Jesus christ why are deathslinger's add-ons so boring?
At least nemesis has some fun but very unpractical add-on combos even if most of them are really useless. Deathslinger's add-ons are flat bufffs that do next to nothing or only work on very niche builds.
First, he has a bunch of add-ons that are literally useless.
- Reduced cooldown only works if you are new to deathslinger
- Reeling speed does literally nothing noticeable
- Has add-ons that increase mending time on a killer that is only good on the 1v1
- Add-ons that decrease terror radius when ADSing (why would you ever need this?)
- Add-ons that increase movement speed when ADSing... by 1% and 2.5% respectively...
The rest that are actually somewhat useful are just buffs to his basekit that offer nothing really new or interesting, or gimmicky at the very least.
- The reduced stun add-ons are admitedly quite enjoyable but don't really pair well with deathslinger's optimal style of play, they are good memes but that is all.
- The mangled add-ons are that. They is a good substitute for sloppy butcher but that is about it. Not sure why they needed to make two.
- Prison chain adds 10 charges to the chain... Or roughly half a second more if survivors are pulling the chain. It's bad, but at least it will do something consistently.
- Hellshire iron exists I guess, again, not sure why the undetectable matters if you are supposed to be playing a 1v1 killer.
- Iridescent coin makes survivors exposed when hitting them from afar. It's the sweaty add-on, it really has nothing especial or adds any extra layer of complexity to the game, you could run starstruck and probably have the same results.
The worst part is that most of this add-ons were exactly the same or really similar to how they were before deathslinger's nerf, he didn't at the very least get spirit's treatment of making better designed add-ons for him.
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A lot of killers have boring add ons, this isn’t just a Slinger problem.
But it's especially noticeable on him, every killer has at least one add-on that does something gimmicky and goes well with some meme builds, except him. The only other killer that has the same level of uneventfulness on his add-on kit is PH and he at the very least has the obsidian goblet.
Obsidian goblet is an iridescent add on and it’s really not good on any build.
Yeah but it's good for memes on indoor maps.
I've used the reduced TR when ads-ing in a monitor stealth build before with furtive chase as well and it not only somehow worked if you switched targets in chase, but I managed to shoot the survivor opening the gate through the corn because they couldn't hear me. Was it niche? Yeah, but man was it fun.
if your curious for what missed attack cooldown add-ons are for, they allow you to click reload faster if you miss. the add-on that increase movement speed while ADS got nerfed when deathslinger received his negative changes. Hellfire Iron got nerfed, it used give him 32 meter aura reading in his cone-looking direction if you use M&A for like 1 second, it got changed to pointless undetectable. The rest is history for him.
Eh I don't know if it's really a Slinger problem most killers have boring add-ons that doesn't change the way you play with your power or adds any complexity/fun playstyles to it.
Look at Pig's add-ons they're really not interesting she has decent add-ons but most of them are boring the only fun add-ons she has is Amanda's Letter rest is sleeper.
Same for my boi Oni I only use the speed and duration add-ons (Akito's Crutch and Lion fang in particular) his iridescent add-ons are so pathetic and not worth it,you could argue that Speed changes the way you play Oni and yes that is true but it's the only interesting add-ons he has everything else is meh...
Then you have Myers who is king of variety all his add-ons are fun to use and they have unique playstyles to them,Vanity mirror scratched mirror tombstone infinite T3 etc all of his add-ons changes the way you play him and use his power.
We need more killers like Myers that have good add-ons variety that changes the way you play with each killer of course don't make them weak like mikey.
*laughs in pyramid head
woah this add on makes it .2 seconds longer dude so good