Nerf doc pls

or you can sit and snap out of it if you know the killer isn't really around, the constant terror sound was confusing to me at first after coming back after years but that's all you really gotta do is to literally just "snap out of it" once you hit madness 3 and try to not miss the skillcheck since that makes you yelp and shows him where you are. I also learned to not trust pallets while above madness 1. without that, the doc would be crap, it's what he has going for him being able to free up a perk slot and put something where he'd have maybe a second aura or the plague girl's scream perk otherwise as another killer. Some of the addons are also quite nice, and you learn to remember which pallets were used eventually once you faced him enough times. Playing him might help make it easier to go agaisnt him, although a lot of them I see are using monitor and not play entirely the same as mine. I extend his radius for the big shock rather than try and shrink it, which often works well for me.

I actually prefer to Not use monitor and abuse (I prefer to use that on stealth to shake things up or guys with a smaller natural radius like the deathslinger which I'm not too good with yet but might try out more soon), I use distressing instead on my doc to extend the reach of the big shock and build up madness in them all more quickly as well as see which gens need a hittin with less walk time around the map. Plus faster bloodpoints in case it's gonna be one of those short games and not in my favor. But surprisingly, I do decently with doctor. I even made a guy dc earlier lmao. The distressing combined with the big shock must be real annoying I'll give you that. But the big shock has a long cooldown though.

I sometimes used it after a hook just to see if anybody was hanging around for the save (if it wasn't a spot where shock therapy and saving it works better around small placements near the hook or lockers shock therapy also makes them yelp through) or to see if it was safe to run to a gen if not get another guy that was hoping for a save. But against some teams I need it to shake them off a gen (sometimes they'll scatter like roaches, though I know at least one or two hang around if I go for somebody else) or to find the next guy to go after or even a guy who's already been hooked once or twice. depends on how the match is going, I also mix it up in between but with distressing I tend to throw it often off cooldown if I'm not in a chase already since it wastes a lot of their time snapping out of it and helps to keep on a guy frequently without needing to use so many perks for aura besides bbq and something like surveillance or discordance for extra security.

also the guy that said drop the pallet early is good advice, if you're running for the pallet in a chase with madness building up it's a bad idea since it often ain't gonna work for you. I had to stop relying on pallets against him during a chase as a survivor lol. Playing as him you can see them lit up and maybe get it drilled into your brain a bit better for the next time you play survivor and face one so you're thinking about it while playing.

And the new tactic is to just drop and run anyways. Drop, run to next pallet, drop right before the Killer gets there, drop and repeat. Despite wasting pallets for the other teammates, this seems to work because gen speed is totally not an issue.

Bad bait.