Is The First OP?

Short answer to this is No.

The long answer is Yes and No

Why I feel he is OP

In the right hands he is OP. I have been playing him since release and honestly put more hours into him than i have played DBD over the last 6 months as i find him extremely fun to play. This means i am getting used to his power and the little tricks needed to get good with him. There are times i down a survivor after 4 perfect hits (2 to get into power then 2 to down them) and i do think sometimes "Man this killer is a tad OP kind of needs a nerf".
However there are times when i play him and miss a hit with his power then have to spend 3 - 5 business days catching back up to the survivor because he is so god damn slow.

I feel like he is similar to Nurse and Blight. In the hands of a new/casual player he is extremely hard to play. If you miss your shot you lose so much distance, have to spend a while catching up and pray you don't miss the next one. But on the flip side those players who put the time to learn his power will start destroying survivor teams.

Why I feel he isn't OP

Firstly he is a slow killer. His slower movement speed means a survivor just has to hold W and you will have such a long chase. He is shut down fairly easily in a chase by any haste perk, if you don't run aura read then your just shooting blind especially on indoor maps where survivors can break line of sight all the time.

Secondly he is shut down by anything with elevation. I'm not talking about multi level maps like the game or RPD im talking about parts of the map that has temporary elevation. As an example the hills on the outdoor maps. You can't shoot thru them which means you have no choice but to either run around them or leave chase.
When your trying to get quick hits with your power if a survivor is near a staircase, The hill, even things like the railings on dead dog saloon then your power will end up hitting something completely different.

I've been testing various counter plays with him with my wife in customs and there are a fair few things that you can do to shut him down.

Firstly Deception. Because he is a slower movement speed killer I personally find that deception is messing me up, You hear a locker and think the survivor is just hiding from your power. by time u get there you have no visual on the survivor because of the distance they have gained and i would say 7/10 times I have just completely lost the survivor.
Any sort of haste perk. Be it temp haste like sprint burst or lithe or a more perm haste like boon this really messes with the killer. Normally if you can light up the circle so the survivor is dead center then you are guaranteed a hit. But if survivor has any haste then that is no longer the case.
And simply Holding W. This won't let you escape but holding W and not taking a weird side to side path to lose distance will ensure that the chase with Vecna lasts longer than it should.

He's strong, but not OP. I'd place him around the same tier as the likes of Executioner or Nemesis. Just 50/50s, really. His power is incredibly strong if he's patient with firing it, but the same goes for Nemy and Pyramidhead. The undetectable I don't think is too much of an issue too as on most maps he will pretty much never hit it.

In my experience, Vecna feels a lot more like a slower but more consistent Unknown. He's powerful, but good players tends to waste too much of his time trying to proc power (once you learn to dodge with hearing rather than watching Vecna move, he becomes much easier to dodge). Thus, his power can feel absolutely useless at times outside of indoor environments with closed spaces. The fact that he's 4.4m/s only accentuates his weaknesses further

I think he is a very balanced killer.

If you managed to get a 100 winstreak with trapper does that make him not balanced?

He is very powerful. But, his power is relative to the skill of the user, I'd say.

One thing that is undoubtebly overtuned, is the Worldbreaker duration. It simply is too long for the small amount of effort you put in.

He is strong but not overpowered. I like that there is counterplay against him but not so much that it completely shuts his power down

The issue is if you did this then he would for sure be to over powered. Although its annoying having a suvivor holding W you can counter it with perks such as batteries or other haste perks. Given that his power is really powerful at mid/high level then he does need some drawback else your playing an M1 killer with a kick ass power

I'm on the fence about this. As usual it's really a dependant on survivor skill. If you can consistently dodge his vine attack then he's pretty balanced.

But if you can't, then as soon as he gets a worldbreaker trigger he'll have you down remarkably quickly, and can easily hook 2 survivors by the end of a worldbreaker trigger.

His basekit also leans into tunneling very well, that and aura read spam means he can get some pretty jammy hits during worldbreaker. It's like if nurse could injure people just by blinking into them without needing to take a swing.

Overall i think he is a little OP on balance, mainly for low to mid mmr. Personally I would mess with his undergate travel and try and make is ranged attack a little less spammy.

Tbh I have no idea why he can still see and hear everything he normally would in undergate travel. Even aura read. Personally I'd cut out all sound and hide scratch marks. He's an absolute bloodhound when it comes to chasing someone after an unhook. Every pther traversal killer gets a visual or sound limitation. Idk why henry doesn't.

As for the vines I'd decrease the radius a tiny bit or maybe give it a slightly longer cooldown if it lands an injuring attack. Getting 2 tapped with it during worldbreaker is amazingly frustrating.

A deeply dull and problematic design. The only thing holding back the power is the skill of the player utilizing it. It's why Nurse and Hyperfocus have remained the strongest tools of each role; the user is generally not good enough to harness the power. I truly do not agree with the designed theoretical power level provided with the assumption that not too many people will come close to perfection.

When I log on, it's because I want to enjoy Dead by Daylight. I would love to run, hide, take hits, and generally enjoy having autonomy over my movement and the ability to defend my teammates. This killer provides the thrill-less experience of Alucard's Shield at all times. Vault? Wrong answer. Maybe twice sometimes one. Didn't vault? Wrong answer. Maybe once sometimes twice.

This takes my amounts of fun to impoverished levels. It's 10x worse with the infinite monologuing using the same recycled and effortless voice lines. When will we be able to disable that slop?

Nah bro. I'm barely managing a 55% KR with him. Not everyone is instantly good with him.

The survivors don't need to be able to knock First out of power using clocks, but the amount of guaranteed time it currently gives feels to long from the survivors perspective, that's why I think the clocks should take away more time but not drain it completely.

This will reward good first players who are consistently getting shots as it will force survivors on the clocks more often, while still allowing survivors more chances to avoid going back into the clock mode.

seems like ur doing well then, u talk like 55% is bad, what do u want 80%? if u had 80% then what about the top players? 500000%?

55% is good result buddy, improve a bit and u will see much higher stats.

No. His attacks are pretty simple to dodge, they give you warning before it happens. I barely see Henry. I think all together ive versed him 6 times so far. I play him more than i see him as a survivor.

His clock is easy to counter, doesnt take that long and can be done by 1 survivor. Take that away from him and he becomes useless.

if you miss 2 of your vine attacks, survivor usually gets so much distance on you. you have to slowly catch up as 4.4 killer. His undergate attack slows him down for multiple seconds giving survivor plenty of distance. Don't run straight lines, have walls between if possible and you should do fine. If you run straight and camp pallets yeah you are going to go down.

alucards shield is a fun useless meme addon that adds spice to life, what did that sddon ever do to anybody?