hottake: houndmaster is just SM on steroids.

[Nagant]

talking about the chase potential ....is just dull as hell for survivors yet pretty forgiving as killer like pre-nerf drones.

[Rex-Wil]

In what way?

[A Generic Name]

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[12ozfreedom]

not at all lol. more like pinhead

[KrakenGreywolf]

No. I wasn’t around for original Skull Merchant (I can still stomp if I want even with a totally gutted Skully, though)-but I don’t see any similarity in playstyles. Houndmaster is more a mix of Pinhead (the basic controls for Snug resemble Pinhead’s chain controls), Knight (ai helper-but only one this time, thank goodness) and Wesker (her gate-blocking mechanic).

She’s definitely a bit overturned rn b/c they need to work out the ai with Snug, but I haven’t heard of any Houndmaster players essentially holding comp teams hostage like SM used to be able to do. Besides, SM is a trap killer-Houndmaster isn’t.

[Nizzy]

Not really. Houndmaster can't possibly hold games hostage with her power. It's solely a chase ability that can help you find the initial survivor and finally use the dog as an anti-loop power.

However, I do think her power is over-tuned, but it's not surprising considering how incredibly buggy she is in game. They need to fix her dogs movement, the tug mechanic and finally make her patrol power actually work when pointing to a gen, totem, gate, etc. Until then, I think she's in a decent spot when it comes to a chase power. And no, she's nothing like Skull Merchant.

[Kattegat Twin]

No.

[Crazy muffin]

She dont really need any change maybe slowing down the dog vault a tiny bit so survivor can react to hit after a vault if they already finish their vault animation but apart from that shes good and fair giving each side a chance to win every game.

[Wezqu]

Originally posted by Crazy muffin:

She dont really need any change maybe slowing down the dog vault a tiny bit so survivor can react to hit after a vault if they already finish their vault animation but apart from that shes good and fair giving each side a chance to win every game.

Yeah that would be the only change she really needs

[Reader]

Nah, she is a bastard baby of SM and Knight. The worst of the worst.

[Jimmy]

Hound masters power is like Wesker having Unicorn medallion value without decreasing the 2nd bound % with egg combined and having Jenners last breath addon from nurse to instantly teleport back to his original position after using both his bounds except when he grabs with his dash you just stay still until he walks over and m1s you..

[orch82]

If houndmaster gets the skull merchant/ chucky gutting i will stop buying cosmetics and rifts. Meg is stronger than skull merchant already.

[Cuda]

Originally posted by orch82:

If houndmaster gets the skull merchant/ chucky gutting i will stop buying cosmetics and rifts. Meg is stronger than skull merchant already.

this is what happens when you play dbd non-stop! diversify your game collection! Btw the company will not become poor because of you if you don't buy, because the game is unique and will never die. Houndmaster I agree a lot of changes need to be returned back she is too strong

[Nagant]

Originally posted by Rex-Wil:

In what way? :hoji_surprised:

in case u dont know u can endlessly spam the haste effect with search while also gaining bloodlust on top which basically makes her almost as fast as victor movement speed , she just zones people to death like pre nerf SM since the cooldown for search is soo forgiving.

-u lost distance of someone u want to tunnel- spam search gain for free bloodlust movement speed and avoid losing track of your victim.
-loop is (fair - strong) - spam search them switch to send the dog 80% of the times u will get a hit over a pallet / windows or a M1 for free.
-loop is already bad - good news , u can make it totally uselees for the survivor since the dog and your movement can prevent any form of mindgame unless u suck.
-god loop & god pallets look balanced around her which is soo bad.

[thefollowingcharacters]

Originally posted by Jimmy:

Hound masters power is like Wesker having Unicorn medallion value without decreasing the 2nd bound % with egg combined and having Jenners last breath addon from nurse to instantly teleport back to his original position after using both his bounds except when he grabs with his dash you just stay still until he walks over and m1s you..

Ha ha! Clever you.

[Reader]

Originally posted by Nagant:

Originally posted by Rex-Wil:

In what way? :hoji_surprised:

in case u dont know u can endlessly spam the haste effect with search while also gaining bloodlust on top which basically makes her almost as fast as victor movement speed , she just zones people to death like pre nerf SM since the cooldown for search is soo forgiving.

-u lost distance of someone u want to tunnel- spam search gain for free bloodlust movement speed and avoid losing track of your victim.
-loop is (fair - strong) - spam search them switch to send the dog 80% of the times u will get a hit over a pallet / windows or a M1 for free.
-loop is already bad - good news , u can make it totally uselees for the survivor since the dog and your movement can prevent any form of mindgame unless u suck.
-god loop & god pallets look balanced around her which is soo bad.

And that's one part of her being completely unfair. Another one is her ability to check any gen with insane speed - either by sending just a dog or going after it, which is especially nasty in closed maps. We not even talking about how you will get Deep Wounds if dog spots you during it's Searching Phase and you get hit after that.
She is essentially SM + Knight + insane mobility + strong anti-looper + very powerful forcing mechanics (you can't stay in most loops or places without getting strong chance of getting clapped).