Dracula is Overperforming!!!

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Eh.

Dracula's Vampire Form has good tells for when he's going to use fire pillar, mostly coming down to skill knowing where to throw it VS the survivor predicting your intentions and paying attention in loops.

Wolf Form is kind of the same thing, I only get value when lunging around corners at the right time and expecting them to vault a window, but it's usually easy to just turn away and dodge the second lunge.

Bat Form is alright for traversal and sometimes throws off survivors due to it's huge lullaby. If anything I wish there was a footstep mechanic like Xeno's, but that depends on overall balancing.

Either way, I do well against survivors and they do well against me. I honestly think he's very fun and fair on both sides, once I understood his counterplays.

i think opposite. i think gameplay is incredibly one sided for survivor when the survivor understands the counter-plays. Judging from other posts that also agree that he is not good, it seems only new players struggle with him. New IP bring new players so an expected struggles.

I think the biggest turning point for both sides is learning that hellfire pillar goes over medium wall loops and not tall walls. I've caught plenty off guard with that, though that won't last long once people learn.

I am already past this part of the power. it's ok in places where you can use it and not so great when your not able to use it. what i found as an ok strategy vs high wall is using his wolf pounce like mini-chucky dash when looking down. he has like hug-tech to his ability because they removed collision mechanic from the pounce. This allows you to somewhat play the high-wall tiles.

So it is like low wall = fire fissure, high wall = wolf hug tech. the issue is i am having is all my chases feel too long because i have to double-hit every survivor and somewhat massive outplay them in the loop. If you inevitably miss his fire fissure or mess up his pounce, you get like a mediocre chase from survivor and it is almost guaranteed loss with best result being like 2k. you can't really cheese hits with him or strategy very much to make killer play better. every chase kinda just has that X waste time factor to it.

that is what it feels like for me against 2k-3k+ hour survivors/survivor that play 8 hour a day players.

I tried playing Dracula with using mostly Wolfform add-ons, and I still dont get the ghist of it. Yeah, its obviously that you have to play him a lot in order to get the timing of the lunges downs, but I still think that the Wolf is pittyful. The orbs haste effect is very short and tought to get value from, but of course, any little bit of haste can mess with the way loops are designed, getting your JUST barely a hit before the survivor gets to the vault or pallet, but thats very hard to get value from. Overall I think that the Wolf is underperforming and I think the Vampire form is far more superior.

You should really play him and then come back:

1. He has slowdowns from wolf to vampire and bat to wolf as far as I remember (also from bat to vampire but there's just a really slight one I think). As well as a cooldown before you're able to switch again (matters only from bat to vampire basically).
2. The bite already needs to be charged and is super easy to dodge because the object hitbox is huge and the player hitbox around 1 pixel it feels like.
3. Again there's cooldown between switching and it's exactly the job of this transformation to remove distance between you.

What do you even mean with you can't outrun the wolf with springt burst, the wolf moves at 4,6 (normal speed) and get's a 2,5 seconds speedboost to 4,8 if picks up an orb. You run 150% or 6,0 with sprintburst for 3 seconds, so even if he picks up an orb right at the start you get 3,7 meters of distance instead of 4,2 you'd normally get.

he has immense speed, and has no slowdown what so ever in changing forms, so effectively you can transform to wolf with out any Slowing of your movement whatsoever.

Funny, while over all smooth and seamless, I do experience a slight slow down when I change forms. Maybe too slight for a survivor to notice but it is there.

WOLF FORM bite does need to be charged at all, there is no way to combat this form bite attack up close no matter what you do, on top of the fact that he has increase movement speed in this form, making it nearly impossible to escape it. and while it intial long charge is dodgeable it secondary attack is nearly impossible to dodge unless your dealing witha console controller player.

The wolf form functions as a normal killer. Closest comparison is Demigorgon. By your logic the Demigorgon should not be allowed a normal m1 attack and should only be allowed to do the pounce. And believe me you can dodge the m1 attack. Also you yourself admit that one can escape the wolf. I can't tell you how many times survivors got me to lose them in the past 48 hours since dracula dropped. They, unlike you (clearly), knew that if you run everywhere you leave SCRATCH MARKS. The wolf enhances the appearance of scratch marks making it easy to follow your silly behind.

Every survivor who escaped me in wolf form would run in such a way as to make the trail confusing. Then, once they had a little bit of a lead, would stop running causing the trail to go cold. They would have me sniffing around in circles while they got away.

Bat Form speed increase is massive, and it ability to change back is to fast giving you no time to escape the kill or put distance between each other.

Again SCRATCH MARKS!!! Bat form is hybrid Litch Fly and the Spirit's Phase. Speed is the fly. Spirit's Phase ability comes into play by the fact that in bat form the Dracula cannot see survivors. He only sees scratch marks. And he can hear you. If you run everywhere, Dracula bat will find you and morph on top of you. If you are always injured, Dracula bat MAY hear you. If you run everywhere WHILE injured, Dracula bat WILL find you and morph on top of you.

All this is to say, maybe learn about the killer and how they work before you go crying for a nerf. Dracula's fire whip is easy to avoid. Just stop tea bagging after you drop pallets and you won't get hit. Oh on that. Fire Whip hits over LOW obstacles. It can't hit you through walls, unlike the Unknown's UVX so yeaaaah. It is his anti loop. I took out many injured survivors in the RPD map because they tried infinite looping around the welcome desk.

Take the time to actually practice against a killer before crying nerf. The killer just dropped. Crying nerf so soon after drop is a bad look buddy. It sounds like you played against him and got salty because you lost. Dude! that is how 6yr olds behave. Come on, I have to believe you are above acting like a toddler.

To complaint one on your list. There is a slow and a cool down. Dracula cannot switch from one for to the right away.

To Complaint 2: Wolf is like any other killer with an M1 attack. The Pounce attack is an ability. By the logic of your complaint you must feel that Demigorgon should not have an M1 attack and only its pounce ability. Wolf is the tracking form, it enhances scratch marks and blood trails. And provides occasional killer instinct from scent orbs that spawn at regular intervals.

If you are one of those silly survivors who runs ALL the time, you leaving scratch marks everywhere. So if you run in straightish line wolf will find you. Almost all survivors who caused me to lose them ran in such a way as to make their scratch mark trail confusing. And then switched to walking/crouching the rest of the way. This has resulted in my sniffing around in circles while they got away. If they are injured this may be less successful thanks to blood trails but still possible. Also you yourself admit that it is possible to escape wolf.

To Complaint 3: Bat form is basically a combo of Litch's fly and Spirit's phase. It is fast for traversal but the killer cannot see survivors. They can only see scratch marks and hear the survivors. Injured survivors moan kinda loudly. Which is why I almost always find injured survivors who are hiding in lockers. So if you hear the bats, stop RUNNING everywhere and maybe heal up if possible.

Bonus Point: Dracual form's Hell Fire ability can go over low cover but not through walls. It is an anti loop. It is also real easy to dodge just pay attention and maybe don't stop for that tea bag after dropping a pallet. (I only mention post pallet drop tea bagging because a massive number of my downs with hellfire are from cocky survivors tea bagging after dropping pallet).