Trickster is Worst Killer
After buffs still he is weak. Farm maps only works for him but other maps terrible. If you wanna use your power, good luck with endless loops. If you wanna use m1, good luck with 110%.
Seriously why? 8 knifes means 1 hit. Maybe that is works for 10 - 20 ranks. But purple & reds are not bad like that, they know how to dodge your knifes. Main Event would be good but you can not get it fast and when you use it, it does not really worth it most of times.
He still need buffs, he still one of the weakest killers. I will not say how can you make him better, already so many people said how he has to be. There is so many good ideas already. Just listen your community, who supporting you and your game.
I can not believe how Trickster is weak, he has good gameplay but we can not play with this weaknes.
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he's a mediocre at BEST killer, but not the worst. i literally do not know what games u are playing but in my solo red rank lobbies, people suddenly forget how to play the game and tricksters absolutely demolish my team. all it takes is one god awful teammate that only runs in straight lines to snowball the entire game and cause us to lose. his main event is strong if u know what u are doing and his add-ons can be lethal in certain maps.
most ppl who complain ab him played one game with him on release and hasn't touched him since
In my opinion with about 5ish hours spent on him, he isn't terrible but is rough around the edges, and the fact that he can cheese hits at certain spots and loops where other killers can't makes him slightly better than the worse/worst killer/s in the game
I do not know your teammates but when i face againts him, building and walls destroying him. Most of them i face trying m1. Imagine you have one of the fun powers but you have to use m1 because your power is not strong enough. My easiest games always against him, i think i died 2 3 times to him.
And i still have not Adept Trickster because when i touch him, game starting to be painful.
gotten merciless countless times with the trickster at this point.
just play him, dude. he's fine. still needs some buffs, but either way, you're gonna perform very well if you know how to play him, even in the big scary totally not overrated red ranks.
He's not weak. You're overthinking him and playing him like an m1 killer or Huntress.
You do not ever m1 healthy people. You do not ever mindgame. You do not do anything but walk at people and throw knives. You chase them with knives, you injure them with knives, knives are your life.
You do need to learn his timings. You do need to be a very good shot. Jungle gyms and main buildings are his only counterplay and you can still down survivors there much quicker than an m1 killer no matter how good they are. You just learn when to ready your knives and throw them as you are turning corners.
all the survivors have to do is side-step the 2-3 knives he throws at each corner. for killer you claim that survivors helpless vs, he sure has some of longest chases.
Yea then i am worst Trickster in DbD then. Because i can not play good with this killer. I am good as Freddy, Leatherface, Wraith, Doctor, Pyramid Head etc.
But Trickster is my problem. I am bad as Nurse too but because i am learning her. She has different mechanics. But Trickster has not different gameplay. But i am so bad as him. And i do not think, that because of me. Because survivors can loop him so easly. I just wanna play more as him, i paid for him first day but i never get fun as him.
Wow - you managed to say exactly the same thing as the last 50 threads that are about him....
Trickster isn't that bad, he just can't be played like the other ranged Killers. He needs some buffs, but he's a high C-tier at worst (aka, without add-ons, with add-ons, he's mid B-tier).
Source: Reaching level 40 with him while only playing as him, averaging 2-3 kills per game, and achieving Adept Trickster in 3 attempts at purple ranks.
Mean while only way I would ever play him is if he gets a Court Jester outfit
Trickster's not the worst killer in the game. Main Event still needs a buff, but the fact that his power can counter the main 2-3 things Survivors can do to give M1 killers serious issues is honestly fantastic.
Trickster is the best killer in the game, hands down - he just tricks you into thinking he's mediocre by holding back every game.
There's a reason why always seems confident, and laughs during chases.
Fun fact:
He's laughing at you, not the survivor, because he's purposefully holding himself back and knows you're suffering.
Now you also know why he winks at you in the lobby when you pick him.
How the ######### are they going to sidestep the knives? They can't turn a corner any faster. Trying to "sidestep" anything is going to make them take even more knives than they had to.
I less you're assuming the Trickter has terrible aim, which... no. Just no.
You know what? I find Trickter miserable to play as. He's so boring. His counterplay is basically genrushing. Survivors cannot loop me, they cannot pull of little mindgame's or anything, because in 30-40 seconds they're down, and that's assuming I found them in a chained maze tile set.
If you have good aim, as in you aren't missing many knives at all, then Trickter is fine. You're just massively overthinking him, he is so deceptively simple that it's hard to explain how stupidly you should be playing in order to do well with him.
Or a team that refuses to do generators while you literally do two laps of the map.
When i did adept trickster, i played at midnight to get poor matchmaking, turns out luck was in my favour and i got four grey ranks lol thats my advice for the adept.
No way in hell is adept trickster possible at red ranks.
The same way you dodge huntress hatchets and deathslinger harpoon shots. they don't turn corners faster, they turn corner slower but don't take damage. even if they do take damage, its still not as punishing as other range killers. that's whole point for why he's weak, he gets just as many chances to take shots, but his shots deal 1/8 damage. there has to some kind of advantage to playing this killer over other ranged killers but there just currently isn't and your promoting him as if he has "significant" advantages that make make "good".
You don't dodge hatchets or harpoons, the killer misses their shot. There is a huge difference.
The issue is that survivors can elongate chases with him easily it doesn't matter if you go down if you take a long ass time to do so that's how survivors counter him. The reasons a trickster is not going to give up a chase is that any other survivor can elongate chases with him to an unreasonable extent and knives decay + how he's a good camper + how players usually heal against him and the rate he can injure cant keep up to make it worth it.
Trickster is in the same situation doctor would be in if he was garbo because assuming a docter times his shocks and throws it out every time you enter most loops you WILL eventually get hit because you cant counter him making tiny bits of distance or taking away your ability to drop (assuming you are not out of shock range and predrop which is often not worth it) if he shocked at every opportunity or a pyramid head just sword in ground waiting for you to lock yourself in a animation. Just because trickster share the attribute with these killers in the sence he will eventually down (on the basis he is hitting knives, with some players this just needs to be said lol) you doesn't make him any good because even compared to fairer, not worse just fairer, killers to play against most the time in most games this doesn't matter because as much as people think they are against seal team 6 they are not but hes still one of the weakest killers in the game in contention for weakest because they only thing that matter in measuring how good a killer is, is how time efficient they can be.
This is why even if hes potentially not the weakest killer he is still just weak, his bad design is not making him much better tho.
That being said you can still do well with him against almost all players and i dont think there's some massive problem with him that needs changing and i don't want a rework as he can actually be chill to turn off and play, although I see his release as a bit of a bottlejob, but i just cant call him not weak.
your movement affects their ability to aim and hit you. they missed their shot because you predicted where they were going to shoot ahead of time. Its called making reads. its what mindgames are. they're games within games that revolve around prediction over reaction.
I know its foreign concept because this game has so many loops where you can run around in a circle perfectly predicting the exact movements of a killer thus you are not tested on making reads and can just react to whatever the killer does.
I wouldn't call 40 seconds a particularly long chase. His biggest weakness is that he doesn't really have short ones, either.