How do you use the Nurse?

Basic theory of operation with Nurse: first blink gets you close, second blink is for correction. A mistake a lot of new Nurse players make is trying to be too accurate. You don't necessarily want to blink right on top of people, because then you have to do crazy stuff with the camera to get hits.

For line of sight breaks: in general, blink to last place you saw them to see if they're doubling back. You can also use process of elimination to determine where you should blink. Look at what you can see and use process of elimination to predict the survivors. Do you see a survivor or scratch marks through a window or going up the other side? If not, blink through the blind area. Stuff like that.

I like to pay attention to where the survivor is looking as it gives me clues about their juking style. If they're looking back at you while you charge a blink, they're highly likely to try doubling back into you at a corner. This goes for open areas too. When a survivor is looking back at you in an open space, they are going to double back into you 90% of the time on the first blink. Charge it 75% of the distance between you and them (it'll feel scary at first because it's obviously short), and you'll often get a single blink hit off the prediction.

You can blink cancel by looking at the ground and releasing the blink. This will change levels though, so be careful. It's extremely useful for mindgames at pallets. It can also get you hits in open areas on survivors who double back at short range.

There are great Nurse guides on YouTube. I wouldn’t say I’m a great Nyrse, but I surprisingly got the timing down from watching other players play Nurse. It is like a second nature.

You need to suck before you can be good at Nurse, just due to learning muscle memory. Use Plaid Flannel, use a recharge add-on to let you blink more consistency and learn how survivors move. The best way to learn Nurse quickly and easily, though? Play survivor. Once you learn how survivors think/move, it'll be extremely difficult for them to try to outsmart you unless you genuinely mess up (which is why Nurse takes so much more skill compared to most killers). Here are a few tips that helped me when I started, save the fact I learned her pre-nerf:

Never forget to BLINK, and do it CONSTANTLY. I prefer myself to only use one blink for getting around and let it recharge since the nerf, but never be afraid to blink because of the recharge. The benefit of blinking still far outweighs the 3 second wait for a blink (or shorter, if you prefer using add-ons).

Take advantage of the fact survivors FEAR you; What I mean by that is to use your presence to buy yourself time. countless times have I saved a gen just by floating towards a generator while I'm busy chasing a survivor. And if they don't respect you and stay on a gen? Blink over there while they think you're in a chase, and get a free grab. If you play your cards right, you can PGTW a gen before survivors even realize they've lost a possible gen because they ran away from it.

Make safe moves, but also don't be afraid to be risky. In fact, being risky with your moves can be quite rewarding: In the future, you know what your opponent is likely going to do if you've already tried and failed to catch them in chase. Nurse can be summed up by a game of chess, and you're constantly taking turns between someone you're chasing.

Choose a perk set that covers your weaknesses, rather than the meta. If your weakness is not being able to pressure gens, use a perk deck that can focus on it. If you get nausea from playing Nurse, like most people do, use Shadowborn to get rid of it. If you're crap at tracking once you've been stunned, use tracking perks such as Whispers or I'm All Ears to stay on track. After you've learned Nurse you learn that the perk deck on her can be endless if you use her correctly, even if gens go ridiculously quick.

Something that most survivors AND Nurse players don't know is that you can blink 'backwards', and this is because you have full control of your view during your blinks. You can do this by releasing your right click in the direction you want to blink in, then turing around and look backwards during the blink. This is EXTREMELY effective in finding survivors that are trying to hide from you by using any objects, walls, or foliage, as it's impossible to tell where you're looking while you're blinking, lets you get a hit sometimes without survivors even knowing you're there, and saves you a ton of time compared to just floating around objects.

Also, as you get better and move up the ranks, you'll start to come across people with Dead Hard. Once you learn to delay your blinks after the first Dead Hard, there's not really a difference between a DH survivor and one that lithes into a wall.

Those are some of my tips!