Easy Builds for Baby Killers

Well first thing is who is your main?

Ok, still takes a little while to get that many Bloodpoints to get them all to level 40 but whatever, you're just not what I'd picture a brand new player to be I guess. 🤷‍♂️

With huntress those first three perks don't really synergize with her since she has an M2 attack that you should use more then M1. STBFL is good on Freddy and pretty good on Hag since it allows her to maybe get to that second sprung trap with quicker cool down. Don't really need bloodhound on Freddy since with Oblivious it isn't to hard to find survivors same with hag since your traps will find them. With remember me not really the best I'd put in say sloppy or corrupt for synergy with Pop instead. So with Freddy and Hag try Corrupt, PGTW, Sloppy, and, STBFl. Or for freddy put in BBQ for Sloppy. Sloppy works with hag since they either waste their time healing letting you reset traps or stay injured and unexpectedly run into your traps injured for a easy down. Huntress same Corrupt and PGTW, but Whispers, and BBQ. Try that. Don't play too aggressive with Hag and be fast to teleport. Freddy you can be aggressive or defensive. And huntress be aggressive.

I could help more what were scenarios were you've made a mistake?

The best advice in general is to watch good streamers play killer. Seeing what they do is much more effective than trying to translate someone's words.

Hag works best when she's camping, proxy camping, or preparing to camp (which is why I hate her). Depending on closeness of the survivor, it often makes more sense to set a trap in the middle of an area likely to get traffic than it does to chase the person you just hit, as bad as it often feels to leave a chase. Try to always have near the maximum amount of traps currently in play. Committing to a chase is often certain death for Hag. Make Your Choice, Monitor & Abuse, BBQ, potentially any Hexes, Franklin's Demise potentially, are all decent choices on her.

I have no particular tips for Freddy because I think he's too OPpressive and I hate him, but Pop is a good choice for him.

General tips: From what I've seen, most baby killers make three primary mistakes.

1: They don't try to hide their red stain on tall loops by briefly walking backwards or sideways. This helps secure faster downs. (I don't do this either much, but that's because I'd rather perform poorly than spend time walking backwards.) I also don't know how easy this is on console, but maybe worth trying?

2: Not breaking pallets around loops, especially at long loops. On short loops (length-wise, not height-wise), and especially on tall AND short loops, you can get away with this potentially, but on longer loops, most experienced survivors will know how to loop the feature well and waste a lot of your time.

3: Respecting pallets too often. Generally, it's better to eat a pallet than it is to get punished for not eating the pallet. Again, generally.

Bonus tip: Remember Me is generally considered a terrible perk, because it is. I'd basically never recommend it. Bloodhound is a great tracking perk, but you want to be/get good enough at tracking that you don't need mid-chase tracking perks.

Don't give up I've had my ups and downs form 5 gen 4ks to the 0ks with teabags at gates really painful coming from a DS Dwight. Just happens if you have problems keeping track of people try Shadow borne the perma 18 extra degrees fov is good with hatchet shots or seeing them sneak by a pile of stuff or seeing them behind something. Or Stridor maybe with that 25 percent louder breathing you realize they're heading away to another loop. Or I'm all ears to pull a mindgame on them not realizing you see them. Try one of those three.

Use your knowledge as a survivor. This is one of the best pieces of advice i was given when i started to learn how to play killer, and it can be invaluable if you don't let the early game frustration get to you. If you have spent enough time playing as a survivor, you already know most of the areas a survivor will hide in if they hear the killer coming or lose you at a chase, It isn't 100% infallible and I'm not saying just play a guessing game using your survivor knowledge, but if you add what you know as a survivor, to the tools you are using as a killer, it's surprisingly effective.

As for hag. Some will say to use a camping strategy which...i guess works sometimes but not always. The trick here is again, use your survivor knowledge. Got a guy hooked? Yeah okay you could trap under the hook and waste their time, but you could also trap their exit routes. Ask yourself where you would run to when you thought you had reached outside of the 'trap zone' after a rescue. Most people playing against a hag will assume you trapped the hook anyway and crouch and if they don't crouch, their just going to run to a safe spot, which suddenly isn't safe anymore.

Use her addons wisely. I'm terrible at remembering the name for addons, but there is one that allows you to draw traps faster. Now some might find this useless, but if you're in a never ending loop, quickly place a trap and they will either run into it, or run away from the loop. You can also fake draw too. Quite a few times players have seen my Twiglet bend down and have legged it before the trap can even be placed.

If you can herd the survivors into a 3 Gen with hag....that's an ouchie situation for them.

You don't have to camp as hag. Sure it might be an easier strategy, but its pretty agreed upon that this is an unfun match all around and it isn't necessary to secure a win.

I admit i haven't played killer in a good while so i can barely remember the perks i used on her, but Monitor and Abuse was always a firm favorite. There are much better hag players than me out there, but using the above strategies, i found i came out on top more than i lost.

Another tip, if you have a group of friends, spend some time in KYF with them. It's a low pressure way to test your skills with none of the toxicity or frustration you might get when playing against nameless avatars.

Hope something in this babble is remotely useful to you.

No problem! How did it go?

I tend to consistently run Spies from the Shadows. I can't tell you how many times it revealed a survivor while patrolling and it's been clutch in many chases when I lose LOS. And it's a general killer perk.

I hardly see others running it though...

If you are familiar with the maps you can use whispers to triangulate someone’s position. Especially if you have used it for a while.

Not all maps have ample crows and there’s people who crouch around or run calm spirit. Spies won’t let you know if people are just tapping gens or if there’s actually people still in the area working on them.

I think whispers is pretty much better in every way unless it’s a 2 story map. It means you are always patrolling the right areas.

Pretty much what @SilentPill said. The thing about Whispers is that it also tells you, reliably, where survivors AREN'T. So, you can run in the general proximity of a generator without going up to check it, know definitively that no one is in the area, and move on to the next generator. It makes your sweeps more efficient. And for slower-moving killers like Huntress especially, that can be a big boon. Also, if there's one survivor left, Whispers is often a death sentence because it tells you when they are or aren't going for a specific door. And it helps with locker guesswork, when you know there is a survivor in the area (because a gen has just been worked on or whatever).

I do think Spies from the Shadows is a very underrated perk, but not quite as reliable (and some maps just don't have as many crows).