Help me get kills with Trickster PLEASE!!!
Hello there, i was going to ask on this post for the best build for Trickster, but she is such a weak killer that i feel like no matter whats her loadout, victory does NOT depend on us, but mostly on survivors.
Because of that im asking for suggestions on a perk build and also gameplay strategies that you guys use with her, i've already maxed all possible perks, so i could use anything you guys tell me to.
Btw, im looking for a Perk Only build, no addons and no offerings, aiming to be at least Playable at Rank 1.
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Gen slow down is pretty much mandatory.
You're still going to struggle but I run bbq, ruin, undying, and monitor and abuse with mild success.
You can swap out undying with pop if you want.
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I recommend running Monitor. Pop thana and Stbfl,
It's not a bad build tbf
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I've been using that and also tried Pop, but both builds are pretty mediocre imo, i only 4K when survivors literally throw the game =/
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Yeah pretty much. Trickster is a good noob stomper but the moment you get people who know to run to structures to avoid blades you become a 110% m1 killer.
This is why you need all the slow down you can get.
Alternatively you can use save the best for last but it's not as reliable as gen slow down.
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Strat is to use your bat as little as possible and from there your aim will drastically improve. Start thinking ahead as well with your blades, if you only have 20 blades left its better to just take the m1 and then blade hits, but if you have main event almost full you may as well use blades on both hits.
My build is corrupt, ruin, BBQ, Shadowborn. I would trade out shadow for brutal and in your case I would recommend iron maiden if you're not using extra blade add ons.
You will never win however on horribly designed maps. It's just an unfortunate reality.
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Pretty much what the first guy said. He benefits from ruin massively. My build is corrupt, ruin, and pop. And the last slot I may go with bbq, or starstruck. I actually think startstruck is a top tier perk. It's a lowkey info perk, and a deterrent perk. So people don't try to be hero's, it cuts out flashlight saves, and it also scared people if they are working on a gen. As the other day I had one gen left like at 80% percent. So I took one of the guys out, and I was next to that gen and all the other survivors pretty much got scared and ran away and I ended up winning thanks to pop. But don't try to use the knifes at every location. M1 them if they are next to your face. Try to avoid using your knifes in shack, don't try to get survivors in the shack if they bring you to it, and or jungle gyms. Unless you got perfect aim. Try to go after the weak survivors, my rules is if this person is good to leave them and go after the weak teammates. Try to practice your aim. And try to use your knifes if the person is running to safety, try to throw knifes in the direction they want to head towards to make them slower. in short loops leave the pallets as they actually help, since the survivor has to jump over it. Which is an easy down.
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Or huge maps. Or maps without many lockers to reload. Also when he said start thinking ahead. he also is saying to get ready to throw knifes if you know a person will vault over a window, so you can get a couple of shoots in. Just predict were the person is trying to move.
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Top 3 Trickster here. His best build is Corrupt/Ruin/BBQ/Shadowborn. :) Catch people off guard. Press them to bad loops if you can. Don't overcommit to strong loops.
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Play huntress so much better in every way
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I mean, i could play any killer, but im a bit bored u know, i just wanted to try something new, i've been playing huntress for years now 😞
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Ahh I see well I dont know what to say then deathslinger mb but trickster is not worth the effort you could play twins and do better
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Are u sure BBQ is worth a slot for a 110% killer? I'll try with whispers so Corrupt is not wasted by stealthy rats.
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I'm sorry the twins are boring to play as, and vs. I found them to be boring to play as. The trickster is actually to fun to play as, but expect to get 1 or 2k vs rank 1s if you don't got good aim.
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BBQ is worth it on him believe me. You can do whispers, but meh. I still think BBQ is better on him.
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Yeah they are also boring but I like to try to jump over stuff
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Hey i just got 32k with her, Shadowborn makes a big difference! Thx for the tip man, but i'll keep trying to refine the build, i felt really underpowered once Ruin was gone and Corrupt didnt stop the survivors from doing gens on the other side of the map while there where 2 on the hook :X
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Shadowborn helps with the FOV better accuracy and focus on knives means faster downs. It's a hidden gem mainly on ranged killers. You can switch out Ruin for iron maiden if you wish. You can get a lot of value out of it. Keep shadowborn though on him regardless. The fov increase helps a lot with the aim.
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I have two builds for trickster.
My playstyle is I generally play him as a 110% m1 Killer 70% of the trial, that's why I'm running STBFL always. I only used my knives if I'm sure I can down the survivor using it. So I only use it if the survivor is in the open or on a short height loop which are always a guaranteed.
My First build is Ruin, PGTW, Tinkerer and STBFL
My Second build is Monitor and Abuse, STBFL, PGTW and Discordance.
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I appreciate your suggestions, but from my experience STBFL is better suited for killers who can stack it easily and also have a way to no lose the stacks using their power (Demogorgon, Pig, Trapper...), Tricksters moves at 110% speed and is more efficiently when damaging survivors with her knives because of the M1 cooldown, which means its not an Easy task to get stacks. (Perk has been tested)
Tinkerer works much better with killers that can insta down or at least end chases really quickly, not a slow moving killer that already have problems with chases... (Havent tested, but it doesnt make sense to do so)
M&A is decent and has its own uses, however, if you are using Ruin you need a TR in order to make survivors flee from a gen so it can start regressing, by reducing the TR you will only achieve gen rushes, not only that, but our friend @GodLikeTerror pointed Shadowborn as an extremely superior perk over M&A for Trickster. (Both perks were tested, Shadowborn is HANDS DOWN the best choice)
Pop and Ruin are pretty decent, but sometimes you might feel a bit pressured once Ruin is gone and you cant even reach nor find the right gens to Pop. Because of all that, i decided to test the perk which gives Trickster the Map Presence she doesnt have by default...
Thrilling Tremors
With TT, Ruin, Pop and Shadowborn i mannaged to turn Trickster into an actual Killer, not just the meme it used to be, its not like Leatherface's level of power, but its way better than Legion, which is a great progress already, if ppl want to keep sending build ideas it would be great, but at least for now, this one was the build i've had the most success with and i suggest you to give it a try.
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I appreciate your suggestions, but from my experience STBFL is better suited for killers who can stack it easily and also have a way to no lose the stacks using their power (Demogorgon, Pig, Trapper...), Tricksters moves at 110% speed and is more efficiently when damaging survivors with her knives because of the M1 cooldown, which means its not an Easy task to get stacks. (Perk has been tested)
Tinkerer works much better with killers that can insta down or at least end chases really quickly, not a slow moving killer that already have problems with chases... (Havent tested, but it doesnt make sense to do so)
M&A is decent and has its own uses, however, if you are using Ruin you need a TR in order to make survivors flee from a gen so it can start regressing, by reducing the TR you will only achieve gen rushes, not only that, but our friend @GodLikeTerror pointed Shadowborn as an extremely superior perk over M&A for Trickster. (Both perks were tested, Shadowborn is HANDS DOWN the best choice)
Pop and Ruin are pretty decent, but sometimes you might feel a bit pressured once Ruin is gone and you cant even reach nor find the right gens to Pop. Because of all that, i decided to test the perk which gives Trickster the Map Presence she doesnt have by default...
Thrilling Tremors
With TT, Ruin, Pop and Shadowborn i mannaged to turn Trickster into an actual Killer, not just the meme it used to be, its not like Leatherface's level of power, but its way better than Legion, which is a great progress already, if ppl want to keep seding build ideas it would be great, but at least for now, this one was the build i've had the most success with and i suggest you to give it a try.
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I appreciate your suggestions, but from my experience STBFL is better suited for killers who can stack it easily and also have a way to no lose the stacks using their power (Demogorgon, Pig, Trapper...), Tricksters moves at 110% speed and is more efficiently when damaging survivors with her knives because of the M1 cooldown, which means its not an Easy task to get stacks. (Perk has been tested)
Tinkerer works much better with killers that can insta down or at least end chases really quickly, not a slow moving killer that already have problems with chases... (Havent tested, but it doesnt make sense to do so)
M&A is decent and has its own uses, however, if you are using Ruin you need a TR in order to make survivors flee from a gen so it can start regressing, by reducing the TR you will only achieve gen rushes, not only that, but our friend @GodLikeTerror pointed Shadowborn as an extremely superior perk over M&A for Trickster. (Both perks were tested, Shadowborn is HANDS DOWN the best choice)
Pop and Ruin are pretty decent, but sometimes you might feel a bit pressured once Ruin is gone and you cant even reach nor find the right gens to Pop. Because of all that, i decided to test the perk which gives Trickster the Map Presence she doesnt have by default...
Thrilling Tremors
With TT, Ruin, Pop and Shadowborn i mannaged to turn Trickster into an actual Killer, not just the meme it used to be, its not like Leatherface's level of power, but its way better than Legion, which is a great progress already, if ppl want to keep seding build ideas it would be great, but at least for now, this one was the build i've had the most success with and i suggest you to give it a try.
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wait for a buff, he's not good
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Wisest advice, the trickster its just a noob stomper.
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Run slowdown. lots of slowdown idk what else to tell you I personally love running iron maiden on him but that might just be me obviously BBQ. His addons are the most important thing to making him actually feel usable but if you dont want advice for them idk what to tell you. He is pretty ######### awful without addons. Oh also as for playstyle he is very good at tunneling off hook since he can filld people knives during the unhook animation but BT is a thing and getting buffed next patch soo. He is still pretty good at proxy camping since someone unhooking with get filled with knives super fast and hopefully charge your main event which you can use to either finish them off or go for the unhooked person.
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As the self proclaimed trickster main i recomend: Corrupt, ruin, sloppy and bbq. You mentionned no addons but trickster needs them. Soo if you do change your mind use these: Bloody boa/trick pouch and the usb addon.
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Not really a trickster main since I play a mix but I have been playing him a lot recently and yeah addons are a huge difference. I am wondering why sloppy in that build I personally run iron maiden instead of corrupt and pop instead of sloppy. I like to use fizz spin and other throw speed a lot so I burn through knives really fast and iron maiden helps with that evne though corrupt is probably stronger. I do wonder why sloppy though as I normally dont go for many m1s
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stand at corner- wait to see killer- move
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You can try M&A, undying, ruin and nurses calling
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So a few things.
Firstly, unfortunately Trickster very much needs addons. Green USB to make 7 knives an injury is really good. Beyond that, Initial Throw Rate, Move Speed while throwing, and more Knives are all pretty good.
Secondly, I personally don't much like Hex Perks and I find that Trickster can end up at tiles where he just needs to leave. To that end I don't run Ruin or Pop. Instead I run... other Slowdown perks. So far the build I've had the most luck with is M&A, Sloppy Butcher, Oppression, and Brutal Strength.
Thirdly, for play style I generally run Trickster as a very territorial M1 killer and mostly use knives to deal with stuff that M1 gameplay can't handle. So against stuff like Survivors holding W in a straight line and loops that are safe and short so they are impossible to mind game the Knives are actually really nice. Though also I'll use Knives more as the game goes on because injuring with knives in a dead zone loses you less distance than M1'ing.
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Recently i've noticed that too. This build as been my go to since he came out, since before using your knives was bad. But for now im gonna try changing it for something else.
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yep honestly if you dont have a perk you really want Iron Maiden is really useful imo and super slept on with him especially if you arent running bonus knives and if you are running throw rate it is almost a must have for me.
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I have all perks on him and since i've seen your comment, i've mixed some perks in my build, and honestly iron maiden is really good on him. Im one of the trickster who uses knives alot, and tries far knives throw, soo it benefits my playstyle alot. I didn't loose a single match yesterday when i had it. I think im now a believer in the iron maiden trickster!
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yep I have gone full knife trickster and literally never m1 like there is next to no situations where I just m1 even if it is the better play. Also love going for snipes.
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Me too, snipes are just soo fun! The knives are soo good, that yeah i agree, m1 is most of the time not the play.
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ehh there is defintely time where m1 is the play specifically in tight areas like say badam basement or some of the lery rooms also its annoying you cant get grabs while using your power.
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Hate to break it to you but there is something about Trickster you need to know...
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