Skull merchant with the lowest pick rate and kill rate oop-

I almost wonder if they want her to have a nonexistent pick rate and the least offensive kill to make people forget that they hate her… so that by the time they rework her into a functional killer again, people might actually be willing to give her a chance this time. Like, erase her from the public consciousness, in a more insidious and effective way than killswitching her in the Skull Merchant Containment Zone for a year. 🤷

That not going to happen xD ppl will remember the hate for her. He rep is completely destroyed. As someone who plays legion I still get survivors who hate playing against me because they remember how bad legion was on release. That hate isn't going to just go away unfortunately.

I bet they did

+1

She does NOT have the lowest kill rate on nightlight. There are actually 13 killers on night light that have a lower kill rate.

One of those killers is demogorgon who they are basically nerfing next patch…

Too many people still remember what she was like on release and all those excruciating slog matches and have no interest of actually trying to play against her in any way.

But that is irrelevant, the problem was fixed. This would be the same as DCing against Legion today because they were a thousand times worse than Skull Merchant when they released in 2018.

As a Legion main, I still see a decent amount of DCs or survivors complaining in the end game they had to go against a legion. Sure, it's not on the same level as SM, but there are survivors out there who still very much hate Legion because of its release. This is why I personally believe that no matter what they do to SM, people will continue to DC against her.

This was exactly the purpose of their changes They intentionally made her the worst killer so that nobody would play her until they rework her and they don't care about her kill rate.

This is why i will not be buying anymore DLC until they fix it, because i think this "idea" of intentionally making something bad for people to not use it anymore is not good.

I agree completely.

SM never was fine, stop rewriting history. Her kit is insufferable and uninteresting to go against, in every single of her iteration thus far.

Yes because that is so helpful in chase

I don't think the Skull Merchant actually killed them (maybe just their souls!). It just took them something like 56 minutes to break the 3 gen. It wasn't even the release version either, it was the second version, which shows how ridiculous it was that she was released into that meta in that state.

Probably the result the devs had planned for. Before the nerf these forums were full of people complaining all the time how bad it is to play against her.

Since she is basically dead now there are almost no complaints in that direction anymore. The only people still complaining are the few killer players that actually liked her but those will also move on to some other killer eventually.

When the remake comes around in late 2025 and it's as bad as everyone anticipates almost noone will care anymore. Same happened with Freddy after all.

Didn’t she recently (like within the past few months) have kill rates released at like 70% or something insanely high? I remember that when the devs removed matches where a survivor died on first hook the kill rate went down to something like 67-68%. It was still really high. Someone here said an older version beat that team but these kill rates were pretty recent (definitely after the anti-3 gen mechanic released). Seems she at least prior to these nerfs was still super strong.

So it was the same killer I guess they just changed her in some way. I’m reading other sources of info about her. She recently had a kill rate of like 70% and when the devs screened out matches where a survivor died on first hook her kill rate dropped to 68%. This was just before her recent nerf and well after the anti-3 gen mechanic was introduced. I usually appreciate your opinions but you’re wildly out of touch on this one. She needs a total rework—not a buff, not a figures adjustment, not a bigger nerf.

Her kill rates were pretty high, and that is something I have no explanation for.

With Freddy it kinda makes sense. Kinda.

But Skull Merchant wasn't even difficult to defeat.

“First…stop grouping all sm players together. Not all SM players are toxic. The times I saw her when playing Survivor none of them was toxic as you and others claim they to be. Just because some bad apples played the killer doesn't make all SM mains toxic. If we are using that logic then Im going to say all survivors are bully squads and are toxic as hell since I've seen way more of them than a toxic SM. Btw I don't actually believe but that's what you sound like when you talking about SM and her player base.”

Yeah none of them were toxic, the very reason she got so much hate the first time is because they were all 3 genning. And after that she was still hated and people that played skill merchant took advantage of that and played her in miserable ways. It’s just like bubba players before the anti camp mechanic that just camped hit on hook. Was it all of them? No but it was certainly most of them that did that.

As for the killer reworks, Billy is now one of the best killers in the game. Twins were a lost cause just from their design. Thats bhvrs fault for making a killer like that to begin with. Either way they are still strong. Freddy was a long time ago and they are gonna rework him soon. Plus that was different time in dbds history. They have also buffed killers to make them feel better to play. Doctor nemesis singularity ghostface legion knight huntress dredge again hillbilly. Bhvr has been better as of late. Even Myers is gonna feel better to play just from the basekit buffs he is getting. We will see what happens with skill merchant. I want her to be fun on both sides.

Well, Freddy definitely needs a complete rework, but he is the exception here.

Yeah but he needs a rework for different reasons.

Indeed.

Freddy's rework is in January, before Skull Merchant.