Freddy needs a higher skillcap
There have been a lot of complaints about Freddy being boring or overpowered and I honestly think he's mostly fine. He has a lot of synergy with certain perks and does great in chases, wasting time, and putting pressure on gens. These are great things to have in a killer when you're playing killer.
I don't think he needs a nerf but reworked to have a higher skillcap. Right now, he's a low skillcap high reward killer. For example, most people would agree that Michael Myers and Billy are perfect killers in that they are high skillcap, high reward killers. I would also put Oni and Pyramidhead in this group as well. If you can mindgame survivors into your trenches, you can instahook or instakill. Mike has to stalk effectively and Oni has to slap a #########.
In the case of Freddy, you can teleport across the map. You can spam snares and bloodlust a survivor on an unsafe pallet, effectively removing the mindgame. When a survivor is asleep, it effectively removes the mindgame of moonwalking and doubling back and allows you to play lazily when the survivor has restricted fov. Survivors are to waste time to perform certain actions to wake themselves up, or forced to run across the whole map.
He gets all that ######### for FREE because survivors passively fall asleep, and quite fast at that. In most chases, you're going to be asleep or you're going to fall asleep within seconds. I don't want to nerf killers because it makes them less fun to play. There needs to be some extra condition for him to get his power AND/OR some drawback to using his power because his power is indeed strong. Maybe have survivors fall asleep twice as slowly or something. As he is right now, he IS the cheapest killer right now. This should be everyone's main gripe with him, not because he's boring or he's overpowered.
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