The most stressful killer in the game is the killer you're playing as at the moment.

You forgot to mention that Twins mains also have to study up on the latest bug of the week to know how to play around it. Like a mythic affix for a WoW dungeon, it switches every once in a while to test your patience. One week it might be Victor copying Sadako and phasing through survivors, the other it might be Victor not being able to leap over windows.

scott, you should put this in the description NOW (so it shows on the timeline :D) 0:00 - Intro 0:29 - Trapper 1:21 - Wraith 2:48 - Hillbilly 4:48 - Nurse 5:34 - Myers 6:41 - Hag 7:26 - Doctor 8:38 - Huntress 9:22 - Bubba 10:51 - Sharp Hand Joe 11:39 - Pig 12:02 - Clown 12:30 - Spirit 13:00 - Legion 13:30 - Plague 14:27 - Ghostface 15:12 - Demogorgon 16:08 - Oni 16:27 - Deathslinger 17:04 - Pyramid Head 17:31 - Blight 18:09 - Twins 18:52 - Trickster 19:27 - Nemesis 20:09 - Pinhead 21:14 - Artist 22:08 - Sadako 23:00 - Dredge 24:05 - Wesker 24:26 - Knight 25:09 - Chess Merchant 25:41 - Singularity 25:50 - Xenomorph 27:31 - Chucky

Somehow Trickster is one of the killers I'd like to main but somehow feels stressful to me. Feels like games either snowball in my favor or i struggle all game, very little in between.

I think knight deserves frustrating tier because of, "Let me use my power here! Nope no prompt, let me take a step back. Still no prompt, let me move to the left. No prompt, the survivor is now 20 feet away, what if I walk forward? There we go, I can finally use it aaaanddddd... carnifex got stuck on top of a boulder" I really wish they would bugfix him

Commenting on Trapper's placement in the list: Yes, Scott is right about this. The most fun part about Trapper to me is getting your traps to work. It's a massive hit of endorphins when they do work, but as a killer who is feast or famine, the stress comes from using that map knowledge to set up before it's too late to stop the generators.

Would love to see a killer tier list based on how healthy or unhealthy each killer is for the game

Whenever I feel not thinking and whatever I play Legion. That's why he's my fav, you just turn your brain off and watch as the mach goes by. The only thing frustating is getting stunned at the fifth hit, because there is nothing more satisfying than getting that, for me at least.

Well said on the Billy ranking. I only play billy when I want to chill.

Scott all im asying is, if your gonna milk Tier lists, i highly recommend a list of how hard it is to get the Adept achievement for each killer and survivor. For killer especially.

Bubba and Billy have this additional chill bonus for me that I’m not worried about what survivors I’m going against. If it’s nice survivors I can play relaxed, but if they bring a map offering or go sweaty in some way I’m able to switch play styles and counter that pretty easily. Some killers feel more reliant on addons/perks where it’s like “dang, I brought my fun layout but these are sweatlords” Ormond as Billy is the best, it just means more space to zoom

I unironically love playing Nurse now, even as a console player. Took me 4 thousand hours but she finally clicked for me, never thought I’d ever be able to have fun with her.

Holy shit you absolutely nailed it, number of kills means nothing to me but if I nail a fat curve on those slippery cars on Springwood (especially if the surv is being chill and not just throwing the pallet right away, but letting me try it out) now THAT is a rad win

skull merchant should be in stressfull or hernia tier because you know damn well the endgame chat is gonna have a thing or two to say

All of my favorite killers go from relaxed/standard to hernia tier when I get Lery's, Hawkins, or RPD. Also, I hated Hillbilly the first several games I tried him. Then I started learning the curving and the joy of seeing someone 10miles away and weaving between obstacles to secure the cross map hit. There's seriously no better feeling in the entire game.

The most stressful part of billy is waiting for your chainsaw to cool down again. Agonizing

I'm also shocked Xeno isn't more popular. Definitely one of the stronger killers with the lowest mechanical floor in the game.

Lmao you're so right about Billy players, but all I could think about when you were saying how relaxed they are is Sofareks malding on stream because he hit bumped into a single leaf for the 5th time that night (love you Sofa)

Hillbilly main here (one of the dying breed) and I can say that you're spot on. When i pick hillbilly i put my favorite meme build (well known Benjo build or, backpack build) and it's like a separate game mode. I do not win by killing people, i win by landing a hit after driving across the entire map, or by doing some sick 360 mindgame and outplaying my opponent. His power is so hard to use that getting value every single time is like a bday. Also the fact that i can occasionally get chill survivors who just enjoy the mindgames and write +rep in my steam profile makes it even more engaging. It's like, you know, bringing out the best in people, it fills me with joy. Sure, 4 matches out of 5 i will get sweaty dudes who make it miserable but that one dude who consciously decides to not wiggle and let me chase someone with himself on the back, or the dude who never predrops (extremely rare), such moments outweigh every bad thing. Only Billy can do this to people because everyone knows Billy mains are chill ^_^ (btw i left a what i consider good lengthy comment about your future content under that recent video. If briefly, i described why i think you should discuss game design of other games and branch out from dbd)

Funny, how Demo and Wesker are the most stressful killers for me. Because every use of the power I think that I miss and spend an hour and a half to perfectly calculate trajectory, but still miss somehow

You see, Freddy is actually Extremely Chill because if you play Class Photo and use DMS and aim for as much value as possible, then you’re playing the game just right 🗣️

Trapper really has the highest variability depending on the situation, I remember a game I had where I was running the add-on that slugs people when they break out of your trap, I set four traps around the same general area, walked away to get more traps, and all four survivors walked into the set traps and I won That was extremely chill, but not representative of my next thirty trapper games

I LOVE running Singularity. It is a ton of micro management, but it feels rewarding when it pays off. I've played him since day one and I haven't swapped killers since.

You know, I've always felt that the game was pretty frustrating and stressful, and it turns out that's because the killers I gravitate towards are all in that category range lol. Especially Myers and Trapper, I always want to play those two, but they're undoubtedly stressful to play as

I love focusing on jumpscares with Ghosty and Myers, so for me it's extremly chill just trying to bring back a bit of spookyness to DBD.

Blight is was always super stressful when I played him because he's one of the few killers that needs a high degree of mechanical skill. Most killer game plans cross over each other, and experience beats out the advantages technical skill gives most of the time, but for blight I felt like I was playing a ranked fps match, constantly flicking between pieces of terrain while tracking the survivor at the same time. He turned the act of just moving around into a no brakes pit race of doom

I used to love playing twins but it was always so incredibly stressful. For me they were one of the killers that I always said were one of my favourite but i rarely ever played them.

That's a fantastic explanation for placement on Hillbilly

I love these random tier lists, and the placements are pretty based. Idea for another memey tier list video: killers ranked by how funny their mad grit swings are.

If possible, I'd love to see a tier list of killer strength only looking at their base kit I know there are some killers that tend to rank high on tier lists, but only because perks and addons are being taken into account for the ranking

Awesome idea for tier list! I even wanted to play. so far, I have never played dbd, only watched it on stream

Now you can make a list from surv pov. I like dredge lately but lockers can be frustrating at times. It be neat if locker’s didn’t lock in nightfall.

I can confirm the entire Billy thing. A friend of mine is a Billy one trick that uses literally nothing but Shadowborn and I love him.

I stopped playing DBD for around 2 years and came back last month because of Chucky since he was my most wished killer to be added to the game. I got him and Singularity, since I found Singularity to be very unique. I liked both of them, but in terms of stress they are night and day lol. Chucky is a super chill killer to play as, while Singularity is very stressfull. I usually play one match as him, then as Chucky so I can relax lol

When i was still kinda new to dbd, getting Myer's adept achievement was one of the most stressful and frustrating things I've done in the game. Either had a 4man escape, or full wipe too fast to earn enough points, for hours on end.

My solution for trapper being frustrating was just to play only basement trapper lol. Watching streamer gameplay back of them getting trapped while trying to rescue from the basement never gets old.

the hillbilly player description...it's so accurate

i am enjoying this new stuff thoroughly! keep it up!

Wraith with the old light burn weakness is keyboard smashing rage inducing. I still have PTSD from those 4 man flashlight squads

I feel like reworked Freddy is stressful when you first start playing him but when you use snares in loops it’s so satisfying

I like this KZfaqr. Bro is straight forward and funny. Great content 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

I might've put Oni higher. You're not always chilling with the power - if someone has a good knowledge of short-loop areas with good pallets, you have a *lot* of pressure to succeed that insta-down chase. If you fail to get them (or ambush someone else) then you've wasted your early-game resources that were so hard to get. Nemesis I would've put lower on stress, only because I actually *don't* pressure myself to get T2 - I'm literally just punching people until they actually start running loops "standard" - and when they do, I start with the whip and get easy shots. Pinhead I personally would put in Extremely Chill because his main power has zero activation requirement - you're getting Pig-style slowdown pressure on the whole team, no matter how badly you're doing. Certainly at higher levels people are thinking about the box's spawn location, etc, but that's not even necessary in average public games. Quick thought on Dredge: What would people think if Dredge got brief haste after M1-breaking a lock on a locker?

green+brown stalk rate on myers with monitor is such a godsend, for when you're having issues stalking!!

Man. I don’t smoke anymore but you’re spot on. I used to be super high playing Billy and it was the most fun I’ve had playing killer.

Hag is, imo the most stressful killer in the game. Managing your web of traps and having multiple traps go off at once while keeping track of all of them still stresses me out, even while being a hag main.

Hah is incredibly stressful, having been a doctor main for a long time I was constantly stressed when made for this was stronger and I stopped playing doc altogether during that time it was so bad. I switched to hag and sometimes get a game so stressful it is crazy. Constantly harassed and managing a downed survivor, another gens about to pop, other guy is harassing my traps and the other is god knows where but I’ll regret not injuring him later

Scott please, why are the colors inverse? Im getting a hernia from the easy ones being red and the hard ones being green

Knight feels chill just firing patrols out and pincering, although he can be frustrating as hell when survivors hold w to the other side of the map without gens thus leaving you without a power if you dont follow, not to mention he's good at losing matches 😅

otz 50 wins on nemesis made that champ look like hernia+ tier most stressful dbd games i’ve seen in my life

This is a brilliant idea for a video

you have no idea how many times as spirit i get perfect read on pallet vault and auto aim swings at the pallet itself instead survivor when coming out of phase and it looks like survivor vaults into me is on the middle of pallet and my m1 hits wood same thing with nurse and i have few clips of that

4:20 what you're describing is my sort of mindset with every killer and it is waaaay more enjoyable as a whole that way

"Will I collide with this invisible block of air here" - DBD player

Billy is my favorite killer for relaxing & making friends w/ the survivor team, even if the match starts out sweaty, getting two hooks on everyone leaves me totally satisfied.

As a p100 demodoggy totally agree with Scott great vid btw, Love tier list

Needed this

As a slinger main, i 100% agree with his place. There are times where i get good shots and then get cucked by a pile of trash or something random. The satisfying part of playing him tho is getting really sick shots with him

Haven’t even watched the vid but taking a guess right now, it’s 100% singularity in S tier

Honestly I would put SM and Legion in Extremely Chill because when I play them I find myself not really thinking that much about anything other than the chase going on at the moment

idk what it is with Xenomorph but i have a harder time learning the actual tail hitbox than doing the drop down tail hit, the tentacle hits lower than where you aim and the hitbox is so scuffed people can walk into it when it went through them at the start of the poke. the tail hitbox sucks which also means i cant for the love of god hit turrest with it it legit goes through it when i aim at it in a straight line. nemesis' tentacle i understood the very first game cause it made sense, this one doesnt

I don't deal with stress well and Hag is my #1 for loving the concept but being able to keep my head straight when it comes to the trap harassment counterplay of the survivors and the macro gameplay required of me when I play her. Not many people can get into her despite her being fairly strong for I'm guessing similar reasons.

As a Singularity player... I agree, they need to buff him a bit to be a lot more chill to play and aid controller players, I WILL SAY, SINGULARITY IS KINDA LIKE PLAYING FNAF 2, YOU MUST KNOW THE WhOLE MAP, YOUR CAMERAS, HAVE A SENSE OF WHERE SURVIVORS COULD BE, WHERE THEY'LL BE, IF THEY DISABLE YOUR CAMERA WHAT TO DO, HOW TO LOOP, WHEN TO USE YOUR OVERCLOCK- But he's really rewarding and as such I think it's fair he has the best lines in the game together with Nick Cage, GROVEL WORMS!!! GROVEL!!! Also one of the sickest moris ever.

Dude the fuckin hillbilly placement is killing me. I'm watching this zonked off my garb and I lost my shit bro. Good vids

I just played killer for the first time in like a year. I played as Wraith (your first chill character).... got 2 hooks all game, major hernia stress! I hated every second of it. I then played Billy to get revenge (your hernia at first killer) and got 4k with a gen remaining, hooking everyone 2 or 3 times, no tunneling. I'm still trying to figure out what i did wrong and right to get these 2 outcomes.

I have the most fun / least stress playing as "jumpscare" killers who can teleport or travel long distances undetected. Even though Sadako's chase sucks, I have the most fun when I feel I can scare the survivors. If they're having fun and on their toes just enough, then I'm having fun.

You could think about huntress like billy, just hitting the coolest shots is what i care about

I have a bulldozer build with legion where I try to sap any and all choice from the survivors. From their perspective it's probably the most annoying and boring thing ever but as a killer it's pure enjoyment toying with them and watching as they run out of options aside from just giving up

Scott, with Nemesis if you really play him a lot it is stressful. no other killer has an aspect of their power that can literally bodyblock them or give speed boost to survivors which happens honestly way too often. it's far more often i get bodyblocked or survivors get away because of my zombies than actually get downs.

I think the changes i would make is putting Legion into relaxed, hag into frustrating and dredge into hernia. The rest is all pretty accurate.

Love the tier lists

I agree on most killers. Twins is pretty relaxed since many ppl u face don't know how to play against her and running around with Victor is pretty chill & fun. Also, Onryo is pretty chill, you just need to teleport every 10s and against most lobbies you get 1-2 free condemned kills, no skill required at all

love me a Scott DbD tier list

Yesterday i saw a guy playing alien, complaining about turrets being visible to other survivors and how slow he feels when burned. At the same time, he 4Ked every game and only got pushed out of power once, like, bro lol

Surprised regarding Dredge. Locked lockers seem mostly inconsequential in my games.

What you said about Hillbilly players being relaxed because they don’t care about outcome is how I see playing Trapper as well.

"[Xenomorph] is pretty relaxed".... Not sure if Scott saw that clip of the four Ripleys on The Game in the bathroom, yet...

Mostly agree. I often gravitate towards those chill killers like Legion.

I find singularity personally chill because I don't tend to sweat the cameras much, I just use him as an M1 killer and use the goop at loops to push survivors away or punish them. But to use him to his fullest is definitely hernia tier, that's too much work for too little payout

As a person who mains mostly ranged killers atm, I'm not sure why, but there is something about Artist that just never "clicks" on my end. Something about the delay on placing crows and actually firing em is just something I never get a hang of/or the survivors have enough time to get rid of crows alltogheter. I know she's strong on correct hands, but just feels like something of the power just doesn't quite click as easily as something like Deathslinger gun or Pyramid head M2

You said you'd only do it for Billy, but a lot of the killers you said were more relaxed because of memes or typical mains just not caring. Which isn't really the stress level of the killer, just the personality of the typical human using it.

I think Trapper is stress relieving knowing that most of my work will be done for me once I set up where I want to, especially with dangerous add-ons like the one that injures when they disarm. To bypass map knowledge on most maps as Trapper: Literally trap all four corners of the shack on the outside. That's it. They lose one of their most powerful locations in its entirety for the entire game, and if you have the disarm = injury add-on, it's even stronger as they'll be tenaciously working to try and make it a safe place again only to alert you and make the down that much easier to obtain. If I want a stressful match, I'll play as Freddy Krueger. He actually just loses half of his kit when generators are finished. He can't teleport anymore, and that was their 'fix' when they originally reworked him for his inability to stop unhooks after generators were finished on the old version, since he had to first pull survivors into the dream realm to hit them. They gave him a global teleport and he was still the weakest killer in end-game. At least if he spoke and shit-talked the survivors throughout the game, it would relieve some of the tension of playing him.

putting nurse in extremely chill tier is an interesting take, the amount of times you can get stuck blinking on objects or be fucked by an indoor map is very infuriating

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My enjoyment of Plague is entirely RNG. If I spawn in one corner of swamp and my only pool is in the literal other corner, the game's hernia inducing before it even begins. But most of the time she is in standard or relaxed, so I reckon you got her pretty right. Same with Artist, I mostly play her for snipe dopamine rushes and just shooting birb after birb.

Trapper is the only killer I can play extremely chill. It's just farm simulator. You don't worry about chases, you don't worry about gens, you don't worry about pallets or windows. You just set traps down and then walk around and pick up teenagers gone wild.

I think billy and bubba can be very stressful some times it’s just that most bubba players and billy players don’t take the game seriously

As much as I love Singularity I have to agree 100% with his tier placement. Dude's strong but so many things can fuck up your power: debris blocking shots, map generation giving you limited pod placement options, etc. Furthermore his Family Photo addon feels so vital that I'm shocked that it's not basekit. That being said, IMO if they ever do a good map design pass he's gonna get a LOT more deadly + less stressful to play. But until then it's a struggle.

I'd put Huntress in Chill territory. Because when I play her it's just to vibe and go for trick shots. Sorta what you said for Hillbilly, but Huntress has such a lower skill floor that the chance of reward is way higher. Definitely agree with Twins, but it's like 50% due to the bugs lol. Hope 2024 is good to them!

“Billy players super chill usually high” I feel called out.

I mained Huntress first and to this day she is the most stressful for me. You need some hours to study hitboxes. I have some sort of ptsd too, because when I played her first, as a 2h baby, I instantly got 4 swfs with flashlights and couldn't hit anybody with m1 even ._. MMR was wild in 2021/2022. I want to play dbd again, I'm over 1k hous now and didn't played much in 2023, but I feel so stressed to start.

As a demo/spirit main, I agree

Thank you for the video

Couldn't agree with billy more, he's so unbelievably hard that you can have all 4 people escape and still feel like you had fun

5:34 Myers is beyond Hernia for evil incarnate

I think singularity is more hernia than twins cuz he has so much more to manage in comparison to twins and also for me personally blight is hernia tier not cuz hes weak but cuz when im trying to go for hug techs and bump 4 times and doing flicks with them barely missing is just really stressful to me, because I want to be better with him so bad and it pains me that im not xD but thats more of a personal issue than actual killer issue

As a Twins main, I can confirm I am stressed everyday :) Mostly due to Victor dying randomly and getting stuck though 😅

Michael’s power in a nutshell is like In case of emergency please hit to tier 3

100% agree on pyramid head. You can either play really boring and zone and hard tunnel and win, or you can get epic mlg trickshots at the cost of winning the game.

I agree except on legion, its can be incredibly stressful to play legion as you can have survivors just body block your m2 just by being in deep wound and just barely missing a chain hit is stressful especially with the 3 second cooldown off of power that jets survivors just get to where they need to be. not to mention although mft got the nerf people still use relatively often and it makes chase harder and more stressful.

I find Sadako releaxing because all I have to do is just teleport everywhere every cooldown. No thinking involved. Non-stop teleport, then just hunt down who ever turns red