A little bit of lithe love.
Back again with another essay.
Now its no secret that, to many of the community, lithe is called the worst exhaustion perk in the game, and for good reason. It's basically just a sprint burst, but worse. The same can't be said about Balanced Landing because of the many other effects it provides, whilst being a lower tier perk might I add.
So I propose we give some love to lithe.
There are a couple ideas I've thought about, some definitely stronger than others.
Firstly, allow lithe the effect of Quick and Quiet whilst not exhausted, and obviously only for vaults. This takes away one of the main drawbacks to using lithe; the killer knows you've vaulted the window and can meet you on the other side. If the killer doesn't know the windows been vaulted, then they may end up mind gaming themselves, giving you ample time to make distance whilst not needing to use 2 of your 4 perk slots to do so.
A different way this could be buffed is by giving lithe a bonus to vault speed whilst not exhausted, although this would be far stronger it'd also be unique to lithe as the only perk which allows you to vault faster whilst healthy. Too great of a bonus would break the game, no doubt. Yet, resilience provides a 9% bonus, so perhaps lithe could offer a 10% stackable bonus as well (whilst not exhausted)? Or, naturally, it could be lower, depending on what the team think is balanced. Therefore, to get full value, then, the survivor would need to use 3 perk slots (resilience, lithe, spine chill) to vault the 25% faster, could only do it whilst exhausted, and so wouldn't be GAMEbreaking. However, would give incentive to use lithe, would give it more appeal in a chase (most exhaustion perks are used to make distance, yet the only times you vault windows or pallets quickly are often during chases when you're already at a loop).
If anyone has any other ideas, or thinks these are stupid, let me know below. Just please be civil about it.
Comments
This is the 1st time im hearing that Lithe is the worst exhaustion perk since the "chase requirement" change.
But if it was needed a buff then i would choose the little Q&Q.
Exaustion perks are the last perks to need any sort of buff tbh..they're really strong as they are
I agree that lithe should get a vault speed increase but only while not exhausted to make it more desirable compared to the other exhaustions. Currently lithe is worse because if you were vaulting a window, you did not need a speed boost unless youre running a bad window, but you shouldn't be running bad windows in the first place. I think if the perk had the vault speed increase (not when you're exhausted) it would be more worth running to the likes of BL, DH, SB.
BL's activation condition enables it to be used to run new routes that aren't always possible.
Sprint Burst gives you an early chase boost and makes it much more difficult to be hit by a suprise attack or caught in a dead zone
DH gives you a lesser but on demand boost.
Lithe gives you a boost, after you used an object that creates distance between you and the killer, basically when you need the boost the least. This would enable it to be used to play windows in a very risky way but only once per chase.
Oh I'm not saying lithe isn't a good perk, it is. Its just, in my opinion, and with other people I've talked to and heard from they've also agreed, that lithe is the most underwhelming of them all because, as SkeletalElite above me said, the times you're using lithe is the time you need the sprint burst the least. Hence, I'd rather give it a buff, make lithe better. Plus, if lithe is better there's one more perk to make meta, which means there's LESS sprint bursts or dead hards to deal with.