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What's a good build for pyramid head

KingDeathly
KingDeathly Member Posts: 149
in General Discussions

Hello. I want to mess around with pyramid head, but not sure what's the best perks to run on him. I don't have much experience with him. Oh please don't recommend pain res. I've seen some videos of people using this perk on him, and it just leaves me with astonishment, like that perk has no business being on him, I'm just saying.

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  • toxik_survivor
    toxik_survivor Member Posts: 1,216

    I'm all ears is a sexy perk on him

  • Piruluk
    Piruluk Member Posts: 995

    You dont want any perk that relies on hooking, thats correct. Because sometimes you don't want to hook but use cages, even better saving the torment for last hook stage to Mori, in the end any scourge hook perk is total waste on pyramid head. You get the scourge RNG and top of that you need the right time to use it on him, so really stay away.

    For Pyramid head, all you need is information perks(lethal, all ears, nurse) and or gen slowdown(most notably that knight gen perk info and call of brine). Also could use the pentimento build too but thats more gimmicky.

  • Pulsar
    Pulsar Member Posts: 22,933

    Do you want the best build objectively or the best build for Pyramid Head specifically?

    I can't help with the specifics, though I do run Lethal + I'm All Ears.

    But the best builds right now are all some combo of Call of Brine and Eruption. CoB, Eruption, Brutal and Nowhere To Hide would probably be good.

  • Riski
    Riski Member Posts: 220

    With Pyramid you don't get good perk synergies that often and have weak addons, as a result you need to rely mostly on your skill with the killer to do well rather than your build (more so than most other killers). I'm all ears can be a nice learning perk for learning survivor movements but I would recommend dropping it if you want to get better after that.

    For addons I'd recommend not using any for your first few games just to learn then using duration and range. Duration is useful for allowing more using of your power as it also doubles as recharge, I won't get into how that works just trust me, and range gets you to go for hits you otherwise couldn't and is useful against survivors holding W, a good strategy against pyramid head, when you know how to use it.

    For slowdown anything passive that doesn't require hooks/m1 is your main goal. Main perks I'd recommend are deadlock, corrupt and hex:ruin. Other good perks can be options like call of brine, no way out or jolt although these do require a change in playstyle form what maybe considered standard.

    For info it's similar, avoid hook perks. Stealth is a good strategy against Pyramid so no where to hide is useful, tinker's stealth is great for getting free hits through walls and discordance has good synergy with both deadlock and tinker as mentioned earlier. Floods of rage, infectious and bitter murmur have their synergies with other perks mentioned although are a lot less generic. Lethal is another generic options although you'll usually run that or corrupt not both.

    Chase isn't really needed beyond using I'm all ears so I'll skip right to a build. For a starting build I'd say Corrupt intervention/lethal with discordance, deadlock and I'm all ears. Once you get better I do recommend cutting I'm all ears as it becomes a bit redundant with skill and replacing it either hex:ruin for something generic or something that you feel like works with your play style such as call of brine for being defensive or tinkerer for more information.