Clown is good at all the wrong things

gatsby

Clown is good at:

1. Camping/Slugging
2. Ending Solo Chases
3. Denying Exhaustion Perks with his add-ons

Clown is bad at:

1. Gen Pressure
2. Mobility
3. Pressuring Multiple Survivors

Marcus

I don't see how Clown is better at camping or slugging than pretty much any other killer.

terumisan

Clown ain't really great at camping or slugging

ASurvkillivorer

Can you still edit the title?

You said "The Clown is good at nothing" wrong.

PigMainClaudette

Deathslinger does the same things and Clown does in terms of ending chases quickly. People think that he's decent.

I've already covered off the major problems with Clown in my own thread "The Clown Problem" and the tl:dr is that his power is only for the chase and it has so many drawbacks, combined with the fact that survivors learnt how to counter him naturally.

YaiPa

clown can just be annoying if used with the exhaustion and extra hindering effect, otherwise is worthless, just earlier pallet drops in a world of pallets.

USELESS

Clown is pretty weak, just lose for the nurse

tortrader

@YaiPa said:

clown can just be annoying if used with the exhaustion and extra hindering effect, otherwise is worthless, just earlier pallet drops in a world of pallets.

The pinky finger is one of the stronger add ons in the game for a killer. If you have some throwing skill you can control when Exposed happens during a chase.

BigTimeGamer

@tortrader said:

https://forum.deadbydaylight.com/en/discussion/comment/1170747#Comment_1170747

The pinky finger is one of the stronger add ons in the game for a killer. If you have some throwing skill you can control when Exposed happens during a chase.

but that's not clown being good, thats an addon being dumb powerful. Clown is only really annoying with exhaustion addons, and his gas putting vaseline on my screen

insta downs in general are pretty stupid

DocFabron

You're giving Clown too much credit.

PigMainClaudette

@The_high_ground said:

https://forum.deadbydaylight.com/en/discussion/comment/1170841#Comment_1170841

Just because you're really great at using a killer doesnt mean that killer is a strong killer . for example , many people think wraith is a underrated killer , even though he lacks map pressure and has several flaws including being able to be burnt by a flash light and not having his speed addons basekit.

you cant deny that out of the whole roster clown probably lacks the most map pressure. Clown is a lot like Deathslinger , he is great at 1v1 chases but when it comes to a whole team, he doesnt have much. the only thing he has going for him is his Exhaustion addons.

Clown has so many things that makes him a terrible killer such as ;his slow as heck reload speed , your movement speed dropping to like 50% when reloading , his audio cue that he gives off when vaulting (it's super loud ), his map pressure is little to none ( you down someone on one side of the map, there is no way you're using pop on the gen on the other side) unlike killers like spirit , freddy, oni, demogorgon, and freddy. His toxic gas doesnt prevent survivors from fast vaulting pallets. speaking of pallets , it the survivor is at least somewhat competent they'll drop that pallet early and keep running.

I'm sure you're really good at playing clown(and that's really amazing man!)but he is simply no where near a good killer.

Being really good at a killer doesn't make them strong for EVERYONE, true, but they can be strong FOR YOU. And I think that Dude's come up with a method that's strong for him. And you know what? Good on you @DudeDelicious for finding an effective method of playing a "weak" killer.

I've done a similar thing with Pig, focusing on actually patrolling generators rather than finding chases, stalling out the game to a crawl, picking off survivors one-by-one and getting a massive snowball effect. Doesn't work 100% of the time, but it's good for me and actually really fun.

Sometimes the best thing we can do is change our thinking on a topic and look at it from another angle.