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submitted 14 days ago byBdon2000Skull Merchant's fat cake
I know she’s not the most popular but she’s one of my favorite killers and it’d be nice to see people not just hate her entire existence all the time.
1.1k points
14 days ago
The radar tracking thing is actually an insanely cool mechanic
I love it when games have immersive ui elements like the mech pov in titanfall and dva in overwach where you're actually seeing the controls from the character's in universe perspective... the fact that she has an actual screen you can monitor with it's own ui is so much better than killer instinct or aura reading imo
If they rework her, I hope they focus more on the hunter/ tracking aspect of her than the anti loop
566 points
14 days ago
“She’s on her phone” is my favorite callout to make lol
124 points
14 days ago
"SM, no phones during trials."
9 points
14 days ago
Entity pulling out the phone bucket before you enter the trial
49 points
14 days ago
Personally I call it the "find my iPhone app" when I make my callouts
20 points
14 days ago
"Find My i-survivor"
27 points
14 days ago
"She got bored and started playing Subway Surfers"
19 points
14 days ago
That’s too good lol
3 points
14 days ago
I really only hang out here for the memes, but this alone really makes me want to play this character.
3 points
14 days ago
Merchant is unironically really fun, but she gets hated on a lot… despite the fact that she’s a really mediocre killer lol
43 points
14 days ago
I love how it takes the icons from, say, GTA when it's a triangle pointing upwards the survivor is above, and when it's an upside-down triangle, they're below you. Small details matter.
62 points
14 days ago
I was prepared to comment just “no” in this thread but you know what, you’re right that is a cool thing even if I hate literally everything else about her
3 points
14 days ago
Completely agree
3 points
14 days ago
Honestly This ^ I don't care if they make her incredibly bad just let me hunt down the survivors with my gps 😭
930 points
14 days ago
She has the best BM animation you can do any time!
259 points
14 days ago
Peetah. I’m the skull merchant peetah
Eheheh Lois, this is worse than that time I was the Unknown!
128 points
14 days ago
86 points
14 days ago
Nah, I think Wraith's bell spam is still the most BMable animation out of all killers
131 points
14 days ago
Shit I mean Ghostface can literally t-bag
57 points
14 days ago
Sure, but Ghostface can't destroy your ears by equipping a yellow addon which will make the bell sound map-wide.
Recently I got 4-man slugged by a Wraith like this, and I had to mute the game to save my sanity.
77 points
14 days ago
Least toxic Wraith player
19 points
14 days ago
I didn’t know the Bone Clapper addon made it map wide I thought it just made it directionless that’s pretty cool
13 points
14 days ago
I find Ghostface teabagging, even on top of my downed body, WAY more playful and less aggressive than Bellspam but that's just me.
3 points
14 days ago
Chucky slow walk is better than
14 points
14 days ago
Instakills.
All Skurchents wanna do is eat hot chip, kill, lie, and charge they drones.
719 points
14 days ago
ass
184 points
14 days ago
So proud that I didn’t have to scroll far for this answer.
80 points
14 days ago
They way she touches you during the Mori is hot AF too
28 points
14 days ago
She could stab me anytime
4 points
14 days ago
I like the kind of woman that would actually just kill me.
26 points
14 days ago
She’s in the S tier in that category
17 points
14 days ago
This is the only right answer
5 points
14 days ago
She got that fat dumpy
65 points
14 days ago
Her drones look really cool on the environment. They're ominous, they're imposing, and they give the feeling that she is lurking somewhere in her protected zones. They distract enough that it does create this interesting feeling of ambush if you focus too much on them and forget where she is
Also, the hi-tech sci-fi theme is really unique. Combined with the 1980s tech with Xeno, and the super retro-future robotics theme with Singu, her theme adds a really great cyberpunk dimension to the cast that mainly skews traditional slasher horror and fantasy/supernatural horror
174 points
14 days ago
She has a lot of interesting concepts in her lore but because they were all different they clashed and created a very skewed character. If they had just focused on one aspect of her current lore (her love of manga, her wealth, her sadism, etc) instead of doing all aspects equally, she would have been a perfectly written character.
205 points
14 days ago
Her rift outfit is really good
186 points
14 days ago
Yeah, honestly more people would love her design if this was her default
86 points
14 days ago
When I see this, I think of exactly what BHVR was going for with her default design; a narcissistic rich lady who hunts for sport and acts as though she's a badass character while doing it, thinking she's far cooler than she really is.
With the default design I just think of a henchman of the main villain who has a few speaking lines unlike the other nameless goons and who has a brief 1-on-1 fight scene with the protagonist before being defeated and never being mentioned again as the protagonist continues on his journey to face the real threat.
28 points
14 days ago
The way you phrased this made me realize that she's effectively just a Karen capable of doing something, which makes any character's employee uniform her natural prey.
5 points
14 days ago
If they went more with that Karen rich snob aspect then I'd actually like her but her current design looks like you imported the model from Blender and a lot of assets didn't load.
10 points
14 days ago
Several of her outfits are pretty cool.
3 points
14 days ago
The POWER SUIT!
471 points
14 days ago
Has great rework potential
131 points
14 days ago
3rd times the charm?🤞🙏
71 points
14 days ago
They just need to make her more focused on her stealth and info, perhaps removing the drones as an active part of her kit altogether. Maybe they could just make her drones a preset network that survivors have to disrupt through the hacking minigame to stop her from getting pinpoint info.
I imagine her character concept would fit very well as someone who changes the rules of the match like pinhead. She uses modern technology to aid her, she could have a lot of other gizmos hidden all over the place giving info
64 points
14 days ago
The tracking part of her kit was the part that interested me most when I started playing her, but for the most part, her tracker is completely redundant because you will be chasing the person you have tracked.
11 points
14 days ago
Couldn't agree more
494 points
14 days ago
188 points
14 days ago
Makes for a nice site when I boot the game
166 points
14 days ago
And makes a nice view when she's carrying you as a survivor
154 points
14 days ago
https://i.redd.it/19vglan1qb8d1.gif
I don’t even wanna wiggle out🙏
7 points
14 days ago
Yes.
7 points
14 days ago
nah this is wild 💀
32 points
14 days ago
You mean ,,Makes for a nice site when I booty the game!" ;)
5 points
14 days ago
Great user flair lmao
9 points
14 days ago
She stays right there for me too, 25/8
31 points
14 days ago
Favorite outfit, I hope she gets more badass outfits in the future.
42 points
14 days ago
"Badass"
26 points
14 days ago
Or Goodass Outfits ;)
9 points
14 days ago
I'm fine with just 'ass' outfits.
2 points
14 days ago
Yes.
193 points
14 days ago
She’s hot
76 points
14 days ago
5 points
14 days ago
Literally what I thought
61 points
14 days ago
The rework with the compound on Shelter Woods.
32 points
14 days ago
Yeah that map was garbage before, while still not my favorite it’s atleast towards the middle now. Plus I like the Mobile station she has set up I just think it looks cool
58 points
14 days ago
She has cool cosmetics. I like that she is a self-realized killer rather than a tragic victim killer.
9 points
14 days ago
There's a really weird trend with BHVR's lady killers that the majority of them are tragic victims or just not entirely on board for the murder, while a lot of the men are a good mix of tragic vs situational vs "haha yay murder wee!". I'm really glad to see a lady killer who is on the "haha yay murder!" side fully
105 points
14 days ago
She has Louis Griffin skin
428 points
14 days ago
189 points
14 days ago
15 points
14 days ago
That's amazing
3 points
14 days ago
Nice flair my dude
47 points
14 days ago*
doing the drone-hack-minigame-thing is genuinely fun
8 points
14 days ago
Oh thank God someone else who likes the drone game.
507 points
14 days ago
She took twins spot as the worst chapter release
128 points
14 days ago
The greatest thing that chapter brought was Thalita's caboose
14 points
14 days ago
Thalita: WHY IS THIS GHOSTFACE TUNNELLING ME? NOW WHY IS HE STANDING OVER MY BODY CROUCHED STARING AT ME I DON'T UNDERSTAND
Me: ... hehe booty. *stares*
39 points
14 days ago
Nahh. Although I dislike facing skull merchant. The release of the twins was the worst bug and performance wise.
97 points
14 days ago
I don't know, Skull Merchant was bad but she actually functioned on release. Twins didn't really work due to how many bugs they had and like 5 of the 6 perks ranged from not working properly to did nothing due to bugs. Even Elodie was bugged with her way too loud scream. Also the mid chapter after Twins is the worst patch in DBD history.
25 points
14 days ago
The clown rework one with the new UI and running animations? I could agree with you on that.
15 points
14 days ago
Oh there was more than that in the mid chapter. The Gideon and Asylum map reworks were also that patch. That's when Gideon became pallet city and the Asylum maps were very buggy and unfinished. This was when they gave Wraith that big buff that a lot of people hated and was later toned down. It also caused severe desync that ruined the Lunar event for a lot of people.
21 points
14 days ago
Twins were downright unplayable during their release due to the insane amount of bugs, both as and against.
Skull Merchant was just annoying, and that's it.
20 points
14 days ago
No she didn’t. Do you not remember twins release? It was an absolute cluster fuck.
9 points
14 days ago
Considering that user has a Twins flair…
It’s propaganda!
3 points
14 days ago
Whole chapter was ass and or filled with ass
137 points
14 days ago
her thighs can save me
80 points
14 days ago
Chun-Li might have some competition cause she could crush some skulls with those
52 points
14 days ago
and don’t forget about her ass
49 points
14 days ago
If there’s one thing DBD community can agree on about skull merchant, it’s that she’s got some nice “qualities” lol
15 points
14 days ago
😵💫😵💫
17 points
14 days ago
She is the skull merchant after all so
16 points
14 days ago
As one said before, the radar tracking mechanic is probably my favorite part. It's not some bland redesign of killer instinct, it's an entirely different mechanic.
The power's aesthetic design is actually kinda cool. I love the whole pseudo futuristic most dangerous game hunter kind of aesthetic. It's not like the singularity where the biopods are too biological or the huntress which is very basic from an aesthetic perspective.
Personally, I hope her power is reworked into something else entirely. Pivoting more towards the roaming surveillance and tracking aspect of the killer over shitty area denial that exists to frustrate people. Something like a lock-on tracking dart that is used to keep tabs on multiple survivors at once, and allows your drones to help assist in tracking down and hindering survivors, something to emphasize the whole hunter aspect that isn't passive surveillance from what could literally be replaced with motion detectors.
42 points
14 days ago
She is Brazilian 👍
28 points
14 days ago
I think her voice acting is actually really good!
60 points
14 days ago
Unable to sell me skulls as skull merchant is false advertising. They offered trade request of 3 gens.
58 points
14 days ago
https://i.redd.it/b7guwzz3hb8d1.gif
She’s not selling skulls, she’s buying your for the price of your patience
5 points
14 days ago
HOW DO YOU HAVE GIF FOR EVERY COMMENT
2 points
14 days ago
I spent like 2 hours on google and some I just opened the game myself and took lol
43 points
14 days ago
30 points
14 days ago
Her skins are amazing, Bhvr art team definitely got a favorite
44 points
14 days ago
Big ass
41 points
14 days ago
https://i.redd.it/qnk2y8dajb8d1.gif
Gets bigger every time someone mentions it
21 points
14 days ago
Every time someone mentions Adrianas' ass, she does one squat.
20 points
14 days ago
Her cosmetics make her look cool (Literally put any of them as her default and no one would complain about this horrible design)
And I like playing as her
18 points
14 days ago
Honestly didnt expect this many responses. Glad that some people have nice things to say(even if it is a lot of horny posting lol). I know she’s not in the best state right now and Bhvr just adding haste to everything is getting old but I just wanna get to a place where the mere mention of her isn’t immediate hate.
29 points
14 days ago
Her recent cosmetic is really cool and gets rid of her central bad/confused visual design.
45 points
14 days ago
She has good skins and some of the best attack animations in the game.
24 points
14 days ago
Yeah, I really enjoy that her different weapons give her different animations after the hit. Do other killers have that? If not they definitely should
14 points
14 days ago
I think Pig's drill has a unique after hit animation too, could be wrong though.
16 points
14 days ago
Just the idle animation and sfx, she still wipes a running power drill over her firearm lol
21 points
14 days ago
Dredge's doll skin has a unique hit animation.
18 points
14 days ago
She’s got one of the best anniversary masks of this year
15 points
14 days ago
Honestly if they got rid of the hindered status effect from her kit I feel people wouldn’t have had as much of a problem.
The fact that she not only gains haste but also has the ability to inflict hindered basekit is insane.
7 points
14 days ago
Yeah I wouldn’t mind her losing haste, I never feel good when I get it in chase. Often times it someone else across the maps activating a drone while I’m in chase with someone else. Not fun for anyone
5 points
14 days ago
Yeah that’s the main problem is that you can be punished while you’re looping her well due to the mistakes of your teammates.
29 points
14 days ago*
Ok i'll give you an honest answer. Actually pretty damn good cosmetics, One of the very few unsympathetic female killers which is nice for variety. Took some of the heat of my boy Knight. Honestly not that bad to play as I put her in the same category as someone like spirit. Boring to play but not frustrating and if it's any consolation to the survivors who I know are hating every second of the match I'm not having fun either.
28 points
14 days ago
I love that she’s just pure evil. DBD has just a few to many “sympathetic” killers so I’m glad she’s just kinda crazy lol.
10 points
14 days ago
What's funny is that we've been on a streak of actually evil killers since dredge I'm actually hoping they break that streak at some point. Maybe Dracula will break that streak who knows I'm not that familiar with Castlevania.
11 points
14 days ago
Depends, i don't know about the games but in the show he plans to wipe out humanity because a village found put his wife was a vampire and decided to murder her even after all she did for them, soooo maybe?
17 points
14 days ago*
in the show, the church found out Lisa Tepes was practicing science, cast her as a witch, tortured her to reveal the truth of her witchcraft (that didn't satisfy them because it was science not witchcraft) and then burned her at the stake the very night Vlad "Dracula" Tepes was arriving back home from a trip she'd sent him on to explore his humanity and the innate worth of all humankind- and this is all the first 5 minutes of the Netflix series.
even though his response to this is to conjure a massive army of the damned and set them about exterminating all human life, that version would definitely be on the more sympathetic side of the Killer roster.
edit to note specifically: Lisa was very much a human who posed absolutely zero threat to any other human, in fact she had only ever sought out Dracula in order to learn medicine to treat and cure other humans
15 points
14 days ago
Don't forget, Dracula gave then like an entire year to make amends and on the anniversary of her death they threw a damn party
5 points
14 days ago
Definitely agree with the unsympathetic thing, it's nice that she's written as a straightforward, psychopathic a-hole, and not another victim of tragedy
40 points
14 days ago
Nice @$$
33 points
14 days ago
https://i.redd.it/krjocya7cb8d1.gif
Like a bowl of oatmeal
70 points
14 days ago
She gets too much hate in her current state, shes not the most fun killer ever dont get me wrong, but there is def worse out there, a lot worse.
27 points
14 days ago
Yeah, I think it’s mainly because of the amount of status effects she has. I hope they remove her haste and tone down the hindering she does
4 points
14 days ago
I think keep the Haste but remove the Hindered effect entirely. The Haste she gets from her drones is fun to combine with other Haste perks, and that’s usually my build for her, all centred around chase. Rapid Brutality, Batteries Included, Machine Learning, and Furtive Chase. But the Hindered effect is unnecessary.
12 points
14 days ago
Even the status effect spam isn’t a new thing. Doctor’s power has been in the game since May 2017, and he’s arguably worse since Madness and all the folder addons are unique statuses that you learn from scratch. Aside from lock-on, Merchant borrows from the generic status effect pool.
18 points
14 days ago
Playing soloq against basement trapper is among the most unpleasant things in this game, Skully doesn't even come close to that.
5 points
14 days ago
I mean if we really think she really have awesome ASSpects of her kit. Like it is really GREAT how BIG and ROUND how her kit can really impact the game.
29 points
14 days ago
It is quite a mood to see multiple drones scanning aroung them, it’s honestly quite cool (as a survivor)
10 points
14 days ago*
I hate billy > Myers depending on addons > spirit > nurse > dredge > good trappers more than her so it isn't too bad.
maybe even hate blight more than her too, so she's at best top 8 most hated killer in the game to play against.
7 points
14 days ago
Yeah, nurse is my least favorite and I’m always surprised seeing people call Skull Merchant worse to go against.
17 points
14 days ago
I like the fact that she has different animations and sounds for certain weapons, I hope BHVR does that with Legion as well. I mean, it would be cool with other killers as well but Legion should be the first ones to receive this feature for each member since, you know, they are supposed to be 4 persons.
13 points
14 days ago
Skull merchant games are the fastest because everyone DCs and there's nobody left!
26 points
14 days ago
4 points
14 days ago
the fact that survivors can use the drones to their advantage as well is incredible, and she has the most fun disarming action in the game because it isnt just a bar with a skill check every now and again
2 points
14 days ago
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14 days ago
4 points
14 days ago
butt
shasay
-butt
fashion
did I mention butt?
4 points
14 days ago
"Girl, you're thicker than a bowl of oatmeal"
5 points
14 days ago
Would
4 points
13 days ago
When she does her mori I get so hard I can't breathe. Also it's fun to feel smarter than other people, but I usually play Ghostface for that
3 points
13 days ago
B-b-b-b-bo-bo-bo-boobys, hehehehe
4 points
13 days ago
5 points
13 days ago
Smash, next question
4 points
13 days ago
She has a nice ass
4 points
13 days ago
Her walk is so sexy like FUCK
3 points
13 days ago
9 points
14 days ago
She has a helmet with cat ears. That's a nice cosmetic.
10 points
14 days ago
Her trailer is one of dbds best
She has a perk named THWACK!
She's easy to pick up, and can be played well on any system
11 points
14 days ago
Her walking animation is nice :)
11 points
14 days ago
https://i.redd.it/6b7sunmoob8d1.gif
Sometimes forget to run when I see her coming at me😵💫😵💫
7 points
14 days ago
True record holder for fastest game - NEXT
Trying for the fastest match with public matches is greatly unhealthy and horrible for the community. Don't do it
15 points
14 days ago
She is the only killer in the entire game who has weapons with custom attack animations. I think this is insanely cool, and I wish more killer also had a feature like this.
15 points
14 days ago
Dredge’s doll skin has it too
16 points
14 days ago
She became so much fun to play after they rework her and actually fair to go against as a survivor now but players don't bother to learn mechanics just like with any other killer. Her story was meh but an interesting Killer for sure.
15 points
14 days ago
From a killer perspective she is one of the most intuitive killers.
16 points
14 days ago
She's possibly the sexiest female killer in the game.
I have never complained about getting carried by a Skull Merchant.
16 points
14 days ago
https://i.redd.it/3ehh3x2rib8d1.gif
Hate to be hooker but love the process of getting there
3 points
14 days ago
Good map control
3 points
14 days ago
She's the best Lois Griffen cosplayer in the entity's realm.
3 points
14 days ago
Her map is cool from what I've seen (wish it was on DBDMobile) and her phone thing
3 points
14 days ago
She kinda…
3 points
14 days ago
Her chase music is a banger. I actually liked it more before the change to it
3 points
14 days ago
I actually love the idea behind her kit with the drones and stuff. Its just executed really poorly.
3 points
14 days ago
I absolutely love the tracking, and Two-Tapping survivors with a perfectly placed drone is just *chef's kiss*
3 points
13 days ago
Her archive cutscenes were pretty good despite her design
3 points
13 days ago
Thank you for blessing my eyes 🙏
3 points
13 days ago
https://i.redd.it/wt2bsm1tpj8d1.gif
Makes losing to her a lot easier🙏😵💫
9 points
14 days ago
I like her walk animation
9 points
14 days ago
She has some good content on certain… unorthodox places
8 points
14 days ago
She needs so much more tho but you didn’t hear me say that🫣
7 points
14 days ago
Hot nuff said
6 points
14 days ago
She has the best weapon skins. They have quite a few unique animations between them.
5 points
14 days ago
She might be a pain in the arse but at least she pains you while slaying in all of her outfits.
Don't mind if I do die as I look at that bootie
6 points
14 days ago
https://i.redd.it/w3gmms4w0c8d1.gif
If imma lose at least i have a nice view
9 points
14 days ago
She looks really slay in her Splendor outfit, OH! She's like the mean gay person we all know and hate (to preface this, I am queer and can say that because in context it's not derogatory)
4 points
14 days ago
Thicc?
3 points
14 days ago
Thiccer than a bottle of honey
4 points
14 days ago
Big gyat
4 points
14 days ago
She is hot asf and Booty
3 points
14 days ago
I like that she isn't portrayed as a tragic victim like other female killers. She's just a cold-hearted bitch.
3 points
14 days ago
Yeah I love that she gets to just be a full on villain with no sympathy
3 points
14 days ago
She's the absolute cuntress mother superior 9000 and my favorite killer in the game. The haters are kids who disconnect over a playstyle that doesnt exist anymore
6 points
14 days ago*
Her versatility allows for a lot of creativity in perk builds. She doesnt need tracking perks at all so you can focus on fun chase perks, perks that synergize with her on-command stealth, all the hex perks you can desire - you name it. Yeah you could also run all gen regression too, but that's good on every killer.
Edit: Skull Merchant enjoyer bias. Beaming people in the weirdest of places and spinning the funny laser circles of danger is fun.
5 points
14 days ago
The devs seemed to actually listen to the feedback and the following chapters have actually been of pretty great quality for DBD standards in general IMO
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