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Which Are The Easier Killers To Play
Today I'm going to make a list on which killers are easies to use to which ones are hardest to use. Now we're going to look at every killer as a new player starting to learn the basics of the game. We're also going to assume they took the turorial of how to play killer. With that out of the way, let's rank which are the easiest killers to the hardest killers.
(This will be updated when Freddy and Legion get their rework.)
Now they are 4 categories I want to mention where I'm putting these killers at. We have the Baby, Kid, Teenager, Adult. I'm sure the words are self explainable.
Baby
These are the killers you can start playing and go well with.
1. Leatherface
Leatherface is probably the easiest killer in the game to play as a new killer starting out. He has an instadown that's really easy to hit. 115 movement speed. Plus let's not forget BBQ. Leatherface is just undoubtedly the best killer to start as. Plus on lower ranks killers usually camp, so you can do that infinetly more effectively with Leatherface. Since we all know, Leatherface at camping. You don't win. Survivors have zero chance against Leatherface at camping. So yeah, Leatherface as your starting killer is probably better than any other killer in the game as your starter.
2. Trapper
Trapper is the first killer in the game, and he's also one of the more easier ones. While you don't need skill to play Trapper, the longer you play and understand Trapper, the more strategic you get. Trapper is one of those killers who you can play as and be good, but he also has a high ceilings to improve and become so much better at. Playing Trapper as your starting killer is almost like watching a baby start growing up until he becomes an adult. So he's pretty good, as a starting killer and latter on to improve.
3. Nightmare/Freddy
Now Freddy is a bit of a tricky one to pinpoint, but I decided to add him here on the baby list. Freddy, at least on the starting to learn part of the game is relatively great. Newer survivors won't really know that Freddy can see you while you're in dream and they'll probably fail to get out of dream. So is like having tags on survivors at all times. Which is great. Freddy might not be a good killer (yet. Pray for that rework to be good.) he's still a pretty decent starting killer and the extra tracking is nice to have.
4. Hillbilly
Billy is another really easy killer to play. While his chainsaw is harder to hit than Leatherface, once you get used to some of his mechanics and speed he becomes really easy. He's also one of the best killers in the game so if anything for a killer to be this easy and high tier. Is almost always a Yes to play this guy.
Kid
Now these are the killers you need to at least know some game mechanics to use.
5. Wraith
I was originally going to add him on Baby list, but I decided in the end to add him at kid. With Wraith, you need to understand that he starts invisible and getting out of invisible gives you a boost of speed. Plus survivors will hear the bell. Wraith, to be at least decent, you also need to know mindgames, but he's also easy to understand some of the game mechanics like blood tracking and scratch mark tracking, due to his 2 teachable perks Bloodhound and predator. At one side you need to know how he works but his perks also teach you some important mechanics in the game.
6. Doctor
Now to play Doctor, you need to understand each stance. Be it Treatment and punishment mode. What's the range of the shock therapy, what madness does. How to use his tracking effectively. Doctor requires you to know a few game mechanics before playing him. He's easy to use afterwards, but you need a bit of knoledge first.
7. Legion
(I can almost hear a bunch of people rushing down and correcting me, saying Legion is a braindead killer, left and right.) Well let me stop you right there. Legion requires you to have fully understand the various of game mechanics to be good. Not to mention he's 110 movement speed so you have got to know how to use his power. Plus how his power is best used, because if we remember when Legion first came out. People were quick to lable him to be the worst killer. But after a few weeks past Legion was actually really good. Players need to understand Legion before playing, plus to be effective. Not to mention you need to know moonwalking too, or you know, looking at the floor and follow the blood.
Teenager
8. Pig/Amanda
Now at glance, Pig is an M1 killer. Pig a bit deeper though and she's a mindgame/stealth killer with a power to slow the game down. So with Pig, you need to know a bit of mindgames with her dash attack. While playing her is simple enough, understanding her power and maximizing it to is great potential, needs a bit more understanding.
9. Shape/Michael Myers
Myers powers is almost like a super sayan transformation that you need to understand how it works to be good at it. We got Tier 1, Kid Goku, Tier 2, adult Goku, Tier 3, Super Sayan Goku. Myers is technically easy, digging a bit deeper, and you'll understand that they are things here and there that you could easily tinker with.
10. Clown
I add him here, because you need to aim with him, and that usually requires a bit of practice. While he's no Huntress, i still aiming with his power. You also throw the bottles on where you think they're going and not necessarily directly at them.
11. Plague
Similar reason as Clown, but with more detail and understanding both vomits. What they can and can't do. Its range, and how effective it is. Plus quick pukes.
Adults
12. Huntress
Once again, aiming with Huntress. You need to understand how it works, its range, and hitbox. But out of all the range killers she's the hardest to aim with.
13: Hag
Hag is a very strategy base killer. To be good and effective you need to understand survivor mentality, pathways, her strengths and weaknesses, when to teleport, how fast to react, and when to mindage. She's very complex, but not impossible.
14. Spirit
Her power and way to be effective are undoubtably hard to use and master. You need to understand mindgames, able to hear your enviourments, and know how to use her power. She's difficult to play and master.
15. Nurse
Undoubtedly the hardest killer is the Nurse. She's probably the killer who punishes noob killers out of all the killers. Because with her, you need to know mindgames, map layout, how to use her power, her range of power, predictions, and if you don't you get punished for it due to her fatigue. At least with other killers they don't punish you for being bad. Nurse on the other hand with her fatigue punishes noob players for missing a hit. Not listenibg to footsteps. Tracking after a fatigue, and so on. She is undoubtedly in my mind, the hardest killer in the game. But once you do master her, no one will beat you.
And that's a wrap on the easiest killers to hardest. What do you think? You think some needed to be place easier, or harder. Tell me what you all think.
Comments
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Thank you for acknowledging that Legion isn't braindead.
❤️
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Anytime.
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Nea is the easiest to master why isn't she on the list?!
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The thread seems to be misleading. The title is about mastering a killer which includes any possible trick you can do with said killer to beat survivors but instead you talk about wether it's easy to play particular killers. That's a major difference or not. Playing isn't mastering.
Sure you can play Leatherface immediately and do ok BUT mastering him contains going through narrow places (i.e. through multiple doors [lery's], jungle gym openings, any narrow map structure) while using the chainsaw without getting stunned. Most new (and even veteran players) will bump into walls when things go quickly unless they've spent considerable time practicing Leatherface.
I even use Leatherface's chainsaw to mindgame bad pallets and certain map structures to get an instadown using the last few swings of his chainsaw as they're the fastest in movement speed which is something you need to learn before you can effectively use Leatherface.
And Hillbilly? Anybody can play him but only very few have mastered him. Mastering him contains chainsaw flicking to break loops. Most Hillbilly players use the chainsaw at point blank range to get a cheap instadown with no skills. Skilled Hillbilly players who actually mastered him use his ability to curve around any map structure turning Billy into an instadown-antilooper. Chainsaw flicking not only takes serious skills but also anticipation as you have to be aware of typical survivor movement. Sometimes I curve into certain ways because I know survivors tend to walk into path "A" or stay at pallet "B".
I will upload video samples for the described Leatherface and Hillbilly scenarios in about 30 mins so people understand what I mean.
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Because we're acknowledging real killers, not meme killers.
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I get what you mean, but I'm talking about this as a new player standpoint. Sure they are nits and points you can do to improve on those killers. I'm talking about how difficult a killer can be if you were to pick him up starting the game. Is not me necessarily saying how you can Master a killer or anyting. Leave that to the experts. No, I'm picking killers which if you pock them up starting the hame, how good can you perform? That's the general question.
Look at this as a new killer main starting to play the game.
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I always love seeing billy at the bottom of the skill list. Surprised he isnt easier than leatherface. Travel to gen, M1 or sprint away. Mastered ;D
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Should've made a "mentally disabled" section and put Legion in it.
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Many killers are far more complex then what you have listed. Yes, Trapper is very easy to start with, but to truly master and understand him you need to know good trap placement, have superior map knowledge, and an understanding of survivor behavior. He behaves in a Hag manner, just with more chasing and less teleporting.
Wraith uncloaks are the absolute key to mastery with him. Just uncloaking in front of a survivor and going derp mode is unwise. Uncloaking and charging from odd angles, from behind walls, and blocking safe pathways is a must. His Addons also greatly change how he behaves.
Addons are also pivotal for killers like the Doctor, as it literally changes his entire play style and tracking system.
I don’t disagree with everything you say at all, as you sum it up fairly well, but many killers have little tricks and nuances that are far more difficult to master.
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8. Pig/Amanda
Now at glance, Pig is an M1 killer. Pig a bit deeper though and she's a mindgame/stealth killer with a power to slow the game down. So with Pig, you need to know a bit of mindgames. While playing her is simple enough, understanding her power and maximizing it to is great potential, needs a bit more understanding.
I really hope you are referring to the dash when you say mind games.
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I was looking at this as a new killer player. Keep that in mind. This isn't considering add ons, since add ons do change gamestyle, especially Myers.
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He isn't the easiest because manuvering and aiming his chainsaw is a thing
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No
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I do, I just forgot to say dash, my mistake.
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Right, he would be the easiest to master if not for aiming.
Just like Huntress, also the easiest killer if you dont count aiming.
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Well the difference between the two is that Huntress, you kinda relly on her hatchet throws to damage survivors. You don't throw them at point blank (unless insta down hatches).
Billy on the other hand, you can go up and chainsaw them at point blank and you wouldn't be wrong to do it. Heck I do it for easier chainsaw downs. Is much easier than manouvering with the drift add ons and drifting just so the survivors move the other way. On the higher ranks you're less likely to get chainsaws because people would know how to juke it.
I'm looking at these killers as if I was starting with them. In other words rank 20 and stuff like that. Where survivors don't know how to juke, and stuff. A plaffe where beginners start their grind and journey.
Looking at it that way, you usually use Billy's chainsaw at point blank for easier downs. Something still used in the higher ranks. After all, isn't it easier to down a survivor with the chainsaw at closer range? Sure they'll juke, but at that point even the killer is experienced.
Billy is an easy killer, but does have a high ceiling to improve at.
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Huntress does indeed throw her hatchets at point blank. Its her infamous M2-M1 combo. Hitting melee hatchets and backrevs takes skill. Compared to all the other killers in dbd, those are one of the few things that need skill and can be messed up.
Even a backrev is much harder to master than a wraith, pig, myers etc. And that is just the starting point of billys way to mastery. On higher ranks, good billys dont get juked, they get outmaneuvered. They dont give billy an opportunity to chainsaw by standing close to pallets and windows. Those jukes are predictable, a seasoned billy will hit most backrevs. His mastery includes much more, like playing pallets, zoning, fakereving, bodyblocking etc. Up to the pinacle which is cutting loops by flicking around corners and hitting the tip of an unexpecting survivor.
What i've read so far in my 3 years of dbd, that beginners can not handle the chainsaw and usually dont play him because of that. The backrev is hard to master already, but thats still comparatively easy to his true potential. Its a oneshot bound to twice the speed, almost uncontrollable in the first second and then easily dodged after. The potential is gigantic. Thus he is hard to master, which is your title of the thread.
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You're missing the point. I'm not looking at Billy applying all of the various skills you can add on him, you can do all of that, but you're missing the point. I'm looking him at the hands of new killer players.
If newer players can't handle his chainsaw doesn't mean that others can't handle it. It depends on the player. But in general, Billy is easy to play. At least when I first starting playing Billy. I didn't even know how to chainsaw dash. Took me a tutorial to get an idea of it.
But again, I'm not looking at Billy at the hands of Rank 1. I'm looking at him at the hands of rank 20 killers. So change your mentality for a second and just think differently for a moment.
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But then your title and your intentions are two opposites. Your title asks for skillceiling, while now you are asking for skillfloor. You cant mix up both and if you ask for skillfloor, Doctor, Wraith and Freddy are the universal noob stompers.
You should change the title for easy killers to start, not for easy killers to master.
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The hardest killers are 100% Hag and Huntress.
In terms of learning curve it’s Hag.
In terms of consistency it’s Huntress.
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The title was an odd mistake on my part. I meant which killers are easier to used at the start of the game, and are easy to simply use on those games that will help you latter become better at killer or simply get the bloodpoint grind easier. Which is why Leatherface is number one on this spot. Easy to use killer, plus has BBQ. What else could you need?
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They are hard, but Nurse and Spirit are harder.
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Freddy is hard to master.
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Not on low ranks. Sure on higher ranks you rely more on mindgames, but we're talking about low ranks here. Not high ranks.
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Ok, thats a whole different question. Yeah i could agree on the bulk, atleast the reasonings behind them. Idk if it makes much sense for so many tiers. There are noobstompers like Freddy, Wraith and Doctor. There are slower unique playstyle killers, which are not recommended to start. The rest are M1 killers, which can help you in specific areas.
The best suited to learn for the long run would be a base killer. Someone who does not help you find survivors, down them, sneak on them or does completely different M2 things.
Trapper and Leatherface come to mind. But if you choose Leatherface, may as well go with Billy if you are a hardcore gamer. He will emphasize mobility and map pressure more than other killers though, so not the pure learning experience. Could a good thing too though, since killers dont learn to play around hooks to win.
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Wraith is one of the easiest to get into, but his awesome buffs to his Add-ons allow for a lot of tactics, some of them difficult.
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Hag is nowhere near as hard to learn as Nurse or Spirit.
Not saying Hag doesn’t have a learning curve but I’ve only played Hag for about two or three hours and I’m pretty decent at her. She doesn’t take long to learn. You just have to know where to trap and herd survivors into your traps.
Spirit on the other hand takes quite a bit of prediction and has a large learning curve but a very high ceiling of improvement. It didn’t take me incredibly long to learn how to play her though.
Nurse on the other hand takes muscle memory. I haven’t grasped how to play her, but I do play on console though :/
Huntress is also up there when it comes to skill to play. I’ll even argue that she is harder to learn than Spirit is.
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Which is why I put him a bit above, though even I debated in putting him lower.
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Um, hello, in the literal post I said that Spirit and Nurse are literally the hardest to learn.
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When your in the red ranks your going to regret that
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Maybe its me. But the first killer I've gotten past 8 for anything other than dailies is Hag. I'm not saying I'm godly or even great, but I absolutely love playing her. I watched a great youtube by SpaceCoconut (shoutout!) and off I went.
For me, the other killers are just dailies or when I'm bored and feel like lurking in the basement for RP >_> (Don't judge me)
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Hey me too. Love SpaceCoconut. He really brings out the Hag in me.
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This is starting the game, not red ranks. We all know nurse, Billy, Spirit (and so on) are the best for red ranks.
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Yet I added Freddy in one of the easier categories and he's labeled hard.
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I found the chainsaw brothers impossible to learn. Hag was much easier. I think in some cases its a combination of what you're capable of and what the game design is.
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Yeah, agreed. Nothing is set and stoned here after all.
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I didn’t quote you. I was quoting @Croquedead who was stating that they believe Hag and Huntress are the hardest killers to master.
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Funny because I rapidly went from trapper to doctor to shape when I was first learning killer, forged myself in hellfires as a shape with bad perks and still managed to get to rank 12 on the old kills based pip system with less than 20-30h experience over a weekend. I didn't touch billy/LF for the longest time, sure they're easy now but as a fresh killer I could not billy for the life of me. Wouldn't say hag is too difficult early on, once you get it you get it and I saw earlier you suggested this was from a new killer view point at low ranks too. Agree with nurse, spirit and huntress though. Wraith is pretty basic to learn so probably better with trapper level
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Oh, my mistake
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Ok
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I don’t understand these lists. My partner started to play killer and she’s having a really hard time. She tried the ones that are supposed to be easy, and it’s not. If they can hear or see her coming they win.
i bought her Ghost Face and now she can at least have some fun killing people every now and then.
These lists assume the person is good at games in general and just needs to learn the killer. So they’re ranked in terms of ease of use for abilities not easy to actually play the game.
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Looking at it, this list is from before Ghostface. I can certainly see why Ghostface would be good for new players. He's not faster in stealth mode the way Wraith is, but he can still attack and isn't slowed down coming out of stealth mode the way Wraith is. Not as difficult to use as Spirit because she can't see survivors, so you have to be able to hear them (and sounds are always broken) or predict them, which new killers wouldn't be able to do; plus, Ghostface is a 115% speed killer whereas Spirit is a 110%. And Pig is only in stealth mode when crouching, so she's slower and her field of view is often blocked by grass.
Yeah, Ghostface is a good recommendation for a new player. Personally, I love playing stealth killers; surprising survivors is the fun part. When survivors can hear you coming from a mile away, it gives them a lot of time to hide or get into a strong position, which gives any survivor with a bit of experience a big advantage over an inexperienced killer.
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