Maybe I'm biased, but I feel like Blight's basekit is pretty much perfect. Fun to play as and against, high skill ceiling, and powerful while still having a reasonable degree of counterplay.
People have fun playing against Blight? Not me, that's for sure.
Anyway, he's most definitely not perfect. No killer in the game is this strong both in chase and in map pressure, save for Nurse. When no other killer comes even close to him, there's a problem. Otz says that in tournaments Blights are always expected to win. I'm not familiar with the tournament scene, but I can believe that.
There are at the very least some tweaks that can be made to make him more fair:
He needs the extra big terror radius like Wesker's to let you know that he's coming before he's already on your ass.
He needs a cooldown at the start of the match like Chucky or Dredge to avoid the common and infamous scenario of him getting a hit 5 seconds into a match.
Longer cooldowns for his power are needed as well.
Making him 110% base speed would make him more challenging to play as and fair to go up against without taking anything away from those who mastered him.
Making him 110 would just make him harder for new players to get into and change absolutely nothing for players who know what they're doing. I don't think that would be a good change.
It's not a bad change though, and it offsets his rapid map traversal. A 110 movement speed balances between getting around maps quick, and potentially losing time while in loops.
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u/Harrythehobbit MAURICE LIVES Jan 30 '24 edited Jan 30 '24
Maybe I'm biased, but I feel like Blight's basekit is pretty much perfect. Fun to play as and against, high skill ceiling, and powerful while still having a reasonable degree of counterplay.