Trickster Time to Down vs Huntress Time to Down
With the upcoming changes to Trickster on the PTB and recent discussions about Trickster vs Huntress, I wanted to test how quickly Trickster and Huntress could down a survivor assuming you perfectly landed every hit as quickly as you could.
I did a test with a friend in customs and here was the results:
Note: I ran addonless with the exception of Trickster who I used the Melodious Murder addon with since that addon is basically becoming basekit with the ptb changes.
Trickster takes around 5 seconds to down landing every single knife.
Huntress takes around 5 seconds to down if you throw 2 hatchets as quickly as you can and around 8 seconds to down if you use two fully charged shots.
Comments
In practice, that's not going to be accurate. The speed boost is a thing, and survivors can get around cover with it. In Huntress's case, she can threaten a survivor into not going across a corner by aiming at it after winding up for 1.25 seconds. Meanwhile, a survivor may very well be able to just run through Trickster's blades in some circumstances to get through a corner so that they can waste more of Trckster's time since he'll need to reposition. Sure, he may exceed Huntress in hitting several survivors, but that's about it. I think he'll be decent with the buff, but Huntress still definitively is ahead in many common scenarios.
Trickster can apply laceration damage immediately after inflicting a damage state meaning the speed boost survivors get from becoming injured is not that big of a deal for Trickster and is where his main advantage is. Trickster's problem is tall walls since unlike Huntress who needs to land 1 hit, he has to land several which is made harder when survivors can hug tall walls denying him the ability to land multiple shots in a row.
This isn't meant to be Trickster or Huntress is better than the other, but Trickster's Time to Down is honestly far better than people give him credit for.