How about a mode with no perks and items allowed.

How was the ranking for that though. I know during PTB, I get aton of potato teams cuz the matchmaker throws ranks completely out the window.

But that heavily depends on the players. Killers rely on their perks and add-ons much more than survivors.

Gens will still pop in no time and you'll lose unless you're playing high mobility killers, survivors don't need perks to loop or do gens, all survivor perks do is give you the ability to tank and extend loops. against a decent team with no perks you'll still lose there's only 3 exceptions to this.

I think this would make the strong killers stronger, and the weak killers even weaker. A lot of killers are add-on and perk dependant because their base power either doesnt apply map pressure or it doesnt help them in chases. Top killers like nurse and spirit wouldnt have much of a problem.

For the survivor side, you're basically taking away all second chances and information tools. You would strictly rely on your ability to loop to deal with the killer, while he gets gen rushed. Or you simply get stomped by the better killers in a matter of minutes because their powers allow them to not care about loops. Solo survivors probably wouldnt have a good time playing this mode. Its already tough playing solo survivor even with all the tools you have access to, because a bad team will still drag you down regardless of what you do.

Its an interesting idea, but I just dont see many pros to it compared to the cons I mentioned. It'd also be tough to implement new modes until they come up with a permanent solution for all the matchmaking issues.