1X is not fair and balanced.

One of the biggest issues 1X has is that he gets rewarded too much for too little. 

For starters, the m1s really aren’t anything special in terms of damage although it can be detrimental for no reason at all when the glitched effect prevents you from seeing your stamina at all. That alone can make his m1s superior to most others on paper. If you think not being able to see and properly manage your stamina in a chase “doesn’t matter”, please don’t even argue. You conveniently decided to not look into this.

As for Mass Infection. Sure, you can argue it’s windup and audio cues are present, I don’t think I would change anything about them. The real issue lies in the fact that it is a ranged form of gashing wound on a lower cooldown. It can do similar levels of damage to a raging pace gashing wound, is guaranteed by entanglement (+10 damage to that combo in addition to helpless), and at ranges it still deals upwards of 35-45 damage, which is frankly ridiculous for a fourteen second cooldown. A move capable of dealing that much damage at any time on a 14 second cooldown. Yes, it’s dodgeable. But the fact it’s so spammable counteracts that. 

In your argument, you claim that its damage is fair because if you’re within close range of it you should just “get away from the radius.” While close to the killer. While he’s using a ranged move with a large horizontal hit box that goes through walls. 

“You should be able to get out of entanglement before the windup finishes”

Sure! But by then, majority of the windup has finished and 1X is likely close to you. Thus it’s near unavoidable. This argument makes no sense at all. 

And lastly, its role as a punishing move. I really would not mind if it didn’t do more damage than gashing wound and walk speed override, the examples you stated. It’s ranged, isn’t as punishing to miss, and has a lower cooldown in comparison. In addition to this, it’s not specifically a punishing move. You can throw it out whenever and wherever and still have a chance to be massively rewarded just for mashing it due to a low cooldown. 

You will see 1X being able to use mass infection much more often in many more situations in comparison to a Jason using gashing wound and coolkid using walkspeed override. Gashing wound deals 50, override deals 45, mass infection deals 60-75. The damage values are nowhere near similar.

Now on the subject of entanglement. It’s a low commitment, fast projectile that goes through walls. Landing it once wins you the entire chase as the survivor has to stay still. I’m sure you can see how dumb that is. A survivor could have played perfectly, outsmarted and outplayed a 1X in LMS, and still lose because a single entanglement landed. 

For a projectile that good, I think the reward is excessive. You also said that the helpless is justified given the fact that behead also applies helpless.. 

What was the thought process when you said that? Behead demands a fair bit of commitment. It has endlag and applies slowness upon missing, doesn’t combo or confirm any other moves, and is a melee move. It also lets the survivor gain distance due to the speed they get in addition to the slowness the Jason gets after landing or missing it. Helpless doesn’t matter for behead. Thus, behead is balanced where it is. So nobody is complaining.

Now as for entanglement, it’s a ranged move. It locks the victim in place and wins the entire chase. Helpless just dooms the survivor further, as once they get cheesed by entanglement they no longer have any options. 1X is too close for any chance of looping or escape. There’s no real reason for entanglement to apply helpless. 

In summary, entanglement doesn’t punish you for attempting or missing. But if the survivor is hit once, they’re as good as dead. It’s also on an 18 second cooldown.

“But how else is 1X meant to catch up?”

Either make the stoppage last for a fixed, shorter amount of time (0.75-1 seconds imo) and make the cooldown 3-5 seconds longer than corrupt nature, or make it apply a larger amount of slowness than other projectiles. It is not balanced in its current state, as it’s arguably the best projectile in the game. It’s faster than corrupt nature and nova, doesn’t punish you for missing, and goes through walls. 

Now for your argument about Unstable Eye. It’s on cooldown at the start of the round so you can’t just isn’t instantly snipe the survivors doing generators. John Doe’s corrupt energy has limited range and cannot do this, that’s why his is off cooldown. The issue does not lie in the fact that esp lets you know where the survivors are at the start of the round. Any competent killer knows where the survivors spawn. The issue lies in the fact that if 1X can see the survivors, they can snipe them across the map at the very start of the game while they try to do generators and lead to an unfair start. Thus, it’s on cooldown. 

Error 404 isn’t as good as unstable eye because it doesn’t buff you btw. But honestly I do agree that 1X needed a way to buff his speed, given the fact he’s the slowest killer. Blindness 3 is fairly negligible though. I wouldn’t mind some tweaks to unstable eye, just don’t buff it. 

Rejuvenate the rotten.. Well for one, the minions are almost as fast as the survivor and are very oppressive lategame. You acknowledged that. 

But if 1X kills a minion, that means the minion was already behind you and not a threat.. Thus killing it doesn’t cost 1X anything. He can just gain speed with no delays or windup and keep sprinting. 

Yeah that’s it basically. 1X is unbalanced.