Pinhead should be getting buffs, NOT nerfs
This killer is dead right now, and he's still getting nerfed. He has so little going for him, it's crazy. His power practically counters itself.
His possessed chain spawn is just really weird all around. You have to choose the gateway spawn, and then spawn the chain? Why not just instantly shoot some chains out? Makes no sense. Deathslinger can do it, or could. It also spawns delayed, and its turn rate is pathetic. Its hitbox: also pathetic. Way too small, except for when it chooses to be big and stop because it hit some random obstacle's hitbox which was practically off-screen.
Why is the gateway spawn so limited btw? Sometimes it shows red, not letting you spawn the chain, on areas where you can clearly spawn the chain, like on top of a dropped pallet. Then there's the range limitations, on both the gateway spawn and the chain travel. Why is it so limited? Why do we need add-ons just to make it reasonable? This is a killer with a ranged ability, is it not?
Survivors get to see the box's aura for free, whereas Pinhead needs an iridescent to see it. So he needs to find the box, but they don't need to find it. It's literally given to them.
A chain hunt will never go off even once unless you interrupt the box solver, which you can't most of the time. They'll either solve it in 5 seconds, your gateway spawn won't reach far enough, you'll miss, or they're hiding behind something. Either way, you lose the strongest aspect of your power, getting a chain hunt, 9/10 times.
"But you're not supposed to get chain hunts all the time." Then what is this killer's power? A pretty box that you can do in 5 seconds, and some pitiful anti loop? The best build to run with him includes Hoarder and/or Franklin's. And those perks are for what? To get the box! That is the ultimate goal of this killer. He has no slowdown otherwise.
Teleporting to the person with the box. What's the point? It's just gonna reset the chain hunt anyway. Plus the game tells the survivor exactly where you're gonna spawn, assuming there's not los blockers. Plus, solving the box doesn't take away DS, so they're always gonna be the ones going for it, so you're in a lose-lose.
Picking up the box and not solving it. What's the downside? 1 person potentially getting harassed by chains while in chase, while the other 3 do gens? Pathetic killer power.
Then there's the nature of the chains themselves. Why do they break instantly on the environment? Why do they spawn inside walls and at angles where the survivor cannot possibly be hit from once they move 2 feet? Why can other survivors and Pinhead break the chains? Why can a survivor only be attached with 3 chains max at once? So many questions nobody has a good answer to.
Why does it take so long to restart the chain hunt? 30 seconds is a long time, but last time I checked, doing the box stops the chain hunt meter from even starting for 1 minute. This seems like it was made to compensate for noobs who take forever to do anything. As soon as any real survivors see the box spawn, they're on top of it.
Did I miss anything?
It is an injustice that this killer, as he is in such a broken, weak state where you can't use his ability half the time, is still getting nerfed. His add-ons didn't even do that much for him before! What's he gonna be like now?! Still no voice lines. I guess the devs wanted to send a message that they've given up on him in EVERY ASPECT, not just aesthetics.
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Chain hunts aren’t guaranteed because their duration can be very long depending on how well pinhead can keep the box in check (hoarder and some add ons make this pretty easy).
Right now he’s a solid B tier killer who will go down slightly
I don't think it will be slightly. It will be a lot for this (to my knowledge) only effective playstyle (aka patrol the box area -> down the Survivor with a box --> repeat). All his solving addons are 50% less effective, ultra rares also less effective (Feng is still good but it will be a bit worse to posses. chains in chase). And shorter time to activate chain hunt addons are also much reduced.
Also chains no longer will target you when you are solving the box (good change but still nerf in the end).
Uh, no. As soon as he commits to a chase or hooks someone, the box gets picked up and most likely solved. The only way that doesn't happen is if he knows where the box is on the ground (unlikely) and doesn't commit to anything. He's not even B tier right now, especially without Engineer's Fang.