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@Malkhrim said:
https://forums.bhvr.com/dead-by-daylight/discussion/comment/4105796#Comment_4105796
Because we don't want the COMMUNITY-VOTED killer to be abandoned by the community and rarely ever seen in the game like Singularity and Krasue were. A killer being played only by tryhards who have an insane amount of time to spend playing the game while being awful to play for the far majority of players is not a good thing, specially on a chapter called the COMMUNITY MADE chapter, with a killer the whole DbD community helped to create and then spent months waiting for.
https://forums.bhvr.com/dead-by-daylight/discussion/comment/4105889#Comment_4105889
I'm not talking about how hard it is to MASTER a killer, that's skill ceiling. I'm talking about skill FLOOR, the minimum skill required to even play the killer with any effectiveness. A killer having high skill ceiling means you can become even better the more time you dedicate to learn them. A killer having low skill floor means playing them will be frustrating until you dedicate a long amount of time to even learn the basics. Killers like this have low pick rates and are rarely even seen in the game because most people just give up learning them, it's not worth investing time just to learn the basics of a killer in a game with multiple alternatives that are both powerful and easier to play . Again, just look at Singularity, specially at his release.
Plus, the Judgement is currently harder to play than any of the killers you mentioned.
Pinhead has a complicated power, but can still be played as an M1 killer, has a power that can be made easier to hit by spawning it right behind survivors, and the passive alone helps players who struggle to hit the chains as it gains him a lot of time. The Judgement doesn't have any of that, having only 4.4 speed, so not playable as an M1 killer, and having to inflict a debuff by hitting the power, not passively.
The Pig is a simple killer with a low skill floor. Not even a comparison.
The Nurse is the only of the three with an actually high skill floor. Still, her power becomes EASIER to hit upclose and not harder, and she doesn't require moving the camera away from the survivor and doing crazy camera spins just to damage a survivor in a loop. The gameplay against her is also way more tricky than Judgement, who has far clearer counters.
Plus, a killer being way too hard to play only makes them harder to balance without ruining the killer experience. The Nurse is the strongest killer in the game with one of the lowest kill rates, and a decade later the devs still struggle to nerf her. The Singularity needed a BUFF, even though he wasn't weak, because of how hard awful he was to play overall and how unpopular he became. The Judgement is strong but the concept of its power is rather simple, it's basically a moving projectile. If the killer becomes easier to play, kill-rates won't be as skewed by dificulty, and balancing it will be far easier as well, based on how powerful the killer is, not how hard players struggle to get use of the power. If the killer becomes too powerful while being easier to play, a few tweaks to numbers like range and projectile speed could be enough to balance it. That's a way healthier scenario then a killer being too powerful, but still doing terribly because almost nobody can play it.
People will stop playing her literally no matter what, that's how it is with every new killer in this game. There are 44 characters in this game, the population will drop off of every single new release because that's just how it works. This is argument is meaningless.
And please behavior, I really love this killer as is, for the love of god do not make the prayer kneeler addon on base kit. It's a terrible idea for so many reasons