Huntress Tips Needed Please

Usually with Huntress you're going to get genrushed if you can't end chases quickly. Her strength is just ratcheting up the pressure on survivors so that survivors don't have time to focus on gens. Otherwise her mobility is so low that you're probably going to have a bad time when survivors are really pushing.

One thing that helped me with Huntress is just being more patient with my hatchets. It's usually worth charging her hatchets up all the way because that makes them fly way faster and more accurately. I used to have the bad habit of throwing half-charged hatchets and had survivors constantly dodging them. This actually helps you keep pressure up on survivors hugely, because the second survivors know you can hit them at range they're forced to be more careful in chases and when traversing the map.

As for perks, I don't have a lot of meta perks on my Huntress because I don't have Clown unlocked and have had bad bloodweb luck this prestige, but I like running Monitor & Abuse. Her lullaby is 40m and her terror radius with M&A is 12m. Because of how small that TR is, survivors are forced to start playing more cautiously than they normally would when she's in humming range. For all they know you could be 13m away, and that's too close for comfort if you've proven you can hit your hatchets.

As for when to give up chases, I'm not an expert, but generally I just don't even bother dealing with strong tiles I can't easily throw over. For example, the god basement on Haddonfield. You can try to mindgame, but you're probably just going to end up wasting a ton of time in that loop. Another example is the room above the bathroom on The Game. There are usually at least two pallets and a vault in there and it's not easy to hit hatchets over the obstacles. Plus, it's in the corner of the map so you give up a lot of pressure on gens.

One final thing I like to do with Huntress is to occasionally throw long-range hatchets at gens when I go to reload. Every once in a while you'll get a hit, but even if you just get close I find that has a psychological effect on the survivors. It might make them think that you're coming and step off the gen for a bit, or it might at least make them respect you a bit more when moving around the map. It wastes a little bit of time to make that throw, so I usually only do it when I have reason to believe survivors are on a gen and there are no obstacles in the way that would block the hatchet.

@EpicBigBrain Would it help to have gameplay to look at?

Monitor puts her TR to 12, not 16

thank you 🙏💖

Well put.

nope... not even going to try @LordGlint

There are a ton of great Huntress players to watch. Ralph, CoconutRTS, Zubat's and Scott's old videos, Tofu is decent, Umbra etc. Don't need to watch them for their aim, but watch what they do in terms of how they get map pressure and when they break off a chase and try to emulate that in your games. You have to play killer a lot more to get a feel of knowing when you should commit to a chase, where you should be going, learning map layouts etc.

Also if you aren't elitist to the idea, use a crosshair. It can be such a minor thing but it can help people to varying degrees in being comfortable with Huntress. I've used one on her before and it felt great. And if you do decide to, don't let anyone discourage you for using it. You wanna play that way and it's not bannable so who cares?

@ImRank20 DId you watch the video?

Her TR is only 20m her lullaby is 40m

Got ya