The Plague - Help Needed 😣

So, it has been awhile since I've played the Plague, but I'll try my best.

I would NOT wait until the game gives you Corrupt Purge, this means that all of your fountains have been used, and it will reset all of them.

What I usually do is, if I can see a Survivor, puke on them, if not, puke on gens and patrol. If you do get multiple Survivors broken, the Plague can snowball very easily, as they are all one-shot. So, I would try to infect as many as possible while patrolling, then single one out and down them. If you are lucky, a Survivor who is already broken will have to make the save, meaning you get another hook instantly.

I know you didn't ask for builds but my old build (Pre-Ruin Nerf) was Corrupt Intervention, Ruin, Pop Goes the Weasel and Dying Light. Then, I had the two infection time add-ons. Maximum game slowdown.

I would recommend using Corrupt Intervention. So many people would rather use PGTW or Ruin but generally I feel this perk is amazing on her. For starters, once you spawn on the map you can start throwing up on the available gens, this will a) determine what kind of survivors you are up against, as in are they going to play safe or not b) help you track in general, because you only have so many gens to patrol.

The thing I feel that you have to do with Plague is become a threat. Since many survivors are good at dodging her vomit in general, they might opt to cleanse more than you will realize. So again, become a threat. Show them that if they cleanse too frequently they are allowing you to potentially snowball.

I agree with others that you should infect as much of the props as you can, however don’t be too over invested in doing that because if a survivor is already sick, there is no sense in puking on things since they are basically walking sickness.

Plague is the most fun when you can bounce between making people sick and using Corrupt Purge, but there are many situations where one or the other hold more value. As an example, if you see reckless survivors going for an unhook wait until the survivor is fully unhooked and hit them with corrupt, you could have possibly 2 downs in one hit. 😀

I'm still in the process of learning Plague, but one thing I've learned is that the early game is INCREDIBLY important for her. You want to find, at least partially infect and, ideally, hook at least two survivors before the first gen is done. Discordance, Corrupt Intervention, and Whispers are all great for this, but I wouldn't recommend running all three, one is enough. Doing this means that either they don't cleanse, which means they will infect their friends and everyone will be easy pickings once you find them again, or they do cleanse, which you're happy with since you can use your corrupt purge to quickly down multiple survivors. You absolutely don't want to allow survivors to force you into using your power, it essentially robs you of five minutes' worth of corrupt purge. If they're cleansing really aggressively, consume that corruption aggressively to match them.

You definitely need to be more aggressive with your Corrupt Purge. It’s extremely powerful and most survivors actually fear it. Don’t travel across the map to grab a pool in the corner, but pools near gens or central structures are your best friend. If you see more than one survivor around, or injured survivors, and you have a corrupted pool handy, drink it and start to snowball.

The kiss of death when playing Plague is over committing to any one chase. Since survivors have nothing else to do except gens (no need to heal), taking your eye off the ball for too long will mean you lose 2-3 at once. So you really need to juggle and prioritise certain targets, and don’t be afraid to slug when you have Corrupt.

She has some massive issues with her kit, but there are optimizations you can use to make her decent.

I prefer Ruin/Surveillance over Corrupt for early game on Plague. You're going to be bouncing around puking on everything and everyone. Your goal early game is to have at least 2 or 3 infected fully before the first gen pops. You want to force survivors to play broken for as long as possible or have multiple Corrupted pools as early as possible.

Plague is one of the few killers I'd advocate for multiple slowdown perks on. Survivors can't heal against her if you're spreading the infection optimally. So you're losing 16 seconds of natural game stall for every instance that a survivor would heal against a different killer. On top of that, survivors can soft reset the game by simultaneously cleansing at fountains around the midway point of the trial. Ruin/Thanat is fine. Corrupt/Pop also works.

Bamboozle is your best friend. The tiles where you can't hit Corrupt Purge against good survivors are jungle gyms or other strong window tiles. You need long straightaways because of the absurd speed curve on the wind up. You can, however, arc Corrupt Purge over medium wall tiles like hay bales. You just have to stand back a little bit. At loops, you want to wind up before you round a corner, kind of like Billy charging a chain saw. You barely have enough time to hit them if you aim at the corner.

In general, short blasts of either vomit mode are better than long bursts unless you're absolutely sure you can hit them with the full stream. Accuracy in short bursts is better than inaccurate long streams.

There are going to be situations where coordinated teams will attempt to cheese the infection mechanic and over-cleanse to deny you fountains. It's dumb, but you lose all your fountains and automatically gain one when survivors use every fountain. In other words, you can get penalized when survivors mess up or intentionally bum rush the fountains. Instead of having your power the entire game, you'll have one use. To get around this, be aware that it's happening and grab 2 or 3 fountains at a time. Yup...overwrite your power. You don't want to have more than 4 or 5 available pools, because then you're in danger of losing all of them. It's asinine, but it is what it is for now.

She's not viable in a competitive setting, but if she's played well, she can be a low B tier killer in most games.