I need help playing as The Doctor

The main thing with Doctor is you need to ensure you're abusing his tile capabilities. Popping therapy faster and further is great for his add-ons.

You keep hitting survivors with your static therapy as they are about to get to a pallet or window, which forces them to run through instead of make safety. It lasts 2.5s, so the effect is suprisingly long.

This means unlike a lot of killers you don't often mind game as Doctor, as brute forcing a hit is the status quo (since shock therapy slows you a lot, its tough to mind game with it). So using mind games for m1s sparingly can really catch survivors off guard when you condition them with brute forces before you actually use them.

I imagine this is the reason you are missing often, because you're getting a little over excited to go for a hit early rather than taking the safer play with shocking through an extra loop to make certain and/or trying to mind game too much.

If you're still learning and in low MMR, Huntress Lullaby is pretty devastating on Doctor. A hex build such as Haunted Ground, Thrill of the Hunt, Huntress Lullaby and Devour Hope, and defending totems with static blast can really put a lot of hurt on a team.

True, although as a console player myself this can work to your advantage.

PC players don't care about Huntress Lullaby, so don't bother to cleanse… but console players do, and if you've got 1 or 2 console players in a lobby (which isn't unlikely at low mmr), you only have those players looking for/trying to cleanse it, so it can make the team play horrendously inefficient 😆

I try to hit skillchecks with Huntress Lullaby... but damn a 4 O'clock skillcheck can catch me even at base… especially vs. Doctor madness with lullaby up, that's a lot of skillcheck trouble 😶

There are also PC players that struggle with low FPS, so that would be unfair to the PC players with lower end PCs.

Why is it easier to hit them with the mouse? You use the spacebar.

I also know people who play survivor really well with a controller, so atleast for survivor I can't believe that there is that much advantage for mouse and keyboard.

To answer your first question, Doctor is considered a good BP farmer because he can very quickly max out Deviousness, as he gets Deviousness points for hitting people with Static Blast, Madness level ups, and gets a BP bonus if he m1s a survivor after hitting them with Shock Therapy, letting him get max Deviousness very easily, usually even faster then Legion

To answer the second question, Doctor's lunge is the exact same as everyone else's, his weapon swing animation just might be throwing you off a little bit

For build, I recommend this

Infectious Fright, Distressing, Surge, and Whispers, Static Blast works off of your Terror Radius, and Distressing increases Doc's TR from 32 metres to roughly 40, this combines with Infectious, allowing you to see people from incredibly far away, Whispers allows you to effectively play Doctor on Autopilot, as when a Survivor enters a 32 metre radius around you, the perk lights up, so, once you see the perk light up, you charge Static Blast and are basically guaranteed to get at least one person, Surge is what I typically run for slowdown on M1 killers but you can swap it out for Pop or Pain Res if you prefer

As for general advice, Learn to time Shock Therapy so that it hits survivors right before they can animation lock a vault, Shock Therapy affects a survivor half a second after they've entered its area of effect and prevents them from vaulting for 2 seconds, usually this is enough time to get around a pallet or window and hit them, if you time this correctly you can get a hit at any pallet or window in the game

Here's a few basic clips showing general Doctor gameplay and some useful tricks that I took myself a few minutes ago, it should give you a general idea on how to make Doctor work

I'm not saying that there aren't disadvantages on console but with skillchecks the main disadvantage isn't the mouse, it's the FPS. More FPS (and I think the stability of the framerate plays a role aswell) make it easier to hit skillchecks and since console performs overall worse in this aspect (atleast the older console, don't know about the newer ones) console players miss more skillchecks. But not all PCs have a great performance, so it can be a struggle for those on lower end PCs aswell. My bf played on both a Laptop and a PC and mentioned often, that skillchecks are easier on the PC than the Laptop even though both use mouse and keyboard.

Again, I have friends that play controller and not one of them has complained about hitting skillchecks and I know nobody who has put the skillchecks on the mouse. I've heard that people prefer the mouse for things like the hag teleport and mouse wheel for the old struggle phase, but never for skillchecks.

About spinning I've heard that you can get tighter/faster spins on PC, but spinning itself is easier on controller, I haven't tried that myself though.

I'm not sure how to take your comment but again I'm not saying that there aren't advantages on PC and I'm also not saying that there aren't any advantages to mouse and keyboard, I'm not even saying that console players don't struggle more with skillchecks.

My only point is, that for skillchecks the crucial factor isn't the mouse but the FPS and FPS aren't automatically good on PC, so giving PC harder skillchecks would be unfair.

That the console performance should be better and that it is disappointing, that the 60fps goal still hasn't been reached (as far as I know) is a different story.

Okay. Sorry, I find it hard to grasp the undertones in writing 🙈