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So I want to suffer and be bullied.... (Nurse)
I usually only play survivor or if I do play killer, I play doctor. But I’ve decided that officially I will be maining Nurse. I don’t know what self-hating though in my head convinced me to do so but here I am. It is my second or third week learning Nurse and so far it is hell. It is inconceivable how frustrating and disheartening it is to just barely hit a survivor to only be stunned or left in the dust; especially if I put a lot of work and effort into the chase. I understand that winning is a pipe dream for new Nurse players but it doesn’t ease the disappointment. I want to get better at Nurse and so practice quite a bit. I even watch tip videos and try to work their ideas into my play style. I’m not sure if I’ll ever be a decent Nurse. Do any of you know tips, tricks, or general advice for me. Btw, I’m a rank 16 Nurse at level 50. Idk if that’s relevant but just in case. Thank for even reading this far. I hope anyone else who is doing the same can use theses suggestions as well. :)
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Okay this is going to sound cliche as ######### but there are honestly two ways to get good as nurse.
Watch lots of gameplay. I mean LOTS. Eventually you start picking up blink distancing vs charge time, how long you can hold your chain blink, etc etc just by watching. This isn't how you properly learn her and get good as her but it can really give you a massive head start (I suggest Ardetha).
And the other? Just play her. Everything in her kit is about muscle memory, knowing where you can and can't blink from where. It's honestly just a case of practicing. That's it. That's how you get good as her.
It took me 2 and a half years of watching gameplay before I attempted to play as her. Finally I put like 60 hours a week into playing nothing but her, and after 2 or 3 weeks of learning I finally got to where I am today. I'd call myself above average.
Good luck man. She's the hardest killer in the game to learn and NONE of her skills are transferrable to other killers so it'll be a pain trying to learn someone else too but, good luck.
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I can give you a top tier suffering build!
Bamboozle,brutal strenght,stbfl,beast of prey.
If you manage to win a single match with this build, you'll be my only and one god
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yea this, you gotta be prepared to suffer a lot if you want to get good, i was lucky enough to learn nurse way back in like 2017 when the average survivor was actually pretty bad looping wise
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👆🏽Yep... everything Karu said👆🏽
...except the above average part, I probs wouldn’t say I’m even that yet🙃
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I thought you were about to insult my nurse skills and I was about to cry
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Aw, I never saw her under your powers, but I believe you, and I’m sure you scorch the realms with her🔥😌
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Nah above average is it lol
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A well timed dead hard is your greatest enemy
And dead zones
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Oh, but I clairvoyantly foresee your Nursie future... have fun scorching! 😊
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Okay thank you.
Also @Shymare_11 one more thing! If you get Midwich trying to learn her then I wish you luck. That map is amazing once you've got her basics covered but really good luck learning her then. One tip I have though is that from the middle courtyard one füllt charged blink takes you anywhere on the map, and you can get back to the middle from anywhere, except that one corridor that's a deadzone.
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Only way to do it is to effing do it. She's a killer that takes tons of practice. Shadowborn and plaid flannel will help early. Another thing is to expect a lot of bugs and not get tilted by them.
I can play her at a rank 7 level, but I just dont enjoy her.
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This bring me great fear. The thought of the long road ahead of you fills you with determination...
But in all honesty, thanks. I just discovered that blinking and hitting added to my fatigue.... yeah, I’m that new. All of my games right now are either 4Ks cuz I get luck and the survivor team are potatoes or 0k cuz I can’t get my distances right and blink into the basement or smth. I believe that one day, if some divine deity decides to bless me with skill, I can get kills based off my skill instead of luck.
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You're low experience as killer in general is holding you back. I never practice nurse that long and I could do mediocre with her. I'm not even ok with her I dont think. But you put weeks in so now keep it up and you'll get great
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Can I verse your nurse?
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You wish me to perish? You desire to see me cry? I will, one day, put on that perk build and record it if I truely become a high-tier Nurse main. In that moment, I will remember you.
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I literally started playing DBD in August of 2020. I don’t know what I’m doing here.
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Yeah that would make sense. Thanks for the advice and encouragement. I hope so too.
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Depends on your region because I wouldn't wanna put you through 300 ping but I mean, sure. Don't expect much
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I’ve experienced it, first hand. The pain and torture is immense.
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Dude I respect anyone who can handle the torture. Although it gets worse at red ranks and makes you feel even worse but still
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My first 4K was on Midwich Actually. Idk how or why but I accepted the fact it happened. It hasn’t happen there since. I honestly hate any map that has more than one floor (except basement).
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Well if you can beat azame you can beat me. I have like only 1000 hours so I havent faced many nurses. But I live in california
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Honestly azame was a tough cookie and if it wasn't a 2v1 I'd have struggled hard.
I'm in England for clarification so be prepared for bs hits.
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Thank you, I’ll keep that in mind and keep perservering!
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First step, lower your expectations. Nurse is not really the SSSS+ tier people make her out to be. If you hope to effortlessly mow down experienced survivors then you're setting yourself up for dissapointment unless you plan to start plating for a living.
Second step: play,play,play. Practise makes perfect. Try and get a lot of aura perks at first to get the sneaky hits in.
Try to be patient. Don't instantly use your secons blink but take a second to look what the survivor is doing.
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Rank 1 Nurse main here, and I'll just say it's very worth it. It feels -very- good to trounce people as Nurse, but you will get a lot of salt when you do get good. My best recommendation is, while you're learning, never try to anticipate. Anticipating with Nurse is what will get you losses when you don't know when to risk it. Never blink after someone unless you have two charges. If you don't need to blink to hit them, I.E, they ran into a corner, then don't. Save your blink for the follow up. That being said, don't be afraid to use your blinks. Never walk after someone for more than ten seconds. Lastly, keep track of whenever someone uses dead hard, and try to force it out before your second blink.
The biggest key to learning nurse... Don't be afraid to miss blinks. Lose matches because of missed blinks. Get your blinks closer every time. Eventually you'll get the hits. Even when you're a top tier nurse, you will likely need a warmup match or two every day, and if you get a 4 stack during those two... It's gonna be rough. Still, keep at it, and best of luck to you!
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I just got off the flannel to practice memory and I don’t have shadow born on my Nurse. Plus I heard if you use shadow born too much, you’ll grow reliant on it to do well and will need to rebuild your skills to accommodate the change of you do ever want to switch it out. If I’m wrong then please correct me.
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I see, thank you. Despite how difficult it is, I actually enjoy playing Nurse. I usually am the type of person who went through gifted child syndrome and learned that if I’m bad at something I will never get better and should just give up, but for Nurse I don’t feel that way. Maybe it’s the beginner’s conviction or something but I want to get better and I like that. Once again, thank you for your advice!
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I honestly can confirm. Shadowborn is a must have perk on Nurse rn because I had to learn her with it else I'd feel queasy. Now if I take it off my lunges are scuffed af
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I will wait.
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She is that good. You just need to have LOTS of practice
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This very helpful. I will be interested to see the first salt comment I get once I reach some sort of decency with Nurse. Thank you and I do agree with my limited experience that all the work I put in so far has been worth it. Thank you!
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I'm half tempted to use this build now tbf
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Oh no, I wish you the best of luck!
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You're not wrong, but learning the blink distances are the biggest things. Tracking with the reduced vision is pretty easy, so shadowborn can help with the frustration early without hurting your skillset.
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Best build tbh
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OH, another recommendation: Don't use addons while learning her. I would advise against even Plaid Flannel, but I understand it can be helpful for some to visualize better. Generally, you want to make things as neutral as possible while you really get her baseline down.
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If a killer only becomes that good if you dedicate your life to it then they were never that good to begin with.
Don't get me wrong she's very strong when you get the hang of her. But i do feel people over exaggerated her power way to much. Every killer becomes a beast with enough practise. Look at Otz's trapper.
If Nurse really became an unstoppable monster with enough practise then more people would bite the bullet and learn her. She's the S-tier with the lowest pick and kill rate.
To be fair. Automatticly putting her on top of every tier list is a meme at this point.
Just my oppinion of course
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I mean you have to dedicate your life to Any thing to be the best. But good nurse players wreck just look at the hexy tournament
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Having mastered Nurse after weeks of misery, pain and suffering I recently had to take a break from dbd (one month) due to pc issues.
After only 30 days off from playing Nurse I came back to discover I was having . . . trouble . . . with her again.
Frustrating.
If you don't keep at her it's easy to loose the knack.
I don't have this trouble with any other killer.
Says a lot I think.
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You mean the tournament where survivors were only allowed yellow items and addons and only 2 of a given perk per team?
Again not saying she's bad. Just overrated
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Bullied and suffer? Sounds like me with my crazy converted armies or just Slaanesh Daemons.
Have fun! You'll see why I NEVER touch her on my Xbox very soon.
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She's honestly not as hard as people like to pretend. In fact, I'd go so far as to say that people that don't really know how to play her make it harder for themselves.
Learn how to blink. That's the hardest part about playing her, because you have to learn the precise amount of charge-to-distance time. Once you've done that, it's all about these two very, very simple tactics: Use your first blink to get close/get to where they broke LoS, use your second blink to hit them. And don't be afraid to just float around quite a lot. Who cares if they get distance, you're Nurse.
Seriously, she's mechanically hard, but once you've reached that skill floor then you're going to win nearly every single game by default, because most of her "counterplay" relies on the nurse blinking too much and falling for basic tricks. I don't even think she's the hardest killer in the game, just the one with the highest skill floor.
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I disagree with you because learning how to blink is NOT the hardest part of playing Nurse by any means; saying "Learn how to blink" is like saying "Learn how to use a killer's power". It's already implied that you have to do this to be good at any killer, and if it was the only thing that kept new Nurse players from being good we would have a lot more gods. And how is she not the hardest killer? I would argue that Nurse players at the minimum skill 'floor' will lose most, if not all, of their games because of the huge distance between the floor and the ceiling.
The problem with new players is that, once they learn how to USE the blink (Charge distance and chain blinking being the obvious skills), they don't know how to correctly APPLY those skills. They focus more on blinking accurately instead of being a good killer, and I can't blame them for doing so as the only way you learn how to correctly control blinks is to use them yourself.
What I'd recommend @Shymare_11 is that you focus on your mindset rather than your blink plays; like I always tell new Nurse players, get into the mindset that obstacles aren't really obstacles but instead "Nurse Pallets" survivors use for looping. There's always a way to herd the survivor into a different direction around an object, to fake going one direction while going the other, and to use basic looping knowledge around an object to force a survivor to guess where you are if you're not confident in blinking through/around the object. As well as that, playing survivor gives you a major advantage over some other Nurse players: you know what the survivor is likely going to do, so play around it.
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Keep using the blinks. Regardless of whether they hit or not, or the comments you may get, you know that you're practicing and that's all that matters. The more you do it, the more you'll become familiar, and ultimately the more accurate they'll become.
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I was summoned. Komodo karu is an amazing nurse he will definetly give you a run for your money.
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Aww thanks <3
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Just saying the truth you are truly amazing.
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She isnt though. No one said she was easy or that anyone can be a god with her. The people in that tournament were good nurses but they aren't even the best nurses. And items wouldnt have mattered when they lose chases in 30 seconds unless it linke bnp and toolbox but even then those were good nurses against good survivors rushing gens imagine a public game which is what this game is focused on. That's why she isnt overrated because this game is NEVER like that unless a tourney squad wants to bully a baby killer
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