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How does someone even play Skull Merchant in her current state?
I know she is bottom picked killer based on community stats at least, but still… how does someone EVER even play her?
Her power doesn't even work. Her drones are still bugged last time I checked some week ago even months after she was nuked from orbit by devs. Like she is F tier allready and her power doesn't even properly work (her drones sometimes get stuck every few placements and do not rotate).
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Easy answer: You dont.
She is in such an awful state. Her power is incredibly weak, and the lack of bug fixes has made her already weak power even worse since it does not work as intended half the time. Compared to any other Killer in the game, there is no reason to waste your time playing her at the moment since a majority of Killers can outperform her with significantly less effort.
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Lean on her stealth.
Her drones barely function anymore, even when they aren't bugged, but her stealth has always been pretty solid (at least for this iteration, release SM's stealth was kinda bad) so you can play her as a sort of budget stealth killer and it can work.
It's a shame, really, because her power was super interesting and fun to play both as and against, in my opinion, but what happened happened. Right now she's basically only good for leveraging her admittedly above-average use of Undetectable and occasionally getting a ranged injury if things go well.
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She has one thing going for her at least she's the very first F tier killer PTB ghostface previously held that title but he didnt make it out of the PTB not even pre buff Myers was that bad, not even PIG has ever been this bad
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You don't, really. BHVR essentially put her on mothballs (by making her useless) while they figure out what to do with her.
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She still has stealth? I thought they took away her pocket Insidious, which was my favourite aspect of hers
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Nah, the short burst of Undetectable after deploying a drone is still there, and it's now her strongest feature.
She's also pretty quiet, so Undetectable from perks works very well on her.
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I could have sworn it was removed entirely, that was my favourite feature of her kit. But I'm genuinely happy to be mistaken here.
Welp, guess I have to buy that new skin after all...
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- 1. Hex Third Seal
2. Hex Thrill of Hunt
3. Hex Undying
4. Player’s Choice
spam her drones to stay as undetectable as possible1 -
Do you remember good old "Machete man"? That's how.
You have to use STBFL and brutal/fire up, then whatever else you want and spam drones for undetectable. All hits/down will be with M1.
Don't even try to get tags, or use them in advance in loops, it's pointless. Survivors are never going to run into them and they are simply useless at loops too, when it doesn't even detect fast vaults (truly pathetic). It's just waste of time to use them for this.
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Don't you mean Face the Darkness instead of Third Seal? Would make more sense.
There are better killers for such a build anyway tho. Just use Sadako.
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Unless the nerfs changed something I missed, Merchant drones apply 3rd Seal.
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Yeah, the fact that you are never going to injure survivors with drones. It's huge waste of time trying to go for it.
It's never going to work outside of chase anymore and any decent survivor will force you to M1 over taking hit by drones even if you somehow get there.
Also Blidness is not really a big deal anyway imo.
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I loved her. I had alot of fun playing sm. Issue was people used her to slug alot bc her power enabled it. But I never did. I just loved her look, lore, and had fun sneak attacking survivors at gens and scaring them.
I often didn't perform well with her bc she isn't oppressive, but won due to rage quits and go next die on hook survivors.
She was fun to mind trick with. Then they gutted her. You can still use her drones for sneak attacks, but yeah her drones Don't work anymore.
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You don't, they literally intentionally made her bad so you wouldn't play her until they reworked her for the 3rd time.
But don't worry, you won't have to wait a whole year for it, just 11 months.
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The most sad thing about her is the DEVS nerf her until the ground than admit their mistake in her design. SM is a disrecpect with playerbase, because was obvius her power was a huge mistake and a lot of people asked during her PTB for delay the chapter and fix her before her release, and everyone knows what happend after release. Now they make her useless and "any day" they will rework her. Now the BHVR strategy is, "ohh release, if was a failure we need nerf until useless and nobody will use and maybe any day we rework." the same thing happend with one of the Houndmaster addons recently, they nerfed her addone until useless and "ohh some day we will fix it" They just want monetize. This recent "healthy chapter" and schedule is just because soon we will be receiving the FNAF and they need this game a playable at least. They dont care care about player, just monetize, like any company in this world.
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Do you have to get an injure though? I know a single Trickster knife is enough to apply 3rd seal.
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Based off Community Stats - Twins is the least picked.
Easy answer - just play her. Drones at loops. Use stealth to sneak up.
Post edited by MechWarrior3 on0 -
You play normally and win 70%+ of your matches because 99% of them are soloQ where it doesnt matter how strong a killer is or is not.
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If you have the right map for it, spam the drones in a centralized area where people will want to run during chase so that they get hindered and you can down them faster. I have also gotten some use out of the add-on that gives you undetectable whenever people disable the drones.
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She's actually pretty tolerable and even fun on some maps despite how weak she can. What I actually can't tolerate are the drones buggin' out every fifth one. BHVR seriously need to fix the rotation bugs because it's kinda stupid how often it happens.
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Like playing killer in general. Just get lucky enough to get inefficient survivors who aren't SWF, who don't strategize, who don't know how to run no-mindgame tiles, who don't run good perks, and/or who go down constantly. And news flash: the game has been balanced such that those teams can beat you now.
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The drones inflict Third Seal … if they work. 🙂
The fourth perk slot should have been Blight’s hex perk for pallets, but I really can’t remember the name of it. I don’t think Face the Darkness works well on SM because she can’t teleport around. It’s not very useful information to justify the perk slot. Just my thoughts.
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hmm, didn't know that.
I don't consider blidness to be good anyway,, especially on hex, so still wouldn't use it.
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The "wound" was already closed in 2023/2024, but the players have phantom pain somehow
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Claw Trap injuries DOES trigger Third Seal, but not Face the Darkness (bug-report already in review, yw)
The drone rotation bug is already well over a month in review, so heres hoping it gets fixed in the upcoming chapter eh? hehe
I still have fun on her, on a casual level, ive seen and played through each and every iteration of her, we have a history together, she and i, hehe
I'm currently having fun with this interesting chase-oriented build:
Thwack!
Brutal Strength
Fire Up
BamboozleSuppose you can leave Thwack to another perk slot of your chosing
Dont forget to rotate drones during chases, sometimes survivors will try to spasm to dodge the scanlines, giving you an easier hit
P.S. I see that second paragraph on the PTB Killer Terror Radius changes, wholesome <3
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you don't. i really tried doing it and usually people just give up with her previous reputation despite her being nerfed into the ground
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well you can’t play her at all because her power is useless, she’s supposed to be getting reworked this year but I have a slight feeling that may not happen.
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