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Can someone help me understand how to play Plague?
I like to play each of my killers as I level them up, while simultaneously going for adept. Not to make it super hard or anything, but in my experience I seem to learn the fundamentals best when I'm playing the killer in its "purest" form, which also has the nice upside of making them feel way stronger once I unlock everything.
For every killer I've tried so far, this has worked great. But I've played enough matches with Plague to now be level 30 on her and I still just don't get it. She seems like a Huntress but with more work for generally less reward. The purge vomit initially seems cool since you can arc it and spin it around and all that fun stuff, but in practice the range has been too short and it's often very easy for survivors to dodge it completely unless I'm basically close enough to hit them. I'm sure with experience this will change, however...
I just don't get what to do with her normal vomit. How much should I puke on people directly if I have the chance? Just enough for the initial infection? Keep going to turbo charge the injured state? How often should I be vomiting on things like windows or generators? Does vomiting on them longer increase the duration they stay contagious? I know you can puke on people on the floor/on the hook so you don't have to do it during chases or anything (although if they happen to pop into that injured state it's super nice) but I imagine since I can puke on vaults I should from time to time.
I feel like every single time I'm finally getting into a good groove and downing multiple people, several gens will pop in super quick succession in a way I haven't seen with any other killer. Just every single match once I start really getting going, it's like they all just split up and hardcore focus gens as I hook someone, which tells me I'm doing something wrong, but I'm not sure what, hence this thread.
I don't need perk advice since I'm sticking to my guns about going adept, but I could very much use some help the fundamentals on how to play her effectively, and maybe what add-ons are good with her default 3 perks.
Thanks!
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Plague is tactical. If you can tell the person is a good looper just launch goo at them until their bottom left icon says they're infected. They'll cleanse quickly and open up another corrupt pool for you. If you see a corrupt pool as you're walking by, consume it.
If you can get right up on a survivor that's not in a strong position, puke on them until you break them, then go for a down.
Other than that she's a normal M1 killer. If you're in corrupt phase, then use your M2 to spray people. As you get better you'll get more lethal with it. In your normal phase just puke on generators as you pass by them and tag survivors with sickness. If you can avoid it in a chase break them before you hit them. You can deny the sprint burst from just hitting them.
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Wanted to write pretty much the same as stated above. I rarely play her but I understand Plague.
I usually try to infect or even break every Survivor first if possible and then I go to my fountains if I am not already in a chase. If I can get a down normally, I prefer M1'ning and keep my Corrupt for later snowball.
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Adept is by far the hardest way to play Plague because you should NOT use her vile purge.
Green vomit leaves them broken which mean you get waaaay fewer hits across the match and you'll almost never get enough emblems in malicious or chaser, and the insta-heal from fountains hurts too.
If you do end up getting people sick you have to slug a LOT to get enough, and by that point you risk people giving up on hook and losing devout emblems.
As such the best add ons I can recommend are The Iridescent Seal so that you can gain Corrupt Purge randomly during chases, allowing you to end them very fast because survivors generally aren't expecting it, and Apple add ons for more starting uses of Corrupt Purge. You can also add the Devotee's Amulet with one of the Apples to make it last longer.
Adept Plague is largely luck based. You have to find survivors who are terrible, because your only stalling is Corrupt Intervention, and that sucks when your only chase potential is running after people at 115.
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Heartbound got it for the most part - even if they don't cleanse you're in a good spot because you are guaranteed one pool now and if you run an apple you're going to get enough momentum off that to force cleanses. The other strategy that new plagues can't deal with is when the entire enemy team keeps cleansing and you have nothing but pools - don't panic and keep infecting people while using a pool of corruption here and there to create pressure and practice getting more lethal with it. Infectious fright is a base perk on her and ungodly good during your Corrupt stages to chain hits and downs.
"How much should I puke on people directly if I have the chance? Just enough for the initial infection? Keep going to turbo charge the injured state?"
If you can get a full duration vile purge on someone it's an instant broken state without their M1 hit speed boost. Can directly down people who are caught in bad spots from healthy and you'll learn to identify those moments. More than likely if they are at good loops - you tap them with infection, M1 them then down them like normal. Don't be afraid to just hit them and infect later (I see a lot of plagues hold M2 as I get to a window vault and just completely whiff - when they could've easily hit me with a M1 lunge)... remember you can vomit on hooked survivor's feet like you said - but don't waste time trying to break them there as it only taps them.
"How often should I be vomiting on things like windows or generators? Does vomiting on them longer increase the duration they stay contagious? "
It's the same amount as long as you tap it and it gives you the Contagious +25 bp scoring event then it lasts for a base duration of 35 seconds so use that as a marker for gauging when people get infected while touching stuff you just patrolled through (this works with exit gates too). I rarely vomit on raised pallets or vaults unless a survivor is greeding that loop and I'm yet to break him (but I aim for a M1 if possible anyway).
Here's a link to Otzdarva's more "high tension" games as plague but he tends to explain what he's trying to do even when it doesn't go through exactly as he wants. There is another video out there where he hits some strange arcs with plague - through windows and stuff that huntress can't do because how hatchets fly. Once you get good with Corrupt Purge - survivors really have no options against it as you can deal with Dead Hards and hose entire areas with mediocre aim (if latency doesn't bite you).
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It's kind of a bummer that she sucks as much as she does. She's very cool but her whole thing, you know, it doesn't really work out for the killer. I'll still use her because vomiting on people is certifiably hilarious, but you know.
Anyway, good luck! I don't have any tips other than what everyone else said!
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Thanks for the help guys. I'm gonna keep trying. I really like her conceptually but have been struggling to put her power to good use in practice, but hopefully I'll do a little better now!
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If they're in the open or you have infection add-ons, puke on them until they get broken and the smack them.
Otherwise, in strong areas, just spew a little bit of vomit to start the infection and then m1 immediately and rotate. This will also help with Adept, by the way, because it doubles the amount of hits you land on them.
If it's a very strong tile were it's difficult for you to land the vomit, just puke on the vaults/pallets and chase normally. They'll get infected from interaction. You can also consider rotating immediately once they do, if the area is too strong and it's not worth committing.
Infection on objects doesn't stay longer the more you puke, afaik. Only add-ons affect it.
Corrupt purge is situational and a little rng dependent based on fountain spawns, if they cleanse, etc. Because it's on a timer, you simply pick it up when you have a target or when you know were a target is. Especially good if it's multiple survivors.
Other than that, it's normal killer fundamentals.
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