Wraith Main Rank 1 - Ask me anything

@Orion said:
How do you catch Survivors with eyeballs, who can see you from afar?

Reposition yourself and start your uncloak behind cover as you're walking to your predicted survivor path. Good survivors want to run to their closest pallet / vault as soon as they hear your bell, use that to your advantage.

@Orion said:

@oRabble said:

@Orion said:
How do you catch Survivors with eyeballs, who can see you from afar?

Reposition yourself and start your uncloak behind cover as you're walking to your predicted survivor path. Good survivors want to run to their closest pallet / vault as soon as they hear your bell, use that to your advantage.

Thanks. I usually just run some add-ons that allow me to cloak and uncloak during a chase.

In fact there are some loops you can win by a fast uncloak and windstorm. Pairing the two Green Addons "Windstorm - White" and "Swift Hunt - White" allow you to win a short loop with poor visibility from the survivor if the survivor is position next to the pallet. You can trick him into throwing the pallet / vault over it into the wrong direction by mind trick starting your Windstorm Dash in one direction of the loop and then rushing in the other one instantly. Like what the Pig do to win a pallet loop with ambush from the inside of the pallet, but swapping the positions of Killer and Survivor.

@azazer said:
What's your strategy for the chase? You mentioned you cut the chase early so what's the trigger for you to cloak and hint someone else?

Wraith can not deal easily against a competent survivor in loop such as the Coldwind Farm Jungle Gyms, or the Mcmillan State central building. So when you see that your chasing prey is a good one and is heading to these, is a safe call to cut the chase after one or two pallets getting throw. Your next prey is surely waiting for you at the same gens you checked before, and now there is two pallets less in their scape route so hopefully you can catch them now.

Additionally, sometimes you see a survivor going into hide somewhere while you're chasing another. Take note of where he hide, and in your next pallet throw instead of breaking it, use the bloodlust to run toward the sneaky survivor.

Survivors with expensive flashlights and toolboxes that have been Franklin Demised tend to go back to where they lost them to pick them up. Taking note of the location of those allow you to ambush the greedy survivor.

@CL4P_TRAP_ER said:
1. One problem I've had with Wraith is trying to body block survivors when I'm uncloaking. I've been able to body block survivors into corners before but it's always tricky. Any tips?

If you're uncloaking into the unaware survivor it is just a matter of uncloak from the right angle: Usually their preferred escape route.

If you are instead chasing a survivor and want to mindgame him into a block position you must first cloak and cut line of sight while paying close attention to his bloodstain, grunt sounds and predicted safe spots where he is going to stop to self care. Most of survivors do not get directly next to the vault/pallet they want to use as a crutch scape because they're trained to avoid surprise hits over the vault or 'last-second-hit-for-hit' with the pallet. So if you come from the opposite expected angle, and RUN positioning yourself between the survivor and the vault/pallet before start uncloaking most of the time the survivor try to use the vault/pallet without noticing they can not use it as you're bodyblocking the exact spot needed to do so.

If there are two survivors healing each other next to a vault/pallet you can attack with a windstorm dash from the unexpected side of the vault/pallet. More likely than not they're going to bodyblock themselves and you will secure the hit to the most far away survivor from the perspective of the vault/pallet.

2. What do you recommend for perk builds/sets? Ruin and BBQ are obvious but what else do you run sometimes?

I think like you: Ruin and BBQ are needed for killers like Wraith given the state of the game. Regrettably they only add more power to already powerful killers like Hillbilly or Nurse...

I like to run SBFL and Franklin's Demise apart of those two.

SBFL allow you to have really short chases once you have some tokens on it: An alpha strike from cloaking using windstorm followed by a short chase as you have only been one second in the successful cooldown animation and hopefully the survivor would have waste part of their wounded sprint burst as you catched him unprepared facing a non-optimal angle.

Franklin's Demise helps you deal with flashlights and toolboxes. Since some time you do not fully chase a survivor and switch your prey using mindgames and cloak, it allows you to maximize the effect of your surprise hit. If killers wouldn't have to use Hex: Ruin to prevent 3 minutes gen rushing games, I would also use Sloppy Butcher for the same reason: making survivors waste more time healing due to the mangled effect.

If there are not flashlights/toolboxes in sight on a campfire, I usually swap Franklin's Demise for Baamboozle. As it is the only perk that allow Wraith to shut down fast some loops that would be otherwise too time consuming.

3. Are the bell sound reduction add-ons good to use against rank 1-7's?

Regrettably not. Your ideal uncloak distance is less than 14 meters to use Windstorm and even the best of such addons do not make the bell silent at such distance.

And thank you for making this post.

Thanks to you for taking your time reading it!

@Mister_xD said:
anything? okay...
why dont you play a usefull killer?

I love the flavor and aesthetics of Wraith and wanted to play him even if it was not optimal.

@TheLegendDyl4n1 said:
can i suck you dry?

Thanks, not interested.

@Spaaaaaace_steam_ said:

@oRabble said:

thanks for the tips, and what do you do when you face a party of survivors ? should i try to beat them or just end it faster?

A party of survivors behave quite similar to solo survivors in the high ranks, only that they have better communication and they tend to be overly altruistic. Take that in consideration, and always suspect they're telling each other your last know position all times. Abuse their altruism by choosing the weakest survivor and making the strongest loopers to take unneeded risks that you can abuse.

@Spaaaaaace_steam_ said:
Your tips really help , i have got myself 5 4 kills matches with wraith lol , and on 6th match i have wrecked them before they even finished the first gen , i felt guilty and let the last guy escape , after breaking all pallets chasing him.

Woah! To be honest, my highest 4k streak so far in the game has been 3 in a row only! You're clearly more talented than me and only needed some strategic tips to enjoy Wraith

After some days of playing, and seeing how Hex:Ruin usually is destroyed within the first 60 seconds, I decided to swap my usual perks into Thanatophobia + Franklin's Demise + Sloppy Butcher + BBQ

The play style is still the same: Ambush and alpha strikes from your uncloak taking advantage of your Windstorm Dash. Swap targets after every pallet loop if you feel if you can not succesfully slug down your prey. Apply pressure at generators by having several people bleeding out and trying to heal themselves through mangled + thanatophobia. Finally catch down either a unsuspected prey who was Self-Caring in what they thought it was a safe spot, or your survivor at a gen who is now forced to run through a pallet deprived area after your cleansing.