A discussion on the balance of killers

When talking about balance in Dead by Daylight, it's become a common tactic to reference the top 3, whether claiming to their overpower, balance, or even underpower in some cases. Most killers are compared to them, and beside these top 3 there's usually a gray area of "mediocre" killers. None of which have a true defined level of power.

There's no doubt that there are killers in this game that simply are not powerful enough for serious competitive play. Often these killers fall off around green or purple ranks, and become a joke in red ranks. Now, this is not only affecting killers, but survivors as well. I see a lot of complaints saying that facing the same 3 killers all the time is not fun, and I agree. It would be boring to only get to build around these three (as Tru3 has said, build around Nurse and Spirit, because the other killers don't need a build to be beaten.)

The solution to this is to bring every killer up to Nurse or Spirit level. Now, I know I'm going to lose a lot of you right now with that comment, but finish reading before you go typing about how these two are way overpowered and should be outright removed. I need to explain what I mean when I say "Nurse *or* Spirit" because I do mean very different things when I talk about the two.

These two killers are very very powerful for very different reasons. The nurse is powerful because of her ability to counter (or in this case, remove) loops in the game. The Spirit does this as well, but in a much different way. The Nurse does it through her power, and full on avoiding the loop. Similar killers are Billy, Leatherface, and Old Legion. Spirit avoids loops by having a mind game potential at almost literally every loop and pallet in the game. Similar killers are Pig and Ghostface. (I'm forgetting others right now, please let me know of other killers with loop mind game potential)

However, while all killers have this kind of ability in some way, there's 1 core component of each and every top 3 killer that no other killer has. If they are better than you, they will win. If you are better than them, you will win. This is how it is against a nurse (henceforth I will be talking about base kit or some add-ons. We'll save the add-on discussion for later) and every other top 3 killer in the game. This is how it should be with every killer in the game. If you are better than them, you will win. If they are better than you, they will win. It all comes down to skill, and their ability to use the kit to its full advantage.

If you've made it this far, no matter your stance I want to say you've earned my respect, and thank you for hearing my point of view.