What makes The Spirit "too strong"?

multiple things on that list, only able to pick one for the poll.

With the spirit I just think her footsteps need to be louder while in haunting

For me its mainly the prayer beads tbh

I think first we should worry about the killers that aren't viable at all and get them buffed up before we start nerfing/changing the only 3 viable killers, at least then the game would have some variation instead of Nurse, Spirit and Billy every game. (Legion please come back i miss you) :(

For me: the missing vault animation, being able to bump into survivors and obviously Prayer Beads.

It feels pointless to talk about this on the forums when content creators have already done excellent videos on the topic, and when people dont want to have a civil discussion about it. OhTofu and Scott Jund have both done a video on why people dont like Spirit.

I think The Spirit is fine as she is, but the ability to bump into survivors is a little much. One of the biggest Spirit counterplays is running in one direction and then reversing.

Her ability to bump into you makes that counterplay rough, because she can walk in your initial direction, and then get a free hit on you

Ok as a spirit main, I am going to explain what is wrong with most people who play against my spirit:

They do exact same things and run exact same routes as they do vs other killers. In other words, they are extremely predictable, letting me phase to them and hit. It doesn't matter if they are invisible if I can reliably guess where they will be.

It is lunacy to sit and selfheal at a pallet vs a spirit who can just zoom next to you and strike before you have a chance to react. It is stupid to run around a pallet loop vs a spirit that can phase, speedrun against you and bump into you, getting a free hit. Majority of survivors will always run around the map along its edge. All I have to guess is the direction.

Bumping into people only matters if spirit can guess where you are, and they don't need to guess when survivors run the exact same way every time. I dont play at high ranks, but at my own rank thats how it is. The idea of adjusting your playstyle depending who you are up against seems alien to most survivors I play against.

What they SHOULD do is run diagonally opposite to what they would normally run when they hear the phasing sound. Run into the open, not behind jungle gyms. Don't run to the window/pallet, run away from it. Sure, Spirits can hear you, but you don't need to gain much distance until they can't.

Survivors are bad at mindgames because indeed, they arent using any mindgames. Spirit is "OP" simply because you cannot use the same old playstyle against her. Adapt.

It's the fact that survivors have very little information on what the Spirit is doing in phase. They have no feedback to what they should do to juke her. You have to guess where the invisible killer is instead of making a calculated decision.

That is something that makes Nurse more fun to go against than the Spirit, the survivors have feedback on what they need to do rather than choosing heads or tails.

Survivors don't have much they can do against her other than running situational perks such as Spine Chill. Perks shouldn't be the only counterplay to a specific killer. That's simply not healthy for the game.

There are other things that are wrong with her such as the lack of vault animation, collision, and how easy it is for the Spirit to track injured survivors without Iron Will in her phase.

While I agree that we should focus on reworking the weaker killer, Spirit is not healthy at all for the game and should be changed in some way. Not gutting her, but making her more interactive to face.

Prayer beads, collision, grass/corn not moving.

As someone who loves playing Spirit, I will say that I believe Prayer Beads should be an Ultra Rare and Father Glasses a Rare but other than that, I think she's fine.

She’s a hard to learn killer she’s fine

She is mostly fine, the only thing what I would change is that injury sounds should not be directional. So stridor is not that strong with her und that would seperate good spirits with bad spirits. Kind of same as nurse atm.

Prayer Beads, Collision and foliage not moving although that one is debatable.

I'm not a fan of the addons that lets you enter phase quicker because from experience (I am a bad spirit full disclosure) I just use it to run into survivor collisions because I can close the gap too quickly before they can react. It makes it too easy for me to just keep playing poorly rather than improving by actually predicting and reading their movement. I don't know if I am on the receiving end of that but I sometimes assume I am. Just a nitpick though regarding addons but the collision part is why I mention this.

My primary gripe though is I find it hard to learn how to adapt to her at times. I keep getting told she glows blue slightly when she phases but I don't see it and half the time she has cosmetics anyway. Like against a Tombstone Myers for example I know to look for his hand being open or closed. It's subtle but if you're observant enough it can save you or at least prolong your death. Against Spirit I find it hard to read any signs that she is phasing. Also even with these subtle signs against a spirit what am I supposed to do if these are present? They're too hard to see and I can't stop to pay attention because that's how I get hit. There's obviously some game sense involved in predicting when Spirit will phase but some addons make her relentless on how often or quick she can phase.

Also I don't believe Spirit is overpowered it's just in certain circumstances she feels unfair to deal with. Mostly due to various addons. I feel as though her basekit without addons is absolutely fine though.