Sadako might be the worst designed killer in the game
As I said in the title, Sadako might be the worst designed killer in the game.
On normal maps, her power to place condemned on survivor isn't a big deal. Every once in a while a survivor will have to do a tape but that's it. She doesn't have much power in chase, so she's pretty weak.
On two-story maps, however, it's a completely different story. Survivors are constantly in range to be condemned by 4 different TVs, and as long as the Sadako just spams the teleport every time a TV is available, you'll be fighting condemned more often than you're actually doing gens or getting chased by the killer. Not only that, but she can just teleport to a TV you are currently interacting with, so if you're struggling to get a tape because she's spamming the ability every time a TV is available, there's a good chance you'll get screwed over even more when you finally find a powered TV only for her to crawl out the TV and up your throat.
I'm not sure I've ever won a two-story map against Sadako, unless maybe I was in a 4 stack. It's such a terrible, frustrating, un-interactive experience, where the killer is just spamming the crap out of one button, and the survivor's are fighting the button instead of the killer. You can spend all game touching a gen for 10 seconds, then having to do tapes, then having Sadako interrupt you doing tapes, over and over and over until you're condemned and get mori'd after the one actual chase you get. If not that, you can instead be like me this last match, where I was fully condemned twice just trying to do my tapes, and those were the only times she would chase me, and both times I just had to sacrifice my life to put my tape in the TV and not immediately get booted from the game.
On a two-story map, I genuinely would rather be in a game with a Knight, a Nurse, a Ghoul, or literally anything else. In this case, Sadako is the most frustrating, boring, mind numbing, terribly designed killer in the game.
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Most of the 'weak' killers have an obnoxious design/playstyle that makes me never want to see them buffed outside of a full rework that changes their identity.
See: Twins/Pinhead/Trapper/Artist/Knight etc etc. Sadako is no different.
Allow me to translate for the lay-people.
"Sadako is complete garbage 99% of the time because her power is laughably worthless and she has no chase ability, but the 1-2 maps where her power actually functions and she is an actual threat exposes my skill issue, so I'm going to complain about it and make it everyone else's problem."
Her design is precisely garbage because she is so bad most of the time and so powerful on certain maps. Like, I never said that Sadako needs a nerf or anything like that, I just said her design is terrible, which makes sense considering they had to change her like 3 times from how she originally was. If anything she needs a rework to be more consistently powerful.
I'm not sure how saying "skill issue" dismisses anything I said. It's apparently a "skill issue" that a killer can spam a power over and over and consistently progress you to your death so that you're forced to not do objectives all game or let yourself get killed early.
This is a forum for discussions, complaints, etc. I'm not "making it everyone else's problem," I'm literally using the forum for its intended purpose, stop being butthurt about it just because the killer I'm talking about is your profile picture. A little bias much? I can do the same thing right back and it would mean nothing: "the killer I like is being criticized by someone I don't know online in a place where people criticize the game the killer is in, and I don't like that so I'm going to make it his problem." That isn't discussing, that's just insulting and being rude.
I will take every chance I get to complain up and down about how bad Sadako is. She isn't F-tier Skull Merchant levels of bad, but is pretty close. So, no, it doesn't really work in reverse. You may have good intentions in wanting her to be improved and more consistent (most people would probably agree with that), but your post just comes off as whining that you got hit with the 1% and lost to an overall bad killer on the 1-2 maps she isn't terrible on.
Grafefully ignoring that twins is a stable A tier killer💀