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Thoughts on Onryo, balance suggestions

aehhh1finskiy aehhh1finskiy
in Feedback and Suggestions

To be clear, I am both Sadako main and survivor main, and I play both solo queue and with my friends.

In my opinion, Onryo's main problem right now is her ability to cause chaos in games, simply teleporting around. Condemn builds up very fast, and if a good Onryo player wants to kill somebody early in the match, that is usually not very hard to do. Survivors (especially in solo) cannot do another very important objective like managing TVs and condemn, they simply don't have enough time since Sadako still runs around in stealth and kills everyone.

At the same time, playing as Sadako can be very tough, because she doesn't have real chase power. I undestand, that she is designed as a jack-of-all-trades killer, and it suits her fantasy as an extremely powerful vengeful creature. She has a bit of stealth, some slowdown, map-wide mobility, info based on tv states and confusing flickering, all these things are very hard to balance. Right now she is just a tiny bit more powerful than she shoul be, her balance feels very fragile and any careless nerf can make her unfun or even unplayable.

I've got a couple suggestions, different nerfs and buffs to compensate, hope this will be helpful!

  1. Reducing condemn build up tp +0.5 per teleport map-wide.
  2. Reducing condemn build up from hitting survivor with a tape to +1 stack.

These nerfs are pretty pretty tough, but they are suggested with a bunch of buffs to compensate!

  1. Survivors with a tape can no longer hear her lullaby.
  2. Projecting near survivors (12-16m) applies more condemn on them (0.75-1).

1st buff gives Onryo more stealth, and makes tapes more dangerous to run around with. 2nd one rewards skillful teleports with bonus condemn.

There are also more ideas to make Onryo even more fun to play while keeping her balanced!

  1. Teleporting without cooldown, but condemn will be applied only if the power was not used for a while (10-15 sec).
  2. Tape does not disappear after getting hit, but survivor gets less condemn. In that case, inserting a tape should cleanse less condemn, I think.
  3. Teleporting does not apply condemn anymore, instead of that being near working TV (16m) builds up stacks slowly. Having a tape negates that effect.

Please, do not make Onryo too weak again, she is almost perfect right now T.T

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