The "newer" player point of view on killer right now

Well you are "newer" so you probably don't have the best/teachable perks for Freddy...

Freddy created the Forever Freddy build... which can double the length of a match and make it excruciatingly boring.

Just image using Freddy with the new Ruin, Surveillance, Dying Light, Thana and rope and chains....

Nobody is going to get anything done.

I'm a Rank 1 Freddy main, and I can confidently tell you that - my god is there some bad advice in here. Freddy isn't "the easiest killer" by far. He is the "best killer" when used right, and you still have to learn how to use him right. If all you do with his projection is teleport with it, then your wasting a lot of time, and throwing away a really good chase mechanic. If you don't put your snares properly than people will trip them when it doesn't matter, or simply not at all. Freddy at the same time takes a lot of skill in prediction, as all of his abilities each come with a cast time, and sound notifications/animations when he uses them. Forever Freddy is actually a terrible build, and may be one of the weakest - most pointless builds you could do with him, for the sole reason that any survivor that know's how to beat Freddy would simply wake up, and that deny's almost all regression you have from add ons - and that is easily done by a competent team of survivors who will just safe loop you to their clocks till you give up chasing them, or they wake each other up after you hook someone. Though here is the build below, and you can try it yourself. I am posting the original Forever Freddy build, and not the even weaker recreations people have been making up (because a lot of - not the most skillful survivors will all call any build on Freddy: "Forever Freddy, Christ even TallerToast said a Freddy with Distressing and BBQ with no add ons was "Forever Freddy" and he's a somewhat popular streamer).

A big thing about Killer is knowing that for certain - you are not protecting the first few gens, you simply cannot unless your very lucky with Ruin, and good survivors will find that bad boy in a matter of seconds at the start of a match - so it's also unreliable. Instead aim for the survivors to only get 2 or 3 gens repaired, and for when there is only 3 gens on the map.

Teleport across the map only when you absolutely have to - for example; If you know for certain they are working on a gen across the map, teleport to it. In a 3/4 gen scenario and you have to get across the whole trial to patrol it - you can teleport there, though sometimes that's even risky, only do it if you know for a fact they are working on it.

Place snares in unconventional places - instead of in front of a pallet, put it in the areas leading to a pallet from a generator, or around the corner of a pallet. Then survivors will try to safe loop you, but run into snares instead leading to a confirmed hit.

Having your teleport available really throws survivors off, because they get so used to always winning safe loops - but safe loops are not so safe when the killer can teleport to the generator ahead of you halfway through a chase to the next safe loop. Between loops, if there a generator near or at the next safe loop, try to teleport to it to throw the survivor off.

There are other uses for your teleport as well, if they are working on a generator in a high place, like the houses in Haddonfield, or the pier in the Swamp. Try faking a teleport to the generator they are working on, and they may just foolishly jump off/out the side right in front of you. You can also fake a teleport to a generator in a chase, forcing the survivor to either run to the side towards an unsafe area, or back again into you. Get creative.

Here are some nasty tip's for Freddy, that survivors hate (and rightly so).

• Denying DS: If you down a survivor right after they get off hook, and the other survivor either was running to a safe loop, or is too far away to chase as well - that you are forced to take the survivor you just downed. Don't worry. Place 3 snares in succession toward where the survivor can only go, and then pick them up. If they succeed DS - then they have to go through 3 snares in order to even get away since you already hit them putting them into sleeping state. 2 Free hits, and second hook - i'll take it in most games.
• Forcing Skill Fails: Know of a survivor working on 1 gen, but you don't have time to patrol it right away because you're so close to downing his injured survivor? Throw fake teleport at the generator(s) you know survivors are working on, the blood may scare them to try and jump off just as a skill check comes in, and the regression really messes with them.
• Keep everyone asleep. Free hits is your best friend, always take them, sure they can heal quickly enough, but brutality as as categories is maxed faster by hitting survivors, and they are slower at doing gens by default while being in the dream world. Not to mention that the dream world is difficult to see in, they glow so it's easier for you to see them (hah take that blendette), and you annoy them with that obnoxious lullaby.
• Don't chase, if they run to a safe loop that you don't preemptively have snares at, or can teleport ahead of them to. It will take too much time for you to set up snares while in chase, push them around for the pallet - into the snares, and then return to a generator. The free hits however will stack up and fall into your favor.
• Keep hooked survivors within your patrol, and an even better method is patrol only the 3 gen's nearest a hooked survivor. You are strongest against a 3 man, 3 gen left scenario. They simply cannot finish the last gen of a match without a 4th man. (This is a general killer tip) (Salty players have started to call it "Proximity Camping"). Just remember by the end of the day they can die and double pip, you require at least 2 sacrifices to black pip in red ranks.
• Learn to hide your red stain. It's a giant red light in front of your killer that tells Survivors what corner you are gonna come around, or where you are looking.
• If using a perk like "Make Your Choice", hook survivors next to generators, then walk away. The moment someone saves them, teleport to that generator. You get Make Your Choice go off because you were outside it's required radius of the hook, and at the same time you jump on the survivors quickly. They will probably call you a "camper" - just remember to ignore the hate, it's not easy playing Killer.

Here's the build I typically use, the best thing about Freddy since of his teleport ability you don't require Ruin to play well.

There you have it, a moderately sized guide to playing Freddy. As far as perks go, I would suggest playing other Killer's first to unlock perks for Freddy to use, as he is much better with perks that are not his own. This also means you are going to have to be fine with losing - a lot at the beginning. I would suggest doing Killers in this Order;

1. Cannibal: Level 35, Barbecue & Chilli
2. Clown: Level 40, Pop Goes The Weasel
3. Pig: Level 35 - 40, Surveillance, Make Your Choice

Good luck Killer, may the trials be ever in your favor.