Reaching rank 1 question.

If you're starting from Rank 20, I don't think it's possible in a single month on weekends only, or at the very least it'd be very unlikely. However, if you stay consistently on this kind of schedule, I think you will inevitably make it to Rank 1 regardless of rank reset, give or take you can persistently Pip Up in most of your matches. Best of luck to you.

Hello, I can answer this I reach rank 1 every season :)

The answer is yes, BUT you need to play to pip not to win.

How do you consistenly pip as a survivor?

1- You need to do something gen related, repair a bit of a gen, if you can repair a full gen.

2- saves and heals, these are super important for your benevolent emblem, make sure the saves are safe unhooks, so BT helps a lot

3- you need to take the killer on a ride a bit, especially if gens are popping

On average 1.5 gens, 2 safe saves plus under the hook heals and a bit of time in a chase, especially if you can win the chase is enough to pip at red ranks

What really hurts your emblems is being left on the hook, dying on first or second hook and dying quickly.

Unsafe unhooks and leaving other survivors to die on the hook is also very detrimental to your score

So is avoiding the killer all match.

Finally gen rushing and not going for saves and chases makes you black or depip.

To recap, winning is not important if you want to pip, if you follow this strategy you will mostly pip even if you never escape. A typical pipping match is a match where there are plenty of hooks and you save your teammates while doing gens and chases.

If the match is unbalanced for the killer is too weak or too strong, you will likely depip unless you really try to take most saves and do as much as possible gen wise to try and black pip.

Good luck

So you don't need to actually loop well to go to rank 1, you have 4 emblems, if you do well in 3 out of 4 you will mostly pip as long as your not constantly one shot so your chases are basically zero.

I think the best advice on looping comes from watching strong loopers on youtube, people like JRM, Monto , Ayrun or Noob3 and see how they run specific tiles.

Essentially learn when to throw the pallet, learn when to take a window and when to leave a tile.

The essential of dbd is how much distance can you put between you and the killer? if an action increases the distance, without putting you off position, that's a good action.

Lastly when you go and sit on a gen, your priority is to come up with a plan on where you will go next if the killers shows up. Check for a pallet or a window close to you and plan your escape.

With how rank reset is completely botched right now, absolutely.

It takes a very, very long time to derank now, which is part of the problem currently.

This skill you are asking for comes with map awareness. Maps in dbd are structurally randomised but many different elements stay consistent in the different maps.

What often changes is the configuration of the tile, is it going to be a jungle gym or a L T wall?

Is the pallet on the left or on the right? what about the window.

Playing the different tiles in the different maps will give you that confidence that you need.

Now how to avoid being out of position after the first loop?

Essentially you don't abandon the first loop without having a plan on what to do next, if this is by any chance impossible run towards structures because that's where you will find safety and if possible run to a main building. These are commonly the strongest loops in the game.

That said, avoid doing a gen in a death zone, this is an area with nothing around, no pallets, no windows. If you are caught there you are D-E-D, ded :)

Finally remember what I said about the distance, it is sometimes really useful to abandon a tile when the killer is not seeing you to go to the next and gain distance on the killer.

Many tiles prevent the killer from constantly seeing your position and if it takes 3 seconds for the killer to realise you have left the tile, you have now gained 12 meters and distance is THE most important coin for looping (unless you end up in a dead zone).

Watch carefully the master loopers and you will see that they often leave a safe tile if they can get distance without being noticed by the killer

Good job Wolf :)

Ranking up past 4 is much harder than going from 20-4.

Yeah. Doing enough to get a pip at purple just makes you break even at red. I feel like I have to be at absolute peak performance, at all times, to get anywhere once I hit 4.