A Better Trickster
Killer: The Trickster
The Trickster is a ranged Killer, able to quickly unleash both a burst of blades and volley of blades by using his power, Showstopper.
- Movement Speed: 115% (4.6m/s)
- Terror Radius: 24 meters
- Lullaby Radius: 8-40 meters
Power: Showstopper
Showstopper is a two-part Power: Showstopper Burst and Showstopper Crescent.
The Trickster starts the Trial with 60 Blades.
Showstopper Burst
Tap the Power Button to activate Showstopper Burst.
Upon activating, The Trickster will swiftly throw 3 Blades in front of him in quick, burst-like succession within a 5 degree cone of each other.
Showstopper Crescent
Hold the Power Button to charge Showstopper Crescent.
Upon initiating the charge, The Trickster will begin to charge blades within his hand, starting with 1 Blade and maxing out at 9 Blades. Upon letting go of the Power Button, The Trickster will unleash every charged Blade upon his victims in a wide spread in front of himself.
Laceration Meter
A Survivor's Laceration Meter fills up each time they are hit by a Blade.
Once a Meter is filled (9 hits), they lose a Health State, putting them into either the Injured or Dying State.
A Survivor's Laceration Meter will gradually decrease if they have not been hit by a Blade for a short period of time. It will also fully decrease if a Survivor is hit by a Basic Attack.
Special Attack: Main Event
Each Blade hit dealt to Survivors fills the Event Meter.
Once full, Main Event can be activated by pressing the Activate Ability button.
In this mode, The Trickster changes up his style and unleashes a flurry of rapidly tossed Blades towards his victim for the duration of Main Event. Main Event can be cancelled at any time by pressing the Activate Ability button again, though doing so will deplete all charges of it.
Power Trivia
Blades
- Projectile Speed: 55 m/s
- Projectile Lateral Spawn Offset: 10 cm
- Projectile Forward Spawn Offset: 48 cm
- Left and Right Projectiles Path-Convergence Distance: 128 meters
- Projectile Maximum Range: 128 meters
- Low-on Ammo Threshold: 15 Blades
Showstopper Burst
- Start-Up Time: 0.25 seconds
- Burst Duration: 0.15 seconds
- Window between Bursts: 1.25 seconds
- Spread: 5 degrees
- Movement Speed when Throwing: 4.2m/s
Showstopper Crescent
- Base Charge Time: 0.05 seconds
- Charge Time per Blade: +0.1 seconds per Blade
- Maximum Charge Time: 0.95 seconds
- Cooldown between Charges: 0.75 seconds
- Minimum Blade Amount: 1
- Maximum Blade Amount: 9
- Spread at 1 Blade: 0 degrees
- Spread at 3 Blades: 30 degrees
- Spread at 6 Blades: 45 degrees
- Spread at 9 Blades: 90 degrees
Main Event
- Movement Speed: 4.2m/s
- Charged Required: 30 Charges
- Charge Bonus per Hit: +1 Charge
- Duration: 10 seconds
- Cooldown: 5 seconds
- Activation Threshold: 0.15 seconds
- Activation Time: 1.5 seconds
- Deactivation Time: 3 seconds
- Main Event resets if Trickster is Blinded or stunned with a Pallet.
- If Trickster is Blinded by a Flashbang, he will be stunned for 5 seconds and go into an eye-wiping animation.
Main Event no longer depletes charges until activated; this means you can now hold it indefinitely until it is activated by pressing the Activate Ability button.
Laceration
- Laceration Meter capacity: 9 Charges
- Laceration Meter decay rate: -0.2 charges/s
- Laceration Meter decay rate while running: -0.15 charges/s
- Laceration Meter decay delay: 20 seconds
- Laceration Charges bonus per hit: +1
- Laceration Charges penalty per Basic Attack: All
Add-Ons
If an Add-On doesn't appear here, that means it isn't reworked.
Trick Pouch
- Start with 15 Extra Blades.
- Increases Blade carrying capacity by 15.
Killing Part Chords
- Slightly increases movement speed during Showstopper Burst.
- Slightly increases charge speed of Showstopper Crescent.
Lucky Blade
- Moderately reduces the spread of Showstopper Crescent.
- Moderately increases the Laceration damage of the center Blade.
Ji-Woon's Autograph
- Slightly reduces the time between Showstopper bursts.
Caged Heart Shoes
- Moderately increases movement speed during Showstopper Burst.
- Moderately increases charge speed of Showstopper Crescent.
Waiting For You Watch
- Considerably reduces the spread of Showstopper Crescent.
- Slightly increases the time required to charge Showstopper Crescent.
Fizz-Spin Soda
- Moderately reduces the time between Showstopper bursts.
- Increases Showstopper Burst's maximum blade throws by 1.
Bloody Boa
- Start with 30 Extra Blades.
- Increases Blade carrying capacity by 30.
- Survivors who reach the maximum Laceration will now receive the Hindered status effect for 15 seconds.
Trick Blades
- Allows Blades to ricochet off the environment twice with Showstopper Burst.
- Causes Blades thrown by Showstopper Crescent to go inwards upon ricocheting off the environment.
Edge of Revival Album
- Blades shatter when hitting the environment, hitting 1 meter around them.
- Blades from Showstopper Burst deal 50% Laceration to nearby Survivors.
- Blades from Showstopper Crescent deal 25% Laceration to nearby Survivors.
Diamond Cufflinks
- Increases Laceration meter capacity by 1.
- When a Survivor is 1 Laceration meter hit away from the maximum, their aura is revealed for 6 seconds.
Cut Thru U Single
- Good luck dodging this.
Iridescent Photocard
- Increases Laceration meter capacity by 1.
- When a Survivor is 1 Laceration meter hit away from the maximum, they will suffer from the Exposed status effect.
Death Throes Compilation
- Considerably increases charges required to activate Main Event.
- When Main Event is active, all Survivors who are dealt maximum Laceration damage will immediately be put in the Dying State.
The amount of charges required to reach Main Event with Death Throes Compilation is increased to 50.
Final Moments Arrangement
"The terrified cries of Ji-Woon's NO SPIN bandmates' final moments as they cried his name to save them from their impending doom, now given vinyl form by The Entity. The memories of this reinvigorate Ji-Woon's sadistic nature."
- Grants Blades the ability to deal lingering Laceration damage to Survivors starting at 0.3 Laceration damage per second for 5 seconds.
- The maximum amount of lingering Laceration damage is 0.5 Laceration damage per second.
- Replaces Showstopper Burst and Showstopper Crescent with Showstopper Dazzler.
- Showstopper Dazzler is, in effect, the old version of Showstopper given form as an add-on ability.
- Hold the Power button to charge Showstopper Dazzler, and press M1 to start throwing Blades.
This is what would make The Trickster a better Killer to play. He's a character whose design, backstory and power are supposed to scream flashy, but still efficient. So, I just simply thought that giving him these new toys to play with would be much better than the Trickster we have now.
The idea here is to give The Trickster the ability to actually do things against Survivors while making him much more fun to play as and against. And if people liked the old Trickster, well, Final Moments Arrangement is the add-on for you, as it gives him his old abilities back, with one new perk of his Power.
Difficulty Rating: Hard
Comments
Its a good idea to point out the flaws of the Original Power and why your solutions will remedy those in detail, when suggesting changes to a Power.
I don't think there's ANY reason to point out the flaws when just observing gameplay of or playing him will do the trick.
Besides, I'm more of a "to the point" person.
This defeats the purpose of suggesting though, a developer may have their own ideas about what to do with Trickster. if they cant see why you suggest each and every point, How can they know what's wrong in your opinion? And How can they make a reasonable assessment if the suggestion you make will make things better? That's the purpose of the forum. If you dont, All it is a huge post that would take time to question/decode before it would be constructive.
The explaining in detail IS the "to the point". That's what the point is.
being honest, i think Ji-Woon just needs some more movement speed tweaks. more default movement speed and a boost when putting away his blades.
i like the burst idea though. rather have his default throw and the burst rather than the crescent