Skull Merchant

[Raft]

Skull merchant has gone through so many changes. Right now, I keep sensing the skull merchant's terror radius intermittently. It's confusing. In many of my solo queue survivor matches, everyone just gives up. Not fun.

So, how do you play well as skull merchant?

And how do you play well against skull merchant?

[N o d L]

I think SM rep is so destroyed now from everything in the past that pretty much people only dc or suicide on hook against her every time so hard to actually say how to play against her when you don't play a full game against her properly if you get me

[Bing Bong]

Contrary to what people think she still does the same playstyle she did before her rework. And its not as toned down as people assume when they say "its just people with bad memories". Her drones can overlap, sometimes 3 circles, she still can camp 3 gens relatively easy, you cant reliably disable her drones faster than she can replace them/they turn back on.

And then she still gets undetectable, speed, slow, broken... A lot of effects that are not necessarily add-on reliant. You also CANNOT remove lock-on stacks leading to injuries very easily. You cant really stay at loops reliably with her....

Even popular professional streamers like Hens, Nightlite, Otz etc... Say she is still in a terrible state, and not fun to play against.

[wetfire]

she is too over balance,if i have a choice,i would rather against nurse player

[Professor Dorky]

Yeah, Skull Merchant is overpowered. The movement speed she has is overwhelming, especially when she basically has the best "perk" in game built into her kit.

We need a ban list decided by either Solo or Party Leader with 3-5 killer ban picks. I would rag on this game less and play more often if I could stop playing against poorly executed characters like Skull Merchant, Blight, and Bubba.

Playing against these characters is the opposite of fun and makes me question why I play this game.

[Piss Bottles Jeff]

I have put in about 300 hours since my recent return to the game, and have yet to come up against her, dying to see her first hand now

[TTV｜DriderQueenFenrys]

She's not that hard to play against cmon guys -_-

[Hidden Sniper]

Skull Merchant is not OP at all. On the contrary, she is weaker than before. Not many people know how to play against her so they decide to just die.

So few tips to counter her:
1. Try break 3 gen at start of match. After update, killers cant regress gens forever, sooner you start, the easier it will be later.
2. SM is bad at shift+w chases, you cant loop her, but if you just run in straight line - it will be long chase.
3. Beware of drones. Dont get free lock on stacks. You dont have to always hack drones, you can just crouch or stand still, if SM go for you then you need to time drone scan laser and dont get lock on stack.
4. If you have 2/3 lock on stacks and being in chase while healthy then here is small trick: you can stand still under drone and force SM to M1 you.

[dragonoftime27]

Originally posted by FenrysLaSimp:

She's not that hard to play against cmon guys -_-

They make it sound like it dont they? lol

[Raft]

Okay, enough with the insults. This thread is intended to be educational. This is not a place for bullies.

Thank you Jak and Hidden Sniper. Only both of you actually helped.

The rest of you, please answer my question or leave.

In case you got distracted by everything else, here are the questions again:

• How do you play well as skull merchant?
  
  
• How do you play well against skull merchant?
  
  

[Stelio Kontos]

Skull Merchant has an add on that causes disabled drones to have a terror radius, and she also goes undetectable when she places a drone. That's probably why you were hearing her terror radius on and off.

[Bing Bong]

She gets undetectable base kit in several forms:

One is when she places a drone, she gets undetectable for a duration.

Another when she enters an active drone area which will also have a trail off undetectable effect when she leaves the drones area.

[Hidden Sniper]

Originally posted by Jak:

Another when she enters an active drone area which will also have a trail off undetectable effect when she leaves the drones area.

You sure you are not wrong? Its was in her original power. After rework she gets undetectable only after placing drone for 8 secs and by iri addon that transfer her terror radius to hacked drone for 15 secs

[Bing Bong]

Originally posted by Hidden Sniper:

Originally posted by Jak:

Another when she enters an active drone area which will also have a trail off undetectable effect when she leaves the drones area.

You sure you are not wrong? Its was in her original power. After rework she gets undetectable only after placing drone for 8 secs and by iri addon that transfer her terror radius to hacked drone for 15 secs

Ah that was changed yea its just when placed she gets a bit of undetectable. I still played against her under the assumption that never changed.

So she just gets baskit undetectable after placing one now.

[Bloodartist]

Originally posted by Raft:

Skull merchant has gone through so many changes. Right now, I keep sensing the skull merchant's terror radius intermittently. It's confusing.

Its because she becomes undetectable for 8 seconds when launching a drone. She can also retract and re-launch a drone.

Its short duration, so usually she isn't constantly undetectable. If you hear the terror radius but then you don't, shes probably near..

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[Zelgadis]

At the end of the day Skull Merchant is still just an m1 killer so she is still loopable.