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Hey everyone, today we’re going to be ranking all of the designs of the original Dead by Daylight killers. For this list we’re going to be considering visual design, sound design, and other factors like how their design links into their lore and backstory. We won’t be including the licensed characters into this, as Behaviour didn’t create them, so I think it’s much fairer to rank all of the characters who Behaviour created against each other, rather than placing them up against other licenses and design teams. It’s also worthwhile mentioning that honestly all of the killers in the game are designed very well, in fact the arts or visual part of the game has always been one of the strongest parts. This is just me ranking my favourites. To do this we’ll put them into one of four tiers. The first is Generic design, the lowest tier, then Inspired design, Great design, and finally, Near perfect design. Let’s get into it.
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Timestamps:
Intro 0:00
Generic design 0:49
Inspired design 3:16
Great design 5:50
Near perfect design 9:08
Outro 12:27
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Oni and nurse are generic too imo
I’d say that the clowns noise and animations ( if that is even a factor ) is in at least inspired
the only thing i really disagreed with is trickster i think he should have been lower but eh i do think ghostface should have been on here
Me, a curious bean: Sure I'll click on it and see the teir list
Proceeds too have their favourite killer's designs marked as "basic": …yeah man…
I mean most of the "Basic" character designs are far from bad. Like I personally love hillbilly's, Legion's, and Gunslinger's designs. Legion I think is mostly Slipknot inspired, and back in the 90's Rebellion and Metal were like two pea's in a pod. I love their leather hoodies and jackets, and I just like the grungey yet daunting masks they wear. They or or less just look amazing in my opinion and really give you that mosh pit 90s rebel teen vibe. (Would kill for some slipknot skins though)
The hillbilly, Muah, I do know that it's supposed to be based on Bubba, but I honestly like his sounds, his disfigured face (inoccent yet mournful), his lanky body, it more or less fits perfectly with his story of being a child shut out for most of his life, and only used as a machine for slaughter. For his lanky legs to his buff arms, and ragged clothes. I personally would never change billy's design.
For desthslinger, I think his design is more iconic then bland, its like a combination of all cowboy antagonists merged into one horrid being. That's the vibe I get when I see Mr. Quinn. You can just look at him and tell, "shit this guy is a bad guy." By just looking at his appearance. Perfection in my opinion.
In my opinion hillbilly kind of looks like split face from The Thing
I think the frosty eyes on oni looks great.
In Legion's defense, that 4-in-1 costume of theirs where they bleed blight chems and are all fused together… Pretty unique design I'd say.
i just wish rin's base outfit wasnt a literal bandage bikini. this is a victim of a terrible crime, a literal corpse and she's wearing next to nothing :/ it makes me uncomfortable especially bc she's so young
i figured my fav killer would get a low score. its clown if your wondering lol
At first I honestly thought Slinger will come out 1st. It's not my favorite killer, but his design is probably the most unique. True, his looks are "generic" for a cowboy, but probably the best thing about his design is how Bhvr managed to mix the western vibe with a horror setting. Obviously, it's just my opinion, but he definitely isn't generic.
I'm surprised you didn't thrown in Ghostface, since everything about him is original besides the actual mask itself. I know you said no licensed killers, but I feel like he's an exception since his lore, behavior, and costume design is original. Either way great list me boyo.
I'd swap spirit and huntress places. I feel like I constantly see spirit's design in many horror genres while the huntress not so much. I absolutely love her koshka skin.
Trickstet great? What a stupid opinion
I saw the categories as
-Short Film Killers
-DVD Killers
-Netflix Killers
-Big Screen Killers
Dude.. spirit sounds like a cod BO2 zombie
I never really liked Wraith's default costume because it largely ignored his backstory. The 🚗 wrecking yard themed costume BHVR made later on is the one I use & consider what should have been canon from the start.
Actually I would say blight is designed after the scarecrow from Batman.
Slinger has a shatter/broken jaw shown in the chains of hate trailer and has a limp from a botched surgery and doesn't use a lasso to catch his bounties instead using a speargun and is reserved and enjoys the pain of the survivors and chuckles when he does his mori
I think Anna is one of the best designs for a killer, her tantrums when she gets blinded or stunned is just amazing for her character. Plus on one Halloween I made a cosplay for her and wore it and some people though I was cute😶 and others thought I was terrifying, my mom though she was a boy at first because she’s Russian😂 They did a great job for her
how the actual hell that sh nurse copycat is in near perfect and huntress/deathslinger aren't?
Legion should be the killer, who can mask into survivor. Don't know, how to balance it, i just want it.)
I don't know if I agree that Spirit is the best designed killer, I mean she isn't super original. Spirit is sort of a generic Japanese ghost. I mean Spirit is designed well, but since she is kind of generic I probably wouldn't have her at number 1. I personally think Deathslinger is a better and more original designed killer :/
Not the community continuing to disregard and disrespect Adiris and not maining her.
Don't let our resident lore man see this video with where you placed trickster 🤣
Wait, Nurse ISN’T a licensed killer from Silent Hilp?
I think the trickster other than the fact he has a little bit of style is literally just a prestiged survivor
I would rank Deathslinger a bit higher just because of his face, there is a bullet wound from when he got shot in a gun fight, I think it adds a lot of personality and their is a animation that shows him adjusting his jaw. Pretty neat Behaviour.
Maybe if clown wasn’t just a gross data’s he’d be somewhat scary lol. A lot of people are afraid of clowns and his obese design makes him not scary at all even to those people lol.
I think we have very dfferent ideas of what generic design is
Don’t worry legion out of all the rank videos out there I know there’s one out there where your number 1
Hillbilly should be higher in the list
Blight should be on the top of this list.Also Deathslinger deserves a better place.
Spirit is one of the killers that actually makes me feel like an absolute Garbage even tho she's not even real
6:40 how can you say something so controversial yet so brave? Also he's one of my favorites.
i disagree with Trickster ONLY BECAUSE. I think he deserves to be higher. Trickster's design adds a lot to his character and lore, because he looks so human! He isn't a scary looking person, if we ignore the blood and his slit-mouthed grin, and that's part of what makes him scary. all the other characters are these very scary looking killers, they're almost all terrifying, masked killers or supernatural monsters. but the Trickster isnt like that! he's just a human who is capable of incredible horror and evil. serial killers in the world aren't going to be scary, masked monsters, theyre going to be people that look like Trickster; normal, maybe even attractive, human beings. that plus the accuracy and care BHVR took to make him really LOOK like a kpop idol makes him one of the best designed characters.
plus, his scariness comes from hes just. creepy looking. especially his wink in the lobby, when he looks directly back at the player and seems to almost acknowledge us
Blight reminds me of that one video that supposedly these dudes run into a witch at night in the middle east where it chases them while they are in a car backing up keeping the headlights on it.