The Plague's Vile Purge
I have seen lots of people debate about this but I cant decide what way to play against the Plague has a better outcome. I have heard players tell me that when against Plague the best thing to do is not cleanse yourself when sickened but I have heard other people respond to that saying that you should most certainty cleanse but I can never decide what would be the better option.
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Cleansing makes the plague a very strong killer who can deny loops.
Not cleansing you are against an m1 killer.
This isn't even a debate, if you die to the plague she was mostly with corrupt purge
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I actually play with this logic in mind, so please by all means, do not cleanse yourself so I can have full stacks of thanatophobia at all times and insta downs. I also carry a franklins just to salt the wound even further. And overcharge just to reset that progress a bit more.
Your ability to cleanse or not cleanse and it be successful is completely dependent on the build of the plague you're facing.
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As someone who uses Plague in about 30% of my games, the best way to play against her is this:
Spread out and work on gens individually. Don't cleanse until there is 1 gen left. If possible, have someone that is already sick go in for saves instead of a healthy person. Your goal is to delay the spread of the sickness. If one person cleanses, just hide and wait it out. If people start chain cleansing, you'll just have to cleanse.
Yes, she has a one shot, but you can still limit how much damage she does if you and your teammates spread out and slam gens.
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Do not cleanse against the Plague until you're about to open or have opened gates. The reason for this is because the Plague NEEDS you to cleanse in order to become a powerful threat. Corrupted Purge can shut down loops, vaults, and counter dead hard as you can't escape the full stream like you can a hatchet. Cleansing mid game puts you and your team at higher risk of her snowballing while staying sickened just makes the game slightly harder than normal. She can one shot you, but she can't stop you from ending her career on loops with Vile Purge.
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Step 1: use the apple addon.
Step 2: Face people (who don't realize this) that don't cleanse and break all of them
Step 3: Activate corrupt.
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It's amazing when you can set off a chain cleanse by bringing the apple. Should really be baseline.
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@edgarpoop Wouldn't sending in someone who is already sick to go for saves just kill 2 people? I mean sure if the Plague was far away and chasing someone else it might work. But also your idea requires SWF. With solos you never know what they're gonna do.
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As a plague main, I don't really rely on corrupt Purge funny enough, I use my full stream of vile then hit for an auto instadown, I only use Corrupt Purge for loops and multidowns.
As we've said before, don't cleanse and we'll use thanatophobia to our fullest and one shot you, you're easier to hear and spot by being sick too. You might loop me, but if I'm good at mind games and loops you'll learn to cleanse soon enough (they get the hint to do so when on their last hook)
Corrupt makes me a goddess.
Pick your poison... literally :3
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Not necessarily. As a Plague, if I'm not pressuring early like my hair is on fire, I'm going to lose. I don't have time to sit at the hook. My goal is to have 4 people Broken.
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@edgarpoop I had a game where a Plague was "proxy camping" as they call it. Basically staying nearby the hook and checking gens near the hook but not going any farther than the nearest gens. She won because my fellow survivors kept trying to unhook people(they were sick) and she'd just get another down. Wouldn't having 2 people on a hook be more pressure than 2 sick people not on a hook? I mean I don't encourage camping or anything but it seems like it'd be more effective since AT MOST you'd have one person on a gen, most likely you'd have none on a gen because 2 are on a hook. You'd need one to bait the killer and one to unhook the others, most likely.
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@DudeDelicious They weren't, she just wanted to make sure that person wasn't unhooked.
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When i play plague, i dont even touch vile pools unless there is one gen left. Its not a neccessity to win. Its just an edge up in a clutch situation. You wanna loop me? Fine, im gonna infect every pallet and window near you and just wait till i see you again in the open and in the broken state. Then ill punish that booty.
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Honestly this sounds like a fail on the survivor team. If the plague is proxy camping, then why are you all running in, sick and broken no less, to save the hooked person?
You are not going to be the hero in this scenario, as you are only feeding a proxy camper and wasting precious time. If you also three genned yourselves, that is also on the survivors.
Stop feeding proxy campers and giving them a reason to STAY put.
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The optimal approach is to not cleanse.
Cleansing gives the Plague strong chase potential.
If survivors aren't inept when it comes to looping a killer, then they should be able to last long enough for the gens to get done (with plenty of time to spare).
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@Divinitye9 I don't exactly know why you're telling me this. If you read, you would see that the others were the ones doing this. Also, we didn't 3 gen ourselves. There were 2 gens close to her, we hadn't worked on either one because she was "proxy camping" those two while near the hook. She just wasn't leaving that area. The gens weren't all done yet, we had like 2 or 3 gens left(which leaves 4 or 5 gens on the map total). No one gave her a reason to stay put either. She was just staying in that area regardless of what we did after she hooked someone. The game ended with all four of us dead and one gen left because of the other survivors, but I can't control them. It's not like we were in a 4 person SWF.
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@DudeDelicious I mean I didn't, I just did what I normally do, Lithed a window and lost her. Unless that ticked her off. I wasn't hooked until mid game and of course someone traded places with me shortly after and I went back to my gen, lol. I haven't played Plague, as I don't own her, but I assume a SWF would really screw her out of Vile Purge, right? Since there are generally 4 fountains(right?) and 4 survivors sick would just mean they could all cleanse at the same time and bam the fountains are back up and they got a free heal? Sounds to me like SWF is literally her weakness.
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