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A little counter against Pyramid Head, which you may not have known
I have seen many complaints about my big boy. The best counter is actually to run away, but there is one little thing that you may not know yet. We all know this certain situations where you are on a pallet and have to make a decision.
Option A: Drop the pallet and get hit by POTD (M2)
Option B: Do not drop the pallet and get hit by a basic attack (M1)
In fact, you can also avoid the hit of option A by using Dead Hard. But I have never been a fan of perks countering a killer and I will most likely never be a fan of that. But there is actually an Option C that most people don't know about, I think.
Option C: Drop the pallet and vault it.
Yes, Pyramid Head cannot hit you with its POTD when you jump over a pallet. Since the cooldown on POTD is quite long, you can make the pallet vault again without the risk of being hit. This is not the easiest thing to do and may require some practice, but I'm pretty sure it's going to be pretty helpful in the future.
This even has mindgame potential. Will you use this vault tech as survivor again on the next chase? What if PH expects that and therefore does NOT use his power because he thinks you will simply jump over the pallet again?
Time will tell if Option C is good enough, but I definetly see potential.
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I've seen people try this against me and in basically every single case I got the hit regardless. Maybe there's some sorta pixel-perfect i-frame that's given to survivors if its timed right but I haven't seen it myself.
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I've gotta concur with this.
I generally don't bother breaking pallets as PH because it seems to me if I POTD at any time during their vault it hits them.
Maybe I've just gotten really lucky though, I can only say what I've experienced as him.
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I’ve never seen anyone vault safely against PH, if you vault you get hit as far as I can tell. Do you have video of someone actually doing this?
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Latency kills this too easily.
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The trick is to drop the pallet as soon as you get to the loop. Alternatively you can drop the pallet just a little bit so it ends up in a triangle shape. Pyramid Head will be drawn into it and get stuck the rest of the match.
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I once got hatch because this ph was stunned I dodged his ranged attack with dead hard
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Another little known counter is use to use the loops around certain cars on autohaven because his power goes over the cars, not through them.
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I'm not 100% convinced that's a thing without video evidence. Because I really want to see a video of that actually being done.
When PH first came out I tried to do that alot, the odd time I played survivor, and a lot of people tried to do that against me, without any success.
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I don't have video evidence since I don't record my games. A while ago I faced a survivor who did it perfectly. He did it twice and it worked both times. I tried it a few times, but mostly failed. But still trying should be a better option than just taking the hit and dying if you are in such a situation. I wish I would face more PHs so I could give that a try more often.
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Are you sure you aimed right or that he wasn't hacking and turning off collision? I don't mean to be rude but I am convinced this isn't a thing.
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You can absolutely hit people mid-vault. That's definitely a thing that exists and that I do when I play him. Slow vaults, fast vaults, window vaults, it doesn't matter.
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