Why is Blight so hated?

First off I was mainly talking about Blight's pre-nerf state because that's when he became hated and that's when most of that streak happened. If he is still massively overtuned I can't tell because I rarely face him since most switched to the next flavor of the year broken thing that is Billy. Though I argue mobility like this is an obvious headstart to being overtuned as speed most easily snowballs games.

My point about that streak is the Blight player wouldn't have lost this match if he wasn't a cocky little gremlin pushing for 100 wins in 24h. This loss was entirely and easily avoidable with a little nap and is more a testament to how exhaustion affected the player than the survivors actually doing the right moves. This is of course speculation, that this game would turn out similarly but better with a little rest, but considering how tilted he was during and after the game it seems reasonable to me.

Matchmaking is an issue, sure, but it's hard to determine if it is to the degree you are implying. You say good Blights destroying soloQ lobbies are just better because matchmaking sucks, but there is also the problem of the high difficulty of playing against him because of the general lack of information about what is going on. Who is where? What gens are being done? What part of the map should be used to avoid leading him to gens being progressed? Where to go down? Is he committing to the next chase allowing me to unhook now or should I leave that guy on the hook for another 30s? His mobility gives him a high skill ceiling and more opportunities than the vast majority of the killer roster gets allowing him to display more skill. This together with a bunch of perks that are busted on him can make any P100 Blight look like a Serral.

SoloQ survivors are denied by the game a skill they need to adequately verse a good Blight/Nurse/Billy: communication. A good chunk of those opportunities could and need to be denied by survivors. Coordination is of vital importance against Blight and it is just not available in soloQ where the majority of DBD is played and was designed for. He can also bruteforce his way out of mindgames most other killers would have to engage in. His tools heavily outperform anything soloQ survivors have to offer in the core way this game is supposed to be played: without comms. It's almost like having one player in a Starcraft 1v1 play with a keyboard and the other without.

That whole archive paragragh strawman I won't address as I already said it's beside the point and merely pointed out additional insanity.

Since his nerfs, he is a lot fairer. The only reason left to be annoyed about anymore is he is an insane skill check.

He is hard to dodge because of his flicks, and he recovers fast from a miss, so you can only predict when he will take an injection and try for an m1, not react. This gives him a lot power to zone you, and to prevent you leaving tiles, all the while he can walk you down for m1s while charging his power the whole time. Billy can ofc course hit you the same but Billy without his chainsaw is just sn m1 killer, so he doesn't have the same value off an m1 from Blight.

All of this means that he required exceptional knowlege of tiles to have even half a chance, this makes him very frustrating to fave... not aided by the fact he tends to be played by uber sweats.

Yeah, I would agree that most of the reason that Blight is hated is because he attracts people obsessed with winning, and play Blight in the sweatiest way possible: the strongest perks and add-ons, hard tunneling right out of the gate every game, etc. Not all Blights, but most I encounter play like their lives depend on getting a 4K. There's a lot of intersectionality between sad, desperately sweaty players and S-Tier killers.

If there were a Venn diagram with people who play like their entire sense of self worth is tied to not losing at a video game and people who exclusively play S-tier killers, it'd be a near perfect circle. These are the same people that will exploit every major bug that comes along because they can't even conceive of not taking every legal advantage they possibly can, even if it makes the game painfully boring.

So yeah, more a player issue than a Blight issue. But that doesn't change that most Blight games suck.

I think I understand what you're saying, but we may still disagree. I find it disingenuous to label the majority of players as "low skill." Prioritizing the top 5% of players over the majority seems unfair. The majority of the player base shouldn't have to adapt to the standards of the top 5%, and nothing—be it a killer, perk, or item or whatever—should only be counterable by the highest-skilled players. Imo, blight and nurse have such strong base kits that they already exceed the average skill level of most players. When combined with certain perks, playstyles, maps,they can easily dominate, as evidenced by their kill streaks.

I've made a similar point before, but I'll use this example again: if one or two students struggle with an assignment while the rest of the class does fine, it's probably just a personal skill issue between the two. However, if 75% of the class struggles, the assignment is probably too difficult. In my opinion, the majority of the survivor player base is average in skill—not low, not high. Blight dominates both low-skill and average-skill players, which is why many people may dislike facing him.

If you believe that nearly 2,000 consecutive 4ks with blight only happened because of consistently failed matchmaking, it feels a little tin-foil-hat, respectfully.

In any case, thank you for taking the time to give your perspective. gliyn gamer :)

Now you bring up a killer against which macro is even more important. Sure, good players who play much more than casuals will win the majority of their games. I don't want to discuss if 500:1 or 1947:1 is appropriate for an asymmetrical game with a playerbase of this size with a matchmaking to make queue times reasonable.

To get back on topic I will repeat mobililty makes Blight overtuned. There are plenty of >P50 Nurses, Blights and Billys with far less than 10k hours destroying lobbies left and right. Unless you want to tell me all of those are comp players, too.

Billy stopped being respected and became hated once he stopped being garbage. Because frankly, people DO NOT like good killers. People often tend to refute this with: but people find wesker,blight, oni and billy to be fun. But that statement misses just one single word, let me show you how the phrase when it being actually honest looks like:

People find BAD weskers, BAD blights, BAD onis and BAD billis fun. The moment the wesker is flicking and hug teching, the moment the blight is actually good with rushes and bump logic, when the oni can flick and uses slugging to build pressure, and the moment billy uses overheat correctly at loops they become unfun.

From someone who has played since the game literally released, idk where this narrative was born. People despised billy, crack billy and instasaw was mostly what you saw and people hated it.

People had issues with him a lot, the fact content creators didn't expressed this does not mean it didn't exist, even then a lot of them commented on billys "unfairness".

Like only briefly before his nerf and after it I heard this "everyone loved billy" because most of the people In the community at the time voiced their discontent for the killer.

I hate him for beeing an awful killer now. Hug tech is gone, he is hardcore nerfed and he cant play around any loop anymore. Love how bhvr slowly ruins the game.

blight is ######### ######### and i hope he gets buffed soon. He is slow as #########, without his hugtech he is useless in most loops, his collision is awful and he is buggy as #########. Worst killer in the game

He's broken on PC and/or with double speed add-ons, and mediocre otherwise. Most survivors hate a killer just because they're strong, but in this case I give them a little more leeway, until his problems^ get solved.