Thoughts on Clown perks?

[Meat Machine]

Bamboozle: Might actually be meta potential. Looks excellent for Hillbilly and Leatherface, and might be really good for Wraith, Freddy and Pig if used to block windows in advance of an ambush to block an escape before they realize it's not available.

Coulrophobia: Might be good as a combo perk for high terror-radius builds. Seems to work best with the Doctor (even if it doesn't affect Snap Out Of It), but doesn't seem more than mediocre otherwise. If only it affected self-healing globally, and ally healing within terror radius.

Pop Goes the Weasel: Lots of people have stated that it reduces CURRENT generator progress by 15/20/25%, and not TOTAL progress. At best, it's okay if you are snowballing, but if you are already snowballing as Killer, you clearly don't need to worry much about generator regression; redundant, and quite underwhelming, but not terrible.

[Doc October]

Pop Goes The Weasel uses TOTAL gen progression.

A gen kicked at 20% will be at 0% after kicking it, not at 15%.

[ASpazNamedSteve :]]

Pop Goes the Weasel is total progression like Doc said. Might be the best perk imo, as Bamboozle is very situational and often not needed.

[Wahnwitzig]

Pop Goes the Weasel is very good on Nurse and Hillbilly.

[Scout Pisser Offer]

In order:

Bamboozle

Best perk from the Clown, will become meta on most killers who aren't top tier.Shuts down some of the most cancerous loops far more quickly than running through them.

Pop Goes the Weasel

The opposite of Bamboozle, this will work better on top tier killers who can consistently cut chases short and get hooks quickly and snowball well. This is no Hex: Ruin replacement, but it will see use.

Coulrophobia

Max terror radius builds, meaning basically only the Doctor, can use this.

[Chewy102]

Originally posted by Leatherbilly:

In order:

Bamboozle

Best perk from the Clown, will become meta on most killers who aren't top tier.Shuts down some of the most cancerous loops far more quickly than running through them.

Pop Goes the Weasel

The opposite of Bamboozle, this will work better on top tier killers who can consistently cut chases short and get hooks quickly and snowball well. This is no Hex: Ruin replacement, but it will see use.

Coulrophobia

Max terror radius builds, meaning basically only the Doctor, can use this.

More Killers can make use of Coulrophobia than you think when paired with Distressing.

Distressing by itself isn't half bad at being a stealth perk. Sounds crazy I know, but if your terror radius is large enough then it might as well not exist as it gives no useful information as to where you are. Hide within chaos. Add Coulro to it and you can be opened up to Killers that favor wounding people.

Trapper for example can get some decent use out of a Coulro/Distressing combo. If someone steps in a trap, they will be slowed down that much longer while allowing Trapper to set traps without giving too much information to where he is doing so.

Pair Courlro with Montiro and Abuse if you want. Then Hag can make use of that. An already small terror radius made smaller for setting traps, larger one when in a chase while tagging multiple people as they trigger said traps. Keeping people wounded till you burn out their resources.

Or just pair it with Nurses Calling. Simple combo that slows healing while tellling you where it is happening. Any Killer can make use of this.


Coulrophobia isn't going to be a meta perk. But it will see use as it does work when used proper.

[Sarief4eg]

I will say for laughs

Use clown-phobia on freddy and they can't heal while they runaway from you unless insta heals :DDD

[old joe penis]

Originally posted by Sarief4eg:

I will say for laughs

Use clown-phobia on freddy and they can't heal while they runaway from you unless insta heals :DDD

they can still get skillchecks

[Sarief4eg]

Originally posted by Chewy102:

Trapper for example can get some decent use out of a Coulro/Distressing combo. If someone steps in a trap, they will be slowed down that much longer while allowing Trapper to set traps without giving too much information to where he is doing so.

Can you explain how this should even work? It doesn't slow down getting out of trap, afaik

[Sarief4eg]

Originally posted by brainlet:

Originally posted by Sarief4eg:

I will say for laughs

Use clown-phobia on freddy and they can't heal while they runaway from you unless insta heals :DDD

they can still get skillchecks

True, but that can be shutdown by addons + pressure from being chased

[Slemig groda]

Originally posted by Leatherbilly:

In order:

Bamboozle

Best perk from the Clown, will become meta on most killers who aren't top tier.Shuts down some of the most cancerous loops far more quickly than running through them.

Pop Goes the Weasel

The opposite of Bamboozle, this will work better on top tier killers who can consistently cut chases short and get hooks quickly and snowball well. This is no Hex: Ruin replacement, but it will see use.

Coulrophobia

Max terror radius builds, meaning basically only the Doctor, can use this.

But for S.O.M.E bs reson Coulrophobia doesn't work on the doc's "snap out of it"

[Sarief4eg]

Originally posted by slemig groda:

Originally posted by Leatherbilly:

In order:

Bamboozle

Best perk from the Clown, will become meta on most killers who aren't top tier.Shuts down some of the most cancerous loops far more quickly than running through them.

Pop Goes the Weasel

The opposite of Bamboozle, this will work better on top tier killers who can consistently cut chases short and get hooks quickly and snowball well. This is no Hex: Ruin replacement, but it will see use.

Coulrophobia

Max terror radius builds, meaning basically only the Doctor, can use this.

But for S.O.M.E bs reson Coulrophobia doesn't work on the doc's "snap out of it"

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[Chewy102]

Originally posted by Sarief4eg:

Originally posted by Chewy102:

Trapper for example can get some decent use out of a Coulro/Distressing combo. If someone steps in a trap, they will be slowed down that much longer while allowing Trapper to set traps without giving too much information to where he is doing so.

Can you explain how this should even work? It doesn't slow down getting out of trap, afaik

Doesn't keep them in traps longer. It keeps them wounded longer. The more time they spend healing the less time they work gens. And the less time they work on gens the more time Trapper has to set traps or hunt.

The idea is to simply buy time. Trapper needs a lot of it, so each second he can work out in his favor the better the odds are for him.

[HerrKomm]

I was at first skeptical of coulrophobia, but I actually really like the perk now and use it even on other killers than the doctor without distressing.

[Sarief4eg]

Originally posted by HerrKomm:

I was at first skeptical of coulrophobia, but I actually really like the perk now and use it even on other killers than the doctor without distressing.

You see, it's worse version of nurse calling :)
except for doc, of course.

[Sarief4eg]

Originally posted by Chewy102:

Originally posted by Sarief4eg:

Can you explain how this should even work? It doesn't slow down getting out of trap, afaik

Doesn't keep them in traps longer. It keeps them wounded longer. The more time they spend healing the less time they work gens. And the less time they work on gens the more time Trapper has to set traps or hunt.

The idea is to simply buy time. Trapper needs a lot of it, so each second he can work out in his favor the better the odds are for him.

They won't heal in his TR, simple as that. Nurse calling teached them not to do so.