Should I buy Clown?

I like him.

Is he on sale at the moment? If not wait a bit. He's an older killer and on PS4 at least he is often half price.

Then for £3 or whatever you cant really go wrong as even if you don't like the killer 2 of the perks are very decent. PGTW may well be the new meta if not already.

Edit - oh and how could I forget you get lovely Kate as well. No brainer.

Only if you like being abused. That said, with the next update, this will become the norm for every killer.

I love playing Clown, I have fun with certain add-ons (with the one that gives you exhaustion). I love PGTW. You should buy him! I'm not a Clown main, but I have some good games with him, even when all of the survivors escape.

Hey, 600 hours on Clown here. Honestly, no, he is sad to play and has possibly the highest skill cap in the game. Sometimes a single missed bottle costs you a game and even if you play perfectly, you are rewarded almost nothing. His power pretty much only forces a pallet to be dropped early, but does nothing against infinites and if you want to decrease the distance between you and a survivor, the slowdown post bottle will literally cancel the hindrance (Yeah, balance, bhvr).

He needs some addons, and his recharge time is to big. If you really want to play him tho, use perks to shave chase times and gen regression. I like Pop as my main perk (my fav one in game), Discordance/Corrupt/Sloppy (new ruin is terrible imo). To decrease chases, I use Brutal and Save the Best for Last (M&A is a great pick on him as well). My favorite addons are the starling feather and the thick cork stopper.

If you think Clown would be fun, go for it! But I'd recommend waiting to use Shards for any non liscenced killer, and especially Clown because tbh, he's very weak.

Rank 1 isn't that scary either.

I play him there without Ruin and like I said, the world doesn't end. You can do well.

I'll try to address both of your comments.

I do think it is possible that an average player can enjoy the game at high ranks yes lol, but I do agree with you that this change hits average players the hardest. I understand the pressure it alleviated early game (if it didn't get broken instantly). I disagree that it allowed players to experiment with perk combos though, I think it stifled them; always forcing perk builds to be 3 perks instead of 4 because of how mandatory people think the perk is.

And survivor is the more casual role yes, but I mean... that's always been the case. Apart from soloqueue which can be terrible, survivor is just a more passive role (not to say it's easier necessarily, just less active than killer).

Yes, he can be a fun killer with the right perks, plus he's got that amazing elephant costume coming soon.

I'd say go for it. Corrupt Intervention is better than Ruin on Clown anyway. He has no mobility and a 32m terror radius, so having to patrol half the map at the start is better than potentially losing a totem right away plus patrolling the entire map.

I just bought clown last night and played once. I only sacrificed one survivor that match because I'm still getting the hang of it. He is fun to play. I bought him for PGTW, didn't want to wait for the shrine.

He's only 9000 shards.

Bottles are fun, his laugh is great and it's nice to add some variety to the tired killer pool.

I'm no good at loops so I feel clown is a good way to combat that.

So far he's great! No regrets.

True answer? If you want to have really even more frustrated games with more chore yes.. Sadly hes the worst killler.. He has few ok addons nice mori but hes really bad.. Worst killer now.. Clownophobia is utter crap no reason to take it.. Bamboozle is ok perk to stop loops but obce you learn mindgames it starts loosing potencial and there are far more better options.. But pop!! Oh god that is the best utility slowdown perk in game šach kick regress 25 % of gen.. Pop was leta even before demented ruín nerf so definitely také it.. But ... In new rift pass there are quite a lot and nice cosmetics so i think jed gonna be reworked next.. But watch out devs are balancing and reworking killers not because of balance but because of fun for survivors so hes gonna be crap even after rework..

Don't buy him, you can get him for free with shards in game. It will take a little while if you don't have some saved up already though.

Thicc boi much yes purchase the thicc boi scare scare. #dabonthem haters🤭😘😋

I got to rank 5 in like 3 days using only clown(from rank 18). I love the clown. Even against strong survivors I usually have no problem(in my year and a half of playing, Ive probably had 15 games where more than 2 escaped).

His perks are great.

That's all I got

If you dont have his teachables, Pop is the next best genregress perk next to ruin and bamboozle is usefull on many killers. I personally find clown fun to play but yea sadly clown sucks. But it depends on survivors. If survivors dont genrush then you will probably win, if survivors are bad in chase you will probably win, if survivors hold M1 doesn't matter how bad they are in chase you will lose xD.

Clown actually has a really good anti chase ability, probably one of the best, he just lacks of map pressure, basicly like huntress. Alot of ppl underestimate clown and consider his power as useless or bad designed. But his bottles are probably one of the best designed powers in dbd, you have to learn how to use thouse bottles in which loop and situations. Just like hag many ppl are to lazy to learn this killer and just play them for dailys, spam the bottles and waste them and might up ending with 0 kills and leave this killer behind.

You don't need ruin to be good with clown

if Clown is a killer that you want to play just take it then, no need for dilemma, play like you want to play

Ruin don't fit on him because he not faster.

Exactly and is annoying not fun and boring