soul guard is disgustingly underrated.
while the general argument is "it's too situational" i would say the perk has a lot of utility regardless of if the killer has a hex let's look a some of the scenarios that it can be used with or without unbreakable:
1- someone with a flashlight distracts the killer while you recover and get up in the killers face with soul guard and unbreakable.
2- you can use it with deliverance, unbreakable and decisive strike for a 100% chance to escape guaranteed.
3- if the killer has a hex you can single handedly screw their momentum over if they try to slug.
4- if a killer with noed hooks you with decisive strike and someone saves you, you can recover in front of your probably hooked saviour and save them plus block a hit with soul guard and decisive.
5- a killer refuses to pick you up under a pallet or a survivor prevents the killer from picking you up by looping him
6- you are downed and fully recovered and your only remaining teammate is getting chased and picks you/you pick yourself up while they are getting chased so you can block a hit for them and live
these are only few of many different ways that this perk can be game changing, it's way to underrated.
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I Agree With This.
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I always used soul guard since the release of the silent hill Chapter, it is really good if used with unbreakable or with a swf. Soul Guard saved some matches too. I don't understand why people ignore it, i don't see so much people run it tbh.
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I love how your number 2 suggestion is literally "I have to compensate so hard my small pp build isn't enough".
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I have a friend who uses this every game and it saves the team more times than i can remember hands down. But you need to be experienced to use it right.
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It is legit a pain in the ass, to the point i think it might actually be op
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If I want the best chances of escaping, I'll often use Soul Guard, Unbreakable, DS and DH. 1 perk to help in chases and 3 perks to help in slug situations.
It's an incredibly good build. You don't have to rely on BT and it helps against slugging killers such as Oni. Also incredibly useful endgame. Mind you, there are some situations where I'd love to have ironwill instead. So I often find myself switching between using either Ironwill or Soul Guard in the above build.
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Yeah it’s a really good perk! All your suggestions/ scenarios are really good too, probably gunna start running it again tbh
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here before the thread floods with more triggered killer mains like this.
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I take hex perks only to complete challenges.
/ :^)
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but ey i will complain if the killer brings clutches! u baby killer how dare u!!!!!!!
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I saw this coming from day 1 of the PTB, but it got lost in all the “it’s situational” or “it just came out” arguments. It should’ve been very easy to see how broken this perk could be with a certain popular build. The nerf they did to it (causes Deep Wound instead of Endurance) wasn’t enough.
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Would you say that it is only good with SWF or Solo play also?
If you had to choose the BEST Soulgaurd build for Solo play what other perks would you recommend to go with it?
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You can literally just wait out the 8s of endurance. Or not slug.
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Those are really good points. Might try incorporating a build from this. Thank you.
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It’s alllllways the “4 mAn sWF wILL aBusE it” argument, ppl said the exact same thing about breakout, breakdown, for the people and camaraderie, And let me tell you I have never went against any swf that abused any of the mentioned perks (1.5k hours btw) they mostly use meta perks or just chill and play with their low rank friends.. the only potentially abusive perk for swf is object of obsession
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It's another second chance on top of the mountain. I don't understand why the devs keep adding second chances instead of strong information perks for solos für example.
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IT IS NOT UNDERRATED, every single game as killer I get a soul guard, I got 15 games in a row with soul guard.
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Well if you say u went against them (which is extremely hard to believe that you went against a swf that somehow “abused” camaraderie and breakdown) you are 1 person, and they can’t just nerf these already garbage perks just because of 1 person’s experience out of thousands of players, and as a side note the issue is not with soul guard or whatever, the issue is with 4 man swf which can even make deja vu look op
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ssssssh!!! Before the killers cry for a nerf 4 another perk that is very situational-_- They who kno kno ;) lool
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