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People complain about Ghoul and Skull Merchant but Dracula is worse
No counterplay with any abilities has multiple killer abilities on better cooldowns
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You can vault back the bat, you can bait the wolf and you can dodge hellfire, how is there no counterplay? Sure you can argue he is bloated or has many abilities but he objectively has counterplay for his 3 forms.
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I think Dracula's one of the most telegraphed Killers in the roster and that's what makes him fairer than some others.
You will always know what he's doing, even outside of chase.
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To be honest, I'm not a fan of Dracula's design either.
If you're going to have a killer with multiple powers, then those powers need to be individually mediocre/weak. The overall strength comes in the killer's ability to deal with a variety of situations as opposed to having one strong main power. Vecna does this well. He has four powers, all of which are useful, but each of them either have built-in counterplay (like crouching below the skeletons) or they have magical items to help survivors deal with them. His spells are strong enough that all-together he's a very good killer, but individually none of them are so oppressive that survivors are left with no options.
Dracula on the other hand basically has three killer's MAIN powers, with practically no cooldown between any of them. He gets Nemesis' tentacle whip, Spirit's traversal, AND Wesker's double dash ability, on top of a bunch of freebies like the ability to teleport in bat form, louder survivor noise as the bat, and free tracking and Haste orbs as the wolf. It's kind of wild how much he outclasses Vecna.
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I’m saying the exact same thing and I’m downvoted for it… Dracula is toxic to face on any map. It’s hard to get success looping him and I’ve been playing dbd for 7 years.
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so just because you can hear the bats and the wolf that makes him a fair killer?
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When Dracula's chasing you, there's no ambiguity what form he's in and what that form can do. They have limitations.
Vampire mode? Okay, straight line hellfire attack. Play around that possibility; don't give him an easy shot and watch out for baits. Has a decent cooldown if he misses.
Werewolf mode? Okay, two lunge-dashes. Play around that. Use the surroundings or find a pallet for safety.
Once you learn the forms and how they work, vsing him as Survivor isn't as bad as you make it out to be. There's a difference between "strong killer with counterplay" and "Killer with no counterplay at all".
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Looping him in wolf form is actually a lot harder than he would be in his normal form, thanks to how little he is punished for missing the dash, meaning that he could easily catch back up to you.
At least the Hellfire is more predictable, plus you can see Dracula himself a lot easier over standard height loops.Also, dodging the dash is a lot harder than dodging Hellfire.
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I happen to have dracula at 100. The trick to looping him longer is adapting to his adaptation. Nemisis whip is much faster, with a much shorter cooldown, and can break pallets if it misses. Against draculas hellfire, you treat him like nemisis, but only have to dodge 1 whipbecause his cooldown is very long.
as for wolf form his tracking can be avoided as the scent orbs only spawn while running. His wolf dashes also will not slam you, or infect you, or vault the pallets or windows and again has a longer cooldown as he has to collect more scent orbs to use it again.
And batform is the easiest to outplay of all as 9 times out of 10 i just walk right past the bat they never knew i was there. And if they came out of batform its not with an instant attack, you do have a moment to vault something or slam a pallet down etc.
Ive played as dracula against teams that go down in seconds, and against teams that i could only down 1 person in 3 generators only to get hit with 2 flash bangs at once and start all over. Hes strong but definitely not kaneki strong. A jack of all trades but master of none.
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I actually never minded Dracula when I played survivor. He was strong but not uncounterable.
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I take all of your Dracula's if you want. You can have my Ghoul's and Clowns.
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drac is the kind of top tier i can get used to. hes got a lot, but you can work with it.
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I never said it was easy to be fair.
Just that it's possible and not as hard as OP is making out to be.
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