Deja Vu or Kindred

Not even in the same league

Defo kindred. It’s so much better because it’s a great way to work better as a team with the people you can’t actually talk to.

Pointless poll since it's very obvious. One of the best perks vs the weakest, yeah what are people going to vote on..

Why is this even a question?

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It was about time someone stands in for Deja Vu.

But in all honesty: Kindred.

I'm curious why you feel Deja Vu is more beginner oriented. Gen spawns are random to the point where the best early game decision you can usually make to avoid a brutal endgame is to do gens in the middle of the map or gens in dead zones first. Especially on indoor maps, but on many outdoor maps as well, you're usually not going to know where all of the gens are until the mid to late game. I'm an experienced player that pays attention to avoiding three gens, and we still often have to deal with that obnoxious PGTW snowball at the ends of games because we miscalculated which gens to do. It's even more of an issue in solo queue. You just usually don't get a chance to explore the whole map until a few gens are already done and you have much less of an opportunity to make sure the remaining gens are well-spaced.

I feel like Kindred is actually less necessary at high rank. It's a great perk, of course, but there are other things you can focus on to get information about when to save. For example, let's say you have no other aura-reading perks. If you're on a gen very far away from the hook, an experienced player will know that a teammate is almost certainly either already going for the save or is working on a gen closer to the hook than you and should ultimately go for the save. If you're close, you don't need Kindred to know when to go for the save. If you're the obsession and you get into a chase, you should be able to count on your teammates to save, since they know the killer is occupied. If not and you see the obsession get into a chase, or a teammate take a hit, you'll know you may want to save. Every once in a while you'll end up with two people going for the hook and wasting a bit of time, but that happens every once in a while if you have Kindred too. In order to avoid this entirely you really need everyone to either be on the hook, using Kindred, or on comms with someone on the hook or using Kindred. Another thing is to just pay attention to your team's hook states. You should be quicker to stop gen jockeying if you have hook states to spare and your teammates don't, and vice versa.

I think that both perks are good at all ranks, but I personally think it's easier to work around no Kindred as an experienced player than no Deja Vu. WIthout Deja Vu you could still end up avoiding a three gen, especially in SWF when you can communicate which gens to do, but even with good intentions and good game sense that's not always the case. Sometimes you'll just get down to 3 gens left before your team realizes how screwed they are, maybe because they all spawned in a tiny corner of the map where usually only one or two gens spawn, or because they're on two floors of a map like Midwich or The Game and it's harder to figure out exactly where they are and the pathing between them, or because your teammates are bad and just doing whatever gens they come across, or because you're playing a Hag and her traps effectively forced you out of that area, etc... Deja Vu gets rid of all that. You pretty much always have the power to avoid a rough end game. The only way you don't is if you're playing solo and you get tunnelled, but at that point you're not sticking around for the end game regardless XD

I usually don't run either perk tbh, but I do prefer Deja Vu to Kindred, especially when at least one other teammate has Kindred (which happens often).

Deja Vu isn't as useless as people make it out to be, it allows me to break up the strongest 3 gens before they even get used. However this effect isn't strong enough for a perk slot once you learn the gen spawns.