Unpopular opinion : most useful/used addons, should have effects lessened, and added to base kit.
Hear me out. i think a lot of killers in the cast have a lot of addons which are arguably so much better than other addons within their kit that it makes it negiligble to use other addons
therefore instead of nerfing those addons, i think their effects should be lessened, and add retroactively to the basekit of the killer, like how the crouching addons were nerfed for pig and added back as base kit (nerfing the addons, but buffing the pigs base kit.)
I feel personally this would go a long ways into making other killers addons feeling more viable, alongside buffing lower tier killers where it only feels they can be viable if they use certain addons. mid tier killers are also affected by this feeling almost railroaded into certain setups outside of specific builds.
Like you can probably name a low/mid tier killers best addon set off the top of your head if you think about it
billy/lf with their charge speed addons (these two killers also need an addon pass much like hag or trapper)
ghostface power recovery (nerf his power recovery and add the same effect at base and he feels so much more useable)
wraith windstorm series (pretty much his most overused series of addons)
plague with apple series (before and after the buff, though less so now. good change from the devs!)
Clown with reload speed/cooldown, exhaustion or the flask of bleach. (throw speed debuff is being changed in next update so i can assume flask of bleach is going to only become more prevelant negating the feather series even more.)
Myers with either double charge speed or double lengthening (outside of using ultra rares/rares you can pretty much garuntee him using one of these trees of addons. his case is pretty specific and i'd suggest actually buffing his other addon sets rather then debuffing these addons and adding them to base kit but yeah.)
trapper with the bags (not his best addon, but plenty of people want to see atleast one bag at base. with the trap resetting change this is less useful now, but im using it to state the point)
deathslinger with the reload series (like, the difference with and without reload addons is the difference between a steam roll or being incredibly punished by missing a shot, and being able to catchup)
Oni with topknot/demogoron with rat liver (both these singular addons change their respective killers to be so much better, so why not try and adjust their powers to be less reliant on these addons singularly, whilst having the addons bring it back to the full effect of them when used?)
Overall point being.. if a killer is underpreforming in some areas, and using an addon to *make up* for their shortcomings, they should be buffed to compensate for their addon which should be debuffed in turn, to make all addons feel useful and applicable to a killer. this also isin't me saying buff all killers, or change all killers this way yada yada. its simply me thinking the overuse of addons leads to a more stale game, and that more useful addons across the board would make things all the better.
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