Krasue is weird
Decided to pick her up and first match is on Gideon Meat Plant…
Yeah let's just stick to Nurse and Twins from now on. Jokes aside (but no literally, twins and nurse are far superior) what's the point of Krasue now? That experience genuinely exposed me to how horrible she is to play. Why do all that slow transforming and infecting when there's other mobility killers who can land faster direct hits i.e blight, ghoul, twins, nurse, etc?
I know her vault speed during head form was toned down after the devs realized that she was overtuned but now she feels like a shadow of what other successful mobility killers can do.
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It probably doesn't help that dissolution works so well with her, have you tried that?
that way you can punish a bodyblock if you have to go into m1 form, for an easier down possibly.
I think I'd take nerfs to her spit like a longer CD like Unknowns for a stronger head form honestly, but that's just me.
I've said this as well. Make head form stronger, but make her spit actually take skill to land. Remove the auto-aiming projectiles that scatter from where she hits and force it to be a single bounce or direct hit only.
Would it be too much to give her head form a short swing?
Yeah see I feel that would make her more interactive even, coz then the body blocking wouldn't be too annoying for her.
I just really dislike interacting with the spit, but I hate using her head form when I play as her too. Like I really want to like her, her fantasy is such a cool concept, they knocked it out of the park, she just could be so much better for both sides.
I wish BHVR would read this coz they could make her fun to play as and against without a huge rework.
that perk would've worked wonders in that match tbh; I'll try it the next time I feel like playing her.
I agree with the spit nerf with the trade off for a stronger head form. Even with the "better" lunge, certain tiles are angled just right for her to not land a hit.
Gideon has a way of doing that with several killers. I enjoy playing chucky but the odd time you get gideon youd swear everyone has windows of opportunity lol.
I'm decent with Krasue so far, there are a lot of short loops and god pallets she can float over/ lunge around, that other killers would struggle with. But still too many pallets there lol.
I am really sad that such a great concept was squandered with such a mediocre power and terrible perks.
I personally like the ricochet/spray mechanics of regurgitate. The one thing I don't like about her is how miserably slow head vaults feel. The ability to vault pallets in head form has changed from feeling like a beneficial mechanic to feeling like a mechanic that works against her in chase. It's so slow I wish head form could just break the pallet since stupid filler pallet loops can become effectively infinites for survivors if you don't come out of head form to break it. Between the long wind up to the head's lunge and the slow vault you just never catch them.
Head form just sucks against survivors that are effective loopers.
Krasue is still in a pretty good spot at the middle/bottom of A tier if you run builds that are good on her.
My biggest grip with her currently is how the infection simply goes away when she hooks. She lost all of her map pressure because of this. Maybe when someone is hooked the infection could reset to 1% - like Wesker - forcing you to eat a mushroom to stop it from growing back. It would protect from tunneling - since Krasue you need to infect you again - but at the same time force the hooked person to go for a mushroom before doing gens.
Aside from this, they could give Framed Newspaper partially basekit. Its such a comfy addon haha
Care to share some?
Its interesting how her power is heavily focused around her head form yet its so bad against decent pallets.
I can understand why the devs removed it but I can also see why it hurts her so much. I wouldn't mind seeing it come back in that 1% iteration with maybe a slight buffer before it starts increasing.
I wish mushrooms weren't as abundant as they currently are but I do know that her human body spawns one which is a decent concept for the killer player to be mindful of.
Chicken head really carries her especially when paired with Lorenzas remains so my current build is:
Chicken Head + Remains | Lethal Eruption Pop Nowhere to Hide | essentially allows you to snowball off of the very start of the game and play mushroom denial since you know where everyone is going w lethal. You get 2 people injured pretty much instantly and can continue to spam gen regression and find people with nowhere to hide allowing you to get shots over walls that they're hiding behind.
If you're new to Krasue and aren't really good with head form or want a non-DLC build I would recommend:
Same Add-ons or Defective Metronome + Luckless mouse/Shredded Gown | Dead Mans Switch, Pain Resonance, Grim Embrace, Dissolution/Bamboozle allows you to negate the downsides of her head form and allows a lot of time to be saved on generators so they don't instantly pop after first hook.
These builds allow Krasue to have more map pressure and actually be faster in chase by eliminating a lot of time wasted via nowhere to hide or dissolution/bamboozle. If you have trouble with body blocking I would recommend using Queens Scepter.
Chicken head is so cool but sucks its an iri rarity. Thank you for the ideas.
Are there any techs or additional advice to newer krasue players? Even with almost 8k hrs in this game, she's def one of the killers I can't wrap my head around (no pun intended).
I do not really understand, gameloop of this killer is to hit m2, and then hit m1 in head form...? I hope i just misunderstood how she plays because this is just insanely boring for 2025 killer.
Dw she is really weird to learn. you can kinda play her like a mix of Kaneki & Legion where you'll essentially try cutting off survivors with your mobility then go for the m1 and immediately catch up again. Enduring/endfury is pretty good on her too as it makes it so you no longer need to respect pallets as much. She is pretty 360 able so I typically just wait a few seconds and align my tentacles/head with their body before I try to hit.
Then again I am not a "pro krasue" I just do a lot of DBDL and this is what I see most when playing as/against her along with what I've heard from the four Krasue mains out there.
I just don't understand people when they say she is "gutted" she is still in top 12-15 killers. It is genuinely so rare that you even see people body blocking her head form which is the only counter to it when played right.
Nope, you got it.
And it's the reason why no one plays her
She feels a bit like old doctor. Two stances that do not pair well with an infection mechanic that feels redundant.