Which non-meta Perks do you use regularly?

Killer - Surge and Blood Echo.

Survivor - Babysitter, Red Herring, Pharmacy, Ace In The Hole, Any Means Necessary, Better Together, Technician, Wake Up, Flip-Flop.

I stopped running meta months ago. I now find games much more enjoyable.

I like to use Distortion and We're Gonna Live forever a lot as Survivor.

As a Killer Dark Devotion and Rancor. Really fun, especially Rancor on Stealth Killers 😁

I haven't been using it lately, but Wake Up! was a personal favorite for a while.

Killer:

If there are 3 or more items in the lobby, i take Franklin's Demise with me. It's sooo useful, not because of the damage it does to the items, but because survivors will go hundreds of miles only for getting back their flashlights and medikits. It costs them time, and if they leave it behind they can't heal alone/ blind you/ repair faster. Before, i was dodging most lobbys with stuff like 4 flashlights, now i just take FD and annoy them back.

Enduring+Spirit Fury, although not regularly, comes to use from time to time. Good survivors will drop pallets early if they notice it, but it gives you 1-3 free hits in a game usually.

Surv:

Stake Out is cool since i play stealthy, it helps you doing objectives faster since i can't hit perfect skill checks regularly with my relatively low FPS.

Bond replaced Self-care for me mostly, it's so much more useful.

Small Game is cool and i use it from time to time, since NOED is a thing and Devour Hope or Ruin isn't that rare. And of course for the points.

I came on to say inner strength since it's not the meta in all honestly but I can't even think straight right now.

Just seeing self care and urban evasion in the meta list just burns my soul.. one team will now get an ebony mori because of this lol

Well thank you for never using them. More people like you need to stand up against those perks lol however it still really hurt me seeing them in the meta section. Honestly this hurt me more than seeing the Thierry Henry hand ball goal count in the qualifiers for the World Cup..

So a team will still get moried tomorrow.

surge and tremors on killer

Run perkless on survior

Stridor on Nurse is really nice. It helps me not only keep track of survivors during fatigue but makes it alot easier to find people outside of chases. I see alot of Nurses run shadowborn to keep track of the survivors but stridor is just better in every way for me. For survior I love running empathy because it basically lets you know when it's safe to be working on gens because you can tell if someone's being chased and I usually play solo. Also Plunderer's because I love being able to find rare items and if i find a flashlight i can save people with the help of empathy.

I like dark devotion on doctor.

My favourite perk for killer is Surveillance. Especially if one or more survivors have been killed, it makes it so much harder for the rest to try and sneakily finish a gen. That, and the fact that without it I feel like I'm simply wasting my time kicking any generators.

On survivor I've been running Empathy a lot. It's great for tracking the killer from the moment they injure a teammate and throughout the following chase.

For the People.

In red ranks, Killers aren't picking up Decisive and the meta is turning into slugging. But in solo queue you have to run an Obsession perk, since games with no Obsession pretty much result in an auto-loss due to tunneling out an early kill.

For the People is fun when it works, counters slugging and creates an Obsession so the Killer has to play around DS. That's why its a must-have in my builds.

I don't know if it counts as meta or not, but I pretty much always run Bond. The information it provides is just so useful so often.

Yeah its a really cool option with tons of playmaking. It's high risk and high reward. Doesn't always work out, but when it does its priceless.

Way more interesting to run than Decisive for sure.

Resilience, inner strength, small game, alert

(rank 1)

I use leader pretty often. Especially at exit Gates those 25% can come in pretty handy.

I have plenty!

Killer -

Remember Me, I have won many games entirely on this one perk. If you find yourself in situations where the obsession is dead, and only 1 or 2 survivors are left the 16 extra seconds it takes to get that gate open can feel like an absolute eternity. It makes patrolling gates easier, even more so if you are a high mobility killer like The Hillbilly.

BloodHound, if paired with sloppy butcher it can make tracking so much easier, it can be incredibly good on Ghostface and people sleep on the perk often as it is incredibly niche

Third Seal, probably the worst hex perk to be entirely honest as blindness is kinda underdeveloped, but I have had some great moments with it. Fairly recently I was playing a round as Freddy with it against a streamer. The streamer proceeded to whine and complain about the perk proclaiming it to be an 'Op perk only used by noob killers'. It was a funny moment that keeps the perk hopping into my builds.

Survivor-

Small Game, I am a total BP ######### and I love eating bones, so I often run this, the added benefit of countering basically every hex perk ranging from Devour Hope, ruin, and the dreaded NOED. It also counters Trapper very well, as well as Hag and Pallet Freddy. I adore this perk and believe it should become a Staple for Solo Survivor alongside Kindred, since everybody seems to hate NOED so much.

Wake Up, I have gotten out entirely based on this perk many times, paired with resilience it makes opening that exit gate an utter breeze, and despite playing for years I still find myself losing the exit gate, so this has guided me with it many times.

Pharmacy, showing my Quentin bias, but green medkits are great with their speed of healing, plus that increased speed opening chests is a massive QoL buff and it pairs great with any and all chest related perks.

• Surv: Sabotage: it trolls, Bond cuz is the top 1 perk although not considered meta, Head on: it trolls, Breakout: it trolls
• Killer: Blood Warden: it trolls, Franklin's Demise: it trolls, Lightborn: can't get trolled, Iron Grasp: can't get trolled/bobyblocked

Killers: Unnerving Presence (Doctor), Overcharge (Doctor), Dying Light (Plague), Thrilling Tremors (Freddy), and Surveillance (Freddy).

Survivor: Botany Knowledge (Claudette and David)

Killer: Mad Grit, Play With Your Food, Blood Warden, Dark Devotion

Survivor: Red Herring, For The People, Poised, Second Chance

Detectives Hunch (default perk for me):

• awesome on indoor maps
• makes finding hex totems pretty easy and very efficient
• synergies with Inner Strenght

Windows of Opportunities (sometimes) (with Open Handed and prob. other aura reading perks:

• is good on spots where you can't know if theres a pallet
• is good for avoiding dead zones and places where pallets already got used
• is good for planning a chase in advance

Ace in the hole (rare):

• works fully without plunderers when you know chest spawns or run Detectives Hunch
• can change the outcome of the game

** I prefer running pharmacy with Aith when I run a shiny coin so I don't waste too much time while also having at least one strong item

Up the Ante (very rare) on Ace for the memes and the fun

And from time to time some special builds depending on how i feel, like Mettle of Men, Break out, Saboteur, Botany Knowledge with a Ranger Medkit with maximum charges.

So I am only running 1 non-meta perk by default and that's Detectives. When i started running it I did it because of noed. But apprently it fixes some solo q issues (finding hex perks, 3 gens, indoor map issues) so I enjoy running it :)