The big question with The Knight (9.1.0)

So I keep having a question come into my head when ever I think about any of the Knight changes we've got:

What is The Knight supposed to be good at?

Because I can't think of a good answer, every major change he's gotten has removed opportunities and limited his agency, with the only buffs being to just how he engages with his power? As in, he can draw faster! He can choose specific guards to best suit his current needs! He can cancel guards to reposition them on a shorter cooldown! But these conveniences are all in service of what?

What is The Knight supposed to be good at?

Is it pincer tactics? Well no, definitely not, pincer tactics have been routinely buffed, again and again with each change, even this most recent update. Firstly take basic kiting, a tactic tried and true since the ancient years of Call of Duty Zombies: Nacht der Untoten, simply pathing in such away that the knight and the guard are both behind you largely nullifies any advantage of having a guard. But if that wasn't enough, dropping pallets, tagging window vaults and dropped pallets also gives you more flexibility in your pathing to make kiting even easier. But to be honest, tagging vaults is pretty abstract and unintuitive, even with particle effects that directly telegraph, not everyone's going to know what those particle effects are trying to tell them. So now if the Knight is too close to the guard, the guard just instantly turns to dust and dies, literally nullifying the power and limiting the Knight's ability to do pincer tactics. But I guess not even that was enough because Knights started using jailers to do pincer tactics due to his increased chase time, so let's make the banner more accessible and spawn sooner, so that survivors who are being pincered have another option to protect themselves. So clearly, The Knight isn't really supposed to be good at pincer tactics.

What is The Knight supposed to be good at?

Maybe it's his ability to delegate tasks to his guards. Perhaps there's a survivor on a nearby generator but you're already in a chase with a survivor and you got them on the ropes, you could quickly draw a path over to that gen to try to scare the survivors away and keep them busy while you focus on your target, but no not really, if you send Assassin, who has the best chance of getting a hit, his banner now spawns faster and can be nullified faster, limiting his ability to distract and damage, and even if the survivor pulls the chase far from the banner, rendering it irrelevant, the aforementioned vault tagging is even more effective when The Knight himself isn't involved and it's even easier to kite a guard around a single vault until the hunt expires, you could even just fast vault it yourself, no abstract and confusing tagging required! If you send the jailer, well you might hold their time longer but not get a hit but no, now the standard spawns quickly so survivors being pestered by the jailer alone can easily kite the guard and grab the standard, nullifying it's main chase strength of his long duration, that only leaves the Carnifex to help you multitask, but he's the worst of both worlds, low speed and low max chase time, survivors really don't even need to bother with the standard because by the time it spawns the hunt will end on it's own. Plus, you really want to keep the Carnifex to yourself anyway for his fantastic pallet breaking speeds. So clearly, The Knight isn't really supposed to be good at delegating chases to other survivors.

What is The Knight supposed to be good at?

Well he is pretty good when survivors pre-drop pallets, assuming the knight isn't foolishly wasting the Carnifex on pointless chases that wont accomplish anything, he can use it to break the pallet about as fast as he can walk up to it, which often times can secure a hit, but even this is contextual and not guaranteed if another piece of safety is nearby, or if the survivor smartly calls your bluff and greeds the pallet. So while this is a strength The Knight has over other killers it has a lot of depth and isn't a hook line and sinker. But maybe, just maybe, the Knight is supposed to be good at breaking predropped pallets, on a cooldown, if there's nothing else the survivor can use in time, if they don't call your bluff, if the map isn't too tight to prevent you from using your power to begin with, if you don't get to close to the pallet as it drops, also blocking you from using your power. So honestly, The Knight is supposed to be kind of good at situationally breaking pallets that are dropped at just the right time and from the right angle.

But really this entire discussion has been a waste of time, because I KNOW what The Knight is good at this whole time, and I've good the video evidence right here.
This is the strongest situation The Knight can POSSIBLY find himself in.

In this one laboratory room in The Underground Complex, when then gen is inside it and unrepaired to keep the door closed, it is the best place The Knight can find himself in.

• Transparent floors, so his guards can detect from anywhere in the room.
• One entrance, so The Knight can body block it easily.
• Lots of space, to give the survivors the illusion that they can play around something within it.

Absolutely fantastic, THIS is what The Knight is clearly supposed to be good at. No other killer could get results like this.
Not even The Nurse or The Blight, who have to move out of the doorway to attack the survivor.
Not The Huntress, The Trickster, or The Deathsliger, who can't attack through the floor.
Only The Knight can, bay-beeeee. However, with that said, it should be considered that the survivors even in this clip did still have some counter play, that being just for the healthy survivor to toss any respect for the killer or their power out the window and just force herself through the doorway through me. She'll lose a health state but she'd get out of this room, forcing me to either chase her for the injured survivor to escape the room, or for me to keep the injured survivor trapped so she can go regroup. This is of course because if a guard hunts a survivor, they lose collision with The Knight, so I couldn't leverage this room to force a double hit, she'd have some opportunity to escape from this best-case situation for The Knight, because, as it turns out.

The Knight is NOT supposed to be good at trapping survivors in rooms.

Thank you for reading my story I hope I made my point clear that I just feel like BHVR themselves don't actually know what these Knight is supposed to do, and just keeps nerfing him while supplementing this quality of life changes as if QOL is a supplement to a power that actually gives the killer a tangible and intuitive advantage, and creates a fulfilling fantasy experience. I really think BHVR has to decide that the Knight needs to be good at SOMETHING, and that something is most likely not something survivors enjoy playing against, because The Knight's core fantasy, A powerful leader to a team of devoted followers, is not going to be something survivors enjoy.

I do really enjoy playing The Knight, to be clear, it's just when ever I play him I find myself in many situations where I ask, aren't killer powers supposed to help me? and I always get the feeling any time my killer power does help me, I didn't need the power, that is, I feel comfortable in saying If I just didn't use my killer power at all I could have gotten the basic attack on that particular survivor. But when ever a survivor is clever, and puts up a challenge, they can easily handle my killer power as well. It just feels like The Knight would be better off with his power button unbound then actually trying to use his power to give him any leverage in those kinds of situations.