Favorite underrated perks

Botany. I like running healing builds sometimes and it comes in clutch in getting my teammates off the ground or completely healed and us back in the game.

I would say Spine Chill or Kindred for survivor but you can already find many people defending these two perks. I guess they aren't really underrated anymore.

Next on my list is "Stake Out". It isn't hard to get tokens and each token basically gives 2% progress to generators and 5% progress to healing. This can stack up pretty fast, it is like an everything together perk. Also it increases great skill check bonus on gens to 2% so you get that added bonus too. I find it fun to run once in a while.

I can't think of a killer one since there are so many killers that nearly every perk with some impact does already get used in at least one of them. Sloppy, I'm All Ears and Whispers would be my less popular choices but people already know why these perks are great.

Fixated 😭 i know it’s useless but it feels really nice and sometimes it’s nice being able to see your scratch marks

For Killer it's I'm all ears, it's insanely helpful on Triangle Face, and Clown, plus it helps me close those T-wall L-wall Loops.

Survivor it's Alert, like killers break so much stuff, you get to keep tabs on the killer. I would call it it & aftercare my pet perks for sure.

Repressed alliance and empathy. Two very underrated perks.

I maintain that Detective's Hunch is terrible unless you have a map. If you're specifically looking for a hex totem, it *can* be useful, but it requires quick memorization and you have no way of knowing which of the totems you saw was a hex, if any. If you know where totems spawn and are playing with teammates that do (or should) too, I would rather not waste a perk slot and just check the tiles I happen to visit. If I really wanted to find a totem with a perk, though, I would still prefer to run Small Game. It's much more consistent because it doesn't give you information in bursts upon generator completion, and it can occasionally come up big if you draw a Trapper or Hag. Another frustration with Detective's Hunch is that you could easily be in a chase or really near the killer and trying to hide when it procs and you might not be able to focus on the auras. Showing the gens around you isn't that useful either because you can almost always find them anyway. On maps where they might actually be hard to find it still requires a lot of memorization for this perk to help you find more than a gen or two. Memorizing the location of multiple gens can actually be really hard, especially given that the maps where gens are hard to find are usually also maps where it's easy to get disoriented (e.g. Lery's). If you have a map, though, and especially a rainbow one, all of the information from Detective's Hunch gets stored on the map for you to reference later, which removes the need for quick and complete memorization and therefore makes it a lot more useful. I only run Detective's Hunch with a map.

Deja Vu, meanwhile, doesn't have the same timing problem as Detective's Hunch. 10 seconds is definitely short enough for you to not be able to focus on the auras sometimes when the perk pops. 60 seconds, though, is more than enough time to locate three gens. The whole point of Deja Vu is to show you the three gens closest to one another, and that's something that Detective's Hunch can't do. You might look around with Detective's Hunch after the first gen pops and see mostly spaced gens, for example, not knowing that there are another two gens hidden just out of range that are going to be a pain to deal with later. Deja Vu is a guarantee. If you continually pick highlighted gens to do, your endgame will always be easy. The other massive advantage of Deja Vu is that it works right from the start of the game, so you can get right to work on busting the nastiest three gen on the map even on maps where gens are tough to find. The very start of the game is the time where you are most able to do gens, so that is pretty much the best possible time to have that information. Detective's Hunch makes you wait.

Ive been saying Alert is underrated for like 2 years and have always compared it to BBQ as proof.

BBQ max procs 12 times. But really the 12th proc is useless as the game is over at that point when you hook the 4th survivor 3rd time.

But Alert, it procs no less than 15+ times per match giving you way more aura time than BBQ ever could. And with no requirement to proc, simply sit and watch killer reveal themselves.

I would say, dependant on killer, surge is my go to. Whilst its good combined with Surveillance, i use it on its own on the pig. She gets get value out of it, down a survivor, stick a hat on them, pick up and hook and then gen nearby was regressing the entire time. Its also used an information tool too, get the 100bp reward twice? Thats 2 gens you know had progress on them. Down a survivor and hear a gen explosion, a survivor was working on the gen as surge hit it, so its ghetto infectious fright. And the cooldown isnt a deal breaker either, as kf you're downing multiple survivors between procs, you have oodles of pressure already

Bloodhound is great when you're learning to play Killer. It helps you see Survivor movement so much easier, and can help you learn to anticipate where they are headed. Pairing it with Sloppy is almost a must though. Those two synergize so nicely together. The same goes for Predator too, if you don't have access to Bloodhound. It can help you learn Survivor movements quite nicely when you're first starting out.

We'll Make It is almost always in my builds. The faster healing make hook healing viable against almost any Killer, unless they are really close to the hook when you rescue. It can be a life saver, especially if you're playing against a tunneler. BT is nice to have, but actually having a full health state rather than a timed one can make a huge difference.

I used to use Breakdown a good bit, but the changes to Sabo made it somewhat useless now. Unless you have an active Saboteur who can get in at the other hooks, losing one isn't going to make much of a difference.