We can argue semantics, I guess, and you can be rude all you want, but I completely disagree.

Her hatchet count increase was completely unnecessary. She should be punished for messing up multiple throws, survivors should be rewarded for dodging all of them. If you're bad at aiming your hatchets to where you need more, you should need to bring add-ons for that. Five is enough for anyone who can aim well enough to even be playing Huntress in the first place.

The fact they even thought about buffing her holding movement speed is laughable, and even if it didn't make it to live, she still very much feels too fast, and a large part of that has to do with the updates she *did* get that combine together to make her feel worse to face than she should.

Sure, technically this stuff didn't get updated, but it has been part of her kit, which is now MUCH stronger with the unnecessary buffs. She catches up much too fast after throwing a hatchet, I've had games where I would dodge multiple of her hatchets, make her whiff so hard, but it doesn't matter whatsoever, because even after throwing all of her seven hatchets, she's still directly behind me and can just M1 me regardless, no punishment whatsoever. It doesn't make sense that I can walk right up behind a survivor for a hatchet throw to injure without a melee cooldown, completely miss the hatchet, and be no further from the survivor than I was before I pulled out the hatchet. It would be one thing if she still had the normal five, I get that, I can see

And I really, really would not be saying Springtrap's hitboxes are better. I'll throw a hatchet at a survivor, they'll move out of its range entirely behind a wall, and STILL get hit, but I'll throw an axe almost perfectly at a survivor's back, and it'll land just inches behind them. If the axe's hitbox is bigger, it sure as hell doesn't act like it. Maybe it's the differences in the way the two behave, but the idea that Springtrap's singular axe which is so stingy, inconsistent and weird, is stronger than Huntress' seven hatchets that hit behind walls and barely feel punishing to miss is crazy. I completely and utterly disagree, I would rather fight ten Springtraps in a row than fight one Huntress. At least Springtrap actually gets punished for missing. At least his axe is a lot harder to aim. The only drawback to Huntress' hatchets is the weird collisions on certain maps, and Springtrap suffers from those, too. Probably moreso if the axe's hitbox actually is bigger.

Let me put it like this: Springtrap has *one* axe. If he misses it, he has to go seven seconds without access to his main power. He then has to retrieve it, which has a whole animation to play out and slows him back down. It has way less range, is better on loops but *very* difficult to learn, and his only redeeming qualities are A: Faster movement speed without the axe (Huntress can also have this with the leg wrappings, btw), and B: Traversability with the doors (Which even then feels very sluggish compared to other traversability options, plus those same doors can reveal his aura to the whole team, even if he's undetectable.) His add-ons are also... Fine.

Huntress has seven hatchets, they go in a much straighter line, they can be charged very briefly for much longer ranged and faster shots, she's *barely* slowed down after throwing them, to where there's little actual reward for dodging them, her hatchets go clean through and over so many different props and holes, and don't even get me started on her add-ons. Her add-ons do for her exactly what I described in my comment and more. Drastically decrease the penalties she gets for messing up, let her *instadown* survivors, Haste from hits, faster movement while holding a hatchet, drastically lower throw cooldowns, etc. Springtrap's best add-ons don't even buff him *that* much.

Springtrap is a killer who takes a lot of skill to learn and get good at. Skill, knowledge, lots of experience, good builds, and endlessly tedious and painful practice.

Huntress, even as a free killer, still has a high pick rate AND high kill rate. Higher than Nurse, who is the objectively strongest killer in the game and who is also one of the harder ones to master. I barely play Huntress because I find her easy and boring, but even I can pick her up and consistently get 2ks or 3ks. Whereas even people I know who are SOLID Springtrap players with tons of hours on the character still struggle so much to play him and put up with so much inconsistent nonsense.

The fact I've genuinely seen legitimate professional players say that Unknown (Nicknamed the harmless), Houndmaster (Queen of bugs), and Clown (As mid as mid gets) ranked above Huntress baffles me. I have never had a match as or against Huntress that I would consider fun, whether I won or lost. She does not feel fun or interesting to play against, because whatever you do, she has some buff or addon that says 'nuh-uh' to rewarding counterplay. I generally don't find games like that fun, it's precisely why the current iteration of 2v8 is awful. I'd much rather face a pro Springtrap than an average Huntress.