Playing Clown causes me pain
I tried to make Clown work. Asides from a Redhead's Pinky Finger build, this killer is complete garbage. The fact that most chases on a healthy survivor take 1 minute and Clown has nothing else but chase hurts my brain. You can't have a killer that has nothing else in their kit but chase be so bad at chasing that they might as well be an M1 killer.
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I hate to say it but if most of your chases take 60 seconds with any killer, let alone Clown who is one of the best chasers, then you’re doing something wrong.
Clowns chase power is really really good,there's just a lot you have to take into consideration when playing clown.
-You need to know how to aim your bottles
-Know where survivors will run off to next so you can use a bottle to cut that path off
-How to use your bottles in loops to guarantee a hit with it.
It definetely takes quite some time to master these things and get more value out of him.
you need a forever Freddy detox session
It can potentially take up to a minute+ if the guy is wasting some resources like pallets and playing smart and getting a meaningful dead hard in. Clown is pretty punishing on greedy looping if you throw your gas correctly and should result in a hit fairly quickly unless there are some awesomely strong window to window to pallet areas and you make a mistake.
Honestly I agree that Clown is still one of the worst killers at the moment especially with his 40% movement speed FIVE SECOND RELOAD and his normal addons outside of pinky finger (occasionally the aura reveal I guess) don't give him enough of a boost like Wraith who is addon tied. Inability to one shot in general play just makes him a basic M1 killer with a "higher" skill ceiling for accurately throwing vials in meaningful places. The best throws are when you can cover the entire dangerous loop by hitting something slightly above it and that at best will lower a health state.
It's rare that you ever run out of vials during a chase especially with correct zoning but just the number of times you're doing it really ruins momentum even after hooks or downs as you sit there stirring, looking around as you pick the guy up or post hook and stir while BBQ is going off.
The other minor thing would be that he is like the only killer that GRUNTS in pain whenever he goes through a window - making even potential free hits just not work on him compared to other killers who don't make a noise when you vault as a killer.
My suggestion for changing him would be that a DIRECT hit should basically be a full out short stun rather than just a slow (because the slowdown from chucking one still makes it the same as just throwing the cloud at him), reward the skillful throws even if they don't have pinky finger. Plus get rid of that grunting vault noise... it's needless. I would even change his reloading time in exchange for making him stand still completely to make him feel smoother but maybe that's just me
People who want a full out rework - sure... he's sort of dry and boring at the moment but even small quality of life changes would make him better.
Yeah I've tried, I can end chases fast I can get quick early hooks, he's still just a terrible killer with no real map pressure that announces to everyone when he's busy.
I have the longest chase time with Clown. The main killers I play are Nurse and Cannibal with some Legion, Doctor, Hag, and Plague. I would say the only killer I play with a similar chase time to Clown is Doctor but he has other mechanics to offset that (Madness effects and small terror radius).
Idk. I just run the Flask of Bleach and Cheap Gin Bottle. Even if my Bottle positioning is poor, 6 bottles should be enough to offset that.
Haha. Yep.
Nurse is certainly the best chaser in the game, albeit the hardest to learn. And after his buff Cannibal is one of the top chasers as well. Hag doesn't actually chase people per se, she's kind of in her own category since you intentionally don't want to chase survivors in the first place but more control an area with traps and steer the flow of survivors into them. (She's pretty great though.)
Clown is a better chaser than Doctor. Doctor has a decent anti-vault mechanic but it tends to take a little time at a loop before he can trap someone there against a dropped pallet or window since he slows down slightly every time he uses his Shock. Clown can both cut survivors off from getting to vaults and loops in the first place and, once they get to a vault or dropped pallet, can drop gas on either side of the corresponding loop so that if they try to circle the loop he gets the hit. The only pallets Clown has to break are the legitimately safe ones. (Mind you, chasing people is Clown's only good point, he's got nothing else, so there's no question that Doctor is better overall because of his awesome tracking for instance.)
Clown is also a better chaser than Plague while Plague isn't powered up with Corrupt Purge. While Plague is powered up she's extremely dangerous, of course, but the time she gets to spend using Corrupt Purge is limited and partially under the control of the survivors since they decide when they want to cleanse. Oni is in a similar situation - Clown is better at chases than Oni most of the time but Oni is more powerful when he powered up and using his Demon Rush.
Basically I think Clown is the best or second best chaser out of the 115% movement killers. The 110% Huntress and Spirit are better than him, Nurse is the best, and Deathslinger is I think on par with Clown. (Clown is better at the loops and has a higher 115% footspeed but Deathslinger is better in the open.) I'd say newly buffed Bubba gives Clown a run for his money for the title of best chaser maybe, with close seconds being Doctor, Freddy and maybe Pyramid Head. (Freddy is similar to Clown but slightly weaker since he can only place snares next to himself and they only affect sleeping survivors.)