meter detection radius. 18 meter detection radius is massive blue circle. It is so big that even if survivor hold-w as soon as you drop the guard at the loop, the jailer will STILL detect you. Not go into some nerdy details but the bigger detection radius → faster circle expands. In any case, they nerfing instant-drop guard jailer pincer play-style and buffing Assassin and Carnifex play-styles.

 He summons a guard and he deploys a pincer attack where one guard goes right/left and Knight goes right/left closing in on the survivor.

This is literally what I said in different words.

You dont need to spawn the guard in a corner to protect the banner. You can protect the banner by corralling another survivor as the knight into where the banner approximate area is and chase them both leading to other survivor. The second survivor cannot pick up the banner for the hunted one.

A decent Knight will just camp the banner. No good knight player will ever allow survivor to use Banner in chase.

What I said:

The guards are at their strongest when the knight is zoning with them, so that the survivor can't freely rush to the banner and is forced to move to a useless part of the map.