How does one get good at killer?

Just out of curiosity, what killer do you play? This could give me a better idea on what tips to give.

killers are designed around camping / tunneling / slugging. Don't play by survivor rules and you'll do a lot better.

That being said, there will be games that you just cannot win as killer as this game heavily favors survivors at the higher end of play, especially swf. This game is a PvP game, but it is not balanced like one.

You don't chase down loopers until you have people hooked or sacrificed. Unless you can get them to either drop a pallet or get a hit within the first 15 seconds of a chase, there is no point in chasing them. You have to learn to zone and then prepare to stay in the game for 30 minutes to an hour or more if you want to win if you are fighting against survivors that understand what you're doing and start a war of attrition with you. This game is designed to be as unpleasant as possible the more seriously you play it, as it is designed around bad players instead of good players.

Okay.

The first tip, which is more a general tipnthan anything is how to fake in chases. This is when you use your red stains to indicate you're going one way when you're actually going the other. An example would be on a T&L loop (The two wall loop with vaults but no pallets). Look around one corner, show your red stain to the survivor, ad soon as you do that double back and usually they'll vault. This can be used at a variety of loops, but it's best on this loop, and works well on shack.

Next of all, another general tip, is hiding your red stain. I don't know the official name of the loop, but let's call it the double L loop (has a big L, a small L which is more half a circle and a pallet in between). This is walking backwards, and turning in the direction right as you reach the pallet to trick the survivor. This can allow you to land some nice hits, and it works on most loops.

My final general tip is when to and not to commit to a chase. If a survivor runs to a strong tile while healthy, or sometimes even injured, and you don't feel confident in catching them quickly, don't commit. Gens get done fast, so if you know one person isn't on a gen, then you can rotate around looking for other people. (Quick note as you play Myers and PH, Myers early game doesn't want to commit to a chase what so ever and just wants to stalk, while PH can nullify strong loops if played right).

Now that we've gone through general tips, let's get onto tips individually.

Pyramid Heads secondary attack Punishment of the Damned, has two ways you can use it. You can A use it while they're at a pallet or Window, or B use it right infront of where they are running. Both of these work great although good survivors will fake a vault when they see you place your sword into the ground showing you want to use your secondary attack. In the case that they do, you want to stop using your power and go for the swing, as you suffer no Cooldown as long as you don't use Punishment of the Damned.

The other tip I have for PH is when to and not to cage if there are alot of gens on your side, or you feel like people are near you, you should cage the survivor. If the gens aren't near you, you suspect no survivor is near you, you should hook the survivor. For this reason, I think Infectious Fright is a great perk on Pyramid Head, as it can help when deciding if you should hook or cage.

Going on to Ghostface, I'm not a great one, I'll admit that, but my first thing to note is to remember during Night Shroud you have no red stain. This means you don't have to perform jukes in which you hide your red stain, but you also can't do jukes in which you show it only to go another direction.

Ghostface has two playstyles. You can stalk them till they're 99, go up to them and 100 it, or because that doesn't always work, you should play hit and run, in which you simply use Night Shroud for the early hit. Both of these tactics work well, and you should switch depending on what survivors you're facing.

If you feel like whenever you're going to a gen that they're never there even though progress is on the gen, I'd reccomend walking sideways as the survivor may have Spinechill, allowing them to get the early run on you.

Finally Myers, early game never commit to chases unless a survivor is literally feeding you Stalk. Once you get to Tier II you can commit but don't always do so as sometimes it can be time consuming if it's a good survivor.

When stalking, you want to stop the meter just before you get to Tier III. This is so you can get up right behind a survivor and use stalk them, allowing for an easy down if they're out of position.

Remember you can vault much quicker with Tier III Myers, allowing you to get easy downs on certain loops.

Finally, survivors are prone to making a ton of mistakes when Myers goes into Tier III, meaning that sometimes you can get a quick down if you are on a weak loop.

This video is slightly outdated, but still full of useful information. Skip to about 5:45 and there are a ton of useful tips: https://youtu.be/0UoymuGcBzY

A good way to get better at killing survivors is to play some survivor. You’ll learn what they do and you’ll also see common killer mistakes, and learn to avoid those.

I’d also recommend looking at some loop guides on YouTube. There are certain loops that the survivor needs to run a certain way to get a fast vault, so if you chase them the opposite way you cut down on the loop’s efficiency.

But honestly, the biggest thing is just practice. You get better at hearing and seeing survivors, knowing what they’re likely to do, and how to deal with common things over time. You’ll learn to identify certain survivor perks and how to counter them.

That is the wrong mindset. If you want to get better at killer you try to improve your chases and the mechanics with each specific killer. Camping and tunneling does not help you at getting good, just gives you easy kills because... you afk'ed near the hook and tunneled the unhooked survivor

Survivors won't "give you a chance", so don't return the favor.