Why don't killers grab
When i'm playing matches and realise matchmaking puts me with teammates act like idiots i'll simple just do a totem or gen letting the killer grab me now why is it the killer swings instead of grabs killers earn more points for grabbing then hitting because it's harder. Also still with matchmaking instead of oh you escaped here's how it should go.
Survivors
Did you escape,how many people escaped before you,did you help your team,did you keep your team safe(healing,protecting ect),how much did you contribute to the game(repairing and so on)
Killer
How many survivors did you kill,How hard was the match(length or pressure),Did you body block(would bring down your score since you were cheating in a way),How long did you chase a survivor until you hit them
So it's none of this did you escape through the exit gate and what ever raises killers matchmaking.
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To answer the question in the subject line, I go for grabs. Usually survivors move away in time but sometimes I'll get a grab. 🤷♂️
Killers go for swings for 2 reasons
Killers don't go for grabs because they are harder to do and unless you play stealth killer people usually know you're coming and start running early. Another reason is the system for grabbing isn't great, you can defeat it with gen taps which just turns grabs into swings anyway. Most killers simply don't bother with since you can't even really practice it that well and generally it's easier to lunge early for the hit. Lunges can be timed, practiced, and perfected to a degree. Grabs just sort of happen at the discretion of a survivor's actions relative to a killer's. Like say you are on a gen and the killer grabs you on the same frame you just happen to let go of the gen. What the killer sees is a glitch animation of them sticking their hand out only for you to just run away or get hit instead.
Getting hit is the preferred outcome, its what the system should technically default to. Getting the stupid fake grab is what sometimes happens and usually just wastes a bit of time. There are killers who have entire builds designed for gen grabbing like Spirit, Wraith, Michael, and Nurse. Ghostface to an extent can do it pretty well too if you're not spinning your camera as a survivor. Most killers though have a 32m terror radius that requires perks to shrink and addons to shrink, but aren't really helped by their power, size, audio cues, etc. Can you make it work, sure with enough time and patience, but at that point you're doing more work than the reward is worth.
Grabs dont always work so well for me, especially on gens. I'll get the grab animation but the survivor will move or stop repairing then it transitions into a melee. My best times to grab are windows and pallets, and of course I dont always get that chance either
Grab are bug for years now and the dev have no intention to fix this so why try and grab a survivor when you can go for a auto attack and not get stuck
When they fix grabs I will go for them more.
Grabs work like 10% of the time. Most of the time you get animation locked as the survivor runs away.
Add on top of that that hit validation will make you M1 if the grab fails... letting the survivor make even more distance as you recover from missing the M1.
Suffering.